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  2. RECORD DEFENCE VOTE PROPOSED

    Australia's volunteer militia forces are to be increased; the Naval Squadron is to be strengthened by the addition of one powerful vessel—either a cruiser or a pocket battleship; the Air Force and the munitions supply service are to be further ...

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    MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S TENNIS TEAM, who will leave on their overseas tour this week, were farwelled by the council of the L.T.A.V. at Kooyong (Melb.) on Thursday. Mr. H. A. Pitt (left), a vice-president, and Mr. W. H. Walker (manager of the team) are here toasting three of the players — Mrs. H. Hopman (left), Miss Dot Stevenson ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. AUSTRALIA WAS CONSULTED ON ITALIAN QUESTION

    Australia has been and will continue to be fully consulted regarding Britain's efforts to effect a settlement with Italy. An important statement issued to-night by the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) disposes of criticism directed against ...

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  5. STRIKE PROPOSAL REJECTED

    A meeting of 350 shunters and special first-class signalmen to-day rejected three proposals for various forms of strike action for a ...

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  6. Passenger For Burnie Lost Overboard From Orcades

    For more than an hour on Friday night the Orient liner Orcades, which arrived at Port Melbourne to-day, steamed in circles off the South ...

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  7. ASSAULT ON WOMEN

    In a surprise raid on a native camp four miles from the township Constable A. E. M'Nab arrested an aborigine at 3 p.m. to-day in ...

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  8. BROKEN HILL STRIKE CONTINUES

    BROKEN HILL, Sunday. — Discussions at the week-end failed to settle the strike of 600 men at they South Mine. ...

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  9. 25 EWES HAVE 52 LAMBS

    Twenty-five ewes belonging to a Sigglesthorne (Yorkshire) farmer yesterday gave birth to fifty-two ...

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  10. N.S.W. STATE FOREST AFIRE

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—More than half of the 3000-acre Killenbutta State for eut about Manildra, Cumnock and Molong was destroyed to-day by bush ...

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  11. Ship's Dash To Save Woman's Life

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — News of a dash through heavy seas off the African Coast to save the life of a Melbourne woman who was seriously ...

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  12. Fugitive Native Captured

    PERTH, Sunday. — Unarmed and worn out by his flight and lack of food, Henry Dinah (27), one of the natives alleged to have been concerned in a ...

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  13. East Coast Miners Agree To Resume Work

    After 16 weeks of idleness, miners at the Mt. Nicholas, Cornwall, Jubilee and Fingal collieries agreed yesterday, at a mass meeting at the Cornwall Hall, to resume work at the mines on Monday, March 14. The proposals of the Minister for Mines ...

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  14. DEVONPORT STREET FATALITY

    The inquiry into the cause of the death of Richard Donald Higgs (19), a cyclist, as the result of a collision at the intersection of ...

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  15. HEAVY ACCIDENT TOLL AT WEEK-END SPEEDWAY SMASH

    One man was killed and four others injured when a racing motorcycle got out of control and crashed into a crowd of spectators during ...

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  16. RIGID ENFORCEMENT OF REGULATIONS

    Regulations on the control of natives in Darwin will be rigidly enforced following the assault, the Protector of Aborigines (Dr. Cooke) announced ...

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  17. THREE KILLED WHEN TRUCK STRIKES TREE

    PERTH. Sunday. — Three men, Arthur Smith, Murray Allen and James Overstone, were killed, and two others severely injured when the utility truck ...

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  18. LOST IN DENSE BUSH

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — His memory gone and his clothes in tatters. Theodore Neville (36). sawmill owner, of Stroud, was found at dawn yesterday ...

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  19. WALKED MILE IN 6.26

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—In a mile handicap walk staged by the N.S.W. Athletic Association at the police carnival yesterday, A. Stubbs (scr.) won ...

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  20. LORRY AND CAR IN COLLISION

    A car and a lorry were extensively damaged when they collided on the State highway near Chasm Crook, between Burnie and ...

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  21. ORCADES BREAKS RECORD

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Coming from Adelaide to Melbourne in 26 hours [?] minutes, the liner Orcades secured [?]other record for the Orient Line when ...

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  22. £2,000,000 Plant For Manufacture Of Motor Body Sheets

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—A representative of the John Lysaght Co. said yesterady that work was proceeding on the site at Port Kembla, with the erection of Commonwealth Rolling Mills Pty. Ltd.'s £2,000,000 plant. ...

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  23. New Masonic Temple At Hobart

    In the presence of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tasmania (M. Wor. Bro. Stanley Dryden), Grand Lodge officers and a ...

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  24. Child Cyclist Struck By Car

    EUROA, Sunday. — About mid-day yesterday James Bryan Harrison (8) was killed, when bis bicycle was struck by a sedan car on the Hume highway. ...

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  25. Heavy Deathroll In Californian Floods

    LOS ANGELES, Saturday.—At least 175 people are dead and missing in the floods, and 30,000 square miles of Southern California are still isolated. ...

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  26. Agreement Reached On Key Seats

    Rival Labor factions—the official party, led by Mr. Lang, and the industrial group, led by Mr. Heffron, M.L.A.—have decided not ...

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  27. MOTOR-CYCLIST BADLY HURT

    A fractured skull and abrasions were received by Patrick Jobn Lattin, single, aged 22 years, when the motorcycle he was riding left the road and ...

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  28. TRUCK BURSTS INTO FLAMES

    Alfred Joseph Andrewarther (22), of East Kew, was burnt to death on the Morwell-Mirboo road at midnight yesterday. ...

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  29. MORE PLANT FOR PAPER MILL DUE ON THURSDAY

    It was announced by Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd. yesterday that a further large shipment of plant from overseas was due to ...

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  30. Beaten And Fired At By Bandits, Man Continues Chase

    Although he had been Knocked down and beaten insensible by armed bandits, who attempted to hold up Mr. Joseph Lehrer outside ...

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  31. DEPUTIES APPOINTED FOR FEDERAL MINISTERS

    CANBERRA, Sunday. — The appointment of deputies to act for senior Federal Ministers who will leave for London this month was announced to-night ...

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  32. THROWN FROM HORSE

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — Ken Richards, well known in the Cpotamundra district, was killed yesterday when thrown from a horse near his Cowcumbla station. ...

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  33. CAR MOUNTS STEEP BANK AND CAPSIZES

    About 4.30 a.m. yesterday a hire and drive sedan car, owned by Mr. H. F. Stafford, of Burnie, turned over on the State highway, a short distance on ...

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  34. Draughts Matches By Correspondence

    Commenced in 1935, a series of draughts matches between 22 Australians selected from all States, and 22 ...

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  35. Plane Develops Engine Trouble

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.—A Guinea Airways Lockheed Electra ten-passenger 'plane, flying from Sydney to Parafield, developed engine trouble last ...

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  36. COMET SEEN IN MELBOURNE

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — An unknown comet with an exceptionally long and bright tail was seen moving across the sky at Toorak and North ...

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  37. TRAGIC END TO HOLIDAY

    SYDNEY, Sunday. Mrs. Mary Tomlinson (47). of Haberfield, was fatally injured, and her husband and three sons were injured when a sedan car in which ...

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