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  2. DARWIN FORCE

    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
  3. "SHEEP AND WHEAT PAY BILLS."

    "Despite the great development of secondary industries in Australia sheep, wheat, and cattle in the last analysis, pay the bills," said the ...

    Article : 558 words
  4. EMPIRE AIR MAIL SURVEY FLIGHT BEGINS.

    Top: 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 words
  5. ROYAL TOUR.

    Saskatoon, 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 words
  6. "START ON A SOUND BASIS."

    The 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 words
  7. MAN KILLED BY TRAIN.

    Alfred 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 words
  8. JEWS SHOCKED.

    The 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 words
  9. SIR P. SASSOON DEAD.

    The 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 words
  10. WILLIS ISLAND HERMITS.

    Messrs. E. M. Gollan and P. C. Priestley, of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Ltd., returned to Sydney last week after spending 14 months alone ...

    Article : 397 words
  11. NEW MEN FOR ARMY.

    Throughout Britain yesterday afternoon men between 20 and 21 years of age were taking the first step towards compulsory training by registering at ...

    Article : 235 words
  12. CHASE AFTER STOLEN CAR.

    Men 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 words
  13. POSTAL OFFICIAL ARRESTED.

    A 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 words
  14. BRICKWORKS FIRE

    Damage 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 words
  15. THE CALL-UP.

    A call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details are published on page 20, column 5. ...

    Article : 30 words
  16. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 212 words
  17. DISTURBANCE AT CONCERT.

    An 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 words
  18. THE OXFORD GROUP.

    Mr. 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 words
  19. GREENWICH OBSERVATORY.

    Professor 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 ...

    Article : 49 words
  20. ADVERTISEMENTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 294 words
  21. MOTORIST HELD UP.

    A 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 words
  22. FAILED TO PUT OUT FIRE.

    At 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 words
  23. NEW AIR LINERS.

    Thc first of the Armstrong Whitworth Ensign air liners, fitted with improved Tiger engines, will be delivered to Imperial Airways next week. ...

    Article : 140 words
  24. BOY RESCUED FROM WELL.

    Courage 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 words
  25. NEW BETTING TAX.

    Figures 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 words
  26. WATTS PAINTING FOR 22 GUINEAS.

    A 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 words
  27. MACHINE-GUNNERS' CONTEST.

    Members 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 words
  28. BOY SHOT THROUGH CHEST.

    Esmond 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 ...

    Article : 137 words
  29. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 274 words
  30. ALBANIA'S FUTURE.

    King 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 words
  31. PUNCHBOWL BANK ROBBED.

    Thieves 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 words
  32. FALLEN SPIRIT LAMP EXPLODES.

    When 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 words
  33. NEW BRITISH DESTROYER.

    H.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 words
  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Gold was quoted yesterday at £7/8/5 an ounce fine, which was unchanged from Friday.—A.A.P MR. ATTLEE'S ILLNESS. ...

    Article : 120 words
  35. SHOP WINDOWS BROKEN.

    Plateglass 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 words
  36. PROFITABLE ERROR IN STAMPS.

    A 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 words
  37. SUBURBAN AND COUNTRY PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of Suburban and Country Pictures Theatres will be found in the Amusemnet Advertisement Section. ...

    Article : 32 words
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