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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    With a crash which could be heard in the town, a motor car somersaulted 40ft down the hillside below Bent-street at 11 o'clock last night. The occupant, Mr. William Boswell ...

    Article : 89 words
  3. CHECKING ECONOMIC DRIFT.

    In several parts of the State wheat-farmers, graziers, and others have held meetings to consider means of checking the economic drift and relieving primary producers from the serious embarrassments confronting them. ...

    Article : 41 words
  4. ARMED MAN ARRESTED

    "Shots fired... 16 Fitzroy-street. Surry Hills... Man escaping." This message was flashed from police head-quarters yesterday afternoon, and a patrol car, ...

    Article : 496 words
  5. GIBBONS PLAN.

    The immediate release of credits was advocated by Mr. Gibbons, M.P., in an address at Undercliffe last night. "Australia cannot continue for another ...

    Article : 158 words
  6. THE MINES.

    It was decided to-day to reduce the Lithgow Valley and Hermitage collieries staffs to a minimum, and 150 men and boys received 14 days' notice of dismissal. ...

    Article : 213 words
  7. THIRD TEST.

    The West Indies team started excellently in the third test against Australia to-day, Jackson being dismissed before he had scored. Bradman followed, and when he was four and ...

    Article : 580 words
  8. CIVIC RECEPTION.

    "I ask you not to expect miracles to be worked by me. All I ask is to be given an opportunity to work unitedly and amicably, and I am sure that will be done by all ...

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  9. BUSY DAY.

    Througnout yesterday there were unusual scenes of activity at the Commonwealth Bank, in which is situated the Prime Minister's offices. All day Mr. Scullin was busily ...

    Article : 243 words
  10. FATAL FALL DOWN WELL.

    [?] aged 29 years, sing[?] fell down a well on his father's property n[?] Scone to-day and was killed instantly. [?] was being hauled to the surface from a d[?] ...

    Article : 67 words
  11. DARK OUTLOOK.

    Pastoralists, farmers, fruitgrowers, business and professional men numbering about 250 met to consider proposals to remedy the present serious financial and economic problems ...

    Article : 360 words
  12. BUSH FIRES.

    Bush fires have been raging in the victnity of Rocky Creek for several days, and a larg[?] area of grassland has been destroyed. Several homesteads narrowly escaped destruction ...

    Article : 115 words
  13. MAY HAVE TO LEAVE FARMS.

    Mr. H. K. Nock presided over a large meeting at Parkes to consider farmers' problems. Motions were carried urging reduction of Government expenditure, reduction of ...

    Article : 134 words
  14. MURDER CHARGE.

    Frances Eileen Verdon Dall, 14, charged with having murdered her father, Walter Helps Dall, 55, at Kumurna Crossing, was discharged to-day by the magistrate (Mr. E. M. Sabine), ...

    Article : 140 words
  15. UNEMPLOYMENT.

    A mass meeting of workers employed on relief work will take place on Monday night at the Trades Hall, when the terms and wages offered by the Government will be discussed. ...

    Article : 777 words
  16. FIRE MALICIOUSLY CAUSED.

    The district coroner (Mr. G. F. Cox, J.P.) to-day held an inquiry into the Royal Hotel fire. He found that it was maliciously caused but that the evidence was not sufficient to ...

    Article : 46 words
  17. "DEFINITE ACTION NEEDED."

    The leader of the Country party (Dr. Earle Page) to-day criticised Mr. Scullin, policy speech. "The declaration by Mr. Scullin that there ...

    Article : 230 words
  18. SOUTH-WESTERN WATER SUPPLY.

    Following a deputation the Young cou[?] has decided to press for the immediate [?] struction of the south-western water sup[?] scheme on a national basis by securing ...

    Article : 55 words
  19. NON-PAYMENT OF TAXES SUGGESTED.

    All classes of the community were represented at a public meeting held to consider the question of excessive taxation, Government expenditure, tariff matters, arbitration ...

    Article : 311 words
  20. BURNING BEDROOM.

    Heart failure was probably the cause of the death of Samuel Newland, aged 35 years, who collapsed shortly afte[?] being rescued from a blazing room at the Woolpack Hotel, ...

    Article : 134 words
  21. HOSPITAL APPEAL.

    A public meeting held here last night [?] cided to take no action regarding the Churc[?] and State Hospital Appeal. The opinion [?] expressed that, as the money subscribed [?] ...

    Article : 74 words
  22. UNABLE TO PAY RATES.

    A representative deputation recently presented a petition bearing 200 signatures to the Woodburn Shire Council, asking for [?] reduction in the rates by 50 per cent. ...

    Article : 106 words
  23. ILLICIT STILLS

    Three houses were raided by squads of police and Customs officials yesterday in their quest for illicit stills. Large quantities of spirits and rum were seized, and modern stills confiscated. ...

    Article : 366 words
  24. DRASTIC MEASURES URGED.

    A large and representative gathering of primary producers, business people, and others discussed the economic situation and a number of motions was carried unanimously, ...

    Article : 152 words
  25. DEATH OF GIPSY WOMAN.

    Two gipsies, who called on Detective-Inspecfor Purdue to-day, said that they were the brothers of Mrs. Olga Toohey, one of a party of Gipsies, who was found dead in suspicious ...

    Article : 72 words
  26. EFFECT ON REAL ESTATE.

    Real estate agents yesterday reported that they had received instructions from different clients to purchase real estate properties, if they could be secured at a price which would ...

    Article : 161 words
  27. BUS DESTROYED BY FIRE.

    One of the last buses running between Ne[?] castle and the coalfields was destroyed by f[?] at Four Mile Creek, near East Maitland. The bus, which belonged to Rover Motors, ...

    Article : 69 words
  28. NEW INDUSTRY

    During his speech at Earlwood last night, Mr. C. W. C. Marr, the Nationalist candidate for Parkes, said he had met a man in the city that day who told him of a proposal ...

    Article : 214 words
  29. HOMESTEAD DESTROYED.

    A fire completely destroyed the Manda[?] homestead last night. The station and homestead until eight years ago was owned and occupied by the Donkin family. The stat[?] ...

    Article : 682 words
  30. "HEADING FOR DISASTER."

    "Save the primary industries to save the Commonwealth," was the keynote of the largest public meeting ever held at Warren. Graziers from all parts of the ...

    Article : 218 words
  31. SEVENTY YEARS' WORK.

    Mr. Charles Melton, who held the record of having been in the employ of the Brisbane Newspaper Company, Ltd., for 70 years when he retired on pension in May, 1923, died ...

    Article : 97 words
  32. SUPPORT FROM GILGANDRA.

    One of the largest meetings of primary producers ever held in Gilgandra was presided over by the Shire President (Councillor Townsend) yesterday. The meeting was one ...

    Article : 210 words
  33. MEETING OF PARTY.

    Mr. J. L. Price, M.P., secretary of the Federal Parliamentary Labour party, to-day received instructions from the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) to call a meeting of the party ...

    Article : 42 words
  34. LONDON PRESS COMMENT.

    Financial circles regard the latest news from Australia as satisfactory. They are specially pleased with Mr. Scullin's three-year plan. The feeling was immediately reflected on the ...

    Article : 737 words
  35. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 309 words
  36. OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.

    Two men who were arrested by plain-clothes police outside the Richmond Town Hall, when a welcome to the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) was being held on Tuesday night, appeared at ...

    Article : 179 words
  37. GAMBLING RAID.

    In Mosman, a district where the police previously have not been troubled by two-up players, a squad of police carried out a sensational raid lost night, bursting in a door ...

    Article : 184 words
  38. BETTING TAX.

    A public meeting held at the Randwick Town Hall, last night to protest against the betting tax, decided to send a deputation to the Premier (Mr. Lang) to urge him to ...

    Article : 244 words
  39. SHEARERS' STRIKE.

    Mr. R. C. Wilson, general manager of the Graziers' Cooperative Shearing Co., who returned to S[?]dney yesterday from Brisbane, said that altlough some shortage of labour ...

    Article : 219 words
  40. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 274 words
  41. SHIPWRECKED MARINERS.

    Mr. John Byrne (left), owner, and Captain Otto Dare, master, of the tug Eclipse, which sank off Long Reef yesterday. Both had fortunate escapes. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 26 words
  42. FIRE ON FREIGHTER.

    With the aid of a grab, operated by an electric luffing crane, 550 tons of South African coal were removed to-day from the bunker hatch of the freighter St. Columbia, ...

    Article : 171 words
  43. STEAM BOILERS.

    To develop a safety programme for the operation of steam boilers, an important code has been drawn up under the direction of the Standards Association of Australia, and it ...

    Article : 139 words
  44. SUSPECTED THIEF

    A youth, who was seen to fall [?] a fire escape at Daking House into Raw[?]n-lane, city, last night, was picked up in [?] unconscious condition and taken by the Central ...

    Article : 145 words
  45. DEATH OF TWO MEN

    At the resumed inquest to-day on the [?] of the two men in the Brisbane General Hospital, following injections of vaccine for rheumatoid arthritis, the superintend of ...

    Article : 198 words
  46. TO-DAY.

    Her Majesty's: The Belle of New York," 2, 8. Criterion Theatre: "In Port" and "Eliza Comee to Stay," 2.10. [?].10. St. James Theatre: "Puss in Boots," 2, 8. ...

    Article : 194 words
  47. FATAL CAR ACCIDENT.

    Mr. William Henry Lymer, of Smidmore-street, Marrickville, Sydney, arrived in Melbourne to-day, and identified the body of his daughter, who was killed when a motor car in ...

    Article : 112 words
  48. TRUCKS DERAILED.

    Two trucks of a goods train travelling on the North Coast line to Taree became derailed between Wallarobba and Wiragulla, thus rendering the line impassable. ...

    Article : 79 words
  49. ADELAIDE RIOT.

    At the Police Court to-day 11 men were committed for trial on charges of having participated in a riot in Adelaide last Friday. Applications for ball were refused. ...

    Article : 82 words
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