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  2. "PERNICIOUS SYSTEM." JOB CONTROL AT SOUTH JOHNSTONE.

    The adjourned application by the Australian Sugar Producers'Association and Cane Growers' Council for the cancellation of the Sugar Industry Award (State), as a result of the recent trouble among the sugar' workers at South Johnstone, was heard by the Full Board of the Board ...

    Article : 194 words
  3. PAID BY RESULTS.

    Reserved judgment in respect of those engaged in the metal trades was given in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day by Mr. Judge Beeby. The ...

    Article : 1,302 words
  4. CANCER CONTROL.

    The manner in which the "Courier" is supporting the appeal made by the Federal Minister for Health (Sir Neville Howse, V.C.) for the raising ...

    Article : 1,588 words
  5. RECORD DEFICIT.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 94 words
  6. BYRD'S CRUEL LUCK. FOILED BY BAD WEATHER.

    After a thrilling experience, during which the airmen encountered dense fog for hours at a time, torrential rain, and other climatic disabilities, Commander Byrd and his three com-, panions, in the aeroplane "America," in which they were ...

    Article : 129 words
  7. CAIRNS CUT OFF. SHIP OWNERS' DECISION.

    Until the dispute on the waterfront at Cairns is settled, no cargo for that port will be accepted by agents at any of the Australian ports. ...

    Article : 152 words
  8. LOADING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

    About 140 men, all belonging to the Dillon section, were employed on two of the steamers in port to-day, in spite of the refusal by the firemen to supply ...

    Article : 145 words
  9. SOLID INCREASE.

    The Customs revenue for the past year was £364,355 more than in the preceding year, and the Postal Deparment's receipts showed an increase ...

    Article : 247 words
  10. A.W.U. AND THE OLIVE BRANCH.

    Mr. G. H. Pritchard appealed for the Australian Sugar Producers Association and the Cane Growers' Council, assisted by Mr. W. H. Doherty. ...

    Article : 1,768 words
  11. SHORE REACHED.

    Byrd and his companions used a rubber canoe and reached shore. They woke the lighthouse keeper, who collected come sailors, and then salved the aeroplane, ...

    Article : 36 words
  12. GREAT INTEREST.

    France, elaborately prepared to prevent a repetition of the chaos when Lindbergh arrived. Motor cars," equipped with wireless, were stationed at the aerodrome to ...

    Article : 153 words
  13. "LABOUR WRECKED" MR. LANG'S "TREACHERY."

    "I want to say definitely that I will not follow Mr. Lang," said Mr. Gillies, M.L.A., speaking here to-night. "Though as firm a supporter of the high ideals and ...

    Article : 157 words
  14. "ALL WELL"

    A cablegram addressed to Mrs. Richard Byrd waa received here from her husband on Friday morning, as, follows: "Landed Ver-sur-Mer. All well Dick." ...

    Article : 31 words
  15. OVER LE BOURGET. MIST OBSCURES AERODROME.

    After Commander Byrd passed Kennes, a rainstorm broke over Le Bourget, complicating the problem of landing. At one time he appeared to be quite close ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 147 words
  16. THE MACHINE.

    Commander Byrd's machine is a Fokker monoplane, fitted with three Wright "Whirlwind" engines. ...

    Article : 15 words
  17. MODEST AVIATORS.

    Maitland and Hegenberger, the heroes of the California-Hawalian flight, faced a social programme to-day more wearying than their flight. Beginning with a ...

    Article : 97 words
  18. THE BIG DRIVE. SUBURBAN RAILWAYS.

    From the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. J. W. Davidson) It was ascertained yesterday that the big drive of the department to conserve and ...

    Article : 408 words
  19. ROWDY MEETING.

    At a meeting of the Murwillumbah branch of the Country Party to-day, at which the question of pre-selection was discussed, Mr. F. W. Stuart, M.L.A., ...

    Article : 174 words
  20. BROOME REACHED. ROUND AUSTRALIA FLIGHT.

    Mr. C. C. Vivian, who is representing Mr. Geo. Bond in the flight round Australia to test the usefulness of commercial aviation, and his fellow aviators have ...

    Article : 172 words
  21. "A TERRIBLE GAMBLE,"

    The rain was so heavy at 1 o'clock, and the clouds so thick, that experts at Lo Bourget were of opinion that it would be quite easy for Byrd to miss ...

    Article : 81 words
  22. BEAR GARDEN.

    The Standing Committee of the House of Commons, on the Audit Bill, became a bear garden when tho Chairman (Sir Cyril Cobb) accepted the closure against ...

    Article : 85 words
  23. FLIGHT CONTINUED.

    Mr. Vivian sent the following further message on arrival at Carnarvon:—"We set the engine going at daybreak, and took the air from Broome at 620. Flying ...

    Article : 145 words
  24. TORRENTIAL RAIN.

    The rain continued falling in torrents all night long, the spectators at Le Bourget, including the successful American Transatiantic aviators, Messrs. ...

    Article : 45 words
  25. STATE HOUSE.

    There appears to be every likelihood that the commencement of the next session of Parliament will be deferred until the Premier (Mr. W. M'Cormack), ...

    Article : 165 words
  26. DRAMATIC MESSAGES. "CAN HARDLY SEE WING TIPS."

    Le Bourget has not known such an historic day since the war. It welcomed Messrs. Chamberlin and Levine at 4 o'clock, and an hour later witnessed the ...

    Article : 156 words
  27. HEAVY SURPLUS.

    The Treasury returns for the financial year ended June 30 showed a surplus of £1,458,932. The amount received from income tax alone was £7,859,654, an ...

    Article : 103 words
  28. HEAT WAVE.

    Death-dealing heat has prostrated the central-west of America, killing five persons in Chicago, nine in Ohio, two in Wisconsin, and three in Minnesota, People ...

    Article : 65 words
  29. "A HECTIC JOB."

    Later from somewhere in the Atlantic came a message, abandoning the use of the code, and stating that it was a "heetic job " Another meesage read: ...

    Article : 130 words
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