In anticipation of funds being made available by Cabinet in 193738 for the construction of a new hospital at Canberra, steps are now ...
Article : 366 wordsTwelve persons lost their lives yesterday in the worst local shipping disaster since the sinking of the Greycliffe in 1927, when a 20-ft. launch was overwhelmed by a gigantic wave on the Hawkesbury River. ...
Article : 883 wordsThe French Foreign Minister (M. Delbos) has received a copy of the German note to Britain on the subject of the invitation to a conference ...
Article : 166 wordsA meeting of the Parliamentary Labour caucus, the first for a considerable time, to-day decided that Mr. Lang should launch a censure ...
Article : 109 wordsTwenty-three persons have been killed in a severe earthquake which rocked the Venetian province early this morning. The Rome correspondent of the "Paily Mail" states that the earthquake occured at 4.11 a.m. and was particularly severe ...
Article : 274 wordsThe Spanish insurgents' surprise thrust from Toledo to a point 17 miles closer to Madrid by reason of which they hammered a gap in the ...
Article : 441 words"The outbreak oil war would cut Australia's sea routes with their export trade of £100,000,000 and for that reason I regard aerial defence as the ...
Article : 130 wordsSignor Mussolini received the Chief of the German Police It is believed that the increase in Communist activities throughout ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Air Investigation Committee to-day closely examined the log books of the direction finding station at Darwin, referring to all signals sent ...
Article : 105 words"During the voyage she appeared to have trouble over her finances and had difficulty in paying the full amount of her wine bill," was an ...
Article : 407 wordsIt is now feared that Brian Abbot, and Leslie Hay-Simpson, who are mining in a 16 ft. ship, Mystery Star, on a voyage from Lord Howe ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Council of International Chamber of Commerce, after a meeting today, adopted a 13 point plan, which aims at the gradual removal of trade ...
Article : 122 wordsAmy Mollison is here seeking a plane with which to compete in the New York-Paris air race in 1937. She says that she cannot obtain a ...
Article : 50 wordsA recommendation that regulations should be introduced imposing a speed limit of 30 m.p.h for motor vehicles in built-up areas was framed by the ...
Article : 163 wordsUnder the eyes of guards and many visitors, thieves stole the historic golden crown and valuable crown jewels from the Pantheon in broad ...
Article : 64 wordsEighteen members of the crew and one woman passenger perished last night when a Canadian ship, the Sand Merchant, a 52 ft sand dredge. ...
Article : 85 wordsArthur Gammon, a prospector, is in hospital here after his arrival after two gruelling weeks during which he dragged himself through ...
Article : 138 wordsBelieved to be the person responsible for terrorising a number of women in the neighbourhood recently, a man attacked a girl domestic while alone ...
Article : 84 wordsA finding of accidental death was returned at the conclusion,of the inquest to-day on William Boyd; 15 who died as the result of injuries which he ...
Article : 96 wordsThe 10-ton German flying boat Zephyr left here this afternoon on a 1700 mile trial flight to the Azores and then to Bremen, despite fog, rain and ...
Article : 56 wordsEighteen persons were injured and three seriously when 50 gas filled balloons burst in a great sheet of flame at the football stadium. The ...
Article : 53 wordsAlthough the State Parliament will open, to-morrow, the sitting will be very brief. Ordinary business will not be proceeded with until Wednesday. ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Tue 20 Oct 1936, Page 1
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