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  2. ORIENTATIONS.—V.

    WHILE O.E.T.A. (Occupied Enemy Territory Administration) was absorbed in the peaceful problems of administration in Jerusalem there was ...

    Article : 1,494 words
  3. A SELF-TAUGHT ARTIST.

    Mr. S. J. Lamorna Birch, R.A., a collection of whose pictures is now on exhibition in Sydney, is an entirely self-taught artist. He left school when ...

    Article : 934 words
  4. THE DESERT BLOWS—AND BLOSSOMS.

    Mr. Michael Terry, who writes on the menace of erosion in an adjacent column, here gives a striking photographic contrast between sand-swept country in the interior of Australia and a fertile bend of the Murray at Renmark (S.A.). Within a few miles of the Murray irrigation settlements the overcleared land, like so much of the pastoral country of the far outback, is blighted by the creeping sand. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 72 words
  5. PALESTINE VICTOR.

    LORD ALLENBY. "The most brilliant, dramatic, and decisive victory gained in the war." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 16 words
  6. CELESTIAL MEASUREMENTS.

    It is interesting to be told that, in the outer parts of space, millions of star systems or galaxies are moving rapidly away, in most cases, from the ...

    Article : 933 words
  7. THE CREEPING DESERT.

    WHEN I was last in England a friend of mine, St. Barbe Baker, was drawing attention to a movement which he had initiated, and which I ...

    Article : 906 words
  8. THE PLANET MARS.

    If you look into the eastern sky shortly after dark any clear night just now you will observe the constellation of the Scorpion shining out ...

    Article : 822 words
  9. IN THE FOREST.

    In a gum forest I found a home-maker splitting shingles to roof his house and sheds, and on a block sat an old-time splitter, watching every turn with interested and ...

    Article : 398 words
  10. For the Children. WINTER MORNINGS.

    Every morning when I 'wake, An extra-special breath I take 'Cos now that winter-time's begun, I think that breathing's lots of fun, ...

    Article : 46 words
  11. THE DIN OF LIFE.

    One of the most striking features of the present age is its noisiness, and those who have lived to witness the more important stages in the ...

    Article : 716 words
  12. WHERE ARE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN'S TOYS?

    Christopher Robin, so we've been told, "Grew up, for little boys do." Now that we know this, may I ask What has become of Pooh? ...

    Article : 146 words
  13. THE BUGLES OF ENGLAND!

    I heard the bugles sounding across the realms of space, The bugles of Old England—the bugles of our race— ...

    Article : 145 words
  14. NUMINBAH VALLEY.

    Numinbah has been in the news owing to the Murwillumbah (N.S.W.) Council, assisted by the Main Roads Board, undertaking to construct a main road thence to the ...

    Article : 269 words
  15. A ROAD IS BUILT.

    A New Zealand engineer went to Kurdistan in 1928 to build a road through the mountains. He had no trained staff nor even any expert workmen, his appliances were primitive, and ...

    Article : 516 words
  16. A GOOD-BYE TO "REDGUM."

    Let Hilaire Belloc reassure us: He does not die that can bequeath Some influence to the land he knows, Or dares, persistent, interwreath ...

    Article : 456 words
  17. RODERIGO, THE AIR-MINDED SPIDER.

    Roderigo was a very powerful spider, of an outdoor variety; his body measured half an inch, his leg-span was much greater. Filled with a sense of his own importance, he had ...

    Article : 288 words
  18. THE SKYWAY AND THE HIGHWAY.

    An R.A.F. plane flying over Rowanduz, the Kurdish town perched above the wild canyons through which a New Zealand engineer drove a road. —From "Road Through Kurdistan," reviewed in the next column. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 37 words
  19. WINTER HERALDS.

    Approaching winter, aided by a droughty spell, has already denuded the landscape of its summery tints, but as if in compensation, the cheery robin redbreasts have appeared in ...

    Article : 134 words
  20. THE BLUE WREN.

    O happy is the gay Blue Wren, And proud is his resplendent coat, E'er flitting with his wee brown hen in sunny glade and shady glen, ...

    Article : 104 words
  21. ABOUT FOG.

    Fog is made of silver stars, And violet beds, Mountain mists and clover clumps And spider threads. ...

    Article : 62 words
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