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  2. RATIONING PETROL.

    The Petrol Advisory Committee in Melbourne yesterday decided to recommend an alternative petrol rationing plan to that announced on ...

    Article : 1,447 words
  3. DEFENCE OF BRITAIN.

    New powers given to the Government under the Emergency Powers Defence Regulations affect more sweepingly than any hitherto granted the lives of ...

    Article : 455 words
  4. CONSTITUTION OF FRANCE.

    Germany's chanced attitude to French politicians is emphasised by broadcast sneers at the French effort to form a new Constitution on a ...

    Article : 512 words
  5. CHILDREN OF BRITAIN.

    The Press Association reports that the scheme for evacuating children from Britain to the Dominions is to be postponed. ...

    Article : 134 words
  6. BOEING CLIPPER FOR PACIFIC SERVICE.

    The 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]

    Article : 82 words
  7. BRITAIN'S FOOD PROBLEM.

    The importance of the war on the "kitchen front" has been impressed on British householders ever since the rationing of sugar, butter, and ...

    Article : 472 words
  8. HEAVY LOSSES FEARED.

    Widespread unemployment and heavy industrial losses are feared as a result of the Government's proposed scheme for petrol rationing, as announced ...

    Article : 400 words
  9. CHARGES OF DELAY.

    A 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 words
  10. NO OFFICIAL ADVICE IN AUSTRALIA.

    Government officials believe that the plan to evacuate children from Great Britain to Australia will either be indefinitely postponed or ...

    Article : 172 words
  11. "ANOTHER CASE OF BUNGLING."

    "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 words
  12. SELF-STYLED "KING OF POLAND" IMPRISONED.

    Count 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 words
  13. BEDS USED IN RELAYS.

    So 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 words
  14. PACIFIC AIR SERVICE.

    Initiating the regular air mail service between the United States and NewZealand, the Pan-American Airways American Clipper will leave at noon ...

    Article : 409 words
  15. AUSTRALIANS IN LONDON.

    The 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 words
  16. ANTI-BRITISH MOVE.

    New evidence of Rumania's proAxis policy is the detention of British ships al Danubian ports, and an invitation to the Foreign Minister, ...

    Article : 461 words
  17. CITIZENSHIP AND TITLE RENOUNCED.

    With 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 words
  18. APPEAL TO U.S.A.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 66 words
  19. EFFECT ON CARRIERS.

    A representative of a firm which still uses horses in one section of a large carrying business said yesterday that it would not be generally practicable to offset the effect of the ...

    Article : 255 words
  20. "DEFEATISTS" IN SYDNEY.

    "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 words
  21. CANADIAN OPPOSITION LEADER.

    The 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 words
  22. U-BOATS ACTIVE.

    Twenty 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 words
  23. EXPORTS FROM U.S.A.

    The 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 words
  24. FINE ON LIQUOR CHARGE.

    At 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 ...

    Article : 61 words
  25. GREATER USE OF HORSES PREDICTED.

    Mr. Max Henry, chief vete[?]ary surgeon for New South Wales, said that if petrol was severely rationed, the horse would re-establish itself in the city and country; but it would ...

    Article : 184 words
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    Advertising : 179 words
  27. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    I'm was quoted to-day at £266/5/ a [?] compared with £268 yesterday. Rubber is quoted at 12½d per lb. [?] quotations: Broken Hill. 32/6; [?] ...

    Article : 83 words
  28. TASMAN CONNECTION AT SYDNEY.

    Arrangements have been made for Qantas-Empire Airways flying-boats and the Royal Netherlands Indies Airways Douglas D.C.3 land-planes from ...

    Article : 272 words
  29. W.A. PROTESTS.

    The 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 words
  30. BRITISH AND GERMAN BASES.

    This map shows the distances of bases in territory occupied by Germany from important points in the British Isles. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 26 words
  31. GRAVING DOCK.

    The Minister for the Interior, Senator Foll, announced to-day that the Commonwealth Government had appointed Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners, the ...

    Article : 218 words
  32. MOBILE TEA VAN FOR A.I.F.

    On behalf of the Y.M.C.A. with the A.I.F., the Austialian High Commissioner. Mr. S.M. Bruce, has accepted a mobile tea van toward the cost of which a number of business ...

    Article : 75 words
  33. SOLDIERS' WILLS.

    A 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 words
  34. REMITTANCES TO NONSTERLING COUNTRIES.

    Remittances from Austialia to persons in non-sterling countires are to be drastically reduced. The Postmaster-General's Department ...

    Article : 61 words
  35. BRIDGE RECEIPTS FALL.

    Receipts from the Sydney Harbour Bridge toll fell by £1,087 during May and June, compared with the corresponding months of last year. ...

    Article : 66 words
  36. SYDNEY GRADUATE IN B.E.F. REPORTED MISSING.

    Colonel 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 words
  37. TRANS-PACIFIC AIR MAIL.

    A[?] 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 ...

    Article : 48 words
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