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The bulletin

Call Number
NX 252
Created/Published
Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
Issue
Vol. 75 No. 3872 (28 Apr 1954)
Images
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Contents

The Bulletin 1
Seppelts ANCIENT EGYPT IN MODERN LONDON, THE DURABLE “NEEDLE” 1
Advertising 1
The Red Page STONE AND DYSON 2
Advertising 3
The Bulletin 4
THE PETROV AFFAIR 4
Goodbye, Local Government 4
Well-deserved Welcome 4
No title 5
PLAIN ENGLISH Australia's Red Week 6 , 7
POLITICAL POINTS 7
Society "AND IT'S PRINTED WITH WIMBLES INKS" 8 , 9
MUTATIS MUTANDIS (or E. & O.E.) 8
THE SUPREME DREAD 9
PERSONAL ITEMS 10
No title 11
ABORIGINALITIES 12 , 13
TIDES IN TASMANIA 12
SPARROWS ON THE BEACH 13
COUNCIL CLASH 13
Business Rollery Etc. 14
Advertising 14
London airmail 15
Advertising 15
The WILD CAT COLUMN 16 , 17
Advertising 16 , 17
Women's Letters SYDNEY 18
MELBOURNE 18
SUNDRY SHOWS Stage and Music 19
Artbursts 19
Talkies 19
Advertising 19
Have Patience, Delaney! 20 , 21 , 27
THE STORY SO FAR 20
Nous Cherchons un ami 22 , 23
Advertising 22
NATIVE GARDEN 22
FIGURE ON THE DUNES 23
Advertising 23
SERVICE DEPARTMENT 24
Advertising 24
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 24
Advertising 24
Unparliamentary Language “Offensive to Me, Mr. Speaker!” 25 , 34
SPORTING NOTIONS 26
Advertising 26
UNCABLED ADDITIONS HUES DBMS U.S. DEFENCE 28 , 29
Advertising 28
Indonesia 29
Welfare State 29
Geneva 29
Advertising 29
THE OTHER FELLOW'S MIND 30 , 31
THE MAN ON THE LAND "DON'T WORRY. I'M SENDING IT TO GRAZCOS." 32 , 33
Advertising 32
GET IN EARLY 32
Advertising 32
THE WEATHER 33
Advertising 33
The MAN AT THE TOP 34
“THE BULLETIN” CROSSWORD No. 275 34
Advertising 35
M.V. AGRICULTURAL NEWS 36
STEEL BY PRESCRIPTION FOR INDUSTRY... 36
AUSTRALIA KEEPS IN LINE WITH OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENTS 36
Higher Quality and Lower Costs... 36
Here Are Some Of The Range Of Moffat-Virtue Products...All Famous For Dependability 36
Advertising 36

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The Bulletin  

ISSUES IN THE PETROV CASE  

“The Bulletin,” Vol. 75—No. 3872  

Wednesday, April 28, 1954  

Price 9d.  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for transmission by Post as Newspaper  

Seppelts  

ANCIENT EGYPT  

IN MODERN LONDON,  

THE DURABLE “NEEDLE”  

THE oldest monument in Britain rises majes-  

tically from the water’s edge on the  

Thames Embankment near Waterloo Bridge in  

London. Its name is Cleopatra’s Needle and  

it has been in 'existence for over three thousand  

years. This great Egyptian obelisk was one  

of two erected about the year 1475 b.c. by  

Thothmes III, many centuries before Cleopatra’s  

time. It then stood with its companion in front  

of the Temple of the Sun in the city of On,  

mentioned in the Bible where Moses was found  

in the bulrushes; the city which was later  

renamed Heliopolis.  

When the seat of Government was moved to  

Alexandria, the two obelisks were taken there  

by Augustus and set up outside Cleopatra  

Palace. This removal took place at the begin-  

ning of the Roman dynasty, and nearly eight  

years after the death of Cleopatra. The  

Egyptians probably wished to perpetuate her  

memory as each column, capped with gold, was  

known even at that time as Cleopatra’s Needle.  

To-day the age-blackened granite bears the  

marks of the desert sandstorms but the hun-  

dreds of hieroglyphics on its four sides can  

still be seen. The middle of the shaft bears  

carved inscription by Thothmes III, and two  

centuries later Rameses II added inscriptions ot  

his own on either side of the existing ones,  

glorifying his own reign and it is here that the  

phrase ‘King of Kings’ is believed to be used  

for the first time.  

In 1819 Cleopatra's Needle was presented to  

Britain by Mehemet Ali, Viceroy of Egypt, but  

it did not arrive in London until sixty years  

later. The expensive task of its removal was  

major engineering problem as the monument  

weighs 166 tons and is 70 feet in height.  

special casing to form sea-going craft was  

built in London and re-assembled on the shores  

of the Mediterranean. While the cylinder con-  

taining the obelisk was being towed to Britain  

it met storm in the Bay of Biscay and the  

captain of the tug cast the unwieldy craft adrift.  

Later it was found and taken in tow again but  

only after six seamen had lost their lives.  

Cleopatra’s Needle finally arrived in the  

Thames in January, 1878, and was erected on  

its pedestal in its present location. Under its  

foundation are preserved Bible, railway  

guide, newspaper and some British coins of  

the period. The monument bears the scars of  

the First World War when an enemy bomb  

fell nearby.  

The companion obelisk now stands in Central  

Park, New York.  

THE HOUSE  

dfs  

OF SEPPELT  

EXTRA DRY SOLERO • ROYAL PURPLE PARA  

CHATEAU TANUNDA BRANDY • GREAT WESTERN CHAMPAGN  

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