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  2. QUAY ROAD.

    The works committee of the City Council yesterday agreed to recommend the council to build an overhead roadway to link Macquarie ...

    Article : 287 words
  3. ROAD SAFETY.

    "What might be termed a 'New Deal' for road safety work has been inaugurated since the calamitous Christmas holiday season," said the Minister for ...

    Article : 542 words
  4. DEFENCE EXERCISES AT WOONONA BEACH

    Militiamen carried out beach defence exercises at Woonona yesterday in preparation for a mock dawn attack to be made there to-day. Top: A Lewis gunner, supported by riflemen, ready to repel "attackers" from a sandbagged trench. Lower: Officers inspecting the erection of wire entanglements in the sand. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 52 words
  5. MILITIA DRIVE.

    The militia strength increased last week to 63,383, the number of recruits for the week having been 2,194, of whom New South Wales supplied more ...

    Article : 216 words
  6. UNEMPLOYED

    A survey of unemployment just completed by the Economic Committee of the Trade Union congress has startled Socialist leaders, because it concludes ...

    Article : 141 words
  7. "BREACH OF TRUST."

    The consultative committee of the Friendly Societies of Australia, representing friendly societies with a total membership throughout the ...

    Article : 351 words
  8. MODIFIED PLAN.

    Mr. R. G. Baxter, a member of the National Insurance Commission, told members of the Chamber of Commerce in an address yesterday that, speaking ...

    Article : 275 words
  9. NEXT OBJECTIVE IN CHINA.

    There has been a lull in major military operations since the capture of Yochow by the Japanese forces on November 12. When the Japanese ...

    Article : 490 words
  10. WOONONA EXERCISES.

    With a mythical enemy in control of the Pacific, and an attack on the beach expected at dawn to-morrow, the 9th Infantry Brigade has spent a busy day preparing defences. ...

    Article : 172 words
  11. DOCTOR WILL SEEK REINSTATEMENT.

    Dr. Ronald Cuttle said to-day that the goodwill committee which was formed to watch his interests in the Junce Hospital trouble had met at the week end and had ...

    Article : 150 words
  12. GRAZIERS FAVOUR REPEAL.

    The General Secretary of the Graziers Association, Mr. J. W. Allen, said yesterday that both employers and employees in the pastoral industry would probably welcome a ...

    Article : 227 words
  13. UNIVERSAL TRAINING.

    To test the feeling of the Sydney public towards the introduction of compulsory military training the Citizens' Defence Movement is planning to hold a public meeting in the ...

    Article : 112 words
  14. ARABS REJOICE

    Arabs in Jerusalem held demonstrations of rejoicing at the imminence of an independent Arab State (presumably the British Government's tentative ...

    Article : 420 words
  15. BEER SLOPS.

    Action to remedy the unsatisfactory conditions under which beer is sold in some city hotels was authorised yesterday by the health committee of the ...

    Article : 324 words
  16. DEMONSTRATORS BLOCK ROAD.

    Thirty mounted police, 100 foot police and three fire engines blocked the entrance to Downing Street yesterday, when hundreds of people marched to ...

    Article : 199 words
  17. SHOTGUN TRAGEDY.

    A six-years-old boy, who was considered too young to understand the nature of an oath, told the Parramatta District Coroner, Mr. A. R. Williams, ...

    Article : 260 words
  18. RIOT IN INDIAN PRISON.

    A warden and a convict were killed and 13 warders and four convicts were injured in a riot in the gaol at Warangal, in the Deccan. One hundred long-term prisoners broke out ...

    Article : 65 words
  19. RECHABITES' VIEWS.

    An emphatic protest against any further postponement of the operation of the National Insurance Act was unanimously decided upon at a meeting of the committee of the New ...

    Article : 78 words
  20. THE CALL-UP.

    A call-up for employment is announced today. Details will be found on page 18, column 4. ...

    Article : 20 words
  21. CONSTABLE'S DEATH.

    At the Central Police Court yesterday, Leslie William Murphy, 24, and Stanley Arthur Dayment, 28, labourers, were charged with the murder of Police Constable Lionel Guise, at ...

    Article : 167 words
  22. CONFIDENCE IN PRIME MINISTER.

    The Bowral branch of the United Australia Party, at its annual meeting this week, carried a resolution expressing complete confidence in the leadership of the Prime Minister, Mr. ...

    Article : 70 words
  23. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 194 words
  24. LENIN'S WIDOW DEAD.

    The death has occurred, at the age of 70, of Mmc. Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, the widow of Lenin, the founder and guiding spirit of the ...

    Article : 663 words
  25. THE HAINAN ATTACK.

    The Consul-General for China, Dr. Pao. said yesterday that he had received a letler from Mr. W. H. Donald, the adviser to General Chiang Kai-shek, to the effect that the ...

    Article : 139 words
  26. ELDERLY VICTIM OF CONFIDENCE MEN.

    The old "lost wallet" confidence trick has cost an elderly man from Cairns £450, representing practically all his life savings, and Sydney police are ...

    Article : 175 words
  27. DEFENCE OF LONDON.

    A beginning has been made in Kent with the defensive encirclement of London with batteries or 4.5-inch anti-aicraft guns. These guns are now in full production. ...

    Article : 53 words
  28. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 272 words
  29. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS.

    Constable Guise will be given a police funeral The service to-day it the Holy Trinity Church, Dulwich Hill, will begin at 9.45 a.m., and the funeral procession will pass through New ...

    Article : 60 words
  30. REFUSED TO LEAVE SHIP.

    The owners have been advised that the master of the British steamer Stangrove (516 tons) which, on February 5, was captured by the Spanish Nationalists near Barcelona and ...

    Article : 159 words
  31. N.Z. PERPETUAL FORESTS.

    New Zealand Perpetual Forests will go into voluntary liquidation if a recommendation by the directors is adopted. It is explained that the chief object for ...

    Article : 224 words
  32. WASHAWAY CRASH.

    William Conrad Buss, a railway worker engaged in making repairs to the Sydney-Broken Hill line, was fatally injured when the tricycle he and a mate were working crashed into a ...

    Article : 112 words
  33. MONEY TAKEN FROM CLUB SECRETARY.

    When leaving the New South Wales Leagues.' Club in Elizabeth Street, city, yesterday, the assistant secretary, Mr. William Lennon, was knocked down and temporarily lost a suitcase ...

    Article : 145 words
  34. ROSE BAY PALMS.

    The Woollahra Council last night reaffirmed its decision to remove some of the palm trees in New South Head Road. A motion to rescind the previous decision was defeated by right ...

    Article : 146 words
  35. EXPLOSIVES STOLEN.

    Two thousand sticks of gelignite and 300 detonators have been stolen from the Barleyside Collery, Falkirk, Scotland. ...

    Article : 23 words
  36. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 375 words
  37. RECORD RAINS IN SOUTH AND WEST.

    Man showing the effect of the tropical rainstorm which commenced during the week-end and continued yesterday, causing many record falls in the southern and western areas. It provided the best inland rains since December 1936 and is expected to cause further good ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 76 words
  38. SHIPS IN COLLISION.

    The United States freighter Lillian (3,842 tons). which was bound from Fuerto Rico, rammed the Norrddeutscher Lloyd liner Wiegand (5,869 tons), 10 miles off the New ...

    Article : 116 words
  39. ALLEGED ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.

    At the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Sutherland, S.M., William Tyson, 32, labourer, was charged with having that day assaulted William Lennon and robbed him of ...

    Article : 79 words
  40. WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH.

    Trapppd by a locked lattice door in a blazing house at the corner of Brookes and Mallon Streets, Bowen Hills, early this morning, one woman was burnt to death, and her ...

    Article : 102 words
  41. EDGECLIFF GARDENS.

    At last night's meeting of the Woollahra Council a motion to rescind the council's decision not to accept Mr. R. R. Dungar's offer of gardens in Edgecliff Road was defeated. The ...

    Article : 63 words
  42. BRISBANE PRINTERS' STRIKE.

    Members of the Queensland branch of the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia employed in Brisbane newspaper offices, who have been on strike since Friday, were ...

    Article : 126 words
  43. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Gold was quoted to-day at £7/8/2 an ounce fine, compared with £7/8/2½ on Saturday. BASE METALS. Base metals, all firm, were quoted at noon ...

    Article : 84 words
  44. NEWSBOY DRAGGED UNDER TRAM.

    Andrew Crawford, 14, of Stanley Street, Enfield, narrowly escaped being crushed to death under a tram in Enfield yesterday. While selling papers he jumped off a ...

    Article : 79 words
  45. GERMAN WARSHIP AT CORK.

    The Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork, Dr. Cohalan, has endorsed the action of the Lord Mayor, Alderman James Hickey, in refusing to welcome the crew of the German naval ...

    Article : 64 words
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