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  2. STABILISE SUGAR PREFERENCE.

    After receiving a cablegram from the Acting Agent-General for Queensland (Mr. L. H. Pike) yesterday, the Premier (Mr. W. Forgan Smith) forwarded a request to the Prime Minister that the Commonwealth should seek an amendment of the ...

    Article : 483 words
  3. PRIMARY PRODUCERS TO BENEFIT.

    Primary producers will reap material benefit by reduced Customs tariffs that will operate from to-day. Primage duty has been removed from a long list of goods, including agricultural and harvesting machinery, and the ban on the ...

    Article : 1,416 words
  4. BUDGET FOR SMALL SURPLUS.

    MR. S. A. LYONS, the Prime Minister, who delivered his Budget in the House of Representatives yesterday, providing for ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 35 words
  5. CUT IN THE OLD AGE PENSION.

    A reduction in invalid and old age pensions to 15/ per week and the limitation of maternity allowances to an income of £208 per annum or less was announced by the Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons) in his budget speech yesterday. ...

    Article : 2,843 words
  6. Watching Sugar.

    THE PREMIER, who has requested the Federal Government to seek an amendment of the Ottawa agreement ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 25 words
  7. OMNIBUS MOST POPULAR.

    Statistics show that the omnibus is the most popular of London's means of transport. LONDON, August 31. ...

    Article : 169 words
  8. TO CONVERT RENTES.

    The French Cabinet contemplates a big conversion of rentes, and it is understood that the amount affected will be £910,000,000. ...

    Article : 98 words
  9. CHALLENGE TO MANKIND.

    A dramatic challenge to mankind in regard to the use of gifts that were being so bountifully bestowed was made by Sir Alfred ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 388 words
  10. BRITAIN AND INDIA.

    Sir Robert Garran (lately Australian Solicitor-General) is to be chairman of a tribunal that is to inquire into certain matters ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 245 words
  11. London-Australia Flight.

    Mr. Richard Allen, the son of a Melbourne merchant, who is making a flight from London to Australia by easy stages, left Calcutta for Rangoon ...

    Article : 40 words
  12. BEST RATES.

    Average quality wool, totalling 9438 bales, was offered at the Sydney wool sales to-day, and 8885 bales were sold at auction, and 5534 privately, under ...

    Article : 65 words
  13. COLLECTING TAXES.

    Driven to desperation by the growing deficit, due to the shrinkage in taxation revenue, the Government hag issued an emergency ...

    Article : 73 words
  14. REDUCTIONS WELCOME.

    Commenting on the Budget, the Leader of the Country Party (Dr. Earle Page) said: "The Country Party welcomes the remissions of ...

    Article : 98 words
  15. IRISH TALKS.

    No immediate result is expected from the talks which Mr. Thomas had with the Free State delegates at Ottawa. The attitude of the British Government ...

    Article : 93 words
  16. LOW-WING 'PLANE.

    Major James Doolittle flew a racing low-wing monoplane at an average speed of 293.193 miles per hour, a new unofficial world's land 'plane record, ...

    Article : 44 words
  17. SOUTH POLAR CAP.

    Mr. R[?]ser Larsen intends to undertake an adventurous sledge journey along the Atlantic sector of the South Polar cap in February. ...

    Article : 84 words
  18. LOWER INTEREST.

    Four London building societies announce that they will reduce the mortgage interest on new applications by one half centum to 5½ per cent. ...

    Article : 33 words
  19. MOLLISON BEATEN.

    In consequence of his doctor's advice Pilot J. A. Mollison has abandoned his projected return flight across the Atlantic, and is ...

    Article : 134 words
  20. MORE VIOLENCE.

    Renewed violence marks the continuance of the movement in Iowa to prevent farmers' produce being sent to markets in the cities. ...

    Article : 172 words
  21. STRIKERS SEEK SETTLEMENT.

    The mass meeting of sugar workers in the Home Hill area last night decided that the organiser and Mr. Fallon (president of the ...

    Article : 419 words
  22. INDEX OF NEWS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 165 words
  23. POOLED RAILWAY WORKERS.

    An overhaul of the conditions of the railway superannuation fund and the granting of full annual holidays to railway employees ...

    Article : 264 words
  24. HOSTILITY TO THE PENSION REDUCTIONS.

    Mr. Lyons's budget proposals to reduce pensions by £1,100,000 were received with hostility at a meeting of the United Australia Party yesterday. It is likely that when the vote is taken on the budget several Government members will either refrain from voting ...

    Article : 460 words
  25. SATURDAY'S "COURIER."

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 words
  26. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 255 words
  27. Radio Telephony.

    The Postmaster-General announces that the radio telephone service with ships on the North Atlantic route now covers the Empress of Britain, Homeric, ...

    Article : 71 words
  28. DUES TO LEAGUE.

    The Secretary-General of the League of Nations has refused to accept a bank deposit of £26,936 as pait payment of Germany's dues to the ...

    Article : 118 words
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