BRISBANE, Monday.--It was not realised until after a cyclone had passed over the peninsula what a lucky escape from disaster Cooktown and Port Douglas had. ...
Article : 454 wordsSpeaking at a Labor party meeting yesterday Earl Russell, Under-Secretary for India, referred to the situation in India. ...
Article : 167 wordsSir George Tallis, who has returned from Sydney, yesterday made further comments on the effects of the imposition of the entertainments tax by the State ...
Article : 850 wordsA distressing seaplane fatality--the first fatal seaplane accident with which the Royal Australian Air Force has been associated--occurred late yesterday afternoon, ...
Article : 933 wordsMr. Lansbury, First Commissioner of Works, thinks the Empire economic policies-- Empire free trade-- now being expounded by Lords Beaverbrook and ...
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Article : 233 wordsThe Kenilworth Castle, in which the Prince of Wales is travelling to South Africa, encountered a heavy gale in the Bay of Biscay to-day. The wind, which ...
Article : 83 wordsIn the final of the Christmas covered courts tournament in Paris Borotra beat Tilden, 6--4, 6--2, 4--6, 6--1. Commenting on the match in the "Daily ...
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Article : 142 wordsIn the course of a speech at a dinner to the members of his editorial staffs Lord Rothermere, the London newspaper proprietor, alluded to Great Britain's ...
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Article : 242 wordsAn official intimation has been received by the Prime Minister from the High Commissioner in London that the Dominion Commissioners will henceforth ...
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Article : 362 wordsIn an exchange of New Year greetings King George and President Hoover expressed the hope that 1930 would see the advancement of the cause of naval ...
Article : 205 wordsH.M.S. Glorious, the British navy's ninth aircraft carrier, a vessel with a speed of 31 knots, will be commissioned at Devonport on Tuesday. ...
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Article : 130 wordsWhile flying from Point Cook to Laverton on Sunday afternoon, Flying Officer Leo Joseph Ryan, of No. 1 Flying Squadron, R.A.A.F., Laverton, collided with a ...
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Article : 253 wordsThe Australian and New Zealand delegates to the Reparations Conference have commenced negotiations with the Germans in regard to German property in ...
Article : 54 wordsKirkwood, the Australian, tied with Dutra in the final of the Long Beach open championship with a score of 216 for 54 holes. ...
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Article : 149 wordsKaye Don, the racing motorist, is trying out his new 4000 h.p. speed car, the Silver Bullet, at Pendine Sands (Carmarthenshire), with the view of attempting ...
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Article : 78 wordsThe Widgeon, which was well known in Australia, was built in New South Wales. Equipped with a 385 h.p. Jaguar engine, and built to the direction and supervision ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 7 Jan 1930, Page 9
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