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  2. OUR FREE SELECTION

    Jensen, Minister for the Navy, boasts that he started out in life hawking rabbits, and that the Governor was greatly astonished when I told him!'' Not bad that for ...

    Article : 229 words
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  4. THE WEEK BY CARTOON

    The Gamble Mr. Winston Churchill said he regarded the Dardanelles campaign as a gamble. --Cable. Australia: "Buck up, dad! Even if you did ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 268 words
  5. HOW THE WIND BLOWS

    Twelve months, ago we were urging upon, the Federal Government the imperative, need of making at least a hundred thousand men the objective in asking tot recruits to fight ...

    Article : 295 words
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  7. CENSORED

    Owing to a regulation against t disclosing the movements of His Majesty the censor's bureau in Great Britain deleted the word ''Kings" the Kipling quotation. "The captains and the ...

    Article : 646 words
  8. NO WORK FOR NON-UNIONISTS

    At Maryborough a window in the post office needs new sash cords, and under the department's regulations no non-unionist may be engaged to make the necessary repairs. ...

    Article : 224 words
  9. THE AMAZING FARMER

    Hit up disastrously by drought and bush fires, the farmers on the North Coast of N.S.W. are appealing to the Government to send fodder, "at landed cost, on long and ...

    Article : 181 words
  10. SPENDING

    Mr. Hall congratulates himself that when war broke out he advised the public to spend. its money freely, instead of economising. In this respect he has squared his counsel to ...

    Article : 258 words
  11. HIGHLY TRAINED ANIMALS

    Talking, about flying-foxes, the story is being told of a young Australian engineer who went from Gallpoli to London, where he was asked by High Authority it he had any ...

    Article : 103 words
  12. A STUPID AGITATION

    It would be difficult to conceive a more stupid or futile agitation than that now being urged by a few bat-eyed . Conservatives for another political conference to ...

    Article : 254 words
  13. HER INTEREST

    "Does my wife take any interest in the war?"remarked Giddings to his friend Smithkins. Doesn't she? She's always talking about the war. What dons she say? ...

    Article : 47 words
  14. WHAT SHE COULD DO

    Here is a small war story. The question of the enormous cost of the war was being discussed by a small organisation of men and women with a patriotic purpose, and ...

    Article : 106 words
  15. WHERE GERMANY HAS FAILED.

    Not with standing her great success, it is plain that the rial prize has so far, if not permanently, slipped through. Germany's fingers. What has been the cause of this ...

    Article : 202 words
  16. THE OTHER FELLOW'S JOB

    The man behind the harrow, with his Jersey full of dirt, looks with ever-growing envy at the merchant's laundered shirt; but the man behind the, counter feels the nagging of ...

    Article : 392 words
  17. DEPTHS OF MEANNESS

    When Bill Smith, toiler (10s a day), gets into a unform, his mates on the job put their hands. in their pockets, and buy him some beer and an extra pair of socks or ...

    Article : 221 words
  18. BEFORE HE WAS PREMIER

    When the Liquor Amendment Act was under discussion in 1905, Hansard, page 3057, October 19, says:- Mr.Holman (Cootamundra) said; In splte ...

    Article : 240 words
  19. IN MUDDLEDOM

    A fortnight ago the members of the Brisbane City Council were startled to receive an account for £921 for repairs to the steamer Kangaroo (a vessel. originally completed at ...

    Article : 147 words
  20. THE DIFFERENCE

    The difference 'between King Churechill and Winston O'Malley is that the vanity of the one leads him resign his position and the patriotism of the other impels him to stick to ...

    Article : 39 words
  21. RAIDING THE FARMER

    Even this year, when natural conditions have been propitious, war influences threaten, to deprive the farmer of a portion of has profits, and to delay receipts of much of the ...

    Article : 293 words
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  23. WILL OF THE PEOPLE

    People who desire the redress of all grievances, and the steady progress of Australia without rash experiments that may plunge us all into destruction, should look around ...

    Article : 199 words
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