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  2. TIMBER INDUSTRY.

    The council of the Timber Workers' Union met yesterday and discussed the position which has arisen concerning the proposed award for that industry. A ...

    Article : 331 words
  3. SIR HUBERT WILKINS.

    The following wireless message was received to-day from Sir Hubert Wilkins at Deception Island:— "A further study of conditions yesterday ...

    Article : 82 words
  4. ST. VINCENTS HOSPITAL.

    Many matters of interest are written of in the report from St. Vincent's Hospital for the year ended June 30, 1928. Reference is made to the problem of the ...

    Article : 317 words
  5. SHUNTING ACCIDENTS.

    "A morning newspaper recently said that the number of railway shunting accidents which have occurred in Victoria during the last four years represented an average of ...

    Article : 942 words
  6. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    The chairman of the Town-planning Commission (Alderman F. Stapley) states that the report of the commission would probably be completed and printed in April or ...

    Article : 1,070 words
  7. UEMPLOYMENT.

    The unemployment officer at the Trades Hall (Mr. T. J. Smith) had an interview with the Premier (Sir William McPherson) yesterday concerning the making ...

    Article : 297 words
  8. IMPROVING MELBOURNE.

    Hope that the Government would pay more attention to the recommendations of the Town-planning Commission in the future than it had in the past was ...

    Article : 536 words
  9. MR. JUSTICE HIGGINS.

    Many expressions of profound regret and trib[?]tes to the memory of a great lawyer and an upright and fearless judge came from friends and colleagues of the ...

    Article : 1,582 words
  10. Artist Commits Suicide.

    Mr. E[?]il Fuchs, painter and sculptor, committed suicide to-day by shooting himself. Mr. Fuchs was in ill-health. [?]Mr. Fuchs was born in Vienna in 1866, ...

    Article : 93 words
  11. TRADES HALL SYMPATHY.

    The Australian flag was flown at halfmast at the Trades Hall yesterday in honour of the late Mr. Justice Higgins. It was stated that rarely, if ever, had the flag ...

    Article : 752 words
  12. Soviet. General Murdered.

    General Slaschev, who was one of the leaders of Wrangel's army, and who for several years has been a lecturer at the Soviet Military College, was murdered in ...

    Article : 75 words
  13. STRANGE DROWNING CASE.

    Jessie Dunbar, aged 33 years, a Scottish immigrant, was drowned in the Yarra, near the Wolmer street footbridge, Collingwood, on January 7, in strange circumstances. A bundle of woman's ...

    Article : 800 words
  14. QUEENSLAND FLOODS.

    BRISBANE, Monday. — Heavy rain fell in Cairs on Saturday night and again on Sunday, but it did not fall far enough inland to have affected seriously the rivers ...

    Article : 304 words
  15. SPORTING CABLES.

    Macdonald Smith (New York) won the 10,000 dollars (£2,000) golf tournament for the second successive year with a score of 28[?]. Darkness prevented several leaders from finishing, ...

    Article : 56 words
  16. DISPUTE AT SAWMILL.

    WARBURTON, Monday. — When work was about to be begun at the Enterprise sawmills, owned by Cuming, Smith, and Co. Ltd., this morning trouble arose ...

    Article : 327 words
  17. WATER STORAGES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 words
  18. ENTERTAINMENTS.

    Another of the programmes of revue and vaudeville, which are so popular with audiences at the Bijou Theatre, was presented by Mr. Nat Phillips and his Whirligig ...

    Article : 601 words
  19. WORK AND WAGES.

    The secretary of the Theatrical and Amusement Employees' Associat[?]on (Mr. A. E. Huckerby) had a conference yesterday with the committee of the Melbourne ...

    Article : 97 words
  20. CARRIAGES DERAILED.

    Train services on the Sandringham line were disorganised late last- night by a derailment in the Sandringham yards. The train which left Flinders street at 11 ...

    Article : 140 words
  21. TO-DAY'S ENTERTAINMENTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 words
  22. ROAD WORKERS SAVE PROPERTY

    WAGGA (N. S. W.), Monday. — The prompt action of a number of roadworkers save a valuable property from destruction when a bush fire began at ...

    Article : 64 words
  23. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES.

    MEREDITH, Monday.—Mr. John Davies, an old resident of Mered[?]th, was found dead in his paddock to-day, a short distance from his house. His brother, William Davies, died in Melbourne about ...

    Article : 179 words
  24. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 words
  25. MR. ANGUS AT STUDLEY PARK.

    At the invitation of the Studley Park Progress Association, the Minister for Lands (Mr. Angus), accompanied by the secretary to the Cabinet (Mr. Kent Hughes, M. L. A.), inspected th[?] park ...

    Article : 432 words
  26. INDEX TO CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 words
  27. INFERIOR BANANAS.

    BRISBANE, Monday. — The Premier (Mr. McCormack) while in Melbourne investigated complaints thnt had been made of the inferior quality of bananas sent to ...

    Article : 210 words
  28. SWIMMER'S AIR JOURNEY.

    SYDNEY, Monday.—Arne Borg, accompanied by his wife, left Sydney by aeroplane to-day for Wellington, where he is taking part in swimming carnival ...

    Article : 91 words
  29. Display Advertising

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    Advertising : 21 words
  30. BELLARINE PENINSULA.

    Following the recent reconstruction of the road from Geelong to Queenseliff, by the Country Roads Board, residents of the Bellarine Peninsula considered that the peninsula would greatly benefit ...

    Article : 390 words
  31. FAMINE IN KANSU.

    [?]Kansu, a province between China proper, Mongolia, and Tibet, which previously supported 10,000,000 persons, is threatened with extin[?]tion by drought, incessant wars, and ...

    Article : 143 words
  32. SALEYARDS REMOVAL.

    Early action is proposed by the State Ministry to decide whether it is desirable that the Newmarket saleyards should be removed, and, if so, where they should be ...

    Article : 192 words
  33. CARLTON "REFORM PARTY."

    At a meeting of the "[?]form party" of the Curlton Football Club, held in the Brunswick Town Hall last night, in preparation for the club elections on February 7, the present committee ...

    Article : 293 words
  34. PULLED GUN THROUGH FENCE.

    STAWELL, Monday. — The Stawell police were notified by Mr. C. Peter of Mount Dryden, yesterday that a shooting fatality had occurred on his property. ...

    Article : 116 words
  35. GUN FIRED FROM CITY ROOF.

    "That was an extremely dangerous thing do do. You are not in Scotland now, and even if you were they would not allow you to do that," said Mr. C. J. Rogers, ...

    Article : 129 words
  36. MAN DEAD IN HOUSE.

    The body of a middle-aged man, whose name is believed to be Moore, was found in a house in Water[?]oo street, Garlton, late yesterday afternoon by the Carlton police. There were no marks of ...

    Article : 103 words
  37. SHOPLIFTING CHARGE.

    Two women, whose movements in the nap[?]ry department of the Myer Emporium in Bourke street [?]ad aroused the suspicion of a floor attendant, were detained at the shop yesterday ...

    Article : 113 words
  38. TWO MOTOR-CARS COLLIDE.

    KERANG, Monday. — Two motor-cars, driven respectively by Mr. J. Heffer and Mr. Hall, jun., collided on the Bendigo road, about a mile and a half from Kerang, ...

    Article : 74 words
  39. ARTILLERY IN CAMP.

    QUEENSCLIFF, Monday.—The 1929 series of Citizen Force compulsory training camps began yesterday, when the 2nd Artillery Survey Company, under Major C. S. Barber, and the 5th ...

    Article : 200 words
  40. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 195 words
  41. MOTOR-CAR BURNT.

    COLAC, Monday.—A motor-car was destroyed by fire on the Prince's Highway, in the Stony Rises, near Pir[?]on Yallock. The burning car set fire to the glass on the roadside, but a ...

    Article : 15 words
  42. SINGLETON HOMES.

    The Melbourne City Mission is making a special appeal for funds for rebuilding the Singleton Homes for Women at Collingwood. The mission is erecting a ...

    Article : 92 words
  43. BROADCASTING OF "TALKIES."

    SYDNEY, Monday. — The broadcasting of music from the new "talking pictures" was carried out successfully to-night as an experiment by station 2 FC. ...

    Article : 32 words
  44. CANOEING DOWN THE MURRAY.

    ECH[?]CA. Monday. — Messrs. J. M. Thompson and F. T. Robertson, who are padding down the River Murray from To[?]wal to Murray Bridge in two canoes, ...

    Article : 39 words
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