LONDON, Feb. 4.—A Shanghai message states that according to dispatches from Kunming (in China's south-western province of Yunnan) 27 Japanese ...
Article : 125 wordsLONDON, Feb. 5.—Several landfalls, six of which were serious, occurred during the week-end. One of the worst involved a fall of thousands of tons of ...
Article : 103 wordsDuring the recent hot weather consumption of water from Mundaring reservoir has averaged about 7,000,000 gallons a day, compared with 3,500,000 ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 795 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 5.—Forced to land through weather conditions and shortage of petrol when within 11 miles of his destination at Rockhampton, Captain ...
Article : 374 wordsAfter 43 years in the public service of Western Australia, Mr. A. O. Neville, Commissioner of Native Affairs, will reach the retiring age on October 20. He will ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 948 wordsMONTEVIDEO (Uruguay), Feb. 4.— Italian efforts to establish her aviation in South America continue to suffer setbacks. The Argentine Government has ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Feb, 4.—Throughout Britain considerable difficulties are being experienced in obtaining supplies of coal owing to transport problems occasioned by the ...
Article : 118 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 5.—During today's hearing in the Central Police Court of the conspiracy to defraud case, a witness said that a trial balance of National ...
Article : 489 wordsLONDON, Feb. 4.—The Associated Press correspondent at Shanghai reports that the United States Ambassador to China (Mr. N. T. Johnson) states that the ...
Article : 131 wordsA British destroyer seen from a mine-sweeper as she leaves on patrol off the east coast of England. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 18 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 5.—When Patrick Brady (47), shearer, Walter Ernest Watson (39), salesman, Charles Bethel Tritton (32), labourer, and Frederick James Fuller ...
Article : 199 wordsLONDON, Feb. 3.—The United Press correspondent at Tientsin states that British and French police have arrested a number of Chinese in connection with the ...
Article : 51 wordsNORTHAM, Feb. 5.—An intruder who broke into the residence of Mr. Keith Sermon at 21 Hawes-street, on Saturday night, in addition to stealing a gold watch ...
Article : 268 wordsAUCKLAND, Feb. 5.—The crew of three were drowned when a Royal New Zealand Air Force bomber from the Wigram aerodrome, Christchurch. crashed ...
Article : 144 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 5.—Maxwell Hutchinson (11) was killed last night when the utility truck in which he was riding overturned about 20 miles from Walcha. His ...
Article : 103 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 5.—Officials of the Australian Railways Union expect that as a result of a regulation strike at Enfield, the departure of goods trains from ...
Article : 189 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 5.—The King's police medal (regarded as the police equivalent of the Victoria Cross) has been awarded to Inspector S. W. R. Marsden, of the ...
Article : 345 wordsAustralian soldiers using a Bren machine-gun as an anti-aircraft gun during training. This type of gun is to be standard equipment for the Australian troops. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 25 wordsDARWIN, Feb. 5.—Over four weeks since they were forced by rising flood waters to leave the Roper River Anglican Mission, Mrs. S. C. Port, wife of the ...
Article : 244 wordsSHANGHAI, Feb. 2.—A hundred frozen bodies, 80 of which were of infants, have been picked up in the streets here, as the result of a cold wave. The Salvation ...
Article : 52 wordsAUCKLAND, Feb. 5.—The stage is set for the picturesque celebrations which will commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of ...
Article : 163 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 4.—Ellis Parker, who was sentenced to six years' imprisonment in 1937 for the kidnapping of Paul Wendel in connection with the Lindbergh baby ...
Article : 68 wordsHOBART, Feb. 5.—Malcolm Alexander Prior (23), a member of the Second A.I.F., was charged in the Hobart Police Court today with having on February 3, ...
Article : 130 wordsLONDON, Feb. 4.—A League of Nations committee consisting of representatives of ten States—Australia, the Argentine, Turkey, Belgium, Holland, Norway, ...
Article : 264 wordsSuffering from a lacerated forehead, Barney Quinn (46). of Canning-highway, Victoria Park, was admitted to the observation ward of the Perth Hospital early ...
Article : 71 words"I fear that the citizens of Perth do not fully appreciate the excellent work which the life-savers in this State are doing for them." said the Lord Mayor ...
Article : 298 wordsMounted police and a blacktracker were sent to Belmont early yesterday morning when the police received a report that Mrs. Thomas Buckland (46), a patient of ...
Article : 135 wordsThe annual meeting of ratepayers of the municipality of Northam was held in the Lesser Hall on Friday night. Moving the adoption of the financial ...
Article : 142 wordsBABAKIN, Feb. 5.—Phyllis Petchell, of Bilbarin (17), daughter of a farmer, was missing from her home last evening. She was riding a pony and was tracked ...
Article : 64 wordsSir,—Under the heading "'Superannuation Scheme—Temptation to Treasurers." Mr. Martin F. Darcey has something to say on the subject. Mr. Darcey very ...
Article : 217 wordsCANBERRA. Feb. 5.—Reports brought from New Guinea by airliner passengers in the week-end that Mr. G. O'Donnel, a patrol officer, was killed and another ...
Article : 88 wordsSir,—It is possible that I can tender the explanation with regard to the spade guinea forwarded from Albany to the honorary record keeper for the Western ...
Article : 212 wordsLONDON, Feb. 5.—At a by-election for the City of London Sir Andrew Duncan (the new President of the Board of Trade, who succeeded Mr. Oliver ...
Article : 70 wordsA stench, likened by a councillor to that of the "lions at the zoo," was complained of in a petition from 18 residents of Grant-street, which was ...
Article : 138 wordsThe head air raid precautions warden at Cottesloe (Cr. L. P. Gadsdon) has reported to the Cottesloe Municipal Council that three classes of wardens have been ...
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Advertising : 355 wordsOn the recommendation of the Endowment Lands Committee, the Perth City Council agreed yesterday to expenditure of £300 to provide a parking area 16ft. ...
Article : 79 wordsAfter having collapsed in her home in Uranium-street, Welshpool, yesterday morning. Mrs. Eliza Sands, was taken by the St. John ambulance to the Perth ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 6 Feb 1940, Page 8
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