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  2. FEDERAL SESSION. Commonwealth Bank Bill.

    In the House of Representatives to-night, the second reading was agreed to of the bill to amend the Commonwealth Bank Act to. provide for control over the export of gold. ...

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  3. AMUSEMENT TAX. Pictures and Theatres.

    A new amusement tax, it is understood, was approved by the State Cabinet yesterday, and subsequently submitted to a Ministerial party meeting for discussion. The tax will ...

    Article : 172 words
  4. UNEMPLOYMENT.

    In his reply to a deputation from Newcastle which sought relief for the unemployed of Newcastle, the Premier (Mr Bavin) took the opportunity yesterday to point out ...

    Article : 914 words
  5. BRITISH TRADE.

    In the House of Commons the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. W. Graham), in answer to questions, said he had not received any communications from the dominions in ...

    Article : 531 words
  6. GOVERNORSHIPS.

    In view of the Government's necessity to appoint a Governor-General of Australia in 1930, it is interesting to note the reaction of the Labour party's ranks to Lord Bledlsioe's ...

    Article : 328 words
  7. COAL DISPUTE. Miners' Leaders.

    The reception accorded the miners leaders when they faced a combined meeting of Richmond Main and Pelaw Main miners' lodges at Kurri Kurri this afternoon, was of ill omen ...

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  8. ANGRY SCENES.

    Disorderly scenes during a speech by the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) in the Legislative Assembly last night culminated in the order for the removal of the leader of ...

    Article : 403 words
  9. SOVIET REPLY To U.S. Note.

    According to a message from Moscow the Soviet Government's reply to the United States Note on the Manchurian situation expresses amazement that the ...

    Article : 472 words
  10. "PUBLIC WILL PAY."

    "Naturally it will be a serious thing for the amusement industry," said Mr. Stuart Doyle, managing director of Union Theatres, Ltd., last night, in referring to the proposed ...

    Article : 173 words
  11. LONDON TRANSPORT.

    The announcement by the Minister for Transport (Mr. Morrison) concerning "a single, simple form of public ownership of all transport services in London traffic areas," ...

    Article : 352 words
  12. SHEFFIELD SHIELD.

    New South Wales' selectors, Messrs. R. L. Jones, A. Ratcliffe, and R. C. M. Boyce, yesterday chose the following 12 players to leave Svdney on Sunday week for the Sheffield ...

    Article : 580 words
  13. DUPLICATION.

    Owing to the heavy railway traffic between Sydney and Melbourne there has been a revival of the movement for the completion of the duplication of the main line between ...

    Article : 112 words
  14. LITHGOW DECISION.

    At a pit-top meeting of the Lithgow State mine lodge, the largest lodge in the western district, this morning, the following resolution in regard to the ...

    Article : 277 words
  15. MR. SCULLIN'S REPLY.

    Mr. Corser (Queensland) asked Mr. Scullin in the House of Representatives to-day whether the Government, in drawing up the new tariff, had considered the probability that ...

    Article : 151 words
  16. U.S.A. TARIFF.

    Discussing the tariff in his annual address to Congress, Presiden Hoover asked for an effective tariff on agricultural products, and some limited changes in the Industrial ...

    Article : 218 words
  17. STATE ELECTIONS.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Premier (Mr. Bavin) announced that the general elections would be held during November next year. ...

    Article : 98 words
  18. MIGRATION.

    Mr. C. H. Manning, Director of Migration at Australia House, emphatically denies a statement published in Australia regarding the dismissal of the London migration staff at ...

    Article : 149 words
  19. AVIATION.

    Though the official explanation is that the launching of the R100 has been delayed by the weather, rumours similar to those preceding the launching of the R101, reflecting on its ...

    Article : 250 words
  20. AGREEMENT OPPOSED.

    An eleventh-hour attempt to persuade the miners to reject the terms of the agreement at the mass meetings commencing to-day and lasting until the end of the week, was decided ...

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  21. LOCAL MACHINERY.

    Mr. Cooper (president) informed the Water Board yesterday that different kinds of Australian manufactured machinery in use in the deDartments of the board had not always ...

    Article : 323 words
  22. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS.

    Lord Danesfort, in the House of Lords, called attention to a speech by Mr. Blythe (Free State Minister for Finance), in the Dall Elreann, on the subject of Irish appeals ...

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  23. DEBT PAYMENTS.

    Answering a Parliamentary question as iu when arrears of £146,000,000 paid by Great Britain to the United States would be cleared off it all Allied and reparations debts, as ...

    Article : 120 words
  24. TWO GIRLS DROWNED.

    Five girls, residents of Thirroul, were surfing there late yesterday afternoon, and while resting on a sandbank some distance from the shore noticed a heavy undertow. ...

    Article : 239 words
  25. ENGINEDRIVERS' ATTITUDE.

    The State Council of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association last night completed arrangements for a conference with the colliery proprietors to discuss proposals ...

    Article : 67 words
  26. REFUND OF £680 SOUGHT.

    Members of the Melbourne Wharf Labourers' Union to-day passed a resolution urging the representatives of the Waterside Workers' Federation now visiting Canberra to press for ...

    Article : 86 words
  27. MURDER CHARGE.

    In a powerful motor car police went yesterday in search of James Edwin Devine, and finally, when they discovered him riding in another car near Bulli, they arrested him. ...

    Article : 207 words
  28. ITALY AND YUGOSLAVIA.

    A message from Belgrade states that tension between Italy and Yugoslavia has been increased as a result of the alleged discovery of a huge italian spy system, under which ...

    Article : 63 words
  29. INCREASED WAGES.

    Following Mr. Henry Ford's statement that he would immediately increase the wages of his employees, his son (Mr. Edsel Ford) announced al Detroit that the company would ...

    Article : 78 words
  30. UNEMPLOYMENT.

    The minister for Labour (Miss Bondfield) in the committee, stages of the Unemployed Insurance Bill, regretted that she could not accept an amendment to pay the wives of ...

    Article : 169 words
  31. TARIFF EXPLOITED.

    The Minister for Customs (Mr Fenton) speaking in the House of Representatives, said that the Ministry had indicated in no uncertain terms to those Australian ...

    Article : 124 words
  32. MR. FENTON.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. scullin) announced in the House of Representatives this afternoon that Australia's representative at the Five Power Naval Conference, which will ...

    Article : 269 words
  33. SALE OF WAR MEDALS.

    The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Shaw replying to a question in the House of Commons, said he questioned the desirability of making the sale of the Victoria Cross illegal. ...

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  34. ITALIAN ART.

    A message from Rome states that the steamar Leonardo di Vinci has left Genoa carrying 350 pictures and sculptures from public galleries and private collections worth ...

    Article : 104 words
  35. ELEVEN DROWNED.

    Apia radio station reports that the steamers Trongate and Lincoln-Ellsworth arrived at Gardner island this morning. The Norwich City's crew was sighted on the beach. ...

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  36. SUSPECTED SAFEBREAKER.

    From a description which had been supplied them by Reginald William Moran, Detectives Kennedy, Geldart, Thompson, and Findlay yesterday arrested a man in a city street. ...

    Article : 167 words
  37. EXPLOSION ON STEAMER.

    A remarkable accident occurred on the steamet Port Huon yesterday. Arthur Phillips, aged 36 years, an assistant cngineer on the steamer, which is berthed at ...

    Article : 118 words
  38. ENRAGED FARMER.

    A message from Warsaw says:—"Enraged because his relatives opposed his marriage to a German girl, a Polish farmer living at Kaltowltz killed six of the seven members ...

    Article : 94 words
  39. FRAUDULENT SHARE ISSUES.

    The President of the Board of Trade (Mr W. Graham). In answer to a question in the House of Commons, said he would consider any practicable proposals to make impossible ...

    Article : 101 words
  40. COLLIERY TRAGEDY.

    A poignant tragedy occurred at the Viewpoint Colliery, Lanarkshire, when two miners were burled by a fnll of 100 tons of earth, due to the collapse of the root. The rescuers ...

    Article : 94 words
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