Following the break in an open concrete-lined water channel near the Canning Dam yesterday afternoon, severe water cuts were imposed in the metropolitan area today. The use of sprinklers and fixed hoses and the watering of street lawns was ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 399 wordsESPERANCE, Mon: Seven-and-a-half-year-old Keith Hough rescued his four-year-old sister Beverley from drowning on Saturday by throwing her his fishing-line and then a lifebuoy. ...
Article : 180 wordsEngineers will have a difficult job repairing the damaged concrete water channel which broke about two ...
Article : 199 wordsFormer President of the Legislative Council Sir John Kirwan, who died on September 9, aged 82, left an estate of £13,348/7/- Sir John left almost his entire estate to his sons John ...
Article : 190 wordsBUSSELTON, Mon: A 20[?] dash in 15 minutes on [?] probably saved the life of John St. Clair Golightly ...
Article : 245 wordsMORE than 168,000,000 gal. of water was consumed in the metropolitan area on Friday, Saturday ...
Article : 39 wordsDARWIN, Mon: The office of the Centralian Advocate, the Alice Springs newspaper which has for some months advocated a fire brigade for the town was gutted by fire early this morning The fire broke out between 4 ...
Article : 194 wordsSYDNEY, Mon: Double Bay housewife Mrs. Lyell Ramsay, has received a letter of thanks from Rita Hayworth for a pair of rose-trimmed booties she sent to Rita's new baby, Yasmin. ...
Article : 65 wordsThere is no immediate indication of a cool change for Perth, according to the Weather Bureau. ...
Article : 114 wordsPINJARRA, Mon. Ronald Douglas Harman (23), of Anstey-st., South Perth, a member of a shooting party in the Banksiadale area, was fatally wounded about 1 p.m. yesterday. ...
Article : 128 wordsGERALDTON, Mon: When the headlights [?] on a utility being driven around and in Villcox-drive on ...
Article : 74 wordsLOS ANGELES, Sun (AAP): General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, retired chief of the United ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 61 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Sun (AAP): The Clark Gables returned on the linper Lurline to day from their Hawanan ...
Article : 35 wordsPARIS Mon (AAP): Louis Thebault, described by his employer Baroness de Forest as a "perfect servant," told three bandits: "Shoot me but please, oh please, don't take her ...
Article : 57 wordsAbout 12 trotting bookmakers today received notices to appear before the stewards at 11 a.m. at Gloucester Park ...
Article : 50 wordsISTANBUL, Won (AAP): Fifteen peasants were found frozen to death, and packs of hungry wolves, bears and jackals have attacked others in Eastern Anatolia following an unprecedented spell of cold weather which is gripping ...
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The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), Mon 16 Jan 1950, Page 1
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