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  2. THE PEOPLE'S SAVINGS.

    CANBERRA, Aug. 24.—During the year 1933-34 Savings Bank deposits in Australia increased by £7,821,000, or 3.8 per cent. The present level of deposits has ...

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  3. BUILDING TRADE.

    Declaring that the Building Trades Apprentices' Board, of which he is chairman, had functioned effectively since it was established in 1925 Mr. W. Somerville. ...

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  4. WATERFRONT DISPUTE.

    The dispute on the waterfront at Fremantle in connexion with the rates of pay for handling cargo after 6 p.m. was unchanged yesterday. The lumpers are ...

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  5. "WAR IS IN THE AIR."

    ROME, Aug. 24.—"Nobody in Europe wants war, but war is in the air and there might be an outbreak at any moment." declared Signor Mussolini in an ...

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  6. RACIAL FRICTION.

    PHOENIX (Arizona), Aug. 24.—The British authorities today joined Japan, in taking cognisance of the campaign of the white farmers in the Salt River Valley ...

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  7. THE COTTON TARIFF.

    LONDON, Aug. 24.—The joint committee of the Lancashire cotton trades organisations has issued a statement explaining the grounds on which it has based ...

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  8. EASTERN TENSION.

    SHANGHAI, Aug. 24,—Although wild rumours are current regarding the strained relations between Soviet Russia and Manchukuo over the ownership and future ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. WHEAT AGREEMENT.

    LONDON, Aug. 23.—After adopting extensive amendments to the London Wheat Agreement, reached last year to control production and marketing in an attempt ...

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  10. SUBIACO FIRE.

    Damage estimated at about £750 was done by a fire which destroyed the office and storeroom of Monteath and Sons Pty., Ltd., pipe works in Hay-street. ...

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  11. WALL COLLAPSES.

    A small boy was killed and his elder brother badly injured when a wall of their home at a farm at Moore River. 25 miles from Gingin. collapsed on them ...

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  12. AMERICAN ACREAGE.

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—The United States farm administration announced to night a curtailment of 10 per cent in the basic wheat acreage in 1935 for farmers ...

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  13. JAPAN'S PRODUCTION.

    TOKIO, Aug. 24.—A conference of wheat officials today revealed that they had already achieved the object of the five year plan inaugurated in 1932, when ...

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  14. BRITISH AVIATION.

    LONDON, Aug. 23.—Mr. Clark Howell, chairman of the Federal Aviation Commis­sion set up by President Roosevelt, who has been visiting Continental centres to ...

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  15. SEA MONSTER.

    BRISBANE, Aug. 24.—Following reports of the sighting of a sea monster By Innisfail and Townsville fishermen on August 13, a party from Bowen has had a ...

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  16. THE UNTOUCHABLES.

    CALCUTTA, Aug. 24.—The bitter opposition of the orthdox Hindus to any measure ameliorating the lot of the Untouchable classes found expression in the ...

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  17. TEXTILE FACTORIES.

    PARIS, Aug. 23.—Roubaix wool factories are only 40 per cent active. Exports have fallen by 75 per cent and woolcombing activity has been halved since 1933. ...

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  18. BANDIT SHOT DEAD.

    NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—Homer van Meter, assistant to John Dillinger, the notorious bandit who was killed by police recently in Chicago, and reputed to be as ...

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  19. A DUTCH PROPOSAL.

    THE HAGUE, Aug. 23,—It is proposed to transport idle textile mills from Holland to Java if water in Java is suitable. Samples of it are being tested. ...

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  20. BOARD'S RECOMMENDATIONS.

    CANBERRA, Aug. 24.—The Minister for Trade and Customs (Mr. White), referring today to the Lancashire deputation which waited on the High Commissioner ...

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  21. ARREST OF RUSSIAN EMPLOYEES

    MOSCOW, Aug. 24.—The text published of a strong protest by the Soviet Ambassador at Tokio to the Japanese Foreign Minister (Mr. Hirota). following ...

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  22. CANE FIELDS DISPUTE.

    BRISBANE, Aug. 24.—The general feeling at Ingham is that the strike of canecutters is virtually over and that all the men will so back to cut cane on Monday ...

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  23. AUSTRALIAN WINES.

    NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Mr. Buring, of Sydney, who is in New York in connexion with the project to bottle Australian wines in bond in America, in an ...

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  24. SAAR PLEBISCITE.

    BERLIN, Aug 23.—The "Loyalty to the Saar" demonstration on Sunday, by which the German President and Chancellor (Herr Hitler) hopes to consolidate ...

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  25. A TRADES HALL COMMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 24.—Strong exception to a remark which was reported to have been made by the secretary of the Trades Hall Council (Mr. A. E. Monk) at ...

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  26. STORM SWEEPS CITY.

    BRISBANE, Aug. 24.—Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was done to stock in several business houses by a storm which swept over the city after 4 ...

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  27. SINKING OF FERRY.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 24.—The Court of Marine Inquiry at Newcastle found this afternoon that the collision between the ferry steamer Bluebell and the coastal ...

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  28. ATTITUDE OF EMPLOYERS.

    Referring yesterday to the marked falling off in the number of apprentices in industry, the secretary of the Employers' Federation of Western Australia (Mr. L. ...

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  29. WALL-STREET PROFITS

    LONDON, Aug. 24.—The financial editor of the "Daily Telegraph" says: "The American Treasury's demand for returns of profits made by British investors on ...

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  30. NEW ZEALAND BUDGET

    LONDON, Aug. 24.—Commenting on the New Zealand Budget, "The Times" states that Mr. Coates's good news will be received with the utmost pleasure in ...

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  31. TRANSPORT CONTROL.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 24.—Owners of commercial goods or passenger vehicles coming under the provisions of the Transport Regulation Act who have applied to ...

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  32. WELCOMING THE SUN.

    MONTREAL, Aug. 23.—The following message has been received from the base camp of the Byrd Antarctic expedition at Little America. "The sun showed itself ...

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  33. GERMANY'S DEBTS.

    LONDON, Aug. 23.—The Lancashire delegation which visited Germany a fortnight ago to discuss the question of outstanding debts in the cotton yarn industry ...

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  34. BRIGHTON MURDER.

    LONDON. Aug. 23.—Despite, the defence's submission that the case rested on purely circumstantial evidence, Mancini (the "dancing waiter") in the Brighton ...

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  35. GERMAN AMNESTY.

    MUNICH, Aug. 23.—The application of the amnesty to political prisoners granted by the President and Chancellor (Herr Hitler) in almost completed. From ...

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  36. AUSTRIA'S FUTURE.

    BERLIN, Aug. 23.—The meeting at Florence between Signor Mussolini, Prime Minister of Italy, and Dr. Schuschnigg, the Austrian Chancellor, left the ...

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  37. DIESEL-ENGINED BUSES.

    ADELAIDE, Aug. 24.—Two Gardner high speed Diesel engines which were landed by the Municipal Tramways Trust from an overseas steamer today will be ...

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  38. WAREHOUSE ROBBERY

    ADELAIDE, Aug. 24.—Detectives who have been investigating the theft of goods valued at £1,500 from the warehouse of Cornell. Ltd., Pirie-street. Adelaide, on ...

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  39. TRAIN'S RICH FREIGHT.

    AUCKLAND, Aug. 24.—Consigned to the Reserve Bank from Auckland trading banks, 5½ tons of gold was taken by the Wellington limited express today. The ...

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  40. A.M.P. COMPANY'S BY-LAWS.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 24.—A series of motions designed to alter the by-laws of the Australian Mutual Provident Society was defeated overwhelmingly at a special ...

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  41. THE AMERICA'S CUP.

    NEWPORT (Rhode Island), Aug. 23.— Yankee, of Boston, commanded by Mr. Charles Francis Adam, former United States Secretary of the Navy which is ...

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  42. SKI RACING MISHAP.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 24.—Miss Marjorie Finlay (25), of Findlay-avenue, Roseville, broke both her legs at Mt. Kosciusko when she tripped today while racing on ...

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  43. PLANES COLLIDE OVER CITY.

    NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Planes flown by two Chinese student pilots collided in the air over one of the most thickly populated residential areas of the city today. ...

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  44. AUSTRALIAN WOOL.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 24.—Mr. L. Burkard, president of the German-Australian Chamber of Commerce, said today that the chamber had been informed by official ...

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  45. AN AUSTRALIAN WRITER.

    LONDON, Aug. 23.—Admirers of the notable trilogy, "The Fortunes of Richard Mabony," by Mrs. Henry Handel Richardson, the Australian writer, will welcome ...

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  46. PROTECTING JEWS.

    GENEVA, Aug. 23.—The world Jewish conference at its final meeting today unanimously adopted a resolution to convoke a congress in August 1935, to create a ...

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  47. SHIP STRIKES WHARF.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 24.—In the River Yarra early on July 23, the German motorship Rendsburg (6,200 tons) struck the wharf of the Commonwealth Oil Refineries ...

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  48. CANBERRA HOSPITAL.

    CANBERRA, Aug. 24.—Dr. A. C. Budge, of New South Wales, has been appointed resident medical officer at the Canberra Government Hospital of which ...

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  49. NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE.

    WELLINGTON, Aug. 24.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Forbes) announces that the Government is inviting Sir Maurice Hankey. Secretary to the British Cabinet and ...

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  50. MRS. MOLLISON'S NEW POST.

    LONDON, Aug. 23.—Mrs. Amy Mollison, the famous airwoman, who has joined the staff of the Hillman Airways Company. this becoming the first. ...

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