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  2. SWEEPING REFORM URGED IN

    Sweeping changes in the government of the Northern Territory are recommended in the report of the Payne Committee, laying down a plan of development for the next 25 years, tabled in the Federal ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 853 words
  3. SURRENDER OR BE BATTERED

    WITH Nanking encircled by a Japanese ring of steel, and the flight of all the Government leaders, the fate of the one-time capital is to-day hanging in the balance. The handful of foreigners who remain are convinced ...

    Article : 1,115 words
  4. MINERS' CUT RESTORED

    DELIVERING judgment to-day on the coal miners' application for a new award, the Industrial Court granted ...

    Article : 573 words
  5. PLANE'S DIVE TO RIVER

    Norman William Roberts (29), a pilot in training, whose Moth aeroplane got into a spin above the Brisbane River yesterday ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 531 words
  6. CYCLONE'S TRAIL OF WRECKAGE

    A LARGE panel-beating works in the centre of Lismore was wrecked, and the public hall at Ruthven blown ...

    Article : 617 words
  7. JOCKEY BITTEN BY HORSE

    While the lightweight jockey, T. Topping was holding the bridle of Contadino during grooming yesterday the animal made a dash at him, and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 216 words
  8. LABOUR ATTACKS DEFENCE LOAN

    Because it preferred to go to the country with a popularity Budget rather than call on the public to provide more money for their own ...

    Article : 307 words
  9. Dr. Thomson To Draft Report On Blacks' Welfare

    Following yesterday's conference on aboriginal affairs, the Minister for the Interior (Mr. McEwen) has asked Dr. Donald Thompson, the anthropologist ...

    Article : 66 words
  10. DISMAL VIEW OF FUTURE

    An extremely pessimistic and foreboding note was struck at a conference of business and industrial leaders. Mr. Lewis Douglas said American ...

    Article : 167 words
  11. RISING COSTS OF SHIPPING

    Addressing the annual meeting of the P. and O. Company, the chairman (Lord Craigmyle) returned to the subject of uneconomic State-fed ...

    Article : 269 words
  12. FOURTH CHILD £7/10/

    After the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Curtin) had complained that its provisions were not sufficiently liberal, a Bill to increase the rate of ...

    Article : 178 words
  13. £100,000 FEDERAL WORKS VOTE

    A Bill providing £100,000 to be distributed among the States, approximately on a population basis, for Christmas works, was passed by the ...

    Article : 171 words
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    Wreckage of the aeroplane which crashed into the Brisbane River near the Mandalay picnic ground yesterday afternoon. The pilot swam ashore uninjured. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 62 words
  15. 'PLANE TRAGEDY IN SUDAN

    It is feared that the Assistant Bishop of Egypt and the Sudan, the Right Rev. H. G. Bullen (the "flying Bishop"), and his wife, perished while ...

    Article : 76 words
  16. AIDING DESTITUTE CHINESE

    "The world is not so much concerned to-day with a hands-off-China movement," as a hands-off-humanity movement." said Mr. H M. Arrowsmith ...

    Article : 227 words
  17. STUDENT PILOT'S FATAL CRASH

    An aeroplane piloted by Captain F. A. Avelino, of the Mexican Army, who is a student at the United States Flying School, struck a house at Austin ...

    Article : 112 words
  18. DISORDER IN N.S.W. PARLIAMENT

    In a disorderly scene in the Legislative Assembly to-night, the removal or four Labour members, representing constituencies in the Newcastle district. ...

    Article : 110 words
  19. U.S.A. AMBASSADOR TO BERLIN

    The United States Ambassador to Berlin, Dr. W. E. Dodd has resigned his position as from January 1. He will be succeeded by Mr. Hugh Wilson, who ...

    Article : 41 words
  20. Lunch Wrapper Was Way to Fortune

    A scrap of newspaper may be the means of William Alfred Roland Seddon, a Coventry man, inheriting a fortune Seddon, who works in a motor ...

    Article : 94 words
  21. Claim For £100,400 Damages

    Mrs. Martin Johnson, the widow of the explorer who was killed in an aeroplane accident last January, is suing the Western Air Express, claiming ...

    Article : 78 words
  22. Dr. Alekhine Regains Chess Championship

    Dr. A. Alekhine has regained the grids chess championship, having defeated Dr. M. Euwe in their contest at the Hague. ...

    Article : 43 words
  23. PRICE OF GOLD

    The price of gold to-day was £6/12/11 an ounce fine. The dollar was quoted at 49.9¾ to the pound sterling, and the franc at 147 3-32. The previous ...

    Article : 47 words
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