When Miss Beryl Mills, the Western Australian beauty who won the title 'Miss Australia' a few months ago and was given as a prize a trip to America, arrived on the Sonoma at San Francisco she was greeted by Miss Fay Lanphier ('Miss America') and Miss Eleanor Twohig ('Miss San Francisco') . In the picture Miss Mills is in the centre, with Miss Lanphier on the left and Miss Twohig on the right.

(From The Mail (Adelaide) October 16th 1926)

Five hundred, strikers rushing down the hillsides suddenly attacked the police guarding the Glyncymmer 'Colliery. They were armed with sticks and other weapons. Eleven police 'were injured before they made baton charges and repelled the attack.

With the approach of the police reinforcements strikers retreated up the mountain and rolled down boulders, injuring four police.

The riot lasted about an hour.

Doctors and ambulances hastened to the scene from many villages. Altogether 47 people, including 12 police and three women, were seriously injured.

The Glyncymmer strikers attacked eight miners working under the protection of 20 police. They smashed the office windows, but 130 police reinforcements were rushed up in motor coaches and repelled them.

(From The Mail (Adelaide), October 16th 1926)

... It was reported to-day that while at Canberra the delegates had whatever liquor they wanted, although the territory was supposed to be "dry." Some expressed surprise when they were told that 70,000 empty bottles had recently been removed from the "dry" area, being the consumption of liquor there during a short period.

(From The Age (Melbourne), October 15th, 1926)

On the 14th of October, 1926, the RMMS Aorangi arrived in Vancouver at the conclusion of the return leg of her eleventh voyage for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. Though the ship arrived almost a full day ahead of schedule, she carried just 189 passengers and 527 tons of cargo, her lowest numbers up to that point.

This picture was published in The Provence on the 17th of October, 1926, and was likely taken during the ship's turnaround in the city prior to the start of her twelfth voyage on the 21st of October.