If the Christmas and New Year vacations of 1938-39 are notable for anything more than another, it is for the vast increase in the number of those who have discovered the attractions of a camping holiday. ...
Article : 932 wordsMT. GAMBIER. Sunday.--A terrific explosion wrecked the entire freezing plant, of Messrs. Borthwick and Sons, Blue Hill freezing works at Mt. Gambler early ...
Article : 332 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.--"At the dawn of another year it is the appropriate time to tell neighboring countries in the Pacific--and other nations further away--that Australia means and wants peace," said the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 385 wordsOne of hundreds of holiday camps along the Great Ocean road. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 19 wordsBEAUFORT, Saturday. -- Although warned off repeatedly by the police, boys trying to capture wounded pigeons frequently ventured within range. of the ...
Article : 96 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--The seventh world scout Jamboree was officially opened by the Governor-General (Lord Cowrie) at Bradfield on Saturday afternoon. In ...
Article : 264 wordsWith typical New Year's eve spirit Melbourne saw the passing of old troublous 1938, and greeted the young year with its hopes, both fresh and ...
Article : 808 wordsQUEENSCLIFF, Sunday.--The search for burled treasure at Queenscliff, which was carried on unsuccessfully in 1937 by a Daylesford syndicate headed by ...
Article : 175 wordsI wish all the readers of "The Age" a happy New Year. We face the new year with international perplexities and threats of war, and we are making ...
Article : 131 wordsWith the New Year we stand, expectant, before a closed door, which opens upon an unknown corridor. What shall we find ? In these fast-moving, ...
Article : 116 wordsDense crowds of holiday makers were seen in the streets and on the benches this week end, there being a tremendous influx from the city. Accommodation at ...
Article : 69 wordsIn two lively films, presented at the Lyceum Theatre there are thrills in a Western with a good plot, Gun Law, and very good fun in the musical ...
Article : 304 wordsCOWES, Sunday.--The most successful fancy dress procession and fireworks display for many years marked the New Year eve festivities. The shire president ...
Article : 100 wordsOne of the things to be desired for 1939 is a rebirth of the spirit of optimism, but not the optimism of the Utopian who lives in a world of dreams, ...
Article : 154 wordsUnfortunately there are all too ominous signs that give point to Mr. H. G. Wells's prophecy of imminent world war. I trust for all that, we shall not ...
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Article : 114 wordsIf 1938 was a period of drift--and as it was for nations, so it was for an immense mass of men--could we not do something good for 1939 by finding ...
Article : 133 wordsWith a reputation for colorful stage shows, the Palais Pictures at St. Kilda is providing a fast-moving stage production. The Fairy in the Christmas Tree, ...
Article : 298 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--A post-mortem examination at Mackay, showing that Domenico Palumbo, married, 38 years, had been shot twice in the body and in ...
Article : 150 wordsRUTHERGLEN, Sunday.--At a monster patriotic meeting on New Year's eve the Minister of Education (Sir J. Harris) made an appeal for recruits for the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Imperial Airways flying boat Calypso, on a homeward journey with mails and two passengers from South Africa, was forced down in the middle ...
Article : 84 wordsMore than 50 employes of David Hyland and Sons Pty. Ltd., Flinders-lane, city, poulterers, were forced to leave the premises, and an engineer was ...
Article : 165 wordsArabs ambushed on the Nablus-Jerusalem road during the night, and fired on a motor car containing Sir Charles Tegart, Police Chief of Palestine: Major ...
Article : 83 wordsTo-day all shops and offices will be closed, although some chemists and hair dressers will open in the morning only. For those released from work ...
Article : 189 wordsThe birth of the World s Fair year was the theme of New York's new year observance. Fifteen million dol. (£A3,750,000) was spent on a noisy ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 2 Jan 1939, Page 10
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