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As part of the General Imperial scheme of defence. Southern Rhodesia is reorganising her volunteers and training them for special- colonial service in the event of an emergency. This is in addition to the compulsory territorial training. o * # » Welcome general rain commenced to fall yesterday in New-South Wales, and has now extended to the coast, which in parts is being deluged. Dairying districts particularly are benefiting ,and the parched pastoral and wheat country west, north and south of the state are reported to be having the best rain for many months.
The finances of the Commonwealth and State Governments for the first six months of the current financial year, show a drift of £4,543,000. This as due to lower export prices, heavier expenditure on defence, increases in wages, the coal strike and loss of revenue arising from prolonged drought. * « * *
Seven railway men were killed and three injured, when two engines collided at Dinaport, Bengal, says an Independent Cable Service message from Calcutta. a
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Northern Advocate, 27 January 1939, Page 5
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