Churchill New Wheat Port in Canada Scheme Faces Payback Doubt
British observers warn the Hudson Bay port scheme may not recoup the 10 million spent on the railway and facilities. In the just ended season Churchill handled 4 000 040 bushels of grain and other goods, with labour shortages and insurance costs cited as key obstacles to profitability.
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Hudson's Bay
Great Britain
Churchill
Hudson's Day
Britain
St. Lawrence
Atlantic
Hieber
Hudson's Isny R
Dunminion
Ghupera
British United Press
Ex Nun's Prison Wedding Sparks Catholic Circles
Enorita Concepcion Acevedo y de la Liaz, former Mother Superior aged 43, wed Carlos Castro in a prison colony at the Islands of the Thieves Marys known as Devil's Island where both serve twenty years for complicity in the 1928 assassination of Mexico’s President-elect Obregon. The couple's marriage was announced officially and stirred Catholic circles amid the anti religious policy backdrop.
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Enorita Concepcion Acevedo Y de la Liaz
Carlos Castro
Contlict
Thies Marys
Pacific
Mexico
Devil's Island
General Obregon
Obragon
Massive hid den creek mine blast planned near Anyox
Preparations underway at Hidden Creek mine on the British Columbia coast for a huge blast using 100 tons of dynamite. Explosives laid at depths up to 800 feet will be wired for a single electric-initiated blast two miles from a station, forcing about 1000 residents to relocate temporarily as old workings are cleared and new operations opened.
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Hidden Creek
Anyox
Empire Forestry Conference Holds Plans for 1988 South Africa Meet
At the British Empire Forestry Conference in Australia and New Zealand during 1935 we plan a fourth conference in South Africa in 1988. Owing to low mood the meeting is postponed to October 1835 with focus on forest products and extensive research in Canada India South Africa New Zealand and Australia. K TH Bons will represent Australia and Mr Bow will coordinate contacts with forest products managers globally.
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Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Forrar
King
Canada
India
K. TH. Bons
Division of
Forest Products
Ceeee
MD Sbread
Bows
Wielt
Europe
English air mail arrives at Cootamundra port
The third English air mail arrival is reported for this afternoon at Cootamundra and will be dispatched to Sydney tonight.
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Cootamundra
Sydney
Guy Fawthrop Heads Prize Giving At Somerleyton College
Guy Fawthrop visits Somerleyton Ladies' College for the speech day and faces a tense scene as Miss Fawthrop pressures him to hand out prizes. His awkward remarks on brains and beauty provoke mixed reactions from students and parents as he contemplates returning to London afterward. A late arrival, a red-dressed girl, interrupts the scene.
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Guy Miles Fawthrop
Somerleyton Ladies’ College
Guy
Tim
Miss Fawthrop
Agatha
Providence
Bisbop
Trensham
Mien Fawthrop
Agin
Paul
Guy Fawthrop
Milas Fawthrop
Mins Mauleverer
Fawthrop
West End
Quail
Lonsila
Aunt Agatha
Jake
Nobway
Guy Weir O
Mian Mauleverer-Charteris
London
Scott
Somerserton Ladies
Trenaham
Newnham
Rooker
Nincompoops
Misa Fawthrop
Lala
Bugs
Lola
Xangfrold
Miss Marsden
Loule
Talkies
Duke Opens Sidmouth Connaught Gardens With Dedication
The Duke of Connaught opened Connaught Gardens in Sidmouth Devon after the town council purchased the estate to protect the cliff and foreshore. Works included repairing the elm bluff with rope descents and building a new sea-wall while the grounds were laid out. The Duke praised the site and hoped it would draw visitors and that he would visit often.
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Duke of
Sidmouth
Publication by Federal Capital Press in Canberra
Notice states Christopher Jon Shakespeare prints for the Federal Capital Press of Australis Ltd at Mort Grrest Braddon Canberra offices. It identifies the publisher’s imprint and location in Canberra Australia.
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Christopher Jon Shakespeare
Federal Capital Press of Australis, Ltd
Mort Grrest Braddon
Canberra
Irish Free State Faces Record Trade Deficit and Plunge in Exports
Latest trade returns show an adverse balance of £19,340,000 for the year ending last September, the highest in the state's history. Exports halved from £37,499,000 to £18,738,000 while imports fell to £38,431,000, with the farming sector hit hard as fat cattle value drops by over £1,000,000 and shipments fall from 136,000 to 7,000 head.
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Department For Industry and Commerce
de Valera
Great Britain
Dog-Proof Fences Prove Valuable Across Remote Frontiers
Western Lands Board inspectors traversed 2200 miles to review dog-proof fencing along New South Wales Queensland and South Australia borders. The 1028 examination found the barrier largely in excellent order serving to keep dingoes from invading sheep country despite open terrain and sandhills. The commission emphasized maintaining both New South Wales and Queensland fences to prevent dingo breeding grounds from reaching settled areas.
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New South Wales
Queensland
South Australia
Western Lands Board
Quesnaland
Creosoted Timber Used In Bunard Pier Rebuild
About 800000 board feet of creosoted timber were specified for Bunard Steamship Company in New York Harbour to rebuild a pier after a May fire. Of 2600 piles, 900 were replaced with new southern pera piles 75 to 4 feet long. Creosoting covered substructure and all timber for columns caps grillage planking and related components. Early studies in Australia assess marine borer resistance with treated piles at Brisbane River and Moreton Bay testing stations.
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Bunard Steamship Company
New York Harbour
Australia
Queensland Forest Service
Bribane River
Moreton Bay
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New Wheat Port
Empire Forestry Conference
Misa Mauleverer-Charteris
Pyjama Party
Phyllis Hambledon
Irish Free State
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