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  2. RELIEF WORKS.

    The Minister for Labour (Mr. Dunningham) regards the introduction of the emergency relief work scheme as the must outstanding achievement of his administration this year. ...

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  3. TENNIS TEST.

    Two important factors were associated with Australia's victory against Great Britain in the second lawn tennis test match, which was cancluded at Brisbane on Saturday, Australia ...

    Article : 464 words
  4. KING'S BROADCAST

    At an hour corresponding to 1 a.m. (Sydney time) this morning, his Majesty the King broadcast a special Christmas message to his subjects throughout the ...

    Article : 858 words
  5. A.J.C. MEETING.

    Holiday racing was opened [?]t Randwick on Saturday with the first day's programme of the A.J.C. summer meeting. It was a long programme, the last race not being run until 5.30 ...

    Article : 524 words
  6. ANTARCTICA.

    Snow, followed by fog, made unsafe a further attempt to move the Byrd Antarctic Expedition's ship, Jacob Ruppert, eastward, to the 142nd meridan, and caused a temporary halt ...

    Article : 321 words
  7. REICHSTAG FIRE.

    To a densely-packed court the President of the Supreme Court at Leipzig (Dr. Buenger) pronounced the sentences in the Reichstag fire trial. Van der Lubbe was sentenced to death ...

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  8. RAILWAY DISASTER.

    An appalling; railway disaster occurred at Lagny, 10 miles from Paris, on Saturday evening, when the Paris-Strasbourg express crashed into the Nancy express, which had been brought to a standstill owing to fog. The latest available figures show that 195 botlies have been recovered ...

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  9. FIRST FLIGHT MADE.

    A flight along the 150th meridian to latitude 70 degrees south, was made by Admiral Byrd in a seaplane piloted by Harold June. The 'plane left the Jacob Ruppert at 10.53 o'clock ...

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  10. ACCOUNTS OF DISASTER.

    Messages from the Paris correspondent of the British United Press state that the departures of both trains were delayed over an hour owing to fog. The Nancy express was ...

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  11. LAST DAY'S PLAY.

    The representatives of Great Britain retrieved themselves considerably as a result of the concluding day of the second international tennis test at Milton on Saturday, winning ...

    Article : 843 words
  12. CAPTAIN ADKINS.

    The audience at the Town Hall on Saturday night sat and stared at the stage. Forty-five, impassive figures—waxen figures it seemed —sat and stared from the stage... at nothing. ...

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  13. MUSICAL PLAY

    Theatrical history was made at the Princess Theatre on Saturday night, when a distinguished audience, which included the Premier (Sir Stanley Argyle) acclaimed the successful ...

    Article : 290 words
  14. GIRL SWIMMERS

    Swimming in New Zealand L. much move difficult than in Australia or in many other parts of the world, in the opinion of Miss Clare Dennis. She attributes this to the various ...

    Article : 178 words
  15. TRADE REVIEW.

    The Stock Exchange closed for the Christmas holidays with a feeling of cheerful confidence, a pleasant change from the previous four Christmases, in all of which depression ...

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  16. STATE ELEVEN.

    It is expected that the New South Wales team to meet Queensland in the Sheffield Shield match commencing at the Sydney Cricket Ground next Saturday will be ...

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  17. BOUND AND GAGGED.

    A robbery with violence resulted in Geo. Parsonage, proprietor of a city hairdressing shop, losing between £4 and £5 about 1.35 p.m. on Saturday. Parsonage was bound and ...

    Article : 201 words
  18. WAGE RESTORATION.

    Owing to a disagreement between the two Houses of the State Parliament, the Financial Emergency Act Bill will lapse on December 31, and the amounts of wages cuts under the ...

    Article : 191 words
  19. FLOODS

    Thirteen deaths have been reported in the floods which are covering parts of the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. Fifteen towns are inundated, and ...

    Article : 154 words
  20. MIKADO'S SON.

    The Empress Nagako has given birth to a son. As the first three children of the Emperor Hirohlto were girls, there is general jubilation ...

    Article : 149 words
  21. ABORIGINES.

    A census of aborigines throughout Australia recently completed by the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, discloses that whereas the number of full-blood aboriginal ...

    Article : 256 words
  22. SUDDEN STORM

    Chiistmas Day festivities were suddenly ended in Melbourne this afternoon about 4.30 o'clock, when a terrific thunderstorm broke over the city and suburbs. ...

    Article : 378 words
  23. CUSTOMS CHIEF

    The Comptroller-General of Customs (Mr. E. Abbott) had a narrow escape from serious injury when his motor car overturned yesterday morning on the Federal Highway, between ...

    Article : 180 words
  24. AVIATION.

    Commenting on the fact that the regular Dutch air liner, which replaced the Pander 'plane reached Batavia from Amsterdam in the record time of 84 hours, the "Evening ...

    Article : 167 words
  25. GENERAL O'DUFFY.

    General O'Duffy, the leader of the United Ireland party, has been summoned to appear before a military tribunal on January 2 on a charge of inciting to murder Mr. de Valera. ...

    Article : 291 words
  26. JOCKEY R. LEWIS.

    One of the most famous associations in the history of Australian racing is disbanded with the announcement by the jockey R. Lewis that he had terminated his active turf engagements ...

    Article : 225 words
  27. CALEDON BAY.

    De Groote Eylandt mission station has sent a wireless message stating that the launch Holly returned on December 20. The crew received information from the natives ...

    Article : 67 words
  28. MAN SHOT IN ARM.

    Rex Milburn ivas stopped in a lane in Darlinghurst at an early hour on Sunday morning by two men who demanded money. When he refused and struck one of the men he ...

    Article : 79 words
  29. AMERICAN PROPOSAL

    The "Sunday Express" states that the United States' Government is seeking to dump 60,000 tons of butter in Britain in return for additional "whisky." The proposal, the paper ...

    Article : 58 words
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