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  2. WATER BOARD.

    A vital change in the administration and control of the Metropolitan Water Board would be brought about if the Cabinet adopts the latest ...

    Article : 540 words
  3. NEW CHAIRMAN.

    At a meeting of the board of the Commonwealth Bank in Melbourne this afternoon, Mr. C. H. Reading was elected chairman for the unexpired portion of the ...

    Article : 585 words
  4. MILK INDUSTRY.

    The Minister for Health (Mr. Weaver) said yesterday he was determined to proceed with his scheme for the reorganisation of the milk industry. If necessary, he would fight ...

    Article : 224 words
  5. CHOOSING THE TEAM

    The Australian cricket team to tour England this year will be announced by the selectors on January 31. Between now and that day, the probable personnel of the team will provide a topic of discussion wherever cricketers and cricket-lovers meet. ...

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  6. MINE EXPLOSION.

    One hundred and thirty-one miners were trapped in a mine with three sections near Dux (Czechoslovakia), following an explosion, caused cither by firedamp or explosives used in ...

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  7. FRENCH QUOTAS

    Tho British Chamber of Commerce at Paris states that a chaotic situation has been created by France's reduction by 75 per cent. of British imports, by subjecting 134 new ...

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  8. UNITED STATES

    In his address to the joint session of Congress to-day, President Roosevelt made a plea for co-operation "to continue the restoration of national ...

    Article : 533 words
  9. A TEST ELEVEN.

    One hesitates to write too definitely of the probable team, not because it is difficult to name the players, but because no player should have his chances prejudiced by a ...

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  10. CANDIDATES' RECENT FORM.

    Form in recent first-class matches has resulted in some of the candidates for the Australian Eleven improving their prospects and in others jeopardising their chances. The ...

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  11. THE EMDEN BELL

    The Emden bell, which was stolen from the Australian War Museum in April last and found last week in a park on the outskirts of Melbourne by a party despatched (after ...

    Article : 95 words
  12. COTTON TRADE.

    The prolonged Indo-Japanese trade negotiations at New Delhi are stated to have ended with the acceptance by the Japanese of the Indian terms. It is expected that an ...

    Article : 357 words
  13. DEAN INGE.

    Dean Inge, who is styled "the gloomy Dean," in a revised edition of his book. "England," asserts that the American Government seriously contemplated anti-British action in the ...

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  14. VIOLENT STORM.

    Further violent storms which occurred late on Wednesday night in the northern coastal tablelands districts, continued yesterday. Torrential rain and severe hall fell at several ...

    Article : 437 words
  15. APPOINTMENT WELCOMED IN SYDNEY.

    The Acting Premier (Mr. Bruxner) said last night that the appointment of Mr. Reading would meet with general approval. The new chairman was well known in ...

    Article : 159 words
  16. NURSE CAVELL.

    A message from Paris states that a Frenchman, George Gaston Quien, who was sentenced to death in 1[?]18 after a trial, during which the evidence showed that he was principally ...

    Article : 208 words
  17. AUSTRALIAN CAR.

    Early yesterday morning, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith set out from Sydney with Messrs. J. A. Marks and S. E. Nielson to attempt a non-stop run to Melbourne in an ...

    Article : 310 words
  18. FRENCH BANK FRAUD.

    It is believed that a Russian financier, Serge Stavisky, who is wanted by the French police on charges of being concerned In the forgery of bonds by the Banque de Credit Municipal, ...

    Article : 164 words
  19. DISARMAMENT.

    The British Foreign Secretary (Sir John Simon) states that he is highly satisfied with the excellent work accomplished as a result of his conversations with Signor Mussolini. ...

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  20. BIRTH OF CHILD.

    A baby was born in an ambulance car, which had stalled in a flooded cr[?] crossing at Upper Tallebudgera, on the South Coast, during a heavy storm early this morning. The ...

    Article : 317 words
  21. THE ISABEL.

    Police and Customs' officials yesterday searched the Randwick home of Mrs. W. H. Weeks, wife of the owner-master of the schooner Isabel, on board which 30 cases of ...

    Article : 451 words
  22. MANCHUKUO.

    All China is buzzing with curious excitement following the Manchukuo Government's announcement of a pending change of the utmost importance in the constitution of the ...

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  23. GODDESS TAKES REVENGE.

    The theft of the ancient idol of Siva, the Hindu Goddess of Destruction, from the Temple of Avantshi, near Tirupur, in Southern India, had a strange sequel. ...

    Article : 158 words
  24. THE MINERS.

    The new northern president of the Miners Federation (Mr. J. Jack) gave strongly milltant advice to the striking Burwood miners to-day at the first miners' lodge meeting ...

    Article : 443 words
  25. CANBERRA.

    Mr. C. M. McDonald, president of the Employers' Federation of New South Wales, suggested yesterday that greater use should be made of Canberra as the Federal capital city. ...

    Article : 306 words
  26. PANIC-STRICKEN MOTHER.

    A panic-striken mother reported to the police to-day that she had received a series of threats on the telephone that her daughter, an 18-year-old cabaret entertainer, who is ...

    Article : 146 words
  27. RUMANIAN PREMIER RESIGNS.

    King Carol's oldest Minister, M. Angelescu, who was requested to take the Premiership of Rumania following the assassination of Dr. Dum last Friday, has resigned. ...

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  28. POWER ALCOHOL.

    The Vacuum Oil Co. Proprietary, Ltd., to-day issued a High Court writ against the State o[?] Queensland and Mr. William Forgan Smith (Treasurer for the State), caliming a ...

    Article : 223 words
  29. SHEFFIELD SHIELD.

    D. G. Bradman has withdrawn from the New South Wales team to play South Australia in the Sheffield Shield match beginning at the Sydney Cricket Giound to-day. ...

    Article : 224 words
  30. FRENCH TRAIN DISASTER.

    In consequence of the railway disaster at Lagny (France) on December 24, when 205 persons were killed, charges of imprudence, inefficiency, negligence, and non-observance of ...

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  31. REVOLT IN FUKIEN.

    The Chinese Government, having decided to take warlike action to suppress the rebellion in the province of Fuklen, requested the British Charge d'Affaires at Peking, on December 30, ...

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  32. OIL DEPOSITS.

    Rich deposits of ol[?] are stated to have been found on the coast of Bombay Presidency. Mr. Sultan Chinoy, a well-known business man and racehorse owner, who is interested in ...

    Article : 61 words
  33. CONSTABLE'S SON

    Keith McNamara, 9, the-son of Constable McNamara, who is in charge of the Sutherland lock-up, was drowned in the swimming pool at Cronulla yesterday afternoon. ...

    Article : 110 words
  34. VISCOUNT CHURCHILL DEAD

    Viscount Churchill, who for 25 years was chairman of the Great Western Railway, died to-day, at the age of 69 years, from pneumonia, after a brief illness. ...

    Article : 111 words
  35. EARTHQUAKE IN INDIA.

    Terrifle earthquake shocks occurred at daybreak at Sehwnn, in the Dadu district, Sind. Terror-stricken villagers, rushing from their houses, witnessed volcanic cruptions from an ...

    Article : 39 words
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