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  2. Aquinas Breaks Record In Thrilling Head Of River

    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 words
  3. Police Get £1200 Jewel Haul In Junk Yard

    MELBOURNE, 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 words
  4. HOUSING CHIEF HAS NOTHING TO UNVEIL

    SYDNEY, 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 words
  5. RUTH SOBS BITTERLY AS SERETSE LEAVES

    SEROWE, 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 words
  6. SECRET BALLOT WILL DECIDE COLLIE MINERS' TIES

    COLLIE, 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 words
  7. Bitterness Over Quest

    MELBOURNE, Sat.: New South Wales was sending overseas Miss Australia 1949 (Miss Margaret Hughes) ...

    Article : 162 words
  8. Burns Kill Young Man

    A young man who was badly burnt when a petrol soldering iron flared up and set his clothes alight at the Roe-st. ...

    Article : 82 words
  9. LOTTERY DRAW

    Charities Consultation No. 540 will be drawn in the Perth Town Hall at 8.30 a.m. on Monday. ...

    Article : 37 words
  10. SICK NURSE IN CAR SMASH

    A 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 words
  11. FILM STAR TO WED PRODUCER

    HOLLYWOOD, Fri.(AAP): Actress Joan Caulfield announced today that she and film producer Frank Ross ...

    Article : 41 words
  12. 35 IN BIG AIR CRASH

    TOKIO, Sat.(AAP-Reuter): A U.S. Air Force four-engine transport carrying 35 people crashed 60 miles west of ...

    Article : 76 words
  13. Farmer Offers City Men Service With A Snake

    SYDNEY, 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 words
  14. Last Word On Page 1

    HAMBURG, Sat. (AP): Hitler is back—in a Hamburg waxworks. His comeback was delayed ...

    Article : 51 words
  15. Neil Harvey's Lea Gashed

    MELBOURNE, Sat.: Test cricketer Neil Harvey (Fitzroy) was badly gashed on the [?] today when a Melbourne ...

    Article : 61 words
  16. TAGGED MULLET GOES LONG WAY

    GERALDTON, Fri.: A mullet which was tagged in the Collie River in 1948 by officers of the fisheries division of the ...

    Article : 47 words
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