The first competitive event of the surfing year took place at Scarborough yesterday, when 50 life-savers.—all trained to concert pitch and extraordinarily keen—took part ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 743 wordsDARWIN, Dec. 16.—In the heart of the town, next to the convent, two house boys returning from the Wednesday night picture show murderously assaulted ...
Article : 305 wordsDARWIN, Dec. 17.—Learned counsel in Darwin must be fleet of foot and agile of body as well be mind to be successful at the Bar. This fact was discovered last ...
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Advertising : 460 wordsEarly on Saturday evening William George Bates (34), a lumper, of Essex-street. Fremantle, was stabbed in the back and wounded slightly while Bitting on the ...
Article : 147 wordsAn interesting address on "Lloyds Corporation of Underwriters," briefly tracing its history from an obscure coffee house in London to its present, ...
Article : 349 wordsDARWIN, Dec. 16.—A complaint that two aboriginal children who were the principal witnesses for the Crown in a charge of criminal assault against a Greek ...
Article : 310 wordsMORAWA, Dec. 16.—Yesterday afternoon about 5.30 p.m. a fatality occurred on the direct South Morawa-road from Koolanooka, near Lancaster's property. ...
Article : 129 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 17.—More than 400 young men in Australia between the ages of 18 and 22 have responded to the call made by the Royal Australian Air Force ...
Article : 79 wordsThe man who was killed when a motor cycle which he was riding collided with a motor car at the corner of Adelaide-street and Queen Victoria-street. ...
Article : 151 wordsGERALDTON, Dec. 16.—The steamer Thistlegarth left Geraldton today for England, with a cargo of wheat equivalent to 93,931 bags, of which 90,463 bans were loaded ...
Article : 103 wordsWith reference to the resolution adopted by the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Australia regarding the decision of the International Telegraph Convention in ...
Article : 370 wordsThe police are anxious to get into touch with the relatives of Cabel Dunstan (about 70), pensioner, who was knocked down by a motor car at Subiaco on Friday night. ...
Article : 99 wordsGERALDTON, Dec. 17.—A young man named George John Kane was charged at the Geraldton Police Court today with assaulting a Chinaman named Sammy Gee. ...
Article : 96 wordsA race conducted yesterday at Swanbourne resulted as follows:—440 yards surf handicap: T. Colvin, 1; K. Claybrook, 2; H. Ireland, 3; D. Batson, fastest time in 8min. 11sec. ...
Article : 95 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 17.—Mrs. Ann Ryan (79), who lived with her son at Mitchell-road. Alexandria, was burnt to death when her clothes caught fire yesterday ...
Article : 68 wordsMORAWA, Dec. 16.—Koolanooka railway station, which consists of a small goods shed, staff room and refreshment room, was burnt to the ground yesterday ...
Article : 139 wordsSultry weather prevailed during the final club matches for 1933 held at Swanbourne on Saturday. A right wind, which is always difficult at Swanbourne, persisted ...
Article : 500 wordsThe Fremantle branch of the British Sailors' Society will arrange various entertainments during the Christmas season for complements of ships in port at ...
Article : 102 wordsDredging is about to start south of the entrance channel at Fremantle Harbour, working westwards. Marks will be erected to indicate the locality of activities. A ...
Article : 108 wordsFollowing an altercation in an hotel at East Fremantle on Saturday evening, Isiah Wauhop (42), blacksmith, of King-street, Fremantle, and William Brown (50), of ...
Article : 72 wordsEdgar Noell (9), of Lawnbrook-street, Bickley, was injured at the South Perth Zoo on Saturday afternoon, when a carriage on the miniature railway passed ...
Article : 81 wordsRoderick Phillip Evans (32), shopkeeper, of Hay-street (east), was charged at the central police station on Saturday with having stolen and received a quantity of ...
Article : 49 wordsWhile playing with children on a see-saw at South Beach, Fremantle, yesterday afternoon, Beatrice Maude Harvey (18), of Gray-street, Sooth Fremantle, fell and ...
Article : 58 wordsSir,—On reading your leading article of the 4th inst., I am inclined to think that you may have missed the intention of the Federal Cabinet when they stated they ...
Article : 263 wordsSir,—With reference to that part of the report on the work of the Boys' Employment League, published in your issue of December 9, wherein some criticism was ...
Article : 352 wordsYesterday the condition of Con Manessa (6), whose name has been on the danger list, at the Children's Hospital since Friday, was reported not to have changed ...
Article : 72 wordsSir,—A message from Canberra published in "The West Australian" a few days ago stated that the sub-committee of the Federal Cabinet appointed to set out ...
Article : 226 wordsYesterday members of the South Perth Rifle Club fired over the 300 yards range for a club trophy, Dunkling's trophy and aggregates. The club trophy was won by F. Taylor, after a ...
Article : 90 wordsThree young women—Ella Saffa (24). Freda Saffa (22), and Nellie Spillane (27), all of Newcastle-street, Perth—received abrasions shortly after 1 p.m. yesterday, ...
Article : 126 wordsCopies of photographs taken for "The West Australian" and "The Western Mail" by staff photographers, Messrs. F. E. Ford, F. W. Flood. J. A. Davidson. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 18 Dec 1933, Page 8
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