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  2. SEANCE ABOVE DEATHBED

    A spiritualist seance above a room where the body of Lady Caillard, widow of Sir Vincent Caillard, was lying in semi-state on ...

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  3. CITY REVENUE IMPROVES

    The city fund of the Brisbane City Council showed a deficit of £5491 for the six months ended on December 31. From all sources, for all funds ...

    Article : 515 words
  4. SEX APPEAL IS LEGITIMATE

    "Sex appeal is a perfectly legitimate element in all the fine arts dealing directly with humanity," declared George Bernard Shaw in the course ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. RAIN TO RESCUE OF CANE CROP

    A wide area in the North-west benefited by rain at the week-end. From two to five inches also fell in the sugar belt between Tully and Babinda, and in the Innisfail area. In each instance it was badly needed. ...

    Article : 396 words
  6. MARKETING OF BANANAS

    A suggestion that the Commonwealth Government, in common with the State Legislatures, should enact legislation on the same lines as the ...

    Article : 979 words
  7. "LEVY DID NOT WAIT"

    The gateman who refused to admit Roy Levy, the former State cricket captain, to the players' dressing-rooms at the Brisbane Cricket Ground on ...

    Article : 370 words
  8. NEW FOES FOR 'HOPPERS

    New allies have joined the squadrons of tiny wasps attacking the grasshopper plague in mid-western and Western Queensland. In the ...

    Article : 469 words
  9. WORTH £100,000 TO CANE GROWERS

    Even if further falls follow quickly, there will be no total saving of the cane crops. At Ingham, where the position has been most acute, a ...

    Article : 171 words
  10. MORE NEEDED

    Postoralists were delighted last night at the reports of good rains in many of the western areas, but said that much more was needed. ...

    Article : 157 words
  11. MR. LYONS'S VISIT TO LONDON

    The new Assistant Secretary to the Commerce Department (Mr. Edwin McCarthy), is expected to accompany the Prime Minister to London, next ...

    Article : 143 words
  12. MOTOR WORKS TO BE ENLARGED

    Before his departure on a three months' tour of New Zealand and Australia on Saturday, Lord Nuffield gave instructions for large extensions to ...

    Article : 42 words
  13. SUGAR CROP MAY BE NORMAL

    "The rains reported from the North are most timely," said the secretary of the Australian Sugar Producers' Association (Mr. F. C. P. Curlew) ...

    Article : 33 words
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    IS IT AN OBSTRUCTION?—The City Council is still undecided whether to grant the application of the Postal Department for permission to erect nine new telephone cabinets—mostly in the city area. The objection taken is that they lessen traffic risibility. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 86 words
  15. D.H.86 PLANES TO OPERATE

    The secretary of the Defence Department (Mr. Shepherd) announced to-day on behalf of the Minister for Defence (Mr. Parkhill) that the ...

    Article : 233 words
  16. WESTERN SHEEP FOR DOWNS

    Owing to the absence of rain in the Augathella district a large number of sheep are being sent to the Darling Downs. They will be trucked from ...

    Article : 64 words
  17. HALF RATES FOR LOANS

    "If the Lord Mayor were to collect the whole of the rates now outstanding he could not bring about a credit balance at the Commonwealth Bank." ...

    Article : 275 words
  18. MOTOR CAR OVER EMBANKMENT

    The occupants of a motor car had miraculous escapes when the vehicle was wrecked as it left the roadway and overturned on the Redcliffe ...

    Article : 150 words
  19. OTTAWA NEVER IMPLEMENTED

    "It is tragic that the Ottawa pledge, giving the home farmer the first pick of the home market, was never implemented," says Sir Arthur ...

    Article : 174 words
  20. WHITING FROM SYDNEY

    A shortage of whiting in Brisbane is necessitating the Importation of supplies from Sydney, which usually secures large quantities from Brisbane. ...

    Article : 162 words
  21. DUKE ENDS OFFICIAL TOUR OF N.Z.

    The Duke of Gloucester sailed in H.M.A.S. Australia, at 7 o'clock to-night for the Bay of Islands, where he will enjoy big game fishing. He ...

    Article : 138 words
  22. SIR A. MAXWELL DEAD

    Sir Arthur Maxwell died to-day. (Brigadier General Sir Arthur Maxwell, who was 59, was managing partner of Glyn, Mills, and Co., the ...

    Article : 208 words
  23. GENERAL GORDON DEFENDED

    "Kitchener called it a damned lie. The theological adjective was for once justified," declared Canon Dearmer in a sermon at "Westminster ...

    Article : 191 words
  24. BRITISH POLICY ON MEAT ATTACKED

    "The News Chronicle," in attacking the meat policy of the Minister for Agriculture (Mr.W.Elliot), says: "The exclusion of foreign meat from ...

    Article : 110 words
  25. TRADE TREATY WITH JAPAN

    The Australia—Japan trade treaty will be in operation well before the opening of next season's wool sales. An important phase of the treaty ...

    Article : 137 words
  26. CHINESE TROOPS WITHDRAWN

    As a result of the Chinese agreeing to withdraw their troops to a line running between Ku-yuan and Tu-hsi-kou, the Jehol border dispute is now ...

    Article : 118 words
  27. MAN MISSING

    Alarm is felt for the safety of John Pitts (78), single, who has been missing from his home in Given Terrace, Paddington, since Thursday. When he ...

    Article : 102 words
  28. HONOURS CONFERRED

    At the conclusion of his New Zealand tour the Duke of Gloucester conferred the following honours:— Knight Commander of the Victorian ...

    Article : 176 words
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