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  2. FEDERAL ELECTION.

    CANBERRA, Aug. 9.—The 40-hour week which Labour has used on many occasions to attack the Federal Government will raise problems for the Labour ...

    Article : 331 words
  3. PERSONAL.

    Senator P. J. Lynch, President of the Senate, was admitted to the St. John of God Hospital last evening. While working on the top of a chaffcutter at his farm ...

    Article : 480 words
  4. NEWS AND NOTES.

    Except for a few showers, chiefly on the far south-west and south coasts, fine weather is forecast for today. Aboriginal Schoolchildren. ...

    Article : 788 words
  5. WOOL FOR JAPAN.

    TOKIO, Aug. 9.—It is learnt authoritatively that the Government's policy is to treat wool as a necessity under the foreign exchange control regulation, but ...

    Article : 111 words
  6. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 402 words
  7. CURRENT COMMENT.

    "Ay me! What perils do environ the man that meddles with cold iron," wrote Samuel Butler in the 17th century, and the thought might be ...

    Article : 1,128 words
  8. BANNED BROADCAST.

    BRISBANE, Aug. 9.—Referring today to the explanation by the general manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Mr. C. J. A. Moses) as to why ...

    Article : 463 words
  9. The West Australian.

    The Japanese Foreign Minister, Koki Hirota, was doubtless trying to represent the quarrel with China as a Japanese crusade against ...

    Article : 1,097 words
  10. VICTORIA'S POWER SYSTEM.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 9.—The Premier (Mr. Dunstan) announced today that the Government had decided to extend the State power system by the establishment ...

    Article : 123 words
  11. SOME LIKELY SEATS.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 9.—The Federal Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Curtin) addressing a Labour rally in the Trades Hall tonight suggested that if the Labour Party ...

    Article : 190 words
  12. FOOD AND GROCERY PRICES.

    A slight decrease in the price level of food and groceries (41 commodities) in the metropolitan area during last month was reported yesterday by the ...

    Article : 170 words
  13. PROSECUTOR'S RESIGNATION.

    The Crown Prosecutor (Mr. C. B. Gibson), who is resigning from the Crown Law Department at the end of the month, to re-enter private practice, made his last ...

    Article : 242 words
  14. AUSTRALIANS TODAY.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 9.—"Australians live in a world of their own enforcing restrictions that scarcely any other nations would tolerate and following absurd ...

    Article : 372 words
  15. MAIL TIMETABLES.

    RATES OF POSTAGE.—Letters, within the Commonwealth and to places in the British Empire, 2d. per ounce; U.S.A.. Java and all other places, first ounce, 3d.; each succeeding ounce ...

    Article : 85 words
  16. SALES TAX.

    The cost to wholesale merchants of preparing sales tax returns is so substantial that since 1932 frequent complaints have been made to the Federal ...

    Article : 558 words
  17. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

    (Every request for information must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.) ...

    Article : 501 words
  18. NEW LIGHT ON DICKENS.

    LONDON. Aug. 6.—Picturing Dickens as a prophet of Fascism and Communism, and of the "sweeping of the great parliamentary sham into the dustbin," Mr. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 108 words
  19. AIR MAIL SERVICES.

    PERTH-ADELAIDE.—Outward mails for the Eastern States close at the G.P.O., Perth, at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday, and at 5.30 a.m. on Friday, arriving at Adelaide at 12.30 p.m. on ...

    Article : 463 words
  20. HEAT IN BRITAIN.

    LONDON, Aug. 8.—The hottest week- end for four years buckled the Portland-Weymouth railway line today, holding up crowded traffic for two hours. Hundreds ...

    Article : 48 words
  21. IRON SHORTAGE.

    LONDON, Aug. 9.—The shortage of scrap iron, with consequently enhanced prices, has revealed fresh fields for the making of extra shillings by freelance ...

    Article : 133 words
  22. JAPANESE TRADE.

    Trade with Australia shows an adverse balance for Japan, a fact which has occasioned much critical comment there. Whereas Australia is the natural source ...

    Article : 422 words
  23. PLANES FROM ABROAD

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 9.—The largest shipment of aeroplanes ever to be landed in one day in Australia arrived at Melbourne today in ships from England and ...

    Article : 153 words
  24. REVISING SHAKESPEARE.

    LONDON, Aug. 9.—Mr. Bernard Shaw has written a fifth act to a Shakespearean play, but will not divulge which play it is. "You do not need to alter ...

    Article : 100 words
  25. PERTH.

    UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPE, EGYPT, ADEN, ASIA, MALTA and INDIA.—Cathay, August 16; letters, 2 p.m. (late fee, 3 p.m.); newspapers, packets and registered articles, 1 p.m.; ...

    Article : 329 words
  26. THE LAW COURTS.

    IN CHAMBERS.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. Justice Draper. NISI PRIUS.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. Justice Dwyer: In divorce: (1) Application for ...

    Article : 50 words
  27. TRADING BANKS.

    CANBERRA, Aug. 9.—Liabilities of the trading banks in Australia increased in the last financial year from £365,343,000 to £404,647,000. In the same period there ...

    Article : 82 words
  28. PRICE OF FLOUR.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 9.—For the second time within a week the price of flour was lowered by 5/ a ton today, the rate now being £12/15/ a ton compared with ...

    Article : 104 words
  29. ROYALTY IN SCOTLAND.

    LONDON, Aug. 8.—Over 2,000 people gathered at the gates of Glamis Castle today to welcome Queen Elizabeth and the Princesses from Balmoral. The ...

    Article : 143 words
  30. TODAY'S ENTERTAINMENTS.

    AMBASSADORS: "Earthworm Tractors" and "Gand Jury." Continuous from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. CAPITOL: "Beloved Enemy" and "Hitch Hike ...

    Article : 114 words
  31. TASMANIAN CABINET.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 9.—For the first time in history a meeting of the Tasmanian Government was held in Sydney today. The meeting, which was held at Usher's ...

    Article : 90 words
  32. PROSPECTING IN PAPUA.

    CANBERRA, Aug. 9.—It was officially announced today that a gold prospecting permit embracing 29,000 square miles of north-western Papua which has been ...

    Article : 91 words
  33. WESTMINSTER STATUTE.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 9.—Following a meeting of the Tasmanian Cabinet in Sydney today the Treasurer (Mr. E. Dwyer Gray) said that the Tasmanian ...

    Article : 133 words
  34. Suburban Theatres.

    BROADWAY and SAVOY (Victoria Park): "Rangle River" and "Head Over Heels." CLAREMONT and SWANBOUREN: "Once to Every Woman" and "Rangle River." ...

    Article : 132 words
  35. MESSAGE TO THE WORLD.

    ROME, Aug. 3.—In a small room high up in Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence, the Pope sits, propped up at his de[?], lit by flickering candles, writing ...

    Article : 106 words
  36. GERMAN HARVEST.

    BERLIN, Aug. 8.—The Premier of Prussia (General Goering) is making the harvest this year a national affair. Men from Nazi mechanised corps have been ...

    Article : 110 words
  37. OUR STAPLE PRODUCTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 45 words
  38. FREMANTLE.

    UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPE, ASIA, SINGAPORE, JAVA and INDIA.—Cathay, August 16, at 4.30 p.m. (late fee, 5.15 p.m.). EASTERN STATES.—Saturday, at 12.30 p.m. ...

    Article : 94 words
  39. UNEMPLOYMENT CENSUS.

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—The Senate has approved of an unemployment census being taken, to be completed by April 1 next year, and to cost 5,000,000 ...

    Article : 32 words
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