Australia's volunteer militia forces are to be increased; the Naval Squadron is to be strengthened by the addition of one powerful vessel—either a cruiser or a pocket battleship; the Air Force and the munitions supply service are to be further ...
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Article : 60 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—More than half of the 3000-acre Killenbutta State for eut about Manildra, Cumnock and Molong was destroyed to-day by bush ...
Article : 96 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — News of a dash through heavy seas off the African Coast to save the life of a Melbourne woman who was seriously ...
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Article : 77 wordsAfter 16 weeks of idleness, miners at the Mt. Nicholas, Cornwall, Jubilee and Fingal collieries agreed yesterday, at a mass meeting at the Cornwall Hall, to resume work at the mines on Monday, March 14. The proposals of the Minister for Mines ...
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Article : 814 wordsOne man was killed and four others injured when a racing motorcycle got out of control and crashed into a crowd of spectators during ...
Article : 141 wordsRegulations on the control of natives in Darwin will be rigidly enforced following the assault, the Protector of Aborigines (Dr. Cooke) announced ...
Article : 87 wordsPERTH. Sunday. — Three men, Arthur Smith, Murray Allen and James Overstone, were killed, and two others severely injured when the utility truck ...
Article : 52 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — His memory gone and his clothes in tatters. Theodore Neville (36). sawmill owner, of Stroud, was found at dawn yesterday ...
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Article : 74 wordsA car and a lorry were extensively damaged when they collided on the State highway near Chasm Crook, between Burnie and ...
Article : 180 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Coming from Adelaide to Melbourne in 26 hours [?] minutes, the liner Orcades secured [?]other record for the Orient Line when ...
Article : 80 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A representative of the John Lysaght Co. said yesterady that work was proceeding on the site at Port Kembla, with the erection of Commonwealth Rolling Mills Pty. Ltd.'s £2,000,000 plant. ...
Article : 94 wordsIn the presence of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tasmania (M. Wor. Bro. Stanley Dryden), Grand Lodge officers and a ...
Article : 493 wordsEUROA, Sunday. — About mid-day yesterday James Bryan Harrison (8) was killed, when bis bicycle was struck by a sedan car on the Hume highway. ...
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Article : 200 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — The appointment of deputies to act for senior Federal Ministers who will leave for London this month was announced to-night ...
Article : 135 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Ken Richards, well known in the Cpotamundra district, was killed yesterday when thrown from a horse near his Cowcumbla station. ...
Article : 120 wordsAbout 4.30 a.m. yesterday a hire and drive sedan car, owned by Mr. H. F. Stafford, of Burnie, turned over on the State highway, a short distance on ...
Article : 188 wordsCommenced in 1935, a series of draughts matches between 22 Australians selected from all States, and 22 ...
Article : 83 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—A Guinea Airways Lockheed Electra ten-passenger 'plane, flying from Sydney to Parafield, developed engine trouble last ...
Article : 82 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — An unknown comet with an exceptionally long and bright tail was seen moving across the sky at Toorak and North ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Mon 7 Mar 1938, Page 7
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