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  2. MR HUGHES' APPEAL FOR RECRUITS FOR MILITIA

    NEARLY 10,000 people in Martin Place at lunch time today cheered Mr Hughes as he made his first openair address in the city for many years—an appeal for recruits for the militia. It was strictly a businesslike ...

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  3. LETTER TO ROCKHAMPTON BY TIN CAN MAIL

    enclosed in a water-tight tin, was put into the sea from the cruise steamer Maunganui off Niuafoou (or "Tin Can Island") in the Tongan Group—Lat. 15 deg. 33 min. south, Long. 17 deg. 39 minutes West, on August ll, 1938. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. DECIDED TO TAKE STRONG DECISIVE ACTION AS PEACEMAKER BETWEEN ITALY AND FRANCE

    "Herr Hitler has decided to take strong decisive action as a peacemaker between Italy and France before Mr Chamberlain goes to Rome, and for this reason the Foreign Office is inquiring as to the minimum demands ...

    Article : 149 words
  5. STATION 2KY PUT OFF THE AIR

    At a little more than one minute's notice radio station 2KY was put off the air by the Postal Department at 4 p.m. this afternoon. The station ...

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  6. ESCAPEE FROM MENTAL HOSPITAL RECAPTURED

    A man who escaped from the Callan Park mental hospital and who was sentenced to death about nine years ago for a serious sex offence was recaptured ...

    Article : 324 words
  7. Requests For 28 "Iron Lungs" For Queensland

    Last-minute applications from Beaudesert, Townsville, Gayndah, Biggenden, Stanthorpe, and Herberton have brought ...

    Article : 99 words
  8. MAYOR OF NEW YORK STRUCK DOWN

    SHOUTING: "I've been after you for four years," James Hagan, 48, struck down the Mayor (Mr Ia Guardia) from ...

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  9. MR THORBY'S EXPLANATION ACCEPTED

    Before he left for Tasmania by plane this afternoon, the Prime Minister (Mr lyons) said that as Mr Curtin had accepted Hr Thorby's ...

    Article : 471 words
  10. FIVE JAPANESE DIVISIONS CONCENTRATE ON MANCHURIA

    A message from Pekin states that anxiety over the Russo-Japanese situation has led to the concentration of five Japanese divisions on the ...

    Article : 286 words
  11. PREMIER'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE TO COUNTRY PRESS

    "I am pleased to have the opportunity, through the provincial newspaper Press, to extend to the people in the country my best ...

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  12. ACTOR IN REAL LIFE DRAMA

    Sacha Guitry, actor and playwright, is involved in a comedy as piquant as any he has devised for the stage. His third wife, ...

    Article : 101 words
  13. AERODROMES IN QUEENSLAND

    The Minister for Civil Action (Mr Thorby) informed the Fremier (Mr Smith) today that the work on ner[?]dromes and the provision of access to ...

    Article : 109 words
  14. NEW ZEALAND'S METHOD OF TRADING

    In reply to Mr Sorenson in the House of Commons, the Secretary for the Dominions (Mr Malcolm MacDonald) said he had received no ...

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  15. EUROPE EXPERIENCES COLDEST SPELL FOR 50 YEARS

    Europe is in the grip of the coldest spell for 50 years, which is causing interne sufferings and numerous deaths. Rivers and canals are frozen ...

    Article : 253 words
  16. Limitation Of Driving Hours

    A limitation of driving hours will be enforced under the State Transport Act, which operates from January 3. The Act applies to the hours during ...

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  17. PORT KEMBLA STEEL WORKS TO CLOSE DOWN

    The organiser of the Ironworkers' Caion (Mr H. Denford) said tonight that he had been informed by the industrial officer at the Port Kembia ...

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  18. IMPORTS OF MUTTON AND LAMB TO UNITED KINGDOM

    The Minister for Agriculture announced in the House of Commons today that in view of the large proportion of supplies which came from ...

    Article : 173 words
  19. RECORD YEAR FOR LAND COURT AND MOST STRENUOUS ON RECORD

    The Land Court today concluded a record year.- The president (Mr W. J. Payne) announced that it was the most ...

    Article : 104 words
  20. RAILWAY EMPLOYEES CEASE WORK

    All Commonwealth railway traffic employees who are members of the Australian Workers' Union ceased work at Port Augusta and Quorn ...

    Article : 269 words
  21. ANGLO-GERMAN TRADE

    An official statement from Berlin admits that Dr Schacht when in London discussed economic questions. Notably he inquired whether the recent ...

    Article : 172 words
  22. NEW ZEALAND'S HIGH COMMISSIONER

    Sir Harry Batterbee, responding to Mr Jordan's toast at the New Zealand Society farewell luncheon, said that the appointment as High Commissioner ...

    Article : 212 words
  23. "CASUAL MAN " DEFINED IN AWARD

    Woman may invade the realm of man, but there still remains one stronghold to mere man—the definition of "casual men" in the station hands' award, This ...

    Article : 216 words
  24. MANY THEFTS FROM HOBART FOWLYARDS

    With poultry in keen demand for the Christmas season, there have been frequent reports of thefts from fowlyards. Even a pen at the State Laboratory at ...

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  25. FOUR TEST CRICKETERS TO HAVE SPELL

    After playing for New South Wales against Victoria in the Shield match at Melbourne, commencing on Friday O'Reilly will not play any more cricket ...

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  26. GERMAN ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY PLAN TO BE SPEEDED UP

    Field-Marshal Goering, as Minister in charge of the four-year economic self-sufficiency plan, has ordered the Minister for Economics (Dr Funk) to ...

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  27. DIVIDEND OF £164

    Sally Gold, winner of the first division of the 14.2 Handicap at Victoria Park today, paid a dividend of £164 3s. 3d. for 10s.—odds of 327 to 1. There was ...

    Article : 97 words
  28. Trade Pact Between Australia and America

    The Australian High Commissioner (Mr Bruce), after conferring with President Roosevelt, said that negotiations for a trade pa[?]t between ...

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  29. ELDRIDGE FIGHTS DRAW WITH YOUNG GILDO

    Making his firsl appearance in Anstralia at the Brisbane Stadium tonight, Irvine Eldridge, 9.6, a New York Hebrew, fought n 12-round draw with the ...

    Article : 100 words
  30. Frontier Fighting Between Czechoslovakia And Hungary

    Tile mixed Slovak-Hungarian Commission met today to fix the responsibility for the frontier fighting on December 19. It is officially stated from ...

    Article : 75 words
  31. PLANE WRECKAGE BELONGED TO SCRAPPED BOMBER

    Officials of the United States Army are satisfied that the plane wreckage found by fishermen last Sunday was a scrapped bomber sunk five miles out ...

    Article : 60 words
  32. FORMER PARLIAMENTARIAN DIES AT FREMANTLE

    The death occurred today of Mr William Watson, former M.H.R. for Fremantle. ...

    Article : 22 words
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