Aquinas broke the 11-year-old record to win today's Head of the River race from Guildford, Scotch and Hale, in that order. Leading from start to finish, Aquinas staved off desperate challenges by Guildford and Scotch to win by half a length and clip four seconds off Hale's 1939 record of 5min. 20sec. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 669 wordsMELBOURNE, Sat.: Gold rings studded with diamonds and sapphires, gold earrings and other jewellery valued at £1200 retail, were found by police today in a junk yard behind a house in south Caulfield. ...
Article : 126 wordsSYDNEY, Sat.: Detectives are searching the Balmain district for a big granite foundation stone which was to have been unveiled by NSW Housing Minister Clive Evatt at 3 p.m. today. ...
Article : 66 wordsSEROWE, Sat.(AAP): Chief Seretse Khama's white wife Ruth stayed in her bedroom sobbing bitterly when the banned chief left yesterday for nearby Lobatsi after his five-day visit. ...
Article : 119 wordsCOLLIE, Sat.: A mass meeting of Collie miners to-day decided to hold a secret ballot to determine whether they should again affiliate with the Australian Coalminers' Federation. ...
Article : 142 wordsMELBOURNE, Sat.: New South Wales was sending overseas Miss Australia 1949 (Miss Margaret Hughes) ...
Article : 162 wordsA young man who was badly burnt when a petrol soldering iron flared up and set his clothes alight at the Roe-st. ...
Article : 82 wordsCharities Consultation No. 540 will be drawn in the Perth Town Hall at 8.30 a.m. on Monday. ...
Article : 37 wordsA volunteer nurse who had many times travelled in St. John Ambulance vans to attend accident victims on their way to hospital, was herself an ambulance passenger after an accident involving a car and a taxi in ...
Article : 196 wordsHOLLYWOOD, Fri.(AAP): Actress Joan Caulfield announced today that she and film producer Frank Ross ...
Article : 41 wordsTOKIO, Sat.(AAP-Reuter): A U.S. Air Force four-engine transport carrying 35 people crashed 60 miles west of ...
Article : 76 wordsSYDNEY, Sat: A farmer flew to Sydney to sell and "service" rat-catching snakes to bag merchants and warehouses. His first day's sale tally was one 75ft. diamond snake—price £10. ...
Article : 197 wordsHAMBURG, Sat. (AP): Hitler is back—in a Hamburg waxworks. His comeback was delayed ...
Article : 51 wordsMELBOURNE, Sat.: Test cricketer Neil Harvey (Fitzroy) was badly gashed on the [?] today when a Melbourne ...
Article : 61 wordsGERALDTON, Fri.: A mullet which was tagged in the Collie River in 1948 by officers of the fisheries division of the ...
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The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), Sat 22 Apr 1950, Page 1
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