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  2. CHRISTMAS SHOPPING RUSH: SCENES IN CITY.

    Left: A shopper, laden with Christmas parcels, paused to enjoy a cool drink after a tiring afternoon in the city yesterday. Right: Children's toys being sorted for delivery in the despatch depot of a city store. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. SHIPS FROM U.S.A.

    Britain has signed contracts in the U.S. for the construction of 100,000,000 dollars' worth (£A31,250,000) of cargo ships, of which Britain has already ...

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  4. TAX PAYMENT SCHEME.

    The Treasurer, Mr. Fadden, announced to-day that if employers find difficulty in beginning the taxation instalment scheme on the first ...

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  5. CROWDS SHOPPING IN RAIN.

    Armed with umbrellas, raincoats, and waterproof capes, tens of thousands of people scorned the downpour last night and did their Christmas shopping in ...

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  6. R.A.F. AGAIN IN ACTION.

    An Air Ministry communique issued this morning states that, in spite of very bad weather conditions, seven targets in the Ruhr and Western ...

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  7. CHRISTMAS BUYING.

    Certainly this Christmas will not appear to be normal, nor even like last Christmas, because there is a shortage of many commodities which were then ...

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  8. "HITLER WILL NOT WIN."

    "I don't think now that Hitler will win, as we in Madrid expected," says Senor Miguel del Pozo, official observer in England for the Spanish ...

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  9. DEPORTATION OF ALIENS.

    Criticism of the methods used in selecting aliens for deportation is answered by Lord Snell, the Government's spokesman in the House of Lords, in a ...

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  10. END OF COAL DISPUTE.

    The Northern Miners' Management Board to-day endorsed the report of the conference which led to a settlement of the coal strike and a variation ...

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  11. UNIFORM TAX COLLECTION URGED.

    The Sydney Chamber of Commerce and the Employers' Federation of New South Wales this week passed resolutions urging the coordination of State and Federal income ...

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  12. STATE CONCESSIONS.

    The Commissioner of Taxation, Mr. E. J. McMahon, announced yesterday that reduced lates of Unemployment Relief Tax and Social Services Tax take effect from January 1, 1941. ...

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  13. GERMAN SHIPS BEING USED.

    The 19 German ships which were seized in the Dutch East Indies when Holland was invaded, have now been chartered to Britain. ...

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  14. FOWLS FROM MR. CHURCHILL.

    A pair of fine fowls sent with the compliments of the Prime Minister of England, Mr. Churchill, will grace the Christmas board of two British ...

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  15. HUDSON BOMBERS FOR BRITAIN.

    A statement from the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, U.S.A., says that only four Hudson reconnaissance bombers, out of the hundreds which have been shipped to Britain and ...

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  16. MUNITIONS PLANTS IN COUNTRY.

    A group of Sydney engineering companies proposes to form a metropolitan technical and investing company, to assist by technical advice and by capital ...

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  17. R.A.A.F. CASUALTY LIST.

    A casualty list for the R.A.A.F. issued by the Air Department to-day, contains the names of four members of the Australian squadron now in action against the Italians in the ...

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  18. FACT AND FANCY.

    The German Radio's inaccuracy and carelessness of fact are well exemplified in a broadcast picked up in New York yesterday, according to a cable message, ...

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  19. MUNITIONS WORKS STOPPAGES.

    Some stoppages of work at munitions factories had been caused "as part of a settled policy," the Minister for Labour, Mr. Bevin, told the House of Commons yesterday. ...

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  20. A.I.F. CASUALTIES.

    The following New South Wales casualty list was issued by Army Headquarters to-day: AROAD. DIED OP ILLNESS: Pte. N. H. Hextell, ...

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  21. CANDIDATES FOR HORNSBY U.A.P. SELECTION.

    Mr. W. E. R. Francis, of Turramurra, will be a candidate in the U.A.P. selection ballot for the new Hornsby electorate. Mr. Francis, a Sydney solicitor, was ...

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  22. FATAL SHOOTING.

    After an alleged struggle in a shack at Cambridge Park, near Penrith, last night, Victor Valentine, 35, married, who lived in the shack, received a fatal gunshot wound in the lower ...

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  23. TAXIMAN MURDER IS MYSTERY.

    The City Coroner, Mr. Oram, yesterday found that Thomas Norman Rutter Hood, 22, taxi-driver, had died as the result of a fractured skull and brain injuries inflicted by a ...

    Article : 184 words
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  25. A.I.F. IN BRITAIN.

    While soldiers of the A.I.F. in Egypt and Palestine are stripped to the waist in the burning sun and sand, Australian troops in Great Britain are muffled ...

    Article : 188 words
  26. INDO-CHINA WAR.

    Thai planes yesterday bombed Popet, in the Northern Cambodia, which artillery also shelled, states a message from Hanoi (Indo-China). The French ...

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  27. TRADE WITH NEW CALEDONIA.

    Mr. B. C. Ballard, official representative of the Commonwealth Government in New Caledonia, will discuss the territory's economic position with the ...

    Article : 129 words
  28. SECRET CABINET AT VICHY.

    The Vichy Government is meeting again to-day. Although absolute secrecy is being maintained, it is freely rumoured that it is considering the latest German demands, which ...

    Article : 71 words
  29. U.S.A. TO ADMIT 1,000 REFUGEES.

    The State Department has announced that 1,000 political refugees whom the Gestapo attempted to seize in France have been granted visas to enter the United States as ...

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  30. WAR ECONOMY HITS MATCH BOXES.

    The Minister for Supply and Development, Senator McBride, said to-day that, as a measure of war economy, match manufacturers in Australia had accepted a ...

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  31. MR. CASEY'S CHILDREN TO BROADCAST.

    June and Donn, children of the Australian Minister to the United States, Mr. R. G. Casey, and Mrs. Casey, will participate in the international broadcast with the children of ...

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  32. EARTHQUAKE IN U.S.A. AND CANADA.

    An earthquake shock, which occurred at 2.30 a.m., was felt in portions of Canada and north-eastern United States. The first reports indicated that the severest ...

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  33. RAIL STOPPAGE NEAR WYNYARD.

    No trains were able to run between Wynyard and the Harbour Bridge for an hour and a half yesterday afternoon, because the electric power supply failed. ...

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  34. CANADA DISCUSSING AERO ENGINE PRODUCTION.

    The Canadian Minister for Munitions, Mr Howe, who is a survivor of the Western Prince, which was torpedoed in the Atlantic, has arrived in Britain. ...

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  35. COAL DELIVERIES DELAYED.

    The Swansea Chamber of Commerce states that 6,000 waggons of anthracite are waiting for clearance from Welsh collieries. Orders for coal, it says, total 12,000 tons, but ...

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  36. A.R.P. BODY CALLED COMMUNIST.

    The National Executive of the Labour Party has warned workers against becoming members of the A.R.P. Co-ordinating Committee, which it describes as a "camouflaged ...

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  37. BRITISH WOMAN FINED FOR WASTING FOOD.

    A magistrate fined Mrs. Lilian Van Royn £3 for wasting food. It was the first prosecution in London. The failure of the defendant to repair ...

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  38. CHRISTMAS EVE LIGHTS FOR SWITZERLAND.

    The Swiss Army Command has ordered the lifting of the black-out on Christmas Eve, expressing the hope that Swiss neutrality will not be violated on that night. ...

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  39. CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL PARTY.

    Four hundred and fifty patients in the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, and many outdoor patients, were entertained at a Christmas party at the hospital yesterday ...

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  40. RISE OF 5/ WEEKLY FOR WOOL WORKERS.

    Judge Piper, in the Arbitration Court to-day, approved an agreement between the union and employers, granting an all-round rise of 5/ a week to wool and basil workers ...

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  41. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Tin was quoted to-day at £257 a ton. Rubber was quoted at 11 31-32d a lb. Mining quotations: The market was dull. Broken Hill, 34/4[?]; Boulder Perseverance, ...

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  42. U.S.A. GETS 80,000 BALES OF WOOL.

    Eogjtu-thousand bales of wool, including consignments from Australia and New Zealand, are being unloaded at docks for defence orders. ...

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  43. COLOUR PICTURES BY TELEVISION.

    The inventor of television, Mr. J. L. Baird, for the first time, demonstrated the transmission of pictures in colour by television. He showed colour pictures which were transmitted ...

    Article : 56 words
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