Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best news in two years came to Australian citizens last week. Thanks to a balanced budget and drastic economy, the Treasury reported a surplus of £2,750,000 for the first four months of the current fiscal year. Promptly the Cabinet moved to reduce federal taxation by £1,600,000, including a one-third cut in the land tax, and a £500,000 reduction in the property tax. Set aside for Australian wheat farmers was £2,250.000 of which £1,250,000 will be spent to relieve actual distress, the rest to be a subsidy...
Married. Alec Waugh, 34, English author (That American Woman, Hot Countries, latest: Thirteen Such Years); and one Joan Chirnside, Australian; in London...
...Warner, assistant professor of Social Anthropology, will give a talk on "Living in the Land of the Black Stone Age", an account of Australian, at 7 o'clock tonight in the Junior common room of Kirkland House. Professor Warner's talk will be illustrated by lantern slides...
...blackboard, hygienic methods of ventilation-these school details and many another have been well thought out. But punishment is still crude, unscientific, oldfashioned. You cane one child, thwack another, smack a third. Why should chastisement not be up-to-date, simple, exact? So ran the musings of a smart Australian pedagog. Last week the startled Ministry of Education in Sydney received, and began to ponder, a strange result of his thoughts: a contraption of many wheels, dials, weights, levers, by which a cane is caused to swish down, with precisely regulated force and direction, upon childish fundaments...
Argentina will lose through British preference to Australian meat. Russia may not like the dumping clause, but it was freely whispered at the conference that Russian objections had been silenced by a promise of a sizeable British loan...