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  2. Advertising

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  3. BICYCLE FOR FOUR

    Providing transport to and from school for her children is no trouble to Mrs. E. Holevas, of North Fitzroy, who takes her two youngsters and a neighbour's child on her bicycle. Bringing them home to lunch, she makes four two-miles trips each day. Mrs. Holevas also uses her ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 58 words
  4. HUNDREDS FLEE FROM HUGE U.S. FOREST FIRES

    PORTLAND, Maine (A.A.P.).—In a miniature Dunkirk, 40 fishing smacks and Navy and coastguard craft from a dozen New England ports on Thursday night ...

    Article : 539 words
  5. TASMANIAN POPULATION NOW 257,117

    CANBERRA.—Tasmania's populations has increased by 29,518 to 257,117 in the last 14 years, according to the census figures released yesterday by the Commonwealth Statistician (Dr. Wilson). ...

    Article : 182 words
  6. INDONESIAN TALKS

    The Security Committee of Good Office on the Indonesian dispute at one of its meetings at the Lapstone Hotel, Lapstone, N.S.W. With the Australian delegate (Mr. Justice Kirby), centre, as chairman for the first week, they have started preparatory talks to settle the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 71 words
  7. Home Fleet Strength

    LONDON (A.A.P.)—Britain's Home Fleet will consist of one battleship, five cruisers and 12 destroyers, ...

    Article : 277 words
  8. Rationing to Continue

    CANBERRA.—Rationing of meat, butter and tea is certain to continue in Australia next year, the ...

    Article : 66 words
  9. BRITAIN SUFFERS MORE CUTS

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—The Government has stopped all purchases of American tobacco and announced cuts in the food ration, including sugar, and cuts in factory ...

    Article : 564 words
  10. Train Collision: 28 Killed

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—With a roar like an exploding bomb and a blinding flash,, two electric trains collided in a fog near Croydon early yesterday, killing 28 and injuring about 100. ...

    Article : 251 words
  11. NEEDS BLOOD OF RARE TYPE

    NEW YORK (A.A.P.)—Five-year-old Christopher Perry, of Sydney. accompanied by parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Perry and a ...

    Article : 62 words
  12. AUSTRALIANS URGED TO SAFEGUARD FREEDOM OF PRESS

    SYDNEY.—In his presidential address to the annual conference of the Australian Provincial Press in Sydney yesterday, Mr. Gordon B. Rolph urged the Australian people to safeguard jealously the freedom of the press. ...

    Article : 349 words
  13. COMMUNIST ATTEMPT TO ENTER U.S. LEGATION

    CANBERRA.—Communists are believed to have been responsible for an attempt to break into the Cypher room and radio section of the American Legation in Canberra. THE ATTEMPT is believed to the Intelligence Branch ...

    Article : 520 words
  14. CONGRESS TO CONSIDER AID FOR EUROPE

    WASHINGTON (A.A.P.)—President Truman issued a proclamation on Thursday, calling a special session of Congress on November 17 to deal with emergency aid for Western Europe and high cost of living problems in ...

    Article : 260 words
  15. R.S.L. Opposes Jap. Migration

    MELBOURNE.—Japanese migration to Dutch New Guinea was unthinkable because it created a potential danger which had been ...

    Article : 149 words
  16. EXTRA SEAT FOR QUEENSL'D

    CANBERRA.—Under the census figures, Queensland will be entitled by the Constitution to an ...

    Article : 157 words
  17. Allowed Children to Steal

    SYDNEY—A mother and her daughter, aged 19, had received the proceeds of robberies by two young daughters, aged 8 and 11 ...

    Article : 126 words
  18. Sequel to Mahia Disaster: £6500 Writ Issued

    MELBOURNE—Mr. J. M. Lazarus, solicitor, of Collins St., Melbourne on behalf of Gloria Carlos, of Myrtle St., South Yarra, and ...

    Article : 119 words
  19. FOURTEEN HURT AS TRUCK HITS TRAM

    MELBOURNE.—Fourteen passengers were injured last night, three of them seriously, when a heavy steel tip-truck collided head-on with a crowded city-bound tram from Preston in Brunswick St., Fitzroy. ...

    Article : 328 words
  20. Daring Rescue Off U.S. West Coast

    SAN FRANCISCO (A.A.P.)—Thirty-five crew members of the crippled and burning tanker, Sparrows Point, were removed from three lifeboats in a daring rescue operation yesterday. ...

    Article : 196 words
  21. Student Upsets Nature

    LONDON (A.A.P.)—With the aid of controlled electric light at Cambridge School of Agriculture. Neil Yeates research student, of ...

    Article : 85 words
  22. Speaker Accepts Retraction by Sydney Paper

    CANBERRA.—The Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mr. Rosevear) yesterday said that he was satisfied that the Sydney ...

    Article : 63 words
  23. Shortage of Sugar for Jam Likely

    MELBOURNE.—Housewives will have another problem to face in the next few months because of the difficulty of obtaining adequate ...

    Article : 88 words
  24. DIGEST OF THE LEADERS

    THE bank nationalisation threat underlines the necessity for a thorough revision of the ...

    Article : 100 words
  25. QUARTER OF WORKERS IN GOVERNMENT EMPLOY

    CANBERRA.—Nearly a quarter of Australian wage and salary earners at the end of August were employed by Government and semi-Government authorities. ...

    Article : 103 words
  26. Gun Fight on Country Road

    FAIRFIELD, Illinois (A.A.P.).—Gangster machine-gunners in a moving motor car on Thursday ambushed and killed Carl ...

    Article : 114 words
  27. APPEAL AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE

    MELBOURNE.—Alexander Arthur Fleming (27), of Cairo Rd., Box Hill, who was convicted of the murder of Allan William Paul ...

    Article : 56 words
  28. Stoker's Unhappy Home Coming

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—Stoker Robinson, father of the Plymouth quads, who was on a naval foreign station when they were born at a ...

    Article : 72 words
  29. HELP FOR EGYPT

    NEW YORK (A.A.P).—The World Health Organisation has announced that 1,120,000 cubic centimetres of anti-cholera vaccine, ...

    Article : 42 words
  30. TRIBESMEN CONFER

    BAGHDAD (A.A.P.)—Ten thousand fully armed tribesmen attended a conference on Wednesday at which 1000 Arab and Kurd ...

    Article : 34 words
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