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  2. FLOUR TAX REDUCED.

    The wholesale price of flour, including flour tax, will be reduced to-day from —13/5/ a ton to —12/10/ a ton. ...

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  3. M.L.As. JOINING MILITIA.

    Mr. Henry Turner, M.L.A. for Gordon, who is a barrister by profession, passed the medical test yesterday and became a private in the 18th ...

    Article : 370 words
  4. HEAT-WAVE AT WEEK-END.

    By the week-end New South Wales is expected to experience another heat wave, which will be severest in inland parts, but will also affect coastal ...

    Article : 227 words
  5. PLEA FOR FIT NATION.

    An appeal for the support of all sections of the community in promoting the physical health of the nation was made by the Minister for Education, ...

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  6. MacDONALD PRAISED.

    Replying to Labour questioners in the House of Commons to-day as to whether the speech of the Dominions Secretary, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, on ...

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  7. FRENCH OBLIGATIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE.

    The French Foreign Minister, M. Bonnet, is reported to have told the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, according to the Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," that, although the recent Franco-German Declaration of ...

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  8. VICTORY IN SPAIN.

    "Mr. Anthony Eden has received intimations that the Roosevelt Administration believes that a victory for General France in the Spanish ...

    Article : 337 words
  9. £72,000,000 LOAN CLOSED.

    The closing of the Commonwealth cash and conversion loan of £72,000,000 to-day was marked by a last-minute rush of applications to the ...

    Article : 216 words
  10. MR. HEFFRON'S CRITICISM.

    "The new flour tax is unjust in principle, vicious in operation, and wickedly sectional in its application," said the leader of the Industrial Labour Patty, Mr. Heffron, M.L.A., ...

    Article : 117 words
  11. BRITISH WEALTH

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, speaking at a House of Commons luncheon, said that when German statesmen were reflecting on the ...

    Article : 416 words
  12. LEGACY CLUB.

    The Legacy Club at its final luncheon for the yeal yesterday endorsed with acclamation the decision of the board of management that as a matter of club ...

    Article : 145 words
  13. MORE SHIPS FOR FRANCE.

    The French Government is planning an increase in the Merchant Marine amounting to 100,000 tons, mainly fast cargo ships. ...

    Article : 228 words
  14. MELBOURNE PRICES.

    Maximum prices for bread in various suburbs and minimum and maximum prices for wheaten flour were fixed by the State Executive Council to-day on the recommendation ...

    Article : 124 words
  15. AVIATION MAPS DEFENDED.

    "I can see nothing wrong with them," said the Minister for Civil Aviation. Mr. Thorby, yesterday, referring to aviation maps issued by the Defence ...

    Article : 384 words
  16. MERCHANT RESERVE.

    Defence officials consider that it is not practicable to form a seagoing naval reserve among seamen and stokers in Australian merchant ships, as suggested in a letter to the ...

    Article : 137 words
  17. POWER OF MINORITIES

    The Premier, Mr. Stevens, said to-day that he was a great believer in the influence of minorities—except, of course, in Parliament, where he ...

    Article : 123 words
  18. COUNCIL TO MEET IN JANUARY.

    The Minister for Health and Repatriation, Senator Foll, announced yesterday that the National Co-ordinating Council for Physical Fitness would meet in Melbourne on January ...

    Article : 87 words
  19. MERCHANT NAVIES.

    Although the tonnage of Britain's merchant navy has increased from 12,053,000 in 1914 to 17,675,000 tons in 1938, the huge number of ships built by ...

    Article : 242 words
  20. MEETINGS TO-NIGHT.

    Public recruiting meetings and militia parades will be held to-night at Ashfield and Bankstown, when the local councils will cooperate with militia units and bands, and ...

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  21. MUD WRESTLING.

    Sydney last night saw its first—and almost certainly its last—mud-wrestling contest. Only a few hundred people attended the match at the Sports ...

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  22. NEW ITALIAN CHAMBER.

    The Italian Chamber of Deputies, after an existence of 90 years, was replaced yesterday by the new Chamber of Fascios and Corporations. ...

    Article : 247 words
  23. FATE OF JEWS.

    Herr Hitler will preside at a meeting of the German Cabinet to-day, at which, it is expected, measures will be drawn up, finally establishing the ...

    Article : 133 words
  24. VARIED RANGE OF DUTIES.

    As a result of reorganisation in the Department of the Interior, following the establishment of the new Federal Works Department, Mr. J. J. A. Hanion, ...

    Article : 136 words
  25. OFFER TO GOVERNMENT.

    Speaking at a welcome to the Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, at the Woodville motor body works of General Motors Holdens, Ltd., this morning, the managing director in Australia, ...

    Article : 145 words
  26. REVOLT SPREADING.

    There is no doubt that there is a considerable Conservative revolt against Mr Chamberlains leadeiship which is believed to be spreading. It now ...

    Article : 197 words
  27. THIEF SHOOTS DOG.

    A thief last night shot and killed a dog, which had apparently attacked him after he had attempted to rob a house. ...

    Article : 234 words
  28. GERMAN DOMESTICS IN HOLLAND.

    It is understood that 25,000 German girls employed as domestics in Holland are being recalled because of a shortage of domestics in Germany, but their recall may also be partly ...

    Article : 143 words
  29. CUT BULLET OUT OF THIGH.

    A man with a wound in his left thigh, who was arrested yesterday, allegedly told the police that he had performed an operation upon himself to remove a ...

    Article : 115 words
  30. SHIPPING FREIGHTS INCREASED.

    Increases in freight rates between Sydney and Melbourne and Sydney and Brisbane have been announced by companies in the interstate trade which do not belong to ...

    Article : 165 words
  31. BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED.

    A lance-corporal was killed and two privates wounded when members of the Green Howards, a British regiment, were ambushed on the Nablus-Tulkarem ...

    Article : 184 words
  32. "APPEASEMENT WITHOUT PEACE."

    The New York "Herald-Tribune," in a grimlyworded leading article headed "Appeasement Without Peace," states: "The Germans seems to be genuinely surprised and hurt that ...

    Article : 151 words
  33. CAPITAL SHIPS.

    According to Weyer's Naval Handbook, Russia is building three 40,000ton battleships for service in the Baltic, and Japan is building two capital ships ...

    Article : 208 words
  34. IRONWORKERS REJECT LANG NOMINEES.

    Nominees of the Lang faction were overwhelmingly defeated in the annual ballot for the election of two organisers of the Federated Ironworkers' Union. ...

    Article : 96 words
  35. CZECH TOTALITARIAN REGIME.

    Under German influence, Czeebozlovakia has adopted a totalltarian regime. She has agreed to supply Germany with 500 military planes a year, and to cancel her embargo on ...

    Article : 118 words
  36. TRADE CONTROL.

    The Auckland Chamber of Commerce has decided to ask the Associated Chambers of Commerce whether the Government's regulations for the ...

    Article : 110 words
  37. BETTING TICKETS.

    A conference yesterday between the Treasurer. Mr. Mair, the Government Printer, Mr. Paisley, Mr. T. D. Mutch, M.L.A., and two members of the Criminal Investigation branch ...

    Article : 116 words
  38. CHILD'S CLOTHES IN FLAMES.

    Eileen Amey, aged 3, narrowly escaped being burned to death at her home in William Street, Rose Bay, yesterday. Her screams attracted attention, and the child was found ...

    Article : 98 words
  39. CARDINAL RESIGNS.

    Cardinal Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminster, has written to Viscount Cecil, president of the League of Nations Union, stating that he is resigning from the vice-presidency on ...

    Article : 49 words
  40. WOMAN DIES DURING GAME.

    Miss Rebecca Helen Cooke, 60, of Orr Street, Waverley, was playing croquet with her sister and friends at the Woollahra Park golf links. Rose Bay, yesterday when she ...

    Article : 47 words
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