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  2. WHAT'S IN A NAME?

    What's in a name? George Grossmith was chuckling to us one night at the stage golf club in Leicester Square. Ena, his daughter, wished to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,232 words
  3. DEFENDING THE HARBOUR.

    In these days when so much time, thought, and money are being spent upon our coastal defences, and, particularly, upon Port Jackson, it is ...

    Article : 1,007 words
  4. AT WILD DOG CORNER.

    In Haddon, the corner where three States meet, New South Wales, South Australia, and Queensland, is a faraway community that knows very little ...

    Article : 980 words
  5. ADIEU TO HARBIN.

    Wealthy Chinese, fearing an explosion between Japan and Soviet Russia, are leaving Harbin, the chief city of the Japanese puppet State of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,099 words
  6. JOKES & JOKERS.

    Mr. F. A. Hammergren, of America, self-styled "prince of practical jokers," recently met his match in Australia. In his own picturesque phrase, he "was ...

    Article : 924 words
  7. King George Was My Shipmate.—II. THE KING AS A RAW MIDDY.

    In this article, the author tells the story of the King's initiation into the Naval service. His friendliness, his attention to duty, his sensitiveness to "slights," and his determination to share the ordinary routine work of his ship are dwelt upon with graphic emphasis. There is also an amusing description of a football match in which Prince Albert (as he was then) and the Prince ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,981 words
  8. NAMED AFTER A TREE.

    On Prince's Highway just beyond Wollongong stands an exceptional figtree which is said to be one of the oldest and largest of its kind in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 180 words
  9. FAMOUS INN.

    Travellers along the Mittagong-Berrima road will look in vain for the "Three Legs o' Man" Hotel, which once stood a short, distance south of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 214 words
  10. THIS CAT WAS A "KILLER."

    It is difficult, I find, to write a story about a cat without starting: "Billy was a beautiful big, tortoiseshell cat." On even graver, deeper and more ...

    Article : 536 words
  11. JOHN CLARE.

    It is the musical, the crystal stream; The rustle and the whisper of the trees; The bowing grasses in a straying breeze When in the fields he loved to lie and dream, ...

    Article : 136 words
  12. QUIETUDE.

    I'd like a house of soft grey stone. With mauve lantana on the wall, And primulas in dainty beds Beneath the hollyhocks so tall. ...

    Article : 79 words
  13. WINTER FIRE.

    The pale smoke drifting, drifting, Above the housetops high, Has ris'n from earthly altars Like incense in the sky, ...

    Article : 47 words
  14. SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE.

    High in the heavens he set his bow, To be a sign to all below That thinking man, mere flesh and blood, Can ride victorious o'er the flood! ...

    Article : 35 words
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