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TABLE TENNIS CHAMPION I ‘ DIES [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] SYDNEY, September 22. The death occurred to-day of the State table tennis champion, Cecil Smith, who had been selected to play for Australia against the visiting Hungarians on October 11. STAY-IN BREWERY STRIKE. (Received September 22, 10 p.m.) BRISBANE, September 22. At the Castlemaine Perkins Brewery, the strikers are continuing their stay-in tactics despite the Industrial Court’s threat to disregister their Union, which decision became effective to-day. It is reported that the employers are now taking steps to eject the strikers. INJURED CRICKETER. BRISBANE, September 22. The condition of the cricketer, Ron Oxenham, is unchanged. He has not recovered consciousness yet from the skull fracture he suffered in a motor accident. R.S.A. AND EUROPEAN MIGRANTS. (Received September 22, 11.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 22. A Congress of the Returned Soldiers’ League sitting at Sydney, resolved to urge the Federal Government to check an influx of southern Europeans into Australia. Delegates expressed strong objection to a flow of Italians into rural areas, where, they said, it was impossible to -compete with them. One delegate remarked that in the event of war with Italy, it would require half of the Australians’ man-power to
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Grey River Argus, 23 September 1937, Page 3
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