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  2. CYCLONIC STORMS MANY BUILDINGS COLLAPSE.

    A cyclonic disturbance occurred at Kalgoorlie and Boulder (West Australia) on Tuesday night, considerable damage being caused. Many buildings ...

    Article : 397 words
  3. WAR ON PESTS. RATS AND MOSQUITOES.

    In a brief after-luncheon speech, delivered at a luncheon tendered to him yesterday by the Queensland Public Health Association, Dr. H. W. Tilling, the City ...

    Article : 353 words
  4. "DEAD HEADS," FREE TRAMWAY PASSES.

    An estimated loss to the city of more than £21,000 on 1621 free tram passes was revealed by Inquiries made yesterday. ...

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  5. BOWEN AGAIN. WATERSIDE TROUBLE.

    Unreasonable stoppages of work by Bowen waterside workers are handicapping the port, and causing losses to all concerned. ...

    Article : 234 words
  6. DISARMAMENT. PROPOSED CONFERENCE.

    A further move for a reduction of armaments is in progress. The Council of the League of Nations has agreed to the formation of a ...

    Article : 173 words
  7. NEW TOWN HALL. ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES.

    The use of celotex on the main ceiling and the walls and ceiling underneath the gallery, and carpeting of the floor of the main gallery, and the use of ...

    Article : 514 words
  8. SHOT DEAD. MELBOURNE STREET SENSATION.

    On the footpath of a crowded city street at half-past 12 o'clock to-day a man drew a revolver and shot William Ernest Williams (aged 23, an ...

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  9. MT. FOX TRAGEDY. CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER.

    As the outcome of a shooting tragedy at Mount Fox, in the Ingham district, on November 27, in which Cecil Jacob Claude Perry, a young ...

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  10. REDUCED ARMIES.

    "While the Locarno agreements do not in themselves provide the economic rehabilitation which is necessary for the preservation of Europe," said President ...

    Article : 359 words
  11. 'LOADING' CARGO.

    At Port Alma this afternoon, during loading operations on the Rimutaka, which was taking meat and cotton aboard, the stevedore noticed a hook belonging ...

    Article : 170 words
  12. HEAD-ON SMASH.

    A terrific head-on collision between a motor cycle and a taxi car occurred after 11 o'clock last night on the Perth-Fremantle road, when James A. Dudney, the ...

    Article : 159 words
  13. HOUSES DEMOLISHED.

    A storm which passed over the Yilgarn goldfield yesterday from the south demolished six houses at Boddolin, about 30 miles west of Southern Cross. These ...

    Article : 89 words
  14. MULCRA STILL DELAYED.

    In connection with the manning of the engine-room of the Adelaide Steamship Co.'s motor ship Mulera, it has been suggested that a manning committee should ...

    Article : 129 words
  15. CHAR-A-BANC SMASH.

    The identification of the bodies of those killed at Bletchley (Buckinghamshire), last night, when a char-a-banc conveying a party of 14 crashed into a train, was not ...

    Article : 155 words
  16. CHILD'S WARNING.

    The home of Mr. Doust, on Bellingerroad, was destroyed by fire early on Monday morning. At 2.15 a.m. Ronnie, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Doust, had ...

    Article : 204 words
  17. HEAT WAVE.

    Oppressive atmospheric conditions culminated in a thunderstorm last night, but the rainfall was very light. The "Courier" gauge registered 9 points, and 10 points ...

    Article : 517 words
  18. BIG PROGRAMME.

    President Coolidge, in his annual address to Congress, outlined the legislative programme, including tax reduction, adherence to the world court, and continued ...

    Article : 162 words
  19. CALL FOR CREW.

    The call for a crew for the held-up steamer Karoola was only partially successful to-day, the number of firemen offering being below the requirements of ...

    Article : 45 words
  20. REASONS WANTED.

    The persons who failed to record their votes at the Federal elections will shortly be called upon to supply the Commonwealth Electoral Officers with the reasons ...

    Article : 165 words
  21. TOOMBUL BRIDGE.

    The closure of what many persons regard as a death-trap—the bridge over the railway at Toombul—until some safer method of crossing the lines is in ...

    Article : 312 words
  22. JUNEE MURDER.

    John Fursden William Smith (18 years), an ex-postal official, was charged in the Central Criminal Court to-day with having murdered Clare Prowsa (17 years), at ...

    Article : 444 words
  23. WILD CATTLE.

    Although the Casino area has been proclaimed free of ticks, the Board of Control considered that wild cattle in the country towards Kyogle were a menace, ...

    Article : 152 words
  24. PICTURES ON SUNDAYS.

    Following on the recent decision of the Coolangatta Town Council not to grant permission for the showing of pictures on Sundays and Christmas Day in the ...

    Article : 303 words
  25. AMERICAN NAVY.

    Despite the naval disasters of the past year, the Secretary for the Navy (Mr. Wilbur), in his annual accounting to-day, reported to the President that the ...

    Article : 81 words
  26. POLLING ON TUESDAY.

    Tuesday next is polling day for the election of a member to represent the Northern Territory in the House of Representatives. Except at Darwin the ...

    Article : 74 words
  27. WAGES AND OUTPUT.

    Addressing the New South Wales branch of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand on "Wages and State Regulation," Professor Mills, of the ...

    Article : 110 words
  28. UNION CONGRESS.

    Although no date was fixed, the holding of the proposed Trades Union Congress before the A.L.P. conference scheduled for February was approved by a meeting ...

    Article : 108 words
  29. SYRIAN REVOLT.

    A message from Beirut says that the French are hurrying troops to Damascus. In the meantime the situation there is grave. ...

    Article : 78 words
  30. TO BE ADMITTED.

    The retail section of the A.M.I.E.U. has decided to recommend to the meeting of metropolitan members that W. Connolly shall be admitted to the union ...

    Article : 207 words
  31. ABSENT VOTING.

    The Attorney-General (Mr. Mullan) said yesterday that in the provision for absent voting in the Chillagoe and Eacham electorates at the forthcoming ...

    Article : 233 words
  32. FALL OF STONE.

    William Haber (30), quarryman, was killed yesterday on the Coff's Harbour breakwater through a fall of stone coming away from the face of the quarry and ...

    Article : 47 words
  33. FATAL COLLISION.

    As a result of a collision to-day at a level crossing, 12 miles from Wagga, between a motor car and a fruit express. Mr. Andrey Nedley, a farmer, who was ...

    Article : 51 words
  34. HANGING FROM RAFTER.

    Oswald Brown, a middle aged man, residing at Waterloo, remarked to his wife yesterday, "I'm too sick to carry on with my work; I'm going to end it all." An ...

    Article : 63 words
  35. BAND CHAMPIONSHIPS.

    For the first time in the history of band carnivals a judge is being brought from Britain to adjudicate in a Queensland contest. At a meeting of the ...

    Article : 135 words
  36. NATIVE PROBLEM.

    The Congress of the South African Party will meet at Bloemfontein tomorrow. It is expected that General Smuts will propose to refer the solution ...

    Article : 80 words
  37. SHOOTING ACCIDENT.

    Wilfred Campion Smith (23) was accidentally shot by James Lethbridge (16) while rabbit hunting at Belka. They were playing with each other, when ...

    Article : 50 words
  38. THROWN FROM CART.

    R. H. Barnett, the farmer, of Ambrose, who was thrown out of a cart on Monday, and whose leg was amputated yesterday, never rallied, and died this ...

    Article : 43 words
  39. DASH INTO FENCE.

    Colin Whitton was riding a motor cycle on the road to Evans Head, when the machine got out of control, and dashed into a fence. Whitton sustained many ...

    Article : 54 words
  40. DREADNOUGHT BOY DROWNED.

    Ronald Scott (18), a Dreadnought boy employed on a farm at Homeleigh, was drowned in Back Creek on Sunday. He went swimming alone, and when he did ...

    Article : 57 words
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