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  4. £65 Million May Be Spent On The Diversion Of Snowy River

    The Federal Government will ask N.S.W, and Victorian Governments at [?] Premiers’ Conference next week to agree to a detailed investigation into the [?]posal to divert the Snowy River into the Murray River, A report prepared by the Departments of Works and Housing and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. SHOOTING IN TRUCK

    Giving evidence in St Kilda police court today against two men charged with having wounded him with intent to murder, Keith Kitchener ...

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  6. HOW BRITISH RULE ENDED IN INDIA

    Indians celebrated independence with much noise. In Bombay, sirens of hundreds of mills and factories, blending with whistling railway engines and blasts from ships, ushered in India's independence at midnight. Milling crowds of men, women and children completely forgot ...

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  7. Lord Mountbatten Leave Hopes To Leave India Next Year

    Lord Mountbatten was this morning sworn in as Governor-General of India by the Chief Justice of India (Sir Harila L. Kania), and later administered the oath of office to the new Cabinet. After the swearing-in ceremony. Lord ...

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  8. MINISTER TO VISIT MANUS

    The Minister for the Navy (Mr Riordan) and high-ranking naval officers will leave on the cruiser HMAS Australia on Monday to ...

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  9. “JAI HIND” CRIES INDIAN DIPLOMAT

    “Jai Hind!” With these words, meaning “Victory to India,” the Indian High Commissioner (Sir Raghunath Paranjpye) at noon today ...

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  10. VITAL RULING ON WAGE PAYMENT

    Permission to pay its Federal award employes 44 hours wages for a 44 hours working week was refused a Sydney engineering company ...

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  11. BOYS’ CAREER OF CRIME

    Six boys, two of whom were punished for setting fire to Westmead Public School on August 4, causing £5000 damage, pleaded guilty to 34 ...

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  12. CONTROLS TO REMAIN

    The general inflationary conditions which were evident in Australia at the end of 1946 were unlikely to disappear by the end of 1947 and for ...

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  13. 25 PER CENT. CUT IN PETROL RATION

    A reduction of from 20 to 25 per cent in the petrol ration was ordered by the Federal Cabinet late tonight. The Prime Minister (Mr Chifley) ...

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  14. Fire That Caused Half Million Pounds Damage Still Unquelled

    A fire which broke out at Angliss and Co.’s meatworks at Footscray in the early hours of this morning has already caused damage estimated at half a million pounds, and is expected to burn for at least another day before being completely extinguished. ...

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  15. MASS POISON ATTEMPT FAILS

    It is learned officially that an attempt to kill by means of mass poisoning. high-ranking officers of the People’s Volunteer Army, which is the ...

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  16. Firemen Stand By While Freighter Unloaded

    Firemen stood by while the waterside workers unloaded some sodium chlorate from the freighter City of Ely today. The chemical which came ...

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  17. BRITISH STOCKS RALLY

    Led by gilt-edged stocks, the London Stock Exchange rallied on Thursday, after the big losses of the two previous days, states the financial ...

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  18. HIGHER RAIL FARES IN VICTORIA LIKELY

    Increased costs of fuel alone on Victorian railways were £1 million more than before the war, the Premier (Mr Cain) told members of the ...

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  20. V.C. GETS BIG JOB

    Federal Cabinet tonight appointed nine new conciliation commissioners to carry out the requirements of the New Conciliation and Arbitration ...

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  21. Lawyers Get £15,000 At Land Sales Inquiry

    The Land Sales Royal Commission concluded its hearing today after 36 days of evidence and addresses. It is estimated that the legal fees alone will total £15,000. The Royal Commissioner (Judge Kirby) will submit his report ...

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  22. Britain’s Richest Woman Dies

    Mrs Gordon Thomson, aped 27, grand-daughter of the m[?]-millionaire, Andrew Car[?]gie, and re[?] to be Britain’s richest woman, ...

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  23. Few Serious Crimes By Australians in Japan

    Army headquarters stated today that few serious crimes had been committed by Australians serving with BCOF in Japan. ...

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  24. They Have Soon Forgotten?

    It was two years today since the end of the war against Japan and the day was commemorated by ex-servicemen’s organisations in simple ...

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  25. CABINET WANTS REFERENDUM ON PRICES, RENTS

    Cabinet decided tonight to recommend to the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party that a referendum be taken to amend Section 51 of the ...

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