RABAUL (New Guinea), Wednesday.—After a patrol of the Mt. Hagen-Sepik River district[?] extending over 18 months[?] ...
Article : 418 words"This racket of importing immigrants" was mentioned in the Third City Court yesterday during the resumed hearing of a case in ...
Article : 677 wordsImportant amendments to the State Electoral Act designed to effect a greater measure of uniformity between the Federal and ...
Article : 377 wordsBUSY SCENES IN CANBERRA, where preparations are being made for the taking of the National Register.(Top left) Dr. Roland Wilson, the Commonwealth Statistician, who is in charge of the plans for the census.(Top right) Girls packing instruction sheets and questionnaire cards for mailing to Australian post-offices. About 4,750,000 personal cards and 1,750,000 property cards have been ordered. (Bottom) Six complicated machines ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 109 wordsAdministration leaders were stunned by the decision of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to postpone all neutrality legislation ...
Article : 346 words[?] spokesman at the Foreign Office in Tokio said to-day that the Foreign Minister (Mr. Arita) and the Minister for War (General ...
Article : 875 wordsWork at night by sons and daughters of Jewish clothing manufacturers may be the cause of many allegations of sweating in Carlton, according to a report ...
Article : 286 wordsAlthough there is talk in Canberra about an early Federal election, senior Cabinet Ministers believe that this is most unlikely. ...
Article : 342 wordsNo mishap of any kind occurred yesterday in the training flight by more than 200 British bombers over France. An aggregate of ...
Article : 493 wordsEvidence that South Melbourne detectives had dug up counterfeit coins in a back yard at Ivanhoe was given at the South Melbourne Court yesterday. ...
Article : 153 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—A warning not to screen the film dealing with the mystery of the "Pyjama Girl[?]" whose shot and burned body was found beneath a ...
Article : 158 wordsEfforts to increase British trade with the Balkans were mentioned in answers yesterday in the House of Commons. The President of the Board of Trade ...
Article : 175 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday.—The conference of the New Zealand Farmers' Union decided that it was not in favour of a guaranteed price for meat and wool as ...
Article : 102 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — The appointment of a deputy Commonwealth Public Service Arbitrator to relieve the present congestion of work has been recommended ...
Article : 64 wordsMiss Amv Roberts, a school teacher from Sydney, told a representative of the "Evening Standard" that London girls were smart and their skin was softer and ...
Article : 125 wordsVictoria's oldest pioneer, Mr. Edward Bennett, will celebrate his 105th birthday at Briagolong to-day, surrounded by many of his 113 descendants. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 105 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday.—Continuing the no-confidence debate in the House of Representatives, Mr. Cullen (Lab., Hawke's Bay) defended the New ...
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Advertising : 102 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—"Many persons seem to regard an election as a sort of Roman holiday," said the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) to-day. "The ...
Article : 132 wordsFather Divine[?] the dapper negro[?] who calls himself God, is acquiring another "heaven" in Newport (Rhode Island), the most exclusive summer resort in the ...
Article : 82 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — A Country party bulletin issued to-day says that a suspicious element connected with reports of a possible early election is the ...
Article : 113 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday.—After having spoken to the Minister for Finance (Mr. Nash) by radio telephone to London, the Prime Minister (Mr. Savage) ...
Article : 91 wordsThe War Office announced yesterday that an infantry brigade, with supporting arms, would shortly move from Palestine to Egypt. This move, which had been ...
Article : 52 wordsMajor Laurence Milner, the principal Government witness against Harry Bridges, again gave damaging testimony when the deportation hearings were ...
Article : 205 wordsThe New Zealand Minister for Finance (Mr. Nash) interview the Governor of the Bank of England (Mr. Montague Norman) yesterday. ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. George H. Robinson, a well-known educationist, died at his home in Tiuna grove, Elwood, yesterday morning after a long illness. He left a son and a ...
Article : 139 wordsFurther details of the terrific explosion of a munitions dump at Penaranda de Bracamonte, Spain, in which 100 persons were killed and 1,500 were injured, are ...
Article : 150 wordsPrice of gold, £7/8/6 (no change). Exchanges.—Dollars, 4.68 3-16; francs, 176¾; guilders (Batavia), 8.81½. Mines generally were firmer. North ...
Article : 66 wordsTwo men were killed when a Royal Air Force plane crashed into the sea at Portland to-day while machine-gun exercises were being carried out. ...
Article : 33 wordsMEMORIES for Mr. A. Wilkie, a former director of the Zoo, who yesterday witnessed the cutting down of several trees at the Zoo entrance gates. Mr. Wilkie planted some of the trees 60 years ago. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsMr. Gilbert Neil Cochrane, who died at his home in Arthur street, Sandringham, on Sunday, was a former railway engineer in the Federated Malay States. He was ...
Article : 131 wordsAt an inquest into the death of Mrs. Nell Murray, the Australian Journalist, whose body was found at the bottom of cliffs at St. Mary's Scilly Isles[?] last month, ...
Article : 46 wordsDescribing the dive of the submarine Thetis at the inquiry into the loss of the vessel to-day. Victor James Crosby, naval wierless telegraphist aboard a tug, said ...
Article : 134 wordsRecruiting for the Regular Army in June broke all records for that month since the Great War. Recruits accepted totalled [?],672, an increase of 1,069 over June last ...
Article : 84 wordsThe New Zealand Women's Association entertained the Duchess of Kent at an afternoon party yesterday in the Rembrandt Hotel, Kensington. The Duchess ...
Article : 57 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Mrs. Elsie Margaret Barr, aged 27 years, of Commercial road. Teneriffe, was killed instantly to-day when she was struck by a ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Italian Ambassador in London (Count Grandi) has been appointed Minister for justice by Signor Mussolini in place of Signor Solmi. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe "Evening Standard[?]" in an editorial[?] discussing low wheat prices[?] suggests that the British Government should buy wheat from the Dominions and store it as part ...
Article : 55 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — A conference of State Ministers and members of the Federal Co-ordinating Council for Physical Fitness will be held in Melbourne on July ...
Article : 48 wordsRay Wall, aged 14 years, of Dudley street, West-Melbourne, suffered a fractured pelvis when his bicycle and a motor-lorry collided in Bourke street, city, ...
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