AUCKLAND, Friday.--One of a number of serious bush fires on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand was caused by a Maori woman tossing a burning match into dry bushes, after lighting a cigarette. ...
Article : 253 wordsRecommendations of the City Engineer (Mr P. S. Robinson), for opening of Alexandra and Linlithgow Avenues to heavy ...
Article : 314 wordsNEW ROYAL HOSPITAL, HOBART: Combination of beauty and efficiency, the new hospital, which is one of the most modern and luxuriously equipped in the world, was opened yesterday. Radical streamlining, a feature of its construction, is illustrated in this view of the medical block, which cost £120,000. Each of the five floors is equipped with radio and all modern conveniences, and is served by silent shock proof lifts. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 74 wordsDry weather has narrowed lagoons and swamps, and in many of its haunts robbed the coral fern of moisture. ...
Article : 187 wordsPORTLAND, Friday.--Mr Gordon, Kelsall, of Hamilton, landed a 16½lb. tune after a struggle lasting more than hall an hour. ...
Article : 124 wordsBallots to select the trade unions' nominee for the Australian workers' representative at the International Labor Office conference at Geneva in June, are ...
Article : 184 wordsClarence Royal Curwen, 52, formerly of Head Street, Elwood, stock and share broker, died in the Metropolitan Gaol, Coburg, ...
Article : 297 wordsIN absent-mindedness, students rival professors--stock characters in jokes about forgetfulness--is the opinion of the ...
Article : 365 wordsTo help maintain the Darwin-Adelaide airline--the service by which oversea mails from Melbourne travel to and from Darwin--the Australian National ...
Article : 351 wordsLeslie Lygon, 28. of Vanberg Road. Essendon, who collapsed yesterday after working with a fractured skull since Sunday, is on the danger list at Royal ...
Article : 50 wordsMr Frederick Stanley Bird, of 24A Bevan Street, Balwyn, states that he is not the Stanley Bird, of Empress Road. Balwyn, who was reported as having ...
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Advertising : 361 wordsNo response followed the police request for information from the public about the movements of Leslie McAllister, immediately before he was fatally ...
Article : 168 wordsAs the result of yesterday's conference with the Road Transport Union, a settlement of the Union's claims is likely to be reached without a stoppage ...
Article : 180 wordsWODONGA, Friday.--Since Mr Alexander Cole dipped 348 sheep in the municipal dip. a few days ago. 143 have died. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe first of 12 windjammers coming to Australia this season to take part in the grain race bach to England and Continental ports, has obtained a charter in South Australia. She is the Swedish four-masted barque ...
Article : 296 wordsBetween September 4, 1937, and October 31, 1938, the Melbourne Chinese Relief Committee, which is raising funds for the relief of Chinese war refugees, ...
Article : 85 wordsOfficials of Melbourne hospitals will watch with interest the results achieved by the ralio pillow at Royal Hobart Hospital. ...
Article : 100 wordsTwo hundred boys from schools, offices and factories will attend the Somers camp at Somers this year. It will open ...
Article : 282 wordsGEELONG, Friday.--Past and present players of the Geelong League Football Club attended the funeral today of Leo Joseph Healy, 46. who played for ...
Article : 76 wordsKALGOORLIE, Friday.--Working on hospital buildings, Mr Jack Robertson saw a boy being carried into the hospital emergency ward. He remarked to ...
Article : 141 wordsMarking an important advance in interest in the health and training of children from 18 months to six years old, the first conference of the Australian Association for Pre-School Child Development will be held in Melbourne from January 30 to ...
Article : 425 wordsBeyond acknowledging Britain's right to reconstitute the Empire Beef Council as the Empire Meat Council Australia has ...
Article : 161 wordsWEDDERBURN, Friday.--Not only can Wedderburn claim a Justice of the Peace who is 92--its four justices are of ...
Article : 217 wordsAUCKLAND, Friday.--Zane Grey, the American author, is a passenger for Australia in the Mariposa for his annual big-game fishing. ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Fri 20 Jan 1939, Page 4
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