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  2. U.S.A. 'PLANES FIRST.

    The Minister for Defence (Sir Archdale Parkhill), in referring yesterday to the Government's decision to have 40 American NA16 aeroplanes built ...

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  3. BUNNERONG PLANT.

    The chairman of the County Council (Councillor McElhone) said yesterday that he expected that the conflict over the type of plant for the ...

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  4. AIR MAIL DELAY.

    The possibility of delay in the augmented Empire air mail service— which was to begin on January 1, 1938 —is causing concern in Ministerial ...

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  5. PETROL PRICE FRICTION.

    About 90 per cent, of resellers of petrol yesterday returned to the prices of 1/9 and 1/8 a gallon for supergrade and standard-grade petrol, ...

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  6. EMPTY TRAIN DERAILED.

    The derailment of two carriages of an empty electric train at Canterbury yesterday morning fouled both the up and down lines, as well as overhead ...

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  7. CYPRUS AIR BASE.

    "Plans are rapidly being completed for making: Cyprus a great British strategic air centre, including, it is understood, the construction of a ...

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  8. THE POPE.

    The Pope's condition is precarious, and it is feared that gangrene is developing. His Holiness spent a bad night. ...

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  9. JAPANESE CRISIS.

    The political crisis culminated in a tentative decision by the Cabinet at an emergency meeting to-day to dissolve the Diet. However, whether ...

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  10. PLANE CRASHES.

    Seven lifeboats and 30 trawlers vainly searched the Irish Sea from Liverpool for an aeroplane which crashed in a gale while en route to Ireland. ...

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  11. GERMAN REARMAMENT.

    The Diplomatic Correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that the latest information from Berlin indicates that Germany now has completed the most important part of her ...

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  12. "PULPIT VOICE."

    Clergymen and ministers of several Sydney churches expressed general agreement yesterday with the cabled criticism of the "pulpit voice" by a former organist of Durham ...

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  13. MR. EDEN'S STATEMENT.

    The Berlin "Volkischer Boebachter" states that Herr Hitler intends personally to reply to the recent statement by the British Foreign Secretary'(Mr. Eden) on Germany. ...

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  14. STRIKES IN U.S.A.

    The Secretary for Labour 'Miss Frances Perkins), the Governor of Michigan (Mr. Frank Murphy), and the chairman of the Committee of Industrial Organisation (Mr. ...

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  15. SHORTAGE OF FOOD.

    Reports that two miles of water stretch across the Woodford Flats near Ti-Tree, make a resumption of normal traffic between the railhead at Alice ...

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  16. SEAMEN'S DECISION.

    At a meeting in New York, in which 2000 seamen participated, it was decided to abandon the strike on condition that strikers at other Atlantic and Gulf ports favoured similar ...

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  17. MORE TRADE WITH CANADA.

    Proposals for an expansion of trade between Australia and Canada, which are to be submitted by the Australian delegates to a conference with the ...

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  18. EXCHANGE ON YEN.

    [?] new ordinance fixes the exchange at /4 to the yen, and leaves the settlement of import accounts to the discretion of the Minisfor Finance. The ordinance is aimed ...

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  19. TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICES.

    The Union S.S. Co., Ltd., stated yesterday that the gaps of seven weeks between vessels sailing from Vancouver to Sydney and vice versa, mentioned in the "Herald" yesterday, ...

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  20. MOTOR FACTORY PROJECT.

    An emphatic denial to the suggestion telegraphed from Melbourne that the Chrysler group was negotiating with the Victorian Government in ...

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  21. AGENT-GENERAL HAS TRIUMPH.

    The Queensland Agent-General (Mr. Pike) has jur, outwitted the London County Council. A comic skirmish arose over Mr. Pike's ...

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  22. TAXI SERVICES.

    Taxi operators in Sydney, at a meeting yesterday, decided to ask the Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) to receive a deputation which will urge that various aspects of the ...

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  23. YOUTH SHOT DEAD.

    Joseph Frederick Best, l8, accidentally shot himself dead in his home at the intersection of Congewoi and Wyong roads, Mosman, yesterday afternoon. ...

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  24. DIVORCED PERSONS.

    The Convocation of Canterbury overwhelmingly defeated a resolution by the Bishop of St. Albans (Dr. Furse) and the BishcT of Ely (Dr. Heywood) that divorced ...

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  25. EXCLUSION OF DRINK

    A pastoral letter signed by the Archbishop of Sydney (Dr. Mowll), and the Bishops of Grafton, Riverina, Armidale, Newcastle, Goulburn, and Bathurst, ...

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  26. ENGLISHMEN BECOME "SLIPSHOD."

    "Englishmen have become slipshod and they are no longer the world's best-dressed men," said Winifred James (Mrs. Henry de Jan), the authoress, to-day. "I have been terribly ...

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  27. DRUNKEN DRIVER

    At the inquest concerning the tragedy at Owhango on Sunday, when three men were trapped in a car which burst into flames after striking a bank and crashing down a ...

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  28. COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

    As the result of an explosion, three-quarters of a mile below the surface of the ground, seven miners were killed in the Markham [?] at Duckmanton, near Chesterfield ...

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  29. TIMBER DRIVE HITCH.

    The atttmpt to start the drive in which thousands of trees were to fall simultaneously in the making of the film, "Tall Timbers," failed to-day. Another attempt will ...

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  30. MR. H. C. FRENCH'S DENIAL.

    The report of the new company's project was referred last night to Mr. H. C. French, general manager of the Ford Company of Australia. He said: "The matter of a ...

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  31. VICTORIAN POLICE.

    The final report of Inspector Alexander Duncan, of Scotland Yard, who was appointed by the Victorian Ministry to inquire into and report on the proposed reorganisation of the ...

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  32. GRETNA GREEN.

    A committee which has inquired into the Scottish marrtaee law recommends the abolition of Gretna Green and other Irregular marriages, declaring that a law permitting ...

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  33. "THE BOY DAVID."

    J. M. Barrle's play, "The Boy David," is being withdrawn after,a run of seven weeks in London. The withdrawal is largely due to the declaration of critics that Elisabeth ...

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  34. EASTERN TRADE.

    The Assistant Minister for Commerce (Mr. Thorby), who has prepared a memorandum for the Federal Cabinet, setting out the difficulties of British shipping interests in ...

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  35. FEDERAL MINISTRY UNAWARE OF PROPOSAL.

    The Minister for Trade Treaties (Sir Henry Gullett) said to-day that the Federal Ministry had received no intimation that an important group of American motor car ...

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  36. PARIS-TOKYO FLIGHT.

    M. Marcel Doret, who is trying to break the record for a flight from Paris to Tokyo, arrived at 2.10 p.m. (local time), and left for Akyab at 3 p.m. He said he lost 15 ...

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  37. DEATH OF FATHER

    An officer of the Seaforth Highlanders, Norman Baillie Stewart, who was sentenced in 1933 on a charge of obtaining and communicating information which might be ...

    Article : 60 words
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