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Advertising : 71 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—In one of South Australia's worst bushfire days in recent years a fire which swept down from Balaklava almost devastated the township of Calomba, between Long Plains and Mallala, today. ...
Article : 258 wordsThe Ambassador, Britain's latest medium-range civil aircraft, on a test flight over Hampshire. In propeller-turbine form the Ambassador will have a maximum cruising speed of nearly 330 miles an hour. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 34 wordsBELGIAN Government officials said that Britain and France had invited Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg to sign a treaty of ...
Article : 127 wordsAfter a sweltering night, in which the temperature did not fall below 83.6 degs., the shade reading in Pirie reached 111.3 degs. early yesterday afternoon. The mercury showed 100 shortly after 8 a.m. The maximum was the highest reading here since January 4, 1942, when ...
Article : 239 wordsARABS who ambushed a Jerusalem-bound convoy four miles from Jaffa killed seven Jewish special police and wounded ...
Article : 89 wordsIt was reported in Pirie last night that during the height of a windstorm yesterday afternoon the vessel Iron Yampi, being completed at the ...
Article : 53 wordsWilliam Dargie, former official war artist, has won the Archibald Prize—Australia's richest art prize—for the third successive year. ...
Article : 96 wordsJohn H. McNicol, a Port Pirie High School student who gained seven subjects, including two credits, in the 1947 Leaving Examination, has been ...
Article : 138 wordsVictoria, with neighboring States, shared in a sudden burst of hot weather today. The maximum temperature in the city was 104.2 degs. at 5 ...
Article : 84 wordsA new photograph of Errol Flynn, who has signed a 15-year unbreakable film contract under which he will receive £83,000 for ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsMaximum wholesale and retail prices of bread in Victoria will be increased by 1½d. a 4-lb. loaf from tomorrow. Mr. M. E. McCarthy (Prices ...
Article : 142 wordsMore than 60,000. registered volunteer firefighters were on the alert throughout Victoria today, but despite blistering heat only two serious fires ...
Article : 66 wordsAdmitting that between January 2 and 5 he had fraudulently converted to his own use £1 6/ entrusted to him by Evelyn Guley, of Vassal ...
Article : 127 wordsFound guilty of having on December 6 used indecent language within the hearing of Irene. Plakakis and her son, Manuel Plakakis, of Revell ...
Article : 407 wordsSir Laurence Olivier and his wife, Vivien Leigh, with Old Vic Company, will leave for their Australian tour on February 14. They are due to arrive ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Edward McAllister (66), who died. at Pirie Hospital, was a wellknown resident of Gladstone. About 30 years ago he was a cabman at ...
Article : 91 wordsNo fresh evidence f aircraft landing on disused airstrips in Northern Terriotory had been reported, said Mr. H. V. Johnson (Minister of the ...
Article : 63 wordsFilm experts will leave Britain shortly for work in east and central Africa, where they will photograph what Britain is doing in opening up ...
Article : 182 wordsStainless steel raiway coacnes now being built in Britain may be added to the nation's export list. Features of interior equipment of ...
Article : 90 wordsAccording to "Change Over," published by the Ministry of Post-War Reconstruction, in less than twelve months ExServicemen's Taxi Service in Brisbane ...
Article : 282 wordsDr. Paul Boffa, who has become the first Prime Minister of Malta. Educated at Royal Malta University, where he became a doctor of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 49 wordsFor having had non-exempt goods exposed for sale after specified trading hours five shopkeepers were fined by Mr. W. C. Gillespie, S.M., in ...
Article : 139 wordsOn Monday morning there appeared a paragraph in "Busy Street and Quiet Corner" about certain markings on a piece of rock picked up in a local ...
Article : 143 wordsCapt. R. E. Cowell, R.D., R.N.R., has been appointed staff commander of Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's liner Stratheden, ...
Article : 195 wordsBecause of its rapidly increasing export importance leather will replace textiles as the highlight of the British Industries Fair in May. Footwear is ...
Article : 88 wordsActress Maureen O'Sullivan, wife of Sydney-born film director John Farrow, has given birth to her sixth child —a 9-lb. girl. ...
Article : 28 wordsRear-Adml. Maomasi Sakonju was hanged yesterday for having ordered execution of 65- British prisoners of war, including Australians, on the ...
Article : 37 wordsPirie lost a good patriot through the death in Whyalla of Mr. Mark John O'Toole. In his sixty-first year, he had spent most of his life in this ...
Article : 436 wordsAn accordion which the bridegroom had played at his wedding festivities 40 years ago again produced joyous strains when Det.-Insp. H. G. Henderson, of South Australian Railways, and Mrs. Henderson celebrated their ruby wedding anniversary. ...
Article : 343 wordsThe Soviet authorities have announced that they will not enforce an order doubling prices for Austrian oil, effective from today, as ...
Article : 38 wordsLighting-up times—This evening: 8. Sun rises 5.25, sets 7.30. Tomorrow: 7.59; sun rises 5.26; sets 7.29. Sunday: 7.59; sun rises 5.27; sets 7.29. ...
Article : 152 wordsA men's team representing Whyalla Tennis Association defeated a combined team of Pirie men by 13 sets to seven in a match played at ...
Article : 162 wordsCrystal Brook croquet players defeated Gulnare by 4 games 104 pts. to 49 pts., but lost to Snowtown by a narrow margin (2—90 to 2—81); ...
Article : 170 words"David" (Adelaide) and "Matthew" (Melbourne) have made the following selections for tomorrow's races:—MORPHETTVILLE ...
Article : 76 wordsAn order by Mr. Conciliation Commissioner Murray Stewart in the Arbitration Court today stated that the South Australian Railways ...
Article : 96 words12.40 (S.A. time)—Niddrie Handicap (first div.): Sc[?]twyn, Head Mistress, Rembrandt. 1.10—Niddrie Handicap (second ...
Article : 166 wordsDistrict cricket matches will be resumed at Memorial Oval tomorrow at the following stages:—Colts (281) v. North (to bat); South (193) v. East (4 ...
Article : 216 wordsOfficers elected at the annual meeting of Pirie branch of Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League were:—Messrs. H. Hill, president; H. ...
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Advertising : 167 wordsPirie Railwaymen's Pennant Tennis Association defeated Wallaroo Club, 13 sets 147 games to 11—130, in a match at Wallaroo. Thirty ...
Article : 210 wordsParticular interest attaches to work now in progress toward restoration of a number of Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's liners ...
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Advertising : 1 wordsForty-one riders have been handicapped for tomorrow's six-mile road race to be conducted by Pirie Cycle Club. Seven men will ride from ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 166 wordsIn women's pennant tennis matches at Crystal Brook Red and Catholic teams won all six sets against Blue and Methodist respectively. Scores ...
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Recorder (Port Pirie, SA : 1919 - 1954), Fri 23 Jan 1948, Page 1
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