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  2. CITY COUNCIL.

    The possible inadequacy of external fire escapes in city buildings in the event of fires was emphasised by aldermen of both parties at a meeting of the works committee of the City ...

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  3. DAVIS CUP.

    At the monthly-meeting of the council of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia to-night, it was decided to increase the number of Davis Cup selectors from four to five. This ...

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  4. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Following his retirement after 35 years' continuous service in the Prisons Department. Mr. M. Brewer, chief warder at Bathurst Gaol, was entertained by departmental employees. ...

    Article : 89 words
  5. HOUSING.

    Martin Gallagher, health inspector of the Paddington Municipal Council, gave evidence at the Industrial Commission's living wage inquiry yesterday about housing conditions in ...

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  6. MURDER CHARGE

    The healing of the charge against Eric Mareo, 41, musician, of murdering his wife, Thelma Clarice Mareo, 29, actress, who came from Brisbane, on Apill 15, was begun at the ...

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  7. EUROPEAN BLOC.

    The visit of the Hungarian Premier (General Goemboes) to Berlin, resulting in a two-hours' audience with Herr Hitler, and conferences with the Minister for[?] Defence (General von ...

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  8. DEATH OF MR. R. M. PITT.

    Mr. Robert Matcham Pitt, managing director of Pitt, Son, and Badgery, Ltd., and doyen of the wool trade of New South Wales, died last evening, in his 86th year. Mr. Pitt ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 538 words
  9. ESCAPE FROM LOCK-UP

    Harold Robert McDonald, alias WaiteR Alexander Anderson, 28, escaped from the Mildura lock-up to-night. He had been arrested in the scrub four miles from Mildura on ...

    Article : 213 words
  10. DOG BURNT TO DEATH.

    Awakened suddenly to discover his hut ablaze Patrick O'Lcary, who lives on the town common, escaped without injury. His dog, which was tied to the post of his bunk, was ...

    Article : 67 words
  11. FIRE IN CAFE.

    A fire otcured this afternoon at the Cafe de Luxe, Marshill-street, Goondiwindi, conducted by Mr. L. Pullos. The brigade was summoned, and with the assistance of ...

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  12. "BACK TO GUNNEDAH."

    "Back to Gunnedah" Week opened to-day with a procession and gymkhana. The street of the town weie gaily decorated with fiags and bunting. Many former resident arrived ...

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  13. LANG PARTY.

    The Barton electorate council of the Lans Labour party has issued a circular to leagues and branches criticising the administration of the party, and asking bodies to support the ...

    Article : 206 words
  14. MEMORIAL GATES.

    Elected by public subscription the memorial sates at the entrance to the park adjoining Kyogle bowling green to the memory of the late Robert Ernest Alcorn were unvelled by ...

    Article : 74 words
  15. AGROUND ON REEF.

    The Holland-Amerika liner Rotterdam, carrying 600 passengers, on a West Indies cruise, went aground on a reef 60 miles south-east of Kingston, Jamaica. ...

    Article : 69 words
  16. SCHOOL AGE.

    At a meeting of the North Coast council of the Parents and Citizens' Assciation, speakers advocated raising the age at which children should leave school. The ...

    Article : 32 words
  17. CHIEF JUSTICE.

    So far the Federal Cabinet has not discussed the question of the appointment of a successor to Sir Frank Gavan Dufly as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, ...

    Article : 87 words
  18. CHARGE OF BIGAMY.

    At the Goulburn Police Court, Edward Charles Harding was committed for trial at the next Goulburn Quarter Sessions on a charge of blgamy. He was allowed £50 ball. ...

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  19. CAPTURED MISSIONARY.

    A despatch received by the British Embassy states that the Rev. A. Hayman, the missionary who has been in the hands of Red bandits for a year, was seen on September 15 alive, ...

    Article : 105 words
  20. PUBLIC HALL SOUGHT.

    a public meeting held under the auspices of the Springwood and Distict Development League, decided to request the Blue Mountains Shire Council to call for tenders for the ...

    Article : 62 words
  21. GUN BURSTS.

    Willie Mr. Terrance Murphy was shooting rabbits at the week-end his gun burst and portions of it hurtled in all directions. Mr. Murphy, who is a returned soldier with war ...

    Article : 115 words
  22. DUTCH HOSPITALITY

    The mutual interest aroused between Albury and Holland when the Dutch air liner was forced down at Albury during the Centenary air race has in no way diminished, according ...

    Article : 324 words
  23. MAN'S FATAL COLLAPSE.

    Mr. George Henry Woodburne, 66, dropped dead on a footpath a few yards from the front gate of his home. He came to Youns 48 years ago, and, six years later, joined the steff ...

    Article : 59 words
  24. OBITUARY.

    A veteran journalist, Mr. Francis Pascoe, passed away at the Memorial Hospital, North Adelaide, on Friday night, in his 80th year. Mr. Pascoe's connection with the Press began as ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 146 words
  25. NESTING PLOVERS.

    A number of plovers which have made their nests near the ninth green on the local golf course have made conditions uncomfortable and disconcerting for players. ...

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  26. MEAT MARKET.

    The South Australian Agent-General (Mr. McCann) and prominent meat traders attended an exhibition of Dorset and merino sheep at Smithfield. All were in excellent ...

    Article : 109 words
  27. TRESPASSE[?] FINED.

    James Doyle, 32, was charged with trespassing on railway property. Plain-clothes Constable Wells said Doyle had previous con[?]ictions for trespassing and theft of railway ...

    Article : 60 words
  28. MAGISTRATE'S ADVICE.

    Although two men, who appeared at the Bathurst Police Court this morning (on charges which were not connected in any way) were each advised by the magistrate ...

    Article : 244 words
  29. CHARGE DISMISSED.

    Mr. Farrington, S.M., to-day dismissed [?] charge of larceny which had been made against Joseph Kearns, labourer, of Portland, stating that the police had failed to show that ...

    Article : 154 words
  30. THE CALL-UP.

    A call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details appear on page 18, column 5. ...

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  31. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 words
  32. DOUBLE TAXATION.

    Addressing the annual meeting of the Australasian Institute of Secretaries last night, the president (Mr. N. G. Huton) said that the Commissioners of Taxation of the States ...

    Article : 162 words
  33. NOVELIST'S DEATH.

    The death has occurred of the novelist Miss Winifred Holtby, M.A. When warned by her doctors that she had only a brief time to live she indomitably completed two books ...

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  34. WOMAN STRUCK BY GOLF BALL.

    While Mrs. A. G. May, of East Maitland, was playing golf on the Morpeth linke, she was accidentally struck on the face by a golf ball. She was conveyed home, suffering ...

    Article : 52 words
  35. CURIOUS ACCIDENT.

    Mrs. Robert Mclauchlan, of Coates Creek, was the victim of a curious accident yesterday. She struck at a snake with a stick, but the blow failed to achieve its purpose, ...

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  36. LABOUR UNITY.

    Labour representatives from Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia will meet representatives of the State Labour party in conference at Canberra to-morrow to seek a ...

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  37. CHOICE OF CAREERS.

    Mr. W. T. Charge, chief manager of Hemingway and Robertson Proprietary, Ltd., and chairman of the commercial educational committee of the Sydney Chamber of ...

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  38. MR. J. PARRY.

    Mr. Joseph Parry, who died at Manly on Sunday, was town clerk at Ryde for many years. On his resignation nearly twenty years ago, he went to Ashfield as town clerk. He ...

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  39. NEW ALDERMEN.

    Owing to the resignations of Aldermen J. H. Miller and W. R.Tuite from the Murrurundi rouncil, Messrs. W. R. Bruce and T. H. Rixon were declared elected, theirs being ...

    Article : 51 words
  40. CLERGYMAN'S SUGGESTION.

    The Rev. R. C. Russell, at a service in St. Andrew's Church last night, said that on Mussolini's shoulders alone rested the blame for the threatened war between Italy and ...

    Article : 157 words
  41. MERGER.

    The submarine cable interests, the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company and Siemens Brothers, Limited, will amalgamate to-day, under the style of ...

    Article : 129 words
  42. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 224 words
  43. MURRURUNDI CENTENARY.

    At a well-attended public meeting at wurrurundi, convened by the Mayor (Alderman G. B. White) and the shire president (Councillor J. Peikins), it was decided to ...

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  44. FEDERAL LABOUR.

    Members of the Federal Parliamentary Labour party will meet to-morrow morning to elect a leader and a deputy leader, following the resignation of Mr. Scullin. ...

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  45. MR. J. WALKER.

    Mr. James Walker, who died at Lewisham Hospital yesterday in his 80th year, was probably the last of the country brewers of New South Wales. Bom at Murtle, Scotland, ...

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  46. CASUALTIES.

    Allan Warne, 33, of Bruce-street, Brightonle-sands, was adjusting a concrete mixer yesterday at North Head, where gun emplacements are being made, when his right ...

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  47. PROPOSED NORTHERN AERODROME.

    The Coolaiiratta Council advocates a s[?]e of 200 acres near the border rifle range, as a site for an aerodrome. New England Airways, Ltd., has offered to clear and ...

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  48. DOUBLE MURDER FEARED.

    The discovery yesterday evening of portions of bodies, including the heads, of a man and a woman wrapped in newspapers, in a deep ravine at Gardenholm, ...

    Article : 82 words
  49. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Gold to-day was quoted at £7/1/6? an ounce fine, compared with £7/1/6 on Saturday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. ...

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  50. MOTOR ACCIDENIS.

    A car driven by L. Alcorn, a Main Roa[?]s Department clerk, of Tyrell-street, Newcastle, clashed over a 40ft bank last night and was wrecked. The steering gear locked when we ...

    Article : 238 words
  51. ENCROACHING WALL

    Recently, when the owner of a small frontage on the eastern side of Main-street decided to erect two brick shops on it, the discovery was made that an adjoining brick ...

    Article : 131 words
  52. TO-DAY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 263 words
  53. BRIGHT REVUE.

    That bright revue company, the Co-Optimists, were unfortunate in the small attendance at St. James Hall last night, when "Happiness Ahcad" was presented in aid of the ...

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  54. AFFAIRS OF B.H.P.

    The leader of the State Labour party (Mr. Beasley) will move the adjournment of the House of Representatives to-morrow, to urge that a select committee of the House should ...

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  55. STATION DELUGED.

    As a result of a hailstorm experienced at Cooroorah Station, Surat district, hailstones piled up a foot high. Alongside the netting fences and along the creek frontage for miles ...

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  56. SHOCK FOR MOTHER.

    Ian Campbell, aged 2, of Orbost, was delighted with the two "grasshoppers" which he proudly brought to his mother to-day. His mother was not delighted—the "grasshoppers" ...

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  57. THE SUBURBS.

    The Hurstville Chamber of Commerce has complained to the St. George County Council that the penalty charged by the council for the non-payment of electricity accounts within ...

    Article : 165 words
  58. DEATH FROM INJURIES.

    John McCrae, 35, first mate of the [?] Idant who was injured last Wednesday morning when he was jammed by a Pole against the hatch combing during loading operations, died ...

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  59. MINERS' STRIKE THREAT.

    Following the non-settlement of the dispute regarding wages, Waihi miners have given their employers seven days' notice of their intention to strike. Negotiations are ...

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  60. MINISTER FAREWELLEP.

    The Rev. Ernest Davies, Congregational pastor at Strathfield-Homebush for 13 years, was farewelled in the Strathfield-Homebush School Hall last night and presented with a ...

    Article : 111 words
  61. 'PLANE SALVAGED.

    The Monospar 'plane owned by Austra[?] Transcontinental Airways, which crashed while engaged on the Darwin-Adelaide service, has been salvaged by the Queensland Insurance ...

    Article : 58 words
  62. SIR HERBERT GEPP.

    Squadron-Leader Jones, with Sir Herbert Gepp as a passenger, arrived by 'plane at Port Hedland this afternoon from Hall's Creek, which they left at 4 a.m. From Cloncurry, ...

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  63. LATE SPORTING.

    H. Beeves gained a points' decision over Les Brander (New South Wales), in a 15-round boxing contest at Invercargill. Brander outboxed Reeves for Ave rounds, but thereafter spoilt the contest ...

    Article : 41 words
  64. MAN'S BODY FOUND IN HUT.

    Arthur Garton, 65, an old man, who lived alone in a hut at La Perouse, was found dead, lying on the floor of his hut, yesterday evening. ...

    Article : 43 words
  65. SUBURBAN PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in "the Amusement Advertisement Columns. ...

    Article : 20 words
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