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  2. LIVING WAGE Reduced by 2/.

    The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission yesterday announced its adjustment of the living wage for adult male and female New South Wales ...

    Article : 508 words
  3. ULM.

    Mr. C. T. P. Ulm, the new record-holder for a flight from England to Australia, is expected in Sydney to-morrow. In a telegram received in Sydney last night, ...

    Article : 884 words
  4. UNEMPLOYED

    Batons were drawn during exciting clashes between police and unemployed last night, when an attempt was made to hold a meeting in the shopping centre of Parramatta. ...

    Article : 461 words
  5. MEMBERS' PAY. £75 INCREASE.

    Members of the House of Representatives to-day, by an overwhelming majority, agreed to increase their own and Senators' Parliamentary ...

    Article : 945 words
  6. SEA POWER.

    A large and representative assemblage, at a luncheon yesterday at David Jones, in commemoration of the battle of Trafalgar, expressed, by resolution "its gratitude to the ...

    Article : 554 words
  7. DISARMAMENT.

    The chairman of the Disarmament Conference (Mr. Arthur Henderson, M. P.), questione[?] whether, in view of Germany's withdrawal from the conference, use should now be ...

    Article : 606 words
  8. UNITED STATES.

    A message from St. Paul (Minnesota) says that the farmers were called upon to-night to strike at noon on Saturday by the directors of the National Farm Holiday Association, ...

    Article : 988 words
  9. THE NAVY. Strength Impaired

    An important speech on the weakness of the British Navy, as a result of continued disarmament, was made by Earl Beatty, formerly Admiral of ...

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  10. BRITISH DESTROYERS. Voyage to Australia.

    The first mishap on the voyage of the destroyer flotilla, which is proceeding to Australia, occurred in moderate weather in the Bay of Biscay at 9 a.m. to-day, 21 hours after ...

    Article : 208 words
  11. UNION VIEWS.

    Union officials yesterday took advantage of the reduction in the basic wage to make bitter attacks on the Government. They claimed that the reduction would ...

    Article : 361 words
  12. FARM MYSTERY.

    Police now believe that Mrs. Lakey, who was found dead on a farm at Ruavvaro, was murdered, whllp it is also believed that her husband, who is missing, was also murdered. ...

    Article : 74 words
  13. BODY-LINE BOWLING.

    "We have reached the stage where the most effective argument in the cricket controversy is a handshake and a smile," said Sir Stanley Jackson, when distributing the prizes at the ...

    Article : 374 words
  14. NEW STATES

    At a public meeting last night, under the auspices of the United Australia party, the president of the Albury branch (Dr. Robertson) said he felt that there was little ...

    Article : 273 words
  15. OFFICERS APPOINTED.

    Appointments of officers to ships of the destroyer flotilla at present en route from the United Kingdom to Join the Royal Australian Navy were announced by the ...

    Article : 271 words
  16. POLICE INQUIRY.

    A feature of the police inquiry to-day was the evidence of the Chief of the Criminal Investigation Branch (Superintendent Walsh), who produced the official files of the police ...

    Article : 446 words
  17. FEDERAL AWARDS.

    The trade unions are taking steps to make representations to the Arbitration Court, in view of the announcement by the Court that it intended to review the basic wage early ...

    Article : 198 words
  18. TAXPAYERS' ASSOCIATION.

    The council of the Taxpayers' Association, at a meeting yesterday, expressed by resolution its emphatic protest against the increase in the salaries of members of the Federal ...

    Article : 146 words
  19. TENDERS INQUIRY.

    When the inquiry into the letting of a contract for sanitary services by the Bankstown Municipal Council was continued yesterday, Alderman Stanley Amour was questioned by ...

    Article : 381 words
  20. ALARM AT BANQUET.

    Forty citizens of Aosta (Italy) had finished a dish of mushrooms at a banquet when the chef dashed into the room, declared that they had eaten toadstools, and that they would all ...

    Article : 132 words
  21. AVIATION.

    Colonel Lindbergh, who recently made a Transatlantic survey flight, interviewed by the "Daily Telegraph," said that he considered that it was quite possible to start a summer ...

    Article : 167 words
  22. UPPER HOUSE.

    The consensus of opinion at present in political circles is that, when the four Upper House ballots are completed, the Government will have from 38 to 44 representatives in ...

    Article : 117 words
  23. GERMANY.

    Nazism's paternal care of the nation is further illustrated by a decree granting to fathers of familles of four a 15 per cent cut in income tax and a 30 per cent to fathers of five ...

    Article : 298 words
  24. GRAZIERS' PROTEST.

    The president of the Graziers' Association (Mr. James Walker) said that the raising of salaries of members of the Federal Parliament at this stage would tend to foster an ...

    Article : 206 words
  25. SAVING OF £200,000 TO STATE.

    It was learned in State Government official circles yesterday that if the basic wage cut was applied all round it would mean a saving in expenditure of £200,000 a year. ...

    Article : 85 words
  26. SIR ERIC DRUMMOND.

    The new British Ambissador to Rome (Sir Eric Drummond) wis to-day the guest of honour at a luncheon in London of the British Italian League, over which Lord Rennell, who ...

    Article : 193 words
  27. TWIN GIRLS

    When twins were bom, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Armstrong, of Hexham, were told that they were boys, and that as they were delicate they should be christened immediately. A ...

    Article : 116 words
  28. MEAT STRIKE.

    All employees in the retail meat trade who went on strike have been re-engaged, and the industry is back to normal again. The only section of the trade now involved ...

    Article : 133 words
  29. SEAMEN'S CLAIM.

    "If the wages of the employees covered by this claim were restored to the rates in operation in July, 1930, it is certain that claims for s'milar consideration would be made on ...

    Article : 147 words
  30. BOARD OF CONTROL

    To consider the cabled reply of the M.C.C. committee to the Australian messages asking for an assurance that "body-line" bowling should not be used in England in 1934, a ...

    Article : 77 words
  31. FLINDERS BY-ELECTION.

    The central executive of the Victorian Labour party to-night endoised Dr. A. R. Haywood, of Hastings, as the Labour candidate to contest the Flinders by-election made necessary by the ...

    Article : 80 words
  32. WOMEN GOLFERS

    The New Zealand Women's Golf Union has decided to send Miss Kay and Miss Gaisford winner and runner-up respectively in the women's golf championship, to England next ...

    Article : 57 words
  33. LAWN TENNIS.

    In the third round of the women's singles covered court championship at Queen's Club Mrs. King defeated Miss Wilson (Australia). 6-3, 6-2. ...

    Article : 28 words
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