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RABAUL NEWS. (Australian Press Association) ‘(United Service.) SYDNEY, Jan. 21. A Rabaui message stutes a public meeting unanimously carried the resolution that the citizens of Rabaui no longer had confidence in the administration, and that a petition, asking for the removal of Administrator Wisdom, be forwarded to the Prime Minister, Mr Bruce. TELEGRAPHING PICTURES. MELBOURNE, Jan. 21. The Postal Department accepted the tender for the introduction of a service of telgraphic transmission of pictures between Melbourne and Sydney. The service will commence in April or May. The charge will be about £2 per picture. The speed of transmission will be four minutes. The system may be used in criminal detection. The photograph of a wanted person and finger prints could be sent from one city to another in a few minutes. SLASHED WITH R AZOR, GHASTLY SYDNEY CRIME. SYDNEY, Jan. 20. James Blair, aged 60, a ship’s carpenter, was murdered with a razor during a drunken quarrel in a city lodging house last night. Malcolm McKinnon has been arrested and charged with muruer. Blair’s face and neck were dreadfully slashed, one side of the face being gashed from the temple to the neck, with a second cut right across the face from cheek to cheek; while the jugular vein was severed by a cut extending to the left breast. Blair lived only a few minutes. ARNE BORG. BREAKS WORLD’S RECORD. SYDNEY, Jan. 20. Arne Borg yesterday Broke the world’s record for swimming half a mile, (formerly held by Charlton) by five seconds. The achievement stamped him as one of the greatest swimming wonders of the age. His time was ten minutes 27 seconds. His nearest opponent was Noel Ryan, a promising youth, who flushed forty-five yards behind Borg
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1929, Page 5
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