WHEN the pleasure launch Rodney overturned at Bradley's Head at 2.5 p.m. to-day, and sank in five minutes, 22 people, it is believed, lost their lives. Five bodies have been recovered, and seventeen, who were known to have been on the launch, are missing. ...
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Article : 77 wordsOf the 70 events decided in six sections at the 1938 British Empire Games which concluded yesterday Australia won 24, England 15, Canada 13, South Africa 10, New Zealand 5, Wales 2 and Ceylon 1. ...
Article : 2,060 wordsWhen a motor-car and a motorcycle collided head on in Western road, Mount Druitt, early yesterday, both vehicles burst into ...
Article : 151 wordsHendrick Binneman (South Africa) won the first road cycling championship of the Empire, which was run on a course at Centennial ...
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Article : 83 wordsThree distinct earthquakes shook Rabaul last Tuesday, passengers on the Montoro said on arrival at Cairns ...
Article : 87 wordsSix men were injured, two of them seriously, when a motor car failed to negotiate a bend on the West Tamar road, about 12.30 a.m. ...
Article : 183 wordsUsing a stolen car, smash and grab thieves robbed two shops and a railway station display case carly yesterday morning. ...
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Article : 190 wordsA fishing party at Dodge's Ferry last night ended in tragic circumstances, when a double drowning fatality occurred. When a ...
Article : 391 wordsSoon after he entered the sea near Mentone baths yesterday afternoon Boswell (16), a pupil of St. Bede's College, Mentone, wos ...
Article : 154 wordsTo allow witnesses from snips that were scheduled to sail from Molbourne yesterday, to give evidence in a case, Mr. Justice Dixon ...
Article : 187 wordsThe shortage in State revenue on January 31 amounted to £3,163,813, compared with £2,886, 520 for the same period last year, ...
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Article : 71 wordsGEELONG, Sunday. — Fresh proposals for a settlement of the strike of weavers in the Geelong textile mills, drawn up by the committee of ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Mon 14 Feb 1938, Page 7
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