Coronation films to screen in Canberra theatres weekend
Official Coronation films shown across Canberra venues with public and private screenings. Governors General Lad Gowrie and Sir Geoffrey Whiskard the British High Commissioner attend the private Saturday morning screening alongside Sir Winston Dugan Lady Dugan and other officials. The Abbey ceremony reel arrives Saturday via London preview hold up. Private viewing includes Lord and Lady Gillie and Commonwealth staff.
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Canberra
Lad Gowrie
Theritish High
Sir Geoffrey Whiskard
London
Australie
Westminter Abbey
M-G-Miment British Diatributors Ltd
Lord
Tandy Gille
South Australia
Winston Dugan
Dugan
Geoffrey Whiskard
Whiskard
M. Whiskard
Commonwealth Departmente
Royal Military College
Brigadier Miles
Miles
Defence
Thorby
Gallipoli Landing Relic Boats To Be Placed In Canberra
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps relics from Gallipoli include two surf boats now in Canberra and a steel pontoon telling the 1915 beach landing story. The Devanah transport boat carried by soldiers saw holes plugged with cartridges, preserving a vivid wartime scene for display at the Australian War Memorial.
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Canberra
War Memorial
Devanah
Feae
Alt Rel
Ibn
Angay Cove
Austrasia
New Broadcaster Well Received by Listeners Worldwide
Within two months of WESME Perth short wave station opening Amalgamated Wireless reports overseas and Att Aratlan listeners praise reception. A Bermuda stoner notes clear signals through the house with fading. Michigan and New York correspondents report good modulation and clear programming. A Colman Nova Scotia listener says signals are strong despite distance. Most correspondents hail from New Zealand and the United States.
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USA
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New York
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Wee God
Noted lecturers to visit Canberra for Methodist talks
Weekend program in Canberra features Rev J W Burton Commonwealth Secretary for Methodist Overseas Missions and Rev T T Webb Superintendent of Methodist Missions to Aboriginal Australians. Webb speaks on Mysterious Arnhem Land and Burton on India at the Crossroads with public invited for a small offering. Lectures at Central Hall Forrest and Reid Church Monday topics include Peoples of the North with musical numbers by I Lavelen and Br Fallon.
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Methodist Overseas Missions
T. T Webb
Canberra
Forrest
Cen S Item
Burton
India
Auutealis
Messy
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Br. Fallon
Webb
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North
Mixsiua
Central
Reid
False statement leads to months in prison in Sydney
In Sydney at the Quarter Sessions Leslie McCarthy a 29 year old labourer was sentenced to months imprisonment for making a false statement on oath after being acquitted of larceny. Judge Thomson said he believed McCarthy deliberately tried to mislead the magistrate to secure a favorable outcome.
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Sydney
Leslie McCarthy
Thomson
Carthy Bail
Picturegrams and television differ in transmitting images
The article explains Beam IWireless Picturegram use for Australia and England, detailing a rotating cylinder transmitter, photo electric sensing, and 20 minute build of a print. It contrasts this with television which transmits moving images at 24 frames per second. Since 1934 picturegrams link overseas presses. wartime images arrived in Australia earlier than in Britain, due to time differences.
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Australia
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Rockbank
Victoria
Melbourne
Amalgamated Wireless
Abyssinia
Great Britain
Italy
Bank Criticism Of Relief Work In Australia Meeting
Melbourne reports a national bank leader criticizes ongoing relief efforts and borrowing at the annual bank meeting. Sir James Elder warns against optimism amid persistent government expenditure and a labor shortage for skilled workers. He cautions that high commodity prices may not persist.
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Melbourne
Writenday
National Bank of Australanta
Sir James Elder
Inquiry into the Miami collier stranding resumes in Sydney
The inquiry into the Miami collision was resumed today. The evidence questioned Captain Callum’s charge of failure to navigate the vessel, but the challenge was not sustained. The court plans to report on general issues for the minister.
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Miami
Tal
Callum
Vital Link with Defence Diet Message at Managers’ Conference
Professor Hervey Button urged better national diet at the Dairy Factories' Managers' Conference. He cited 2,225,000 Australian males aged 18 to 45 under current standards and warned only two thirds of a million could be drafted if diet improves could lift the figure to a million. Hockey umpiring talk planned for Country Week in June at the YWCA. The Canberra team will be named this evening.
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Sydney
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