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Article : 103 wordsThe new Federal Cabinet, photographed at the opening of Parliament at Canberra, last week, Sitting, left to right: The Minister for Customs (Mr. White), the Postmaster-General (Senator McLachlan), the Minister for Commerce (Dr. Page), the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons), the Attorney-General (Mr. Menzies), the Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Hughes), Standing: The Assistant Minister for Commerce (Mr. Cameron), the Minister for the Interior (Mr. McEwen), the Assistant Minister for Cusoms (Mr. Perkins), the Treasurer (Mr. Cesey), the Minister for Defence (Mr. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 152 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 8.—On a charge of having on November 23 feloniously and maliciously murdered Margrethe O'Brien, Dudley Lorraine O'Brien (22), ...
Article : 177 wordsLONDON, Dec. 5.—Rear-Admiral Wilfred N. Custance, who has been appointed to command the Royal Australian Naval Squadron in succession to ...
Article : 218 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 6.—"It is sheer hypocrisy for Messrs. Lazzarini and Heffron to talk of disfranchisement or victimisation," said the State secretary of the ...
Article : 165 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 6.—While armed Police and warders were searching gorges, two prisoners who had escaped from Beechworth Reformatory Prison on ...
Article : 368 wordsLONDON, Dec. 4.—The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" states that he good reasons for believing that the Hamburg merchant who anonymously ...
Article : 206 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 6.—Frederick Gadsden (69), pensioner, of Burwood- road, Hawthorn, who pleaded guilty to bigamy, was told by Mr. Justice Martin ...
Article : 198 wordsNEW DELHI, Dec. 3.—The Tibetan Tashi lama has died near Jyekundo, in western China, at the age of 54, after 13 years' exile, following differences with ...
Article : 242 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 6.—The City Coroner (Mr. Oram), at the conclusion today of his inquiry Into the fire at the enamelling works of R. M. Macdougall, Pty, ...
Article : 198 wordsKALGOORLIE, Dec. 6.—The body of Edward Ball, aged about 14 years and nine months, was found hanging from the limb of a gum tree 250 yards from his home at ...
Article : 339 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 6.—Damage estimated to involve thousands of pounds was caused by a fire in the Queensland Public Library, William-street, city, this ...
Article : 167 wordsSIMLA, Dec. 5.—The situation in Waziristan, on the North West Frontier, has so improved that many units are returning to their peace time stations. The ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, Dec. 5.—Carrying a record mail load of 4½ tons, the Imperial Airways flying boat Caledonia (which, earlier in the year, made several return flights ...
Article : 78 wordsWELLINGTON, Dec. 6.—Arthur Norris (19) and his brother, Leslie Norris (17), who confessed to having stolen and converted to their own use 45 motor cars ...
Article : 81 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 6.—One of the Newcastle detectives engaged on the hunt for the person who nine days ago strangled Dorothy May Everett, ...
Article : 102 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 6.—Mr. F. W. Kitto, counsel for the Rev. A. J. Bingley, secretary of the Bathurst Ministers' Fraternal, applied to Mr. Justice Milner ...
Article : 101 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 6.—The death sentence imposed on Michael James Joseph O'Brien (17), farm labourer, for the murder of Thomas Bowler, a grazier, of ...
Article : 71 wordsCANBERRA. Dec. 6.—As a result of the rearrangement of Ministerial accommodation in Parliament House, the Minister for External Affairs (Mr. ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Dec. 5.—Morton Fraser. described as a virtuoso of the harmonica, has accepted an invitation from the Australian Broadcasting Commission to ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, Dec. 6.—The estate of the late Mr. Joseph Bruce Ismay, who formerly controlled the White Star Line, and who died on October 16, has been ...
Article : 38 wordsHAIFA, Dec. 6.—A military court here has passed a sentence of imprisonment for life on an Arab found carrying arms ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 7 Dec 1937, Page 18
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