London, March 6.—Britain's worst winter for over fifty years is dying hard. A blizzard swept the country last night and the worst storms in living memory cut off villages and hamlets in a belt from the south of Wales to Bedfordshire. ...
Article : 127 wordsSydney, March 6.—Speaking in the Legislative Assembly today on the Forty-Hour Week, Mr. W. Drummond (CP) said the Government had received no assurance from the ACTU that production would be speeded up if the bill was introduced. ...
Article : 238 wordsSydney, March 6.—One hour stopwork meetings will be held at NSW hospitals next Wednesday unless the State Government holds a public inquiry into the dispute at the Tweed District Hospital Murwillumbah. The dispute involves ...
Article : 165 wordsWashington, March 6.—Britain has sent a note to the United States that she would co-operate with America if that country decided to assume primary responsibility in Greece, because of Britain's economic difficulties. The note also ...
Article : 174 wordsNew Yark, March 6.—The Secretory of State. Mr. Marshall on the eve of leaving for the Big Four conference at Moscow has sent a stiff note to ...
Article : 82 wordsCanberra, March 5.—Urging reassessment by Parliament of its financial position, the Australian Broadcasting Commission. In its annual report issued ...
Article : 238 wordsNew York, March 6.—Milk supplies for New York City are expected to drop to thirty per cent. of normal as the result of transport blockages caused ...
Article : 62 wordsLondon, March 6.—A woman was found dead in a car covered with eight feet of snow near Aberystwythx. ...
Article : 25 wordsLondon, March 6.—Announcing to the Home of Commons amid applause. Australia's and New Zealand's money gift for the reduction of the burden ...
Article : 91 wordsCanberra, March 6.—The Prime endorsed the ratification of the agree Minister. Mr. Chifley, today had an merit. This marks the end of the issue overwhelming victory on the Bretton' that had divided the Labor Party and Woods issue. By 33 votes to 24 the legislation to implement the decision ...
Article : 67 wordsLahore, March 6.—Seventeen persons were killed and 89 Injured during disturbances yesterday. Authorities called out British troops and imposed a ...
Article : 129 wordsMelbourne, March 6.—Four persons were believed killed when an Avro Anson plane crashed in New Guinea Last Saturday, announced the Civil ...
Article : 113 wordsCapetown, March 6.—The goods train following the Royal train and carrying the Royal party's heavy baggage left the rails on the way from Umtata to ...
Article : 93 wordsMelbourne, March 6.—The Federal Disputes Committee of the A.C.T.U. today rejected a proposal by the Ironworkers and Amalgamated ...
Article : 140 wordsSydney, March 6.—A man, his wife and their 12-years-old son were brutally bashed about their hearts by three gunmen who entered their home in ...
Article : 189 wordsRome, March 6.—After three great internal explosions which were heard many miles away two craters of Mount etna spouted lava which is flowing from ...
Article : 41 wordsMelbourne, March 5.—Although Attley and Shannon will not meet Sydney during the A.J.C. Autumn Meeting there is a possibility that they ...
Article : 144 wordsLondon, March 6.—The Colonial Secretary. Mr. Creech Jones briefly announced to the House of Commons that the Governor of the Gold Coast ...
Article : 85 wordsWashington, March 6.—After a conference with the British food master Mr. Strachey the secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Anderson said an ...
Article : 46 wordsMelbourne, March 5.—An account of the interrogation of one of the two Chinese charged with the murder of young Ships, 53, ship's bos'n on the ...
Article : 491 wordsBrisbane, March 6.—Medical evidence that it would have been completely impossible for Miss. Armstrong to have committed suicide by anaesthetising ...
Article : 251 wordsMelbourne, March 5.—Executive and Airlines Commission numbered 63, and administrative officer, of the National Hying crew officer 131. Senator ...
Article : 164 wordsWellington, March 6.—Major crime reached a record high in the United States in 1946. The average day produced thier were [?] ...
Article : 55 wordsNew Delhi, March 6.—Million, a town 150 miles west of Lahore, was reported to be on fire and troop are being flown there. It Is the first time troops have ...
Article : 108 wordsSydney, March 6.—The Minister for Conservation. Mr. Weir said in the Legislative Assembly today that it was indicated that capital expenditure on ...
Article : 78 wordsSir Alan Burns, Governor of the Gold Coast, is understood to have submitted his resignation. The Government will submit his ...
Article : 121 wordsJerusalem, March 6.—The terrorist bomb which exploded in a car park at Half a destroyed the adjacent Tax Assessment Building and slightly ...
Article : 66 wordsLondon, March 4.—The 50-year Anglo French treaty signed by Mr. Bevin and M. Bidault at Dunkirk on Tuesday is principally designed for mutual aid ...
Article : 159 wordsSydney, March 6.—More than five thousand waterside workers will idle and seventy ships tied up in Port Sydney on Monday. when the ...
Article : 126 wordsMelbourne, March 6.—Krank Labb, a Spencer Street hairdresser, was today fined twenty pounds with two guineas gets in the City Court for having ...
Article : 42 wordsJerusalem, March 6.—Police dogs were set on the trail of bloodstains from two wounded Jews of a band which attacked the army camp at Hederch with ...
Article : 44 wordsMelbourne, March 5.—No delays had occurred in despatch of mails from Australia to members of the Australian Occupation Forces in Japan, officials of ...
Article : 96 wordsSydney, March 6.—There are daily lisclo[?]ures of undisclosed income says the Taxation Department and one recent care disclosed a wartime ...
Article : 74 wordsOttawa, Meet[?] The Canadian Budget for 1947-48 included [?] directly allocated to the "bush-[?]" atomic plant at Check River, Outu[?], and ...
Article : 57 wordsCanberra, March 6.—At a meeting of the Federal Parliamentary Labor party today. Senator Lamp gave notice of motion that the Commonwealth ...
Article : 45 wordsThe appointment of [?] Mountbatten as victory of to succeed Field-marshal ford wavell was recently announced in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 37 wordsAdelaide, March 6.—Police were told today that a waitress in a milk bar. Alice Kathleen O'Neill (40) married, was shot dead while serving in the milk bar in ...
Article : 72 wordsRangoon, March 6.—It is reported that a bandit a gang of about about 500 wiped out two villages near Pyimmana in Central Burma during a nightlong ...
Article : 47 wordsAt least 15 new passenger-carrying ships, including two with a capacity of more than 1200 passenger each, will be operating between England and Australia next year. Picture show an artiest's conception of Himalaya III, the new 29,000 ton passenger liner now being built at Barrow-in-Furness. She will go into service on the Australian run about the middle of 1948 and will become ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 83 wordsMelbourne, March 6.—So that a man who went to New York in 1938 allegedly owing £92.790 income tax could return to Melbourne the Commissioner ...
Article : 133 wordsBritain's gratitude for Australia's gift of £25 million in Australian currency is expressed by national newspapers. ...
Article : 101 wordsSydney, March 6.—If industrial peace were to preserved and economic disaster avoided employers and employees must work together said Mr. A. C. ...
Article : 71 wordsHamilton (Bermuda), March 6.—The House of Assembly asked the Governor. Sir Ralph Leatham, to seek an assurance from the British Government that it was ...
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Barrier Daily Truth (Broken Hill, NSW : 1908; 1941 - 1954), Fri 7 Mar 1947, Page 1
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