The Attorney-General (Mr. Menzies), on his return to Melbourne to-day, said that his stay in Europe had convinced him that there was an urgent need for ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Commonwealth and the individual States may intervene in a High Court action which the Commercial Motor Users' Association intends to bring through one Riverina ...
Article : 122 wordsThe eleventh Olympic Games opened to-day with a spectacular demonstration of the German genius for organisation. The pageantry lacked only sunshine, rain falling intermittently. The dominant impression on foreign visitors was a nation of ...
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Article : 930 wordsThe Wattle League on Saturday afternoon planted the first trees, in what is intended to be a grove of watties, at Milson's Point. It is situated near the northern pylon of the ...
Article : 257 wordsAeroplanes searching for the British air liner Cloud of Iona discovered the wreckage of a 'plane at Minquier Reef, due south of Jersey. There was no sign ...
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Article : 402 wordsThe huge stadium, which, with the surrounding arenas, cost £3,000,000, was a mass of grey, relieved by the white uniforms of the boys and girls' choirs, as the strangely-quiet ...
Article : 831 wordsPoland proposes to bring a claim for colonies before the League of Nations, with the argument that she is unable to support her population. ...
Article : 139 wordsGood work by the police and ambulance men gave Leslie Gordon Mott, 25, a chance for his life. Mott resides at Book Book, about 35 miles from Wagga, and late this ...
Article : 133 wordsThe jubilee of the Randwick Intermediate High School was celebrated on Saturday. Past students, now married men and women with families, and some of whose children are pupils ...
Article : 261 wordsCanada to-day ended the crop year with the lowest wheat carry-over in eight years, with indications that the current crop will be the smallest in 12 years, the drought continuing ...
Article : 100 wordsDeclaring that Communists in the party are seeking to undermine it, the Rev. Robert Connell, the leader of the Canadian Commonwealth Federation in the Legislative Assembly ...
Article : 138 wordsA call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details are published on page 18, column 5. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 190 wordsTens of thousands of yards of flags and bunting decorated the route along which the Olympic torch was borne beneath grey skies. The streets were lined with spectators from an ...
Article : 437 wordsThe interstate freighter Carlisle struck a sandbank in Port Phillip Bay while outward bound to Brisbane early yeslerday morning and was held fast for more than six hours ...
Article : 61 wordsThe weather prospects for the August Bank Holiday week-end are not very favourable, although some sunny intervals are forecast. The volume of holiday traffic, however, appears ...
Article : 162 wordsGold was quoted to-day at£6/18/8 an ounce fine, as compared with £6/18/9½ yesterday. MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. ...
Article : 479 wordsTwo persons died as a result of falls in Sydney during the week-end, and several others were injured. Peter Kerr, 73, a retired sea captain living ...
Article : 499 wordsFollowing a brawl in a South Brisbane hotel last night, Frank Green, 45, described by the police as a well-known member of the underworld, was admitted to the General ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 wordsThe King paid a surprise visit yesterday to the yacht Nahlin, in which he will shortly take a holiday cruise along the coast of Dalmatia. ...
Article : 133 wordsIt is announced from Kobe that 224 New Zealand ewes and 10 rams have arrived for Kanegafuchi, one of the biggest Japanese cotton spinning and weaving corporations. ...
Article : 124 wordsThe 17,000-ton whaler Nisshin Maru has been launched at Kobe—156 days after the keel was laid. This is believed to be a world record. The launching took place in the ...
Article : 90 wordsSplashed by molten lead, which he had been pouring into a bamboo cane at his home in Manly on Saturday, a boy had his eyes, lips, and face burned, and he suffered great pain ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 222 wordsPresident Roosevelt is the guest of the Governor-General of Canada (Lord Tweedsmuir) at his summer home at Quebec. This is the first official visit that the ...
Article : 147 wordsWomen representative of 20 countries have completed a week's discussions on many matters concerning sex. Mrs. Yevonne Middleton (Great Britain), at ...
Article : 86 wordsCaptain P. S. Mumford, addressing the Liberal summer school at Oxford, said that civil aviation in Europe was nothing but a farce. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe president of the Richmond District Council of the Primary Producers' Union (Mr. R. C. Gibson) said that the Transport Department had a lot of leeway to make up ...
Article : 124 wordsMr. H. G. Edwards has been reappointed an Acting District Court Judge and Chairman of Quarter Sessions from August 1 to August 31. ...
Article : 83 wordsAustrian Nazis again demonstrated against the Government yesterday. They exploded "stink bombs" among thousands of people attending a meeting of the Fatherland Front. ...
Article : 66 wordsCaptain E. W. Percival (formerly of Sydney), flying a Mew Gull, averaged 195½ miles an hour in the Folkestone aero trophy contest of three circuits each of 19 miles. ...
Article : 63 wordsPlaonclothes Constable R. S. Stedman, who had been stationed at Katoomba for 10 years, collapsed while on duty on Saturday, and he died yesterday. He was 39 years of age, and ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Office of Works, it is stated, is experimenting at various points of vantage along the route of the coronation procession with large mirrors tilted forward to form super-periscopes, ...
Article : 52 wordsProgrammes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertising Column. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 3 Aug 1936, Page 10
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