AUSTRALIAN NEWS
(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) BRISBANE, March 20. While the Appeal Court at Rockhampton was reducing the sentence of James Bates, from five years to three, for burglary Bates escaped from the local gaol. He had not been recaptured last night. Three survivors from the lugger Rotophis, including a. seventeen-year-old Islander, swam ten miles to the land, then wandered for two days in the vicinity of Cape Tribulation, before they found a settlement, and succour CANBERRA, March 20. j Mr Lyons, replying to Dr. Earle ( Page, said that the Pabinet was carry- ,
ing out its tariff policy, and the maximum relief had. been given to taxpayers, pensioners, and. primary producers.
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Grey River Argus, 21 March 1934, Page 2
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