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  2. STRANDED VESSEL.

    Vigorous efforts are being made to refloat the Japanese vessel Hayo Maru, which went aground in 21 feet of water near Bunbury on Sunday morning, in a dense fog. ...

    Article : 130 words
  3. COPYRIGHT MUSIC.

    Wireless broadcasting had so reduced the revenue from sales of music that the performing right fee represented practically the only revenue left to composers, authors, and ...

    Article : 462 words
  4. COUNTRY NEWS. GAS AND WATER WORKS MANAGER.

    From 87 applications, Mr. P. W. Smith, [?] Portland, Victoria, was appointed gas and water works manager by the Cootamu[?] Council. ...

    Article : 31 words
  5. LOSSES AND PROFITS ON AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 634 words
  6. RAINSTORMS.

    The heavy rainstorm which was experienced over the metropolitan area on Monday night and early yesterday morning caused minor damage in many suburbs. The heaviest falls ...

    Article : 1,115 words
  7. CITY COUNCIL.

    Labour aldermen bitterly attacked the former Lord Mayor (Alderman Jackson) at the meeting of the City Council yesterday. Alderman O'Dea (Labour) moved that the ...

    Article : 856 words
  8. UNEMPLOYED. Encampments at Griffith.

    Members of the Wade Shire Council, whose territory embraces the whole of the Mirrool irrigation area, expressed grave anxi[?]y concerning the problem of unemployed ...

    Article : 302 words
  9. FIRE DESTROYS COTTAGE.

    A fire early this morning destroyed an unoccupied partly-furnished weatherboard cottage on Goonoo Goonoo-road, Nundle owned by Mr. William Taylor. The outbreak was ...

    Article : 55 words
  10. BATHURST POLICE COURT.

    At Bathurst Police Court Charles Brook, a baker, was fined £2 for a breach of the bakers and pastrycooks' award. Garnet McKenzie, 57, hairdresser, was sentenced to ...

    Article : 141 words
  11. PREFERENCE.

    Members of the Returned Soldiers' League fear that the State Government will repeal the Act which gives preference of employment to returned soldiers. ...

    Article : 154 words
  12. DEATH OF MOUNTAIN RESIDENT.

    Mr. William Henry Kerswell, who died at his residence in Woodford, was in his 82nd year, and had lived in the district for 40 years. He was chief engineer with Lassetter ...

    Article : 70 words
  13. DEMOCRACY.

    In a broadcast speech from station 2UW last night, Mr. J. F. Coates, the leader of the Federal Labour party in the Legislative Council, discussed the question, "Is Democracy a ...

    Article : 551 words
  14. LAWN TENNIS.

    The Japanese players arrived from Melbourne yesterday morning, Mr. N. E. Brookes, the president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia, accompanied them. ...

    Article : 147 words
  15. EJECTMENT CASE.

    At Kiama Police Court, the owner of a cottage applied for repossession from a tenant not paying his rent. The stipendiary magistrate (Mr. C. ...

    Article : 81 words
  16. CAMPBELLTOWN WORKING BEE.

    A meeting of 100 unemployed at Campbelltown decided to hold a working bee to clear and repair a road to a popular swimming resort on the river. At the appointed time ...

    Article : 209 words
  17. RESIDENT MINISTER.

    Mr. F. M. Forde, ex-Minister for Customs, said yesterday that the appointment of Mr. Bruce as Resident Minister in London was an experiment, but would not solve Australia's ...

    Article : 164 words
  18. LUCKY ESCAPES.

    At the intersection of the Coramba and Woolgoolga roads this morning a heavy sedan car, driven by H. Young, of Raleigh, collided with a car driven by M. W. Harrigan. The ...

    Article : 61 words
  19. THE UNIONS.

    The Dunlop-Perdriau Rubber Co., Ltd., and other employers, have lodged a new log of wages and conditions with the Commonwealth Arbitration Court. The log has been served ...

    Article : 518 words
  20. BRITISH FILM

    The censorship appeal authority for Victoria, Professor W. A. Osborne, of the Melbourne University, has forbidden the exhibition in Victoria of the British film, "Keepers ...

    Article : 160 words
  21. ELECTRICITY FOR STANWELL PARK.

    After agitation for over six years by the local progress association, the Bu[?] Shire Council has agreed to have electric lighting installed here. The work will be begun ...

    Article : 38 words
  22. SUSPENSION OF ENGINEER.

    Mr. W. R. Wylie (Inspector of Local Government Accounts) conducted an inquiry at Orara Council Chambers into the suspension of the council's engineer (Mr. Alexander ...

    Article : 258 words
  23. FILM COMPANY SUED.

    After a hearing which extended over 10 days a jury in the Third Civil Court to-day found for plaintiff in the action in which William John Cook Barr, of St. Kilda, sued Warner ...

    Article : 169 words
  24. BUSHFIRES.

    Bushfires are still raging in the Inglewood district, and men belonging to the Rural Fires Board and local residents are fighting them. Considerable difficulty is being experienced, as ...

    Article : 135 words
  25. SUNDAY SPORT.

    After a keen debate last night, the Moree Council rejected a resolution moved by Alderman McCourt that organised Sunday sport should be prohibited in the town. ...

    Article : 130 words
  26. GEORGE'S RIVER.

    At a meeting of the Liverpool Progress Association, a letter was received from settle[?] along George's River asking the association to take some action in the matter of the sm[?] ...

    Article : 108 words
  27. SOLICITOR ACQUITTED.

    A jury to-day found Andrew John Landran. 30, solicitor, not guilty on a charge of having stolen £77/16/6, the property of Robert George Gardiner. ...

    Article : 30 words
  28. ASSAULT AND ROBBERY CHARGE.

    When Mrs. Lillian Peters was asked at Newcastle Police Court to-day whether she could identify a piece of cloth alleged to have been used as a mask by Albert George Walker, 19, ...

    Article : 382 words
  29. INCOME TAX. Reduction in Britain Forecast.

    The political correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) is aiming at a reduction of income tax in the next ...

    Article : 71 words
  30. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 259 words
  31. "DEPARTMENTAL BLUNDER."

    The engineer (Mr. H. Coutts) stated at a meeting of the council that the delay in installing the booster pump for the water supply had been caused by the foundations having ...

    Article : 106 words
  32. EVICTIONS OF SOLDIER SETTLERS.

    The Forbes branch of the Returned Soldier[?] League has formed a committee to investigate the eviction of soldier settlers in the district. The president, Mr. T. C. Jago, directed ...

    Article : 92 words
  33. CASUALTIES.

    Lawrence Pullen, 11, of Crown-street, Henley, slipped from the footboard of a tram, which he was attempting to board, at the corner of Parramatta-road and ...

    Article : 348 words
  34. ARMY BEEF CONTRACT.

    The Australian Press Association learns that Thomas Borthwick and Sons (Australasia), Ltd., have secured the bulk of the War Office half-yearly contract of 6000 tons of frozen ...

    Article : 38 words
  35. SHIRE EMPLOYEES DISMISSED.

    At a meeting of the Tarro Shire Counc[?] to-day the engineer reported that the services of all employees had been dispensed with for the time being owing to the limits of the ...

    Article : 43 words
  36. INSURANCE STAFFS

    Although a claim has been made by the Insurance Staffs' Federation for the restoration of the 10 per cent. reduction in the salaries of officers of fire and life insurance and assurance ...

    Article : 206 words
  37. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    In the House of Commons, the Postmaster-General (Sir Kingsley Wood) said that the work of constructing the new station for Empire broadcasting was in hand, and the British ...

    Article : 347 words
  38. GIRLS IN SHORTS.

    The Gerringong Council has requested the police officer to prohibit the wearing of objectionable dresses in the street. This decision followed a protest by Mr. M. J. ...

    Article : 101 words
  39. STRANGE VISITOR.

    The police are investigating a report th[?] a person who represented himself as a postal inspector visited the post-office at Milbrulong. The postmaster was out, but his wife, ...

    Article : 62 words
  40. CATTLE STEALING CHARGE.

    At the Armidale Police Court, Tho[?] James Hickey, John Robert Prater, and B[?] Clifton Cosgrove were committed for trial at the Armidale Circuit Court in April on ...

    Article : 49 words
  41. Advertising

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    Advertising : 242 words
  42. PHILIP MUSKETT ART PRIZES

    Sir John Longstaff, Mr. Norman Carter, and Mr. Howard Ashton yesterday adjudicated in the competition for the annual prizes bequeathed by the late Philip Muskett for the ...

    Article : 253 words
  43. MAN SEVERELY BURNT.

    Lach[?]an Brettschneider was admitted to the Hillston District Hospital suffering from severe burns received while he was fighting a gra[?] fire. He was cultivating on his father's ...

    Article : 56 words
  44. LEAP FOR LIFE.

    George Whaler, 21, a swagman, and a companion, had an exciting experience on a railway bridge on the Yandina side of Nambour just after 12 o'clock last night. They were ...

    Article : 95 words
  45. GRAZIER'S ESTATE.

    Maude Winifred Smiley, of Mentone, spinster, brought an action before Mr. Justice Wasley and a jury of six in the Third Civil Court to-day against Michael Sebastian Darcy, ...

    Article : 311 words
  46. NINETY-MILE BEACH.

    There were still several bumps on the Ninety Mile Beach to-day when Mr. Norman Smith inspected the course, which was drier than usual. He is hopeful of racing again near ...

    Article : 98 words
  47. WOMAN'S LEAP.

    A fashionably-dressed young woman, aged about 19 or 20, jumped from Victoria Brid[?] into the Brisbane River, about 11 o'clock to-night. ...

    Article : 99 words
  48. MAN REFUSED JOB.

    Late yesterday afternoon a man entered Phillip Moses's premises in the city and demanded that he be allowed to clean a large plateglass window. He explained that he ...

    Article : 85 words
  49. FIJI'S TRADE.

    The Fiji Legislative Council opened this morning. The Governor (Sir Murchison Fletcher), in his opening address, said there was a deficit in 1931 of £44,000, ...

    Article : 154 words
  50. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 words
  51. SHOTS EXCHANGED.

    A nightwatchman and a suspected thief exchanged shots early yesterday morning, after the former had disturbed two men who were trying to break into the office of the ...

    Article : 121 words
  52. CANADIAN TOUR.

    Mr. A. A. Mailey, the organiser of the proposed tour by Australian cricketers of Canad[?] and the United States, left Melbourne to-day for Canberra. He will interview ...

    Article : 106 words
  53. ROBBERY IN CITY.

    Roy Clifford Needham, trading as The City Hatters, lost clothing worth £300 when thieves broke into his shop at 122a Pitt-street, city. Entrance was gained by forcing open the ...

    Article : 50 words
  54. DEATH SENTENCE

    In the Criminal Court to-day, Arthur Thomas James, 17, farmhand, was sentenced to death. He had been found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Edna Clarice Cadd, the wife of his ...

    Article : 114 words
  55. ATHLETE'S DECISION

    Glen Houghton, holder of the junior and senior Australian seven-mile walking championship, and State five and seven miles titles, has decided to enter the Roman Catholic ...

    Article : 72 words
  56. WOMAN'S HOARD.

    The police were told that an old woman was living uncared for and almost starving in Highett-street, Richmond. Constables went to the house and found there a board of notes, ...

    Article : 46 words
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