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  2. DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA.

    Move men are permanently employed by the Government munitions factories than by either the army or the air force, and this is only a ...

    Article : 914 words
  3. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.

    If, as seems probable, some of the States refuse to co-operate with the Commonwealth in introducing a national unemployment insurance plan, ...

    Article : 392 words
  4. ULTIMATUM BY MINERS.

    A new move in the Labour faction fight was made yesterday, when the Miners' Federation decided to deliver an ultimatum to members of ...

    Article : 329 words
  5. GERMAN AIMS SET OUT.

    Six demands by Germany, which are declared to have been outlined by Herr Hitler to the Lord President of the Council (Lord Halifax) during their recent talk at the Fuhrer's Bavarian home at Berchtesgaden, are set out by the Diplomatic ...

    Article : 222 words
  6. SALE OF PIPE WORKS.

    Directly the Legislative Assembly met yesterday afternoon, the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Lang) gave notice of his intention to move, to-day, a motion ...

    Article : 737 words
  7. SHANGHAI.

    If Japan attempts to direct the activities of the International Settlement at Shanghai, and if her plans are broadened to include the seizure ...

    Article : 91 words
  8. WALL STREET ATTACKED.

    The Securities and Exchange Commission in a long report which is apparently designed as an answer to the statements of the President of the ...

    Article : 232 words
  9. PRESIDENT AWAITING REPORT.

    President Roosevelt, at a Press conference at Washington, indicated that there would be close co-operation with all Governments having interests at Shanghai. ...

    Article : 176 words
  10. RECOVERY CONTINUES.

    The recovery of the markets continued to-day with a good volume of business. Big institutions, including insurance companies, decided to back up jobbers rather than ...

    Article : 104 words
  11. BLIND LITIGANT

    Thomas Mercer, who is 72 years of age and has been blind since he was three years of age, was yesterday awarded £650 in an action which he ...

    Article : 321 words
  12. THE PROPOSALS IN DETAIL.

    The proposals are as follows:— 1. Germany will be willing to return to the League of Nations, on the following conditions: (a) That the ...

    Article : 670 words
  13. NO SOLUTION FOUND.

    The Brussels Conference will suspend its sittings. It may be summoned again by the chairman and any two members. The Brussels correspondent of "The Times' ...

    Article : 940 words
  14. CO-OPERATION NEEDED.

    The Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Menzies) denied yesterday that he had stated that the Federal Government would be guilty of a serious failure if it had not taken some definite ...

    Article : 93 words
  15. SHEIKH TO BE HANGED.

    Sheikh Farhan Saadi was sentenced to death by hanging at Haifa to-day, after the first trial by a military court to be held under the new regulations ...

    Article : 107 words
  16. SMOKING AT MEALS OBJECTIONABLE.

    Allegations that modern women smoked and drank to excess were made to-day by the Minister for Health (Sir John Harris). A deputation from the Australian Women's ...

    Article : 273 words
  17. DEARER WOOLLEN GOODS.

    The Rome correspondent of "The Times" says: "Increases in the prices of woollen textiles ranging from 35 per cent. for mixed, and to 60 per cent. ...

    Article : 137 words
  18. COUPON SYSTEM.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. Sanders asked the Premier (Mr. Stevens) if he was aware of reports that when persons who had collected certain coupons tried to ...

    Article : 154 words
  19. "POSITIVELY UNTRUE."

    Interviewed in Melbourne to-night, Sir Sydney Snow said: "Mr. Stevens is well able to deal with Mr. Lang's motion of censure from the Government point of view, but in so ...

    Article : 73 words
  20. PAN-GERMANISM IN EUROPE.

    The immediate reaction to the Hitler-Halifax talk in semi-official circles confirms the opinion cabled a week ago when it was stated that any suggestion ...

    Article : 1,052 words
  21. MAYOR BURIED FOR AN HOUR.

    Ten men had to dig for an hour to release the Mayor of Adamstown (Alderman William Warnock) from a ditch, in which he was buried up to the neck, while he was working ...

    Article : 93 words
  22. BLIND EX-SOLDIER.

    When laying a wreath on the Unknown Warrior's tomb in Westminster Abbey, the head of the Italian ex-service men's delegation, Signor Deicroix, who lost his sight ...

    Article : 111 words
  23. GRASSHOPPER SWARM ON BOWLING GREEN.

    Grasshoppers, which have swarmed on bowling club greens at Wagga, have caused consternation among club members. When the grasshoppers invaded the newly ...

    Article : 252 words
  24. LIGHTNING IGNITES TIMBER MILL.

    Damage estimated at £5000 and £6000 was done to a timber mill belonging to the Adelaide Timber Co. at Wilga, after it had been set on fire by lightning. The mill was ...

    Article : 168 words
  25. COMPLAINT AGAINST TOBACCO FIRMS.

    Nicholas Alexander, storekeeper, of Canterbury, last night told the Select Committee which is inquiring into the tobacco industry in New South Wales, that certain tobacco ...

    Article : 99 words
  26. DEADLOCK ON REFORM BILL.

    After a conference lasting six hours, the managers appointed by the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly failed to-day to reach agreement on the Legislative Council ...

    Article : 112 words
  27. JOCELYN HOWARTH.

    Miss Jocelyn Howarth, the Sydney actress, who has begun a divorce suit against George Brent, the actor, said to-day that she expected to continue in pictures, and was ...

    Article : 124 words
  28. DEMAND FOR COLONIES.

    Dr. Schacht, the German Minister for Economics, contributes a foreword to the 1938 edition of the German Colonial Year Book, according to the Berlin correspondent of the ...

    Article : 160 words
  29. CORRESPONDENCE CLUBS.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Kelly asked the Acting Chief Secretary (Mr. Gollan) if he had noticed that a man had been convicted for fraudulent practices upon ...

    Article : 138 words
  30. ABORIGINES GUILTY OF MURDER.

    At East Murchison Criminal Sessions yesterday at Wiluna, two aborigines, Yalyalli and Maloora, were found guilty by the jury of having murdered Joseph Edward Wilkins, a ...

    Article : 108 words
  31. BIG RAILWAY CONTRACT FOR GERMANY.

    The South African railways has awarded German firms a contract for 116 engines, valued at £1,600,000. seven members, elected for four years by the ...

    Article : 113 words
  32. BRIDGE RESCUE.

    Four men were on the northern approaches of the Harbour Bridge last night, when they saw a middle-aged man climb to the top of the barbed wire safety fence. They rushed ...

    Article : 93 words
  33. CONSTITUTION BILL REJECTED.

    The Legislative Council to-day overwhelmingly rejected the Constitution Bill, which provided that the Council could neither amend nor reject money bills, and that in ...

    Article : 117 words
  34. THE SWISS SYSTEM.

    In the Federal Government, of Switzerland, in which there are 22 cantons, the supreme legislative authority is vested in a Parliament of two chambers, and the chief executive ...

    Article : 40 words
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