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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    At the last Ballina Council meeting exception was taken to the statements of Sir Allen Taylor, M.L.C., when discussing local railway lines. The Mayor contended that the ...

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  3. OLYMPIC TEAM.

    The publicity given to the doings of the recently returned Australian Olympic team has caused something of a stir in sporting circles. As a result the Australian Olympic ...

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  4. MOTOR RELIABILITY.

    The Royal Automobile Club of Australia concluded its programme of road fixtures for the year with a reliability and touring contest to Robertson, a distance of 102 miles, on ...

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  5. KEEN TENNIS.

    A large attendance of keenly interested spectators, who almost filled the stands, and surrounded the courts at Rushcutter Bay on Saturday, saw New South Wales win an ex ...

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  6. ENGLISH TEAM.

    Sixteen wickets fell for 238 runs during a day of extraordinary cricket, when England met Queensland at the Exhibition Oval yesterday. After dismissing the home side for ...

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  7. HIS MAJESTY THE KING.

    A RECENT PORTRAIT OF HIS MAJESTY, WHOSE ILLNESS HAS BEEN CAUSING CONCERN THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

    One man—Thomas Hinds, 33, tobacconist, of King-street, Newtown, was killed, and four others injured, when a motor car crashed into a telegraph post on the Liverpool-road, ...

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  9. THEFT OF POSTAL MATTER.

    An ex-temporary postal employee, Patrick Horace Fahy, was charged with stealing a letter containing a postal note and also a parcel containing a tennis racquet, the pro ...

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  10. NOMINATIONS.

    BALRANALD.—John Ason, James Hegarty Barker, John Montague Berry, Richard Vnliean Boynton, John William Carter, Frederick William Committi, George Robert Davis, John Edward Dowling, Mervyn Hayman ...

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  11. BOY KILLED AT CROWS NEST.

    Reginald Blackburn, 13, of Christie-street, St. Leonards, was knocked down by a motor car and killed in Lane Cove-road, Crow's Nest, on Saturday afternoon. The boy had ...

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  12. NONAGENARIAN VOTES.

    "Granny" Warn, of Stuart Town, who celebrated her 94th birthday on November 14, was one of the proudest women of the district, when she was motored to the polling ...

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  13. CYCLIST KILLED.

    Robert Smith, 25, of Sutherland-street, Mascot, died in the St. George Hospital late on Saturday night, as the result of a motor accident earlier in the day. ...

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  14. SNAKE IN BEDROOM.

    Miss "Billy" Robinson, of Goulburn, when entering her bedroom, tripped over the carpet, which she displaced. When she stooped to readjust it she saw a black snake 2ft 6in ...

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  15. WATERSIDERS.

    A meeting held on the Yarra Bank this afternoon to assist the waterfront workers in an appeal for funds was attended by only a few hundred men. Workers had been invited ...

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  16. WYANGALA WEIR.

    The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) to-day turned the first sod of the Woodstock to Wyangala-road, in connection with the construction of the Wyangala Weir. ...

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  17. KILLED BY BULLOCK.

    Following serious injuries he received when a bullock's horn penetrated his face, causing a large wound between the eye and nose, Sidney J. Ferrett, 30, died at Raleigh District ...

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  18. CAR CRASHES THROUGH FENCE.

    Three people were injured on Saturday night, when a motor car ran off the Gordonroad at Wahroonga, and crashed through a fence. They were:—Frederick Davis, 30. ...

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  19. FIRE DESTROYS WHEAT.

    Standing wheat and wheat in bags were destroyed by fire which started amongst stubble on Kirkup, on the Bogan Gate-road, yesterday, and extended to Westlands. Mr. Taylor, ...

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  20. TWO MEN INJURED.

    As a result of a collision between two motor cycles at the corner of Woodville-road and William-street, Granville, yesterday afternoon the riders of the machines received injuries ...

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  21. IRISH NATIONAL FORESTERS.

    Coincident with the holding of their annual congress, members of the Irish National Foresters held their annual communion at St. Mary's Cathedral yesterday morning. ...

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  22. STATE ISSUES.

    "The Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Latham) interviewed here said that the Government was naturally very pleased with the large number of votes that had been polled ...

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  23. SUNDAY GAMES AT BALLINA.

    Tho Ballina Council has decided to submit the question of Sunday games on the various parks, reserves, and public places under council control to a referendum of the electors. ...

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  24. COLLISION AT ERMINGTON.

    Two people, passengers on a motor cycle, were injured yesterday afternoon, when the machine and a motor car collided at Ermington. Basil Searle, 15, of Granville, received ...

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  25. YOUNG MAN'S EMBEZZLEMENT.

    At Wellington Police Court Stanislaus Henry Lynch, a young man, pleaded guilty to embezzling the sum of £8/10/6, the property of Costello and Turnbull, accountants, by whom ...

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  26. HISTORIC CHURCH.

    St. Andrew's Church, at Parramatta, a landmark of the district, having been erected in 1850, was demolished last year, and the stones were removed to Wentworthville, where the ...

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  27. MAIN ROADS IN MULWAREE SHIRE.

    Replying to an objection on the part of Councillor Broadhead, of the Mulwaree Shire, who moved that further grants from the Main Roads Board should not be accepted on the ...

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  28. THREE PEOPLE KILLED.

    As the result of the overturning of a motor car at Coromandel. Mrs. Wilson, wife of Mr. H. Wilson, who was driving, Mr. Wilson, sen., Jessie Wilson, aged two, daughter of Mrs. Wil ...

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  29. LATE-SHIPPING.

    ADELAIDE.—Arr: Nov. 24. Mareeba, s, from Fremantle; Lanena, s,, from Hobart. Nov. 25, Iron Knob, s, from Newcastle; Canadian Constructor, s, from Montreal; Kazembe, s, from eastern States; Mol ...

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  30. NEW MINISTER.

    Mr. H. S. Gullett, M.P. for Henty (Victoria), was sworn-in as Minister for Trade and Customs by the Governor-General (Lord Stonehaven) in Melbourne on Saturday. He has ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  31. CRUSHED BY 'BUS.

    Adam Lyons, 53, of Mathison-street, Carrington, while he was crossing Hunter-street, near Bolton-street, at 9 a.m., yesterday, slipped and fell under a motor 'bus. He died a ...

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  32. BELLINGEN HOSPITAL.

    When officially opening fine new nurses quarters attached to Raleigh District Hospital the Federal Treasurer (Dr. Page) commented on the unique position of the ...

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  33. LITHGOW A.L.P.

    Despite the fact that two special committees of inquiry have exonerated the president of the Lithgow A.L.P. branch of the charges of having offered to work at the ...

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  34. INDEX.

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  35. TWO KILLED IN PERTH.

    Many accidents took place in Perth, and the surrounding suburbs during the week-end. Two of them ended fatally, and the victim of a third is not expected to live. ...

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  36. MEMORIAL HALL.

    Brevity of the speeches was a feature at the setting of the foundation-stones of the Soldiers' Memorial Hall at Rockdale on Saturday Mr. G. Mapstone, president of the ...

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  37. DEATH OF MR. J. Y. RUTTER.

    Mr. John Y. Rutter, chief mechanical engineer of the Hunter District Water Board, died yesterday at his residence at tho Walka waterworks. He had been ill for a ...

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  38. MURDER CHARGE.

    There was a sensational development last night following the death of Dorothy Blunt, about 24 years old. In the Royal Hospital for Women at Paddington. It is alleged that ...

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  39. GIFT DUTY ACT.

    Judgment in the first appeal brought under the Queensland Gift Duty Act of 1920 was given in the Full Court before Justices Macrossan. Webb, and Woolcock. Mr. C. F. Counsell ...

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  40. AFTER FOUR YEARS.

    A man, who was alleged to have been wanted since 1924 by the Victorian police on a charge of abducting a ward of the State, was arrested by Newcastle police at a religious gathering ...

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  41. BRITISH TEAM.

    The visiting British tennis players were entertained at dinner at Usher's Hotel on Saturday night. Sir Henry Braddon, who welcomed the team, said that the visitors had ...

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  42. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  43. MOTOR PICNIC.

    There was a large gathering of motorists at a picnic held at Fairyland. Lane Cove River, on Saturday afternoon, under the auspices of the Sydney Hospital Auxiliary. Tea ...

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  44. MISSING SCHOOLGIRL.

    The disappearance in mysterious circumstances of Katherine Dyke, aged 13 years, from her home in Edith-street, Leichhardt, on the night of November 13 last is sill en ...

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  45. SCHUBERT CENTENARY.

    The centenary of the death of Schubert was celebrated at the Central Methodist Mission, in the Lyceum, yesterday afternoon. The musical programme consisted of special items ...

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  46. TIMBER WORKERS.

    An arrangement under which timber mill employees worked 38½ hours a week instead of 48 owing to depressed conditions in the timber industry has ceased as a result of ...

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  47. SECOND VICTIM DEAD.

    Henry Loftus Brock, aged 56 years, butcher, who was found with his throat cut at his home in Floss-street, Hurlstone Park, early on November 3, died on Saturday afternoon ...

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  48. CARDINAL CERRETTI.

    Cardinal Cerretti had a wonderful reception on his arrival by the Aorangi, from the largest cosmopolitan crowd that ever gathered on Suva wharf. He was entertained at dinner ...

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  49. TO-DAY.

    Her Majesty's Theatre: "The Vagabond King," 7.50. Theatre Royal: "On Approval," 8. Criterion: "The Patsy," 8. St. Julian Theatre: "Good News," 8. ...

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  50. LOYAL ORANGE INSTITUTION.

    The annual election of officers of the Past Masters' Chapter of the Loyal Orange Institution of New South Wales resulted as follows: W.M., Wor. Bro. John Skillcorn; D.M., ...

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  51. SLOT MACHINES.

    A complaint was made at a meeting of the council of the Teachers' Federation on Saturday that cigarette slot machines were still installed in various parts of the Illawarra ...

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  52. FIRE AT MOSMAN.

    Damage estimated at about £100 was caused by a fire which broke out last night in a general grocer's shop, conducted by George Knowles, in Avenue-road, Mosman. The out ...

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  53. RAILWAY STATIONS ROBBED.

    Thieves who forced entrance into the Villawood and Carramar railway stations between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. yesterday, obtained little for their trouble. At Villawood a receptacle ...

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  54. HANDBAG SNATCHED.

    While walking towards her home in Patrickstreet, Hurstville, on Friday night, Mrs. Mary Barnes's handbag was snatched from her hand. She was carrying the bag loosely in har hand ...

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  55. ROYAL ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION.

    Many delegates to the annual conference of the Royal Ornithologists Union, which concluded at Canberra last week, returned to Sydney on Friday night. Several Victorian ...

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  56. FACTORY FIRE AT AUCKLAND.

    At fire at the Manchester Costume Company's factory yesterday did damage to machinery and stock estimated at £14,000. The insurances total £13,500. ...

    Article : 30 words
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