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  2. NATURE NOTES

    From "Somewhere in New Guinea," Ron Edgar writes:— "Please don't think that because I have not written you lately that I ...

    Article : 59 words
  3. MOTORISTS' COLUMN

    Motorists who use charcoal as fuel should take notice of the regulations gazetted recently dealing with the cleaning of live coals from gas ...

    Article : 189 words
  4. DARTMOOR

    At the State School break-up the children enjoyed an afternoon of sports, points being awarded in a house competition resulting in only ...

    Article : 336 words
  5. SHORTS FROM THE TALKS

    I asked him the obvious question: "What was the most horrible moment of your experience in Stafingrad?" He thought for a little and smiled and ...

    Article : 143 words
  6. CHURCH NOTES

    (From "Portland Parish News.) What is the outlook? One thing is certain: this war is likely to be more costly in human life. I can almost ...

    Article : 473 words
  7. BUTTERFLIES

    They are all sizes, from half an inch across. These large ones have to be cleaned like a fish to preserve them. Their colours are such that to ...

    Article : 181 words
  8. A "New" Doll—

    My younger daughter, her name's Imogen. She's six—wants a doll. Acting on the principle that you can't have too much of a good thing she ...

    Article : 116 words
  9. GAS PRODUCER FILTER TROUBLE.

    A motorist who had been having trouble over a considerable period through the rapid fouling of the secondary filters on his gas producer ...

    Article : 195 words
  10. PESTS.

    A word now on pests. Apart from the usual run of spiders, centipedes, "mossies" and other less harmful wogs, we have come in contact with ...

    Article : 156 words
  11. Great Minds

    When the Battle of Britain was being fought in the blue skies over the white cliffs of Dover, Mr. Churchill said: "We prefer to see London ...

    Article : 121 words
  12. WOOL SALES

    The Victorian Producers' Co-op. Co. Ltd report 16th December, as follows:—To-day's catalogue of some 3,000 bales was less attractive than ...

    Article : 242 words
  13. MISSIONS.

    Our Lord's command: "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature," is explicit, and for the believer in Jesus Christ there is ...

    Article : 256 words
  14. SAFER MOTORING.

    Though there will be fewer cars on the roads of the State as a whole during the holiday period, says "The Radiator," the cars that are in ...

    Article : 335 words
  15. British Navy v. Army

    My favourite quotation is that the British Army is a projectile fired by the Royal Navy. And in these days, when Allied armies, navies and air ...

    Article : 70 words
  16. BIRD LIFE.

    Bird life varies in the, different islands, but I am a little disappointed with them. I always believed that the tropics teemed with the most ...

    Article : 251 words
  17. So Near, and Yet

    I've just been to see the furniture, provided by the Gold Coast and Uganda, for the recreational huts of two searchlight posts, on the. South ...

    Article : 159 words
  18. A Practical Question.

    The Australian Board of Missions is offering to share with individual parishes the cost of a duplex envelope, with the hope of increasing the ...

    Article : 160 words
  19. Advertising

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  20. Roses and Throns

    The Wars of the Roses aren't dead yet: It's all rivalry between the two; good-natured, certainly, but keen enough, all the same—until some ...

    Article : 68 words
  21. GRASS SKIRTS.

    The grass skirts are also very ealborate and all are dyed in different colours—red, blue and green being the chief ones used. Their dyes come ...

    Article : 37 words
  22. CONFIRMATION.

    This will take place on Sunday 9th January, at 11 a.m., and I do want the parents of our young confirmees to help me to impress upon the ...

    Article : 168 words
  23. ELECTION BALLOT PAPER TO BE REPULPED.

    Millions of used ballot papers issued for the past Federal elections will be salvaged for repulping and made into paperboard when the six ...

    Article : 284 words
  24. FISHING.

    The natives do not appear to use lakatois (boats) much, and most of their fishing is done with spears or nets. Their nets are a work of art, ...

    Article : 163 words
  25. The Higher—the Sewerer

    Buna is steaming, foetid jungle. For instance, when approaching it by plane you can smell it at 8000 feet. It's a most incredible stench of ...

    Article : 75 words
  26. Superiority by Comparison

    There's an Arab saying: "Barter a handful of dry dates and content therewith than to own the Gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by ...

    Article : 75 words
  27. BISHOP'S VISIT.

    Our Bishop and his family have again chosen Portland for their holiday, and the Bishop has kindly offered to assist me by preaching at ...

    Article : 111 words
  28. FRUIT.

    Bananas, pawpaws. and cocoanuts are very plentiful, also sweet potatoes, and they form the main diet for the natives. Pineapples are also here, but ...

    Article : 42 words
  29. Towards Winning the Peace

    But still, I don't know whether you will agree with me that I have discovered something in this trip which is more dangerous than wars. That ...

    Article : 130 words
  30. PHALANGERS.

    I enclose a photograph of the phalangers on the cap of one of our chaps here. He took then down south, and when in Sydney caused quite a ...

    Article : 209 words
  31. Flames Out of the Blue—

    Another prenomenon I've seen in the North is St. Elmo fire. I think it's a discharge of static electricity — the aerials and the rigging and things ...

    Article : 92 words
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