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  2. KING'S ILLNESS.

    His Majesty the King, who has been ill for 29 days, continues to show improvement, and there is a more hopeful feeling now than for many days. ...

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    DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE OF COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH, HELD ON DECEMBER 12 AT EAST MELBOURNE. Back Row (left to right): Mr. B. Perry (Western Australia), Professor E. J. Goddard (Queensland), Mr. A. E. Lighton (Victoria). Second Row:—Professor H. B. Woodruff (Victoria), Mr. P. E. Kean (Tasmania), Professor H. C. Richards (Queensland), Professor ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 101 words
  4. NEW SYLLABUS.

    Whatever changes are made in the curriculum and the school organisation they will be gradual, and the system will be elastic. The ...

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  5. USEFUL STORMS.

    Farmers in the Lockyer, Brisbane Valley, North Coast, and parts of the Darling Downs have received a valuable Christmas gift ...

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  6. KING'S SCHOOL SYMPATHY.

    The High Commissioner for Australia (Sir Granville Ryrie) received sympathetic cable messages from the Old Boys of the King's School, and from ...

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  7. COAL INDUSTRY.

    "The position in the coal industry in New South Wales is so acute that I hesitate to express an opinion as to the remedies that will ...

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  8. PEACE MOVES.

    Bolivia to-day accepted the offices of the Pan-American Conference for an investigation of the frontier conflict. ...

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  9. NARROW ESCAPE.

    A motor accident, in which George Ryan, of Charleville, had a narrow escape from death, occurred on the Toll Bar road to-day. Ryan was driving a ...

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  10. FERRY SMASH.

    A sensation was caused at Circular Quay during the lunch hour to-day, when the Manly ferry steamer Burrabra overran her berth and crashed ...

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  11. MARKED EFFECT.

    The King's illness has had a marked effect on Christmas trade and festivities. Numerous social functions are being cancelled, and the big stores ...

    Article : 89 words
  12. "TRUTH DISTORTED."

    The Paraguayan Minister in Paris protests to the Acting President of the Council of the League of Nations (M. Briand) against "the unheard-of ...

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  13. METHODIST CONFERENCE REDUEST.

    The President of the Queensland Methodist Conference, Rev. J. H. Heaton, has requested that special prayers be offered by the ministers and ...

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  14. OIL BURNERS.

    With a view to increasing the efficiency of the branch line of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., the Baradine, ...

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  15. THE WATERFRONT.

    The ship owners gave further consideration to-day to the case put before them by representatives of the Waterside Workers' Federation at a ...

    Article : 124 words
  16. BIG STRIDES.

    Contributing to the "Evening Standard" a symposium on the prospects of aviation in 1953, Squadron-Leader Hinkler says: "As I visualise aviation, ...

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  17. RECORD YEAR.

    Never before in the history of Sydney were so many buildings completed within one year in the metropolitan area as for the year that is now ...

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  18. USE OF WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

    For the first time in history the newest and most rapid means of communication—wireless telephony—were used in efforts to settle the differences ...

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  19. AFGHAN REBELLION.

    Reports from the frontier state that portion of the Afghan army revolted, assisting the rebels, and the King and Queen took refuge in the fort ...

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  20. COSTLY BENEFIT.

    The Attorney-General (Mr. Boyce) stated to-day that after a considerable amount of delay his department had secured from the persons responsible a ...

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  21. A BIG DROP.

    The total number of unemployed on December 10 was 1,320,900. This was 29,906 less than the week before, but 195,677 more than the year before. ...

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  22. 'PLANE SMASHES CAR.

    A large twin-engined aeroplane, while taxi-ing to the aerodrome at Ramsgate, crashed into a motor car and a 'bus, which were traversing the ...

    Article : 61 words
  23. IN THREE DAYS.

    Mr. C. G. Grey, editor of the "Aeroplane," is of the opinion that there will be an Imperial Airways service to Australia in 1953, properly lighted for ...

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  24. VAULT ENTERED.

    The sensational discovery that a vault in the Eastern cemetery, Geelong, had been entered and coffins opened, has been made by Mr. H. ...

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  25. SCHNEIDER CUP.

    The French Aero Club is entering two seaplanes in the Schneider Cup race, to be held in England next year. ...

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  26. POISON GAS.

    The Secretary of State for War (Sir Laming Worthington-Evans) stated in the House of Commons to-day that no part of the army's ...

    Article : 52 words
  27. NO ARMY REVOLT.

    The Afghan Legation has been informed that the Royal family and all the members of legations in Kabul are safe, also that there is no revolt in ...

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  28. ICE RINK OPENED.

    Lady Hoare, wife of the Secretary of State for Air, to-day opened the world's largest indoor ice ring at Richmond. It is 286ft. by 85ft., and ...

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  29. BRITAIN FOGBOUND.

    The greater part of Britain is fogbound, and there is prospect of it continuing. Many services have been disorganised, and several Atlantic liners ...

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  30. NOT LIKELY.

    Although cable messages from Britain have indicated that shipping companies are considering an increase by 15 per cent. in freights on some ...

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  31. BUTTER TARIFF.

    Referring to a cabled report from the United States that the American Customs at San Francisco had been instructed to increase the tariff on ...

    Article : 118 words
  32. INDIA PREPARED.

    The "Daily Telegraph," the "Morning Post," and other newspapers are publishing cable messages from India saying that the trouble in Afghanistan ...

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  33. PAINTER FINED.

    The first prosecution under the Health Act, which regulates the amount of lead to be used in paint, to safeguard against the possibility of ...

    Article : 133 words
  34. ANXIETY IN ITALY.

    The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that despite the optimistic speech of the Dictator of Italy (Signor Mussolini), he learns that ...

    Article : 95 words
  35. IN THE ANTARCTIC.

    In a message from Deception Island, Sir George Wilkins states: "Repeated efforts to get off the water with an aeroplane, equipped with pontoons, ...

    Article : 84 words
  36. SEVENTH PORTFOLIO.

    The King has appointed the Dictator (Signor Mussolini), who already holds six portfolios, Minister for Colonies, replacing Signor Federzoni. ...

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