Move to register and license motor vehicles in New South Wales
Deputy Premier Colonel Bruxner outlined a bill to record ownership of motor vehicles and to prohibit transfers without proper ownership. The plan includes licensing dealers of used and reconstructed cars and safeguards against fraudulent sales. He noted about 2000 vehicles are stolen yearly and urged swift study of the measure.
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Colonel Bruxner
South Wales
Bruxner
Ingaol
England's Leopard Skin Bathing Suit Opens Fashion Row
In imitation of leopard skin, a woolen bathing suit is described as comfortable and quick-drying. A separate note mentions staying out late in Senta Yugoslavia as a fine of 1 unit, seen as a municipal fund raising scheme.
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England
Senta
Yugoslavia
Every Woman Cosmetics Range Promises Clear Skin
A local beauty shop touts modern cosmetics as the path to a clear supple skin and a youthful complexion. It offers full ranges of powder rouge and lipstick and pledges expert help to choose shades that suit individual colouring.
Possible dairy shifts aim to cut butter surplus
State debates dairy expansion to reduce butter exports as Queensland dairy grows and powdered milk plants emerge. Interest also turns to concentrated and condensed milk, pasteurized bottled milk, and boosting liquid milk consumption to lessen butter output and boost farm income, with Sydney demand rising.
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Agricultural Gazette
Australia
Queensland
New South Wales
South Coast
Sydneys
Cows and council and a terrier's farewell
A clipped note mocks Liverpool Council with Ald Wilson calling aldermen cows a chorus of bovine phrases. The strangest Wellington funeral paid tribute to Paddy the Wanderer Irish terrier of the docks. Tax drivers and waterside workers carried his coffin to the incinerator, inscription reading Paddy The Wanderer.
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Pastora
Ald
Wilson
Liverpool Council
Wellington
Paddy the Wanderer
Paddy
Hest
North of England fisherwoman earns gold for hospital fund
A North of England fishwife received a Duke of Kent gold medal for raising £300 for hospitals over six years. Real orchids dyed to match costumes are used to create tiny hats for Parisians, lasting only two days and costing at least £3 each.
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North of England
Duke of Kent
Her Jungle Love at Star and Majestic in Technicolor
A romance of a handsome aviator and a native girl unfolds on a lush South Sea island in the Paramount Technicolor feature Her Jungle Love starring Ray Milland and Dorothy Lamour. They are supported by Lynee Overman, with Chester Morris Frances Mercer and Bruce Cabot in the accompanying film Smashing the Rackets.
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Paramount Technicolor
Ray Milland
Dorothy Lamour
Hollywood
Milland
Miss Lamour
Lynee Overman
South Sea Island
Chester Morns
Frances Mercer
Bruce Cabot
Spring Carnival Series Chevrolet Sedan Debuts
Interest rises over the Spring Carnival Series of the 1939 Chevrolet featuring new cosmics interior styling and luxury trims. Designers emphasize beauty, modernity, and comfort with contrasting louvers, drum rims, wood grain instrument panels, and piping. Local dealer Matthewson and Co. represents General Motors brands including Buick Chevrolet Vauxhall Pontiac Oldsmobile LaSalle and Cadillac, plus Bedford and Chevrolet trucks.
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Chevrolet
Messrs. Matthewson and Co
General Motors
Buick
Chevr
Consistency Cup B Grade Quarterfinal Results
The B Grade quarter finals on Saturday include Rockhurst beating Presbyterian 6 sets to 4 with 32 games to 49, Factory overcoming Bulliae 7 sets to 2 with 49 to 39, Upper Barrington prevailing over Ward's River 7 sets to 2 with 61 to 36, and Gangat defeating Church of England by one game.
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Rockhurst
Presbyterian
Factory
Bulliae
Upper Barrington
Ward's River
Gangat
Church of England
Ward's River L
Stratford Fresbyterian
PARK
Copeland
Bulliac Barrington
Stratford
Ward's River I
Bowling Visit to Newcastle Abandoned for Weekend
Due to several cut cases the proposed bowling visits to Newcastle for the week end have been abandoned. On Saturday bowlers under 50 will play those over 50. The olds fellows hope to clip the youngsters tackles and smother their frequent careless laughs. All players requested to be on hand at 2 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle
Gloucester Pastures Board Secretary Absent Again
Mr M Newton secretary of the Gloucester Pastures Protection Board is unable to attend the quarterly meeting today. His many friends wish him a speedy recovery. The skull of Haydn the composer exhibited in a Vierma museum will be moved to Eisenstadt Austria and placed in a new marble tomb in the parish church.
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M. Newton
Gloucester
Haydn
Vierma
Eisenstadt
Austria
Gloucester district sports meeting and school notes
The Gloucester district schools sports meeting will be held Friday 22 September with over twenty schools expected to participate and student representatives chosen from event winners. An ex pupil has joined the Navy, progression to Air Force requires an Intermediate pass including science and math. Transport arrangements for superprimary pupils from Ward's River to Gloucester are being arranged. The local librarian Miss Tenny is cataloguing books at Gloucester. Entries close soon for the 1989 Intermediate with about ten candidates expected.
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Ual
Gloucester
Navy
Ure
Air Force
Ward's River
Gloucester District Rural School
Tenny
Taree
Extension for Income Tax Returns to August 9
The Taxation Commissioner announced a one time extension for lodging income tax returns for the year ended June 30, 1939. Returns from salary wages rent and dividends will be treated as in time if received by the Department of Taxation by August 9 at the Savings Bank Building 14 Castlereagh Street. Returns from business trade or profession and for companies remain due by August 31.
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Mit
E. J. McMahon
Department of Taxation, Savings Bank
Castlereagh Street
Australia commemorates first pedal bicycle plaque
The hundredth anniversary of the first pedal propelled bicycle is marked by September unveiling of a plaque on Kirkpatrick Macmillan's smithy in Courthill Dumfriesshire. Britain exported 576,458 bicycles last year, 156,166 abroad, total value £486,206.
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Australia
Kirkpatrick Macmillan
Glasgow
John Bright
Great Britain
World's Highest Railway locomotive passes tests near La Paz
A British engineered diesel locomotive built for the Peruvian Corporation has completed tests on the world’s highest railway line near La Paz Bolivia. The engine climbs six miles at 1 in 14 with sharp S curves to 16,000 feet above sea level, proving fuel efficient and capable at extreme altitude.
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la Paz
Bolivia
Leeds
Yorkshire
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Chapman
W. Bates
Grahame
Denison ST
L. FE. Monro
Market St, Gloucester
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Dungog
Northern Motors
Chrysler
Plymouth
Morris
Fargo
Star and Majestic
Ber
Price
Beret
Enos
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