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  2. INDIAN AGRICULTURE.

    Lord Linlithgow, as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India, has achieved a great success in obtaining all the signatures of his colleagues to a unanimous ...

    Article : 1,276 words
  3. SEA COOKS.

    Curiously enough, maritime historians have never shown much curiosity about the sea cook. Who, for instance, was the first person to engage in that honourable occupation? What ...

    Article : 1,457 words
  4. CRIME DETECTION.

    There is an amazing public craving in London for "mysteries"—for the problems of crime detection. A dozen so-called "crook" plays, a flood or detective fiction, mystery ...

    Article : 1,138 words
  5. SUBSIDISED TEACHING

    The action of the Minister for Education in placing subsidised schools under the supervision of teachers who are to visit each school in turn and give practical advice and ...

    Article : 608 words
  6. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL.

    The new control tower at the Croydon aerodrome, the principal airport of Croydon, rises above the main block of administrative buildings. On the balcony running round it are stationed look-outs, who advise the Traffic Officer, on duty inside the tower, of any approaching aeroplanes or of aircraft which are about to depart. When the look-outs report the way clear, a signal is given to a departing aeroplane. On a large, magnetised steel chart of the British Isles and Western Europe, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 238 words
  7. EGYPT'S BIG MEN.

    Wissa Wassef Pey, the new President of the Egyptian Chamber of Deputies, halls from the Girga Province, Upper Egypt, where he was born in May, 1873. He comes of a ...

    Article : 968 words
  8. ART OF HEYSEN.

    Hans Heysen, distinguished interpreter of the moods of the Australian bush, reveals a new note, equally as vigorous and appealing as any that have preceded it, in the collection ...

    Article : 426 words
  9. KINGSFORD SMITH.

    Early in 1915 there came to me at the engineer depot, Moore Park, two young lads— cousins—one, the elder, a fresh-complexioned. fair-haired, open-face youth of 19 years, the ...

    Article : 769 words
  10. SAVED BY A DOG.

    My friend and I had been shooting along the side of a beautiful mountain, and, after a hasty snack, sat discussing the balance of the programme. It was a beautiful morning ...

    Article : 882 words
  11. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    In and out among the hills A little white road bends, I wonder where it goes to, Or if it ever ends? ...

    Article : 81 words
  12. MY ZOO.

    We said good-bye to the bears and 'possums, and the children went on with me down a little narrow path edged on one side with rocks. A rocky wall, with ferns growing ...

    Article : 818 words
  13. "SAYS SERGEANT MURPHY."

    "You ought to have been at the Court to-day," said Heddle, "to hear the Judge talking about backing horses and the way—" "Me?" interrupted Sergeant Murphy. "Me ...

    Article : 611 words
  14. BIRD SMUGGLING.

    For some years the smuggling of Australian birds from the Northern Territory for shipment to the Far East has occasioned the lovers of local avifauna a certain amount ...

    Article : 477 words
  15. 5000 YEARS OLD.

    The Cairo Museum has just received (writes our Cairo correspondent) a wonderful addition to its treasures in a facsimile of the carrying chair of Queen Hetepheres I., the ...

    Article : 262 words
  16. THE YASS RIVER.

    The seething waters gurgle on 'Neath high-walled cliffs above, O'er many steps of boulders grey Onward it goes its noisy way, ...

    Article : 222 words
  17. TWO LOVES.

    I know not which I love the more. The mountains or the sea- The plains are wide and fertile, But the plains are not for me; ...

    Article : 120 words
  18. FOG.

    Out of the mist the beat of weary winds: A lonely seagull making fearful haste— His known sea changed to some dim, trackless waste ...

    Article : 106 words
  19. THE LAW.

    Clearer than ever in Autumn is heard The liquid notes of the Butcher Bird. Enraptured I pause; but then, oh, then, I can't forget that dead Blue Wren. ...

    Article : 31 words
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