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  2. COUNTRY NEWS. MURWILLUMBAH MAIN ROADS.

    Mr. C. Christie, muncipal engineer, has submitted to the Murwillumbah Municipal Council plans and specifications for the reconstruction of the main roads in the ...

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  3. RAIN AND SNOW.

    Reports received by the Weather Bureau for the 48 hours ended at 5 a.m. yesterday show that widespread rains covered the coastal areas south of Newcastle the greater ...

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  4. NIGHT TROTTING.

    The Metropolitan Land Board yesterday continued the hearing of the application by Maroubra Speedway. Limited, for a variation of the conditions of the special Crown lease ...

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  5. LADY TRANSCONTINENTAL MOTORISTS.

    Miss Stella Christie (on left) and Mrs. Gladys Sandford. The New Zealand lady motorists, who completed their 11,000 miles journey, four times across Australia, yesterday. Wearing overcoats are Mr. G. Henderson (on left), secretary of the Royal Automobile Club of Australia, and Mr. H. I. Johnson, secretary of the National Roads and Motorists' Association. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. OLD RULES.

    "Now that the unity conference of the New South Wales Labour party has settled once and for all what the true opinion ot the rank and file is, the public are in a position to ...

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  7. ELECTIONS. PRINTING THE ROLLS.

    The Chief Electoral Officer (Mr. Harkness) stated yesterday that revision courts had been fixed to deal with the electoral lists of the whole of the 90 constituencies. The latest ...

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  8. UNLUCKY FAMILY.

    Returning from Gundagai to Nangus on Saturday night, William Boyton, driving a motor lorry, missed his way while rounding a bend in the road. The lo[?] went over the ...

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  9. WILLOUGHBY.

    The selection by the Willoughby electoral Conference of Mr. Vernon Treatt as the Nationalist candidate for Willoughby has caused a distinet cleavage in the branches of ...

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  10. WOMAN KILLED IN MOTOR ACCIDENT.

    On Saturday night a motor car containing Mr. and Mrs. W. East four of their children, and another relation, was being driven from Lake Cargelligo to their farm 12 miles away, ...

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  11. LABOUR NOMINATIONS.

    The Seale executive last night decided to accept the nominations of all Parliamentarians for the State elections with the exception of Messrs. Goodin and Gillies. ...

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  12. STRIKE PAY.

    A message from Queenstown states that the position on the Mt. Lyell field, where the engineers have struck for a 44-hour week, is unchanged, but that there is an optimistic ...

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  13. DEATH OF SIR FRANCIS HARRISON-SMTTH.

    The last English mail records the death of Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Harrison-Smith, who, from 1904 to 1908, acted in the capacity of secretary to the then Governor ...

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  14. FUNERAL IN SNOW.

    Mrs. Robert Roberts died at Craigie on Saturday at the age of 80, and the body was conveyed from Craigie to Nimitybelle for interment. The funeral cortege experienced ...

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  15. BOY FATALLY KICKED BY HORSE.

    Neville Lange, aged 9 years, son of Mr. Harry Lange, farmer, of Wyalong, was trying to catch a horse yesterday when the animal kicked him on the head. The boy was ...

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  16. CYCLONE.

    The following special ocean forecast was issued by the Weather Bureau last night:— "The severe cyclone is slowly passing eastward. Its centre at 3 p.m. ...

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  17. NEW GUINEA.

    The Bishop of Bathurst (Dr. Long) addressed a largely.attended public meeting and social gathering last night, in support of the appeal for the new diocese, to be formed ...

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  18. MEDICAL AID.

    Questioned yesterday concerning a cable message from London, which had appeared in the "Herald," announcing a proposed scheme to carry medical aid by aeroplane to ...

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  19. DRUMMOYNE NATIONALISTS.

    Mr. Norman Cashman, president of the Abbotsford-Fivedock branch of the Nationalist Association, in a letter to the Editor, replies to the statement made in a letter from the ...

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  20. MODERATES SUPPRESSED.

    "The unity conference has certainly resulted in unity," said Mr. Bavin, leader of the Opposition yesterday, "but it is the unity of the Hon lying down with the lamb—with ...

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  21. BODY IN A BRICK PIT.

    William Parkes, a fireman at Baker and Sons' brickworks, went down a brick pit yesterday afternoon to get a hammer, and found the body of a man about 50 years of ...

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  22. STOLEN MONEY.

    On July 15 a trap was set to catoh a thief in the office of the Commissioner for Stamps. A marked 10/ note was stolen and the theft was sheeted home to the second deputy ...

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  23. THE RIVERINA.

    The tug Kurrara, which left Sydney on July 11, laden with salvage gear for the stranded steamer Riverina, returned to Sydney yesterday. ...

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  24. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

    So far there has been no development in regard to the dispute at Lithgow and Oakey Park collieries, which are idle again to-day Neither side has made any movement ...

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  25. BASIC WAGE.

    Reductions in the basic wage, ranging from 6d to 2/ a week, in all States, with the exception of South Australia and Western Australia, will take place as from August 1 in ...

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  26. ESPERANCE BAY.

    When the Australian Commonwealth line steamer Eaperance Bay was steaming through the Suez Canal on her way from London to Australia a blade of the port propeller was ...

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  27. CANTERBURY.

    The endorsed Nationalist candidate for Canterbury is Mr. A. H. Long. ...

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  28. COUNTRY PARTY.

    The Country party has endorsed Mr. E. A. Buttenshaw as a candidate for the Lachlan eloctorate, but it has given him the right to contest any other electorate. In the event of ...

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  29. RECREATION AT CANBERRA.

    Great strides are being made by the Canberra Social Service Association in alleviating the discomforts of citizens of Canberra who, but recently torn from their circles of ...

    Article : 231 words
  30. AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN

    A deputation from the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League to the Minister for Defence (Sir William Glasgow) yesterday urged that the Federal Government should grant ...

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  31. AERIAL SURVEY.

    Group-Captain Williams of the Royal Australian Air Force, flying a D.H.5 machine, made a fast Journey from Goulburn yesterday, accomplishing the trip in one hour and ten ...

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  32. POLICE RAID.

    In making one of their periodical raids on places frequented by undesirables, and persons who have no lawful means of support, Senior-detective Milne and Detective West ...

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  33. LATE SHIPPING.

    ADELAIDE.—Arr: July 25, Canadian Constructor, [?], from Montreal; Matheran, s, from New York; Woniora, s. from Launceston. Dep: Demodocus, s, for London. ...

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  34. FILM MERGER.

    A merger is announced between three large motion picture releasing organisations for the Australian and New Zealand markets. The companies concerned are Cinema Art ...

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  35. FARMER INJURED.

    While working at Ogunbil, near Tamworth, this afternoon, Albert Albertson, 56, farmer, met with a painful accident. He was constructing a fence on the side of a hill, and ...

    Article : 121 words
  36. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 137 words
  37. CHILD'S DEATH FROM BURNS.

    Keith Fuller, aged 3 years, twin son of a railway shunter, died in the Goulburn District Hospital this afternoon from burns received at his parents' home this morning. The ...

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  38. SUPPOSED TIGER'S "LAIR."

    A large crowd of hunters made an unsuccessful search for the supposed tiger yesterday. They drove the bush systematically, but could not see sign of the animal, other ...

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  39. HERD TESTING.

    In response to requests made by farmers for assistance in herd testing, the Cabinet has granted a subsidy of £8000 towards the cost of the work of the Herd Testing Associations ...

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  40. MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED.

    Leo Alfred Carroll, 17, received fatal injuris, on Saturday night when he collided with a motor car. The boy was riding a motor cycle, when he came in contact with ...

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  41. PUBLIC UTILITIES.

    At the last meeting of the Inverell Municipal Council, criticism was made by aldermen on the action of the Premier (Mr. Lang) in making £8,000,000 available for works in ...

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  42. "THE ROAD-BUILDER IN AUSTRALIA."

    We have received the first issue of "The Road-Builder in Australia," published by the Harbour Newspaper and Publishing Co., Ltd., of Sydney. ...

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  43. LONG VOYAGES.

    Laden with 1,400,000 superficial feet of timber, the ship Ohillicothe is 108 days out on her voyage from Portland,, Oregon (U.S.A.). The vessel commenced her voyage on April ...

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  44. SHOOTING ACCIDENT.

    Four lads, the eldest of whom is 17 years of age, named Patrick Graham, Charles Sullivan, William Dent (of Abbotsford), and Edward Munday (of Auburn), arrived on ...

    Article : 111 words
  45. Advertising

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  46. RAID AT CANBERRA.

    Gambling as a week-end pastime has become very popular in the Federal Capital Territory. The police raided an alleged two-up school ...

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  47. AIRSHIPS.

    Group Captain Fellowes, Director of Airship Development, and Flight Lieutonaute Nixon, of the British Air Ministry, and M. A. Giblett, of the British Meteorological Office, ...

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  48. ALPINE RECORD.

    A new alpine record has been established at Kosciusko by Mr. H. T. Kienzie, of Bexley, who accomplished the climb from the hotel to the summit of the mountain in 8 hours 58 ...

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  49. ADULTERATED MILK.

    At the Wagga Police Court to-day Mr. T. W. Cohen, P.M., imposed a fine of £3, with costs, on Edward Melville and Arthur,Huggett, on a charge of selling adulterated milk, ...

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  50. PAPUAN AFFAIRS.

    The Annual installation of the Masonic Lodge of New Guinea took place on Saturday evening, Mr. H. A. Ross (Government storekeeper) was elected W.M. for the ensuing ...

    Article : 111 words
  51. ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

    A feature of the annual meeting of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, which was held at the University of Sydney last night, was an address by the president ...

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  52. CANBERRA.

    Preparations have now been completed to welcome more than 1000 citizens to the Federal capital territory. This work has been undertaken by the Social Service ...

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  53. LATE MR. J. B. SUTTOR.

    The esteem in which the late Mr. J. B. Suttor (formerly Trade Commissioner for New South Wales in the East) was held by the official and commercial community in Japan is ...

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  54. ROMA OIL BORE.

    The Oil bore of the Roma Oil Corporation, Limited, has now reached a depth of 3505 feet, and is in hard strata. It is proposed to sink another 50 feet and then set with ...

    Article : 72 words
  55. TO-DAY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 148 words
  56. MOTOR ACCIDENT.

    While Gordon Songer, of Beceroft-road, Cheltenham, was standing beside his motor cycle in Lane Cove-road. Wahroonga, about 10 o'clock last night, he was run down by ...

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  57. LEVEL CROSSING FATALITY.

    A light locomotive, travelling from Townsville to Innisfall last night, collided at a level crossing at South Ingham with a motor car containing Thomas Tompson and his son. ...

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  58. CAR AND LORRY COLLIDE.

    Two students were injured and a singleseater car badly damaged in collision with a motor lorry in Parramatta road Camperdown, about 7 o'clock last evening. Frederick Uther, ...

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  59. ARBOR DAY CELEBRATIONS.

    In furtherance of its educational aims, the Australian Forest League has issued an appeal to local government and other public bodies for a State Arbor Day, to be celebrated ...

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  60. SUGGESTED MAINROADS.

    The Main Roads Board has intimated to the Woollahra, Waverley, and vaucluse Council that it is unable to recommend the proc[?] mation of Old South Head-road as a ma[?] ...

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  61. BILLIARDS.

    The final sessions of the amateur billiard champion ship of New South Wales Were resumed last night. A W. Winter adavanced his score from 478 to 796. and was the[?] left behind by L. W. Hayes who is still in play ...

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  62. CAR STRIKES POLE.

    Ernest Wood, mechanic, of Leonard-street, Hornsby, suffered concussion when a car driven by F. Withers, in which he was a passenger, collided with a telegraph pole in ...

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  63. FOOTBALLER INJURED.

    Owing to a acrious injury to his shoulder in the last club game in which be played, Geraman the crack Rugby League centre threequarter, will be unable to participate in any ...

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  64. ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

    At the meeting of the Royal Australian Historical Society to be held in the Education Building to-night. Mr. H. L. Harris, M.A., L.L.B., lecturer iN history at the Teachers' ...

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  65. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

    The annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will take place to-day in the premises at the corner of George [?]d Gro[?]venor streets, at 11 a.m. ...

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