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  2. RETRENCHMENT

    Retrenchment and further salary reductions in the civic services are foreshadowed. The Reform aldermen propose to investigate every department of the City Council ...

    Article : 387 words
  3. HOME AGAIN.

    Sir George Fuller, who was Agent-General in London for three years, returned to Sydney yesterday morning. In an interview, he said that he regretted ...

    Article : 833 words
  4. EMPIRE DAY.

    His Excellency the GovernorGeneral has received the following message from Earl Jellicoe, president of the Empire Day movement in ...

    Article : 210 words
  5. ALFONSO. PRIVATE WEALTH.

    According to a communique issued by the Spanish Government, the Ministry of Finance estimates that the total private wealth of the Spanish Royal ...

    Article : 223 words
  6. WHEAT EXPORTS.

    The Soviet delegation to the International Wheat Producers' Conference, in a statement issued to-day, anticipates a 1931 crop of 36,500,000 tons, which is 7,000,000 tons more ...

    Article : 512 words
  7. TREASORY BILLS.

    Little effect on Australian securities is noticeable as a result of Mr. Scullin, statement that Australia cannot meet her obligations on June 30 without legislation. ...

    Article : 231 words
  8. MR. CRUTCHLEY

    The Prime Minister (Mr, Scullin) announced in the House of Representatives to-day that Mr. E. T. Crutchley, the British Government representative for migration in Australia, had ...

    Article : 541 words
  9. LOAN COUNCIL.

    When the Federal Loan Council met in Melbourne to-day it considered the report of a special sub-committee which emphasised the need for further Government economy, ...

    Article : 920 words
  10. LAND UTILISATION BILL.

    The third reading of the Agricultural Land Utilisation Bill was passed by the House of Lords to-day. Lord Hailsham said he believed that the ...

    Article : 96 words
  11. KING AND QUEEN.

    The King and Queen to-day left Bucklngham Palace for Sandringham, Norfolk, where they will remain over Whitsuntide. They will return to London on Wednesday, ...

    Article : 65 words
  12. WHARF WORK.

    In defiance of the Senate's threat to reject each set of new waterside regulations issued by the Federal Ministry, under the Transport Workers' Act, and designed to give preference ...

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  13. AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS.

    Australian art lovers gathered in force when Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood successively opened the memorial exhibition of Mr. George Coates, paintings and drawings at ...

    Article : 181 words
  14. OVERTURES TO MR. MAKIN

    Mr. Blakeley, Minister for Home Affairs, who reached Broken Hill from Canberra today, sala he was aware that overtures Wad been made to Mr. Makin, Speaker in the ...

    Article : 97 words
  15. BOMBS AND GAS.

    There were amazing disclosures at the trial at Delhi of several Indians charged with terrorist, conspiracy. Evidence was given that the accused arranged ...

    Article : 124 words
  16. JUDGES ATTACK.

    The Chief Justice (Sir William Irvine), addressing a Jury in the primlnal Court in the case in which four youths were charged with having murdered Arthur Nelson Head. ...

    Article : 310 words
  17. AVIATION.

    "I am certain that within the lifetime of our children, aeroplanes will fly to Australia in 24 hours," said the pioneer aircraft designer, Sir A. V. Roe, commenting on reports ...

    Article : 184 words
  18. FOREIGN ORDERS.

    Although no official statement was made today concerning the postponement of the ceremony at Menzies Hotel, Melbourne, yesterday, when the Victorian Consul for Czechoslovakia ...

    Article : 423 words
  19. GENERAL ACT.

    At Geneva, the British Foreign Secretary (Mr. Henderson), on behalf of Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, deposited ratifications of the General Act of ...

    Article : 91 words
  20. DUKE OF CONNAUGHT

    A slight operation was performed to-day on the Duke of Connaught, when a polypus—a solid mucous growth—was removed from his nose. This will necessitate his remaining ...

    Article : 96 words
  21. GOLF IN ENGLAND.

    In the amateur golf championship at Westward Hoi to-day, John de Forest, of Addington, and Martin Smith, of the Royal St. George's Club, reached the final. De Forest is the ...

    Article : 280 words
  22. EUROPEAN UNION.

    "I am an old politician, yet I still have a taste for adventure: perhaps you will find in this little folly of mine a grain of wisdom," said M. Brland, the French Foreign Minister, ...

    Article : 132 words
  23. COUNTRY PLAYERS

    Mr. J. Mcinnes, secretary of the Temora Football Club, received a telegram from the secretary of the New South Wales Rugby League to-day, stating that, if Weissel and ...

    Article : 530 words
  24. BOMBING 'PLANE

    A remarkable experiment was demonstrated at the Royal Aero Club's establishment at Farnborough to-day, when a huge bombing machine was successfully catapulted into the ...

    Article : 263 words
  25. UNEMPLOYED

    The Armidale Unemployed League this afternoon decided, by 53 votes to 4, to Join tho Labour army. When the meeting commenced, it was found that the secretary had secured a ...

    Article : 272 words
  26. BELGIAN CABINET RESIGNS.

    A message from Brussels says that on the fifth anniversary of its entry into office the Jaspar Catholic-Liberal Government resigned following a crisis in the Chamber of Deputies ...

    Article : 121 words
  27. SHOT FIRED

    Seizing a sawn-off shotgun from the back of a motor car, in which he was seated, a man last night fired at Detective A. W. Burns, who, however, knocked the barrel of the gun upwards ...

    Article : 322 words
  28. NEW ZEALAND CRICKETERS.

    When stumps were drawn at the end of the second day's play yesterday in the match between New Zealand and Worcestershire, the county, with three wickets in hand, led by ...

    Article : 251 words
  29. MR. E. C. MAGRATH

    It was stated in official Government circles yesterday that Mr. E. O. Magrath, of the Printing Industry Union, will succeed Mr. E Kavanagh as Deputy Industrial Commissioner, ...

    Article : 218 words
  30. DANGER OF WAGE CUTS.

    Mr. Roy Howard, who controls 26 newspapers in the United States, addressing members of the American Club in Paris, made an interesting prophecy as to how the United States ...

    Article : 158 words
  31. WORLD FLIGHT.

    The Soviet Government has reversed its previous decision, and has given permission for Mr. Wiley Post and Lieutenant Harold Gatty to fly over Russia on their projected ...

    Article : 51 words
  32. "SIGNS OF WEAKENING."

    Proposing the toast of a "United Empire" at the Empire Day dinner of the Royal Empire Society, Lord Jellicoe said We saw signs of the weakening of the virile manhood, public spirit. ...

    Article : 126 words
  33. LATE SHOPPING NIGHT

    The State Government has drafted another new bill. The measure provides for the abolition of the late shopping night. The announcement was made at yesterday's ...

    Article : 59 words
  34. MR. J. H. THOMAS.

    "I am fed up with economists," said the Secretary for the Dominions (Mr. J. H. Thomas), presiding at a banquet to delegates to the wheat conference at the Savoy Hotel ...

    Article : 143 words
  35. DOLE RELIEF

    Dole relief, it was officially announced yesterday, is now costing the Government between £300,000 and £400,000 a month, or nearly £4,000,000 a year. ...

    Article : 85 words
  36. EMPIRE SETTLEMENT ACT.

    In the House of Commons the Secretary for the Dominions (Mr. Thomas) informed Captain Peter MacDonald that £435,000 out of £788,000 was expended in 1930 under the ...

    Article : 102 words
  37. WILLIAM-STREET MURDER.

    A long and exceedingly sharp twine needle, fitted with a wooden handle, supposed by the police to have been the weapon with which Cecil Mccormack was stabbed to death in ...

    Article : 103 words
  38. ISLAND TRAGEDY.

    The whole community was shocked when it became known that the Rev. Father Trlllot. stationed at Naiserelagi, in Vitl Levu Bay, had died from burns. It seems that he was found ...

    Article : 117 words
  39. SPANIARD SHOT DEAD.

    Shortly after midnight last night a quarrel, alleged to have taken place between two men living in separate camps on Town Beach, on the north side of Mackay, resulted in a ...

    Article : 71 words
  40. LAND REVENUE REMITTED.

    With the object of relieving agricultural distress caused by low prices of root crops and wheat, the Punjab Government has remitted land and property revenue ...

    Article : 44 words
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