Many of the discomforts suffered by the 250 men of the Darwin Mobile Force will be removed when more than £3,000 worth of barracks equipment, ...
Article : 355 words"Despite the great development of secondary industries in Australia sheep, wheat, and cattle in the last analysis, pay the bills," said the ...
Article : 558 wordsTop: Lifting its huge load with ease the flying-boat Cuba rose from the water as it came abreast of Shark Island on Saturday to begin the first stage of the flight during which the crew will survey a new air mail route to England, via the Indian Ocean and Africa. Lower left: Mr. Richard Archbold, on the right, the owner of the plane; and Mr. R. Rogers, the pilot, going aboard. Lower right: Captain P. G. Taylor, who is in command of the flight, photographed on his way ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 109 wordsSaskatoon, the second largest city of the Province of Saskatchewan, provided a novel welcome for the King and Queen on their tour yesterday. ...
Article : 1,435 wordsThe Guba alighted at Port Hedland at 1.20 a.m. Greenwich mean time (11.20 a.m. Sydney time), completing its flight of 2,600 miles in 19 hours 33 minutes. ...
Article : 1,050 wordsAlfred William Spence, 53, single, chemist, of Wandella Avenue, Roseville, was killed by a train as he stood on the Croydon railway station on Saturday night. ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Council of the Jewish community in a manifesto, points out that the new outburst of violence in Palestine has shocked the Jewish authorities, who are ...
Article : 349 wordsThe death has occurred of Sir Philip Sassoon, M.P., who had been First Commissioner, of Works since 1937. He was aged 51 years. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 119 wordsMessrs. E. M. Gollan and P. C. Priestley, of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Ltd., returned to Sydney last week after spending 14 months alone ...
Article : 397 wordsThroughout Britain yesterday afternoon men between 20 and 21 years of age were taking the first step towards compulsory training by registering at ...
Article : 235 wordsMen in a car which had been stolen, tried to wreck a police patrol car near Edgecliff last, night, alter they had ignored the police officers' order to stop. ...
Article : 155 wordsA Postal official was arrested at Maryborough shortly before dawn to-day and charged with the theft of £400 in notes, which were in a registered package consigned ...
Article : 133 wordsDamage estimated at several thousands of pounds was done by a fire which broke out in the electrical switchgear room of the Central Brick ...
Article : 231 wordsA call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details are published on page 20, column 5. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 212 wordsAn untoward incident marred the beginning of Artur Schnabel's recital on Saturday night at the Town Hall. The pianist had launched into the Bach Toccata in C Minor when a ...
Article : 153 wordsMr. A. P. Herbert, M.P., in a letter to "The Times," complains that the Buchmanites (followers of Mr. F. Buchman, the founder of the Oxford Group) are "postering not merely the ...
Article : 87 wordsProfessor H. Spencer Jones, the Astronomer Royal, reports that, owing to the glare of street illumination and the pollution of the atmosphere adversely affecting its work, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 294 wordsA man in a stationary car was held up at revolver point by six young men on a vacant allotment at Sans Souci last night, and was robbed of his wrist watch and 2/ in ...
Article : 179 wordsAt Windsor Court of Petty Sessions on Friday, before Mr. C. Pickup, S.M., Frank Gross, of Vineyards, near Windsor, pleaded guilty to a charge of having left a fire, which he ...
Article : 121 wordsThc first of the Armstrong Whitworth Ensign air liners, fitted with improved Tiger engines, will be delivered to Imperial Airways next week. ...
Article : 140 wordsCourage and resource were shown by a 14-year-old boy, Howard Hutchings, who climbed 30 feet down a rope to rescue his 16-year-old brother, Norman, ...
Article : 147 wordsFigures received by the Premier Mr. Playford from the Betting Control Board show that the new tax on winning bets imposed by the amended Lotteries and Gaming Act ...
Article : 48 wordsA good example of a painting by G. F. Watts, the English artist, who died in 1904. was auctioned at Christies and realised 22 guineas. ...
Article : 50 wordsMembers of the 30th Battalion (N.S.W. Scottish Regiment) at Long Bay on Saturday firing in the Villers Bretonneux competition, in which a team of three must run 20 yards with the gun, assemble it, and then fire 100 rounds at the target, all within 90 seconds. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsEsmond Woods, 14, of The Boulevarde, Lakemba, was accidentally shot with a pearifle at his home on Saturday night. The bullet entered his chest just under the heart ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 274 wordsKing Victor Emmanuel, of Italy, has presented to the Albanian Premier, M. Verlacci, details of Albania's new status, which, it is stated, ensure religious freedom, a ...
Article : 65 wordsThieves broke into the Punchbowl agency of the Bank of New South Wales on Saturday night by forcing a window with an old screwdriver, but all they stole was ...
Article : 103 wordsWhen Mrs. Maude Sullivan, 50, was carrying a spirit lamp in the kitchen of a house in Alma Street, Darlington, where she lived alone, on Saturday night she tripped and ...
Article : 187 wordsH.M.S. Kimberley, which was launched this week, is the last of the eight destroyers of the K class of the 1937 programme to be put afloat. ...
Article : 89 wordsGold was quoted yesterday at £7/8/5 an ounce fine, which was unchanged from Friday.—A.A.P MR. ATTLEE'S ILLNESS. ...
Article : 120 wordsPlateglass windows at three city shops were smashed on Saturday night, but little of valu was stolen. Pedestrians heard the crash of glass as the ...
Article : 105 wordsA buyer at a stamp auction paid £475 for a United States air-mail stamp, which was issued in 1918. It was one of a sheet of 100 stamps, each containing an error. In ...
Article : 61 wordsProgrammes of Suburban and Country Pictures Theatres will be found in the Amusemnet Advertisement Section. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 5 Jun 1939, Page 12
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