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  2. COUNTRY NEWS. SNAKE AS PASSENGER.

    While motoring from Wodonga to the Upper Munay, Frank Bailey, a visitor, had an exciting experience. When nearing the entrance gate to Keliana Estate, Bailey drove ...

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  3. MASCOT AERODROME.

    The Federal Cabinet has authorised an amount to be expended on general improvements to the aerodiome at Mascot, New South Wales The Assistant Minister for Industry ...

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  4. COAL MINES BILL. Amendment Defeated.

    The House of Commons, in committee on the Coal Mines Bill, discussed the proposed reduction of the worklnr day to 7½ hours. The debate primarily ranged round Sir Robert ...

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  5. SOUTH AFRICAN FARMERS.

    Every province of South Africa, as well as eastern and western Rhodesia, is represented in the personnel of the party of South African agriculturists, which, under the auspices ...

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  6. RAILWAY PROBLEMS.

    "I k'now you have to get back to your Jobs, Just as I have," said Mr. Cleary (Chief Railway Commissioner) to the members of the Commercial Travellers' Association yesterday. ...

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  7. MAWSON PARTY.

    "In continuation of my message of yesterday:— "The oceanographie work, which has been attempted, has been quite comprehensive. ...

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  8. COAL DISPUTE. " Mine May Reopen.

    Miners in the north are gravely disturbed as a result of rumours that one of the larger South Maitland mines may reopen with cut wage labour at an early date. ...

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  9. RAILWAY WORKERS.

    Work connected with the construction of railway embankments through Grafton has been suspended owing to a shortage of money. If is understood that the suspension is for ...

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  10. THEFT OF COPPER WIRE.

    Police are investigating the theft of large quantities of copper wire used for the electric mains, from different parts of the district. About half a ton was taken from ...

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  11. REPORT CHALLENGED.

    In a joint statement relative to a report of a recent meeting of the Darlington Labour League, published in yesterday's "Herald." Messrs. McTiernan and James, Ms.P., state ...

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  12. PARLIAMENTARIAN HURT.

    Senator Boydell, ex-Minister for Labour, injured Mr. Marwick, the member for Illovo (Natal), in an affray while both were attending a meeting of the Empire Parliamentary ...

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  13. A POPULAR CLERGYMAN.

    The Rev. R. C. Lawton, Presbyterian minister at Warren for 12 years, has been transferred to Windsor. He look a prominent part in all public movements, and was ...

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  14. NOTABLE VISITOR.

    DR. C. E. MARTIN, Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Political Science in the University of Washington (U.S.A.), who is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  15. LOST AN EYE.

    Cecil Godson, aged 13, hit the detonator of a syphon soda bottle bulb with a hammer, and it split in two. The larger piece of the bulb struck him in the left eye. He was ...

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  16. ALL-OUT POLICY.

    Militants from the South Ma[?]nd coalfields decided shortly before midnight to make a desperate eleventh-hour attempt to wrest control of the mining position from the ...

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  17. BATHURST QUARTER SESSIONS SENTENCES.

    At Bathurst Quarter Sessions, before Judge Thomson, Frederick Marshall, 42, against whom there is a long list of previous convictions, dating from 1904, pleaded guilty ...

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  18. OXFORD CREW.

    As the outcome of a meeting of the college captains of Oxford University, which, by 12 votes to 10, supported the retiring coaches, the president of the University Boat Club ...

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  19. NATIONALIST MEETINGS.

    A motion was unanimously agreed to at the annual meeting of the Mosman branch of the National Association expressing complete confidence in the Premier (Mr. Bavin) ...

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  20. NO LANDING GROUND AT ALBURY.

    Colonel H. C. Brinsmead, Controller of Civil Aviation, wrote to Albury Council regretting the decision not to establish an aerodrome in Albury. He trusted that the ...

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  21. EARL OF LATHOM.

    The death is announced of the Earl of Lathom. He was born in 1895, and succeeded to the title in 1910. Under the name of Edward Wilbraham, he wrote several plays, ...

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  22. MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

    When two cars collided at the corner of Eltham-street and-the Boulevard, Dulwich Hill, the Revs. F. Tugwell and V. S. Mitchell, both of the Rectory, the Boulevard, were ...

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  23. ENFIELD SHOOTING.

    "This is a very peculiar tragedy, and there was evidently a liaison between Jarvis and Mrs Evenden. I am surprised that Mr. Evenden permitted it to go on so long," said ...

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  24. MR. SCULLIN'S OFFER.

    A proposal that the last offer of the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) to the coal-miners in New South Wales be accepted was made by Mr. H. C. Gibson, general secretary of the ...

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  25. DAMAGES FOR INJURIES.

    In the District Court Frederick Owen claimed £400 damages from Horace Briggs for injuries sustained by plaintiff when a motor cycle he was riding collided with a ...

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  26. MR. W. G. ACOCKS.

    Mr. W. G. Acocks, who is retiring from the position of Deputy Public Trustee after 47 years in the Public Service, was entertained by the staff of the Public Trust Office. Mr. ...

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  27. ANOTHER FLOOD. In North Queensland.

    Another cyclone is reported off the North Queensland coast, and further heavy rain has been experienced, with the result that trains have been held up both north and ...

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  28. COLONIAL SECRETARY.

    It is understood that the Prime Minister has decided to' divide Lord Passfield's office. Mr. V. Hartshorn, the Labour member for the Ogmore division of Glamorean, will be ...

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  29. ELECTRICITY FOR WOODSTOCK.

    A well-attended meeting of c. is was held in the Memorial Hall to discuss the installation at Woodstock and the surrounding district of electricity generated at Burrinjuck. ...

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  30. INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

    Dr. Martin, the late Government Medical Officer and Quarantine Officer at Vanikoro, a port in the Solomon Islands, disagrees with the Chief Quarantine Officer (Dr. A. J. ...

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  31. "BLACK" BAN.

    The council of the Miners' Federation yesterday decided to instruct members at West Wallsend not to proceed with the "black" ban placed on the members of certain unions ...

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  32. AUSTRALIAN TOBACCO.

    In a letter to the Editor, Dr. A. C. D. Rivett, chief executive officer of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, states that when giving evidence before the ...

    Article : 55 words
  33. AMNESTY IN SPAIN.

    The anniversary of the death of the Queen Mother of Spain was made the occasion of an amnesty for political prisoners. Artillery officers, says a message from ...

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  34. INDEX. NEWS.

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  35. BOY RUN OVER ON BRIDGE.

    A serious motor car accident at Hampden Bridge resulted in a boy receiving extensive injuries. Leslie Alfred Gavin. 10. Broadstreet, with several other boys, was returning ...

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  36. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Egyptian Chamber of Deputies carned a resolution with four dissentients granting the Cabinet a mandate to negotiate a treaty with Britain on the basis of the British ...

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  37. UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY.

    When hearing was resumed to-day of the charges against 89 defendants of having continued in an unlawfull assembly at Abermain on January 15. Mr. D. W. Reid, P.M., said ...

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  38. LEGAL POINT IN CRIMINAL CASE.

    A legal point raised by accused's solicitor (Mr E. F. Thomas, of Goulburn) saved Edward James Smith from being declared an habitual criminal at the Goulburn Quarter ...

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  39. MR. F. C. CHICHESTER.

    Mr. F. C. Chichester, the New Zealand aviator, who completed his long flight from London to Sydney on the 30th January, when he landed at Mascot aerodrome, left ...

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  40. CAMPAIGN AGAINST NOISY CYCLISTS.

    Superintendent Small has decided, in view of numerous complaints regarding youthful drivers of motor cars and motor cycles disturbing the peace by noisy escapades throughout ...

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  41. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  42. EXCITING STRUGGLE.

    One of three girls who escaped recently from the Barton Vale State Reformatory School, had an exciting struggle on a roof this afternoon with four policemen. ...

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  43. BORDER RAILWAY CHARGES.

    The secretary of the Albury Chamber of Commerce is in receipt of a letter from the chief passenger and freight agent of the Victorian railways, relative to the chamber's ...

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  44. IMPORTED SOFTWOODS.

    Representatives of the City and Suburban Timber Merchants' Association interviewed the Assistant Minister for Customs (Mr. Forde) yesterday, and urged that no further increase ...

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  45. OBITUARY. MR. F. W. COCHRANE.

    The funeral of Mr. Frank W. Cochrane, of the firm of Cochrane and Co., shipping providors, Sussex-street, took place in the Waverley Cemetery, and was largely attended. ...

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  46. DEPUTIES.

    It is understood that a number of additional deputies have been signed for work at Rothbury during the last day or two. The news will be received with trepidation ...

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  47. PROPOSED AFFILATION.

    The annual convention of the Australian Workers' Union, which concluded its sittings in Sydney yesterday, decided to refer to its branches in New South Wales the question ...

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  48. MR. C. E. CLARKE.

    The funeral of Mr Cedric Ernest Clarke, late accountant, ABC Bank, Katoomba, took place at the Waverley Cemetery on Wednesday Canon Cakebread officiated at the ...

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  49. SULTRY WEATHER.

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  50. TO-DAY.

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  51. SHOTS FIRED.

    Edye Kell, a nightwatchman, living in Colanc-street, Concord West, fired three shots at a man whom he saw at the rear of his home early this morning. The man screamed ...

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  52. COUNCIL'S ATTITUDE.

    At a meeting or tne Dubbo Councll a lettor from Lithgow was read, seeking the council's support in protesting against the working of Rothbury colliery by men requiring ...

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  53. PALM ISLAND TRAGEDY.

    It is understood that Mr.T Nevitt, visiting magistrate to gaols and other public institutions who recently visited Palm Hand aboriginal settlement to investigate certain charges ...

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  54. MR. CLEMENTS LANGFORD.

    Mr. Clements Langford, one of the Commonwealth's most prominent builders, died yesterday. Mr.Langford was 77 years or age. and was managing director of Clements ...

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  55. NEW ORGANISATION.

    A new body, known as the Australian Industry Development Association, has been established in Sydney. The object of the association is to enrol the buying public, ...

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  56. JESMOND COLLIERY.

    Jesmond colliery is entitled to consider itself the most unfortunate unassoclated mine in the Newcastle district. Though no real grievance exists against it, ...

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  57. HEAVY BAIL.

    Bail was fixed at £200 each in the cases of Alfred Fitch, 23, labourer, and George Leslie, 26, labourer, who were charged before Mr. Geddes, S.M., at the Central Police Court ...

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  58. LONDON TO DARWIN.

    The Shell Company announces that Filingofficers H.L.Piper and C.E Kave, who will shortly leave London on a flight to Darwin, will fly a Desoutter cabin monoplane with ...

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  59. MOTOR DRIVER'S COLLAPSE.

    Harry Leonard, 41, a motor driver, of Hlgh-sireet, Willoughby, collapsed while unloading kerosene in Mort's Dock yesterday afternoon, and was admitted to Balmain ...

    Article : 33 words
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