MELBOURNE, Aug. 4.—At a late hour tonight rain was falling heavily in Melbourne and the prospects of fine weather for the final of the Australian baseball ...
Article : 363 wordsKALGOORLIE, Aug. 4.—The mining world suffered a serious loss yesterday when Mr. John A. Agnew succumbed to a sharp attack of pneumonia in San ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 687 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 4.—"The essence of a good defence programme is that it should be laid down deliberately, that it should spread over a period of years, and ...
Article : 465 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 3.—"Naturally. Sir Hubert will be disappointed, but personally I am glad that he can now devote himself unreservedly to the Arctic ...
Article : 220 wordsThe industrial dispute at the biscuit and cake factory of Mills and Ware, Ltd., at South Fremantle continued yesterday. The factory hands, consisting mostly of ...
Article : 697 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 4.—Up to noon on Wednesday about 60 per cent of the personal cards for the national register had been completed and returned. ...
Article : 124 wordsHOBART, Aug. 4.—Mr. J. Lonergan, general president of the Waterside Workers' Federation, stated in Hobart today that the committee of management of ...
Article : 53 wordsApproval of one delivery of milk daily, provided that hygienic containers were used and that there were ample facilities for properly conditioned milk to be ...
Article : 719 wordsCHICAGO, Aug. 4.—Mrs. Karl Langer and her two sons-Karl, aged six, and Jan, aged four—were killed when they fell today from the thirteenth storey of ...
Article : 117 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 4.—An application by Mr. N. J. Ward, M.H.R., for a pass to enable him to visit any naval ship in Sydney at any reasonable hour to inspect ...
Article : 240 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 4.—The condition of the Prime Minister (Mr. M. J. Savage), who underwent an operation this morning, was reported by doctors at 6 p.m. to ...
Article : 141 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 4.—Technical members of the Royal Australian Air Force who have been in the United States to obtain experience on the Lockheed ...
Article : 198 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 4.—Increases in pay and other concessions have been granted to the majority of employees at the Broken Hill Proprietary's Newcastle steel ...
Article : 218 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 4.—Leon Levy (30), a visitor from New Zealand, who had been lost in Jamieson Valley since Monday, found his way to a farmhouse about 10 ...
Article : 296 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 4.—Discussions at a combined meeting of the the Lang executive and members of the committee elected at last Saturday's special ...
Article : 147 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 4.—William Leslie Wilson (17), labourer, who pleaded guilty to a charge of having assaulted an old woman with intent to rob her, was ...
Article : 154 wordsThe following comments on the dispute at Fremantle between Mills and Ware, Ltd., and their factory employees, was made yesterday by the secretary of ...
Article : 452 wordsLONDON, Aug. 3.—Forty-two seamen, members of the crew of the steamer Napier Star (10,116 tons), who were charged with having failed to obey ...
Article : 183 wordsSir,—In your issue of Thursday, August 3, you state: "Mr. Barker proposes to put forward as an Independent in his place Mr. L. W. Hamilton, who stood ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Premier (Mr. J. C. Willcock) sent a cablegram, as follows, to the Agent-General (Mr. M. F. Troy) yesterday:— "Please convey to the relatives and ...
Article : 61 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 4.—After 12 months' tour abroad studying civil aviation Miss Nancy Bird is returning to Australia on the Monterey. She plans to hold an ...
Article : 136 wordsIn the "Government Gazette" yesterday applications were called by the Public Service Commissioner (Mr. G. W. Simpson) for the position of assistant ...
Article : 208 wordsDARWIN, Aug. 4.—When late last year the tribal wife of Eparry, an Arnhem Land native, transferred her affections to his half-brother. Chowar Chark, she ...
Article : 261 wordsLONDON, Aug. 4.—The Graf Zeppelin has been sighted off Aberdeen (Scotland) on a test flight. It is stated in Berlin that the flight had no military purpose. ...
Article : 110 wordsIn referring yesterday to the death of Mr. John Agnew, Sir Hal Colebatch said:—"For many years Mr. John Agnew has occupied a position of singular ...
Article : 331 wordsLONDON, Aug. 4.—France and Belgium are simultaneously suspending quota restrictions on importations of several categories of manufactures. The French ...
Article : 62 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 4.—In dismissing an appeal against a sentence in the Court of Criminal Appeal today, the Chief Justice (Sir Frederick Jordan) said that if ...
Article : 184 wordsA proclamation in the "Government Gazette" yesterday reduced the price of bran and pollard from £5/10/ to £5 a ton net. ...
Article : 264 wordsJERUSALEM, Aug. 3.—Two armed Arabs today held up a taxi in which three Arabs were passengers. The passengers were ordered to leave the car ...
Article : 58 wordsWho should have the legal guardianship of an eight-year-old boy—his mother or his grandmother—was argued before Mr. A. Schroeder, S.M., in the Children's ...
Article : 340 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 4.—Sir Keith Smith, who is returning to Australia aboard the Monterey, said today that English military aeroplanes were the best in the ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Aug. 3.—The Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) and Mrs. Chamberlain, Mr. Lloyd ...
Article : 151 wordsLONDON, Aug. 4.—The annual report of the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police (Sir Philip Game) reveals that only two hansoms and ten four-wheeler, ...
Article : 79 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 4.—The man's body recently washed ashore at Wellington has been definitely identified as that of Roy Sellers, former secretary of the New ...
Article : 78 wordsA recent message from Canberra states that education-de-luxe will be enjoyed by 700 children when the city's new £75,000 High School is opened in ...
Article : 108 wordsThe attention of the Public Works Department has been drawn to a case where a fatal accident occurred in connection with electrical wiring, and immediately ...
Article : 163 wordsMANJIMUP, Aug. 2.—Mr. Charles Harmer Moss, manager of Wilgarrup Karri and Jarrah Co.'s mill at Jardee, died at Warren Hospital yesterday ...
Article : 163 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 3.—A ship and plane which reached the last position given in a message purporting to be from the British freighter Dunkwa (3,789 tons), ...
Article : 110 wordsHOBART, Aug. 4.—The Premier (Mr. E. Dwyer Gray) today expressed abhorrence at the claim for an extra day to their annual holiday leave by railway ...
Article : 92 wordsThe City Treasurer (Mr. H. W. Taylor). who is treasurer of the Hobbs State Memorial Fund, acknowledge the following donations:— ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 5 Aug 1939, Page 18
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