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  2. KEY UNIONS CONFERENCE.

    The conference of "key" unions on Monday was held in camera, and the final resolutions only were made public, but, on reliable authority, it can be stated that the delegates were bitterly divided on the advisability of a stoppage at the present stage. ...

    Article : 118 words
  3. UPPER HOUSE.

    The Premier (Mr. Stevens) yesterday announced two additional appointments to the Legislative Council, viz.:— Messrs. P. H. TOUT (ex-president of the ...

    Article : 278 words
  4. RESCUED.

    The trawler Lord Talbot has rescued the Hutchinson family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson and their two daughters, as well as the ...

    Article : 206 words
  5. ENDOWMENT.

    It is probable that there will be a change in the present method of payment of child endowment. The fund is now overdrawn to the amount ...

    Article : 248 words
  6. MR. LYONS

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons), in a broadcast speech through Station 2CH last night, replied to criticism of some of the Federal Government's budgetary proposals, ...

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  7. CRISIS IN GERMANY.

    The dissolution of the German Reichstag yesterday was the most dramatic in the nation s history. As the vote on a Communist motion was about to be taken, the Chancellor (Herr von Papen) laid before the Speaker the decree of ...

    Article : 133 words
  8. EXTREMISTS REBUFFED.

    The proposal for an "all-out" policy was submittcd by Mr. Hoare, president of the norther miners. In a militant speech, he openly advocated the immediate declaration of ...

    Article : 565 words
  9. "NOT A REMEDY."

    Speaking at a reception on Monday night, [?] former Agent-General (Mr. A. C. Willis, M.L.C.) denounced the proposed general strike. ...

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  10. STROKE AND COUNTER-STROKE.

    It was a case of stroke and counter-stroke, with the Chancellor (Herr von Papen) forearmed as executioner. He had his secretaries busy throughout Sunday night preparing his ...

    Article : 553 words
  11. M.C.C. TEAM.

    It was officially announced to-day that Bowes, of Yorkshire, had been chosen to complete the M.C.C. team to tour Australia: Playing, yesterday for Yorkshire against ...

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  12. ARMAMENTS CLAIM.

    In reply to Germany's claim for equality of armaments, France challenges Germany's suggestion of the inadequacy of the Disarmamen Conference. ...

    Article : 482 words
  13. PREMIER'S STATEMENT.

    At the Ministerial party meeting yesterday the Premier (Mr. Stevens) pointed out the impossible financial position into which the Family Endowment Fund had drifted. ...

    Article : 176 words
  14. PUBLIC SERVICE.

    The Premier (Mr. Stevens) announced in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that a board of Public Service Commissioners, free from political control, would shortly be ...

    Article : 215 words
  15. "POLICY OF DESPAIR."

    "It is a policy of despair and one bankrupt of ideas," said the general secretary of the Federated Stewards and Pantrymen's Association, Mr. A. H. Moate, commenting yesterday ...

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  16. SELF-HELP.

    The story of a young teacher's success in educating the children of a "decadent" country district was told by the Tasmanian Director of Education (Mr G. V. Brooks) at a ...

    Article : 428 words
  17. COASTAL CLAUSES

    Following representations made to the Commonwealth Government by an unofficial committee consisting of Federal members from New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, ...

    Article : 381 words
  18. REVOLUTIONARY MOVE.

    "One can only hope that unionists generally will take the advice of Mr. A. C. Willis, and not add to the misery of the community by bringing about a general strike," said Mr. O. ...

    Article : 438 words
  19. MORATORIUM ACT.

    "It may reasonably be said that the conduct of our business was to a large extent taken out of our hands by the freak legislation of the late Government." ...

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  20. OTTAWA DELEGATES

    Rarotonga is en fete and the chiefs joined the Resident Commissioner (Mr. H. F. Ayson) in welcoming the New Zealand Minister for Works (Mr. Coates) and the New Zealand and ...

    Article : 151 words
  21. CONVERSION.

    The Australian Press Association underlands that there is now no early intention of converting Australian loans of over 5 per cent. other than the New South Wales ...

    Article : 266 words
  22. ENGINEERING UNION'S POSITION.

    In a letter to the Editor, Mr. R. R. Swindell, treasurer of the Drummoyne branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, wrote yesterday: "Your report in to-day's issue that Mr. ...

    Article : 183 words
  23. YORKSHIRE'S FOURTH.

    W. E. Bowes is the fourth Yorkshireman chosen for the tour of Australia. With the other three-Sutcliffe, Leyland; and Verity— he helped the county to win the ...

    Article : 195 words
  24. RELUCTANT WITNESS

    "I still consider the questions unfair," said Mr. H. M. Russell, M.L.A., to-day, when asked by the Royal Commissioner (Mr. Carroll), inquiring into the alleged payment of secret ...

    Article : 144 words
  25. BRITISH PARLIAMENT

    Owing to the necessity of legislation to implement the Ottawa agreements and the time which it will take, the Government has decided that the public interest requires that ...

    Article : 42 words
  26. "SHEER MADNESS."

    Mr. E G. Theodore, former Federal Treasurer, made the following comment last night on the proposed general strike: "The contemplation of a general strike in the present ...

    Article : 58 words
  27. LAWN TENNIS.

    Mr. Wallis Myers, writing in the "Daily Telegraph," ranks the world's 10 best players as follow:—Vines (America), Cochet (France), Borotra (France), Allison (America), Sutter ...

    Article : 153 words
  28. OLD PROSPECTOR

    Thirteen of his mates stood bareheaded as the body of Daniel Nugent, the old prospector, who was found dead in Clouds Creek yesterday, after 40 men had searched for him ...

    Article : 136 words
  29. NEW ZEALAND REPORT.

    Although Ministers state that they have no knowledge of such an arrangement, it is reported here that an agreement was signed at Ottawa by Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Coates ...

    Article : 61 words
  30. INTERNAL SHORT-TERM LOANS.

    Commonwealth Treasury officials said to-day that the only conversion operation at present in view relating to the long-term public indebtedness of Australian ...

    Article : 170 words
  31. OPINION IN VICTORIA.

    Many Victorian trade union leaders said to-day that a general strike would be doomed to failure, and would end in a debacle because of the depleted finances of the unions ...

    Article : 242 words
  32. "ABSOLUTE FOLLY."

    Mr. Wm. Brooks, M.L.C., stated yesterday that the proposals for a general strike constrained him to think that those who brought them forward were little better than lunatics. ...

    Article : 259 words
  33. EXPECTATION OF LIFE.

    In view of the fact that in the last two generations the decrease in infantile mortality has extended the expectation of life by 15 years, one of the important ...

    Article : 105 words
  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. Winston Churchill, who is on a holiday tour in Europe, is suffering from an attack of paratyphoid at Salzburg, Austria. He is in a sanatorium. His Illness is taking the ...

    Article : 255 words
  35. DARING THIEF

    Stepping up to the till of a cafe in Pitt-street yesterday afternoon, a thief coolly grabbed the contents and fled out into the street. He was chased and caught, but broke ...

    Article : 202 words
  36. IRISH FREE STATE.

    The Irish Free State's loss of trade through the land annuities dispute is strikingly revealed by the Board of Trade returns for August, which show that cattle exported to ...

    Article : 128 words
  37. SPEEDBOAT RACING.

    Lord Wakefield has decided for personal reasons not to participate in further motor boat speed contests. He declined to discuss the future of Miss England III., which ...

    Article : 189 words
  38. COUNCIL'S ACCOUNT BOOKS

    The position in regard to the arbitration on the dispute between St. Marys Council and its former electrical engineer, Mr. H. Ellis, is curious. The arbitrators will not release their ...

    Article : 145 words
  39. CAPTAIN BERTRAM.

    A message from Captain Hans Bertram at Port Hedland states that he expects to be put ashore from the Koolinda at Seaplane Bay on Sunday. Accompanied by a mechanic, Mr. ...

    Article : 79 words
  40. UNION SECRETARIES.

    The Newcastle Union Secretaries' Association agreed to-day to a motion recommending Newcastle unions to join in the proposed general strike. ...

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  41. "LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER."

    Mr. J. F. Coates, M.L.C., leader of the Federal Labour party in New South Wales, said last evening that any attempt to cajole the workers into a strike would be the work ...

    Article : 59 words
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