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THE pace is on in the
commercial radio race.
First broadcasting bombshell
was the sudden switch-over of
the Davey shows, and others, to
a rival network.
While the seat of His Hi-Ho
Highness's chair was still warm,
Tommy Trinder
arrived from
E n g 1 a nd and
made himself
comfortable.
There's talk
now of more .
big-name impor
tations with spe
cial reference to
England's Savoy
Hotel band lead
er Carroll Gib
bons.
On present form
it won't make
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much difference to us whom they
import.
Because East is East and West
is power-less.
Today's great thought is, will
the P.M.G.'s Department make us .
a pro-rata refund for all these'
strike-sponsored sessions of
silence we've been getting ?
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The man who first
thought up the idea of a
central bus terminus for
Perth must be feeling an
overwhelming ltoldyou
so urge.
Because since the trams, trains
and trolleys stopped running, St.
George's Terrace
at . peak hours
has looked like
the retreat from
Dunkirk. Long, :
straggling queues
everywhere.
Although pre
sent conditions
are far from
normal (they
don't occur more
than twice a ;
year) we might
easily have to
suffer them again
sometime. ,.
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Trouble in any one of half a
dozen industries could put us.
back to the pioneering days of
horse-buggy and! hurricane lamp.
And trouble is one of the very
few things which isn't rationed in
this year of grace.
THERE was some 'hot'
money in Perth on Wed
nesday afternoon.
A woman who had to leave her
home unguarded tried to think
up an unusual spot in which to
hide her money.
With one of those flashes of in=
spiration wnicn,
occur once in a
1 i f etime, she
stowed her roll
away in the
electric toaster.
The power
was off, and no
one would ever
think of look
ing there, would
they ?
But the catch
was that she'd
left the switch
on.
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At 2 p.m. (zero hour for the
electricity armistice) the power
station turned on the heat.
Believe me, that roll wasn't the
only thing that was 'burned up.'
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