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  2. 44-HOUR WEEK.

    The 44-hour week in the engineering industry, also the piecework provisions of Judge Beeby's award in the metal trades case, because operative yesterday, and ...

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  3. DROUGHT LOSSES.

    At the annual meeting of Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co, recently, the chairman (Mr. J.M. Nill), in alluding to the serious nature of the drought in Queensland, and ...

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  4. CHINESE TAXES.

    The Nanking Government's desperate need for funds becomes clearer daily. Its fate virtually depends on the foreigners' willingness to pay the increased taxes, ...

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  5. GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

    The leading scores in the first of the four rounds which will constitute the contest for the British open championship being played at St. Andrew's were:—Bobby ...

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  6. MOURNING IN IRELAND.

    The city was hushed when the funeral of Mr. Kevin O'Higgins, Vice-President and Minister for Justice of the Irish Free State, who was murdered on Sunday ...

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  7. SUGAR MILL TROUBLE.

    INNISFAIL (Q), Thursday.—Three Maltese, who, it is believed, were members of a party of a dozen recruited for work in the South Johnstone mill area, ...

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  8. STATE FINANCES.

    Official confirmation of the intention of the Treasurer (Mr. Hogan) to provide in his Budget for increased taxation is contained in a circular letter sent yesterday ...

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  9. NAVAL CONFERENCE

    It is announced officially that the plenary session of the Three Power Naval Conference will be held to-morrow. It is understood that Japan has ...

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  10. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION.

    Proposals for the co-ordination of State health activities are being prepared by the Minster for Health (Mr. Beckett). They will be included in a bill to be submitted ...

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  11. VALUABLE YEARLING.

    At the Newmarket yearling sales to-day, H.H. the Aga Khan, for whom his trainer R.C. Dawson, was bidding, bought a yearling colt by Papyrus from Sundart, for ...

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  12. SIR GRANVILLE RYRIE.

    When the new High Commissioner for Australia (Sir Granville Ryrie) and Lady Ryrie and family arrived at Plymouth they were welcome by Dame Mary Cook, ...

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  13. WAR PENSIONS.

    Comparative figures of expenditure on war pensions by some of the principal belligerent Poers of the late war were given in the House of Commons to-day, ...

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  14. LUNCH-TIME SHOOTING ALARM

    Following a shooting incident which is alleged to have occurred in a house at Port Melbourne on Wednesday. Donald Studd, aged 23 years, clerk, appeared before Mr. ...

    Article : 321 words
  15. AUSTRALIAN GRAPES.

    The steamer Canadian Scottish, which arrived yesterday, was visited to-day by two Agricultural department agents, an expert from the Thurston Fruit Company, ...

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  16. AIR DEFENCES.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—The president of the Sydney Aero Club (Captain G.F. Hughes) in a lunch hour address to members of the Legacy Club to-day criticised ...

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  17. WOMEN JUSTICES.

    Two women justices of the peace were appointed at a meeting of the State Exceutive Council yesterday. They are Mrs. Caroline Helena Richardson, of ...

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  18. FLOODS IN CHINA.

    More then 1,000 natives in Southern Anwhei have been drowned, and many thousands rendered destitute and homeless, as a result of the sudden rise in a Yangtse ...

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  19. GOVERNOR AS FIREMAN.

    After presentation of long service medals and bars to 23 officers and men of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade at headquarters, Eastern Hill, yesterday, His ...

    Article : 493 words
  20. NOTES IN PARLIAMENT.

    Although Mr. Bodman (Ind. Lib., Gippsland South) has been in Parliament only four days, already he has suffered disillusion, and developed a cynicism sad in ...

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  21. DIVORCE IN UNITED STATES.

    An analysis of the figures for 23 States indicates that divorce is increasing in the United States. There is one divorce to every 6.22 marriages in the area surveyed ...

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  22. SHOOTING AT BISLEY.

    In the first stage of the King's Prize, Boxall Chapman, of the Australian Flying Corps, scpred 34, 34, 31, and T. Downes 33, 31, 34, and both qualified to enter the ...

    Article : 180 words
  23. CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

    The Chamber of Deputies passed the Civil Servants' Salaries Bill by 347 votes to 200 after the Prime Minister (M. Poincare) had declared that he would resign ...

    Article : 301 words
  24. TOWN-PLANNING.

    Satisfaction with the efforts of the Town Planning Commission to evolve a sound and financially practicable plan of development for the metropolis is expressed in a letter ...

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  25. GASWORKERS' THREAT.

    The Gas Companies' Association of Australia, of which the gas companies of several States are mombers, yesterday applied to Chiet Judge Dethridge in ...

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  26. LORD COWDRAY'S ESTATE.

    Lord Cowdray, who was head of the firm of public works contractors, S. Pearson and Son Ltd., and father of Lady Denman, the wife of a former Governor-General ...

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  27. RURAL LIVING WAGE.

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Many difficulties confront the industrial commission which began its inquiry to-day preparatory to declaring a rural living wage. The ...

    Article : 103 words
  28. British Politics.

    Mr. Lloyd George has paid a cheque for £150,000 to the reorganised Liberal headquarters. This is the first half of the promised contribution from his own funds ...

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