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The lighting system at the Alberta Province legislative buildings, said a message from Edmonton (Canada), was crippled by a saboteur throwing sand into the generators and smashing armatures with a sledge hammer. Entrance to the power-house was gained at midnight by a false key, during the watchman’s lunch hour. * * * » General Franco’s 'planes bombed the British ship Bellwyn in Gandia harbour. The ship carried a cargo of coaf. * * * * Egypt is spending a further £1,000,000 on its Air Force. * <6 » <t The Morts Dock and Engineering Co., Ltd., (Sydney) has announced a dividend for the year of five per cent and a special bonus of li per cent. Sargents, Ltd., caterers (Sydney), are paying a higher final dividend of 51 per cent, which, with the 4 per cent interim dividend, makes 9i per cent for the year, * * * * The King yesterday received Sir Harry Luke, whose appointment as Governor of Fiji was announced on June 26. He succeeds Sir Arthur Richards, who has been transferred to Jamaica.
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Northern Advocate, 29 July 1938, Page 6
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