The Minister for Defence, Mr. Street, announced to-night that after a militia man had satisfactorily completed three years' training, he would be paid an efficiency grant of £12—an amount equivalent to an increase in ordinary pay of nearly five ...
Article : 132 wordsAfter having been missing since Sunday in the almost impenetrable Colo Valley, James Fletcher, 53, mining engineer, and his guide, William ...
Article : 656 wordsLeaping from the roof of the Hotel Australia at three minutes to 5 p.m. yesterday, Miss Muriel Hare, aged about 40, of Dunedin, New Zealand, ...
Article : 763 words"The French Premier, M. Daladier, is reported to have stressed the necessity for creating at the earliest opportunity a larger British Expeditionary Force than that which proceeded to France in 1914," declares the Paris correspondent of the "Daily ...
Article : 193 wordsThe French Government has banned in the Paris area all open-air meetings of protest against the new financial decrees of the Da[?]adier Government ...
Article : 610 wordsIt is officially alleged in Warsaw that Czech authorities and troops assisted in an attack on the Polish-Slovakian Boundary Commission, in which two ...
Article : 646 wordsAfter negotiations between senior Ministers in the last 24 hours, the plan to pay a bonus to members of the militia force to help to attract recruits ...
Article : 448 wordsPlans made by the central executive of the Australian Defence League (N.S.W. Division) to organise militia recruiting on a population basis in every town and shire of the ...
Article : 489 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" also summarises the results of the talks in Paris as follows: 1. An extension of military collaboration. ...
Article : 822 wordsThe seriousness of the plight of Jews in Europe is emphasised by the flood of applications to the Commonwealth Government from those who wish to ...
Article : 356 wordsThe secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Returned Soldiers' League. Mr. John Black, said last night that the Government's decision to remove the age barrier for ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Chief Secretary, Mr. Gollan, replied at length in the Legislative Assembly yesterday to criticism of the administration of the Police Force, and ...
Article : 701 wordsBefore Miss Muriel Hare went to Sydney for a holiday she practised as a masseuse in Dunedin. Pr[?] to that she was a school teacher. ...
Article : 127 wordsBushfires in the Santa Monica area have already caused damage estimated at 5,000,000 dollars (£1,250,000). Hundreds of homes, including those of ...
Article : 320 wordsPerhaps, it is symptomatic of the public's tiredness with the familiar spectacle ot inter-capital visits by distinguished statesmen that the public ...
Article : 432 wordsIt is understood that the Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, is greatly annoyed at the publication of a statement by the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Curtin, ...
Article : 395 wordsA fine, warm week-end has been predicted by the State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares. Moisture in the air, he said, was li[?]ly to ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Hughes, in a stirring recruiting speech at an inaugural business men's luncheon to-day, appealed for a committee of citizens to be ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Treasurer, Mr. Casey, introduced in the House of Representatives to-day a bill to amend the Commonwealth Bank Act. The principal provisions ...
Article : 325 wordsThe Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, addressing the Cambridge University Conservative Association, said that it was untrue that Mr. ...
Article : 246 wordsAt the request of the Duke of Windsor, the Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, and the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, visited the Duke at the Hotel Mcurice, in Paris. ...
Article : 95 wordsThe State Cabinet has decided to enter into an agreement for the sale of approximately 50 acres of Crown land at Newcastle to the Broken Hill Pty., ...
Article : 216 wordsGold was officially quoted to-day at £7/9/10½an ounce fine, a record price. The previous record was £7/9/4, on March 6. 1935. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Hughes, replied yesterday to criticism by the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Curtin, of the militia ...
Article : 478 wordsThe Federal Governments aim is to be able to call on 120,000 militia men in the event of an emergency. The Minister for Defence, Mr. Street, ...
Article : 68 wordsThe West Lewisham by-election caused by the death of Sir Phillip Dawson (Con.) resulted: Mr. Henry Brooke (Con.) 32,587. Mr. A.M. Skeffington (Lab.). 16,939; majority, ...
Article : 134 wordsThe militia recruiting campaign may soon have its own "theme song" [?] a catehy march tune composed by Mr. F. Selwood, of the band of H.M.A.S. Sydney. ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Prague correspondent of "The Times" says that, because of public feeling, the Ministry of Posts has ordered the withdrawal of postage stamps hearing the head of the former ...
Article : 52 wordsThe 549th State Lottery will be drawn next Tuesday, at 7.15 p.m. Full details of the drawing will be published in the "Herald" on Wednesday. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 26 Nov 1938, Page 11
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