Crowds besieged counters of city stores yesterday in search of Christmas presents for relatives and friends. Although shops will be open today and on Monday, for many yesterday was the last shopping day before Christmas. A crowd banked around a counter at this city store yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 52 wordsThere would be a considerable reduction next year in the number of homes being built under the Commonwealth-State rental homes agreement, the Minister for Housing (Mr. Wild) announced ...
Article : 318 wordsYesterday was one of the worst days on record this year for road accidents in the metropolitan area. Of 15 people injured in motor-cycle mishaps, three are seriously ill in the Royal Perth Hospital. ...
Article : 559 wordsTwo competitors in an event at the Claremont Speedway received injuries last night when their machines crashed. ...
Article : 154 wordsLONDON, Fri.—The Colonial Secretary (Mr. Lyttelton) returned by air from Singapore today with [?] for a new ...
Article : 238 wordsLONDON, Fri—A British spokesman at Ismailia announced today that British sappers shot dead five Egyptians and captured three last night when they surprised a party of terrorists trying to blow up an ...
Article : 301 wordsPassionfruit were selling for 1/3 each in city fruit shops yesterday. "For the past two weeks there have ...
Article : 47 wordsMOSCOW, Fri.—Mrs. Monica Felton, a British novelist who was dismissed from a British Government position last ...
Article : 167 wordsTOKYO, Friday.—The United Nations Command demanded today that the Communists account for more than 1,000 United Nations soldiers whose names are missing from their prisoner-of-war list. ...
Article : 297 wordsMaximum retail prices for firewood in the metropolitan area have been increased by 6d. and 7d. per cwt. for small ...
Article : 125 wordsAfter selling a number of copies of the Communist weekly paper, the "Tribune," on the Fremantle waterfront yesterday, the secretary of the Coastal Docks, Rivers and Harbour Workers' Union (Mr. P. L. ...
Article : 199 wordsThe 18-year-old cricketer Arthur Lodge could not be released from his national service training, the Registrar of ...
Article : 153 wordsCANBERRA, Fri.—A West Australian, Donald Drummond Smith (13), of Pingelly, has been selected as a special cadet ...
Article : 99 wordsMELBOURNE, Fri.—Wool-growers will probably get £300,000,000 less for their wool this season than they got ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 22 Dec 1951, Page 1
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