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  2. NEW WORKS.

    More than £350,000 is to be made available immediately by the State Government to carry out a comprehensive paogramme of developmental road works and bridges in many parts ...

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  3. HOT DAY.

    Heat wave conditions cause three deaths yesterday. In addition, many people collapsed. There were also many outbreaks of fires in scruo and grass. ...

    Article : 679 words
  4. NAVAL DEFENCE.

    Although the conference of flag-officers now in progress at Singapore, under the presidency of Vice-Admiral Sir Frederic Dreyer, Commander-in-Chlef of the China Station, serves ...

    Article : 875 words
  5. BUSHFIRES.

    Bushfires continued to rage in the outlying suburb yesterday, owing to the intense heat. The fire brigades received 44 calls, and although cottages and other buildings were ...

    Article : 463 words
  6. COLLAPSE.

    The strike of textile workers collapsed yesterday, when in compliance with an order made by the Deputy Federal Industrial Registrar (Mr. Tarrant), at a compulsory ...

    Article : 512 words
  7. DISARMAMENT.

    The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang), who presided at thre Upper House of Convocation, expressed the deep anxiety with which ...

    Article : 316 words
  8. RIVER DISASTER.

    More than 150 Chinese were drowned or burnt to death when the Yangtse River steamer Weitu[?]g caught fire about 50 miles south of Hankow. A list in the vessel caused ...

    Article : 169 words
  9. NEW YORK PRISON.

    Officials of the new city administration led detectives ir a surpilse raid to day on the municipal penitentiary which is located on Welfare Island, in East Riler, and found ...

    Article : 272 words
  10. ANGLO-CATHOLICISM.

    Striking passages in Lord Hugh Cecil's new book, "Anglo-Catholiclim To-day" include the following:- "The really formidable opponent of ...

    Article : 254 words
  11. FRENCH QUOTAS.

    Inquiries by the Australian High Commissioner (Mr. S. M. Bruce) regarding the French trade restrictions, which included a consultation with the commercial department ...

    Article : 278 words
  12. FAR EAST QUESTION.

    The Eome correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says: "It is suggested that Signor Mussolini contemplates launching proposals for a settlement of the Far Eastern problem. ...

    Article : 237 words
  13. LONGER HOURS

    When the management of a factory employing a large number of hands receives an intimation that the employees wish to make representations in regard to the number of ...

    Article : 260 words
  14. UNITED STATES.

    The debate in the Senate on the Administration's Gold Impounding Bill started today with opposition developing from two quarters—the Conservatives, who wished to ...

    Article : 340 words
  15. BASIC WAGE.

    A decrease of /6 a week will be made next month in the basic wage of Sydney, workers covered by Federal awards affected by the "A" series of index numbers, while the wages ...

    Article : 485 words
  16. INDIAN EARTHQUAKE.

    Rescuers working from dawn and continuing throughout the night, with the aid of flares, searched the areas wrecked by the earthquake, and faced great peril, for it is ...

    Article : 148 words
  17. FEDERAL CABINET.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) and the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Latham) will arrive in Sydney this morning by the express from Melbourne, and will remain here over ...

    Article : 572 words
  18. YOUNG PILOTS

    The allegation that air pilots who were little more than schoolboys were sent to the Western Front during the war, only halftrained, is made by General P. R. C. Groves, ...

    Article : 157 words
  19. BOYCOTT OF BEER

    Placards bearing the words "Beer is Black in This Town" are conspicuously displayed at Bullfinch, a mining town 200 miles east of Perth. The licensee of the only hotel refuses ...

    Article : 130 words
  20. WOMAN SPY.

    "La Belle Sophie," the beautiful German blonde, who was arrested at Metz (France) last October on a charge of being a spy, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment. ...

    Article : 219 words
  21. TENNIS TITLES.

    F. J. Perry and G. P. Hughes, the English Davis Cup pair, qualified for the final of the Australian doubles championship at the Lawn Tennis ground yesterday, beating V. B. ...

    Article : 333 words
  22. STUD CATTLE.

    The Waimana's shipment of stud cattle includes two high-quality Shorthorn bulls from the noted MacGillivary stud in Rosshire. One, Calrossie Satisfaction, is being shipped to New ...

    Article : 63 words
  23. GERMANY.

    The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Lang), presiding at the Upper House of Convocation, referred to the difficulties of the situation between the German Church and the State, ...

    Article : 365 words
  24. ALSATIAN DOG

    An Alsatian dog owned by Miss Iris Matthews, was responsible for saving the cottage of Alderman J. C. Matthews at Khartoum-road. North Ryde. ...

    Article : 104 words
  25. BANK BOARD.

    One of the most urgent matters to be settled at the Federal Cabinet meetings in Melbourne next week is the appointment of two directors of the Commonwealth Bank Board to ...

    Article : 519 words
  26. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The price of gold to day was £6/12/1 an ounce fine, compared with £6/12/10 yesterday. America bought the whole of the £700,000 worth offered. ...

    Article : 436 words
  27. ROYAL VISIT.

    With the arrival in Sydney to-day of the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) and the AttorneyGeneral (Mr. Latham), there will be discussions with the Minister for Health and ...

    Article : 451 words
  28. GENERAL O'DUFFY.

    The Attorney-General in the Irish Free State (Mr. C. McGuire) applied to the High Court to remove with costs against the chairman of the United Ireland party (General ...

    Article : 148 words
  29. FAST LEG-THEORY.

    The Earl of Wemyss, speaking to members of the Millions Club yesterday, made significant references to the controversy during last cricket season about fast leg-theory ...

    Article : 123 words
  30. 'PLANET NOSE-DIVE.

    Two airmen narrowly escaped serious intury when, as the result of a nose-dive while they were practising a forced landing, their Moth 'plane crashed into a rubbish tip at St. ...

    Article : 208 words
  31. SIXTEEN TENDERS.

    Sixteen tenders have been received for the erection of the first section of the Australian National War Memorial at Canberra. To-day was the closing date. ...

    Article : 163 words
  32. STATE LOTTERY.

    A bill to make State Lottery share syndicates illegal will be introduced immediately Parliament meets on Match 10. The bill has already been drafted. ...

    Article : 104 words
  33. STAVISKY SCANDAL.

    Henri Cohen, an expert valuer of jewellery at the municipal pawnbrokery at Bayonne, with which the Russian financier, Stavisky, was concerned, was arrested after it had been ...

    Article : 100 words
  34. WAMS BAY DAM BURSTS.

    The Walvis Bay Dam burst, turning the town into a vast lake. Swakopmund is also isolated. Tugs are taking foodstuffs. The Windhoek Dam showed big gaps, and ...

    Article : 97 words
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