Heavy coastal rains have aggravated the flood position in the Hunter Valley, and also on the Manning, Myall, and Hastings rivers. The Hunter River has risen rapidly, and ...
Article : 377 wordsIn accordance with the cost of living figures for the quarter ended March 31, there will be a further adjustment of the basic wage under awards of the Federal Arbitration ...
Article : 227 wordsThe House of Lords to-night rejected by a large majority the first two clauses in the Government's Agricultural Land Utilisation Bill, which ...
Article : 316 wordsOfficials of the Commonwealth Bank yesterday began their investigations into the affairs of the Government Savings Bank in order that the proposed legislation dealing ...
Article : 577 wordsA meeting of the Federal Loan Council was opened at the Commonwealth Offices to-day. Each State was represented with the exception of New South Wales, the Premier ...
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Article : 427 wordsThe absence of a reply from the Australian Cricket Control Board regarding a guarantee against adverse exchange rates is accepted as evidence that Australia is not prepared to ...
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Article : 174 wordsMany dismissals from the City Council's service will probably take place if the economy scheme decided upon by the Reform aldermen is carried into effect. ...
Article : 364 wordsThe Senior British Trade Commissioner in Australia (Mr. R. W. Dalton), in a report to the Oversea Trade Department, declares that the chief obstacle to the British film industry ...
Article : 150 wordsCaptain Frank Hawks, who set out from Heston aerodrome early to-day to fly to Rome and back in one day, arrived at Rome about noon, having travelled at an average speed of ...
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Article : 163 wordsThe House of Commons to-day resumed consideration of the Electoral Reform Bill, which has not been before the House since the defeat of the Government before the recess on the ...
Article : 113 wordsPeter Kuerten, the Dusseldorf "Jack the Ripper," was sentenced to death for each of the nine murders with which he was charged, and to 15 years' imprisonment on four charges ...
Article : 123 wordsIt has been suggested that in order that customers with credit accounts in the Rural Bank department of the Government Savings Bank should not be unduly inconvenienced by ...
Article : 197 wordsYesterday's earthquake in Hawkes Bay was extremely severe in the township of Patoka, and Puketitirl and Rissington on either side were both alarmingly shaken. ...
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Article : 127 wordsThe Chief Justice, Sir Robert Furae McMillan, died in dramatic circumstances this afternoon, while attending the opening of St. George's College at the University of Western ...
Article : 290 wordsAir-Commodore Kingsford Smith reached Darwin in the Southern Cross at 2.40 o'clock this afternoon. The 'plane will set out at daybreak ...
Article : 188 wordsConsequent upon the proposed absorption by the Commonwealth Government Bank of the New South Wales Government Savings Bank, the suspension of operations in the ...
Article : 65 wordsAccording to a message from Berlin, an important stage in the evolution of air transport was reached when "Juno," the fourth aeroplane driven by heavy motor oil, was tried ...
Article : 90 wordsNew South Wales Federal members of the Labour party, who are supporters of the Federal Ministry, in a statement to-day, said:— "Those leagues and unions which hastily ...
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Article : 108 wordsThe London air mail closes at the G.P.O. at 7 a.m., and an hour later an Australian National Airways 'plane will leave Mascot for Brisbane. From Brisbane to Darwin the mail ...
Article : 221 wordsPrincess Mary (Countess of Harewood), at the annual meeting of the Girl Guides' Association, in London, announced that there were now 560,000 guides in the British Isles—an ...
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Article : 93 wordsIt was announced, on behalf of the State Treasury yesterday, that satisfactory arrangements had been made with the trading banks for the negotiation of cheques made ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 24 Apr 1931, Page 11
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