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Newspaper

Warwick Daily News

Location

Warwick, Queensland, Australia

Date

Dec 06, 1940

Page

3

Speech Night at Warwick High School Honors Staff and Students

Warwick High School held a speech night with Mr G P Barnes presiding. Mr Fletcher of the Department of Public Instruction praised the school tone, staff loyalty, and student achievement, noting 70 staff and ex-students enlisted in WWI and 79 in the current conflict. He lauded the Past Students Association, the janitor Mr Stanley, and the school’s co operation with parents, RAAF, Red Cross, scouts, cadets, and War Savings. Certificates, prizes, and a volume of Australian verse were distributed amid music and a display by the school choir and a physical culture group.

Barnes Pletcher Department of Public Instruction Queensland Hamilton Warwick Daily News Edwards Fletcher Charters Towers Rockhampton A. W. Padden Maryvale Killarney Greymare Allora Alf. Stanley Warwick High School MR. Fletcher Mr. Pletcher Healy Warwick McKenna Sirs &Eo Red Cross RAAF War Savings Group The Condominian Cracker Sandy Ginge Stanley Pietcher Hannah Thomas Thomas Australia Leadbitter W. A. Webber England Missy Maida Portell Porter Gordon Aleck Edger Blau Gordon Dalrymple Leonard Lomos Edmond Seton Dove Clark Selma Wilking T.T.C3.); Charlsena Wilen Teachers' Training College John Andersen Leslie Batten John Brooks Jack Brown Noel Brunckhorst Keith Campbell Dudley Cross Edwin Pleming William Wavnythorne Alan Luck Charles McGuire C.C Robert Wallace David Washbourne Ronald White Muriel Bennet Dorothy Cochrane Beatrice Evans Helen Jarrett Ena Kelly Jean McDougall Elaine McGhan Natalie Morgan Theodora Morton Joyce Morton Enid Peters Marjory Rea Betty Steel Emma Toohey Beryl Thorne C. C Veronica Thompkin Anne Watkins Kathleen Watkins Nellie White June Wolff Fiona Young Joan Moriarty Glen Sawyer Past Students' Association Arthur White William Hawthorne Thea. Morton Frank Andersen Joan Collins IIIA Edna Mauch Lorna Lee L. Olsen Willam Hawthorne Joan Colling ITIA Keith Resson Prines M. G. Thomson

Miscellaneous Quiz Questions From a Classic Literature Round

A set of trivia items asks for follow up lines to Shakespeare style couplets, dates of British pension acts, shared traits among Burns Byron Flecker Brooke and Chatterton, Lenin death years, weathering wind idioms, topics of miles scale articles, Arnst and Webb connections, author of The Deemster, movement by Whitefield and Wesley, connections to Auteuil, Milton’s Lycidas couplet start, cinchona origin remedy, British king birth year clues, two flags signaling method, pairing authors with their works, Lead Kindly Light author, legal protocol meaning, and Quid pro quo definition.

Great Britain Burns Byron Flecker Rupert Brooke Chatterton Nikolai Lenin Arnst Webb George Whitefield John Wesley Auteuil Milton England Robert Louis Stevenson Erich Remarque Wilkie Collins Louisa Alcott Jules Verne

Britain Considers Large China Credit After US Loan

Hong Kong reports Britain weighing a 6,000,000 pound credit to China after Washington lent 10,000,000 dollars. Earlier Britain granted a 3,000,000 pound loan to China and talks of a massive loan from Britain and Russia proceed smoothly amid Chinese dispatches and negotiations.

Hong Kong America China Chines Dispatches Britain Russia

Sinking of the Colleoni by Sydney and destroyers

Exclusive dispatch details the July 14 engagement near Antikithera Channel where the British destroyers under Commander Nicholson and the Sydney engaged Italian cruisers Colleoni and Giovanni delle Bande Nerie. Despite heavier Italian guns, Sydney and Hayock pressed the chase, destroyed the Colleoni with torpedoes after heavy gunfire, while Giovanni escaped. Havock rescued crewmen as Colleoni sank. one Italian cruiser escaped, another was sunk earlier. Berlin radio reports a Spanish Ebro valley forced landing of a British bomber crew.

London Sydney Bartolomeo Colleani Prem Fotilila Commando HH S. Nicholson Hyperion Colleoni Giovanni Delle Bande Antikithera Channel Sidney Nicholson Hayock Havock Colleon Giovanni Flex Savalas Berlin Ebro Spain

Medical advance shown for infantile paralysis impacts growth

A Cleveland doctor, Davie Simingler, demonstrates to the Radiological Society an X-ray technique to monitor growth in the unaffected leg. The method could reduce crippling after-effects by allowing the crippled leg to catch up, focusing on the knee joint while broader use awaits long term studies.

New York Cleveland U.S.A Davie Simingler Radiological Society

Baron Hiranuma to join Japanese cabinet as minister without portfolio

Baron Hiranuma will be invested as minister without portfolio in the Japanese cabinet, the government announced. The move follows the cabinet’s dissolution on August 10 and is intended to strengthen the government’s position amid Soviet rapprochement.

Toric Saron Kilding Hiranuma Japanese Coult Cuy Baron Hiranima

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G. P. Barnes J. J. Healy Ald J. Allman R. ©. Hamilton W. K. Hyslop and Sons F.C. Thea Morton Joyce Kirk-Lauritsen C. E. McDougall Enid Mann Alleen Culhane Alan Plitcroft Paul Hutton Roy Fanton Robert Peel Barbara Morton Keith Carlile Marjorie Eastwell ITA Margaret Gilmour ITB Lyndall Hughes Norman Kirkegaard Warwick Rowley Derek Self ILA Patricia Harkiss Bery Leslie House Australia House Fred Laws Barnes House Kennel Club Warwick Kennel Club Bova Arnce Nikles Erle Fisher Nora White D. Cochrane Ron White Daphne Porter Keith Reason Colleani SABA Potter & Moores Cologne Saba's Glonis S . Tl Brisbane Crematorium Ltd Common Sales Bank Queen Streat Bria Baron Hiranuma
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