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  2. PLANE BURNT

    A Gipsy Moth aeroplane piloted by G. L. Menzies crashed when taking off from the golf links this morning. The machine struck a bump and ...

    Article : 102 words
  3. SHEFFIELD SHIELD

    The Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and Victoria commenced yesterday in showery weather. Play was half an hour late in starting and the crowd ...

    Article : 408 words
  4. THE COALFIELDS

    Everything was quiot on the coalfields yesterday. Many miners and families went to the senaside. None of the mines has been ...

    Article : 33 words
  5. SHARK TRAGEDY

    William Oakley, 17, of Rozelle, was attacked and practically torn to pieces by a shark while bathing in the waters of the Sydney Harbour at Balmain this morning. Hundreds of people were bathing in the vicinity of ...

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  6. SEVERE STORM

    The English Channel was swept with sudden and heavy gales on Christmas Day, forcing many vessels to seek port. ...

    Article : 68 words
  7. PEACE MOVE

    The General Secretary of the Engine Drivers' Federation (Mr. Alkins) has sent a telegram to the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) stating that the ...

    Article : 100 words
  8. SULTRY WEATHER

    Sydney swellered in sticky humidity last night, and the Weather man stat[?]d it was the hottest since February 16, 1928. ...

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  9. BAD LIQUOR

    The police removed 39 persons to hospital from the streets to-day sufferiny from poisoned Christmas liquor. ...

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  10. SWELTERING HEAT

    The western part of the State ex[?]ced hot weather yesterday. The [?]st temperature recorded was 109 [?]te Cliffs. ...

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  11. GIRL DROWNED

    Although she was told that the river was dangerous to bathers who could not swim, Gladys Ware, 24, went in for a swim in the Wollondilly ...

    Article : 61 words
  12. S.A. MAKES BID

    When the Sheffield Shield match between Queensland and South Australia resumed to-day, the home team set out with a will to overtake Queensland's ...

    Article : 104 words
  13. EILSON

    The Soviet Government despatched an aeroplane to search for the missing airmen. Ben Eilson and Bireland, off the Siberian coast and has ordered ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 119 words
  14. GAS MASKS USED

    Firemen with gas masks had to be called in to stop a leak in an ammonia cylinder in Hillier's sun[?]ao shop, George Street, to-day. The shop ...

    Article : 66 words
  15. SOVIET DISCOURTESY

    Sensational stories in certain organs of the French Nationalist press to the effect that the French Ambassador. M. Herbette at Moscow. has broken ...

    Article : 225 words
  16. WHITE HOUSE

    President Hoover watched a fire on Christmas Eve which seriously damaged the executive offices. The fire, which was p[?]sumably due ...

    Article : 140 words
  17. DROWNING MAN

    Frank Usher, a member of a picnic party, was drowned while trying to swim across the Narrabeen Lakes to-day. Arthur and Thomas Watts, two ...

    Article : 65 words
  18. SAFE DISAPPEARS

    Thieves carried a heavy safe from the office of Thomas Miles, timber merchant, during the holidays. The safe contained about £450 in ...

    Article : 43 words
  19. BIG FOOTBALL

    Hunslet defeated the Australian Rugby League team by 18 points to three, when the Australians lost the eighth match of their tour. ...

    Article : 305 words
  20. TWENTY INCHES

    More than half an inch of rain fell between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. yesterday, the greater portion neing recorded during the two torrential downpours ...

    Article : 103 words
  21. CHILD DROWNED

    Ronald Lorn, aged seven, was drowned while bathing in the Hunter River to-day. The child stepped into a big hole and disappeared before ...

    Article : 41 words
  22. CELEBRATIONS DESPITE FIRE

    The Hoover family gathered at their private Christmas tree on the second floor of the White House early to-day, declining to permit Christmas ...

    Article : 75 words
  23. POLICE CHASE

    A man with a long gash in the throat was found by the police at a pie stall early yesterday morning, but when approached made off, and was caught. ...

    Article : 78 words
  24. NARROW ESCAPE IN SURF

    A man and a girl narrowly escaped drowning when they were carried 300 yards out to sea in the surf at Manly to-day. They were rescued in the ...

    Article : 42 words
  25. GOLF

    Few golfers were left in Canberra to contest the two competitions held by the Canberra Golf Club yesterday, the fields numbering less than 20 both ...

    Article : 90 words
  26. HOT RECEPTION

    While acting as Father Christmas at a children's Christmas Eve party, Goroke James Concett was seriously burned when his cotton wool heard ...

    Article : 65 words
  27. "JACK THE RIPPER"

    Saying that he was "Jack the Ripper," a man held up a taxi driver with a revolver at Thornton on Christmas Eve. ...

    Article : 84 words
  28. TOURIST INFLUX

    Approximately 500 tourists passed through Canberra yesterday and saw the places of interest, including Parliament House, where the attendants ...

    Article : 68 words
  29. LIVED ON GRASS

    R. Dickson, 56, who disappeared from his daughter's home at Belmore on Christmas Eve, was found wandering in the bush near Bankstown this ...

    Article : 60 words
  30. CRAWFORD STREET

    The re-construction of Crawford-st. Queanbeyan, was completed on Christmas Eve, and the road was opened to traffic to the entire relief of the local ...

    Article : 166 words
  31. DISQUALIFIED

    Percy Mervyn Coates, bookmaker, Ernest Conolan, bookmaker's clerk and William Brown, jockey, appeared before the Broken Hill Registration ...

    Article : 77 words
  32. ASLAND SUNK

    The Norwegian steamer Asland was sunk off Bayone. Twenty were drowned. By special arrangement Reuter's ...

    Article : 59 words
  33. MISSING SOLICITOR

    Robert McCowan, a solicitor, who was arrested on Stradbroke Island yesterday after he had failed to answer bail on a charge of stealing £700, appeared ...

    Article : 71 words
  34. CHRISTMAS COURT

    A special sitting of the court was held on Christmas Day to hear a charge against Reginald Morton, of having carried a weapon of offence. ...

    Article : 72 words
  35. HONEYMOONING

    Miss Helen Wills, the well-known international tennis player, and Mr. Moody departed southward from San pedro Harbour at noon to-day, aloard ...

    Article : 66 words
  36. TEAM AGAINST HULL

    The Australian team to meet Hull is:—Upton, Shankland, Gorman, Laws, Spencer, Weissell, Buseh, Stelnohrt, Bishop, B[?]ogan, Kingston, ...

    Article : 30 words
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