{No abstract available}
Advertising : 30 words{No abstract available}
Family Notices : 70 wordsCertain private transport firms were purchasing petrol from the major oil companies at lower prices than those quoted by the same companies for the defence of Australia, declared the Minister for Supply (Sir Frederick Stewart) yesterday. ...
Article : 581 wordsDespite restricted use of private motor cars estimated in some large centres at as much as 15 per cent., sthe value of imported petiol rose by ...
Article : 233 wordsA meeting of the Loan Council will be held at Canberra on May 27, to arrange Commonwealth and State works allocations for 1940-41. ...
Article : 157 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 41 wordsMostly fine, later becoming cloudy and unsettled with variable winds. ASTRONOMICAL DATA Wednesday, May 8.—Sun rises 6.46 a.m, sets 5.14 p.m.; Moon rises ...
Article : 68 wordsThe large and rapid expansion of the Royal Air Force has necessitated the reorganisation of training arrangements, which wvill now be ...
Article : 235 wordsThe United States Minister to Australia (Mr. Gauss) will occupy a site within the Consular area, near the Prime Minister's Lodge. ...
Article : 91 wordsREVELATlONS by the Minister for Supply concerning the inability of the Commonwealth Government to secure oil supplies from the major oil companies at prices comparable either with those enjoyed by other interests in Australia or those ...
Article : 382 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that, esc exports to the United States in despite the moral embargo, ...
Article : 67 wordsSorely needed impetus has been given to the German propaganda machine, which has had to draw heavily on its imaginative resources to ...
Article : 866 wordsAs Commonwealth taxation has increased for war purposes, the State Government should try to evacuate the field of taxation, said ...
Article : 61 wordsBrigadier-General George V. Strong, the army's chief strategist, in a speech on the European war, declared that the United States must ...
Article : 240 wordsUnder a heading, in the recruiting pamphlet issued by the Department of Air to-day appealing for recruits for the Empire Air Scheme, appears ...
Article : 72 wordsA battle between detectives and six men, supposed to be members of the Irish Republican Army, armed with ...
Article : 122 words"Half of our productive machinery works only one shift a day, for lack of skilled hands. This is not a one-shift or two-shift war, it is a ...
Article : 233 wordsNEW YORK, Monday.—The Berlin correspondent of the "New York Ties," Mr. Otto D. Tolischus, has been awarded the 500 dollar Pulitzer prize ...
Article : 285 wordsThe death occurred at Canberra Hospital early yesterday morning of Kathleen May Burns, wife of Mr. C. A. Burns, of Fawkner Street, ...
Article : 114 wordsThe dentil occurred at his, home at Artarmon to-day of Mr. John D. Ross, who was Under-Secretary to the Department of Agriculture, from ...
Article : 59 wordsThe opinion of the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. Book) that there is no evidence to enable a prosecution to be launched successfully was laid on ...
Article : 93 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 wordsThe sudden death of Mr. Blener Kershaw on Friday last, takes from the district one who was very highly respected. The late Mr. Kershaw was ...
Article : 143 wordsIncreuscd by £3,000 to-day, the Lord Mayor's Red Cross Fund has passed the £1,400,000 mark. The fund has received a gift of a ...
Article : 113 wordsIt is reliably stated that Germany lost 200 planes in the Norwegian campaign. Most, of these losses were caused by R.A.F. bombings of ...
Article : 73 wordsHer Excellency the Lady Gowrie, attended by Miss Ivie Price, left Canberra yesterday morning, en route to Melbourne. ...
Article : 66 wordsReplying to the German claim that two R.A.F. machines were shot down at Heligoland Bight, the Air Ministry says that one British plane had ...
Article : 47 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Wed 8 May 1940, Page 2
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: