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  2. COUNTRY NEWS. RENTS FOR PETROL PUMPS.

    A case of considerable interest was heard by Mr. Forrest, P.M., sitting as an appeal court. The municipal council has been charging an annual rental of £5 for each petrol pump ...

    Article : 160 words
  3. MACHINERY. At the Royal Show.

    The machinery exhibit, which is one of the outstanding features of the show, is probably the most comprehenshe, well-chosen, and attractive that has yet been presented. ...

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  4. COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE.

    Brightness and gaiety with clever acting and clear articulation" of G. B. Shaw's smart dialogue, thickly studded with epigram and 'paradox, were the notes of the production of ...

    Article : 360 words
  5. ARBITRATION BILL.

    The select committee appointed to take evidence upon the Industria Arbitration Bill held another sitting at Parliament House yesterday, Mr. E. H. Farrar occupying the chair. ...

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  6. WARM WEATHER. General Rain Likely.

    Sydney saw a return to summer weather yesterday, after a rather long period of unsettled and cool conditions. The maximum temperature recorded was 87 degrees, at 1.45 ...

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  7. COUNTRY MOVE.

    A large meeting of business men, employers, farmers, and graziers at Trangie decided to support any measure taken for a reduction of costs, in order to avoid a ...

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  8. DEATH SENTENCE

    In the Central Criminal Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, Thomas O'Hara, l8, Vernon Bonham, 16, and Robert George Bonham, l8, were charged with ...

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  9. KILLED IN ACCIDENT.

    SIR GEORGE SALTMARSH, a member of the British Phosphates Commission, who, according to cabled reports, was killed in the derailment of the Royal ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. HOSPITAL FINANCE.

    At the monthly meeting of directors of the Memorial Hospital, the matron's report showed that 70 patients had been admitted during February. After paying current accounts the ...

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  11. RAIN IN QUEENSLAND.

    Further beneficial rainfalls were recorded in the south-west and central districts during the week-end, five and a half inches being registered at Bindebango and four and a half ...

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  12. SEWAGE OUTFALL.

    A widely-representative meeting in Rockdale Town Hall last night protested against the proposal of the Water, Sewerage, and Drainage, Board to discharge sewage from the ...

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  13. GARAGE DESTROYED BY FIRE.

    Pender and Garllck's motor garage in Caswell-street was destroyed by fire early this morning. The contents of the sale department and the office were destroved. while ...

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  14. RAILWAYS UNION.

    The dispute in the Australian Railways Union reached the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day, when a summons was issued by Ernest Arthur Chapman, general president of ...

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  15. FIERCE FIGHT.

    Violent scenes followed an attempt by Constable Binsaar to arrest a man suspected of having stolen a woman's handbag last night. Einsaar was investigating reports of ...

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  16. DEATH OF PRIEST.

    Advice was received to-day from Shanghai by St. Columban's Chinese Mission, North Essendon, of the death on March 5 of the Rev. Father Tierney, who suffered cruel treatment ...

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  17. A. AND P. ASSOCIATION'S MEETING.

    At the meeting of the committee of the A. and P. Association, the balance-sheet disclosed a loss on last year's operations of £ 169. The decision as to whether this year's show ...

    Article : 52 words
  18. WOMEN FIGHT AT GLEBE.

    Women with bleeding noses, with swollen and cut lips, with blackened eyes, and scratched faces, and with their hair hanging in disorder; women who fought with all the ...

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  19. QUARTER SESSIONS.

    Raymond George Jones, Jack Stanford, and George Horace Jones, who were found guilty at the Maitland Sessions last week on charges of breaking and entering, and causing ...

    Article : 307 words
  20. MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED.

    Henry Alexander Roberts, 23, of Lithgow, was killed instantly on the River Lett hill when his motor cycle collided head-on with a lorry which was descending the hill. The ...

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  21. WOMAN RE-ENTERS BURNING HOME.

    In a desperate attempt to save £ 15 in notes hidden in a kitchen drawer, Mrs. Kathleen Walters ran into her burning cottage at Merrylands early yesterday morning, but ...

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  22. ANTI-EVICTION COMMITTEE.

    Members of the unemployed Workers' Movement at Granville, who have formed an antieviction committee and are "guarding" a house at 41 Ritchie-street, Granville, against the ...

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  23. SWIMMING.

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  24. FAMILY'S ESCAPE.

    Charles Herbert Cullen Just managed to rescue his wife and two children last night when his grocer's shop, near the corner of Darley and John streets, Newtown, caught ...

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  25. GOLD FIND REPORTED.

    After having been out of work for a long time, George Simpson, of Bowral, went prospecting. He chose the rough country between Nerriga and Braidwood. He is now reported ...

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  26. BRITISH SETTLERS.

    Further allegations that they had been induced by misleading literature to come to Australia were made by former British settlers when the Royal Commission on the ...

    Article : 438 words
  27. CHILD BADLY BURNED.

    Gleda Passini, 8, suffered severe burns on the back and hands when her clothes caught fire at an open fire. She was admitted to the David Berry Hospital. Her parents are ...

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  28. NATIONALISTS.

    Mrs. Eleanor Glencross, Federal president of the Housewives' Progressive Association, has joined the staff of the National Association of New South Wales, and will carry forward the ...

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  29. ROAD "LIGHTHOUSES."

    At the fortnightly meeting of the Blue Mountains Shire the Main Roads Board engineer wrote that on a recent inspection of the western highway between Penrith and Mount ...

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  30. THE CALL-UP

    A call up will be made to-day, as follows:— Labourers and Navvies.—Those married men with registration numbers from OK10501 to OK10900 report 9 a.m., Pitt-street entrance, ...

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  31. NEW HOSPITAL PROPOSAL.

    The secretary of the Bowral District Hospital Board has been instructed to communicate with the Hospitals Commission with a view to obtaining a loan at 3 per cent., which ...

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  32. BANK OFFICERS' PRESIDENT.

    Mr. L. H. Newton, the newly elected president of the United Bank Officers' Association, is manager of the Drummoyne branch of the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank. He ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  33. BOY ACCIDENTALLY WOUNDED.

    Yesterday Cyril Bairett, 13, pick [?] up his father's gun and belt of cartridges, put two cartridges into the gun, and was playing with it when one cartridge exploded. His brother, ...

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  34. LATE MR. ARNOLD BENNETT.

    Mr. Arnold Bennett's death has been reported by cable from London. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  35. INDEX. NEWS.

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  36. FALSE PRETENCES.

    James McGowan Dairymple, 29, of Potts Point, Sydney, formerly an employee of the National Cash Register Co. (Australasia) was sentenced to imprisonment for three years ...

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  37. BOY KILLED.

    Mr. Percy Close was driving in a sulky, accompanied by his son, John Horace Close, 9, when the horse bolted. In an effort to save his child from injury Mr. Close dropped ...

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  38. RESCUE FROM DROWNING.

    Joseph Lynch, 20, employed at the Nowra Hotel, was rescued from drowning in the local baths by two schoolboys, W. Elliott and G. Cook. When taken from the water, Lynch ...

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  39. MITTAGONG MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 328 words
  40. MAN BADLY BURNT.

    Charles Edwin House, junior, was shockingly burned, and is now in a serious condition at the Dorrigo Hospital. He was seated in the back of a car, holding a drum which was being ...

    Article : 149 words
  41. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  42. CRICKET.

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  43. DARBY BEFORE COURT. Charge of Culpable Homicide.

    Captain Harry Darby was charged by the Madras police to-day with culpable homicide, not amounting to murder, in connection with the shooting of a rickshaw coolie. ...

    Article : 77 words
  44. SCHOOLBOY DROWNED

    A fourteen-year-old schoolboy, Leonard Arthur Webb, of Campbell-street, Glebe, was drowned yesterday in a bath, which only contained six inches of water. ...

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  45. EX-NAVAL MEN.

    The annual interstate conference of the ex-Naval Men's Association was continued at the Royal Naval House yesterday. It was decided to ask the Repatriation ...

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  46. MR. DUNN

    "The Nationalist party's attempts to stampede the Governor by means of a public petition are based largely on sheer misrepresentation amounting in part to downright ...

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  47. SOUTH AFRICA'S DEFICIT.

    The Budget discloses a deficit of £ 1,700,000. Last year there was a surplus of nearly £500,000. The Minister for Finance has estimated that revenue on the existing basis will ...

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  48. BAGSNATCHER ASSAULTS WOMAN.

    A particularly brutal and unprovoked assault was made by a bagsnatcher upon Rose Taylor, of 12 Shaw-avenue, Kensington, late on Sunday night. ...

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  49. TWO MEN INJURED

    Two men were injured during blasting operations on the Cootamundra water [?] line. They had fired 28 charges, and had resumed drilling, when a charge that had ...

    Article : 87 words
  50. TO-DAY.

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  51. BATHURST COUNCIL.

    There were disorderly scenes at a meeting of the Bathurst Council, which had been called to consider the subject of providing an ade[?]uage water supply. ...

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  52. GOLF. ROYAL SYDNEY ASSOCIATES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 58 words
  53. STOLEN CAR RECOVERED.

    After an exciting chase early this morning, Constables Snow and Bodel took possession of a motor car alleged to have been stolen from Mr. Geoffrey Leahy, of Cootamundra. ...

    Article : 70 words
  54. "REBEL" RUGBY PLAYERS.

    The "rebel" French Rugby footballers have so far refused peace overtures, and, as a result, the French Federation has chosen a team to meet England on April 5 consisting solely of ...

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  55. ARMIDALE COLLEGE.

    The Minister for Education (Mr. Davies[?] at the official opening of the new wing at the Armidale High School, said that the £100,000 spent on the Armidale Teachers' ...

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  56. AVIATION.

    A new section at the Show which has developed from a few individual aeroplanes shown in a perfunctory way in past years, is that of aviation. In the Hordern Pavilion, ...

    Article : 93 words
  57. NEW SOUTH WALES ASSOCIATES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 words
  58. LATE SPORTING.

    Jean Raymond. 10.7 (France) was too rugged for Nigger Reeves, 9.5. in the main 12 rounds at Daceyville last night. Raymond was down for nine in the tenth round, but came back well and won ...

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  59. DOMAIN MEETING.

    Mr. Lazzarini, M.L.A., stated yesterday that he did not speak at a recent Domain meeting. His name had been confused with that of Mr. Lazzarini, M.P. ...

    Article : 29 words
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