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  2. REPATRIATION

    Speaking of the decision of the Premiers' Conference in Melbourne to establish the repatriation scheme under one central authority, Mr. Ashford. the Minister for Lands, said ...

    Article : 196 words
  3. SHOPPING NIGHT

    A business week without its Friday night is a loss week to the average shopkeeper. It is then that he looks to make certain his profit on the week's undertakings. Anniversary ...

    Article : 166 words
  4. CITY'S WATER SUPPLY

    Cataract and Prospect, the reservoirs that supply the great bulk of Sydney's water, are full and flowing over. In fact "more water is running into them every day than is being ...

    Article : 554 words
  5. CENSORSHIP OF FILMS

    The evils of a censorship, it has been pointed out time anil time again, are inherent in the office, essential in the very badness of a vicious system. The censor is not to be especially ...

    Article : 184 words
  6. TERRITORY MUDDLE

    The demand for a close enquiry into the maladministration of the Northern Territory has become so clamorous that now that the office of Minister for Home Affairs and ...

    Article : 173 words
  7. The Existing Grievance

    With actual cases of injudicious or unjust censoring I am not now concerned. There have been such cases, within my actual knowledge. There always will be such cases while ...

    Article : 236 words
  8. Darwin Gardens Spoiled

    The Botanical Gardens at Darwin was the best public work I saw in the Territory. It had been under the care of the Holtzes, father and son, since Holrze, sen., established it over ...

    Article : 310 words
  9. INTERESTING FIGURES.

    "The following statements issued by the military authorities and the War Council indicate what is being done from various sources for the soldiers who have so far returned: ...

    Article : 132 words
  10. THE CASE FOR THURSDAY.

    As to the correctness or this decision there has been considerable and heated discussion. The shopkeepers have not been content to 2dmit defeat, but are brosecutinir a vitrorous ...

    Article : 86 words
  11. Picture Interests Have Rights

    I am here at the outset to propound the amazing proposition that even importers of films have rights. The films have to be bought in America or in Europe, and the Australian ...

    Article : 279 words
  12. Orders Ignorant and Impossible

    Agricultural experts arriving full of enthusiasm and leaving full of disgust—breaking down under the stupidity of alleged superiors who gave orders as impossible of commission ...

    Article : 315 words
  13. TOTALISATOR AT WORK

    THE "PREMIER" TOTALISATOR (TOTALLING MECHANISMS, LIMITED) IN OPERATION ON THE AUCKLAND RACING CLUB'S COURSE AT CHRISTMAS MEETING, WHEN £257,228 WAS PUT THROUGH THE MACHINE. (MR. G. A. JULIUS, INVENTOR.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 34 words
  14. The Hope

    But with one good and trustworthy and tolerant Censor for Australia, there would be ground for hope—the hope that picture firms would cease to import the sort of films that ...

    Article : 88 words
  15. Some Mining Undertaking

    The Daily River copper mine was an old show, rich enough, but made costly by distance from market, and therefore worked spasmodically when copper was high and abandoned ...

    Article : 289 words
  16. The Killing Anomaly

    If you go down any main street of Sydney you will come upon little print ami post-card chops, most of which are exposing pictures of the nude just now. The pictures are in almost ...

    Article : 200 words
  17. Muddle Worse and Worse

    Irregularities in Public Departments, dirty and comfortless conditions in the payable State hotels, are minor matters; bat, they are there all the same. ...

    Article : 257 words
  18. Some Censorship Desirable

    And yet I believe that, were it only for the sake of peace and quiet, there should be some cort of censorship, with scrupulous safeguards. The Censor should be one man for Australia, ...

    Article : 159 words
  19. WHAT THE ACT SAYS.

    HOLIDAYS, PUBLIC.—The fact that a public or bank holiday occurs in any week and is kept by him now relieves the shopkeeper from observance of the usual weekly half-holiday. Except on the eve of Christmas, ...

    Article : 271 words
  20. DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS.

    "While some of the figures, such as wages of 4000 men, £40,000 under the' heading of Estimated Payments, may be questioned, the extent of country assistance is considerably ...

    Article : 146 words
  21. LAND FOR SOLDIERS

    In looking after the interests of returned soldiers, what N.S. Wales has so far done compares more than favorably with the combined record of the other five States. ...

    Article : 107 words
  22. WHEAT CROP

    The Government Statistician, Mr. J. B. Trivett, reports that owing to the lateness of the season and the serious interruptions experienced during harvesting operations, on ...

    Article : 247 words
  23. Special Provision for Children

    And that brings us to another point. If all pictures not suited for exhibition to an audience of young children or immature girls are to be banned, God help the picture business so ...

    Article : 247 words
  24. PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK

    BRIGADIER-GENERAL RAMACIOTTON Acting-Commandant 2nd (N,S.W.) Military District, who will retire from that position on February 16. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 161 words
  25. If I Were Censor

    When personal feeling and prejudice corrie in there can be no substantial justice. If I were censor, free to work my own sweet will to the destruction of poor devils of film importers. I ...

    Article : 179 words
  26. SOLDIERS' PENSIONS

    It is understood that as the result of an arrangement between the Federal and State Governments, the State authorities will not persevere in any attempt to grant pensions ...

    Article : 142 words
  27. CHURCH AND STAGE

    Commenting on the year's work at Newcastle Cathedral recently, the Very Rev. H. K. Archdall, Dean of Newcastle, referred to the present state of the stage. In the course of his address ...

    Article : 116 words
  28. BOYS TAUGHT TO SWIM

    An experiment has recently been conducted by the N.S. Wales Education Department in the teaching of swimming to children. The idea was formulated by Mr. Walter Bethel, ...

    Article : 104 words
  29. COUNTRY EFFORTS

    The Agricultural Society is conducting a repatriation scheme, and reports good progress. Already £347/16/7 is in hand, exclusive of large donations of cattle. ...

    Article : 28 words
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