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  2. SALAMAUA SITE.

    Preliminary estimates completed in Canberra suggest that about two years will elapse before the administrative capital of New Guinea is ...

    Article : 212 words
  3. HAMMOND TO RESCUE.

    After a disastrous start in the second test at Lord's, in which the Australian fast bowler, E. L. McCormick, captured three wickets for 15 ...

    Article : 411 words
  4. AIR MAILS.

    After many months of negotiation the draft agreements between the parties concerned in the flying-boat an mail service between England and ...

    Article : 856 words
  5. TIMELY RAIN.

    Rain which developed in the northwest of the State on Thursday spread rapidly, and during the night inland areas received the best and ...

    Article : 768 words
  6. THE SPANISH PROBLEM.

    Does the Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, believe that Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini are both "on the spot" as a result of the agreement ...

    Article : 849 words
  7. SOCIAL STIR.

    The issue of a warrant for the arrest of Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, husband of the former Miss Barbara Hutton[?] the Woolworth heiress, who feared that an ...

    Article : 373 words
  8. TROUBLESOME AUSTRIA.

    Is Germany afraid of trouble in Austria? This is a question asked in Paris to-day. Herr Hitler's failure to visit Austria ...

    Article : 683 words
  9. THREAT TO HAINAN.

    The Hong Kong correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that Japanese warships are concentrating off Hoihow, on the northern coast of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 506 words
  10. GOLDFIELDS ROAD.

    Strong criticism of the decision to transfer the capital of New Guinea from Rabaul to Salamaua, and also to have a road constructed from Salamaua ...

    Article : 419 words
  11. BOYS' SEARCH FOR GOLD.

    After cruising for 2,000 miles, the three 16-year-old High school students of Santa Cruz, California, who last month stole a 52ft auxiliary yacht and ...

    Article : 161 words
  12. BOY MIGRATION.

    The migration of youths from Britain to New South Wales under the auspices of the Big Brother Movement will be resumed immediately at the rate of 20 ...

    Article : 371 words
  13. SECRECY IN PRAGUE.

    Strict secrecy is being observed on both sides regarding yesterday's first round-table conference, which lasted four hours, between Chechoslovakian ...

    Article : 186 words
  14. EARTH TREMORS.

    The Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Hughes, said yesterday that the earth tremors that had been felt in Salamaua in the last few days were no ...

    Article : 261 words
  15. PRESERVATION OF WHALES.

    As the outcome of the International Whaling Conference which has now concluded, a convention will shortly be signed which largely continues the position established by ...

    Article : 173 words
  16. SHIPMENTS OF IRON ORE.

    The Foreign Office spokesman. Mr Kawai, in commenting on the announcement by the Prime Minister, Mr Lyons, on Wednesday that the ...

    Article : 197 words
  17. ELECTRICITY SCHEME.

    The State Cabinet will have before it on Tuesday the report of Messrs. Rendel, Palmer, and Tritton, the London firm of consulting engineers, ...

    Article : 367 words
  18. FIRST MAIL FROM LONDON.

    The new system of despatching all mail to Australia by air mail, at the 1½d rate, will be inaugurated at 11 o'clock on Tuesday morning. ...

    Article : 34 words
  19. FERRY DAMAGED.

    A collision between the ferry launch Evelyn and a lighter or some floating object occurred on the harbour in midstream, near the Harbour Bridge, ...

    Article : 261 words
  20. EARLY MORNING BLAZE.

    Early this morning a factory occupied by the R.C.S. Radio Laboratories, Ltd., in Ivy Street, Redfern, was destroyed by fire. ...

    Article : 193 words
  21. PEAT'S FERRY BRIDGE.

    Mr. George Balgue, who will supervise the construction of the new bridge over the Hawkesbury River at Peat's Ferry, said last night that preliminary ...

    Article : 229 words
  22. RATIONING IN JAPAN.

    It is announced that the Government will ration, and, if necessary, prohibit the domestic use of 32 key materials, including wool and iron. ...

    Article : 42 words
  23. INSURANCE BILL.

    Proposals that an amendment to the National Insurance Bill should be moved in the Senate to permit mutual insurance companies to share the right to ...

    Article : 141 words
  24. HERR HENLEIN'S DEMANDS.

    The German demands were set out on April 24 last by the leader of the Sudeten Germans, Herr Henlein. They were:— (1) Full equality of status between ...

    Article : 134 words
  25. ORE FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    "All of [?]e iron ore to be exported under licence from the Commonwealth Government before the end of the year will be taken from Whyalla. South ...

    Article : 195 words
  26. SEAMAN ACQUITTED.

    Able Seaman Edwin Dwyer, 19, of H.M.S. Dorsetshire, has been acquitted of the charge of murdering a shipmate[?] Leading Seaman Robert Dickonson. ...

    Article : 252 words
  27. WORLD WHEAT CROP.

    The Department of Agriculture's estimate of th[?] world wheat production for 1938 is between 4,025,000,000 and 4,075,000,000 bushels, compared with 3,827,000,000 bushels ...

    Article : 72 words
  28. ANXIETY FOR DOGS CAUSES ACCIDENT.

    When trying to save his two dogs from being run over while crossing Liverpool Road. Cabramatta, near his home, last evening. George Hoy, 49, was himself knocked down by ...

    Article : 54 words
  29. COUNTRY HOUSE.

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, has received no confirmation of reports that Mr. Howard Spensley, the son of a former Solicitor-General of Victoria, ...

    Article : 133 words
  30. BETTER SERVICES LIKELY.

    An extension of motor tours to areas not previously visited by tourists was predicted yesterday by Mr. J. R. Pocock, manager of Pioneer Motor Tours, ...

    Article : 129 words
  31. ALLEGED KIDNAPPING THREAT.

    A boy[?] aged 14 years[?] was arrested at Carlingford yesterday on a charge of demanding money by menaces. A few days ago a resident of Carlingford ...

    Article : 115 words
  32. JILTED GIRL'S SUICIDE.

    A mobile television transmitter, making "shots" in the city picked up the scene of an unexpected tragedy when the cameraman trained his instrument on the body of a ...

    Article : 115 words
  33. FIREMEN'S HOURS.

    When the City Council meets on Monday. Aldermen Sir Samuel Walder, Crick, McElhone, and Tresidder will support a motion of which they have given notice, for the ...

    Article : 122 words
  34. UNIVERSAL LABOUR SERVICE.

    Marshal Goering has issued a decree imposing universal labour service as fiom July 1[?] Under the decree, every able-bodied man and woman will be obliged to work at a special ...

    Article : 71 words
  35. "AN ABUSE OF POWER."

    The Premier of Western Australia, Mr. J. C. Willcock, said that the suppression of the iron ore industry at Yampi was a shocking abuse of power. ...

    Article : 92 words
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