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  2. BUILDING TRADES UPHEAVAL.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The employees in the building industry have rejected a proposal that they should resume work on the basis of a 44-hour working week. ...

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  3. LUCK OF THE REGATTA

    What Gordon would probably have described as "some sprite malignant and elfish" had a royal day at the expense of the Great Public Schools' regatta on Saturday afternoon. ...

    Article : 747 words
  4. THE NEW STATE.

    GLEN INNES, Saturday.--Although the present new State movement originated in Tamworth, and, so to speak, has its headquarters there, it is in fact merely a continuance of ...

    Article : 826 words
  5. EDUCATING LABOR.

    Once a year the Workers' Educational Association, which aims at educating the worker along the lines he chooses and without regard to sect or dogma, tells the public about ...

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  6. DOWN IN BALI.

    The Sopwith machine with which Captain Matthews was flying to Australia crashed during his landing on Bali, and Captain Matthews himself ...

    Article : 347 words
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  9. WHEN PARLIAMENT MEETS.

    On behalf of the Progressive Party statements with more or less autnenticity have been published to the effect that no factious opposition will be offered to the new ...

    Article : 934 words
  10. IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.

    The committee of the Australian section of the Empire Press Union has completed the arrangements for the Australian delegation to the Imperial Press Conference, to be held ...

    Article : 168 words
  11. LESSER TURKEY.

    "Le Matin" foreshadows that the Turkish Treaty will cause Turkey to lose half its inhabitants and that only 9,000,000 Mohammedans and 2,000,000 Christians would remain under ...

    Article : 122 words
  12. BOATING FATALITY.

    During the strong blow which set in on Saturday afternoon, a boat was overturned in Botany Bay and its two occupants were drowned. ...

    Article : 158 words
  13. PROFITS IN WOOL.

    Speaking in the House of Commons on the Ministry of Munitions Estimates, Mr. J. F. Hope, Financial Secretary, stated that at the end of the financial year the Ministry would ...

    Article : 253 words
  14. WAR SERVICE HOMES.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Minister for Repatriation stated on Saturday that the Cabinet had approved of his recommendation that the amount to be advanced to an eligible ...

    Article : 149 words
  15. CLOTHING STILL CLIMBING.

    ALBURY, Saturday.--Some of the general storekeepers in the country townships in Southern Riverina state that they are finding it so increasingly difficult to buy stock, except ...

    Article : 344 words
  16. DRASTIC REPORT.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The report by the Land Inquiry Board, which investigated the purchase of land by returned soldiers on the Devon Meadows Estate, is that, through a ...

    Article : 149 words
  17. VICE-REGAL.

    His Excellency the Governor-General, represented by Captain H. H. Kilby, A.D.C., on Saturday morning paid a return call on Captain Round-Turner, R.N., captain-in-charge, Garden ...

    Article : 194 words
  18. CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS.

    In reference to Senator Pearce's statement in the Commonwealth Senate, that Mr. Hughes had been unable to get from the British authorities satisfactory information regarding ...

    Article : 110 words
  19. ANIMALS' WEEK.

    This week, which has been set apart as one of goodwill to animals, was ushered in yesterday by Humane Sunday, when sermons were preached in most of the churches on the right ...

    Article : 339 words
  20. FLYING FOX PEST.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.--Mr. J. C. Brunnich chemist to the Department of Agriculture, has conducted a successful experiment at Eudio, on the north coast line, of the use of ...

    Article : 99 words
  21. PEACE RESOLUTION.

    The "New York Times' " Washington correspondent states that there is some indecision among Republican senators regarding the form of the pence resolution to be reported from ...

    Article : 76 words
  22. PERSONAL.

    Archdeacon Rivers, Doan-elect of Hobart, arrived in Sydney yesterday from Toow[?]omba and last night attended service at St. Andrew's Cathedral, where he officiated 25 years ago. ...

    Article : 180 words
  23. DAY BY DAY.

    It is very, hard to make out what the real situation is in Ireland or to understand the policy of the British Government. There is even room for doubt whether the ...

    Article : 935 words
  24. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Lietenant-General Monash has withdrawn his candidature for the presidency of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League. In these circumstances ...

    Article : 101 words
  25. NOTE ISSUE.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The bill authorising the proposed transfer of the control of the note issue to the Commonwealth Bank will shortly be submitted to the Federal Parliament. ...

    Article : 114 words
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  27. CHINESE RAILROADS.

    According to the "New York Times' " Washington correspondent, official confirmation has reached the State Department from Harbin that Japanese troops have taken possession of ...

    Article : 80 words
  28. LAUNCH BROKEN DOWN.

    A motor launch containing three men broke down off Long Reef yesterday afternoon. A strong South-west wind with rough sea was raging at the time. The plight of the occupants ...

    Article : 95 words
  29. WOODEN SHIPS.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A Hongkong syndicate has made inquiry of the Commonwealth Government regarding the five wooden vessels which were built in America and sold to the ...

    Article : 80 words
  30. WHEAT BOARD FINANCES.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A reduction of £263,000 in the bank overdraft of the Australian Wheat Board is disclosed in the figures for the week ended April 12, the total now ...

    Article : 108 words
  31. STEAMER IN QUARANTINE.

    A suspicious case of sickness was discovered on the steamer Corrimal on arrival at Newcastle from Noumea on Saturday night. The vessel was ordered on to Sydney, and on arrival ...

    Article : 76 words
  32. TRADE PROPAGANDA.

    Sir William Clark, Comptroller-General of Overseas Trade, describing the work of the department at a meeting in London last night, said that it aimed at creating a machine of ...

    Article : 68 words
  33. PERTH TRAMWAY MEN.

    PERTH, Saturday.--The Commissioner for Railways has informed the Tramways Union that the wages of employees will be raised to the same rate as the new scale of the ...

    Article : 50 words
  34. QUEENSLAND BY-ELECTION.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.--The final figures for the Herbert by-election in connection with the Legislative Assembly are: Pease (Labor), 2134; H. R. Gelston (Nationalist), 2087. Majority ...

    Article : 36 words
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