D'Entrecasteaux to many is merely a name; to those who witnessed the unveiling by the Governor (Sir Ernest Clark) at Gordon to-day of a monument to perpetuate the memory of RearAdmiral Bruni D'Entrecasteaux, the French navigator and ...
Article : 988 wordsOne of the three Royal Air Force flying boats which flew to Tasmania from Melbourne this week to attend the Centenary Regatta at Hobart. At present at Rosevears, on the Tamar, the machines will go to Hobart to-day. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 43 wordsFifteen wickets fell and 400 runs were scored in the first day's play of the 150th anniversary match between two Australian representative teams at the Sydney Cricket Ground to-day. The batting, bowling and fielding were spectacular, but it was ...
Article : 787 wordsThree men had to jump into the sea off Napier, when their fishing launch caught fire following the explosion of a drum of benzine. ...
Article : 130 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday. "For two and a half days I had very little water and no food," said Miss Barbara Kitchens, the ...
Article : 139 wordsBERLIN, Friday. — Opening a motor show, Herr Hitler emphasised the necessity of expanding production and increasing the output per worker, in order ...
Article : 104 wordsBy winning the third heat to-day Tassie Three, sailed by H. C. L. Batt, won the Forster Cup for 1938. The race ...
Article : 742 wordsA man was killed and four ear passengers injured in a midnight smash on the Hume Highway, six miles from Liverpool. The car ...
Article : 90 wordsA combined move to have a 40hour working week introduced by common consent has been initiated by the emergency committee of the ...
Article : 119 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday. — The R.A.A.F. patrol 'plane pilot reported 22 bush fires to the Forosts Commission to-day. All the outbreaks were north ...
Article : 89 wordsFloods and torrontial rain over a large area of Central Queensland and the North Coast have disorganised mails, railway traffic, electric ...
Article : 94 wordsJAPANESE TRADE PLANS TOKIO, Friday. Plans likely seriously to affect Australian and. other ...
Article : 70 wordsReports that mail 'plane pilots have detected foreigners taking photographs of coastal positions that might be strategically ...
Article : 105 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — C. V. Grimmett, the former Test representative, said to-day that he was not considering any offers of the Lancashire League Cricket ...
Article : 116 wordsNew Zealanders spent £5,750,000 on motor vehicles last year-the most ever recorded. ...
Article : 35 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — A flat surf is expected for to-morrow's surf carnival, at which many thousand spectators will be present. Thirty-eight teams—a record ...
Article : 129 wordsMany of the Empire athletes who recently compctod in tho Games in Sydney were seen in action on the North Hobart oval this afternoon, ...
Article : 490 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Acting on information provided by the Commonwealth, police officers of the External Affairs Department are preparing a ...
Article : 123 wordsLabor fears of possible envesdropping caused an alteration of plans for the proposed extension to Parliament House to-day. ...
Article : 272 wordsMELBOUDNE, Friday. One hundred witnesses are expected to be called in the Dempsey murder trial, the hearing of ...
Article : 81 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — It would be difficult to prevent persons photographing any point or area from inter-State air liners, said an official of the Civil ...
Article : 125 wordsButter is stendler in London, and the price of salted "Kangaroo" is fully maintained at 113/ cwt., according to advice received in ...
Article : 393 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Among the recipients of decorations from the King at Buckingham Palace to-day at the second investiture in connection with ...
Article : 52 wordsSeven bodies of victims of the Rodney disaster in Sydney harbor on Sunday were recovered from the harbor ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 211 wordsFive years' imprisonment, with hard labor, was imposed by Mr. Justice Macfarlane in the Criminal Court to-day on George ...
Article : 74 wordsM. Papanin, leader of the Russian Polar scientists, decided that it was difficult to remove his party and equipment by 'plane; he ...
Article : 135 wordsDarwin's lure of matrimony, which is making it difficult for the ministration to retain its typists, [?] apparently stronger than in other ...
Article : 145 wordsPARIS, Friday. — The Ministry announces that it is asking the Chamber of Deputios for substantial credits for new aircraft, the number and ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Wheat cargoes showod little change to-day. Contimental interest was fair. United Kingdom consumers are holding off. ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Sat 19 Feb 1938, Page 7
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