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  2. Advertising

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  3. LONDON ARTIST AS FATHER CHRISTMAS

    Mr Albert Perry, a London artist, who was made a Fellow of the British Boyal Academy at his 99th attempt, judging the drawings and paintings of very young artists in the rain on Tooting Common, one of London's open spaces. Mr Perry is dressed as Father Christmas to do this job and wore a particularly realistic mask. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. VAST AMERICAN SUPPLIES FOR EUROPE

    WASHINGTON, January 6.—The State Department today disclosed details of the vast quantities of American food, tobacco, raw materials and machinery to be shipped to Europe if and when the ...

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  5. Wool Stores To Be Built At Townsville

    TOWNSVILLE, January 7.—It had been decided that buildings for wool sales would be erected in Townsville and that the necessary work would be proceeded with as soon as possible, according to a ...

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  6. VITAL FOOD TALKS Big British Contract For Australian Eggs

    CANBERRA, January 7.—A five-year contract for 3,500,000 boxes of Australian eggs per year at prices approximating the present contract price of 2/1 (Australian), per dozen was offered by the ...

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  7. Fish From Gulf By Air

    TOWNSVILLE, January 7.—An air freight service between Townsville and the Gulf, with a terminal at Burketown, and ...

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  8. MORE DOLLARS FOR GREEK ARMY

    WASHINGTON, January 6.— The State Department announced today that the American miss sion in Greece had been ...

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  9. BARRIER REEF TOURIST TRADE

    BRISBANE, January 7.—The £250,000 company, Barrier Reef Islands Pty Ltd, today began organisation in Queensland to ...

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  10. TOJO ADMITS HE ADVISED EMPEROR TO DECLARE WAR

    TOKYO, January 7.—Hideki Tojo stepped down from the witness stand at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East today after having admitted that he was the only living Japanese who advised the Emperor to' declare war against ...

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  11. Royal Pair Lease Surrey Estate

    LONDON, January 6.—Buckingham Palace confirmed a report that Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh leased ...

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    Crocodile, 11 ft. 3 in., shot by Mr N. Adams with a.32 rifle near the junction of the Dawson and Mackenzie Rivers. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  13. DRIVE TO END PETROL RACKET

    BRISBANE, January 7.—A drive to stamp out illicit use of petrol, which was launched in South-eastern Queensland on ...

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  14. Plane Hit Tree And Was Wrecked

    LONDON, January 7.—In heavy rain late last night a Viking aircraft of British European Airways, travelling from Glasgow to ...

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  15. Uniform Freights For Road And Rail

    BRISBANE, January 7.—Uniformity on road and railway freights are expected to be announced soon by the Minister for ...

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  16. WYATT EARP TO GO BACK AFTER REPAIRS

    MELBOURNE, January 7.—The navy plans to repair the exploration ship Wyatt Earp in a week and send her back to the ...

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  17. Queenslanders Untroubled

    SYDNEY, January 7.—Queenslanders Nancy Lyons and Denise Spencer were untroubled in easy wins in the New South Wales ...

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  18. P.M. To Confer On Defence

    MELBOURNE, January 7.—The Prime Minister (Mr Chifley), who flew to Melbourne today will to-morrow morning begin a series of ...

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  19. 15 Killed In Plane Crash

    LONDON, January 6.—Reuter's Paris correspondent says that 15 are reported killed and five seriously injured when a ...

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  20. Proposal To Combat Inflation

    CANBERRA, January 7.—An all-out production drive, coupled with reduced taxation, was urged today by the Leader of the ...

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  21. Grazier's Many Uses For Aircraft

    SYDNEY, January 7.—Mr W. H. Anning, a well-known grazier, of Wetherby station, Richmond (Queensland), will attempt shortly to make his own rain. Today in Sydney he sought an aircraft which he will ase to spray clouds over his property in an ...

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  22. Port Depths Not Adequate For Ships

    BRISBANE, January 7.—Shipping officials today, while approving the Premier's efforts to induce overseas ships to visit ...

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  23. SINGAPORE ELECTIONS

    SINGAPORE, January 11.—It is officially announced that Singapore will hold its first elections on March 20, when six of 22 ...

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  24. Says Labour Will Oppose Wallace

    NEW YORK, January 6.—At Washington the president of the American Federation of Labour (Mr William Green) announced ...

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  25. EXPORT OF GOODS IN SHORT SUPPLY

    BRISBANE, January 7.—Businessmen expressed surprise today at the decision of the Prime Minister (Mr Chifley) to increase ...

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  26. NEW BRITISH SETTLERS

    MELBOURNE, January 7.— Thousands of British ex-servicemen and civilians and their dependants from India, who would ...

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  27. Conference On Tramway Dispute Today

    MELBOURNE, January 7.—A surprise development tonight was an announcement by the Minister for Public Works (Mr Kennedy) that he would confer early tomorrow with representatives of ...

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  28. POWER OF U.S. NAVY

    WASHINGTON, January 6.—The United States Navy holds undisputed control of the sea and could establish floating airfields off any shore to attack inland areas, declares Admiral Chester Nimitz, former chief of naval operations, in a report written just before his ...

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  29. 40-YEAR BAN ON BOOKS REMOVED

    SYDNEY, January 7.—Volumes which have been on the Commonwealth list of banned books for up to 40 years are among ...

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  30. OVERCOME BY FUMES ON FREIGHTER

    SINGAPORE, January 7.—The Coroner recorded a finding of death by misadventure at the inquest today into the deaths of ...

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  31. 39 CHARGES

    SYDNEY, January 7.—James Milne McDonald, 19, clerk, was committed for trial today on 39 charges concerning the delivery ...

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  32. NEW ORDER NEEDED FOR COTTON MACHINE

    BRISBANE, January 7.—A new order would have to be placed in the United States for a cottonharvesting machine following the ...

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  33. Armies Near Greek Border

    LONDON, January 7.—Reuter's Athens correspondent states that the Greek Government has told the United Nations and ...

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  34. UNION BANK PROFIT

    LONDON, January 6.—The Union Bank of Australia's preliminary accounts show that net profit totals £218,864. ...

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