The International Wheat Advisory Committee now meeting in London, has agreed to comvene a world conference to consider specific proposals for ...
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Article : 609 wordsThe first death due to bushfires in New South Wales is reported from Bega. The victim was Mr. W. Underhill, 65, of ...
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Article : 268 wordsDamage estimated at £50,000 was done to-day by a rainstorm, unequalled in violence within the memory of residents on the goldfields. ...
Article : 397 wordsWhile the roads of the State are being gradually improved in the interests of safety, the Minister for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, said last ...
Article : 759 wordsIt is officially announced that the Reich loan of £125,000,000, issued in November, has been fully subscribed. The Berlin conespondent of the "Daily ...
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Article : 389 wordsIn the fight to prevent bushfires, the sale, distribution, or use of wax matches will be prohibited in New South Wales. ...
Article : 181 wordsSome passengers were alarmed when clouds of smoke from bushfires in Victoria enveloped the Orient liner Ormonde when she was 150 miles from the Victorian coast on the voyage ...
Article : 183 wordsA call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details are published on page 20, column 5. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe president of the Australian Wheat-growers' Federation, Mr. T. H. Powell, has sent a letter to the organisations affiliated with the federation, suggesting that they ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsThe Senior British Trade Commissioner in India, Sir Thomas Ainscough, in his annual report, predicts India's financial and economic collapse if the policy of increasing domestic ...
Article : 154 wordsFiremen from city and suburban stations were engaged all yesterday in fighting bush and grass fires, and saving houses threatened by the flames. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 272 wordsIt is reported from Moscow that the Ogpu (Soviet secret police) have discovered a nest of spies and "wreckers' among the lecturers in Moscow's ...
Article : 272 wordsMore than half a dozen bushfires the biggest of them covering a five-mile front, raged in the Adelaide Hill, to-day. Nearly all of them were burning in uninhabited districts, ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. G. W. Walker, of the Lindley Walker Wheat Company, said yesterday that he hoped the International Advisory Committee would not recommend another wheat conference, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 wordsAt least seven people were killed and 49 injured when the Howrah express was derailed. The five middle coaches overtuned, caught ...
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Article : 40 wordsThe Lord Major of Sydney, Alderman Nock, has arranged, after telephonic consultation with the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Councillor Coles, to accept contributions in Sydney for ...
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Article : 81 wordsThis map, based on the officially recorded maximum temperatures throughout New South Wales on Wednesday, can be taken as typical of any day during the last fortnight. The heavily shaded portion shows the large proportion of the State that experienced temperatures ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 316 wordsThe Premier, Mr. Stevens, on Wednesday sent the following telegram to the Premier of Victoria, Mr. Dunstan:— "On behalf of the Government and the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe International Sugar Council is meeting in London, with 21 nations represented. The Agent-General for Queensland, Mr. L. H. pike, is the Australian delegate to the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe northern portion of the North Island is covered with a thick haze caused by smoke blown across the Tasman Sea from the Australian bush fires by westerly gales. Visibility ...
Article : 42 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. Herman Oliphant, an intimate adviser of President Roosevelt, and the author of the controversial Undistributed Profits Tax. ...
Article : 98 wordsThe wedding of Princess Maria of Italy, youngest daughter [?] the Kin[?] and Queen of Italy, to Prince Louis of Bourbon-Parma, which was to have taken place on Sunday, ...
Article : 49 wordsMme. Gorin, wife of M. Mikhall Gorin, local manager of the Intourist Russian Agency, has been indicted by the Grand Jury on a charge of possessing information obtained ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 13 Jan 1939, Page 12
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