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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Sep 04, 1936
Page
1
In Athens on Wednesday King Edward ducked as the skiff he rode capsized in Aldiphen Wardour. The monarch was returning from the Nahlin voyage, acknowledging cheers of republic and endeavouring to keep balance when the boat struck the wash from the Naifin’s laure and overturned.
A fragment indicates a legal action involving a fruit case claim for damages against or connected to Minister's Commerce Turney. No further readable details establish parties, dates, or proper nouns beyond those two entities.
Horace Jeffs 18 of Yass Road Queanbeyan was located in a exhausted state at Majura after wandering for four days between Queanbeyan and Goulburn. He left home Sunday afternoon with two dogs and, despite wide county searches and a prior sighting at Lake Burra, was found by J Mayo at Majura and driven home.
Civil war fighting intensifies at Tran as rebels seize Fort San Martial and raise their flag. Iran's fall is deemed imminent amid Loyalist resistance. near Behobie rebels cut French contact. Guadarrama front repulses and 1,000 rebels desert. Huesca siege surrounds Loyalists. uncertain casualty tolls list 34,000 government deaths and 46,000 rebel losses.
Australian Minister for Commerce outlined plans for an Empire meat council to regulate supplies to the British market and to expand outlets for Australian pork and beef. He said the government will press ahead with Empire commodity boards and an Empire agricultural council to coordinate production and marketing across the empire.
A Sydney report details a Defence sub-committee decision to exempt militia pay from taxation and calls for uniform civil aviation controls. It also outlines ongoing frontier battles in Spain and North Africa, with shifts in rebel and government positions, brink of major assaults, and refugee movements as French and allied forces press operations near Fort Martial and Behoble.
London dispatch reports Britain and the United States uneasy over Japan’s decision to retain destroyer tonnage beyond the 1936 limit of the London Naval Treaty and notes the U S and Britain may follow suit. The New York Times quotes sources on the possible reallocation of destroyer and submarine tonnage under negotiations.
Faris reports the government suspended the sharing at the notorious prison ship Martiniers, an ent coe, at one abolition of the penal Gayenne, which includes Devil's.
Ballarat East July 1 case against former tenant for unlawfully and maliciously placing gunpowder in a shop owned by a local business, with intent to damage the premises. Victim described as a former tenant, proceedings set to continue today in Ballarat Court.
Sydney reports the first special cabinet committee meeting reaffirming a policy to taper off relief works. It notes no single men’s relief and signals ending the 10 bonus for emergency relief. A bookmaker, A. J. Matthews, was attacked. an ambulance crew treated potential eye injury as the plan to expand full time works is hastened.
Dalectives continue chasing leads on Ruby Green, 22, believed missing after a river incident. Circulated descriptions cover Australia as officers probe a water channel find and Bathuret reports. search teams plan more river drags to locate her.
Demand for better wool descriptions remained firm at today's sale while irregular grades and rising weakness reduced selling interest. Yorkshire and German buyers led bidding with Japanese buyers largely absent. The top price quoted was 30 Aver per hundredweight while average levels hovered around £11 17s 6d per cwt. Winchcombe Carmen Ltd reported private sales at similar levels.
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