Conberro, August 7.—The Government's Coal Bill, which will empower the Federal and New South Wales Governments to acquire control of mines, was passed by the House of Representatives shortly before midnight last night after a lively debate in ...
Article : 753 wordsA meeting of members of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemens Association has endorsed a resolution of the Federal Council that o 24-hour stop work meeting on a date to be determined be held throughout the Commonwealth. The slopwork ...
Article : 112 wordsSydney, August 7—A warning that 25,000 people may be 'thrown out of work because of the transport crisis was given today fry the Minister for Mines, Mr. Baddeley. He said it was intended to operate between 90 and 100 diesel engines on NSW Railways by ...
Article : 383 wordsParis, August 7—The New Zealand proposal that all matters of substance at the Paris Conference should be decided by a simple majority was rejected by eleven votes to nine with one absentee by the Rules Committee. This decision was reached after a two day ...
Article : 148 wordsMelbourne, August 7—All Victorian iron foundries are to be closed by the employers, because of attempts by the Ironworkers' Federation and the Moulders' Union to force wage increases. When this decision, which was ...
Article : 316 wordsSydney, August 7.—The restoration of primary industry, and its lifting from the primitiveness of the purely commercial past, was urged by the ...
Article : 143 wordsMelbourne, August 7.—In the Arbitration Court today Judge O'Mara said [?] could understand that the resentment and dissatisfaction which existed ...
Article : 88 wordsDarwin, August 7.—Stories of tribal ceremonies involving blood letting were told in the Police Court today when three aborigines were committed ...
Article : 157 wordsLondon, August 7.—Merchant navy circles have gone to far as to say the question of piracy on the high seas is involved in the incident ...
Article : 402 wordsCanberra, August 7.—Federal Cabinet decided today to make £10,000 a year available for five years on a pound for pound basis with the states for ...
Article : 99 wordsAdelaide, August 7.—The arrival of colliers with coal from Newcastle permitted the Premier (Mr. Playford) to announce today the lifting of all gas ...
Article : 44 wordsBrisbane, August 6.—Buyers in Cairns for the Disposals Commission sale of army goods complained before the sale started that many of the goods have ...
Article : 172 wordsWashington, August 7.—The United Nations Food and Agriculture organisation reported that before the war, half the world had been seriously ...
Article : 88 wordsSydney, August 7.—Six coal mines were idle and two partly idle in N.S.W. today for a loss of more than 5,000 tons of coal. Al idle mines were on ...
Article : 37 wordsChicago, August 7.—The State Attorney has announced that the seventeen year old university student, William Helrens has confessed to killing ...
Article : 151 wordsNew York, August 6.—American marines will remain in China at their present strength—22.000 to 23.000—and will "shoot back if attacked." the ...
Article : 234 wordsCanberra, August 7.—Australia has undertaken to turn Mascot aerodrome into a completely equipped modern air-base for the largest land planes and ...
Article : 55 wordsMelbourne, August 7.—The introduction of a forty hour week would impose two retarding factors: one was the opportunity for a major tariff ...
Article : 192 wordsMelbourne, August 7.—There are 12.107 vacant jobs in Victoria, according to the Commonwealth Employment Service. ...
Article : 178 wordsDarwin, August 7.—Two prisoners who were sentenced to one months gaol and ordered to serve their time in the Fanny Bay Gaol were later told ...
Article : 78 wordsNew York, August 7.-Full responsibility for recommending plans whereby international control of atomic energy could be achieved has now been placed ...
Article : 60 wordsSydney.—More than 400 tons of coal carried to Shanghai by the freighter Tinana (1000 tons) was sold at a price almost equalling the value of the ship ...
Article : 176 wordsWashington, August 7.—The Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, told a press conference today that the Government had not made a formal ...
Article : 67 wordsMelbourne, August 7.—Three children who are left orphans by last night's shooting tragedy at Townsville are staying with their father's parents at ...
Article : 74 wordsSydney, August 7.—The results of the campaign for another one hundred recruits for the NSW Police Force had been so poor that numbers obtained ...
Article : 69 wordsLondon, August 6—Now that agreement hot been reached on double taxation, another imposing list can be added to the number of British companies ...
Article : 183 wordsMelbourne, August 7.—One of the Tiger Moth planes, flying in formation from Flinders Island to Yarrum, Victoria, is reported to have crashed on ...
Article : 80 wordsNew York, August 6.—Because wood normally exported by Sweden for paper manufacture is being used for fuel. Sweden cannot help relieve the world ...
Article : 87 wordsSydney, August 7.—Michael James Delaney (19), laborer, was sentenced to ten years hard labor for robbery under arms by Judge Shortland at the ...
Article : 79 wordsCanberra, August 7.—All the thirty million cigarette papers held in store by a Sydney firm are intended for Australian troops in Japan, the manager ...
Article : 46 wordsCanberra, August 7.—Referring in the House of Representatives today to & report published on Monday from Dr. Peter V. Russo. Far Eastern Editor of ...
Article : 188 wordsSydney, August 7.—One of the largest contracts ever entered into between two Australian industries has been finalised. It is between General ...
Article : 95 wordsCanberra, August 7.—By passive resistance 150 RAAF men at Fairbairn aerodrome near Canberra are combating a Station Order to wear dress uniforms ...
Article : 80 wordsCanberra, August 7.—The Government has given the Australian GOC in Japan, Lieut.-General Robertson, full authority to provide adequate ...
Article : 56 wordsNew York, August 7.—All American newspapers frankly admit that the British prize crew from the Elizabeth was ejected after lawfully boarding the ...
Article : 105 wordsNew York. August 7.—The D.D.T. fly control program in Kansas and Oklahoma is adding millions of pounds weight to the beef and butter and ...
Article : 135 wordsSydney, August 7.—Today was Sydney's 27th consecutive day without rain, breaking a 52 year old record for consecutive rainless days in July-August. ...
Article : 70 wordsSydney, August 7.—The extraction of oil from coal by low temperature carbonisation process is to be investigated by a strong committee of Labor ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsMelbourne, August 7.—An urgent telegram sent by the A.C.T.U. to the Minister for Labor and National Services. Mr. Holloway, urges that a ...
Article : 71 wordsCanberra, August 7.—Australia was [?]ting upon complete and exclusive [?]trol at New Guinea, the Prime [?]nister, Mr. Chifley, told the House of ...
Article : 59 wordsThey stared fixedly at one another across the railway carriage. Presently one of them found his voice. "Who are you staring at? he asked. ...
Article : 63 wordsCanberra, August 7.—With Hotel Kosciusko snowbound George Norrie, ten year old son of the Governor of SA. Sir Willoughby Norrie, was brought ...
Article : 47 wordsLithgow, August 7.—The Ber[?] Corset Company proposes establishing a factory in Lithgow employing 50 girls in the initial stages. ...
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Barrier Daily Truth (Broken Hill, NSW : 1908; 1941 - 1954), Thu 8 Aug 1946, Page 1
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