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  2. UNIFORMITY IN APPLE AND PEAR GRADES

    Action to have uniform grades adopted by all states for apples and pears sold for home consumption was taken by a conference of interstate representatives and departmental experts which ended here to-day. The ...

    Article : 320 words
  3. C.P. and Joint Ministries

    Uncompromising opponents of composite Ministries suffered a definite reverse at the conference of the Victorian Country party ...

    Article : 70 words
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    NEW THEATRE: Mr. A. H. Masters (architect) and the foreman discuss plans as workmen lay the foundations of the new picture ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 26 words
  5. ANOTHER FEDERAL LOAN TO BE DISCUSSED

    Commonwealth and State Ministers will to-morrow discuss the raising of another public loan, the control of civil aviation and the unemployment of youths. Because many Ministers are abroad for the Coronation, the Loan ...

    Article : 766 words
  6. GIRL DANCES IN STAGE FIRE

    Although stage effects were blazing and the pianist had left his instrument to help in the fire fighting, 'Miss Ina Hewson, young tap dancer, finished ...

    Article : 342 words
  7. FORBIDDEN CITY OF LHASA

    The newsreel camera-even if only an amateur one-has arrived in Lhasa, the "Forbidden City" of Tibet, which for centuries prior to 1904 was never ...

    Article : 949 words
  8. Wreck May Have to be Blown Up

    A charge of dynamite may be used to end the career of the former Bass Strait freighter, Kakariki, which has been lying ...

    Article : 137 words
  9. POLICE CHIEF ANGERED

    Proceedings before the Royal Commission enquiring into police and starting price betting prosecutions were marked to-day by angry ...

    Article : 242 words
  10. MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE

    Further evidence was heard in the Criminal Court to-day In the case In which John Trayton Medhurst, of Tunnack, is charged with manslaughter ...

    Article : 410 words
  11. PRISONER DIES

    Mr. James Greig, governor of the Pentridge gaol, at an inquest to-day said he believed a prisoner had inflicted injuries on himself so that he would ...

    Article : 138 words
  12. Recommended for Mercy

    After retirement of two hours a Jury in the Criminal Court this afternoon returned a verdict of murder with a strong ...

    Article : 113 words
  13. ATLANTIC AIR RACE

    Detailed regulations of the international Transatlantic Air Race have Just been issued by the Aero Club de France. ...

    Article : 327 words
  14. THREE NEW MEN

    The Minister for External Affairs (Sir Geo. Pearce) announced to-day three new appointments to the staff of the External Affairs Department. The ...

    Article : 190 words
  15. TYPES OF TOURIST IN LONDON

    Of all the tourists who go to London, Americans are the most interested in royalty, Canadians are the most admired, and, strange as it may ...

    Article : 406 words
  16. WOMEN'S RIGHTS

    That it be a recommendation to the Government that the Marriage Act be amended to provide for an age at which minors may marry, and that the ...

    Article : 422 words
  17. WOMAN HEADS CHURCH

    The first woman head of a Congregation Church Union in the world is Miss Emilie Solomon, inducted as chairman of the Congregational Union ...

    Article : 224 words
  18. CORRESPONDENCE

    Sir,—Surely the Minister for Education cannot seriously view with favour the representations made to him recently by a deputation from the Trades ...

    Article : 266 words
  19. MIRAGES AT SEA

    Tales of strange sights at sea-of a horned sun, ships upside down, beaches floating above the cliffs—were traced by Government scientists at ...

    Article : 90 words
  20. STRUGGLE FOR PACIFIC

    "No doubt Japan has made up her mind to use the difficult situation of the European states to secure hegemony in North China, and perhaps in ...

    Article : 272 words
  21. HUGE PAY-OUTS OF DIVIDENDS

    During January the gold mines of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) distributed in dividends to shareholders £3,750,000 which together with the ...

    Article : 458 words
  22. BLACK CATS TAKE BACK SEATS

    A new fashion in mascots, lucky birthstones, has been introduced in England by an ex-sheep farmer from New Zealand as a result of his studies ...

    Article : 222 words
  23. NARROW ESCAPE

    When Miss Mary Donovan, a thirty-year-old welfare worker of Buffalo (U.S.A.), noticed smoke coming from under the bonnet of ...

    Article : 105 words
  24. NOT WANTED

    Every night Joza Zatz, of the village of Bobovatz, Yugoslavia, sang noisy serenades under the window of llija Machak, a neighbour. This disturbed ...

    Article : 96 words
  25. STRANGE GATHERING

    The dock strike veterans' dinner in London recently in honour of Ben Tillett, leader of the great dock strike in 1889, was one of the most ...

    Article : 185 words
  26. CRIMELESS TOWN

    The town of Magiavit in southern Roumania is the only city in that country where no crime or legal of fence has been committed during the ...

    Article : 160 words
  27. METAL TRADES

    Contrary to expectations. no settlement of the metal trades dispute was reached to-day. In consequence, a majority of the foundries will remain ...

    Article : 122 words
  28. CHEAPER BEER

    Brewing companies which are being undercut by a Melbourne brand of beer have not yet made any move to lower prices. It is claimed by the ...

    Article : 115 words
  29. COFFIN FOR A DOG

    Mark Townsend, eighty-two years old, of Canandaigua, New York, made certain that his dog, Wolf, would find comfort in death. An elaborate coflin, ...

    Article : 102 words
  30. Advertising

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    Advertising : 35 words
  31. HISTORY ON TABLE-CLOTH

    A historic tablecloth. once owned by the wife of an English clergyman and now in the possession of Miss Agnes Manzies. of Vancouver. has ...

    Article : 82 words
  32. DIBBS CLEARED TO LATROBE

    The permit committee of the Victorian Football League to-night granted the clearance of Charlie Dibbs, formerly conch at Geelong, to Latrobe. ...

    Article : 33 words
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