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  2. FROSTS.

    Severe frosts were experienced in the city and suburbs yesterday morning. At Roseville the frost was reported to have been the heaviest for 15 years. One resident said that ...

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  3. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Andrew Kell, 58 years, grazier, who was seriously injured in a motor accident on Adelong-road, near Old Killarney Hotel, on Sunday died yesterday. The car was owned and ...

    Article : 63 words
  4. ELECTORAL REFORM.

    Mr. MacDonald has submitted to Mr. Baldwin and Mr Lloyd George the proposed terms of reference for an inquiry into electoral reform. ...

    Article : 161 words
  5. COAL INQUIRY.

    The principal witness before the Coal Commission yesterday was Mr. William Ernest Booth, accountant for the Northern Collieries' Association. He expressed the opinion that ...

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  6. AVIATION.

    Squadron-leader Kingsford Smith, speaking at a luncheon at the Aircraft Exhibition at Olympia, said that he had selected British aircraft for his proposed Australian service. ...

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  7. CANCER RESEARCH.

    According to Professor H. G. Chapman (Director of Cancer Research at the University of Sydney), who addressed members of the Royal Society at the Royal Colonial ...

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  8. PRICE OF MILK.

    Dairy farmers throughout the Hunter district having long been dissatisfied with the conditions of the milk trade, one of the biggest meetings of suppliers seen in the district ...

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  9. COAL DISPUTE.

    The coal conference convened by the chairman of the Royal Commission (Mr. Justice Davidson), held at the Northern Colliery Association's offices in Sydney yesterday, was ...

    Article : 351 words
  10. DEVELOPMENTAL ROADS.

    An important development of road policy on the Tweed is the Main Roads Board decision to accept as a developmental road a rout through Numinbah to the Queensland border, ...

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  11. SECRET FLIGHT.

    A secret German North Atlantic flight was revealed by a wireless message, intercepted at Berlin to the effect that a German seaplane passed over the Faroe Islands "en route ...

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  12. GOULBURN RED CROSS

    At the annual meeting of the Gou[?]bura branch of the Red Cross Society a letter was lead from headquarters congratulating the branch on its membership which as far as ...

    Article : 94 words
  13. WOOL PROBLEMS.

    Movements which are now being discussed at Roubaix and Tourcoing may closely concern Australia. Wool manufacturers, who are having a worse year than in 1928, are ...

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  14. POTATO BOYCOTT.

    The high price of potatoes has brought forth a protest from the Housewives' Progressive Association, members of which, at a meeting yesterday, carried the following ...

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  15. NO STATE SUBSIDY.

    The State Cabinet yesterday decided that it could not subsidise organisations for relieving temporary distress The decision arose out of the request for relief in the Newtown district. ...

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  16. PARKES AERODROME.

    The municipal council has decided in response to a deputation from the local Aero club, to [?]rect a hangar on the Parkes Aerodrome. The Mayor and town clerk were ...

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  17. IMPOUNDING HORSES.

    The munieipal council passed a motion protesting against the continued impounding of stock in the Parkes pound by the Forbes P.P. Board. It was stated that horses were brought ...

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  18. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Australian Scouts, under the leadership of Mr. C. A. Hoadley, reached Plymouth and London on Thursday. Dr. Cotterall, of Sydney, who acted as medical officer, said that ...

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  19. BRIBE MONEY.

    The question of disposal of the £12,000 belonging to ex-Police Sergeant Goddard, w[?]. was imprisoned for accepting bribes, came before Mr. Justice Rowlatt on a demurrer ...

    Article : 148 words
  20. UNION LEADERS' FEARS.

    With the collapse of the coal conference, the mining unions have decided to prepare for a prolonged stoppage, which, some union leaders believe, may last until ...

    Article : 100 words
  21. MAN FOUND DEAD.

    A man who was round lying dead at Pyrmont on Wednesday night, and whose death is still puzzling the police, was identified yesterday as Frederick Widin, 42, a ...

    Article : 151 words
  22. ASSAULTED CONSTABLE.

    Albert Cowing, a farmer, residing in Meg[?]-. long Valley, was fined £5 at Katoomba Court, on a charge of assaulting Constable F. W. Curtain, whilst in the execution of his duty. ...

    Article : 97 words
  23. NEW HOSPITAL FOR BOWRAL.

    The committee and medical staff of the Bowral District Hospital, at a special meeting, unanimously approved the suggestion of the Government architect that a new hospital ...

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  24. RAILWAYMEN.

    At the conference of the Australian Railways Union to-day a resolution was carried that in the opinion of the conference the logical reply of the workers to the ...

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  25. AUSTRALIAN" TESTS.

    Interviewed on his arrival from New Zealand at Southampton, A. P. F. Chapman attributed the English test victories in Austialia to team work, and also to good fielding, the ...

    Article : 151 words
  26. ROMANCE IN ART.

    A young English-born Spaniard, John Castillo, who 18 months ago had not put a brush to canvas, has just had six paintings purchased by Sir Joseph Duveen. An interesting part of ...

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  27. GROUP SETTLEMENT.

    Speaking at the annual meeting of the New South Wales branch of the Big Brother movement, Mr. R. Linton, the founder, said there was a growing feeling that something should ...

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  28. MOTOR CYCLISTS COLLIDE.

    Two motor cyclists, Albert Hill and Don Kincher, collided at a street intersection after nightfail. Hill was thrown clear and escaped with minor injuries. Kincher was caught ...

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  29. NEW COURTHOUSE OPENED.

    The official opening of the new courthouse took place on Wednesday. The Minister for Justice (Mr. Lee) was to have performed the opening ceremony, but owing to indisposi[?]on ...

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  30. MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

    While Mr. Austin Cassidy and Mr. B. Rees were traveilling by car about five miles from Guyra it ran into some loose gravel and turned over Mr. Rees was later picked up ...

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  31. JONES DIVORCE SUIT.

    Indication that the evidence would be more or less sensational attracted crowds to the District Court, at Reno (Nevada), to-day, when the divoice suit of Charles Lloyd Jones, ...

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  32. PROPOSED COLLEGE.

    The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church agreed to make an advance of £15,000 for the establishment at Albury of a Presbyterian girls' college to serve Riverina ...

    Article : 66 words
  33. WOMAN KILLED BY MOTOR.

    Mrs. Lily Coulston, of Liverpool-road, Ashfield, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon, when she was struck by a motor car while in the street in which she lived. ...

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  34. MAIN ROADS BOARD.

    Criticism of the Main Roads Board for its alleged neglect to furnish municipal bodies with more information regarding its policy and activities was voiced at a meeting of the ...

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  35. AUSTRALIA'S PROTEST.

    Replying in the House of Commons, to Sir John Davidson (Con.), the Parliamentary Undei-Secretary of the Dominions (Mr. Ponsonby) declined to indicate the nature ...

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  36. WAR SERVICE HOMES.

    The war Service Homes Commissioner, Mr. H. C. Brown, accompanied by the secretary of the commission, Mr. C. W Paterson, visited Murwillumbah to investigate complaints made ...

    Article : 112 words
  37. CAPTAIN SANGSTER.

    Captain A. Sangster has been appointed State Superintendent of Navigation, in succession to Captain J. Morris, who died recently. He has been deputy superintendent ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  38. INDEX.

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  39. GLEBE COUNCIL.

    The committee of the Gle[?]e Council, which was appointed recently to report upon the financial position of the council, submitted its report at last night's meeting. It ...

    Article : 202 words
  40. MR. MACDONALD.

    The question of the Prime Ministers visit te the united States is now the subject of diplomatic negotiations in regard to its time and with a view to making it effective ...

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  41. SALE OF HORSES.

    At Maitland yards to-day over 250 horses were yarded, about half being draughts. The remainder included one lot of 60 head from Manilla. Best draughts sold to £29/10/, ...

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  42. THE COLONIES.

    In the House of Commons the Undersecretary for the Colonies (Mr. W. Lunn) moved the second reading of the Colonial Development Bill He emphasised that there ...

    Article : 113 words
  43. MEN SEEKING WORK.

    Twenty-six cane gangs have applied for employment during the cane crushing season at the Harwood sugar mill on August 12, and only twenty gangs were required. ...

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  44. WHEAT PRICES.

    At Chicago on Wednesday the price of wheat advanced 8 cents per bushel, on the basis of a crop of 250, 000,000 bushels. Canada added 20,000,000 dollars' value to that crop, ...

    Article : 70 words
  45. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 225 words
  46. BOY'S TRAGIC DEATH.

    Close to his parents' residence, yesterday, and in his father's presence, Alexander Exton, aged 16 years, was fatally crushed under a waggon. He had been standing in front of ...

    Article : 62 words
  47. RELIEF FOR FARMERS.

    The Federal Farm Board has announced that loans from the Farm Relief Fund of 150.000.000 dollars held for its use, will not be made to agricultural interests until the ...

    Article : 95 words
  48. WAR PILGRIMS.

    The party of war pilgrims on the steamer Angkor passed the Dardanelles entrance early this morning. During the day the pilgrims saw many places which were made famous by ...

    Article : 121 words
  49. RIFLE RANGE CLOSED.

    Owing to a complaint that a bullet ricoche[?]ted off the Tweed Heads-Coolangatta rifle range, and broke a window in a private dwelling near by the supervisor of rifle ranges at ...

    Article : 51 words
  50. RED CROSS.

    The correspondent of the Austiaiian Press Association, at the Red Cross Conference at Geneva, says that a number of amendments were introduced to the text of the Geneva ...

    Article : 127 words
  51. NEW INDTTSTRY.

    With a plant capable of producing 250, 000 Yards of leather cloth and 500,000 yards of rubber cloth annually. Leathercloth Proorietary Ltd., a joint enterprise of imperial ...

    Article : 97 words
  52. PORT STEPHENS.

    Giving evidence to-day before the [?] Works Committee, which is inquiring into the proposal to constiuct a railway from Morpeth to Pindimar (Port Stephens), Mr. G. B. ...

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  53. DISASTROUS FLOODS.

    Disastrous floods following torrential rain have occuued in Western and Southern India Shikaipur, in the Sind Province is completety submerged, houses having collapsed, ...

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  54. INFLUENZA.

    Numerous cases of influenza continue to be reported in the city and suburbs The pressure of hospital accommodation duiing the past fortnight has been noticeably heavier ...

    Article : 113 words
  55. TO-DAY.

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  56. CANNIBALISM.

    After a highly sensational trial at Prague, 14 gipsies, who confessed to most coldblooded crimes, were found guilty on various grave charges, and will be sentenced on ...

    Article : 92 words
  57. WOMAN ARRESTED.

    In a large city store yesterday the attention of a shopwalker was directed by women shoppers to the curious behaviour of a woman, who, with a basket hanging on her arm was ...

    Article : 150 words
  58. STEAMER ASHORE.

    A report from Perim states that the New Zealand Shipping Company' steamet [?]gariro 872[?] tons, en route from Australia to London is ashore five miles south-east ...

    Article : 89 words
  59. SEAMEN'S UNION.

    A special meeting of the Australian Seamen's Union yesterday decided to apply for rereglstratlon in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court. ...

    Article : 108 words
  60. POSTAL OFFICIALS.

    The Deputy-Director of Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. Kitto) stated yesterday that the Public Service Appeals Board had reduced in status and pay two officers who had ...

    Article : 68 words
  61. NEW LINERS.

    Mr Joseph Sheedy president of the United States, Lines has announced that the conStruction of two new liners will commence early in 1930. They will be modelled after ...

    Article : 96 words
  62. TROUSERS EXCHANGED.

    A stranger here, who represented that he was unable to obtain work, was given free board and residence by Mr. A. R. Thomas, who met the man in the street. During the ...

    Article : 72 words
  63. Y.A.L. BOYS.

    Arrangements are being made by the Young Australia League for a contingent of boys between the ages of 11 and 16 years to make an educational tour of Australia during the ...

    Article : 36 words
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