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  2. COUNTRY NEWS. WOMAN DROWNED.

    Mrs. Ben Osborne, of Redbank, Jugiong, was accidentally drowned at Narooma this morning. ...

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  3. MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

    Two men life critically injured in Wollongong Hospital following a motor car accident, which occurred at the Yallah overhead bridge, near Albion Park, this evening. ...

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  4. SILVER DEPRECIATION Chaos in China.

    The National Government threatens to place an embargo on the further importation of silver into China immediately in order to attempt to alleviate the present unprecedented ...

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  5. DEFENCE ORGANISATION.

    A meeting of the Labour Defence Organisation was held at the Strand Theatre, Cessnock, this afternoon. It was decided to organise the various lodges as units in ...

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  6. STOWAWAY'S RUSE. Shipping Company Defrauded.

    Samuel Weir, 19, of Blantyre, Scotland, was charged at East Ham with stowing away on the steamer Rangitiki. The prosecution said that Weir, carrying a suitcase and ukulcle, ...

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  7. THE DISCOVERY.

    The following messages have been received by the Department of External Affairs from the British, Australian, and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition. ...

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  8. PROBABLE GOVERNOR.

    Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woollcott Game, K.C.B., C.B., D.S.O., who is mentioned as the likely successor [?] Sir Dudley de Chair as Governor of New South Wales. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. THIRD HEAT.

    The third heat of the Australian skiff championship took place this afternoon in the lightest of easterly breezes. Ajax V. again demonstrated her superiority over her ...

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  10. LORRY OVERTURNS.

    When returning from a ball at Bermagui in the early hours of this morning, a lorry with a load of passengers left the road and overturned. W. Dixon suffered a broken arm, ...

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  11. MOSQUITO MENACE.

    Copmanhurst Shire Council recently directed the attention of the Health Department to excavations of soil for railway embankment purposes being made in Copmanhurst shire, in ...

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  12. POLICE STONED.

    Stones were thrown at the police by members of a large crowd at Kurri Kurri to-night, after W. Laidlaw, who had been speaking on behalf of the Communists, had been ...

    Article : 174 words
  13. CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.

    The Pope has issued an Encyclical on Christian education. It declares that the responsibility for education belongs, first, to the Church as spiritual mother; secondly, to ...

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  14. COOGEE SHARK NET.

    The Mayor of Randwick (Alderman Jennings) denies reports that large holes have been made in the Coogee shark net. He said last night that members of the ...

    Article : 80 words
  15. LAW ENFORCEMENT.

    The Crime Commission appointed by President Hoover has made a preliminary statement showing that the Government's law enforcement machinery is unquestionably ...

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  16. PROPOSED NEW RAILWAY.

    The State Parliamentary Public Works Committee visited Narrandera yesterday to make an inspection of the alternate route of the proposed railway from Combaning. The ...

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  17. WIRELESS LICENSES.

    During last year there was an increase of over 1,000,000 in the number of wireless license holders in Great Britain, bringing the total at the end of the year to over 2,898,000. ...

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  18. THE VOLUNTEERS.

    Traditions of the Australian Expeditionary Force will be kept alive in spite of the suspension of compulsory military training. Volunteers are flocking to the colours, and ...

    Article : 254 words
  19. MOTOR CYCLIST INJURED.

    Bert Morris, whose address was given as Forbes-street, Randwick, was admitted to Bathurst District Hospital on Saturday evening, suffering from concussion and abrasions, ...

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  20. YOUTH DROWNED.

    Ivor Foulkes Parry, 17, a clerk, employed at the Commercial Bank, Albury, was drowned in the Murray River near the Albury waterworks this afternoon. ...

    Article : 207 words
  21. LITHGOW COLLIERIES.

    It is hoped that the Hartley Vale Colliery will resume next week. It has been closed down since mid-December. Mr. Campbell Roy, president of the Western Miners' ...

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  22. APPEAL TO WESTERN MINERS.

    Messrs. R. Hatton, president of Cessnock Miners' Lodge, F. Sheridan, delegate of the Richmond Main Lodge, T. Hourigan, president of the Paxton Lodge, and L. Tyrrell, ...

    Article : 116 words
  23. PARROT FEVER.

    The health authorities are mystified by a sudden outbreak of psitticosis ("parrot fever"), cases of which were reported throughout the country within the past week. The disease ...

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  24. INTER-EMPIRE TRADE.

    Speaking at Hamilton, Ontario, the British High Commissioner (Sir William Clark) recommended that Canada should study how manufacturers in different parts of the Empire ...

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  25. WHITE AUSTRALIA.

    Resentment at the report submitted by three delegates who attended the conference of the Pan-Pacific Secretariat at Vladivostock has been expressed in resolutions passed by several ...

    Article : 152 words
  26. COTTAGES BURNED.

    When fire broke out in a five-roomed cottage in Kalings-street, Bellbird, early this morning, the owner, E. M. McDonald, and his wife and six children, were nearly trapped ...

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  27. ESCAPE FROM GAOL.

    An attempt to escape from the Bunbury gaol, made on Friday night, by William Desmond Lord, who was being held pending his trial on a charge concerning an alleged ...

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  28. OLD MAN'S PLIGHT.

    Seriously ill, after lying helpless in his hut for two days, Thomas William Mork, 73, a pensioner, was taken to the Lidcombe State Hospital in a critical condition on Saturday ...

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  29. EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENT.

    At the opening of the Egyptian Parliament by King Fuad this morning, the Premier (Nahas Pasha) read the speech from the Throne. In this it was stated that the British ...

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  30. BAGSNATCHER CAUGHT.

    Harold Owen, 25, a labourer, snatched a handbag from Mavis Cass, a typlste, in Kent-street, on Friday, and made off with it. Before Mr. Camphin at the Central Police Court next ...

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  31. SPEED MOTORING.

    The famous racing motorist Mr. Kaye Don, states that he is satisfied with the preliminary tests of his new car, made in the Sunbeam factory, in which he hopes shortly ...

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  32. GRAZIER FOUND DEAD.

    Mr. E. B. Morris, a prominent district grazler, of Randwick Park, Denman, was found near his home yesterday with gunshot wounds in his head. A double-barrelled gun was ...

    Article : 106 words
  33. FIRE AT TAMWORTH.

    The seventh fire in Tamworth this year broke out in the butter factory's weatherboard cottage on Armidale-road, a mile and a half from Tamworth, at 3 o'clock this ...

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  34. WOMAN KILLED UNDER TRAIN.

    An unknown woman leapt in front of an electric train near the Newtown railway station about 11.30 last night and was killed. Her body was mutilated beyond recognition. ...

    Article : 149 words
  35. CONSPIRACY TRIAL.

    As anticipated by the Australian Press Association last week, a statement was speedily forthcoming from Sir Henri Deterding (director-general of the Royal Dutch Petroleum ...

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  36. INDEX. NEWS.

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  37. MURDER OF FARMER. Young Policeman's Revenge.

    The Cassel police in 1928 besieged the house of a farmer named Klaus, in a neighbouring village, and captured it after two days' fighting, in which Klaus, junior, ...

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  38. WILL IN WARDROBE.

    Secreted in the crevice of a wardrobe which was purchased at an auction sale at Pine-street, Dulwich Hill, on Saturday, a will was discovered. ...

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  39. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Dominions Secretary (Lord Parafield) has appointed Dr. Drummond Shiels, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies, to succeed Mr. William Lunn, Under-secretary ...

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  40. QUEENSLAND SHEARERS.

    The Queensland branch of the executive of the Australian Workers' Union met yesterday, when resolutions carried by pastoral workers in the different centres protesting against ...

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  41. CHRISTMAS IN RUSSIA.

    Demonstrations against the old-style Christmas which began in Russia on January 6 are claimed by the Soviet Press to have been very successful throughout the country. More than ...

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  42. RAID ON CHINESE.

    As the result of a police raid on four Chinese houses in Retreat-street, Surry Hills, late on Saturday night, nine Chinese and one European were charged with gaming offences. ...

    Article : 97 words
  43. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 225 words
  44. SIKH AVIATOR.

    Mohan Singh, the son of a Sikh doctor, who has studied English aviation for two years, left for India from Croydon in a Gipsy Moth named "Miss India," in an attempt to win the Aga ...

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  45. CHASED FROM BANK.

    The alleged suspicious behaviour of a young man when he endeavoured to present a cheque at the Exchange branch of the Commercial Bank on Saturday resulted in his ...

    Article : 118 words
  46. MAN DROWNED

    Alfred Pattinson, aged 21 years, of Weston-street, East Brunswick, was drowned at Hampton this afternoon. Pattinson went out about 25 yards to get a ball which he and others ...

    Article : 114 words
  47. DAVIS CUP.

    Fifteen Davis Cup entries have been received, comprising, in the European zone: Britain, Holland, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Spain, Roumania, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, ...

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  48. WORLD TOUR INTERRUPTED.

    Two boys, aged 15 and 12, residents of Camperdown, set off to see the world on Saturday on a bicycle and a scooter. They got as far as St. Marys. Their immediate objective ...

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  49. GOLD EMBARGO.

    There were general rejoicings at Tokio when the embargo on the export of gold, which was enforced 13 years ago, was re[?] oved to-day. The city was flooded with handbills ...

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  50. RHODESIA.

    Delegates from the two Rhodeslas, including Sir James Maxwell, Governor of Northern Rhodesia, are discussing questions relating to Customs at Buluwayo. This is a preliminary to ...

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  51. MAN'S NECK DISLOCATED.

    John McMahon, aged 52, drover, of Stephen-street, Paddington, is under treatment at Sydney Hospital for a dislocated neck. It may possibly be fractured. McMahon was thrown ...

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  52. WERRIS CREEK FIRE.

    Phillip Horatius Whinfield was arrested at Tamworth last night on a charge which, it is believed, is connected with the disastrous fire at Werris Creek, on Friday morning. He ...

    Article : 89 words
  53. TO-DAY.

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  54. CENTRAL METHODIST MISSION.

    The foreign mission anniversary of the Methodist Church was celebrated by special services at the Central Methodist Mission yesterday. The preacher in the evening was the ...

    Article : 139 words
  55. TIGER SHARK FOR THE ZOO.

    A 10-foot long tiger shark was caught off the Heads yesterday by Mr. C. Messenger, and conveyed to the aquarium at Taronga Park. It had been damaged rather badly on the ...

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  56. CROWN PRINCESS'S DOWRY.

    It is reported in diplomatic circles that Princess Marie Jose of Belgium brought a dowry of £850,000 on her marriage to the Italian Crown Prince. This, added to the ...

    Article : 90 words
  57. TWO AIRMEN KILLED.

    A report from Paris says that two airmen of the Istres Aviation School, on observing a 20-year-old pilot in difficulties, jumped into a second aeroplane and soared to his ...

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  58. TYRE STOLEN FROM AEROPLANE.

    Mr. Howard Jolly, with Captain Leggett, in the former's Moth 'plane, landed on Goulburn Racecourse last night. This morning when they went to the aeroplane they found ...

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  59. ILLICIT LIQUOR TRADING.

    Norman Nolan, of William-street, Paddington, was fined £30 by Mr. Laidlaw, S.M., at the Central Police Court on Saturday for having sold beer on unlicensed premises. ...

    Article : 51 words
  60. MAN DECAPITATED BY TRAIN.

    The decapitated body of a man wns discovered on the railway line on Saturday afternoon between the St. Peters and Sydenham stations. ...

    Article : 28 words
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