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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Article : 445 wordsThe Treasurer, Mr. Fadden, announced to-day that if employers find difficulty in beginning the taxation instalment scheme on the first ...
Article : 255 wordsArmed with umbrellas, raincoats, and waterproof capes, tens of thousands of people scorned the downpour last night and did their Christmas shopping in ...
Article : 484 wordsAn Air Ministry communique issued this morning states that, in spite of very bad weather conditions, seven targets in the Ruhr and Western ...
Article : 696 wordsCertainly this Christmas will not appear to be normal, nor even like last Christmas, because there is a shortage of many commodities which were then ...
Article : 462 words"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 ...
Article : 520 wordsCriticism 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 ...
Article : 312 wordsThe Northern Miners' Management Board to-day endorsed the report of the conference which led to a settlement of the coal strike and a variation ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Sydney Chamber of Commerce and the Employers' Federation of New South Wales this week passed resolutions urging the coordination of State and Federal income ...
Article : 101 wordsThe 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. ...
Article : 166 wordsThe 19 German ships which were seized in the Dutch East Indies when Holland was invaded, have now been chartered to Britain. ...
Article : 70 wordsA pair of fine fowls sent with the compliments of the Prime Minister of England, Mr. Churchill, will grace the Christmas board of two British ...
Article : 208 wordsA 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 ...
Article : 260 wordsA group of Sydney engineering companies proposes to form a metropolitan technical and investing company, to assist by technical advice and by capital ...
Article : 173 wordsA 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 ...
Article : 103 wordsThe 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, ...
Article : 193 wordsSome 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. ...
Article : 217 wordsThe following New South Wales casualty list was issued by Army Headquarters to-day: AROAD. DIED OP ILLNESS: Pte. N. H. Hextell, ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. 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 ...
Article : 56 wordsAfter 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 ...
Article : 66 wordsThe 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 ...
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Advertising : 24 wordsWhile 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 wordsThai planes yesterday bombed Popet, in the Northern Cambodia, which artillery also shelled, states a message from Hanoi (Indo-China). The French ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. B. C. Ballard, official representative of the Commonwealth Government in New Caledonia, will discuss the territory's economic position with the ...
Article : 129 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Minister for Supply and Development, Senator McBride, said to-day that, as a measure of war economy, match manufacturers in Australia had accepted a ...
Article : 139 wordsJune 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 ...
Article : 77 wordsAn 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 ...
Article : 153 wordsNo 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. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Canadian Minister for Munitions, Mr Howe, who is a survivor of the Western Prince, which was torpedoed in the Atlantic, has arrived in Britain. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 79 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 70 wordsA magistrate fined Mrs. Lilian Van Royn £3 for wasting food. It was the first prosecution in London. The failure of the defendant to repair ...
Article : 51 wordsThe 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. ...
Article : 93 wordsFour 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 ...
Article : 82 wordsJudge 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 ...
Article : 77 wordsTin 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, ...
Article : 57 wordsEogjtu-thousand bales of wool, including consignments from Australia and New Zealand, are being unloaded at docks for defence orders. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe 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 ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 21 Dec 1940, Page 14
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