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  2. MELBOURNE'S FUTURE WATER SUPPLY

    One unexpected difficulty in the way of giving Melbourne an adequate and pure water supply for the next 40 or 50 years has been overcome in plans which the Board of Works chief engineer of water supply (Mr. Ritchie) outlined yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 683 words
  3. DUTY ON TEA

    The question of Imperial preference was raised in the House of Commons to-day, when Sir Walter Smiles (Conservative) moved the reduction of the new ...

    Article : 278 words
  4. UNITED AUSTRALIA PARTY

    — Holyman's Airways Ltd.'s new Douglas airliner seemed to tower over the crowd that assembled at Essendon yesterday, when it was taken out for test flights. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 587 words
  5. Advertising

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    Advertising : 489 words
  6. OBSERVANCE OF ANZAC DAY

    The State Ministry will discuss shortly the question of the future observance of Anzac Day. Ministers have been impressed by the weight of opinion favouring ...

    Article : 653 words
  7. LOWER INFANT DEATH-RATE

    The latest figures showing the progress of maternity and child welfare work were announced by the Minister for Health (Sir Kingsley Wood) in a speech at the ...

    Article : 168 words
  8. LEAKAGE OF BRITISH BUDGET SECRETS

    In the House of Commons to-day the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) said that he had interviewed the chairman of Lloyd's (Mr. S. J. ...

    Article : 226 words
  9. DISAPPEARED SIX YEARS AGO

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday. — The small courthouse at Port Lincoln was crowded to-day when Eric Ronald Ivor Bowman Tapley, aged 27 years, fisherman, Dutton ...

    Article : 348 words
  10. ZONING SUPPORTED

    Protests against the canvassing of primary schools by the Melbourne Technical College for students to take courses in the city, and opinions that the time was ...

    Article : 653 words
  11. RUSSIA SEEKING POPULATION

    Aiming to achieve a population of 300,000,000 by 1970 the Soviet is taking immediate steps to increase the birth rate, states the Moscow correspondent of the ...

    Article : 150 words
  12. REMOVING CAUSES OF WAR

    Transformation of the Defence Department in Australia from an organisation which made elaborate preparations for war to one which would remove the causes ...

    Article : 201 words
  13. FERRIER WILL QUALIFY

    Jim Ferrier, the young Australian golfer, is certain to be high on the list of those qualified to continue in the field for the Scottish amateur championship at ...

    Article : 251 words
  14. OBITUARY

    Owner of a collection of menu cards that revive memories of the splendour of Royal banquets in the last 100 years, Mr. George Gustav Peter Hildebrandt, ...

    Article : 577 words
  15. IMPORTS BY JAPAN

    Newspaper reports from Tokio, Yokohama, and Kobe state that the members of the Rayon Textile Export Association have petitioned the Department of ...

    Article : 69 words
  16. LOANS FOR YOUNG MARRIED COUPLES

    State assistance for young married couples was advocated by Mr. Holt, M.H.R., on Monday, in an address to members of the Camberwell branch of the ...

    Article : 168 words
  17. BOY PIANIST WILL GO TO LONDON

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Philip Hargrave, the young Adelaide pianist, will leave for London on August 13, accompanied by his teacher (Miss Garnaut). Whether he will ...

    Article : 69 words
  18. ESCAPING PRISONER SHOT DEAD

    With his body riddled with bullets and his neck broken by a fall of 60ft. down a cliff, Joe Bowers, aged 40 years, a convicted post-office thief, was found, dead ...

    Article : 94 words
  19. SODEMAN'S REQUEST FOR MORE TIME

    Consideration of the request for a further postponement of the execution of Arnold Sodeman will be given at a meeting of the State Cabinet later this week. ...

    Article : 121 words
  20. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE AT EARLIER DATE

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Commonwealth Government, through the Minister for Commerce (Dr. Page), has suggested to the Imperial authorities that it ...

    Article : 85 words
  21. TO-DAY'S ENTERTAINMENTS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 233 words
  22. YOUTHFUL FIANCE

    Boston society was in a flutter of excitement to-day over the announcement of the engagement between Mrs. Fredeiick Snow, aged 67 years, wealthy society ...

    Article : 108 words
  23. Justices of the Peace

    Justices of the peace whose appointments were confirmed yesterday by the State Executive Council are as follow:—Central bailiwick, G.A. Rees, Little Collins street. ...

    Article : 61 words
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    Advertising : 34 words
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