The Petrol Advisory Committee in Melbourne yesterday decided to recommend an alternative petrol rationing plan to that announced on ...
Article : 1,447 wordsNew powers given to the Government under the Emergency Powers Defence Regulations affect more sweepingly than any hitherto granted the lives of ...
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Article : 512 wordsThe Press Association reports that the scheme for evacuating children from Britain to the Dominions is to be postponed. ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Boeing clipper with which Pan-American Airways will inaugurate its New Zealand service left San Francisco at noon on Friday (6 a.m., Saturday, Sydney time), and is due at Auckland on Thursday afternoon. This will be the first regular trans-Pacific flight. Top: A 41-ton Boeing clipper taxi-ing for a take-off. Lower: A section of one of the passenger compartments, which ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 472 wordsWidespread unemployment and heavy industrial losses are feared as a result of the Government's proposed scheme for petrol rationing, as announced ...
Article : 400 wordsA controversy of more than casual interest is developing between the State Department and groups which allege that too much red tape is delaying the ...
Article : 212 wordsGovernment officials believe that the plan to evacuate children from Great Britain to Australia will either be indefinitely postponed or ...
Article : 172 words"This is another case of gross bungling, misrepresentation, and lack of candour," said the leader of the A.L.P. (non-Communist) in the House of ...
Article : 163 wordsCount Geoffrey Vladislas Valle Potock[?]. self-s[?]yled "King of Poland," was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of saving struck a policeman with an axe. ...
Article : 148 wordsSo acute is the housing shortage at Lithgow that boarding-house keepers, it is stated, are adopting a two-shift system of letting bedrooms. ...
Article : 177 wordsInitiating the regular air mail service between the United States and NewZealand, the Pan-American Airways American Clipper will leave at noon ...
Article : 409 wordsThe greatest excitement in the lives of Australian soldiers in Britain at present is London leave—48 hours of it doled out by ros[?]er to all ranks and ...
Article : 576 wordsNew evidence of Rumania's proAxis policy is the detention of British ships al Danubian ports, and an invitation to the Foreign Minister, ...
Article : 461 wordsWith 250 other [?]liens, Lady Ribblesdale renounced her European citizenship, and then renounced her title, becoming Ava Ribblesdale. She is the widow of the fourth Baron ...
Article : 77 wordsThe following "open message to citizens of the United States" has been sent by cable by the British Orphans' Adoption Society: "Australia has homes awaiting thousands of ...
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Article : 255 words"I am impressed by the assertionthat so far, I can find only in Sydney—of the existence of a good many people who say it does not matter to ...
Article : 354 wordsThe leader of the Opposition, Mr. Hanson, has declined the Prime Minister's invitation to become an associate member of the Cabinet War Committee. ...
Article : 31 wordsTwenty survivors of the British steamer Athellaird (8,999 tons), which was torpedoed off the south-west coast of Ireland on July 2. landed at an ...
Article : 201 wordsThe United States Consulate-General, in a statement yestetday, said that President Roosevelt had issued a proclamation prohibiting the export from the United States of a ...
Article : 88 wordsAt the local police court, Ian Other Gee was convicted of having driven a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor, and was fined £5, plus witnesses' costs £4/19/. In ...
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Article : 272 wordsThe rationing scheme has caused consternation. A meeting of representatives of motor industries and allied trades was "alarmed and staggered" at the drastic nature of the scheme ...
Article : 87 wordsThis map shows the distances of bases in territory occupied by Germany from important points in the British Isles. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 75 wordsA bill to clarify the authority of a so[?]d[?]er or sailor on active service to dispose of his estate will probably be submitted to the State Parliament when it resumes next month. ...
Article : 124 wordsRemittances from Austialia to persons in non-sterling countires are to be drastically reduced. The Postmaster-General's Department ...
Article : 61 wordsReceipts from the Sydney Harbour Bridge toll fell by £1,087 during May and June, compared with the corresponding months of last year. ...
Article : 66 wordsColonel Eugene O'Neill and Mrs. O'Neill, of Peel Street. Kirribilli, have been notified by the War Office that their only son. Lieutenant N.E. O'Neill. R.A.M.C., has been reported ...
Article : 50 wordsA[?] malls for the trans-Pacific route will close at the G.P.O. Sydney, on Wednesday, at mid-day. Correspondence for New Zealand may be ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 13 Jul 1940, Page 14
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