An old admirer of Lieut. Bert. Hinkler, Mr. J. Connor, of Goodnight Scrub, sends this reminiscence of Bert's first adventure in search of a flying career in Britain, ...
Article : 502 wordsAdvices received at the Brisbane Weather Bureau yesterday showed that rainfalls approximating 2in. fell in the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday on the ...
Article : 1,080 wordsAccompanied by vivid lightning and a few resounding crashes of thunder, a storm broke over the metropolitan area to-night. In places exceptionally heavy ...
Article : 206 wordsOn Tuesday last, prior to his retirement, the staff of Brabant and Co. made a presentation, to Mr. R. Wetherell of a smoker's outfit, a case of pipes, a case of ...
Article : 712 wordsThe year 1928 marks the 100th anniversary of Charles Dickens' entry into journalism, said Professor Cumbrae Stewart. K.C., in his presidential address ...
Article : 501 wordsExcitement was caused at the Prince's Pier to-night, when the forward hawsers of the White Star liner Ceramic snapped during a squall, at about 6.30 o'clock. The ...
Article : 309 wordsWeighing over three tons, the Bower Bird, Australian Aerial Service's freight carrier of the skies, took off from Pialba beach at 10.45 yesterday, alighting a[?] ...
Article : 515 wordsThere has been some hostile criticism in a section of the Press in connection with the report from Darwin that Lieutenant Hinkler was examined by the Customs ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Divisional Meteorologist issued the following storm warning at 10.30 a.m. yesterday:- A tropical depression exists, between ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Rt. Hon. Sir Laming WorthingtonEvans, in a memorandum on the Army Estimates, says that a considerable advance has taken place in the provision for ...
Article : 144 wordsOccasional showers of rain fell in Toowoomba to-day, with breaks of sunshine. WARWICK, March 2. During February, according to the Post ...
Article : 203 wordsAddressing a meeting of the Clarence District Council of the Primary Producers' Union, Mr. A. J. Pollock, M.L.A., expressed sympathy with those who had ...
Article : 323 words"The truth is that by degrees this House is disappearing through inanition. It is not that we are short of capable members. By accident we have more members ...
Article : 167 wordsDiscussing Lieut. Hinkler's great flight at a lecture at the University of Leeds, the Director of Civil Aviation (Sir Sefton Brancker) said that when night flying ...
Article : 63 wordsImportant changes in the Army are announced by the Secretary of State for War (Sir L. Worthington-Evans), in a memorandum accompaiimg the Army ...
Article : 254 wordsAt Wooster's Cafe, to-night, the returned soldiers entertained Lieutenant Hinkler at a dinner. Mr. G. Stedman (president of the local branch of the ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. S. M. Bruce) stated to-day that the establishment of an air mail service between Great Britain and Australia would be a tremendous ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Diocesan secretary (Mr. Gordon Gall) advises that the following telegram conveying a resolution passed by the Brisbane Diocesan Council, was sent yesterday ...
Article : 60 wordsFair rains bave fallen during the week in portions of the Julia Creek district Millungera station to-day reported a fall of 15in. in 24 hours. There were ...
Article : 70 wordsThe representative of the British United Press at Nice says that an Australian sheep farmer, named William Downie, while holidaying on the Riviera, ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Nurse Cavell film, "Dawn," led to a series of questions on film censorship in the House of Commons to-day. Sir Reginald Hall suggested that a ...
Article : 184 wordsThe State secretary of the R.S.S.I.L.A. advises that arrangements are in hand for a diggers' welcome to Lieut. Bert Hinkler, at the Theatre Royal, on Friday next, at ...
Article : 116 wordsThe abrogation of the Australian Treaty and the immediate application of the dumping clause to butter under the export bonus system was demanded in resolution passed ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) stated to-day that he had seen Colonel Brinsmead with reference to the rumour that Lieut. Hinkler was to be given a job ...
Article : 107 wordsThe death has occurred of the Rev. Canon Hugh Walker Taylor, late Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Orange, in his 62nd year. Following his retirement, ...
Article : 65 wordsHis Honour Mr. Justice Brennan and Mrs. Brennan called on Lieutenant Hinkler and his mother this morning, and congratulated Bert on his magnificent ...
Article : 81 wordsThe difficulties of the Railways Department, due to floods, are now confined almost entirely to the Northern railways division. ...
Article : 336 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, Sir Austen Chamberlain, in answer to a question, said that Germany's exports to Russia last year exceeded those of any ...
Article : 123 wordsThe death is announced of Sir Herbert Brewer, the eminent musical conductor. ...
Article : 20 wordsMrs. Bert Hinkler, wife of the famous aviator, has arranged to sail for Australia from Toulon on the steamer Orama on March 9. ...
Article : 35 wordsAs a result of a "shilling-in" collection to-day, in aid of the Hinkler fund, an additional £12/17/4 was raised. ...
Article : 26 wordsSir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Air, has sent the following telegram to Group-Captain Cave Browne-Cave, officer commanding the four supermarine ...
Article : 126 wordsThe House Naval Committee to-day authorised the appropriation of 14,800,000 dollars (£2,000,000) for the modernisation of two battleships, instead of the 34,670,000 ...
Article : 147 wordsProbate has been granted in the estate of the following deceased persons:—John C. James, South Brisbane, gentleman, £4077; John M. Sinclair, Brisbane, draper, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe High Commissioner for Australia (Sir Granville Ryrie) this afternoon cabled to the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. S. M. Bruce) a precis of the ...
Article : 99 wordsGeneral plans for the reception of Lieut. Hinkler in Melbourne were decided on at a meeting of the Official Reception Committee to-day, at the Town Hall. The ...
Article : 402 wordsThe Public Service Commissioner (Brigadier-General Price Weir) to-day received a telegram from Bundaberg, stating that Hinkler intended to visit South ...
Article : 125 words"Remove the mischievous interference of politicians and give able and patriotic Australians a free hand to administer and develop Australian transport," is the final ...
Article : 138 wordsIt is announced that the Commonwealth of Australia loan of £8,000,000 has been underwritten. The loan will bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent., and has been ...
Article : 63 wordsFlying Officer Lewis and Flight-sergeant Terry, of the Federal Government Northern Air Patrol, who have been lost in the wilds of the Arctic Circle since February ...
Article : 47 wordsThe London-America wireless telephone rates have been reduced from £15 to 18 for a conversation of three minutes. ...
Article : 30 wordsComplete reorganisation of the Australian aerial-defence force is expected to result from the visit in June of Air Marshal Sir John Salmond at the invitation of the ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 3 Mar 1928, Page 20
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