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  4. STRIKES THREAT TO TRADE UNIONS

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- The Trades Hall Council to-night declared that current and ...

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  5. Govt. finalises plan for possible general strikes

    CANBERRA, Thursday.--A special meeting of the majority of Federal ministers to-day put the final touches on the master plan of Government action which could be thrown into operation to meet a ...

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  6. Grim relief work goes on in Papua

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Despite warnings that Mount Lamington was likely to explode into life before the week-end, the relief workers under the Administrator (Colonel J. K. Murray) to-day refused to abandon the Popendetta emergency ...

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  7. MINERS VOTE FOR WEEKLY ONE-DAY STOPS

    SYDNEY, Thursday.--Northern mine workers at aggregate meetings to-day voted for the weekly one-day strike proposed by the miners' executive. Only about 2000 of 11,000 miners in the northern ...

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  8. CHURCHMEN COMBINED IN SERVICE FOR DEAD

    CANBERRA, Thursday.--While a Roman Catholic priest (Father Justin) celebrated Requiem Mass for victims of the Lamington volcano disaster buried to-day, Father Anderson, of the Anglican Church, ...

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  9. Sat on roof for 10 hours

    MUTTABURRA, Thurs.--A couple married only 18 months were forced to spend the night on the roof of the ...

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  10. "Nip and tuck" rescue

    TOKIO, January 25.--American Mustangs and Corsairs buzzed angrily round a crashed control plane bhind the ...

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  11. NEW ERUPTION IS LIKELY

    PORT MORESBY, January 25.--The Government Vulcanologist (Mr. G. A. Taylor) this ...

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  12. DECLINE IN OUTBACK TOWNS

    BRISBANE, Thurs.-- Outback towns in many areas of the State had gone into a steady decline since big sheep ...

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  13. Army prepares

    SYDNEY, Thursday.--High army officials held a top level conference at Victoria Barracks to-day to prepare plans for the army to ...

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  14. Sugar industry carries losses

    BRISBANE, Thurs.-- The sugar industry has found from past experiences that officials of the A.W.U. have generally ...

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  15. FEDERAL GOVT. MAKES GRANT OF £25,000

    CANBERRA, Thursday.-- The Commonwealth Government to-day approved an immediate grant of £25,000 to ...

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  16. QUARANTINE OF DUTCH MIGRANTS

    CANBERRA, Thursday.-- Sixty-seven passengers and crew of the Dutch Airlines Contellation which arrived at ...

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  17. ELECTION FRAUD INVESTIGATION

    BRISBANE, Thurs.-- The Acting Premier (Mr. Gair) said tonight when police officers completed their investigations into ...

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  18. Qld. in good position

    BRISBANE, Thursday.--Queensland is in a better position than any other State to meet the coal stoppage. ...

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  19. DUTCH GOVT. RESIGNS

    THE HAGUE, January 25.-- The Dutch Government, headed by the Labor Prime Minister (Mr. Willen Drees), resigned to-day. ...

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  20. VIC. RAIL STOPPAGE

    MELBOURNE, Thurs.-- No trains will run in Victoria for 24 hours from midnight to-night. This was decided in Melbourne ...

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  21. Bishop Hand returning

    TOOWOOMBA, Thursday.--It was announced to-night that owing to the Mt. Lamington tragedy the co-adjutor Bishop of ...

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  22. SEEKING MEAT PRICE INCREASE

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- An application to raise the price of beef and mutton by at least ½d per lb. will be made in all States ...

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  23. Mt. Isa mines ceasing work

    MT. ISA, Thursday.--Mt. Isa mines will cease production from Monday because of shortage of coal supplies caused by floods. ...

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  24. SEVEN-YEAR-OLD SAVED 3 LIVES

    MELBOURNE, Thurs.-- Seven- year-old Paddy McBrien saved three young children from a blazing house at Warracknabeal, in ...

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  25. Korea casualties

    LONDON, Jan. 25.--Total British casualties in the Korean war to January 20 were 813--139 killed, 416 wounded, and 258 missing. ...

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  26. Victim had link with sugar industry

    CANBERRA, Thursday.-- District Commissioner Cecil Cowley, who lost his life in the New Guinea volcano ...

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  27. Traffic disrupted in north for 17 days

    TOWNSVILLE, Thursday.--To-morrow will be the 17th day on which train traffic has been unable to cross the Burdekin River bridge at Inkerman. The river fell slightly ...

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  28. GAOLED AFTER ORGY OF VALUELESS CHEQUES

    TOWNSVILLE, Thursday.--As a sequel to a month's orgy of passing valueless cheques from Sydney through southern Queensland to Hughenden, Paul Jean Du Barrie (29), clerk, was sentenced to 12 ...

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  29. QUEENSLAND AGAIN WATERLOGGED

    BRISBANE, Thursday.--Queensland, which had floods in almost every month since 1949, is again nearly all waterlogged, according to the Weather Bureau. A heavy cyclonic rain depression which had given parts of ...

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  30. PLANE DIVERTED

    BRISBANE, Thursday.-- An R.A.A.F. Douglas transport plane bound for the stricken New Guinea area will be diverted to ...

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  31. Decision reserved

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- In the Melbourne City Court to-day Mr. Jackson, S.M., reserved his decision until to-morrow on ...

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