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ITEMS OF INTEREST
The teamster told Mr Price, in the
House of \t»n<»moly on "A cdne*->da.x that it
was not the intention of the " H Osborn a
Board to reconstruct the Semaphore baths
The railway) earnings for the week!
ended Saturday, August "5, amounted to
14.44,6^.1, as compared with SA! 635 for the
corresponding week of 1917
Last week 671 enlisted in the CommonWealth,
compared with me in the previous
week The most noticeable improvement
was New South Wales, where the round
tours euro ltd against 250 in the preceding A
Tack
Mr Richard Barrett, house and land
agent, of Franklin-street, "Adelaide, at j
started on Wednesday to the Port Adel
aide police that his motor car had been
stolen He left it in Lipson-street at 4 45
pm, and a few minutes later it had de
appeared It is a Ford car numbered .
22 The
Federal Government have approved
of the j) ment of a war bonus to seamen
employed on at the Commonwealth owned
or controlled extract-, operating within the I
danger zone This action is in conformity) i
with, a request recently made to the Minister
for the six (Air Poynton) by the
Federated Seamen's Union |
On Monday Mrs W R Langsford re
served a telegram from Melbourne, stating
that- Miss Hilda Oldfield had been
six-sided first prize in the grand o'iam
lunn character, and second prize in the
ladies'' section Vftsocnted with Miss
* Kathleen Morven, Miss Oldfield gained
third award in the champion dia vogue
The I order a Cabinet in Melbourne yes
today considered the proposal recently I
made li companies manufacturing wool
tops, and determined to adhere to the
former decision that wool tops be many
secured by these companies on a basis
of 12, per cent profit on invested capital,
equivalent to 10 per cent on shareholders' I
capital
Low pressure still dominates sub
trop tal Australia, and several low pressure j
centres are passing along the ocean, one
off the Leeuwin, another to the west of
Tasmania, and a third between the south
east coast of the continent and New Zealand.
The official forecast points to
further showers to-day, chiefly over the
southern and coastal" districts
In attempting to cross the River
Joynt. which is in flood, Air J
Coombes, of Messrs M Partridge
and Co, storekeepers, of Saddleworth,
had a narrow escape from drowning
at Marrabel on Tuesday Two whee s
of his van got over he edge of the ford
and the x vehicle washed up against a foot
bridge The four horses became tangled
in, with the result that one was drowned-"
Sir Coombe managed to get to land and
rescued the other amma s The tan is
still a midstream
Speaking at the recruiting meeting in
Rundle-street on "Wednesday), Private W
A Sneyd, referring to the conditions of
camp life at MiMieim, said -"I admit the
young recruit -will find many temptations,
Tint I do not think they are any greater
than the average young man meets in the
Ordinary walks of life Character and
tra runs count in camp, as eveTX.xvhere case
"3 he habits of d c up-line and obedience, the
regular hours, and the regularity of his
general!) all tend to improve the mental,
moral, and physical well being of tot. re-
cruit the officers) are more than can
Kidcrato town march these men under Hymn
The standard of morality in camp is if a
anywhere a little higher than outside "
Mr Lacon Gellert, the author of Songs
a. a campaign," lent by the express on
Wednesday for Sydney., and he will enter
the public c service or New. South *>\ a es
Sir Gellert xv is born in South Austra- ia
and educated at the "Adelaide High School
and the Limersity Training College for
service in the Education Department He
saved with the first contingent of the Australian
forces and took part in the famous
landing at Gallipoli He was invalided
to England, and on his return his poems
were published first in Adelaide and then
in Sydney) The) received high praise
from Australian on ice, and have since
been issued in an English edition Die
"Times" Literary Supplement of April 19)
last dex votes over a co train to them, brae
keting Mr Gel car's work with Mr de
lights The Straits Impregnable," as
being from a literary point of view Australia's
greatest con- buttons to the train
was adven use of Gal ipo Among their
most enthusiastic admirers in Australia is a
wise Norman Lindsay, the machine back
and white artist He has supplied some |
striKing of Austral ozs to the poems
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