A new gunsight lamp developed by American lighting engineers makes it possible for gunners to aim their weapons directly into the sun. The two white sight circles stand out clear and bright despite the glare as the gun is trained on a miniature model of an enemy plane poised against a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 88 wordsCANBERRA. — A British Commonwealth aviation conference will be held in Canada at an early date. It is likely that the Minister for Air (Mr. Drakeford) will be flown to Canada to participate. Australia's future in civil aviation ...
Article : 586 wordsTwo U.S. sailors demonstrate how a fallen aviator can be rescued from the water by a harness which is lowered from a blimp. If the man in the water is injured and unable to adjust the harness on himself a member of the blimp's crew is lowered to assist the victim, who is hoisted (right) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 64 wordsCANBERRA.—Replying to Mr. Anthony (C.P., N.S.W.) in Parliament yesterday, the Minister for Transport (Mr. Ward) denied having said that the son of Captain I. Holyman, of Australian National Airways, was involved in the border-hopping ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 989 wordsCANBERRA.—No further drafts of Australian airmen will be required by Britain for the war in Europe. Casualties have been lighter than expected and a reserve of air crew has been built up in Britain and Canada. ...
Article : 304 wordsCANBERRA.—Plans for renewal of the offensive against Japan were discussed yesterday, by the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 246 wordsMELBOURNE. — Some R.A.A.F. pilots from all over Australia who have become famous for their exploits overseas are to join the flying staff of ...
Article : 266 wordsThe Parliamentary Public Works Committee took further evidence at Hobart yesterday on the establishment of the proposed Area School at St. Marys. ...
Article : 236 wordsMELBOURNE—"After the best part of a working lifetime spent in education, I am convinced that the Australian community gives little more than lip ...
Article : 231 wordsThe Full Court at Hobart yesterday dismissed two appeals against sentences imposed by Mr. Justice Hutchins In the Launceston and Hobart Criminal Courts. ...
Article : 302 wordsMELBOURNE.—The second anniversary of the first reverse suffered by the Japanese in the Owen Stanleys in their descent on Port Moresby was ...
Article : 364 wordsCANBERRA—Under the Commonwealth decentralisation scheme, 99 clothing factories, employing almost 4000 girls, nearly all of whom are ...
Article : 164 wordsSYDNEY.—Flight Sgt. Brian Augustus Faftery, instructor, of Maclean (N.S.W.), and L.A.C. Albert Victor Quirk, trainee, dual pilot, of South ...
Article : 39 wordsNet proceeds of the Trevallyn School Fair, conducted by the Parents and Friends' Association of the school, were £111/7/11. The fair was held on ...
Article : 65 wordsCabbage seed, and in face all members of the brassic family, should be sown on rather a poor soil if the object is to provide a stock of sturdy ...
Article : 860 wordsLONDON.—Dr. Arthur Albert Tester, Gestapo chief in Rumania, was shot dead by a Rumanian frontier guard while trying to escape to Hungary. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 317 wordsAn Interstate match between Richmond and a team to be selected from the United Services' Association, the Queenborough Association, and the Northern ...
Article : 123 wordsThe funeral of Mrs. Ismay Heffernan, aged 29, of Armidale, Victoria, who died suddenly in Melbourne, took place at the Deloraine General Cemetery yesterday. ...
Article : 176 wordsMELBOURNE.—While on a flight to Cairns, Queensland, a Dutch transport aircraft encountered very bad weather and has been reported missing since ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 107 wordsThe Newstead Harrier Club concluded is cross-country season on Thursday night when it conducted a four mile handicap race on the West Tamar road road ...
Article : 56 wordsSYDNEY.—Imposing a fine of £5 with £3/3/- costs on Charles W. Gresty. employed as a butcher's "orderman" by Silvester Bros., Redfern in the ...
Article : 108 wordsCANBERRA.—When Japanese midget submarines raided Sydney harbour on May 31, 1942, they were first sighted and shadowed by a launch of the naval ...
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Advertising : 564 wordsThe associated agents report a moderate penning of 110 baconers, a light offering of 48 porkers and a heavier yarding of 179 store pigs at their ...
Article : 95 wordsA four-gun battery swung by U.S. soldiers eastward against the Nazis after capturing the artillery from German troops on the Maginot Line. They blasted the Nazis with their own shells made by Krupps. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 36 wordsThe Burnie Show Society was advised by the Railway Department yesterday that arrangements had been made to Unload stock exhibits at the show ground ...
Article : 56 wordsA decision to race on New Year's Day, provided the date is approved by the N.T.T.A.. was made at the annual meeting of the Devonport Trotting Club. Mr. ...
Article : 46 wordsNEW YORK (A.A.P.).—The name of France's almost legendary leader. General Jacques Leclerc, has now been revealed. ...
Article : 66 wordsAt a meeting of shareholders of the Jubilee Coal Mining Co., N.L., at Launceston last night, the company was authorised to borrow a sum not ...
Article : 57 wordsCables in "The Examiner" endorsed "The Examiner Special Service" are published by arrangement with the "Sydney Morning Herald." Cables endorsed ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Sat 30 Sep 1944, Page 5
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