Too Hot for Don.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1938, Page 6

Too Hot for Don.

Before the Australian cricket team left England Don Bradman received the following cable from Marble Bar: ‘Challenge you match to finish for case beer per man. Call in if convenient on way home.” Marble Bar (West Australia) is the hottest town in Australia; a hill near it is called Mount Blaze, the sun beating down on it making it look as if it were always on fire. The challenge was not accepted.

Newsprint Output. “These stories about a single issue of a newspaper Wiping out a few acres of forest are rubbish,” said Mr D. Stenstrom, a representative of the Canadian newsprint industry, who arrived at Auckland by the Aorangi tecently. Mr Stenstrom said that Australia and New Zealand were the largest users of newsprint per capita in the world. The annual consumption in New Zealand was 25,000 tons and in Australia 150,000 tons. With a consumption approaching 1,500,000 tons, England was a very large consumer, while America, which used 4,000,000 tons of newsprint per annum, used half the world’s output. Canada’s consumption was the same as Australia’s..