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  2. TRAPPED WOMAN BURNT IN CAR WRECKAGE

    WHEN a pedestrian investigated a car smash in Victoria with a lighted match early yesterday, petrol caught alight, and a woman, imprisoned in the wreckage, was burnt to death. In another Victorian road ...

    Article : 534 words
  3. AIR RACE PILOT IN CRASH

    When a 'plane piloted by Jack Bennett (23), of Dimboola, and in which his sister, Belle Bennett (17), was a passenger, crashed in ...

    Article : 121 words
  4. BATSMEN DISMAYED TEST CROWD

    NONE of us can account for Australia's deplorable innings to-day, on an easy pitch, in front of the largest crowd I have ever known on a cricket ground. ...

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  5. A NEW WAY OF RIDING THE WAVES

    A Sydney expert at Burleigh demonstrates to. life-savers and the general public the sport of "surf skiing." The display was one of the beach attractions yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 69 words
  6. SHED LIFTED BY STORM

    A number of holiday-makers at Wiseman's Ferry had narrow escapes this afternoon when a weatherboard shed in which they were sheltering ...

    Article : 124 words
  7. TEST WICKET SOAKED

    The steady rain which interrupted the Test match towards the end of the day's play came on again at 630 p. m. and continued ...

    Article : 162 words
  8. GERMANY'S BID FOR LOST COLONIES

    MOVE IN MOROCCO FEARED THE delicate problem of how best to satisfy the needs of the "have not" nations for access to raw materials will be tackled by the League Council on January 18. This discussion, in view of Germany's renewed agitation for ...

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  9. ROBBER BLOWN TO DEATH

    It is reported from Sioux Falls (South Dakota) that a dynamite explosion which shattered much property and shook the countryside for 50 ...

    Article : 138 words
  10. GIRL RESCUED OFF WELLINGTON POINT

    Marjorie Shaw (21), of Quay Street, Morningside, was rescued from drowning by two youths who were cruising in a small boat on the bay about 200 ...

    Article : 158 words
  11. GALLANT RESCUES IN HEAVY SEAS

    Life-savers were responsible for several gallant rescues on metropolitan beaches to-day. At Clovelly four surf club members swam out into the open ...

    Article : 205 words
  12. HAMMOND HURT, BUT WILL BAT TO-DAY

    W. R. Hammond, the English batsman, wrenched a ligament near his right knee when he fell while bowling in the Test match to-day. ...

    Article : 119 words
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  14. AUSTRALIANS ON WAY HOME

    With the departure for Australia of the Aorangi with 663 passengers, the heaviest booking for a decade, the remaining stranded Australians should ...

    Article : 55 words
  15. RESCUE AT WYNNUM

    Norman Wilson (7), of Stone's Corner, South Brisbane, was treated by the Wynnum ambulance for the effects of immersion yesterday afternoon. The lad was one of three small ...

    Article : 48 words
  16. GLIDER IN AIR FOR 5 HOURS

    Two Australian gliding records were broken, to-day during flights by members of the Brisbane Gliding Club from elevated country at Coorabell. E. ...

    Article : 152 words
  17. NOT SOLELY DUE TO WICKET

    Although the wicket in a measure was responsible for Australia's collapse, far more important factors were the excellent field placing and smart work ...

    Article : 194 words
  18. 100 CARS DAMAGED IN STORM

    Further isolated storms have been reported inland. Hall the size of a cricket ball fell at Peterborough, Shattering a 20.000-galion cement tank ...

    Article : 70 words
  19. LABOURER BADLY INJURED

    George Arthur Sydney Spickett (21), single, a labourer on his parents' farm, about two miles on the Brisbane side of Eumundi, was admitted to hospital ...

    Article : 155 words
  20. PALMER WILL NOT RETURN TO RING

    Ambrose Palmer, retired heavy and cruiser weight champion of Australia, announced to-night that he had definitely retired from boxing, and ...

    Article : 96 words
  21. WORTHLESS STOCK HELD BY RICH MAN

    The estate of Otto Kahn, at one time reputed to be one of the richest men in the world, and whose fortune always was believed to be more than ...

    Article : 78 words
  22. RECORD CROWD SEES MATCH

    Although thousands of Melbourne residents left their homes for a New Year week-end holiday in the hills and at the seaside. Melbourne was by ...

    Article : 138 words
  23. £10,000 BAIL IN FORGERY CHARGE

    Mr. "Westy" Egmont, former special assistant United States Attorney, is held on 60,000 dollars (£10,000) bail, charged with forging the name of Mr. ...

    Article : 57 words
  24. 3 MEN MISSING IN MOUNTAINS,

    Assisted from the air by R. A. A. F. 'plane, land parties have been scouring Blackwood Forest. In the Dividing Range, near Macedon. for Norman ...

    Article : 98 words
  25. SEARCH FOR BOYS ON LAKE MACQUARIE

    Toronto and Boolaroo police began a search late to-night for two 14-year-old boys, named Gallagher and Harris, who were last seen in a rowing: ...

    Article : 77 words
  26. JAPAN'S NAVAL PLANS

    With the expiry of the naval treaties Japan formally invoked the escalator clause, enabling it to retain 15,000 tons of over-age submarines. ...

    Article : 89 words
  27. DOCTOR DOES DUTY WITH BROKEN NECK

    A DOCTOR at the Manly District Hospital remained on duty for three days this week with his neck broken. He was shooting a wave at ...

    Article : 244 words
  28. SPECIMENS FROM DUTCH NEW GUINEA

    It will take about 20 years to classify the specimens from Dutch New Guinea with which Miss L. E. Cheeseman, the entomologist, returned ...

    Article : 84 words
  29. BIG INCREASE IN BETTING IN U. S. A.

    Parimutuel wagering on horse racing in 1936 totalled 257,000,000 dollars (£51.400,000), compared with 219,000.000 dollars in 1935. Sixteen States where the ...

    Article : 48 words
  30. ENGLISH RACEHORSE FOR AUSTRALIAN STUD

    The British Bloodstock Agency has bought for an unnamed Australian purchaser, Silverstead. which was second in the Coronation Cup in 1928. ...

    Article : 46 words
  31. BUSINESS MAN'S SUDDEN

    Mr. J. G. Chidgey, general manager of the Fresh Food and Ice Co. Ltd., collapsed and died to-night while walking up the gangway to the ...

    Article : 46 words
  32. 34,708 KILLED IN MOTOR ACCIDENTS

    [?] announced mat 34.708 persons, the largest number in history, were killed in automobile accidents in the United States in 1936. ...

    Article : 30 words
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