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  2. DAILY DIGEST OF WORLD NEWS AND VIEWS

    "The dream of Anglo-German cousinship has been dispelled for good. Experience has taught us that Latin peoples, yes, even the peoples of distant ...

    Article : 606 words
  3. WORLD'S BEST-DRESSED WOMEN

    BELOW ARE THE FIRST FIVE in the list of best-dressed women for 1940 compiled by Paris dressmakers. The Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 77 words
  4. Bush Fires 7 AT DIAMOND CREEK

    Firemen, civilians, and police fought for several hours yesterday before they checked seven fires at Diamond Creek, which are believed ...

    Article : 482 words
  5. Camp Life AS A SUBALTERN SEES IT

    CONCERTS are held almost weekly in the Y.M.C.A. marquee, and the entertainment is provided by professional artists who come nearly 40 miles out to ...

    Article : 1,314 words
  6. Letters to the Editor CLERICAL ECONOMICS

    Sir,—If the Rev. H. Palmer Phillips were to borrow a few thousand pounds and start manufacturing or farming, he would find that industry could only ...

    Article : 96 words
  7. SUGAR AGREEMENT

    Sir,—Because other countries load the price of sugar to their consumers, Mr. Hume-Cook supports the action of the Prime Minister in doing so to Australians ...

    Article : 204 words
  8. TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE WATCHED LIFE-SAVERS IN ACTION

    in the annual reel and line championship carnival of the Royal Life-saving Society of Victoria at St. Kilda on Saturday. The Governor (Sir Winston Dugan) attended. The Chelsea team is leading a section of the parade past the official enclosure. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 47 words
  9. ABOLITION OF EGG BOARD Member Determined

    Although Mr. James Carter is the metropolitan representative on the Egg Board, he told the annual conference of the Victorian branch ...

    Article : 490 words
  10. Coal Strike DRASTIC RAIL ECONOMIES Position Serious

    Drastic cutting down of country and suburban rail schedules in the event of a prolonged stoppage in the coal industry is believed to be ...

    Article : 375 words
  11. The Federal Horizon POLITICAL CLOUD LIFTING

    With a coalition Ministry almost assured the Federal political horizon is brightening. Within the short period of a week there has ...

    Article : 695 words
  12. CANTEEN ISSUE

    Sir,—"Anti Exeter Hall," replying to my letter, wrongly assumes that "padres and thinking men generally advocate wet canteens." This correspondence has ...

    Article : 164 words
  13. THE PERFECT CRIME

    Sir,—The statements reported as having been made by detectives in regard to the psychology of criminals are quite illusory. It is erroneous to assert that criminals are ...

    Article : 58 words
  14. MR. PIZER DEAD

    The death occurred on Friday at a private hospital at Kyneton of Mr. William Pizer, of Baxter street, Coburg, one of Victoria's most prominent horse ...

    Article : 162 words
  15. TORQUAY CAMP

    SiR,—I see that the Geelong Chamber of Commerce is pressing for the retention of Torquay military camp grounds as a training centre. Before anything definite ...

    Article : 134 words
  16. PETROL RATIONING

    Sir,—The British Board of Trade aims to promote a great volume of exports to pay for imports to win the war. But there are two voices diametrically ...

    Article : 113 words
  17. Advertising

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    Advertising : 61 words
  18. CONDEMNED BY RAIL MEN

    BRISBANE, Sunday.—Condemnation of the coal strike and a warning to the Combined Railways Union against any decision ...

    Article : 276 words
  19. BENDIGO EGGS BEST

    BENDIGO, Sunday. — Bendigo district eggs are the best received by the Egg Board, according to its chairman (Mr. H. Lloyd). ...

    Article : 95 words
  20. POST-WAR DICTATION

    Sir, — The letter from Mr. Horace Annesley Vachell, quoted in your "Daily Digest" is interesting, and at first sight, wholly ...

    Article : 175 words
  21. FIRE DESTROYS 2 HOUSES

    BANNOCKBURN, Sunday. — Two weatherboard houses in High street, Bannockburn, were destroyed by fire late on Friday night, and only good work by the ...

    Article : 118 words
  22. WASTE OF PETROL

    Sir,—Although petrol rationing may become necessary for the conservation of the dollar exchange, surely the Defence authorities must realise that army ...

    Article : 75 words
  23. GUN FIRED IN BRAWL

    STREATHAM, Sunday. — When differences between a visiting party of duck shooters and a number of local residents led to brawling in the street yesterday ...

    Article : 145 words
  24. COAL STRIKE CRITIC

    Sir,—In 1908 a lucrative and world-wide export trade in coal was destroyed; the coalminers' families starved; and after a lapse of two years the men ...

    Article : 81 words
  25. CANDIDATE'S ESCAPE

    BENALLA, Sunday. — Mr. M. G. B. Meadows, United Country party candidate for the Benalla seat, his campaign secretary (Mr. S. B. Webb), and Messrs. ...

    Article : 153 words
  26. A.C.T.U. TO MEET

    Should the conference of road and sea transport unions in Sydney to-day decide to refuse to handle coal declared "black," Victorian transport unionists will decline ...

    Article : 116 words
  27. TRAM COMPLAINT

    Sir, — The letter from "Wake Up" is very timely. A few weeks ago I was getting off the dummy of a cable car, holding with one arm and one foot on ...

    Article : 86 words
  28. QUEENSLAND STOPPAGE

    BRISBANE, Sunday. — The committee of management of the Queensland Colliery Employees' Union resolved to-day to call all its members out on strike ...

    Article : 109 words
  29. MAILS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 219 words
  30. EXAMINATION RESULTS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 218 words
  31. MEANS WHAT IT SAYS

    Sir,—Will any of your readers give to me the meaning of this sentence, which contains only genuine English words?:— "Antidisciplinarian's internationalistic ...

    Article : 51 words
  32. GIRL STRANGLED

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — Strangled with one of her own stockings, which was tied twice round her neck, the body of Miss Betty Van ...

    Article : 104 words
  33. DUCK-SHOOTER DROWNED

    HAMILTON, Sunday. — Harry Down, aged 40 years, married, of Sedgewick street, Hamilton, was drowned last night when shooting ducks on Clear Lake, near ...

    Article : 56 words
  34. CHALLENGE!

    Sir,—We are hearing much from Church leaders about the evils of the economic system—the sins of capitalism and the virtue of co-operation. What a lead the ...

    Article : 74 words
  35. BODY IN RIVER

    WAGGA (N.S.W.), Sunday.—The body of a man removed by the Wagga police from the Murrumbidgee River to-day is believed to be that of Thomas Alfred ...

    Article : 55 words
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