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  2. A PANORAMA OF DESOLATION.

    Exemplifying the effects of the bush fires which devastated the area between Powelltown and Noojee last week-end, this panoramic view shows part of the ruined forest country near Powelltown and the village of Gilderoy. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 37 words
  3. PRIZE WINNERS AT MARIBYRNONG.

    Prize-winning decorated canoes at the Essendan River League's annual Henley-on-Maribgrnong carnival on Saturday. The first prize went to Senorita, in the centre (Miss A. Todd and Mr. J. Stephenson), with Kingfisher (Miss M. McLure and Mr. R. Daley) nearest to the camera, second. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 47 words
  4. TINY BELLIGERENTS.

    Cornflower-blue fighting fish from Siam face each other defiantly through an intervening pane of glass. If at liberty to do so the males of this species will fight to the death. At the sight of each other they glow in radiant colours of blue, jade green, and crimson. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 50 words
  5. SAILING HOME.

    The yacht Independence, which finished third in the A[?] and A class event at the Hobson's Bay Yacht Club's annual regatta on Saturday, makes a fine sailing study. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 30 words
  6. A TIGHT FIT.

    Miss D. Barker, a student at Burnley Horticultural College, who has been wading in rubber boots among the water-lilies, receives a helping hand from Miss Nancy Campbell in the removal of her waders. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 36 words
  7. A CENTRE OF WAR ACTIVITY.

    A jumble of native fishing craft at Woosung. lapanes[?] guns have been heavily bombarding the Chinese entrenchments in this district for 10 days during the fierce fighting north of Shanghai Photograph bu Mrs. E. Danziger, of Port Melbourne. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 42 words
  8. TYPES AT BURNLEY.

    A series' of portrait studies of girl students at Burnley Horticultural College this week, when the new term began after the holidays. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 25 words
  9. FRIENDS FROM THE BUSH

    Noel Mewton-Wood, of Auburn, on a holiday trip to Bright, found the kookaburras so tame that they perched readily upon him in the search for worms in the kitchen garden. These birds are not restricted in their flight in any [?]ay. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 46 words
  10. A QUAINT HANDFUL

    Curious little associates in their infancy are this young ring-tailed opossum (right) which cats leaves and [?] and a baby native cat, a carnivourous marsupial. Later they may not meet as friends. Photograph by Mr. D. H. Fleay, of Parkville. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 45 words
  11. GAS-MASKS IN THE BRITISH NAVY.

    An official Admiralty picture of a class under instruction in loading a six-inch gun during a gas attack on H.M.S. Champion in a course of gunnery at Whale Island, Portsmouth. This is the training ship for naval gunners, and as many as 1,000 rounds a day are fired if the weather is favourable. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 55 words
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