The Minister for Customs, Mr. Lawson, said yesterday that the decline in the cost of living, as shown by the records of the Commonwealth ...
Article : 255 wordsA lengthy programme of legislation to be brought before the State Parliament when it resumes its sittings next Wednesday has been receiving: ...
Article : 478 wordsIt is reported from Holland that the gap between the Belgian and the Dutch defences has been closed and that the Dutch fortifications now extend to the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, talcing the salute at a march past of the 18th Brigade and Divisional troops at Ingleburn yesterday. With him is Brigadier L. J. Morshead, commanding the 18th Brigade. Lord Gowrie also inspected the various units at their training. Other pictures of the Governor-General's visit to the camp are published on the illustrations page. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 64 wordsShipping losses from enemy action in the week ended February l8 were the highest since the war began. Neutrals were by far the greatest ...
Article : 401 wordsTwo lorry loads of poilus going up to the iront line took the wrong turning and drove into the German lines, where they were raked by German ...
Article : 172 wordsTrip average prices of food and groceries in Australia were 0.4 per cent, lower in January than in December. Decreases recorded in individual States ...
Article : 139 wordsMr. R. G. Casey, the first Australian Minister to the United States, was mel by the British Consul, Mr. Holloway, friends, and Australian residents upon ...
Article : 190 wordsFootwear will be dearer because of an increase of 4 per cent, in the price of leather, which was authorised last week, said the secretary of the Boot and Shoe ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Chinese Government claims thal 1,800 of the Chinese who formed the army of 50,000 supporting Mr. Wang Ching-wei the renegade Nationalist ...
Article : 479 wordsNews published in British newspapers which can reach Germany through neutral countries is sometimes being prevented by the British censorship ...
Article : 472 wordsThe vital necessity for Australia to co operate with the rest of the Empire in conserving dollar exchange was emphasised yesterday by the Acting ...
Article : 226 wordsMen not liable to military service women, and perhaps schoolchildren will be embraced by the Governments scheme to train semi-skilled war ...
Article : 350 wordsA number of trawlers encountered enemy aircraft off the north-east coast of Scotland yesterday. The enemy is believed to have attacked, ...
Article : 35 wordsTwo youths were injured last night when the steering gear of a motor car locked in Constitution Road. Meadowbank, and the par swerved across the road, ran down an ...
Article : 82 wordsThe British Admiralty announces that the German trawler Herrlichkeit (268 tons), of Cuxhaven, has been captured and taken to a British port. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Russians claim that their offensive on the Karelian Isthmus is "developing successfully," but the Finns say it is slackening. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 185 wordsThe Minister for Customs Mr. Lawson, announced yesterday that the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner Professor Copland, would ask boot manufacturers to confer with him ...
Article : 68 wordsThe question of raising another division of the Second A.I.F., to be known as the Seventh Division, will be considered by the War Cabinet at a ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Director-General of Civil Aviation, Mr. A. B. Corbett, denied to-day that the late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's famous aircraft Southern Cross ...
Article : 194 wordsBarmen in Darwin's leading hotel stopped strike pickets from drinking on the verandah of the hotel to-day, after the building had been declared "black" by the North Australian ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 269 wordsPrincipals of the leading boys' schools in Sydney are not impressed by the attempt made by Mr. Neil Macneil, the new headmaster of Wesley College, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 368 wordsBoth the Government and the Labour Party's defence policies were condemned by the Leader of the Australian Country Party Mr. Cameron, at a public ...
Article : 246 wordsThe Canadian Minister for Finance, Mr. J. L. Ralston, said yesterday that Canada's war effort would cost 500,000,000 dollars (£A142,857,143) in ...
Article : 141 wordsThe misty rain in Sydney yesterday totalled 'only 10 points, but did much to refresh suburban lawns and gardens. It is estimated, however, that three or four ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Corbett has apparently been misinformed, as an inspection of the Southern Cross yesterday afternoon showed that the tail unit is off and the control wires are ...
Article : 171 wordsThe matron at the hospital at Falkland Islands, where the British sailors injured in the River Plate battle were taken, in a letter to her parents, praises their heroism, ...
Article : 164 wordsTheatre Royal: Russian Ballet, 2, 8. Minerva Theatre: "Tony Draws a Horse," 2.15, 8.15. Tivoli Theatre: "The Hat Trick," 2.15, 8. ...
Article : 303 wordsAccording to the Navy List, Lieutenant W. J. K. Shaxby, who married Miss Anthony Audrey Stanfield Hill, of Sydney, at sea, in 1936, was attached to the destroyer Daring, ...
Article : 75 wordsIn future the regulations for the control of communications sent overseas by enemy aliens will be more strictly enforced It was pointed out yesterday that persons ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Curator of the Sydney Technological Museum. Mr. A. R. Penfold, said yesterday that he had hoped that the Southern Cross would be housed in the museum, but the ...
Article : 88 wordsIt is officially stated that legislation will be introduced, in the British Parliament providing for the payment of upwards of £5,000,000 annually for 10 years for assistance ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Soviet freighter Kim, is loading 20,000 tons of copper and lead, which, it is understood, is consigned to Germany. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Premier of Iraq, General Nuri es Said, has resigned, and the former Premier, Rashid Ali Gaylani, is forming a new Cabinet, which may include General Nuri es Said as Foreign ...
Article : 78 wordsSir Donald Cameron, chairman of the R.A.A.F. Recruiting Drive Committee, who returned to Sydney yesterday after establishing branch committees in Adelaide and Perth, ...
Article : 116 wordsThe charge by the Acting Federal Treasurer. Mr. Spender, that the leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr. Curtin, was "hopelessly wrong" when he stated that the Federal ...
Article : 93 wordsOne new case of typhoid was reported in Wauchope to-day, and two women suspects were also found to be suffering from the disease. This brings the total number of cases in ...
Article : 105 wordsAn alteration in the route taken by the Australia-America air mail service will cut down the original time taken on the service by three days. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Premier, Mr. Mair, said last night that the Cabinet had decided that legislation should be prepared to protect the compensation rights of mone employees at Broken Hill, who ...
Article : 51 wordsTin was quoted to-day at £244/15/ a ton. compared with £242/5/ a ton yesterday. Rubber was quoted to-day at 13¼d a lb. Mining shares were quiet. Quotations: Zinc. ...
Article : 50 wordsJoseph Tighe 54 minor, was killed when a cage on which he was working al the White Hope gold mine crashed 160ft" to-day. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 21 Feb 1940, Page 14
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