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  2. FILM INQUIRY.

    Statements were made at the film inquiry yesterday by Australian producers of motion pictures that there was a combine which was detrimental to the Australian film industry. ...

    Article : 1,582 words
  3. UNITED STATES.

    In order to meet the enormous expenditures entailed by his recovery programme President Roosevelt proposes to borrow 10,000,000,000 dollars during the next six months. The 1934-35 Budget Estimates, which he submitted to Congress on ...

    Article : 192 words
  4. GOLD.

    Preliminary figures prepared by the Commonwealth Statistician's department show that Australia's gold production during 1933 reached a total value of £6,151,000 in ...

    Article : 120 words
  5. REFORM PARTY.

    Sir Samuel Walder, M.L.C., in a statement on behalf of the Civic Reform aldermen of the City Council yesterday, said that they believed a reduction ...

    Article : 331 words
  6. WATER BOARD.

    A contract accepted by the Metropolitan Water Board has been delayed by Government intervention. The board recently accepted a tender for ...

    Article : 135 words
  7. HAZARDOUS FLIGHT

    Flying through snowsqualls and under a thick layer of stratus clouds, Rear-Admiral Byrd laid a course yesterday in the expedition's 'plane across the Antarctic pack-ice, and ...

    Article : 772 words
  8. NATIONAL ART.

    The opening display at the exhibition at Burlington House, London, is calculated to give Britons a new vision of the glory of the national art, and makes a comforting ...

    Article : 229 words
  9. STRIKE AT ORANGE.

    As a result of the application of the Federal award to employees at the Orange woollen mills, some reductions in wages were made. By way of protest against these reductions. ...

    Article : 252 words
  10. HEAVY STORM.

    A heavy thunderstorm broke over parts of the city and suburbs shortly before 6 o'clock last night. Electric light wires at Manly and Chatswood were struck by lightning, and the ...

    Article : 359 words
  11. FOUNDATION OF CONFIDENCE.

    President Roosevelt has definitely committed the Government to a policy of regaining pros[?]erity through spending. Summing up the philosophy behind the ...

    Article : 596 words
  12. MODERN EDUCATION

    Addressing a joint conference of educational associations, Mr. Julian Huxley, the author, opened an interesting discussion on the failure of modern science and teaching to provide ...

    Article : 237 words
  13. OPINION IN LONDON.

    The "Daily Telegraph," commenting on Mr. Roosevelt's staggering figures, says: "It may be easier for him to raise the amount required than to find means of spending it to ...

    Article : 310 words
  14. BRIGHTER PROSPECTS.

    Mr. C. H. Reading, the new chairman of the Commonwealth Bank Board, said to-day that he believed that the prospects for Australia were undoubtedly brighter for a gradual ...

    Article : 289 words
  15. STATE LOTTERY.

    The principal prizes in the 176th State lottery were drawn at the Australian Hall yesterday morning by Mr. F. E. Manning, a director of Kodak (Australasia) Pty., Ltd. ...

    Article : 108 words
  16. GERMANY.

    The German Department of Racial Culture is appealing to all Germans to become genealogists and begin the serious study of their own family histories. ...

    Article : 304 words
  17. BLAYNEY COUNCIL.

    Five of the nine aldermen of the Blayney Municipal Council have resigned, and an administrator will have to be appointed by the Local Government Department, pending an ...

    Article : 188 words
  18. TRUCK LEAVES RAILS.

    At 2.30 o'clock this morning, a goods train, comprising loaded wheat trucks and empty sheep trucks, was being shunted into a deadend beside the refreshment room at the ...

    Article : 156 words
  19. BILLS BEFORE CONGRESS.

    The new Liquor Tax Bill, carrying a basic levy of two dollars a gallon on distilled spirits, is expected to be passed by the House of Representatives to-morrow. The rate before ...

    Article : 231 words
  20. WAGGA MYSTERY.

    Detectives found bloodstains on the waggonette which belonged to Percy Smith, whose battered body was found in the Murrumbidgee River on Christmas Day, and are considering ...

    Article : 383 words
  21. SKIERS MAROONED.

    A detachment of French Alpine soldiery is making its way on skis to rescue a large party of American and British tourists, including children, who are marooned in the village ...

    Article : 107 words
  22. SETTLED.

    The dispute at the brickyards of the Austral Brick Company, Ltd., at St. Peters, has been settled. A compulsory conference between the parties ...

    Article : 77 words
  23. NEWCASTLE FIRE.

    The Newcastle fire chief (District Officer Leslie Hurley) suffered severe burns in a perilous episode during a fire which caused damage estimated at £4000, and which ...

    Article : 438 words
  24. LORD BADEN-POWELL

    Lord Baden-powell, Chief Scout, underwent an internal operation in the King Edward VII. Hospital for Officers yesterday. The operation was successful, and he is progressing ...

    Article : 104 words
  25. FRENCH BANK FRAUD.

    Following suggestions that powerful interests have shielded the Russian financier, Serge Stavisky, who is wanted in connection with the forgery of French bank bonds, the ...

    Article : 143 words
  26. NEW YORK POLICE.

    Following the order issued by the Mayor (Mr. La Guardia) to clean up the city, the police staged one of the biggest round-ups of recent years last night and to-day. They ...

    Article : 140 words
  27. SHOTS FIRED.

    Tens of thousands of cigarette papers, which police believe are part of the proceeds of a robbery from a wharf recently, were seized by detectives last night after a man had ...

    Article : 222 words
  28. AVIATION.

    The French flying boat Southern cross completed an Atlantic crossing from St. Louis (Senegal West Africa) to Natal (Brazil) to-day, travelling 1970 miles in l8 hours 17 ...

    Article : 267 words
  29. CRISIS IN RUMANIA.

    The Bucharest correspondent of the "Daily Express" says "While one train was speeding through the night carrying the Foreign Minister (M. Titulescu) back from ...

    Article : 112 words
  30. SECOND TEST.

    In the second test match between the M.C.C. and India, the visitors had made 257 for five wickets at the close of the first day's play. Langridge was top scorer with 70, which is ...

    Article : 153 words
  31. EXCHANGE DEALINGS.

    The banks justify their monthly turnover charge of a quarter per cent, on the current accounts of customers who transact exchange business outside the banks on the grounds ...

    Article : 112 words
  32. MIGRANT SETTLER.

    A Supreme Court writ was issued to-day on behalf of Alexander Skirving Moore, farmer, of Pyramid Hill, claiming £7500 from the Government of Victoria for alleged breach ...

    Article : 212 words
  33. RUGBY LEAGUE.

    Because the Pershing Stadium was the scene of Sunday's Anglo-Australian Rugby League match the French Rugby Union has banned amateur matches there henceforward, obliging ...

    Article : 239 words
  34. EASTERN TRADE.

    Further criticism of the Australian trade delegation to the East was voiced by Mr. C. F. F. Wearne, chairman of Wearne Bros., a motor car selling firm in the Malay States. He said ...

    Article : 174 words
  35. CAPTAIN FRANKLIN, R.N.

    The services of Captain H. G. C. Franklin, R.N., have been lent to the Royal Australian Navy for two years as from June next. Captain Franklin entered the Navy in 1907, ...

    Article : 158 words
  36. WOOL AUCTION SALES.

    Sir Frederick Aykroyd, a piominent millowner, at the dinner of the British Wool Federation, emphasised Sir Graham Waddell's warning to Australian woolgrowers to think ...

    Article : 139 words
  37. P. M. HORNIBROOK.

    P. M. Hornibrook, the Queensland slow lefthand bowler, who was a member of the last Australian cricket team to tour England, and who has been out of big cricket for some time, ...

    Article : 113 words
  38. BLIZZARD IN JAPAN.

    A terrific blizzard is ra[?]ing on the northwest coast, and communications have been disrupted. Several persons have been killed. Ships have been forced to remain in ...

    Article : 113 words
  39. FLIGHT TO ENGLAND.

    Mrs. H. B. Bonney, the Queensland airwoman, who fiew from Australia to England recently, intends in about a year's time to repeat the flight. ...

    Article : 35 words
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