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  2. RELIEF WORK PROPOSALS. Mr. Bruxner's Explanation.

    The Acting Premier (Mr. Bruxner), in a statement last night explaining the Government's policy on the provision of work for the unemployed, said that emergency relief work would not be wholly or suddenly discontinued. It would, however, be ...

    Article : 132 words
  3. BREAD PRICES.

    The master bakers have decided to increase bread prices ic the metropolitan area by one farthing a loaf from next Monday. ...

    Article : 297 words
  4. FIGHTING 'PLANES. PROMPT DELIVERY

    It is understood that the British Air Ministry, in response to an appeal by the Australian Minister for Defence (Sir Archdale Parkhill), has reversed its ...

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  5. THE GAMES.

    Percy Oliver, the young Western Australian swimmer, finished second. in his heat of the 100 metres backstroke at the Olympic Games in ...

    Article : 197 words
  6. EMBASSY SEIZED.

    The newly-appointed Spanish Ambassador at Rome (Senor Aguinaga) was seized, apparently by naval and military attaches with rebel ...

    Article : 310 words
  7. BITTER WAR IN SPAIN. LONG STRUGGLE EXPECTED.

    The opinion is strengthening that the civil war in Spain will last for months. The rebel leader, General Mola, asserts that the war will end by one side or the other being exterminated. Socialist and Communist newspapers in Spain emphasise that it ...

    Article : 238 words
  8. SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPOINTED.

    Mr. Bruxner said that a committee, comprising himself, the Minister for Public Works and Local Government (Mr. Spooner), the Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. ...

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  9. WIFE KILLED.

    At the Bendigo Supreme Court to-day, William Patrick Purcell, 37, labourer, who was charged with having murdered his wife, Margaret Dorothea Purcell, 33, on June 22, was ...

    Article : 251 words
  10. WATER BOARD WORKS.

    The Water Board expect, to have 8[?]00 additional men in employment by December, when the peak period of its five-year works programme will be reached. The total ...

    Article : 240 words
  11. VAUCLUSE SEAT.

    Alderman Hugh C. Foster was selected early this morning as U.A.P, candidate for the Vaucluse by-election. He is a son of Mr. Foster, M.L.A., whose ...

    Article : 161 words
  12. WHEAT STOCKS.

    Officials of the British Ministry of Agriculture express the opinion that the predictions of famine prices for wheat are unnecessarily alarming. ...

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  13. ADVANCE ON MADRID ABANDONED.

    The insurgents appear to have abandoned their advance against Madrid for the time being. "News from all the fronts could not be ...

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  14. REBEL UNIONS.

    A number of unions at the Trades Hall received a circular letter yesterday from the secretary of the State Labour party, Mr. J. J. Graves, M.L.C., which sought an ...

    Article : 375 words
  15. LONG AIR RACE.

    Mr. C. W. A. Scott, who, with Captain T. Campbell Black, won the Centenary air race to Australia, will compete in the London-Johannesburg air race. He will pilot a ...

    Article : 52 words
  16. FREIGHT CUT.

    The Australian Producers' Shipping Agency has decided to cut conference rates for the transport of wool from Sydney to London by 25 per cent. ...

    Article : 313 words
  17. NORTHERN SUBURBS COUNCILS.

    Two only of the councils on the north side of the harbour have agreed to accept the Government's proposal to subsidise a public works programme, to be carried out by the ...

    Article : 545 words
  18. LONG MOTOR TRIP.

    Travelling in a 7 h.p. Austin car, Mr. and Mrs A. G. Hussey arrived in Sydney on Tuesday during the course of a trip which, when they have returned to Perth, will have taken ...

    Article : 291 words
  19. POLICE HORSE

    The widespread use of wireless for police work has taken a new form in Lancashire, where the first police horse has been equipped with a receiving and transmitting set to be ...

    Article : 175 words
  20. DECLARATIONS OF NEUTRALITY.

    Optimism at the progress Of the neutrality negotiations is being displayed in the French Press. The "Petit Parisien" states that the Soviet's attitude is excellent and Germany ...

    Article : 710 words
  21. TOY PISTOLS.

    The principal distributing and retail firms interested in the sale of [?]y pistols have received with astonishment an official police st[?]tement that such pistols aro illegal if they ...

    Article : 378 words
  22. ABERDARE CENTRAL.

    The Minister for Mines (Mr. Vincent) announced last night that the Government had decided to inquire into the safety, or other-wise, of the operation of the electric cutting ...

    Article : 165 words
  23. ALLEGED THEFTS

    At the Police Court to-day, Priscilla Marjorie Webster, 24, cook, was charged with having on July 26, broken and entered the dwelling of Francis Gill Burton with intent to commit ...

    Article : 347 words
  24. JAPANESE CONSULS.

    The spokesman of the Foreign Office (Mi Amau) sold that Mr. Tateki Horiuchi, who had been appointed Consul-General at Sydney had now been reappointed ...

    Article : 73 words
  25. KOGARAH'S POSITION.

    The Mayor of Kogarah (Alderman J. C. Battye) said yesterday that so far the unemployment relief scheme had showed 100 per cent[?] efficiency in the construction of ...

    Article : 302 words
  26. STOP PRESS.

    Pearce led for most of his heat, but could not summon a finishing spurt when challenged. Campbell (Canada) beat him by a length. ...

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  27. OVERDOSE OF ASPIRIN.

    A verdict of death from heart failure, produced by an overdose of aspirin, was returned by the district coroner (Mr. R. L. Blake), at Armidale, this morning, after an inquest on ...

    Article : 135 words
  28. THE CORONATION.

    In an editorial on the theme of adapting, at the impending Coronation, ancient heraldry, and age-old official titles to the new circumstances arising from the altered status of the ...

    Article : 198 words
  29. ROAD TRAFFIC.

    Kingston by-pass, a nine-mile stretch on the London-Portsmouth road, one of the first of the great by-passes to be constructed on roads out of London soon after the war, is to ...

    Article : 175 words
  30. NEW CURRENCIES.

    New banking systems, involving the withdrawal of the present Australian currency and the substitution of an entirely new currency, were explained to-day to the Royal ...

    Article : 104 words
  31. GELIGNITE FOUND

    A quantity of gelignite, a number of detonators, and a revolver were found beneath the flooring of a house in Ilka-street. Leichhardt, on Tuesday. ...

    Article : 81 words
  32. PURSUIT AT REDFERN.

    While Anna Dilosa, of Redfern, was in Elizabeth-street, Redfern, last night, a man snatched her handbag, containing about 24/, from under her arm and ran away. ...

    Article : 82 words
  33. PROTEST TO ACTING SPEAKER

    The Acting Speaker (Mr. Hedges) stated yesterday that he had received from the Yarralumla Shire Council, which was in his electorate (Monaro) a protest against the ...

    Article : 61 words
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