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  2. KINGSFORD SMITH.

    Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, who, with Mr. T. Pethybridge, was flying to Australia, is lost somewhere between Akyab and Victoria Point. It is possible that he landed on some unfrequented part of ...

    Article : 161 words
  3. BOY TRAPPED

    During a fire in the premises of By-Products and Chemicals, Ltd., Bourke-road, Alexandria, yesterday, a 15-year-old boy, George Craig, of King-street, Mascot, sought refuge ...

    Article : 667 words
  4. ITALIANS IN MAKALE.

    Correspondents with the Italian army on the northern front report that the Italians entered Makale at 9 o'clock this morning. Italian forces last night occupied dominating positions without sighting the main body of Abyssinians who abandoned a line ...

    Article : 198 words
  5. SANCTIONS

    The Minister for External Affairs (Sir George Pearce) announced in the Senate to-day that a proposal had been received last night from ...

    Article : 249 words
  6. COMPANIES BILL.

    The draft of the new Companies Bill was completed yesterday, and will be brought down in the Legislative Assembly next week by the Minister for ...

    Article : 861 words
  7. BRITISH DEFENCE.

    Britain's navy and air force are to be strengthened by the provision of loan money. This is the interpretation placed on the statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. ...

    Article : 425 words
  8. MESSAGES TO SHIPS.

    The officer commanding the Royal Air Force station at Singapore, Air-Commodore Sidney Smith, sent wireless messages to ships to keep a watch for the Lady Southern Cross. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 481 words
  9. RAS GUGSA'S TROOPS.

    A brigade of infantry, a regiment of Bersag[?]eri some of General Biroll's Black Shuts, and a detachment of the renegade Ras Gugsa's troops entered Makale without any opposition ...

    Article : 1,058 words
  10. M.C.C. TEAM

    Sound and at times exhilarating batting characterised the innings of the M.C.C. team, which commenced a four-day match against South Australia at Adelaide Oval to-day. ...

    Article : 498 words
  11. TRYING TO REGAIN RECORD.

    Air-Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith has been the central figure of many notable flights, but the present is, he says, to be his last major flight. He is ...

    Article : 423 words
  12. CANADA AND U.S.A.

    The Prime Minister of Canada (Mr. Mackenzie King) arrived here to-day. It had been stated that the purpose of his visit was to discuss questions of reciprocal trade, but Mr. ...

    Article : 137 words
  13. GORDON SEAT.

    Sir Philip Goldfinch, the endorsed U.A.P. candidate, was elected unopposed to the Gordon seat in the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon. ...

    Article : 461 words
  14. FILM ACTRESS

    One of the most unusual extortion cases, and notable because it involves the cinema comedienne Thelma Todd, was revealed to-day with the arrest by officers of the Federal ...

    Article : 159 words
  15. AMBULANCES

    Sydney is to have an ambulance service which will be equal, and possibly superior, to that of any other city in the world. The Central District Ambulance, which is ...

    Article : 452 words
  16. EMPIRE AIRWAYS.

    The first stage in the revision of the Empire air transport programme with a view to an improvement in the present time schedules, increased frequency of services, and ...

    Article : 300 words
  17. STAVISKY FRAUDS.

    There was uproar at the trial of associates of Stavisky when one of the accused, Henri Cohen, declared that he had reported to the Surete Generale (the French C.I.B.) that, as ...

    Article : 174 words
  18. NEW DEAL.

    President Roosevelt's New Deal received another rude shock with the declaration to-day by a Judge of the Lower Federal Court at Baltimore that the Public Utility Act, which ...

    Article : 139 words
  19. PROPOSED MATCH.

    It is expected that the secretary of the Board of Control (Mr. Jeanes), during the week-end, will be in a position to announce the result of the board's ballot concerning ...

    Article : 223 words
  20. AIRMAN'S WIFE CONFIDENT.

    Lady Kingsford Smith, who is staying in Melbourne with her mother, Mrs. A. H. Powell, although obviously distressed by the absence of reports from her husband, said ...

    Article : 83 words
  21. ROUTE MAINLY OVER LAND.

    The route usually followed by airmen on the London-Australia flight, after leaving India, hugs closely the strip of land which stretches in a south-easterly direction ...

    Article : 151 words
  22. DISPLAY OF TANKS.

    The greatest display of tanks ever seen in Soviet Russia marked the Moscow celebrations of the 18th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution when Stalin, from a review stand ...

    Article : 88 words
  23. QANTAS OFFICIAL'S VIEW.

    Strong hope for Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's safety is held out by Mr. W. A. Baird, works manager of Qantas Empire Airways, who has twice flown over the route. To-night ...

    Article : 114 words
  24. DOCTOR PROTESTS.

    Strong objections by a doctor to an undertaker's business being established alongside his surgery led to an application which was heard by a special Land Board, composed of ...

    Article : 273 words
  25. COMMERCIAL VEHICLES

    The Commercial Motor Transport Exhibition opened at Olympia to-day. A large number of the visitors are foreign buyers. The exhibits range from large coaches and ...

    Article : 269 words
  26. STRIKE CALLED.

    Although the metal trades union group had decided to strike if the Federal award was applied to the industry in Queensland, the employees of three Brisbane firms disregarded ...

    Article : 123 words
  27. THIEF PURSUED

    While police were searching for a thief in Nelson-street, Woollahra, early yesterday morning, he ransacked a house in Queen-street, only a few hundred yards away. He ...

    Article : 230 words
  28. IMMIGRATION.

    A marked increase in the net immigration figures for Italians is shown by a statement issued by the Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. E. J. McPhee) yesterday. ...

    Article : 182 words
  29. JAPANESE WHEAT.

    "Nichi Nichi Shimbun" points out that, although the Ministry of Agriculture's five-year plan to achieve domestic self-sufficiency in wheat enters the final year in 1936, the ...

    Article : 87 words
  30. ROYAL WEDDING.

    Hundreds of messages of congratulation for the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester have been arriving all day at Buckingham Palace from all parts of the world. ...

    Article : 56 words
  31. SHOCK FOR CRICKETERS.

    While the batsman, Sly, was shaping up to take a ball from Noel Hedditch in a match between Wagga High School and Coplands, a bullet whizzed past him, about 18 inches from ...

    Article : 117 words
  32. MESSAGERIES

    It was announced a few days ago that the French Government subsidy to the Messageries Maritimes for its Australian line of steamers had been cancelled, and fears were expressed ...

    Article : 68 words
  33. STEEL HELMETS.

    Herr Hitler has dissolved the Ex-Servicemen's Steel Helmets' Association throughout Germany on the ground that their existence is not justified now that the first new ...

    Article : 47 words
  34. RUST-RESISTING SEED.

    The President of the National Research Council (Major-General A. G. McNaughton) predicted to-day that rust-resisting wheat seed would be ready for distribution to Canadian ...

    Article : 63 words
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