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  2. BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'S APPEAL TO ALL PARTIES.

    "I earnestly appeal to all responsible parties to weigh their words and to be reminded of the consequences of the use of rash phrases," said the Prime Minister (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) during the debate on the Foreign Office ...

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  3. WOMAN'S BROKEN NECK WAS HEALED.

    An amazing operation on a woman whose neck had been broken as the result of a motor car accident was described in the ...

    Article : 233 words
  4. NEW ZEALAND FACES TRANSPORT STRIKE.

    Motor transport throughout New Zealand is threatened with cessation as the result of a strike by the ...

    Article : 223 words
  5. MEDICAL RESEARCH

    To provide for organised research into medical problems on a national scale, a bill was introduced in the House of ...

    Article : 167 words
  6. U.S. STEEL STRIKE.

    Representatives of four independent steel companies have informed the Mediation Board that they will make no oral or written ...

    Article : 447 words
  7. ANGRY SCENE IN PARLIAMENT.

    After Labour members had clashed angrily with Mr. A. Lane (U.A.P, New South Wales), the House of Representatives on ...

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  8. 40-HOUR WEEK.

    The Acting Prime Minister (Dr. Earle Page) stated to-night that statements by Mr. J. Curtin (Leader of the Opposition) suggested that he ...

    Article : 161 words
  9. WILL RECUR.

    Three-day sickness, which first occurred in Australia in 1936, being particularly severe in Queensland while it lasted, will be a disease ...

    Article : 515 words
  10. DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

    Brisbanes Maternity Hospital in Queen Victoria-street, Fremantle, was the scene of a double tragedy late last night, when the ...

    Article : 247 words
  11. CLASH ON INDIAN FRONTIER

    Seven British soldiers were killed and 35 wounded during an advance by the Banu and Razmak Brigades against the Fakir of Ipi's ...

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  12. CONFERENCE SUGGESTED.

    The Queensland Government has agreed to a Commonwealth suggestion that the question of a shorter working week throughout Australia ...

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  13. QUESTION OF INTERESTS.

    The official statement at Madrid to-day declared that the Spanish Government was determined to maintain its sovereign rights on the seas ...

    Article : 118 words
  14. BY SECRET BALLOT.

    The election of the Speaker by secret ballot in the House of Representatives is an important reform which the Standing Orders Committee ...

    Article : 132 words
  15. £35,220,000 in PETROL TAX OVER FOUR YEARS.

    At the end of the present financial year, £35,220,000 will have been collected in petrol tax in the four-year period since 1931-32. ...

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  16. MEXICAN RAILWAYS.

    A Mexico City presidential decree has been published expropriating the National Railways in which the Government holds a majority of ...

    Article : 71 words
  17. TWO FAMOUS PICTURES.

    The original painting, "The Man with the Donkey," of which thousands of reproductions have been made, has been acquired by the South Australian ...

    Article : 106 words
  18. PETROL TAX FUNDS.

    Unexpected opposition to Commonwealth Aid Roads Agreement which is to operate from the next financial year will probably cause an ...

    Article : 149 words
  19. HUGE INCREASE.

    The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon) this morning asked the House of Commons for authority to increase the exchange ...

    Article : 259 words
  20. AID AERO CLUBS.

    Obsolete aircraft now on loan by [?] Commonwealth to aero clubs will be presented to them so they can be sold to raise funds for the purchase ...

    Article : 159 words
  21. NEW SUBMARINE CABLES.

    The successful laying of two new submarine cables across the North Sea. between Aldeburgh (Suffolk) and Domburg, on the Dutch coast, ...

    Article : 102 words
  22. JAPANESE TRADE.

    Yomiuri, who is re-opening the South Seas Development Company, has decided to quadruple the area under cotton cultivation in New ...

    Article : 52 words
  23. "THE FOUNDING OF AUSTRALIA."

    Mr. Frank Albert, of Sydney, has presented the Tate Gallery with Algernon Taimage's picture, "The Founding of Australia," which was ...

    Article : 150 words
  24. PRIME MINISTER PLEASED

    In a statement expressing gratification at the Arbitration Court's increase in the basic wage, the Australian Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. ...

    Article : 87 words
  25. AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE.

    Australia would have no defence policy if Labour were returned at the next elections. Mr. T. W. White said in the House of Representatives ...

    Article : 162 words
  26. GREATEST IN EMPIRE.

    "Speech-making is a disease among Australians, who are the kindliest people in the world." said the Governor of Queensland (Sir Leslie ...

    Article : 87 words
  27. FLEW FROM MOSCOW.

    Paul Robeyon flew specially from Moscow to appear at the Albert Hall meeting to collect funds on behalf of the Basque refugee children. He ...

    Article : 45 words
  28. Idle Spindles to Produce Yarn.

    Reports from Osaka indicate that the Cotton Spinners' Association has decided to permit a number of companies to divert idle spindles (sealed ...

    Article : 69 words
  29. COMMISSION BILL.

    The Interstate Commission Hill passed the committee stage of the Senate to-day. Two amendments by Senator E. B. Johnston (W.A.) to ...

    Article : 62 words
  30. 558 APPRECIATIONS

    Earl Baldwin was presented with a volume containing 558 "resolutions of appreciation" passed by local party organisations at to-day's meeting of ...

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  31. PRESERVE RACIAL PURITY.

    The correspondent of "The Times" at Rome states that, in order to preserve the purity of the Italian race in Abyssinia, a decree prohibits male ...

    Article : 57 words
  32. MISS EARHART HELD UP.

    Miss Amelia Earhart (Mrs. Putnam) returned to Bandoeng (Java) from Souralaya to repair the instruments of her machine. It is uncertain ...

    Article : 39 words
  33. DEATH SENTENCE.

    Donovan H. Peckett (33) was to-day sentenced to death after being found guilty by a jury of the murder of Gordon Frankcombe (29), and Henry ...

    Article : 47 words
  34. ITALIAN NAVAL DECREE.

    A decree announces, "in view of absolute and urgent necessity." a high naval command for Libya, with an independent command for Tripoli. ...

    Article : 32 words
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