The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 November 1947Vol. XVIII, No. 4

British Newspapers And

p. 97 · Read in the full issue

Periodicals Air Mailed

To Australia

NOT generally known is the fact that the United Kingdom Information Offices in Australia maintain refer ence libraries of newspapers, magazines, periodicals, white papers, and bulletins and reports on a myriad subjects by vari ous British Governmental authorities.

The Important fact is that they come by air mail and are thus available for reference in Australia within eight to twelve days of publication. For instance, the Sydney office (which is in Prudential Building, Martin Place) has on file copies of “The Daily Express,” “The Daily Graphic,” “The Daily Herald,” “The Daily Mail,” “The Daily Mirror,” “The Daily Telegraph,” “London Times,” “The

News Chronicle,” “Manchester Guardian” and “Glasgow Herald” up to about a week earlier, and the weekly newspapers “The Church Times,” “Manchester Guardian Weekly,” “Observer” and “Sunday Times” little over a week old.

An assortment of weekly and monthly magazines and periodicals is also avail able within a week or so of publication.

Among these are “Aeroolane,” “Autocar,”

“British Medical Journal,” “The Builder,”

“The Economist,” “Education,” “Every body’s,” “Flight,” “Illustrated London News,” “Kinematograph,” “The Listener,”

“London Calling,” “The Motor,” “The Motor Cycle,” “Nature,” “New Statesmen and Nation,” “Punch.” “Spectator,”

“Sphere,” “Time and t’ide,” “Times Edu cational and Tjterarv Supplements,”

“World’s Press News,” “Economic Record,”

“Journal of the Society of Arts,” “Aero nautics,” “Britannia and Eve,” etc.