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[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] A LUCKY INCIDENT. SYDNEY. April 5. It transpires that when the Duke ot York was in Sydney attending a returned soldiers’ luncheon in Wentworth Hotel', opposite which Dr Lang’s old Soots Church was being dismantled, that workmen had undermined the tower in preparation for dropping it, and were waiting till the crowd should get away. A few minutes after the Duke left, and the crowd dispersed, the tower suddenly and unexpectedly settled down and a quantity of debris crashed through a fence where numbers of people had been standing. Some of the debris lodged close to where the Duke’s car had been parked. BEAM WIRELESS. SYDNEY. April 0. The beam wireless service between Britain and Australia opens for commercial business on Friday. '1 lie price for call rate traffic will he Is 8d per word,
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1927, Page 3
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141AUSTRALIAN MEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1927, Page 3
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