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  2. NATIVES PUT ON UNIFORM.

    A typical coral island of the Loyalty group, Mare was covered with coconut palms and symmetrical colonial firs which, in the waning glow of the setting sun, bore a curious resemblance to giant flue brushes. Within two hundred yards of the shore ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,074 words
  3. "I DID IT."

    At the saleyards the young drover, tired but well satisfied with the job he had done, was telling a gathering of other drovers, all having "one ...

    Article : 790 words
  4. IN THE QUIET HILLS.

    A peaceful homestead in the hills near Thawa, Canberra. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 13 words
  5. ENGINEERS SHOW THE WORLD.

    Australia's proudest road is now operating. Our engineers have excelled themselves, setting a world standard for speed, organisation, and thoroughness, and establishing probably a record by building 306 miles of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,073 words
  6. A TALE OF TWO NEWSPAPERS.

    It is natural that a member of the staff of the "Manchester Guardian" should take pride in being associated with "The Sydney ...

    Article : 1,330 words
  7. "HUSH HUSH" ISLAND.

    Pantellaria, Italy's renowned hush-hush island in the Mediterranean, is in the news again. Under the nose of the long-range shore ...

    Article : 468 words
  8. EVEN A SACRED COW CAN BE AN AWFUL NUISANCE.

    One of the oldest of all superstitions is the sacredness of the cow. Her career goes back to pre-historic times, when she was symbolical of Mother Earth and all fertility. In ancient days of idolatry she was the personification of Isis, the Egyptian goddess. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,298 words
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  10. THE LAST CHORD.

    There is a story concerning a music professor lying a-bed who, having heard his neighbour in the flat beneath play as far as the last ...

    Article : 312 words
  11. PRINTING AS AN ART.

    The commemoration during 1940 of the 500th anniversary of the invention of printing was celebrated in England as elsewhere ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 528 words
  12. OLD BOOKPLATES AND NEW.

    Eighteen years ago the first exhibition of Australian Ex Libris was held in Sydney. This exhibition was followed by the founding of the Australian Ex Libris Society, which has done much toward interesting the public in the designing, adopting, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 904 words
  13. LIED TO REST.

    Nazi lies are so deliberate and so elaborate and so ubiquitous that in Germany now the average man can no longer distinguish between truth and untruth, ...

    Article : 86 words
  14. INTO THE WHALE'S JAW.

    In a delightfully unexpected manner my attention was caught the other day by the gateway of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron ...

    Article : 305 words
  15. DAWN 1941.

    The electric train advancing along its iron route deposits at each platform its early-morning loot, ...

    Article : 205 words
  16. H.M.A.S. SYDNEY.

    With the beauty and grace of a living thing She comes to a splendid welcoming, As a grateful city acclaims her worth, ...

    Article : 111 words
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