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  2. UNEMPLOYED.

    The plight of more than 4000 youths and girls between the ages of 14 and 21 years who are totally unemployed, and many of whom have not yet been able to obtain a day's work ...

    Article : 1,174 words
  3. NAVY'S TEST.

    The principal manoeuvres of the chief units of the Australian Squadron, the cruisers Canberra and Australia, were completed to-day, when the ships arrived at Port Melbourne. ...

    Article : 1,064 words
  4. OIL FROM COAL.

    The Minister in charge of Development (Senator McLachlan) told a deputation to-day that the production of petrol by the hydrogenation process would, on the information now available, cost 1/3 a gallon, necessitating a subsidy of 3d a gallon. ...

    Article : 112 words
  5. EMPIRE GAMES.

    Ten men and two women were selected last night to represent Australia at the British Empire Games in England in August. ...

    Article : 650 words
  6. IRISH SENAE.

    As a sequel to the rejection by the Senate of the bill to make the wearing of blue shirts illegal, the Government suddenly circulated to-night a test bill to abolish that Chamber, ...

    Article : 405 words
  7. BRITISH TRADE.

    During a debate on unemployment in the House of Commons to-night, the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Walter Runciman) emphasised that no simple solution was ...

    Article : 469 words
  8. OIL SEARCH

    The British Government is taking measures to stimulate the search for oil in the United Kingdom. Since the programme of drilling financed by the ...

    Article : 461 words
  9. PROSPECTS OF INDUSTRY.

    It is useless to look to the hydrogenation process, or for that matter to any other process, for the extraction of oil from coal, as a means of solving the unemployment problem on the ...

    Article : 2,068 words
  10. NEW YORK SCANDAL.

    The new municipal administration to-day completed the investigation of the City Home for Dependents, situated on Welfare Island, in East River. The evidence revealed gross ...

    Article : 233 words
  11. TAXI DRIVERS

    There was intermittent rioting in New York last night, when 3000 striking taxi-cab drivers fought the police, and wrecked the vehicles of non-strikers. ...

    Article : 177 words
  12. AVIATION.

    The "Daily Express" predicts that British and European air liners will be gravely challenged as a result of the Fokker firm obtaining a licence to build in Holland a fleet of ...

    Article : 466 words
  13. BRITISH NAVY.

    A jealously guarded British naval secret is revealed in the official organ of the German Admiralty. According to the naval correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" the paper gives ...

    Article : 164 words
  14. STAVISKY FRAUDS.

    How a former accomplice, M. Galmot, allegedly betrayed Stavlsky, because he passionately loved Madame Stavisky, later paying for his betrayal with his life, was revealed ...

    Article : 387 words
  15. U.A.P. CONVENTION.

    A long list of motions dealing with employment, Parliamentary membership, country development, arbitration, taxation, tariff, transport, and other subjects are listed for ...

    Article : 497 words
  16. GIFT OF LAND

    Mr. Thomas Weston, of Carnation-avenue. Liverpool, some time ago purchased and subdivided a large estate. From this he gave to a number of poor families from congested city ...

    Article : 148 words
  17. INDIA.

    There are rumours in Calcutta or extraordinary happenings in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, an independent State between British India and Tibet. The origin of the rumours ...

    Article : 197 words
  18. STATE GOVERNMENT'S PLANS.

    It was announced on behalf of the State Government last night that steps were being taken to increase the amount of work available generally. ...

    Article : 275 words
  19. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The long-expected Constitutional bills, providing for a declaration of the South African Union's status, implementing the Statute of Westminster, and creating a Royal Seal of the ...

    Article : 234 words
  20. BOY KILLED.

    Norman Pugsley, 14, of Browning-street, Campsie, was killed at Campsie railway station yesterday afternoon, when he fell between a train and the platform. ...

    Article : 126 words
  21. M. MCNAMARA, LTD.

    Mr. H. R. Martin, general manager of the Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Milk Co., Ltd., announced yesterday that the Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Milk Co, Ltd., had bought the ...

    Article : 296 words
  22. NO DEMONSTRATION.

    The proposed "peaceful penetration" of the principal retail stores in the city during the peak shopping hours last night by Communists and their supporters did not take place. ...

    Article : 181 words
  23. NEW ZEALAND DROUGHT.

    The province of Marlborough is experiencing the severest drought in its history. Conditions in the Starborough, Richmond Brook, Blind River, and Flaxbourne areas are ...

    Article : 136 words
  24. BYRD EXPEDITION.

    The fortunes of Rear-Admiral Byrd's expedition have brightened handsomely during the past 48 hours. The two aeroplanes which grounded away from the camp have returned ...

    Article : 118 words
  25. EXPLOSION AND FIRE

    The petrol tanker Girafe had just berthed at Rouen to-day, and the crew of 17 were about to begin their midday meal, when a terrific explosion occurred, blowing up the ...

    Article : 181 words
  26. DEATH AFTER DISPUTE.

    Following a dispute between two men in a lane in South Yarra to-night one of the men, who was identified as Roy Alexander Nilbett, 40, unemployed, was found ...

    Article : 124 words
  27. TELEVISION.

    A prophecy that television would become an accepted everyday fact like broadcasting within a few years was made last night by Mr. A. S. McDonald, chief engineer of ...

    Article : 146 words
  28. TWO MEN KILLED.

    Two men were killed to-day in a level crossing smash at Waitakcre station. The motor car in which they were travelling was struck by an express train and reduced to ...

    Article : 78 words
  29. EMPIRE WINES.

    The Food and Wine Society, which was recently formed, to improve the art of eating and drinking in Britain, to-day held an Empire wine-tasting function at a West End ...

    Article : 104 words
  30. LAKE VIEW AND STAR.

    A meeting of Lake View and Star, Ltd., resolved to increase the capital to £560,000 to acquire the property of Associated Gold Mines of Western Australia (New), Ltd., a ...

    Article : 53 words
  31. EASTER HOLIDAYS.

    Shopping hours and holidays in the metropolitan area during Easter will be as follows:- Late shopping night, Thursday, close 9 p.m.; Good Friday, close all day; Easter Saturday, ...

    Article : 51 words
  32. BAN ON ALSATIANS.

    The Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association has banned Alsatians from the grounds at the November show. One member said that Alsatians were dangerous and ...

    Article : 42 words
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