It was officially announced to-day that the strength of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service would be doubled to 40,000, to release man-power ...
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Article : 364 wordsThe Meat Commissioner, Mr. J. Merrett, yesterday afternoon applied to the Industrial Commission, as a matter of urgency, for the ...
Article : 383 wordsMembers of the legal profession are agieed that radical amendment of the New South Wales divorce law is not only long oveidue, but imperative in ...
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Article : 269 wordsThe president of the Taxpayers' Association of New South Wales, Mr. S. McKellar White, said yesterday that, despite the opinion of the Deputy Premier. Mr. Bruxner, that the ...
Article : 190 wordsA Federal jury at Soulhbend (Indiana) convicted the General Motors Corporation and three subsidiary companies on charges of having violated the anti-trust laws. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 287 wordsThe Defence Department announced yesterday that relatives desinng to communicate messages of an urgent nature to officers or ratings of tse Royal Australian Navy should ...
Article : 186 wordsPrices of gold and tin to-day were unchanged. Foreign exchange rates also were unaltered. Rubber was quoted at 11 l-16d a 1b. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe £600,000 loan of the Sydney County Council was a greater success than was at first expected. When country and interstate applications ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Polish Prime Minister, Gene[?]l Sikorski, visited a Scottish port to-day [?] present the first decorations awarded during the war to members of the Polish fight[?]g ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Netherlands Minister in Berlin will return to The Hague to-day to report on Germany's rejection of the offer of the Netherlands and Belgian rulers to mediate for peace. ...
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Article : 195 wordsThe audience which attended last night's Red Cross concert at the Town Hall was offered a great quantity of entertainment. ...
Article : 235 wordsThe State of Tabasco will establish a colony of 3,000 families, half European refugees and the remainder repatriated Mexicans. The first party of European refugee colonists. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Douglas Aircraft which [?]e Commonwealth Government acquirec after the outbreak of war for coastal reconnaissance work will shortly be replaced by Lock[?]eed Hudsons, ...
Article : 99 wordsPower to re-examine and if necessary suppress films which have already been passed by the Customs Censorship Board, is vested in the military censorship authorities by ...
Article : 101 wordsTown Hall: Comedy Harmonists, 2.15. Theatre Royal: "Switzerland Ice Show," 2, 8. Tivoli Theatre: The Mills Brothers, 2.30, 8. Minerva Theatre: "Elizabeth the Queen," 2.15, ...
Article : 268 wordsDespite earlier estimates indicating that 800 persons were either killed or injured in the fire which engulfed the oil port of Lagunillas (Venezuela), the Government ...
Article : 81 wordsSpeaking at the annual meeting of the Australian Associated Prccs, to-day, the chairman, Sir Keith Murdoch, said that the Australian Government was alone in the Empire ...
Article : 235 wordsSpeaking to the Overseas League last nig[?] the Secretary for the Dominions, Mr. Ed[?] who has just returned from a visit to Fra[?] in company with representatives of the ...
Article : 178 wordsFor the past three days, a cat has been living on the edge of a building in the heart of the city. Four stories above Pitt Street, it has been pacing up and down, unconscious ...
Article : 160 wordsIn one of the pockets of a man who was found dying in Victoria Park, near Sydney University, yesterday afternoon, was a note asking that his body should be bequeathed to ...
Article : 117 wordsAfter a retirement of nine and a halt hours, a jury at the Quarter Sessions last night brought in a verdict of not guilty in the case of William Baxter, 27, motor driver, and ...
Article : 127 words"A[?]" Capone, the former Chicago gang leader, who was released from Alcatraz Prison. San Francisco Harbour, after he had served several years' imprisonment for evasion of ...
Article : 110 wordsThe City Coroner, Mr. Oram, at the inquest yesterday on Grace Lilian Goal, 37, single, who was found dead in her flat in Anzac Parade, Kensington, on October 7. recorded ...
Article : 127 wordsA youth, aged 17, who was sent by the Arm by which he was employed to change cheques amounting to £40 yesterday afternoon, did not return to the office, and had not been ...
Article : 88 wordsA large plate-lass window of Hordern Brothers' store in George Street was smashed early this morning when two sailors who were fighting fell against it. ...
Article : 42 wordsSentences of three weeks' imprisonment with hard labour have been imposed on the 33 Lascar seamen who were charged with leaving a British freighter without permission. ...
Article : 43 wordsArchbishop J. Panico, Apostolic Delegate to Australia and New Zealand, has been appointed Papal Legate to the New Zealand National Eucharistie Congress in Wellington ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Netherlands Legation denies that [?] export of eggs and poultry from Holland [?] been prohibited. ...
Article : 24 wordsProgrammes of Suburban und Country Pictur[?] Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement Section. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 18 Nov 1939, Page 18
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