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  2. TRANSPORT. New Commission.

    Mr. J. McGirr, as forecasted in the "Herald," was sworn in yesterday as the New Minister for Transport. Mr. C. J. Goode (Chairman of the ...

    Article : 156 words
  3. TELEPHONES.

    On March 22, 1882, the first Government telephone exchange in New South Wales was opened at the G.P.O., Sydney. Mr. P. Howe. the operator, who put through the first call, ...

    Article : 622 words
  4. ARMED MEN

    Two men opened the Moonee Ponds Picture Theatre late last night and robbed the safe, after they had seized the manager, stolen his keys, gagged and bound him, and taken him ...

    Article : 337 words
  5. RECORD CAR TRIP.

    Mr. Arthur Barnes, a well-known Sydney motorist, yesterday broke by 21 minutes his own record for a motor car journey between Brisbane and Sydney. In a British-built ...

    Article : 252 words
  6. PHAR LAP

    Phar Lap dozed behind stoutly barred doors to-day, resting. Woodcock revealed that the champion bruised a leg while objecting in seeming modesty, to having the wreath of ...

    Article : 565 words
  7. BRITISH LABOUR.

    The annual conference of the Independent Labour party next Saturday at Blackpool may throw the British Labour movement back 10 years, or, alternatively, give it a new lease of ...

    Article : 720 words
  8. FRUIT MACHINES

    The leader of the Federal Labour party in the Legislative Council (Mr. J. F. Coates) protested last night against the action of the Government in licensing the use of the ...

    Article : 726 words
  9. OTTAWA. BUSINESS BASIS.

    Sir Edward Davson, chairman of the British Empire Producers' Organisation, in an address to the Royal Empire Society, said that the promise of success ...

    Article : 614 words
  10. NEW MEMBERS.

    The Chief Commissioner, Mr. C. J. Goode, joined the traffic branch of the Railway Service as a probationer in the telegraph office at Goulburn, in 1891, and was later transferred ...

    Article : 801 words
  11. DE GROOT CHARGED.

    Great public interest was shown in the cases at the Central Police Court yesterday against Francis Edward de Groot. the New Guardsman who was arrested on Saturday after cutting the ...

    Article : 875 words
  12. 35-HOUR WEEK

    From Wednesday, March 30, a 35-hour week is to be worked at the Walsh Island Government dockyard in five seven-hour days. There will be no Saturday work. Payment will be ...

    Article : 100 words
  13. BABY'S ESCAPE.

    A baby boy narrowly escaped death yesterday morning, when it fell between a train and the Harris Park railway platform. The child, pressing itself against the concrete while the ...

    Article : 209 words
  14. WHEAT QUOTA.

    Major Lloyd George (L)., supporting an amendment in the House of Commons to limit the operation of the wheat quota to a five-year period, said that the subsidy payable was ...

    Article : 199 words
  15. TWO MEN KILLED.

    While the work of demolishing the old Government Life Insuiance Offices was procecding this afternoon, a concrete strongroom, the walls and roof of which were 12 inches ...

    Article : 154 words
  16. LOAN CONVERSION.

    The Prime Minister and Treasurer (Mr. Lyons), in January, announced the conditions that had been laid down for the relief of cases of hardship under the loan conversion ...

    Article : 448 words
  17. FALL IN RUBBER PRICE

    A sharp break in the price of rubber followed the announcement that the proposais for the regulating of production or export of rubber have been rejected. The spot price was ...

    Article : 146 words
  18. UNPAID RATES.

    In the Bankstown Court yesterday, Lewis Maunsell, rate clerk of the Bankstown Council, stated that about £80,000 was owed to the council for rates to the end of Dccember. ...

    Article : 259 words
  19. BRIDGE "PLOT."

    The fact that the bridge was opened, without an attempt being made to molest Mr. Lang does not alter the conviction of the State Agent-General (Mr. Willis) that he ...

    Article : 148 words
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  21. FAR EAST.

    The Japanese Foreign Minister (Mr. Yoshizawa), in a speech in the Imperial Diet on March 22 (a translation of which has been supplied by the Japanese Consulate-General), ...

    Article : 727 words
  22. STATE A.L.P.

    Regret is expressed in the report of the advisory educational committee of the State Labour party, to be presented to the Easter conference, at the refusal of the Minister ...

    Article : 467 words
  23. KILLING RABBITS.

    A new method of exterminating rabbits, which might appeal to Australian farmers, was desoribed by Dr. A. H. B. Kirkman, at a meeting of the London University Animal Welfare ...

    Article : 103 words
  24. APPEAL DISMISSED.

    The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal Of the Norwegian whaling companies, Polaris and Globus, against the judgment given in the King's Bench Division in favour of Unilever, ...

    Article : 118 words
  25. MOTORISTS' FEARS.

    The president of the N.R.M.A. (Mr. J. C. Watson), referring yesterday to the new Transport Commission, said it was difficult to believe that the main roads system of New South ...

    Article : 512 words
  26. VOLUNTARY WORK

    The Carpenters' Union has launched a campaign in the hope of bringing about a discontinuance of what they descilbe as the growing piactlce of erecting charitable, ...

    Article : 211 words
  27. DISARMAMENT.

    The diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that Government naval advisers aie reviewing the issues affecting the Empire's naval security prior to the ...

    Article : 87 words
  28. TRANSPORT.

    A committee comprising four representatives of the railways and four of films engaged in goods transport by road has been set up with comprehensive terms of refeicnce, as ...

    Article : 169 words
  29. COMMUNISTS.

    Scenes of disorder which nearly led to serious consequents were witnessed at Station Pier, Port Melbourne, this afternoon, when the Orsova left' for London carrying ...

    Article : 363 words
  30. UNION OFFICIAL

    Following the blowing-up of the railway bridge and points at Elsie siding on the Orphan mine line, near Dobbyn, yesterday morning, a union official has been arrested. ...

    Article : 167 words
  31. LARGE EXEMPTIONS

    A spirit of compromise on the 1,000,000,000 dollar tax bill led the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives to vote for the removal of the proposed levies ...

    Article : 108 words
  32. TWO STOWAWAYS.

    Two youthful stowaways who were returned to Sydney from New Zenland by the steamer Marama yesterday morning, spent an uncomfortable 24 horns a fortnight ago, when ...

    Article : 213 words
  33. PRINCESS ELIZABETH.

    A miniature house, which was designed and built in Wales and presented to the Duke and Duchess of York for their daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was destroyed by fire to-day ...

    Article : 145 words
  34. OLYMPIC TEAM.

    The maritime unions have decided to ask the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. Parkhill) to inquire into the reasons why the Olympic tram will travel to the Olympic Games by ...

    Article : 122 words
  35. FATHER CENSURED.

    The Birmingham Coroner, declaring that Christian Scientists should not carry their beliefs so far as to imperil lives, censured a Christian Scientist father for his failure ...

    Article : 88 words
  36. LORD MAYOR'S TABLET.

    Either thieves or souvenir hunters have been responsible for removing the heavy bronze caps that affix the Lord Mayor's commemorative tablet to the parapet wall on the southern ...

    Article : 73 words
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