The wool market is 10 per cent. to 20 per cent. higher than at the opening week's sales of the season, which commenced on August 31, and ...
Article : 502 wordsLegal disabilities of the County Council in the administration of the electricity department were emphasised at yesterday's meeting, when it was found ...
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Article : 389 wordsQuestioned in the House of Commons whether, in view of recent demands by Japan on China, any representations had been made by the British Government to the Japanese ...
Article : 272 wordsSix persons were injured when two trams collided at the Moncur-street stop at Oxford-street, Woollahra, yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 162 wordsOrchardists and other settlers in the Hills district beyond Parramatta are experiencing the worst drought for many years, and are facing ruin because of ...
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Article : 299 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, the Public Order Bill, made necessary by the behaviour of Mosley Fascists and Communists, was read the first time. ...
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Article : 261 wordsThe Federal Council of the A.N.A. to-day carried a motion, supporting the referendum proposals regarding marketing. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Geneva correspondent of the "News-Chronicle" says: "The Japanese administration of mandated islands in the Pacific was sharply criticised by the League of Nations ...
Article : 169 wordsA call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details are published on page 28, column 2. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 268 wordsMr. L. E. Clark, the New Zealand farmer, who arrived in Sydney last Saturday from England, has delayed the start, of his flight to New Zealand until ...
Article : 356 wordsGeneral Motors have voted a 10,000,000 dollars (£A2,500,000) Christmas bonus, and a five cents an hour wage increase, amounting to 20,000,000 dollars (£A5,000,000) a year, for ...
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Article : 73 wordsGeneral Goering, who is in charge of the German four-year plan to attain economic self-sufficiency, has issued six decrees. They declare that the most important ...
Article : 76 wordsWhile the liner Queen Mary was battling through a gale towards Southampton, the "Daily Herald" rang up the New Zealand Minister for Finance and Customs (Mr. Nash), ...
Article : 299 wordsThe objects of the full Vienna conference of the Rome Protocol Powers (Italy, Austria, and Hungary), which will open to-day, are stated, according to Italian sources, to be ...
Article : 354 wordsThe number of unemployed in Britain is the lowest for six years. (British Official Wireless.) A further substantial increase in the ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Menzies) declared to-night that the people of Australia were in a state of abysmal and placid ignorance regarding the Constitution. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 297 wordsJohn Barrymore, the 54-year-old film actor, who has just been married to Miss Elaine Barrie, 21, said, on his return to Hollywood: Sudden? Not at all. I have been planning ...
Article : 114 wordsMr. E. Grayndler, a former member of the Legislative Council, was re-elected last night to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. J. F. Higgins. Mr. Grayndler is the general ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 43 wordsAnna Johnson (81) killed her husband. Charles (91)[?] with a razor. She then hanged herself, leaving a note, which said: "I have been married 60 years[?] and for the last 40 ...
Article : 74 wordsA summary of the terms of the new Anglo-Italian Clearing Agreement and the Commercial Agreement was communicated to the House of Commons by the President of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 307 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" says: "Imperial Airways, Ltd., is co-operating in the production of films dealing with life on the Imperial air routes. The film unit will leave Croydon ...
Article : 83 wordsGold was quoted to-day at £7/2/7 an ounce fine, compared with £7/2/8½ yesterday. MR. LLOYD GEORGE. Mr. Lloyd George, M.P., sailed from ...
Article : 302 wordsThe Minister for the Interior (Mr. Paterson) said to-day that he had received the report by Mr. T. G. H. Strehlow, patrol officer for the Northern Territory Administration, ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Mayor (Mr. Davis Wilson) stood up and protested at the first local performance of "New Faces," a theatrical show, against a sketch entitled, Scouting a Rumour," which ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Australian women's cricket team, which will tour England in 1937, will be the guests of the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's, probably on the occasion of the match, ...
Article : 65 wordsNotice of his intention to move a motion in favour of another secession referendum was given in the Legislative Assembly to-day by the leader of the Opposition (Mr. C. G. ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Ramsay MacDonald, the former Prime Minister, and now Lord President of the Council, collapsed during the Lord Mayor's banquet at the Guildhall last night. He was ...
Article : 147 wordsOne of the first actions of Mr. Walter Devon since he won £50,000 in a Melbourne Cup sweepstake was to offer to set up, in any type of business he chooses, Mr. L. Daly, ...
Article : 82 wordsPrompt action by the Balmain, Leichhardt, and Rozelle fire brigades prevented a serious fire yesterday, when a fire broke out in Mulhearn Bros.' timber yards in Mullens-street, ...
Article : 46 wordsJohn Schmand was sentenced to from 30 to 60 years' imprisonment for a theft while armed with a knife. The theft netted 15 cents, which he threw away, disgusted. ...
Article : 43 wordsProgrammes of Suburban and Country Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertising Columns. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 11 Nov 1936, Page 16
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