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  2. INCREASE IN AUSTRALIA'S OVERSEAS TRADE

    The Acting Prime Minister (Dr. Page) speaking at the annual dinner of the Commercial Travellers Association on Saturday night, said that as the result of Federal Ministers' visits abroad, the appointment of trade ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 309 words
  3. RACE TO REACH BEDSIDE

    Rev. R. C. Blumer, Vice-Principal of Achimoto College, at Accra, capital of the gold coast of Africa, has flown half! way round the world in a desperate ...

    Article : 163 words
  4. MARRIED BY PROXY

    Hundreds of shouting n embers of Melbourne's Italian community caused wild confusion when the ...

    Article : 169 words
  5. TENNIS TITLES DONALD BUDGE TAKES TRIPLE CROWN

    Proving impregnable in every match, Donald Budge (U.S.A.) won the triple crown at the Wimbledon tournament. He vanquished the German champion, von Cramm, in straight sets in the men's singles final, and took the ...

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  6. Doctors' Bad Handwriting

    Because of the doctor's bad handwriting, insurance officials have decided to ask the Minister of Health to supply typewritten ...

    Article : 63 words
  7. RUNNING DUEL FOUGHT

    Two members of police wireless patrols had a running pistol duel with two suspects in Brunswick early this morning. Six shots were fired during ...

    Article : 349 words
  8. MORE CHINESE ARRESTED

    Three additional Chinese. alleged to be prohibited immigrants, were arrested late on Saturday afternoon. One of them is believed to have been a ...

    Article : 245 words
  9. AIMED AT WORLD BETTERMENT

    The International Chamber of Commerce Congress at its final session passed a series of resolutions condemning the armaments race as a ...

    Article : 166 words
  10. CONFIDENCE IS LACKING

    The confidence with which markets opened was short-lived, owing to the Spanish situation. Few city leaders expect catastrophic developments, but ...

    Article : 183 words
  11. RICH MAN'S WILL

    After an hour's retirement the jury in the Dublin High Court which was hearing the remarkable action concerning the £12,500 will of Mr. John ...

    Article : 607 words
  12. SISTERS KILLED

    Two sisters were killed and another seriously injured when a dirt track motor cycle, ridden by Andy Menzies, after overturning twice and ...

    Article : 127 words
  13. WILL FORGIVE

    One woman forgives ex-Lieut.-Col. Christie, sentenced at London Sessions to twelve months for false pretences and frauds on women, accused of ...

    Article : 611 words
  14. How Young Child Met His Death

    The body of Douglas Neil Horn, aged two years, was found to-day with the feet protruding from a hole which had been dug ...

    Article : 61 words
  15. PICTURE ON SALE

    Twelve hours before Buck Ruxton, Parsee doctor, was executed in England for the murder of his white "wife," he wrote from his condemned ...

    Article : 255 words
  16. WOOL MARKET

    The outlook for the wool sales is bright. If Russia and Germany decide to take even moderate weights of greasy combing wools the ...

    Article : 108 words
  17. STARTLING RISE IN WHEAT

    'The Economist," viewing the longterm position, considers there is greater scope for appreciation in the commodity, shipping, overseas, rail, and ...

    Article : 197 words
  18. WORK TO BE DONE

    Speaking at Birmingham to-day, the Prime Minister (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) scotched suggestions of an early general election, saying that though ...

    Article : 99 words
  19. JUST TOO LATE

    Driver Hubert Sydne Boxshall, of Guildford, taking a train from Fareham to Gosport. saw what he thought was a piece of paper on the line. ...

    Article : 169 words
  20. FORTY-HOUR WEEK

    Members of eight unions comprosing the manufacturing group, who held in the Trades Hall to-day the first of a series of group meetings of ...

    Article : 333 words
  21. VIEW UPHELD

    The Supreme Court, giving judgment to-day in the case of Signora Emilia Riva. who was married in 1921, upheld the finding of the Papal ...

    Article : 102 words
  22. CRICKET

    "Apparently England will take the field against Australia at Trent Bridge in 1938 with only a scratch team," declares the "Observer's" cricket ...

    Article : 208 words
  23. "SANG FOR THE B.B.C"

    Reggie Day, aged 25, singing waiter from Sheffield, and crooner at London dance halls, was saved from drowning in the Thames by a pleasure launch ...

    Article : 110 words
  24. TOUR OF GERMANY

    Labour M.P.'s have declined an invitation to tour Germany at the expense of the German Government. Many. M.P.'s of all parties' have ...

    Article : 163 words
  25. WHEAT SHIPMENTS

    International shipments of wheat during the current season have been the largest in four years. For the period August 1, 1936, to April 24, 1937, ...

    Article : 175 words
  26. REUNITED AT LAST

    Eighteen years ago Tom Hall kissed his wife Rosannah and boarded the New York-Miami train with a consignment of furs to sell to millionaires. ...

    Article : 121 words
  27. DEFECTS IN CHILDREN

    Nearly half the London children coming to school at the age of five have got something wrong with them," said Mr. Somerville Hastings. ...

    Article : 132 words
  28. WOMEN SUFFOCATED

    When detectives burst into the smoke-filled room of a house in Mount Hawthorn, a suburb of Perth, at 1 a.m. to-day, they found Mrs. ...

    Article : 125 words
  29. WALKED OFF STAGE

    Jane Cowl. leading American actress, walked off the stage as she was playing in "First Lady" at Daytona, Ohio (the play ran all through Broadway's 1935-36 season). ...

    Article : 85 words
  30. UNUSUAL OPERATION

    The Dean of Durham, Dr. Alington, has had his right leg lengthened an inch and a half by an operation said to be unknown in England. It ...

    Article : 111 words
  31. NEVER TO DRIVE AGAIN

    A drug-taker promised Bourne- mouth magistrates never to drive a motor car again. He was Ormonde Boulton, aged 48, of Broadlands ...

    Article : 115 words
  32. RECAPTURED

    After having been at liberty for 24 hours an escapee from Cobar lock-up. was recaptured about 13 miles from Cobar on the road to Wilcannia. The ...

    Article : 82 words
  33. PERFECT DAY ENDED

    Two girls from Portsmouth were hiking in the spring lanes of East Hampshire. They were having a perfect day. ...

    Article : 158 words
  34. FIVE WEEKS' CORDITE

    All the cordite and propellants that could be manufacturered in five weeks at the one little factory in Victoria could he used up in one broadside ...

    Article : 128 words
  35. Advertising

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    Advertising : 29 words
  36. EVACUATING ISLANDS

    The Soviet forces have begun their evacuation of the disputed islands on the Amur River, and the tension is regarded as ended. ...

    Article : 27 words
  37. GIFT TO UNIVERSITY

    A gift of £5000 from the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. to the University of Melbourne was announced by the University authorities on ...

    Article : 97 words
  38. DWARF POSTMAN

    The newly constituted Indian province of Orissa can possibly claim to have the smallest postman in the world in its service. ...

    Article : 100 words
  39. MAYOR OF ADELAIDE

    With an overwhelming majority of 2003 votes, Mr. A. G. Barrett was elected Lord Mayor of Adelaide yesterday. when elections for municipal and ...

    Article : 80 words
  40. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 44 words
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