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  2. COUNTRY NEWS. RADIO INTERFERENCE.

    Inspector J. R. Newland, of the wireless section of the Postmaster-General's Department visited Lithgow following the discovery by Lithgow Council's electrical engineer of a ...

    Article : 58 words
  3. FEDERAL SESSION.

    Many proposals for the assistance of wheat-growers, including a guaranteed price of 3/ a bushel, compulsory pooling, the establishment of an export control board, and the ...

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  4. DEFENCE. Mechanisation of Land Forces.

    It is believed in Canberra that military authorities are seeking authority to begin important extensions of the work of mechanising the Australian land defences. The ...

    Article : 317 words
  5. FILM STARS. Fabulous Salaries Paid.

    The suggestion by President Roosevelt that the salaries of motion picture stars and of some directors of executives were too high an[?] should be lowered for the benefit of the ...

    Article : 207 words
  6. THE "KANGAROOS." WARRINGTON MATCH.

    The "Kangaroos" team to meet Warrington on Saturday will be as follows:—Full-back, F. McMillan (N.S.W.), three-quarters. A. Ridley (N.S.W.), D. Brown (N.S.W.), C. Pearce ...

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  7. THE WALLABIES.

    New South Wales and Queensland members of the Australian Rugby Union team, the "Wallabies," which recently toured South Africa, returned to Sydney yesterday morning ...

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  8. FAMOUS COMEDIAN

    The Australian Broadcasting Commission announces that it has arranged for Harry Tate, the famous English comedian, to visit Australia. He will leave England next ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 72 words
  9. UPPER HOUSE. 84 NOMINATIONS.

    Thirteen additional nominations for the Legislative Council elections were received yesterday. The total number of nominations is now 84, for the 60 vacancies. ...

    Article : 173 words
  10. PRESBYTERIAN JUBILEE.

    Moree Presbyterians will celebrate the jubilee of the Moree Presbyterian Church on October 22. A function will be held in the McIntosh Memorial Hall on the following evening. The ...

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  11. REMOVAL OF BLACKTRACKER OPPOSED.

    Councillor Mason, of Baradine, said he had the full support of his council in entering a strong protest against the Police Department's proposal to transfer the blacktracker from ...

    Article : 75 words
  12. CLARENCE RIVER TIMBER FOR N.Z.

    The motorship Port Waikato, of 1050 tons left the Clarence River with a big timbe[?] cargo for New Zealand, including about 50[?] tons of poles 50 to 70 feet in length, girde[?] ...

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  13. TRAGEDY IN HOTEL.

    Mr. Louis Gordon, a Solicitor, acting on behalf of the mother of Dorothy Wright, aged 23 years, the girl who was fatally shot in a fashionable Paris hotel on August 3, three ...

    Article : 177 words
  14. GRAFTON'S POPULATION.

    The census figures show that the population of the Grafton Municipality increased f[?]m 4593 in 1921 to 6412 in 1933, and that of South Grafton Municipality from 1484 to ...

    Article : 87 words
  15. N.Z. PROGRAMME.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Forbes) to-day announced proposed defence changes involving a closer liaison with Australia, including the exchange of military personnel, and a direct ...

    Article : 157 words
  16. THE NOMINATORS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,330 words
  17. ELECTRICIAN'S FALL.

    While installing lighting equipment on the stage of the Star Theatre last night, Frank Spargo, an electrician, of Narromine, fell from the top of a ladder about 10 feet, and fractured ...

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  18. TWO FINGERS BLOWN OFF.

    Gilbert Dunn, 16 years, son of Leonard Dunn, a share dairy-farmer at Middlebrook, near Scone, picked up a detonator. It exploded when he gave it a knock, blowing off two ...

    Article : 52 words
  19. KNITTING CRAZE.

    The world-wide craze for knitting, which, incidentally, has been a tremendous factor in raising the values of Australian and New Zealand wools, has inspired a Parisian inventor ...

    Article : 108 words
  20. OVERCROWDING AT HOSPITAL.

    There are 29 patients in the district hospital, which is classed as a 12-bed hospital. The lack of accommodation is serious, as Coonabarabran serves a large district, and the ...

    Article : 81 words
  21. PLUCKY GIRL.

    Miss Verlie Kain fought pluckily with a thief who attacked her in Murray-street, Burwood, last night. She was walking along Murray-street, near ...

    Article : 180 words
  22. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS.

    The Privy Council allowed the appeal from the High Court of Australia in the action J. H. Coles Pty., Ltd., versus Need. The Council dismissed the New Zealand ...

    Article : 244 words
  23. RATE COLLECTION.

    Reporting to the last Pastures Protection Board meeting, the secretary stated that 96.2 per cent. of the rates had been collected. The amount outstanding was £73, which included ...

    Article : 73 words
  24. LORRY AND CART COLLIDE.

    A motor lorry and a baker's cart collided in Devonshire-street. Both vehicles were damaged, but the drivers escaped injury. The shaft of the cart penetrated the windscreen ...

    Article : 62 words
  25. MINISTERIAL PANEL.

    The Ministerial panel of 60 to 64 names will not be finally completed till next week. In addition to the names that are likely to be placed on the panel, and which were ...

    Article : 268 words
  26. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 307 words
  27. ROAD DAMAGED BY SHEEP.

    At the police court, the Wingadee Shire Council proceeded against W. Kelly, drover, on a charge of wilfully damaging a main road by allowing 2000 sheep to travel on a new portion ...

    Article : 57 words
  28. CANCER.

    Professor Allan, who participated in the American College of Surgeons' symposia concerning the importance of accurate hospital records and national broadcast addresses on ...

    Article : 232 words
  29. FIRE AT SCHOOL.

    W. J. MacDonald noticed a [?]right reflection in a room of the district school at 11.40 at night. Investigation showed that a door had been forced, and that a press containing books ...

    Article : 61 words
  30. WOMAN SPY CASE.

    Twelve arrests have been made so far at Metz in the "La Belle Sophie" case. The French authorities believe that the activities of the German gang concerned ...

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  31. "CYRANO DE BERGERAC."

    Owing to difficulties occurring through a clash of dates, Dr. Raoul Cardamatts's production of "Cyrano de Bergerac," which was to have been staged at the Criterion Theatre ...

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  32. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The price of gold to-day is £6/12/10½ an ounce fine. DOLLAR-STERLING QUOTATION. The dollar-sterling quotation to-day is 4.65¼ ...

    Article : 68 words
  33. TRAFFIC CONTROL.

    Sydney's first experiment with automatic traffic control was begun yesterday, with the inauguration of an "electro-matic vehicle-actuated controller" at the intersection of ...

    Article : 492 words
  34. FITTER INJURED.

    Harry Gain, 17, an electrical fitter, of M[?]grave-street, Mosman, suffered severe inte[?]al injuries yesterday, when he was jamned against a wall by a lift on the fourth [?]oor ...

    Article : 91 words
  35. Advertising

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    Advertising : 264 words
  36. UNITED STATES.

    The convention of the American Federation of Labour to day approved resolutions opposing inflation of currency declaring that it would bring the greatest possible harm" to ...

    Article : 95 words
  37. CAR BURNT

    A motor car which was recently damaged by fire while in the custody of the Newcastle police was mentioned in a case heard before Mr. Soane, S.M., in Newcastle Police Court ...

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  38. OBITUARY.

    The funeral of Mr. Alexander B. Templeman took place yesterday, when the remains were interred in the Randwick Cemetery. The services at the home and at the graveside were ...

    Article : 508 words
  39. STATE LOTTERY.

    The major prizes in the 158th State lottery were drawn at the Australian Hall Elizabeth-street, yesterday morning by Mr. G. Brooks, of Coraki. ...

    Article : 114 words
  40. ENGLISH TEAM IN INDIA.

    "No one could be more sensible of the honour done me by the M.C.C. when it asked me to lead the English team in the land of my birth," declared D. R. Jardine, captain of the English ...

    Article : 61 words
  41. CASUALTIES.

    Albert Nicholas, 9, Moncur-street, Woollahra, was critically injured when he fell from a tram in Oxford-street, city, yesterday afternoon. Eastern Suburbs Ambulance took him ...

    Article : 178 words
  42. RIFLE CLUBS

    The Assistant Minister for Defence (Mr. Francis) and the Minister for Lands (Mr. Buttenshaw), in speeches at the official luncheon at the Anzac rifle range yesterday, ...

    Article : 98 words
  43. TO-DAY.

    Criterion Theatre: "Private Lives," 2. 8. Theatre Royal: "The Quaker Girl," 2. 8. Tivoli Theatre: Charlie Stuart and Harry Lash, 2.30, 8. ...

    Article : 211 words
  44. CRAWFORD REFUSES

    Jack Crawford stated last night that a misunderstanding had led to the announcement by a theatrical firm yesterday that he had agreed to make personal appearances at a city ...

    Article : 65 words
  45. MALABAR.

    The Minister for Lands (Mr. Buttenshaw) has announced in the Government "Gazette" that the department has consented to alter the name of the village of Brand (the ...

    Article : 73 words
  46. LORRY CRASHES INTO SHOP.

    A motor lorry which was left parked in Lackey-street, Summer Hill, yesterday afternoon, ran backwards down the hill. It crashed through a plateglass window of a fruit shop, ...

    Article : 38 words
  47. QUEENSLAND RAINS.

    Good rains fell in the central west. Up to three inches fell in places. The rain was heavier in the Burnett district, where one place had six inches, and where streams are ...

    Article : 48 words
  48. HIBERNIAN SOCIETY.

    The annual conference of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society was concluded at the Australian Hall, Elizabeth-street, yesterday. Amendments of laws governing ...

    Article : 29 words
  49. SUBURBAN PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement Columns. ...

    Article : 3 words
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