GENERAL rain yesterday across the State, though not heavy, enabled fighters to control bush and grass fires that had caused heavy damage in many farming, pastoral and suburban districts. ...
Article : 185 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Hours before the new Cruiser, H.M.A.S. Perth, arrived today hundreds of launches ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 219 wordsTWO burning railway bridges between Violet Town and Balmattum on Saturday night delayed the Melbourne-Albury-Melbourne and the Albury-Goulburn Valley trains for several hours. The Spirit of Progress, from ...
Article : 150 wordsMRS. J. Ervine, of Violet Town, was lighting a fire when her clothes caught alight The flames were put out by other fighters. Many others had similar escapes. First Constable A. Freeman, of ...
Article : 175 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Sunday. — Silent thousands today lined Auckland street along the eight-miles route as the body of the late Prime Minister, Mr. M.J Savage, was taken on a gun carriage to his grave at Bdstian Point, a historic fort overlooking the harbor. ...
Article : 258 wordsTHE slab wood hut on Faithfull’s Creek station, in which Ned Kelly, the bushranger, imprisoned the people ...
Article : 57 wordsTHE Kurana (Australian National Airways) from Sydney to Melbourne was sent a message to land at Benalla yesterday afternoon as the ...
Article : 56 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — A milk rationing plan was imposed yesterday on all Sydney shopkeepers and milk bar proprietors by the Milk Board. ...
Article : 83 wordsPETER McDADE, 78, of Lynch Street, Footscray, died in Royal Melbourne Hospital yesterday from injuries received when struck by a ...
Article : 151 wordsCOROWA, Sunday. — A woman, who has been an inmate of the Corowa Hospital for two months, was missing at 6.30 a.m. today. ...
Article : 56 wordsSEYMOUR camp irrigation scheme (formerly Seymour camp trench system) is running a banker. Members of the 37th Battalion paddled in it briefly during the ...
Article : 92 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Meat rejected by the export trade is being sold to local housewives at prices which have been increased ...
Article : 110 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — Would a "Hitler Shy" be in the best British taste in Dovernment House ...
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The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954; 1956), Mon 1 Apr 1940, Page 2
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