I have returned from my annual spell convinced that holidays are a grave mistake. One gets so accustomed to working that work is hardly noticeable; but after ...
Article : 1,307 wordsDARWIN, Feb. 26.—The aboriginal custom of killing to obtain a victim's kidney fat was mentioned in the Darwin Police Court this afternoon when two aborigines ...
Article : 439 wordsDURBAN, Feb. 27.—The weather was muggy today when the Australian cricketers had their last practice before the fifth Test, which commences tomorrow. ...
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Article : 263 wordsA boy was killed and his younger brother was critically injured when a bicycle on which they were both riding was struck by a motor car at the Junction ...
Article : 250 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 27.—The part played by the Australian banks during the years of the depression was praised today before the Banking Commission by ...
Article : 1,095 wordsALBANY, Feb. 27.—The arrival by this morning's train of Mr. Hubert Oppennan, the Australian cycling champion, and Mrs. Opperman, together with Ernie ...
Article : 668 wordsWELLINGTON, Feb. 27.—A Navy League deputation, headed by Sir James Grose, interviewed the Prime Minister (Mr. Savage) and the Defence Minister ...
Article : 386 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 27.—That there was a decline in the numerical strength of the Methodist Church and that this position was alarming was the view ...
Article : 257 wordsALICE SPRINGS, Feb. 27.—Two hundred and fifty points of rain fell in Alice Springs, making four inches in Just over four days. The Todd River ran a banker, ...
Article : 139 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 27.—After medical evidence bad been given in camera at the City Court today the hearing of a charge of having inflicted grevious bodily ...
Article : 109 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 27.—The crews of Japanese sampans which recently called at Flinders Island, one of the Thursday Island group invaded the home of the ...
Article : 253 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 27.—A memorandum on need for Government co-operation in the building of roads in North Australia for national development and defence ...
Article : 198 wordsThat the once "lonely north" was no longer lonely in view of the fine air services operating there, was an opinion expressed by Mr. R. W. Durack, of Ivanhoe ...
Article : 409 wordsThe Criterion Hotel, on the northern side of Hay-street, between Barrack and Pier streets, will be demolished at an early date and replaced by a modern hotel of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 260 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 27.—Losses of stock in the disastrous grass and scrub fire which burned over a distance of 20 miles from Derrinallum on a front of five miles ...
Article : 391 wordsCANBERRA, Feb. 27.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) announced today that the Federal Cabinet had decided to authorise the Imperial War Graves ...
Article : 330 wordsCANBERRA, Feb. 27.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) announced today that the Federal Cabinet had decided to grant assistance to prune growers at the rate ...
Article : 110 wordsCANBERRA, Feb. 27.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) announced today that he had received from Sir Frederick Stewart his resignation from the position ...
Article : 143 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 27.—Driven from the ground by grass and bush fires raging in the western district and driven out to sea by strong offshore winds, a huge ...
Article : 220 wordsTOKIO, Feb. 27.—It is expected that exports of Japanese sulphur to Australia will increase considerably, due to the removal of the Australian licensing ...
Article : 35 wordsADELAIDE, Feb. 27.—At the conclusion of a meeting of the Wine Overseas Marketing Board of Australia held in Adelaide today, the chairman (Mr.H. ...
Article : 78 wordsSir,—In common with many other civic minded householders I have endeavoured for a long time to maintain a street lawn opposite by residence, entailing a lot of ...
Article : 141 wordsLONDON, Feb. 27.—The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" states in a dispatch that he understands Monsignor Bannesch, chief of the Roman Catholic ...
Article : 101 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 27.—The Australian Dried Fruits Association reports that the new season's prices for currants are as follows:—4 crown, 8d. a lb.: 3 crown, ...
Article : 64 wordsCANBERRA, Feb. 27.—A proclamation published today in the "Commonwealth Gazette" fixes February 29 as the date after which the charges fixed by the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 28 Feb 1936, Page 24
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