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  2. OBSTACLES MAY PROVE INSUPERABLE

    Further investigation into the proposal to bring an aboriginal into the House of Representatives to represent the native races, has disclosed some formidable obstacles which must be surmounted before such a step could be ...

    Article : 590 words
  3. HEAT WAVE, BUSH FIRES AND CYCLONES

    While heat waves and bush fires continue in Victoria and South Australia, fierce cyclonic storms are reported from Queensland. The fires have caused extensive damage to crepe and pastures and other property in the two ...

    Article : 434 words
  4. PROVIDING BRIDPORT WITH A WATER SUPPLY

    Bridport's most serious disability as a holiday resort has been its lack of water. Tanks have often run dry at the height of its season, necessitating carting of water from above the tidal flow in the river Brid. Very soon, however, this disability will be removed, as ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 128 words
  5. Sheffield Shield N.S.W. BY FOUR WICKETS

    New South Wales defeated South Australia by four wickets in the Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket ...

    Article : 774 words
  6. TAPPED MINERAL WATER

    Water is more important to life, of course, than oil or gold; even from a commercial point of view it may prove as precious. A gold mine or an oil ...

    Article : 331 words
  7. SOVIET PURGE HALTED

    Stalin has halted the Soviet party purge, according to the "Daily Telegraph's" Moscow correspondent. A decree issued to-day orders the ...

    Article : 260 words
  8. Woman Rescued When Trapped by Flames in Burning Building

    When a fire broke out in a block of shops in the main street of Korumburra early to-day, four shops and stock valued at more than £8000 were destroyed. A woman trapped by the flames in a first floor bedroom was rescued ...

    Article : 322 words
  9. MAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL

    Roy Archibald Allen was committed for trial, when he was charged before Mr. W. A. Downie in the Hobart Police Court this afternoon with ...

    Article : 267 words
  10. "PYJAMA GIRL" MYSTERY

    The "pyjama girl" murder investigations will be directed principally from Melbourne to-morrow with the arrival of two leading detectives from Albury. ...

    Article : 175 words
  11. Protection for Users of Radium

    The invention of a new alloy nearly 1½ times as heavy as lead and giving correspondingly more effective protection against X-ray ...

    Article : 78 words
  12. BRITAIN PREPARED

    "General Franco is helping our rearmament, and non-intervention in Spain is putting Britain in a position to intervene elsewhere if the need ...

    Article : 533 words
  13. STOLE FROM PATIENTS

    A case in which an employee was charged with stealing goods from the Lachlan Park Hospital at New Norfolk, which should have gone to patients, was ...

    Article : 174 words
  14. IN CLOSED-IN MOTOR CAR

    A man gathering blackberries in Griffiths Park, Long. Reef, at 5 a.m. to-day, came across a closed-in motor car with the engine running and smoke ...

    Article : 65 words
  15. ARMADA GOLD

    One of the most fascinating chapters in the history of British treasure trove is recalled by the announcement that permission has been granted to an ...

    Article : 607 words
  16. MAN GAOLED FOR SIX MONTHS

    Roy Richardson was sentenced to six months' imprisonment by Colonel J. P. Clark, P.M., at the Burnie Police Court yesterday for unlawfully using a ...

    Article : 431 words
  17. LECTURER USES LION

    An eight-months-old lion cub and an Australian anteater were among the animals taken from the London Zoo to illustrate a lecture by Dr. ...

    Article : 534 words
  18. THE ROUND TABLE

    "Universal rearmament is relentlessly transforming both the political and the economic configuration of the world." That is the central theme of ...

    Article : 532 words
  19. MEDICAL SERVICE

    An official explanation of the British Medical Association's proposal to circularise doctors regarding service in a time of national emergency has been ...

    Article : 414 words
  20. FLEAS FOR PALACE

    A man with a curious job is Mr. C. Schiller a tropical fish expert, who takes fleas every week to Buckingham Palace, as part of his work of tending ...

    Article : 218 words
  21. WAY TO PEACE

    Addressing the Royal Society, Sir William Bragg said it was not knowledge in itself but the pursuit of knowledge in common that brought ...

    Article : 189 words
  22. PARTITION WAGES

    So successful has been the special type of Great Western Railway partitioned goods wagon in reducing damage in transit to soft fruit and such ...

    Article : 194 words
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