To relieve distress caused by the floods in the Kensington and Flemington districts. the City Council decided yesterday to provide £500. The deputy town clerk ...
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Article : 304 wordsWELLINGTON. Thursday.—The following message has been received by wirleess from the Byrd Antarctic expedition:— ...
Article : 276 wordsThe French Cabinet has approved of an aide memoire which is being despatched to the French Ambassador at Berlin (M. Poncet), informing the German ...
Article : 91 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. F. W. Marks has been appointed an investigator by the State Ministry to inquire into the moving picture industry in New South Wales and ...
Article : 315 wordsTasmanian telephone subscribers will be linked with the other States of Australia, and, through the wireless telephone with the world, when the new cable, which it is ...
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Article : 322 wordsTHOONA. Thursday.—Irene Cleary, aged 3 years, daughter of Mr. Frank Cleary. of Tungamah, and granddaughter of Mr. Cleary. M.L A. for Benalla. was ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Morning Post" says that while the French Cabinet has decided that Herr Hitler's, proposals are not acceptable it is under ...
Article : 124 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—Kevin Frederik Golding, of Prospect, floated, holding a beach ball, 100 yards from the shore at the Camp Reserve at Victor Harbour ...
Article : 114 wordsThe "Korrespondenz," which is regarded as the mouthpiece of the German Foreign Office, is again attacking the League of Nations declares that those who ...
Article : 112 wordsA wireless S O S. message has now revealed that the Russian ice-breaker Cheluskin, which went to Wrangel Island to pick up a party of scientists including ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Democratic Congressional leader (Mr. Rainey) proposed to-night that the Government should control the meatpacking industry and fix prices of meat ...
Article : 80 wordsCriticism of the operations of the principal oil companies in Australia was referred to by the assistant general manager of the Shell Co. of Australia Ltd. (Mr. ...
Article : 261 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—Alexander Wiffen, aged 42 years, labourer, a married man with seven children, and Roy King, aged 21 years, labourer, single, both of ...
Article : 83 wordsIn the Kensington Town Hall on Wednesday evening a large number of residents of the flood-affected area at Macaulay and Kensington attended a meeting ...
Article : 444 wordsFollowing the State session 60 bills, which were passed within the last fortnight, await the Royal assent. Most, if not all, will be dealt with by the State ...
Article : 419 wordsThe chairman of the Disarmament Conference (Mr. Arthur Henderson), in an article in "The Nineteenth Century and After." discussed the possibility of a ...
Article : 208 wordsThe long expected default on Cuba's enormous external debt appeared to be imminent to-day. The Secretary to the Treasury announced unofficially that the ...
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Article : 279 wordsThe famous fourth century Greek manuscript of the Bible known as Codex Sinaiticus, which has been purchased for £100,000 from the Soviet Government, ...
Article : 265 wordsThe rush of legislation in the closing hours of the Parliamentary session led to the omission of an amendment to the Transport Regulation Bill. As it was ...
Article : 210 wordsKenneth Peacock, a youth, Landcox street, Brighton, experienced a fortunate escape when he was thrown through the hood of his motor-car when it collided ...
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Article : 115 wordsMr. Holland, M.L. A for Flemington, and the three representatives in the City Council of the flooded area, which is in the Hopetoun Ward, went to the Premier's ...
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Article : 158 wordsCharpentier, the fireman of the Strasbourg express, which dashed into the Nancy train at Lagny. near Paris, causing an unparalleled railway disaster, has ...
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Article : 266 wordsThe first shot in what is certain to develop into a general campaign against the White Paper, was fired at the Liberal Federation's annual conference at Madras, ...
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Article : 89 wordsDiscussing the flooding yesterday, the secretary of the Board of Works (Mr. F. L. King) said that he had inspected the area, and was more than ever ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 29 Dec 1933, Page 7
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