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  2. MAYOR AND MAYORESS WITH BEACH BEAUTIES

    The Mayor of Redcliffe (Alderman A. H. Langdon) and Mrs. Langdon with the finalists in the Sirens of the Surf competition-Misses Bonnie Orchard (left). Irma Dummitt, and Dulcie Kelly—at the Ambulance picnic yesterday afternoon. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. HAIL RAZES CROPS ON DOWNS

    HAIL destroyed crops in an area two miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide at East Greenmount, on the Downs, yesterday afternoon. Stock suffered severely and fowls were buried in beds of ...

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  4. DRAMATIC RESCUE OF AIRMEN

    AFTER four days of hunger, thirst, and misery on salt lakes more than 100 miles south-east of Kalgoorlie, the missing Dutch airmen and their 'plane were brought to Kalgoorlie by searchers on Saturday night. ...

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  5. ONLY SCOTT FINISHED

    Heroic efforts by Flying-Officer A. E. Clouston to reach Johannesburg in time to qualify for second prize in the Portsmouth ...

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  6. TRAINING FOR YOUTH

    An important declaration, foreshadowing Government action to deal with the problem of declining physical standards in Britain, was ...

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  7. REARMAMENT OF BRITAIN

    After 10 hours' discussion last evening, the National Executive of the Labour Party, on the eve of the annual party conference at ...

    Article : 334 words
  8. LOYAL TOAST IN WATER

    The Temperance Collegiate Association has received an intimation from his Majesty's private secretary that there ...

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  9. FIRST SHOWER IN A FORTNIGHT

    The storm which broke over the city on Saturday gave the first rain for more than a fortnight, but the registration was only five points at ...

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  10. MARY MAGUIRE CABLES HOME

    Miss Mary Maguire, the Brisbane film star, who recently secured a lucrative contract with Warner Bros, in America, sent a cable message to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  11. 50,000 VISITORS AT REDCLIFFE

    A crowd, estimated at 50,000 thronged the beaches of the Redcliffe Peninsula to-day. Of these 20,000 took part in the Ambulance motor ...

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  12. LIGHTNING KILLS VALUABLE HORSE

    In a thunder storm this afternoon a valuable horse in J. Larney's paddock, on the Mary River bank, 500 yards from the centre of the city, ...

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  13. FALL IN BRITAIN'S BIRTH-RATE

    "The Times" predicts a catastrophic fall in Britain's population in the next 50 years owing to the decline in the birth-rate, and asks whether the ...

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  14. FIRES RING SYDNEY

    Sydney was virtually hemmed in by bush fires to-day. A week of hot weather, following a dry winter, provided conditions for ...

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  15. ESCAPEE ASKED TO WAIT OUTSIDE CELL

    John Graves, who escaped from the National Park camp, gave himself up to the Auckland police. He stated in court that he went ...

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  16. LOVELOCK BEATEN FOR MILE

    At Princeton University to-day J. E. Lovelock, the New Zealand Olympic runner, failed in what will probably be his last assault on the world's ...

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  17. FIVE RESCUED AT SOUTHPORT

    Five persons were rescued at Main Beach to-day by members of the Southport Surf Life Saving Club, who were on patrol duty. Only one of the ...

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  18. £2,000,000 LEFT TO ACTRESS

    The late Irving Thalberg, the Hollywood film producer, who was the husband of Norma Shearer, left an estate unofficially estimated at 10,000,000 ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  19. BOOM IN CUSTOMS REVENUE

    Another phenomenal boom in Customs revenue this year is already apparent. Figures issued by the Treasury show ...

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  20. WORLD TOURISTS' FIRST SETBACK

    The three American journalists, who left New York intending to travel round the globe within three weeks, lost the first of their carefully-planned ...

    Article : 151 words
  21. WAITERS' WAGES INCREASED

    The strike of 55,000 restaurant and cafe employees in Paris, which commenced yesterday morning, was settled last night, the employers guarantee ...

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  22. MOTOR CAR CRASHES INTO TIMBER

    Three persons were injured yesterday morning when a motor truck, driven by George Donald Campbell, of Petrie, left the roadway, about four ...

    Article : 107 words
  23. AUSTRIAN STRUGGLE FOR POWER

    The struggle between prince starhemberg and Major Fey for the control of the Helmwehr is marked by dramatic moves. A partial conference of ...

    Article : 103 words
  24. FIRE SPREADS TO HOUSE

    Motorists at Boreen Point noticed an unoccupied cottage, the property of Mr. A. J. Bull, of Pomona, had caught alight from a bush fire. With ...

    Article : 93 words
  25. VICTIM OF MOTOR CAR DIES IN HOSPITAL

    When he jumped out of the way of a car as he was walking on the road, three miles on the Toowoomba side of Helidon on Saturday afternoon, a ...

    Article : 115 words
  26. YACHTSMAN HURT

    Mr. G. Press, one of the best-known Sydney yachtsmen was injured in a yachting accident on the harbour to-day, during a race conducted by the ...

    Article : 115 words
  27. CHILD MISSED FROM TRAIN

    Robert Edward Leabeater (3) was fatally injured when he fell from a train near Bathurst on Saturday. The child, who was travelling with some ...

    Article : 78 words
  28. DOG RACING TO AID HOSPITAL

    Mechanical hare racing is likely to be conducted at Murwillumbah in aid of the Tweed District Hospital. Application for a licence was ...

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  29. HURTLED OVER BARS OF BIKE AND KILLED

    Norman Clifford Amos (16), of West Brunswick, was thrown from his bicycle and killed on Mountain Road, near Sassafras, late to-day. He applied his ...

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  30. TENSION IN SHANGHAI

    The Nanking Government is reported to be mobilising huge forces, totalling over 70,000 soldiers, who are guarding the Nanking—Hangkow ...

    Article : 111 words
  31. CURBING RECKLESS DRIVERS

    As a means of lessening the alarming toll of road deaths an experiment is being made at Dusseldorf, Breslau, and Stettin in throttling down and ...

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  32. POLICE AT SCENE OF STATION TRAGEDY

    The police are still at the lonely hut near Tooloomba station, 40 miles from St. Lawrence, where Sydney Arthur Hoare (17), station employee ...

    Article : 88 words
  33. TOURISTS WELCOMED NIGHT IN CANBERRA CELLS

    SYMPATHETIC police officers allowed six tourists, unable to obtain accommodation in the holiday rush to Canberra at the week-end, to ...

    Article : 186 words
  34. MOTOR SHOW AT OLYMPIA

    The 30th International Motor Exhibition, which is to open at Olympia on October 15, is expected to disclose more new models than in any previous ...

    Article : 68 words
  35. LIFT FOR N. S. WALES RAILWAYMEN

    The responsible duties of drivers and guards of expresses and through passenger trains were stressed by the Commissioner of Railways in N.S.W. ...

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  36. FATAL GLIDING CRASH

    Norman McKenzle (23), of the Swan Hill Gliding Club, was killed instantly this afternoon, when his machine stalled at 100 feet and nose-dived to ...

    Article : 69 words
  37. PRICE OF GOLD

    The price of gold to-day was £7/1/ an ounce fine. The dollar was quoted at 4.93 3-16 to the pound sterling, and the france at 105½. Previous quotations ...

    Article : 53 words
  38. A LONG HIKE

    Mr. I. J. Ferguson, a young English journalist, who is hiking round Australia, arrived in Brisbane yesterday. He has completed the first stage from ...

    Article : 53 words
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