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  4. Disastrous British Harvests Threaten Britain's Rations

    LONDON, March 29.—The National Farmers' Union is launching an Agricultural Disaster Fund, states Reuter's. The union states that the situation is unparalleled in the history of British agriculture, developed from disastrous ...

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  5. OPPORTUNITY TO FLY

    Many young people, both boys and girls, have the ambition to fly, but until now the necessary training has been too expensive for the majority. Now the Mayor of Hove (Cr. Captain H. C. Andrews) and Captain Duncan Davis, AFC, of the South Coast Flying Club, Shoreham; have worked out a scheme to endow scholarships for those wishing to learn to fly. There is a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. WRECKAGE OF MOSQUITO BOMBER LOCATED NEAR PEAK OF MOUNTAIN

    BRISBANE, March 30.—The burned-out wreckage of an RAAF Mosquito bomber, which crashed into Saddle Mountain, south of Townsville, on Tuesday afternoon, was sighted by an Avro Anson making an air ...

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  7. Dutch Navy's Economic Blockade Of Indonesia

    LONDON, March 30.—The Jerusalem Premier (Sutan Shahrir), said he does not intend to ask the Australian watersiders to lift the ...

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  8. First Woman In Australia To Be Cabinet Minister

    PERTH, March 30.— Mrs Florence Cardell Oliver, who will hold a portfolio in the new State ...

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  9. MISSING DAKOTA FOUND

    BRISBANE, March 30.—"All okay" was the dramatic signal flashed up by a signal lamp from the Dutch Navy Dakota, which ...

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  10. BUSY WEEK-END FOR SYDNEY POLICE

    SYDNEY, March 30.—City and suburban police had a busy weekend, during which 22 men and one 16-year-old girl were arrested for ...

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  11. Britain May Have To Borrow Huge Sum Abroad

    LONDON, March 29.—Britain is expected to have to borrow £350,000,000 from abroad this year, stated the President of the ...

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  12. FADDEN'S REASONS FOR ANTI-LABOUR SWINGS

    BRISBANE, March 30.—Labour was facing disaster in every State, the Leader of the Federal Country Party (Mr Fadden) said tonight. He said that the definite anti-Labour swing in Western Australia was largely because of public revulsion at ...

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  13. STOPPAGE TO MOURN FOR DEAD MINERS

    WASHINGTON, March 29.—The President of the United Mineworkers' Federation (Mr John L. Lewis) called a work stoppage ...

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  14. King's Anxiety For British People's Ordeal

    LONDON, March 29.—Reuter's Pretoria correspondent says that His Majesty the King, speaking at a banquet in the City Hall, thanked South Africa for six very happy weeks and said that the only unhappy ...

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  15. MT HEKLA IN ERUPTION AFTER CENTURY

    REYKJAVIK (Iceland), March 29.—After lying dormant for 101 years Mount Hekla erupted early today, when the top of the main ...

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  16. SPEED RECORD FOR AIRLINER

    NEW YORK, Marek 29. —A Douglas DC6, the first airliner developed since the war, set a speed record for ...

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  17. UPWARD SPIRAL OF PRICES IN UNITED STATES

    NEW YORK, March 29.—Economic disaster faces the United States unless the upward spiral of prices is ended, the president ...

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  18. WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF FORMOSANS

    The New York correspondent of the "Times" at Nanking said that foreigners who returned to China from Formosa estimated that the ...

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  19. MELBOURNE THREATENED WITH INDUSTRIAL PARALYSIS

    MELBOURNE, March 30.— Whether the Victorian power transport and industry will close down will be known tomorrow ...

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  20. BIG YOUTH CLUB FOR BRISBANE BOYS

    BRISBANE, March 30.—The State Government was planning to establish in Brisbane the biggest youth club in Australia, the Premier (Mr Hanlon) said tonight. ...

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  21. FUNERALS POSTPONED

    SYDNEY, March 30.—Funerals to have been held in the week-end in Sydney were postponed because of the strike of grave diggers and ...

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  22. More Terrorist Outrages

    LONDON, March 29.—Reuter's Jerusalem correspondent says that one British officer was killed and one wounded when five Jews fired ...

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  23. Imports Of Chassis For Luxury Cars Prohibited

    CANBERRA, March 30.—To avoid unnecessary dollar expenditure the Government has prohibited the import of chassis for luxury motor vehicles from North America during 1947. Chassis for ...

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  24. POTATOES AT LAST!

    Unloading of potatoes was given priority when wharfies returned to work in Sydney last week. Here the first bag is swung ashers from the Ngatoro in Darling Harbour. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  25. Bolting Sulky Horse Kills Boy Aged Seven

    TAMWORTH, March 30.—A 7-year-old boy was killed, but his three brothers escaped injury when a horse, harnessed to a sulky ...

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  26. TORRENTIAL RAIN IN WAGGA DISTRICT

    SYDNEY, March 30.—A man was drowned, crops were lashed to the ground, miles of fencing were washed away and several rail ...

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  27. TWO WOMEN IN BRAWL

    SYDNEY, March 30.—An all-in hair-pulling, punching and frocktearing brawl between two women at Waverley last night attracted ...

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  28. R. MADDOCK RETURNS TO HIS HOME

    BRISBANE, March 30.—After 14 weeks in hospital following a fall at Oxenford, Jockey Russell Maddock has returned to his home. ...

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