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  2. AUSTRALIA WINS

    Australia won the semi-final of the European zone in the Davis Cup competition to-day when J. Crawford beat C. Boussus, 2-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, 6-0. Australia had previously won one singles and the doubles matches. In the other singles match to-day A. Merlin (France) beat V. McGrath ...

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  3. PETROL.

    Further evidence was taken in public by the Petrol Commission to-day. Sir Charles Merrett, who was recalled and asked if he could add anything to his previous ...

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  4. £2,000,000

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) informed the Loan Council this afternoon that the Commonwealth Government had decided to make ...

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  5. DOCKYARDS.

    The Cockatoo Dockyards are now paying. When they were under Government control the Government was losing £60,000 or £70,000 a year. ...

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  6. BARRY CRIME.

    Charlotte Fowler, 58, a married woman, living apart from her husband, was charged at the Blayney police court to-day with having murdered John Ryan at Bany on or about ...

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  7. LARWOOD.

    Sir Francis Lacey, a former secretary of the M.G.C., ridiculed the idea that political influence had been applied in connection with Larwood, who has announced his intention not ...

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  8. MONTEREY

    More than three hours late owing to heavy seas the Matson liner Monterey reached Sydney yesterday after an eventful voyage from San Francisco. ...

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  9. CRAWFORD v BOUSSUS.

    There were 8000 spectators when Crawford and Boussus commenced in terrific heat. It was so severe that Boussus, usually bareheaded, accepted Lacoste's famous white cap. ...

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  10. DIAMOND RING

    A diamond ring, wrapped up in tissue paper, and accompanied by a short note, which was written on the tissue paper, was received through the post by Angus and Coote, Ltd., ...

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  11. TARIFF BURDENS.

    "Customs revenue is in many respects a huge capital levy on industry, used for current purposes, preventing goods becoming cheap," declared the leader of the Federal ...

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  12. SORCERY.

    The Lieutenant-Governor of Papua (Sir Hubert Murray) in his report for the year ended June 30, 1933, says that sorcery in some parts of the territory is gradually dying ...

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  13. THE DOUBLES MATCH.

    There was an enormous crowd present and the weather was very hot when play commenced. After a great match, conspicuous in the early stages for safety tactics rather ...

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  14. AUSTRALIAN WINES.

    Mr. S. M. Lock (vice-president of Wines and Liquors Incorporated), which has charge of the distribution of Penfolds wines in the United States, said on his arrival in Sydney ...

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  15. ALLEGED THREAT

    The secretary of the Motor Van Owners' Association of New South Wales (Mr. R. J. Fitzgerald) alleged yesterday that the Railway Department had threatened to close the ...

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  16. CZECHOSLOVAKIA

    Czechoslovakia, by beating Italy, qualified to meer the winners of the match between Australia and France. The complete scores were:— ...

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  17. AUSTRALIAN TEAM.

    The King and Queen received the Australian cricketers at Windsor. The party, arriving from London in four closed cars, was admitted to the castle through the Royal entrance from ...

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  18. INTEREST.

    The conference of the Graziers' Association recently urged the banks to make a further reduction of interest on overdrafts, and the general secretary of the association, in a letter ...

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  19. BEEF TRADE.

    The "Daily Herald" says that the Ministry of Agriculture is preparing to ask Parliament to vote £5,000,000 as a subsidy for beef-producing farmer. The Minister for Agriculture ...

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  20. MR. W. M. BICKERTON

    Mr. W. M. Bickerton, the New Zealander. who was arrested in Tokyo on a charge of having financially assisted Communist organisations, and was committed for trial more ...

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  21. CEMENT TENDERS

    Five cement companies were recently asked by an officer of the City Council why each had quoted the same price in tenders for the supply of cement. Freight rates, included ...

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  22. FIFTY CLERKS

    Approximately 50 temporary clerks are to be dismissed gradually from the pensions staff of the Commonwealth, because of the decision of the Government to discontinue the practice ...

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  23. MILK SCHEME

    The Minister for Health and Works (Mr. Weaver) said yesterday that the scheme to supply milk to the school children throughout the State wns a Government one, and as ...

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  24. FIGHTING IN CUBA.

    Members of political factions were engaged in sanguinary warfare in the streets of Havana to-day, 10 men and three women being killed and 60 seriously injured. The police and ...

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  25. HEAT WAVE

    The heat wave in southern England, the tem[?]ture being 87 degrees in the shade, without [?] sign of the long drought breaking, em[?]ises the serious water shortage. ...

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  26. FIRE IN CAFE.

    A fire broke out in the Regent Cafe at 3 a.m., but owing to a timely alarm the damage was not considerable. The night watchman (Thomas Musto) noticed the fire ...

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  27. TRADE PACT

    The convention of the Graziers' Federal Council, which was concluded yesterday decided to request the Commonwealth Government to negotiate with the Government of ...

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  28. CORRUPTION CHARGE.

    A Congressional committee, after a four months' investigation of the Military Aviation Department, issued a sensational report today, charging corruption and inefficiency in ...

    Article : 146 words
  29. WALL COLLAPSES.

    With a noise like the explosion of a bomb, a corrugated iron wall collapsed at Schutt and Barrie's granary, Footscray on Saturday night. The collapse was caused by 2000 bags of wheat ...

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  30. GUTTERS RUN WITH PETROL

    Five hundred gallons of petrol were spilled when a petrol tank was wrenched from the chassis of a motor lorry in Fitzroy to-day. The roadway was flooded, and petrol ran ...

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  31. BULGARIA.

    The new Prime Minister (Mr.Kimon Geor[?] announces that he intends to govern [?]garia by decree for a year, and then by [?] National Assembly, which will be ...

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  32. SHIPPING STRIKE.

    Members of the Longshoremen's Union at San Francisco, Portland, and Tacoma voted overwhelmingly to-day against acceptance of the agreement which was reached between ...

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  33. FLIGHT TO ENGLAND.

    A telegram received from Wyndham to-night stated that Captain P. G. Taylor, who arrived on Saturday afternoon from Alice Springs in Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's Percival Gull, ...

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  34. STEAMER GROUNDS IN FOG.

    The British India steamer Nerbudda, 7911 tons, went aground in a fog at 8 a.m. to-day between Semaphore and Grange. With the assistance of a tug, she was refloated at 7 p.m., ...

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