MR BRUCE’S PLEA
CO-OPERATION OF DEMOCRACIES AUSTRALIA’S IMPORTANT PART I U.P.A.—By FJectric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, 23rd January. The Australian High Commissioner in London, Mr S. M. Bruce, and the Premier of Ontario, Mr Mitchell Hepburn, re-
ceived a cordial welcome from a large gathering of representative citizens at the wharf to-day. in an interview Mr Bruce said that if peace was to be maintained and the ideals for which the democracies stood were to endure, then the democracies would have to co-operate. Australia thus had an important part to play. He was quite sure that the people would rise to whatever heights circumstances demanded in the future. Mr Bruce said that 1 1 is most important immediate engagement would be with t h/ » Australian Defence Council in Melbourne on Wednesday.
SCRUB FIRE THREATENS STATE FOREST (United Press Association! WHANGAREI, 23rd January. Fire threatened the Puketi State forest, adjoining Mangarnuku, yesterday. An outbreak in scrub and gorse, fanned by a high wind, swept toward the edge of the bush, but forestiy officers and others prevented the fire spreading. Five bun. dred acres of gorse and scruTi were burnt.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 January 1939, Page 3
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