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  2. COUNTRY NEWS. BOGGABRI WATER SUPPLY.

    Over 60 people attended a public meeting at Boggabri to discuss the question of a water supply for the town. It was decided to inform Namoi Shire that it was desirable that a ...

    Article : 68 words
  3. FOURTH TEST.

    The opening day of the fourth test match was one of eventful cricket, the South Africans finishing the day with 265 for seven wickets. Before lunch they threatened to collapse as ...

    Article : 1,407 words
  4. GIANT CUNARDER Could be Made to Pay.

    An extraordinary revelation of the financial affairs of the Cunard Company has been made in a special circular issued to shareholders regarding the suspension of the work on the ...

    Article : 727 words
  5. STANDARDISATION.

    Co-operative effort through the processes of standardisation and the importance of promoting understanding between the nations of the Empire and the world of the industrial ...

    Article : 512 words
  6. STATE MINISTERS' VIEWS.

    The Acting Treasurer of Victoria (Mr. Jones) said, after the adjournment of the Loan Council, that he had voted against the granting of Mr. Lang's application because he took the ...

    Article : 400 words
  7. SHIELD CRICKET.

    Queensland is in a splendid position in the return Sheffield Shield match against Victoria which commenced to-day. At one stage, however, a collapse appeared imminent, as two ...

    Article : 324 words
  8. DR. R. V. STORER

    The hearing was resumed yesterday by the Medical Board of New South Wales of the inquiry into charges against Dr. Robert Vivian Storer, of Macquarie-street, Sydney, of ...

    Article : 755 words
  9. MILK PRICES.

    The Milk Board yesterday continued its inquiries into the milk industry with a view to the fixation of prices. Leslie Murray Crawford, manager of the ...

    Article : 856 words
  10. MURWILLUMBAH RATES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 86 words
  11. SUGAR AGREEMENT.

    The Prime Minister's announcement of the Government's proposal to review the sugar agreement has astonished Queensland sugar interests. It is described as a suggestion of ...

    Article : 252 words
  12. LITHGOW RAILWAY MEN'S CLUB.

    At the annual meeting of the Lithgow Railwaymen's Sick and Mutual Benefit Club, it was stated that £601 had been expended in sick and funeral benefits among members ...

    Article : 121 words
  13. INTEREST ON RATES.

    Recently a ratepayer at Fairfield objected to paying to the Fairfield Council 8/3 interest on overdue rates, and he placed the matter before the Minister for Local Government. The ...

    Article : 117 words
  14. GLEN INNES WATER SUPPLY.

    Alderman Plante, at a meeting of the municipal council last night, said that serious allegations had been made regarding the Glen Innes water scheme, particularly regarding ...

    Article : 104 words
  15. ARCHIBALD PRIZE

    The Archibald Prize for 1931 was awarded yesterday, at a meeting of the trustees of the National Art Gallery, to Sir John Longstaff for his portrait of Sir John Sulman. ...

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  16. LONG POLICE CHASE

    A suspected thief was captured by police at Camperdown yesterday after a long chase, which ended when the fugitive became entangled in a barbed wire fence. ...

    Article : 173 words
  17. STORE DAMAGED BY FIRE.

    Early this morning the premises occupied by P. Donohoe and Sons, general storekeepers, were badly damaged by fire. The stock was destroyed. Efficient work on the part of the ...

    Article : 46 words
  18. SANDBAGGED.

    Ernest Patrick Smith, a tram conductor attached to the Rozelle tramway depot, was found lying unconscious on the footpath in Ross-street, Forest Lodge, last night. He Had ...

    Article : 205 words
  19. CAR OVERTURNS.

    One of three occupants of a motor cat which overturned near Hampton, Mrs. O. Duncan, of Hazelbrook, was admitted to Lithgow Hospital suffering from facial injuries and ...

    Article : 58 words
  20. GIRLS ARRESTED IN TRAIN.

    Two girls, who were wearing long trousers and sweaters, appeared in the police court to-day, charged with having travelled in a railway carriage from Moss Vale to Goulburn ...

    Article : 97 words
  21. TWO MEN KILLED.

    Mr. Charles Royds, auctioneer and grazier, and Mr. Ernest Keyte were fatally injured at Jembaicumbene this afternoon. They were working in a shaft of a goldmine ...

    Article : 58 words
  22. THREE RESCUES.

    Roy Tilley, who rescued Laurence McGraw (15) from drowning in the Wollondilly River, has saved three persons from drowning within a fortnight. ...

    Article : 145 words
  23. GAR WOOD

    A message from Detroit states that the question whether Gar Wood yesterday exceeded Kaye Don's record by a margin sufficient to entitle him to the world's motor-boat record ...

    Article : 182 words
  24. HAWAIIAN CRIME. Guarding Against Outbreaks in Court.

    In the case in which the New York society woman, Mrs. Granville Fortescue, her son-in-law, Lieutenant Thomas Massey, and two U.S. naval ratings, Albert Jones and Edmond Lord, ...

    Article : 149 words
  25. NEW SHILLING STAMP.

    A male lyre bird is depicted on a new shilling postage stamp which will be issued on February 15 by the Postal Department. The stamp will be one of a series illustrating the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 263 words
  26. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 386 words
  27. ILLICIT STILLS. Work by Police Praised.

    The Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) commented yesterday morning on the fine work performed by the police during recent months in suppressing the manufacture of illicit ...

    Article : 173 words
  28. GOLDMINER'S RIGHT OF ACCESS.

    At the Mining Warden's Court yesterday, James Joseph Burns, goldminer, of Lett River, and the holder of an authority to enter for gold, complained that Geo. S. Harvey, of Cox's ...

    Article : 124 words
  29. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    The League of Nations Council to-day adopted a report approving the acceptance of Iraq as a member of the League as soon as the British mandate could be concluded. The ...

    Article : 141 words
  30. GOLD STANDARD.

    Hope of an impartial inquiry into the effect which a departure from the gold standard would have on the welfare of South Africa has been abandoned owing to the emphatic ...

    Article : 118 words
  31. COUNTRY PARTY'S CAMPAIGN.

    A conference of delegates of the Countrt party from all parts of the Hume electorate decided to continue an intensive campaign of organisation until every small centre had ...

    Article : 84 words
  32. HEAVY FINES IMPOSED.

    An illicit still, mentioned in connection with charges against two men at the Newcastle Police Court to-day, was the largest found in Australia since the inception of the ...

    Article : 230 words
  33. COUNCIL'S FINANCES.

    "They're broke," said the president of Wyaldra Shire Council (Councillor A Croft), referring to an amount of £110/3/5, which, he said, the Main Roads Board owed the council. ...

    Article : 70 words
  34. Advertising

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    Advertising : 269 words
  35. M. CHALIAPIN.

    M. Feodor Chaliapin, the famous basso, who is appearing in opera at Amsterdam, will shortly return to Russia. He is booked to sing at Moscow on February 18, and will resume ...

    Article : 103 words
  36. TARIFFS AND THE CRISIS.

    Sir Josiah Stamp, a director of the Bank of England, lecturing on the economic crisis, said that as an economist he was a strong freetrader, but, from the present monetary ...

    Article : 91 words
  37. FALSE PRETENCES CHARGES.

    At the Albury Police Court 16 charges of having obtained food relief by false pretences were preferred against Christian Joh[?]n Martin Peterson, 54. The police stated [?]at ...

    Article : 288 words
  38. INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

    Another case of infantile paralysis has been reported to the municipal health officer. The patient, a boy named Murray, aged 17, is a brother of a boy who died in the Wagga ...

    Article : 181 words
  39. BRISBANE BRIDGE.

    By an Order-in-Council which was made to-day, authority has been given to Messrs. W. J. Reinhold, consulting engineer, of Brisbane, and E. G. Wagner, consulting engineer, of ...

    Article : 115 words
  40. FOUR-YEAR FORECASTS.

    Sir Hubert Wilkins, the Australian polar explorer, predicts that weather forecasts for four years, instead of 24 hours, will result from the study of the pola[?] regions through ...

    Article : 105 words
  41. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. Arthur Henderson, the former Foreign Secretary, before leaving to-day for Geneva, where he will preside at the Disarmament Conference, said that he was not discouraged by ...

    Article : 242 words
  42. ENDOWMENT.

    Resentment was expressed in Ministerial circles yesterday at the suggestion made at the Loan Council in Melbourne that, in view of the acute financial situation, family endowment ...

    Article : 86 words
  43. FIRES AT REDFERN.

    Two fires occurred at Redfern yesterday, one of them almost destroying a Methodist school hall at the rear of the South Sydney Methodist Church in Cleveland-street, Redfern. ...

    Article : 159 words
  44. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 words
  45. SOLDIER SETTLEMENT.

    The sale of a soldier settlement block at Forbes was referred to yesterday by the Minister for Lands (Mr. Tully). He pointed out that this block was not ...

    Article : 119 words
  46. POSSESSION OF OPIUM.

    At the Perth Police Court to-day, Loo Park, 48, unemployed Chinese market gardener, was fined £50 for having in his possession 20 tubes of opium and a complete smoking ...

    Article : 105 words
  47. RETURN TO NATURE.

    A message from Rome says that Stonor Mussolini, in approving of the return to nature movement sponsored by the Fascist Medical Congress, declared: "The whole manner of ...

    Article : 89 words
  48. ALLEGED SHOOTING.

    The seven men who are charged with the shooting of Plainclothes Constable D[?]rham with intent to murder, and with having [?]tolen £980, the property of G. J. Coles and Co., ...

    Article : 29 words
  49. GIRL'S SUDDEN DEATH.

    Elsie Grantham, 19, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Grantham, of Armidale, died in the Armidale and New England Hospital last night, half an hour after ...

    Article : 68 words
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