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SYDNEY’S HEALTH. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 28. Presenting the health report for June to the Health Department of the City Council, Doctor Purdy sa.id Sydney had a phenomenal health record. For the first six months of the present year, the general death rate for the metropolis was only 8.4 per thousand of population. Sydney has a record for the lowest death rate for the past ten years of anv city with a population of more than half a million. FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT. CANBERRA, July 28. The Commonwealth Statistician’s figures show the rate of unemployment has increased since the beginning of 1929 when it was nine point three per cent, to twenty-seven point six per cent, during the second quarter of this year. He estimated the country’s unemployment totals 463,400. LOSS OF LUGGER. DARWIN, July 28. After a voyage of one hundred miles in a small dinghy three Aborigines airived at Point Charles lighthouse. They reported! the loss of the lugger Ouida involving the death of three Japanese members of the crew. The Ouida, was wrecked ,in the vicinity of Anson Bay.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1931, Page 6
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