Queanbeyan youth shoots self after dance
Hilton Frazer of Stornaway Road Queanbeyan was shot in the left breast on his father’s home verandah after a night out. He is in a critical condition at Queanbeyan District Hospital. Frazer had recently taken a local agent job with T and G Assurance and left a parcel with a rifle.
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Hilton Frazer
Stornaway Road
Queanbeyan
Queanbeyan District Hospital
T. and G. Assurance Company
Frazer
Canberra
Wool and Its Price in the British and Australian Wool Trade
The piece notes modest hopes for the Australian clip to be absorbed as lower manufactured fabric prices filter through. It cites stable prices in Yorkshire near 1933 levels, cautious buying by traders, and a continental trade pivot with Germany’s import controls. It highlights reduced German and French top exports, weaker July 1933 comparisons, and limited direct wool shipments from Australia to Germany as signs of a challenged market.
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Winchcombe, Carson Ltd
Yorkshire
England
United Kingdom
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Germany
Australia
Commonwealth
Sydney
Europe
Special arrangement Reuters information note
Special arrangement notes credit Reuters special sources for the world service along with other overseas intelligence published in this issue and all rights therein.
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Reuters
Te World Service
Spitfire and Half a Sinner at Capitol Canberra
The Capitol Theatre Canberra screens Spitfire with Katherine Hepburn and the American stage adaptation Half a Sinner. Spitfire features a hill girl drawn to divine quotes and a romance with engineer Robert Young, ending happily. Half a Sinner, an Alias the Deacon adaptation, follows Sally Blane and Joel McCrae as they seek happiness, with card sharping, a hotel, a Deacon, wrestling, and a robbery. Includes Holland travelogue, newsreel, and Popeye cartoon.
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Capitol Theatre
Canberra
Katherine Hepburn
Spitfie
Miss Hepburn
Robert Young
Alias the Deacon
Sally Blane
Berton Churchill
Joel McCrae
Jumping the Rattler
Misa Blane
Sally
McCrae
Alexandria Carlisle
Deacon
Holland
Sydney wool sales show strong demand at auctions
Sydney Tuesday wool sale notes strong overall demand with competition from the Continent Yorkshire and Japan. The top price reached 164d paid by a German buyer for five bales from Coolah, while shabby faulty lines remained slightly irregular.
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Sydney
Woo
Continent
Yorkshire
Japan
Coolah
Melbourne Wool Sales Firm Market Amid Strong Competition
Melbourne wool market remained firm today as buyers from all sections pushed competition high. Trade showed steady demand with good selling, as prices held firm despite varied lot quality.
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Melbourne
Tuesaday
Reynolds Family Sets Longevity Record in Hopkinsville Kentucky
A Hopkinsville Kentucky family claims a total age of 612 years through members Mia, John Thomason, Mrs BE P Martin, Dr W E Reynolds, Mrs Thom aon, Mrs Emmet Parker, and Mrs Zene Reynolds with ages ranging from the early forties to ninety four, highlighting one of the nation's longest living families.
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United States
Hopkinsville
Kentucky
Reynolds
Mia
John Thomason
BE. P. Martin
W. E. Reynolds
Mra. Thomaon
Emmet Parker
Zene Reynolds
Poison in cups from Melbourne lodging house tea tips
Police investigate discovery of deadly toxin in a tea tip set out for the aged at Mrs Berger's lodging house in Maribyrnong. Four lodgers denied knowledge. detectives travel to the country to pursue inquiries.
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Melbourne
Berger
Maribyrnong
Tax on Hatless Hypothetical Echoes Hat Industry Subsidy
During a Workers' Compensation Commission hearing Judge Perdriny floated a plan to tax people who did not wear data. He suggested using the proceeds to subsidize the hat industry after a witness said demand for hats had slumped and he sought employment in a hat factory.
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Sydney
Perdriny Sugested
Workers’ Compensation Commission
Succession duties debate at Permanent Trustee annual meeting
Chairman F. NM Yearwood condemned death duties on estates. He cited a grazier with property in New South Wales and Queensland, where mortgage existence led to £10,000 estate in Queensland facing £23,000 in duties already paid.
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Sydney
Permanent Trustee Company Ltd
F. NM
Yearwood
New South Wales
Queensland
American Golfers Kirkwood and Sarazen to Play in Canberra
American golfers Kirkwood and Sarazen will stage an 18 hole exhibition at Royal Canberra golf links this afternoon. Prime Minister Lyons will welcome them at 2 pm at the club house before the match starts. The transformed nine holes on the southern river bank will be in good order after flood repairs. Tickets will be sold at the club house entrances and Lennox Crossing.
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Kirkwood
Sarazen
Royal Canberra Golf Links
Canberra
Mr. Lyons
Club House
Lennox Crossing
Victorian threat to golfers halts unregistered play
The Victorian Golfing Association president warned that Sarazen and Kirkwood could be barred from the Centenary championships if they played an unregistered course in Victoria. Kirkwood and Sarazen said they did not intend to break regulations but would defer the decision to Patterson River Club officials.
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Melbourne
Victorian Golfing Association
Harry Robert
Sarazen
Kirkwood
Victoria
Patterson River
Close Match in Sydney at N.8.W. links
W. Bolger and J. D. Spence gave Americans Sarazen and Joe Kirkwood their hardest fight in a four ball best ball match. A strong north-easter made holes hard. At the eighteenth the match was square and no result at the tenth, but at the twentieth the Americans won.
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Sydney
W. Bolger
J. D. Spence
Americans Sarazen
Joe Kirkwood
Australia
W. Links
Swimming Plans Invite French and Japanese Swimmers to Canberra
Canberra Amateur Swimming Club plans invite French champion Jean Taras and diver Henri Bussard to Canberra for a February 16 carnival as part of Centenary celebrations. They also aim to recruit Japanese champions while introducing a new point system for midweek carnivals and naming a selection committee for tour teams.
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Canberra
N.3.w.a.s.a
Jean Taras
Messrs. G. 8. Knowles
I. L. Davies
Eboy
Chariton
Calthorpe
Loveless
Forreat
New science “cosmic phenomenology” proposed by Harvard scholar
Harvard geophysics researcher Dr. Harlan T. Stetson introduces a forthcoming science called cosmic phenomenology. The field would study life effects from cosmic phenomena including crustal changes, magnetic field variation, the aurora, cosmic radiation, and other spaceborne influences on Earth.
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Harlan T. Stetson
Harvard University
Victoria the Good and the Widow's Bow Tale Debunked
In Victoria the Widow and Her Bow, Hector Bolitha disputes the tale that Victoria as Princess vowed to be good upon learning she would be queen. The Queen denies ever saying such a thing and questions how anyone could claim it.
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Victoria
Hector Bolitha
Alleged Fraud Ties Food Relief to False Orders
A detained map and questioned individual face allegations of forgeries in food relief schemes. The accounts reportedly show a discrepancy of £7000, alleged to have been paid out on false orders, with the forgery scope said to extend over a long period.
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Sydney
Palmolive Shaving Tale Promotes Olive Oil Advantage
An advertisement touts Palmolive shaving cream highlighting olive oil as the key differentiator. It promises a perfect finish and introduces the Palmolive After Shaving Tale as a complementary product.
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Johnson
Johnson and Joh
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Royal Canberra
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Pete Daily Beard
Weelly Beard
Polsley
Victoria the
Royal Air Force
Cleveland
Thoes Commonwealth
Snd
Lysaght Bros. & CO. Ltd
Kringe ST. Kydney
Holbrook
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