The first commercial helicopter to land and take off in London was demonstrated at the Harrodian Ground, Barnes, last week before Government officials. The picture shows how a rescue can be made by the plane hovering over a dinghy while a man climbs up a ladder. The machine, an American Sikorsky, is to be, made under licence in Britain. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 64 wordsMr. Justice Roper, in the Equity Court yesterday reserved judgment in a case relating to the future custody of a child aged four. ...
Article : 272 wordsSteps taken yesterday may avert a strike by New South Wales colliery deputies and shot-firers, which, scheduled to begin to-day, threatened to halt all coal production. Meetings of deputies' and ...
Article : 429 wordsWOLLONGONG, Friday.—The relative merits of State and private enterprise in constructing homes on the scale needed to overcome the housing shortage within 10 years, were keenly debated when the winter forum of th[?] ...
Article : 961 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—The chairman of the Coal Reference Board, Mr. Walsh, announced to-day that the 350 miners on strike at the ...
Article : 59 wordsKerosene 'lamps hung from a make-shift ceiling illuminated the exhibition of woodcuts and water colours by Karl Rabus, in the ...
Article : 150 wordsA converted Halifax bomber becomes a "flying kennel" to-day when it carries 89 dogs from Sydney to Singapore. ...
Article : 155 wordsLITHGOW, Friday.—Lithgow police to-day seized equipment, tools, and machinery worth £180 which they claimed had been stolen ...
Article : 96 wordsThe reason higher grades of petrol were not available was the world shortage of tetra-ethyl lead, said the general secretary of the ...
Article : 159 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—It was of vital importance that the answers to the Commonwealth census on June 30 should be as full and ...
Article : 79 wordsMiss Jacqueline Brown, 20-year-old daughter of the managing director of Kingsford Smith Aviation Services, Mr. J. Brown, besides being the ...
Article : 119 wordsThe 22,000-ton British liner Asturias will berth at No. 13 wharf, Pyrmont, at 8 a.m. on Monday with 727 passengers from Britain and 40 ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Army Department has decided to relinquish Liverpool Camp, which will become a factory area. The Disposals Commission will sell ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Minister for Building Materials, Mr. Matthews, yesterday said that he would examine the points raised in Mr. Walter Bunning's letter in the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe City Engineer, Mr. A. H. Garnsey, said last night that his recommendations on car parking would come before the City Council's ...
Article : 56 wordsUsing gelignite, thieves yesterday burst open an iron safe in the Villawood factory of Standard Telephones and Cables Pty. Ltd.. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 21 Jun 1947, Page 5
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