A severe explosion occurred at 3 a.m. to-day at the rear of Hawney's private hotel, Tralee, Ireland, where Mr. Frank Chamberlain, the Prime ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Federal Minister for the interior (Mr. M'Ewen) will propose at the Federal Cabinet meeting in Hobart next month that the ...
Article : 396 wordsAustralia's continued resistance to bad news from overseas is an important factor in its remarkably strong internal position. This point is stressed by the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Casey) in a hopeful review of financial and economic prospects for 1939. ...
Article : 469 wordsTHE RESPONSE OF THE VICTORIAN PUBLIC to appeals for clothing for the hundreds of homeless bush fire refugees has been prompt and generous. Above: Hundreds of pairs of shoes for women being grouped in sizes. Below: Workers at ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 53 wordsProduce merchants in parts of Tasmania appear to be in a quandary regarding the flour tax, and the purpose of withholding 10/ ...
Article : 169 wordsPERTH (W.A.), Thursday. — Annoyed because a boy, aced seven, would not get off a house boat, Thomas Ryan (18) threw him into the Swan River at ...
Article : 78 wordsTwo intruders at a Clyde shipyard, who were acting suspiciously near the Clyde Valley power station, rniscd fears of bombings in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 723 wordsSoaking rains have fallen in many parts of New South Wales during the past 24 hours, giving relief to ...
Article : 44 wordsMELBOURNE, Thusday—About 250 men under Forest Commission officers are fighting a fire in the Otway Ranges, between Beech Forest and the coast, ...
Article : 90 wordsTo-day the bodies of the four victims of the Guinea Airways mail plane crash at Katherine yesterday were flown in another ...
Article : 111 wordsNegotiations in the Dalfrnm pigiron dispute have been reopened, and a conference will be held in Melbourne on Tuesday. ...
Article : 74 wordsHints of remarkable discoveries by a Government expedition in the last of the unexplored areas in New Guinea are contained in a report ...
Article : 141 wordsKALGOORLIE, Thursday. — Although Kalgoorlie and the immediate district is returning to normal, flood waters have virtually isolated the north ...
Article : 91 wordsBush fire damage to Australian postal facilities had been estimated at £60,000, the PostmasterGeneral (Mr. Cameron) said ...
Article : 66 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Leaders of the trade unions, at a conference at Wollongong to-night, decided to recommend the watersiders at Port Kembla ...
Article : 38 wordsWhen Mrs. J. Keating and Mrs. C. M'Kirdy travelled to Melbourne by 'plane with their babies, Mrs. Keating's ...
Article : 35 wordsCockatoo dockyards hope to expand considerably by building ships for the Australian rade this year, said the managing director (Mr. ...
Article : 112 wordsConsular protests are believed to have led to the banning by the New Zealand Government of broadcasts on international affairs from ...
Article : 130 wordsA group of gold prospectors has offered a partnership to Peter Drake, the Mernda schoolboy, If he discloses the spot where a splinter of gold ...
Article : 103 wordsThe suggestion recently made in "The Advocate," that potatoes that were unmarketable by reason of their unshapely nature should be made ...
Article : 101 wordsNew South Wales regained the Linton Cup by winning all three rubbers against the holder, South Australia, at Kooyong to-day. The ...
Article : 388 wordsPERTH (W.A.), Thursday. — Harold Leonard Hewins (39), clerk, who was arrested in Launceston, Tasmania, on a charge of having stolen £350, the ...
Article : 54 wordsSearches by air, sea and along the foreshore to-day failed to reveal any sign of C. A. Steele, city furniture merchant, and Arthur ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Tasmanian Swimming Association must decide by to-morrow the dates on which it wishes to hold its section of the Australian ...
Article : 224 wordsMany of the 92 employes at the furniture factory of Chas. Dickenson, Ltd., at Leichhardt, had to flee for their lives to-day after a ...
Article : 138 wordsA representative catherine, at a public meeting in the Ulverstone Courthouse last evening, decided to establish a municipal fund and canvass for ...
Article : 359 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — After he had inspeetod the factory with the Secretary for Defence to-day, the Minister for Defence (Mr. Street) said the first ...
Article : 89 wordsLimping on crutches into the witness box at Glebe to-day Chas. Robinson (33), of Mascot, alleged that his sister had misappropriated ...
Article : 212 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday — Emanuel Wright (29), a chauffeur, was charged in the Police Court to-day with having attempted to kill Dorothy Coffin, ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Queensland branch of the A.W.U., which has more than 50,000 members, has withdrawn its affiliation with the Queensland Trades ...
Article : 86 wordsLAUNCESTON, Thursday. — Mr. J. Lefevre, of Winnaleah, said to-night he had decided not to stand for the South Esk sent in the Legislative Council, left ...
Article : 79 wordsConferring of full citizenship rights on selected aboriginals, and the appointment of a Director of Native Affairs, will be considered ...
Article : 237 wordsAUCKLAND, Thursday—P. Matheson lowered the Australian and New Zealand record for 400 metres backstroke to-night, when he was clocked ...
Article : 95 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Thursday. — The Minister for Defence (Mr. Jones) announced to-day that the Government had approved of the formation of a ...
Article : 61 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — Norma King, of Gould street, Frankston, was suffocated this afternoon when the sides of a hole she was digging on the ...
Article : 79 wordsPERTH. (W.A.), Thursday.—The lowest January maximum temperature in Perth's history—675 degrees—was recorded to-day. The [?]vions lowest was ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Fri 20 Jan 1939, Page 7
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