First requirements for the Australian contribution to the Empire air training scheme would include the provision of an adequate staff of ...
Article : 378 wordsThe Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr. Fairbairn, inspecting Royal Australian Air Force cadets, who are training at the Kingsford Smith Aerodrome. Top: Mr. Fairbairn, accompanied by Instructors B. Monk (left), and J. Larkin (right) walking between the lines of machines. Lower: Some of the planes taking off on a dual instruction training flight. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 212 wordsThe Anti-Profiteering Bill, which was published yesterday, aims at preventing the prices of goods which enter into the cost of living from rising above ...
Article : 265 wordsA strike by members of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association who are engaged in Australian collieries may be averted. ...
Article : 438 wordsThe Leader of the Federal Country Party, Mr. Cameron, to-day charged the Federal Government with neglecting urgent national matters, while ...
Article : 367 wordsAn interesting survey of German air strength, which was issued in Italy a few days before the war started, and reached Sydney this week, states that ...
Article : 402 wordsIt is the Governments fixed policy to maintain and encourage oversea trade, which is vital to the prosecution of the war. ...
Article : 320 wordsThe Administration and isolationist leaders are reported to have reached an agreement for a modification of the shipping restrictions contained in the ...
Article : 221 wordsTwenty armed members of the Japanese plainclothes police occupied a building owned by the Chinese Government Bank of Communications ...
Article : 119 wordsThe "Daily Mail," in a leading article headed, "Snubs to Australia," refers to the confusion which was caused in Australia because of a request to the Prime ...
Article : 317 wordsTh Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr. Fairbairn, said yesterday that Australia's contribution to the Empire air scheme would only be limited by the ...
Article : 427 wordsState revenue for the first quarter of the financial year is £79,447 higher than in the first quarter of 1938-39. Expenditure "is also higher by £179,370. ...
Article : 70 wordsA call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details are announced on page [?] column 1. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 220 wordsThe Chinese Eighth Route Army at Shans[?] has repulsed an attack by 40,000 Japanese, and has divided nine Japanese mechanised columns, killing 2,000. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe military correspondent of "The Times," commenting on the Australian army promotions, says: "Lieutenant-General J. D. Lavarack, Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas ...
Article : 59 wordsUnless Russia raises new, and unexpected points, it is believed that a satisfactory conclusion to the Turko-Russian talks will be reached at the week-end. ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that he has been reliably informed that the British Government has allocated about ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Assistant Minister for Commerce, Senator McBride, announced to-day that no more wool appraisement centres would be approved under the system ...
Article : 107 wordsTHE REV. T. C. HAMMOND, Principal of the Mooro Theological College, who has been elected a canon of St. Andrew's Cathedral in place of Canon ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 32 words"The Financial News" states that it is understood that the Governments war risk insurance scheme, which is at present confined to the United Kingdom trade, will be shortly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 274 wordsItalian newspapers assert that German "shock troops" are equipped with ingeniously jointed bullet-proof duralumin armour, comprising a ...
Article : 170 wordsAustralia's air expeditionary force will cost the Federal Government an estimated amount of £1,250,000 a year. It was explained to-day that this amount would comprise mainly ...
Article : 116 wordsThe American Museum of Natural History and the Columbia University air sponsoring a 400,000 miles Pacific cruise in the threemasted schooner, Director II., with the object ...
Article : 100 wordsThe resignations tendered by 100 officials of the Japanese Foreign Office have not been accepted, states the Tokyo correspondent of the United Press of America. ...
Article : 180 wordsIn view of his previous interest in and good relations with Germany, attention has been [?] tracted by Lord L[?]ndonderry's speech, in which he said: "I am glad that Britain has thrown ...
Article : 84 wordsBecause of the difficulty in finding space in the large stores at Darling Harbour yesterday there were long queues of lorries, laden with goods, on the roads in the vicinity of the ...
Article : 168 wordsThe president of the Water Board. Mr. T. H. Upton, said yesterday that while the Government had been made aware of the board's proposals to effect a gradual curtailment of ...
Article : 150 wordsIt is officially stated that, out of 1,500 Germans in India, 850 have been interned. Only on escaped. ...
Article : 27 wordsTheatre Royal: "Switzerland Ice Show," 2, [?] Minerva Theatre: "I Killed the Count." 2.15, 8.13. Tivoli Theatre: Nick Lucas, 2.30, 8. Victory Theatre: "Gone to the Dogs." "S.O.S. ...
Article : 309 wordsFour men who have arrived at Darwin from remote parts of the Northern Territory suffered gruelling hardships so that they could join the militia as soon as possible. ...
Article : 282 wordsA two-car electric train plunged 30 feet into a stream at Nikko. Twenty people were killed and 120 injured. ...
Article : 30 wordsDenmark—Europe's greatest producer of bacon, butter, and eggs—is facing ruin because her two best customers, Britain and Germany, are at war. Last year, these products ...
Article : 86 wordsHe[?]y Verity, the Yorkshire bowler, is shortly taking up an army commission. H. Sutcliff[?], of the same club, is already serving as a captain in the British Forces. ...
Article : 38 wordsPresident Roosevelt has appealed for the co-ordination with Red Cross work of the activities of groups aiding war sufferers. "While the United States as a nation which ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Minister for Finance, Mr. Ralston, has announced that the first Canadian war loan of 200,000,000 dollars (£Aus.57,143,000) with a currency of two ...
Article : 123 wordsCold was quoted to day at £8/8/ an ounce fine. EXCHANGE RATES. Foreign exchange rates to-day included: ...
Article : 160 wordsA method by which the storage of petrol in Auotialla could be increased substantially without new equipment is suggested by a correspondent, "Auriga." ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Paris "Journal" mentions the arrest of two Alsatian deputies, Mm. Rosse and St[?]m[?], in connection with a plot to separate Alsace from France and establish a ...
Article : 50 wordsJacob Hugo, 22, a miner, was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of Charles Harris, secretary of the Mine Workers' Union in June. ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. Harry Pollitt, referring to his dismissal from the office of general secretary of the British Communist Party said that the differences which had arisen had nothing in do ...
Article : 50 wordsThe strike at the works of National Oil Pty., which was to have begun to-day was averted by an agreement reached in conference late last night. ...
Article : 32 wordsA Parliamentary mission of eight members led by Mr. Hyogoro Sakurai, a member of the Minsei-to Party, will arrive at Bangkok on October 20. Afterwards they will go to ...
Article : 48 wordsNEW ORLEANS (U.S.), Oct. 13. (A.A.P.) Henry Chapman flew a 65 horse-power Aeronca seaplane 1,120 miles from New York, breaking the world's light seaplane non-stop ...
Article : 30 wordsProgrames of Suburban and Country Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement Section. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 14 Oct 1939, Page 16
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