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  2. DEATH LEAB BY NURSE.

    Miss Viva Maud Farmar, a middleaged hospital nurse, committed suicide to-day by jumping out of an aeroplane 2500 feet above Cook Strait. ...

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  3. AIR MAILS.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) this afternoon announced details of the basis on which the Commonwealth Government has agreed to ...

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  4. 'PLANE BUILDING.

    The Minister for Defence (Sir Archdale Parkhill) said yesterday that contact was being maintained between the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation ...

    Article : 323 words
  5. LORD NUFFIELD.

    Lord Nuffield to-day gave £25,000 to the Lord Mayor's Fund, and indicated that he would distribute as much or more in New South Wales. ...

    Article : 226 words
  6. MALAGA FALLS.

    General Franco claims that the rebel forces have captured Malaga the principal Spanish Government stronghold on the south coast. ...

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  7. RIOTS IN UKRAINE.

    It is reported here that 300 Communists, several of whom are women, have been imprisoned at Kieff, the capital of the Russian Ukraine, on charges of plotting to kill M. ...

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  8. UNION. SECRETARIES

    The Trades Unions' Secretaries' Association, which is representative of over 100 of the principal trade union organisations in the State, at ...

    Article : 237 words
  9. TERROR IN DANZIG.

    The Nazis, who control the Free City of Danzig, have renewed their efforts to suppress all opposition parties by force; and they claim to ...

    Article : 389 words
  10. FOOTWEAR.

    Because of the new award for boot trade employees made by Judge Beeby in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court yesterday, the Boot ...

    Article : 183 words
  11. CORONATION.

    The "Daily Telegraph" says that, at the suggestion of Queen Elizabeth, who feels that very few people will be able to see the coronation dresses and robes, arrangements are ...

    Article : 114 words
  12. STRIKE MAY END SOON.

    It is believed in industrial circles that the strike of the waterfront engineers may end soon. The men on strike are members of the ...

    Article : 187 words
  13. WAR AND THE CHURCHES.

    "When it comes to a 'showdown' and war starts, the Church immediately becomes a recruiting centre," said the Rev. Dr. E. E. V. Collocott (Methodist), at the inaugural ...

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  14. CONSTABLE SHOOTS IN CROWDED STREET.

    A shot, fired at close range to stop an escaping prisoner, badly frightened a woman pedestrian, and shattered a small display window of the Mutual Store, in the city, this ...

    Article : 139 words
  15. APPEAL FOR HOSPITALITY.

    "The United Kingdom, for a long time, has held unchallenged the wooden spoon for hospitality among the Anglo-Saxon nations. The coronation will provide a first-class ...

    Article : 394 words
  16. HERR FOERSTER'S METHODS.

    The Warsaw correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" reported recently that Herr Foerster had assumed the role of an all powerful ruler in the Free City. As Herr Hitler's ...

    Article : 742 words
  17. UNION DISSATISFIED.

    A meeting of the members of the Boot Trades Employees' Federation is to be held to-night at the Trades Hall to discuss the new award. ...

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  18. SHOWGROUND DISPUTE

    Plasterers employed on the new pavilion at the Showground have given two days' notice that they intend to cease work. They declare that the swinging stages, or scaffolds, ...

    Article : 190 words
  19. SURF COSTUMES.

    Repeating his promise that the bathing costume regulation would be reviewed at the end of the season in the light of any public objection, the ...

    Article : 241 words
  20. STRIKE LASTS ONE DAY.

    A strike of ironworkers assistants, which began this morning at two foundries in the Newcastle district, ended, by unanimous decision of the men concerned, at 10 o'clock ...

    Article : 222 words
  21. "ONLY ROAD TO DARWIN."

    Mr. Sam Irvine, who carries the mail once a month between Alice Springs and Birdum, 1300 miles, the longest mail route by road in Australia, strongly criticised this week-end ...

    Article : 160 words
  22. BUNNERONG PLANT.

    The State Government has decided not to interfere with the County Council in its final selection of turbo-generating plant for the amplification of the ...

    Article : 425 words
  23. SOUVENIRS 0F FORMER KING.

    Keen demand for King Edward VIII, coronation badges emblems, and mugs is reported by Wellington importers, who did not cancel orders placed before King Edward's ...

    Article : 55 words
  24. SUGAR CONFERENCE.

    The Queensland Canegrowers' Council is keenly disappointed at the announcement by the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) that Australia's representatives to the World Sugar ...

    Article : 237 words
  25. GERMANS INDIGNANT.

    The Diplomatic Correspondent of the "Daily Herald" says: "Parents, wives, and sweethearts throughout Germany resent Herr Hitler's action in sending their menfolk to ...

    Article : 201 words
  26. LABOUR BALLOT.

    Investigations were made to-day into charges that malpractice and personation had occurred in the selection ballot held by the Victorian Labour party to choose a ...

    Article : 191 words
  27. N.Z. STAMP ISSUE.

    The New Zealand Post-office will issue three denominations of coronation stamps—a red penny, a blue twopence halfpenny, and a vermillion sixpenny. The design resembles the ...

    Article : 47 words
  28. BOYS STRIKE.

    About 20 boys employed at the works of a disinfectant and cleanser manufacturing company at Waterloo went on strike yesterday. The ages of the boys range from 14 years to ...

    Article : 79 words
  29. DUCHY OF CORNWALL REVENUES

    The political correspondent of the "Morning Post" says: "The select committee appointed to consider the King's Civil List will discuss the question of transferring the ...

    Article : 170 words
  30. JAPAN'S TRADE POLICY

    The Foreign Office spokesman (Mr. Amad) is non-committal about negotiations to redress the trade balances with South Africa and the Argentine. ...

    Article : 198 words
  31. FLOODS IN U.S.A.

    Ten persons were killed in the gas explosions caused by the floods in Louisville (Kentucky). At first it was thought that only seven ...

    Article : 100 words
  32. ANZAC DAY HOLIDAY.

    At the annual meeting of the Wellington branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, it was decided, by a narrow majority, to write a letter of protest to the Government against ...

    Article : 71 words
  33. SECRETARY CHARGED WITH THEFT.

    Bernard Sydney Armstrong, 31, was committed for trial by Mr. Parker, S.M., at the Central Court yesterday, on a charge of having, in 1936, as a servant of the Motor Finance ...

    Article : 143 words
  34. 'PLANE FALLS TO PIECES.

    Three men and a woman were killed in the crash of a private 'plane which was flying from Miama (Florida) to Akron (Ohio). Witnesses of the crash said that the 'plane ...

    Article : 57 words
  35. DIVING FATALITY.

    Mrs. Claude Weatherstone, 22, of Parkesbourne, near Goulburn, who was injured while diving in the Murrumbidgee River at Pine Island, a picnic resort, near Canberra, on ...

    Article : 80 words
  36. BABY PRINCESS'S NAMES.

    The baby daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent has been registered as Alexandra, Helen, Elizabeth, Olga, Christabel. (Other cable news appears on page 12.) ...

    Article : 34 words
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