THE MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC LECTURE HALL was crowded with students when Count von Luckner (centre) gave a lunch-hour address this week. Pieces of a telephone book he tore up were souvenired by undergraduates. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 41 wordsRAIN continued to fall to-day, and 2.34 p.m. it was decided to abandon play until to-morrow, consequently limiting the third of the 1938 Test series between England and Australia to three days. ...
Article : 987 wordsHaving emphasised that the State had been penalised by the Commonwealth Grants Commission because of the lowness of municipal rating, the Treasurer (Mr. E. Dwyer-Gray) hinted to-day that consideration might be given to the appointment of a ...
Article : 573 wordsTwo of the 11 "windjammers" competing in the 1938 "Wheat Derby" from Australia to England are already reported overdue. ...
Article : 170 wordsStrong criticism of police methods was made by Mr. Maurice Goldberg, solicitor, in the City Court to-day. He was objecting to a police ...
Article : 247 words"Official" writes:— "In the season 1936 the North-Western Union had two secretaries, Messrs. J. Murray and B. B. Morris. Early in ...
Article : 577 wordsThe Post Office is to continue the experiment with the short-wave radio telephone, used to link the mainland with Tasmania during the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 923 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Three years' imprisonment was imposed by Judge Macindoe in General Sessions to-day on Clive Russell Fenton (32), clerk, of ...
Article : 67 wordsHaving spliced three new sections into the telephone cable between Tasmania and the mainland in 60 hours, engineers of the ...
Article : 83 wordsThe terms for settlement of the strike of engineers at the Electricity Commission's power house at Yallourn, offered by the ...
Article : 101 wordsWhether the concession allowing wives to return with the Australian cricketers from Colombo did not invalidate the whole ...
Article : 111 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—The four-day inquiry into the bankrupt estate of the late Alexander George Barlow ended to-day without having revealed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 173 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The acting secretary, of the Board of Control (Mr. Heydon) said this afternoon that no cable had yet been received from ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons), in opening the new rooms of the Australian Women's National League at Hobart this ...
Article : 317 wordsThe president of the North-Western Football Association (Mr. W. H. Edwards), when spoken to in connection with Mr. Harold Lord's statement in ...
Article : 836 wordsMANCHESTER, Friday.—Bradman announced that after a consultation with the manager (Mr. W. H. Jeanes) he had decided to make no statement ...
Article : 38 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—While firemen held a powerful lamp at his surgery at Barker Road, Kew, to-night, Dr. J. P. Fogarty treated the driver of ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Rain throughout England interrupted county matches when the second day's play was commenced. There was no play at ...
Article : 176 wordsKALGOORLIE (W.A.), Fri. "That brings my score to 291; what a pity I am not playing for the Australians in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 172 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—While the Commonwealth Government would welcome migrants wishing to take up land in Australia, it has no intention of ...
Article : 204 wordsDARWIN, Friday.—Convinced of the necessity for speeding up landing arrangement for the second Empire flying boat's arrival on Sunday, customs ...
Article : 87 wordsKALGOORLIE, Friday.—Under an armed police guard, a consignment of fold bullion, estimated at £30,000, was loaded on the air liner Bungana at the ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Sat 9 Jul 1938, Page 7
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