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...Canberra, Australia, where he was giving joy-hops at $3, Wing-Commander Charles E. Kingsford-Smith learned that he had been knighted by George V. Currently earning his Jiving as a barnstormer, Sir Charles is believed to be in line for the post of Controller of Civil Aviatioa of Australia...
...Lyons worked up from State Treasurer (1914-16) to State Premier (1923-28), acquiring a reputation for honesty and a grasp of budget arithmetic. Three years ago he was merely a prominent island statesman, but in 1929 he graduated to a seat in the continent's Parliament at Canberra, sitting as a Laborite...
...these were the deductions which Professor Sir Colin Mackenzie suggested to the Australian Institute of Anatomy at Canberra last week. He is director of the Institute, used to be lecturer and examiner of anatomy at Melbourne University...
Nothing in the World is quicker than a British budget. In London, in Cape Town, in Canberra or in Ottawa all that the responsible minister has to do is to state that on item of revenue, tax or tariff is changed and it is changed. New revenue rates are automatically effective unless the budget is rejected by Parliament-which almost never happens. Therefore when Hon. Mr. Bennett rose to speak in Ottawa last week he held in his hand the fiscal fate of Canada. Bang-he upped letter postage between Canadian cities from 2? to 3?! Bang-up went...
...They are paying the foreigner first!" shouted Canberra M. P.'s last week. Dominion Prime Minister James Henry Scullin, more tactful, opined that "the impending default by New South Wales will undoubtedly have a detrimental effect on the good name of the Australian people and on their credit as a nation...