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  2. TAXES ON RACING.

    The Premier (Mr. Stevens) announced yesterday that legislation would be introduced to reduce taxation on racing. ...

    Article : 885 words
  3. GOVERNMENT'S ELECTION POLICY.

    A defence programme designed to defeat possible invaders before they can reach Australian shores, a comprehensive national insurance scheme, banking revision, and proposals to check the alarming fall in the birth rate, were the principal points of the ...

    Article : 190 words
  4. RETORT TO MR. LANG.

    "During the few minutes I spoke to him in the lobby I thought, for the first time in my life, that he was a gentleman, but I have found him out," ...

    Article : 780 words
  5. DR. FENTON FOUND.

    Pale, haggard, and weak, with an eight days' growth of beard, and with plaster across his nose, Dr. Fenton, the "Flying Doctor" of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,102 words
  6. NEW JAPANESE ATTACK AT SHANGHAI.

    Over ground that is now drying up, the Japanese at Shanghai launched tanks and infantry in an offensive on a wide front from Chapei to Kiangwan. Before this drive they had installed heavy artillery and landed many reinforcements. ...

    Article : 190 words
  7. BOYCOTT URGED.

    The British Left-wing Press, headed by the "News-Chronicle," is urging the Government to consider economic intervention in the Sino-Japanese ...

    Article : 771 words
  8. PENSIONS AND WORKERS' LOANS.

    Mr. Lyons said that, if it was returned to power, his Government would also— Set up a mortgage bank, as a ...

    Article : 567 words
  9. CHINESE RETREAT IN HOPEI.

    The new Japanese thrust at Shanghai followed a failure to cut the highway between Lotien and Liuhang. The Chinese counter-attacked Liuhang, ...

    Article : 645 words
  10. MINISTRY PROUD OF ACHIEVEMENTS.

    "I think the Government—the United Australia party, and its loyal partner and friend, the United Country party —may be pardoned for feeling some ...

    Article : 589 words
  11. FILM ON FIRE.

    Great coolness and presence of mind were shown by the Rev. R. Piper when a cinematograph film caught alight during a lecture at the Central Methodist Mission last night. ...

    Article : 188 words
  12. LEAGUE COMMITTEE'S CENSURE.

    The League's "Committee of Twentythree," which met to-day to deal with the Sino-Japanese conflict, adopted the following resolution:— ...

    Article : 728 words
  13. AUSTRALIAN UNIONS ACTIVE.

    The Hornsby branch of the State Labour party has decided to forward a protest to the Japanese Consul in Sydney against the Japanese bombardment of Nanking, Hankow, ...

    Article : 178 words
  14. NEW STRENGTH IN DEFENCE.

    Mr. Lyons said that financial provision for defence in the last four years, including the current one, had been £31,500,000—a record for peacetime ...

    Article : 500 words
  15. DEFENCE AGAINST AIR ATTACK.

    The erection of anti-aircraft guns to protect the chief cities and industrial centres of Australia is part of the aerial defence plan of the leader of the Federal Opposition ...

    Article : 79 words
  16. GIFT PIANOS

    Mr. R. D. Gorman, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, said that inquiry should be made into the transaction regarding the 48 "gift" pianos to the Conservatorium of ...

    Article : 236 words
  17. DISCUSSION IN NEW ZEALAND.

    The New Zealand Federation of Labour to-day discussed a proposal to boycott Japanese shipping and goods. No decision was reached, the discussion being postponed until the end ...

    Article : 38 words
  18. CAMBRIA'S RECORD FLIGHT.

    The Imperial Airways' flying-boat Cambria reached Foynes (Ireland) at 8.14 a.m. to-day, after having flown across the Atlantic from Botwood (Newfoundland) in the record time ...

    Article : 70 words
  19. MINISTRY'S ACTION.

    The Minister for Defence (Sir Archdale Parkhill) said last night that a sum of £250,000 would be spend this year in providing defences for the cities and, industrial ...

    Article : 72 words
  20. JAPANESE FEAR OF BOYCOTT.

    In a broadcast speech, the Minister for Commerce and Industry (Mr. Yoshino) said that Japan was facing a national emergency from which an ...

    Article : 487 words
  21. SOUND BANKING POLICY.

    "The Government has rescinded practically all the reductions of national income made during the depression, has improved social services, and in six ...

    Article : 883 words
  22. GRIM THREAT

    After he had given evidence through an interpreter in support of his appeal from a conviction for being a prohibited immigrant, a Chinese market gardener bowed three times ...

    Article : 112 words
  23. JAPANESE DENIALS.

    A cablegram received by the Japanese Consul-General from the Japanese Government yesterday says: "False reports of bombing by Japanese 'planes in Nanking, Canton, and ...

    Article : 170 words
  24. TRUCKS OF WOOL ABLAZE.

    Four trucks of wool and a truck of hay were destroyed by a fire which suddenly started in the wool in a truck at Moree railway station to-night. The damage was estimated at ...

    Article : 91 words
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