ONE OF THE DRIEST SPOTS in the Dandenongs yesterday was the ballast track of the narrow gauge railway. A group of holidaymakers is seen making the most of the firmer foothold. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 36 wordsSAND CASTLES BY THE SEA were fashioned at all beaches yesterday. Here John Baker, aged 6 (left) and Janice Baker, aged 8, of West Preston, are busily engaged with Terry Clancy, aged 6, of Thornbury. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 41 wordsMelbourne's Christmas spending spree continued yesterday when an all-time record crowd of 61,842 people at a Boxing day meeting invested £144,945 on the totalisator at Caulfield races. A year ago at Caulfield a crowd ...
Article : 710 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.--Three more infantile paralysis patients have died during the last three days at Northfield ...
Article : 288 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--More than 100 persons were rescued in a variable and treacherous surf on Sydney beaches to-day. ...
Article : 218 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.--Contending that the only real remedy against inflation was an increase in production the Leader of the Federal Country party (Mr. Fadden) declared to-day that the Federal Government was ...
Article : 387 wordsThe doors of Salonika, capital of Macedonia, which now offers shelter, food and security to 17,000 civil war refugees from all parts of northern Greece, have been closed to ...
Article : 434 wordsPreliminary estimates indicate that Australia has received more British migrants in 1947 than any other country of the British ...
Article : 227 wordsA Polish migrant, who recently arrived from Europe, was robbed of £11 while in Snowden Gardens, adjacent to Princes-bridge, ...
Article : 83 wordsFalling while painting the gangway on the Port Fremantle, a young apprentice, C. B. Thompson, was 50 minutes in ...
Article : 86 wordsLeslie Alexander, 27 years, of Wilkinson-street, Preston, accidentally received a serious gunshot wound in the stomach ...
Article : 146 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.--A 47-year-old gunsmith, Clarence Ernest Armstrong, was charged in the police court to-day with ...
Article : 91 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--War-time fighter ace Bobby Gibbs took off from Kingsford Smith airport in a cream and green Auster baby ...
Article : 109 wordsTwo smash and grab raids occurred in southern suburbs early yesterday, morning. Thieves who smashed the ...
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Advertising : 89 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--Five inches of snow fell at Kosciuscko on Christmas day. To-day practically the whole ...
Article : 29 wordsThieves last night entered the home of Mr. Arthur Richard Reeves, of Rennison-street, Beaumaris, by forcing a window with a ...
Article : 30 wordsNo deaths from accidents were reported for the Boxing day holiday --an all-time record. Shortage of beer in most hotels ...
Article : 377 wordsALL THEATRES in the city were packed to capacity yesterday afternoon and last night when holiday crowds swarmed into the metropolis. Photograph shows a scene in Collins-streel, where people queued up by the hundred. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsThe Ballet Rambert has stamped upon its work the originality of English interpretations. In the new programme in added ...
Article : 352 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.--The fire brigade and ambulance stood by while the 22-year-old Indooroopilly pilot W. H. Pilkington ...
Article : 216 wordsJanie--18 months' old pet monkey aboard the British freighter Glenpark--drinks alcohol, smokes a pipe, lathers and shaves at least once a week, and does NOT scratch. ...
Article : 201 wordsBENDIGO, Friday.--Kevin O'Sullivan, four years, of Dungey-avenue, was drowned in the Hilda swimming pool, ...
Article : 88 wordsJive will jump in Melbourne for the next four days, when the Australian Jazz Convention for 1947 will be "on." ...
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Advertising : 62 wordsHOBART, Friday.--After a number of delays because of mechanical defects and necessary repairs the Antarctic ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 27 Dec 1947, Page 3
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