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  2. KEEP SOME HOTELS OPEN LONGER

    SYDNEY, Thursday—The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) will ask the State Government to extend liquor trading hours in some districts to enable men ...

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  3. MUST BE GIVEN ANNUAL LEAVE

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—In determining the rights of employees to annual leave, employers must regard periods of military training up to an aggregate of 90 days ...

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  4. MERCHANT SHIPS IN AUSTRALIA

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—The possibility of securing assistance from Great Britain in merchant shipbuilding for Australia would be ...

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  5. OVERTIME AND BEER

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—A ban on overtime and beer was declared to-night by a special meeting of the Labour Council, attended by shop stewards, union ...

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  6. Fall of Tobruk Opens Way To Benghazi

    MELBOURNE, Friday.—The capture of Tobruk will be a more important success than Bardia, because it will clear the way for a British drive to Benghazi. Italian ...

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  7. JAPAN WANTS TO BE FRIENDS

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Japan desired to remain friends with both sides of the warring nations, said Mr. K. Otabe, Japanese Vice-consul for Sydney, ...

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  8. MAITLAND AND DISTRICT

    In response to an appeal from the Lord Mayor's Patriotic and War Fund. Maitland District Comforts Fund has decided to send £250. ...

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  9. RELEASED FROM GERMANY

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—The release of the first of the group of Australian women trapped in Germany at the outbreak of war has been successfully ...

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  10. MEN FOR NATIONAL INDUSTRIES

    The Department of Labour and National Services is seeking the cooperation of all unions throughout the Commonwealth to ascertain the labour ...

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  11. IN BRIEF

    Many business housese were flooded and stock was damaged when heavy rain fell at Townsville between 11 and 11.30 yesterday, morning. The main street. ...

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  12. SOLICITOR GIVES EVIDENCE

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Four men appeared at Central Police Court to-day, charged with having conspired to pervert the course of justice. They were ...

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  13. N.S.W. REQUEST REFUSED

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Federal Executive of the Official A.L.P. refused a request by the New South Wales executive for a special conference of the ...

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  14. DESTROYER HAS BUSY MORNING

    LONDON, Jan. 23. A.A.P.—While communiques announce the navy's part in the capture of Toburk, a British destroyer had a private triumph, when without ...

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  15. COLLAPSED IN BATHS

    While swimming in West Maitland baths last night, Madge Williams, 50 at Michael-street. West Maitland collapsed. Maitland Ambulance took her to a surgery, then to ...

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  16. MOVE TO CURB DRUNKENNESS

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—All regional councils of the Australian Women's National Council will be asked to approach their Governments with the ...

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  17. Cheek Lacerated

    When a rotary hoe he was cranking backfired, D. Mitchell, 22, of Swan-street, Morpeth, received a lacerated and contused wound to his right cheek. He was treated by ...

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  18. European and Japanese Wounded

    SHANGHAI, Jan. 23. A.A.P.—Two men, Mr. Keawick and a Japanese, Mr. Okamato, were wounded when shooting occurred at a meeting here to-day. ...

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  19. LEASED TO RETURNED SOLDIERS

    The District Surveyor at East Maitland (Mr. H. G. Barrie) has advised Adamstown sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League of approval for the use of the old council ...

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  20. HOME GUARD PLAN DROPPED

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—It was not proposed to establish a Home Guard organisation other than the Returned Soldiers' Volunteer Defence Corps, said the Prime ...

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  21. SPECIAL WAR BADGE ISSUE SOON

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) said to-day that special badges would be supplied shortly to people engaged in defence work ...

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  22. IRRIGATION PLANT AT RAYMOND TERRACE

    Mr. E. C. Armstrong has completed the installation of an irrigation plant on 26 acres of his property at Raymond Terrace. Over 7000 gallons of water will be ...

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  23. KNOCKED OFF WHARF AND DROWNED

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Edward John Thornton, 36, single, a wharf labourer, was drowned when he was knocked into the water while working at Jones Bay ...

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  24. ITALIANS GIVEN ARMS BACK

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Griffith Sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League has complained to the State Council of the League that Italians in the ...

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  25. BERLIN EXPECTS BIG RAIDS

    LONDON, Jan. 23.—The Stockholm radio says that Berlin expects extensive air raids when the weather conditions improve. ...

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  26. DUNGOG SEWERAGE RATE

    DUNGOG, Thursday.—Dungog Council has abandoned its idea of fixing sewerage revenue on a basis of pedestal charges The council proposed to fix a charge for ...

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  27. WHEATGROWERS AND ACREAGES

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—Wheatgrowers who lodged claims for exaggerated acreages under the stabilisation scheme would seriously impair the smooth working of ...

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  28. 28 FOREIGN SHIPS ON BLACK LIST

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—Twenty-eight foreign ships have been placed on the black list by the British Government for having continuously evaded the ...

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  29. MR. NYE AGAIN VETERANS' PRESIDENT

    Mr. W. H. Nye has been elected for the 24th term president of the Newcastle Naval, Military and Veterans' Association for 1941. He succeeded Mr. E. J. Flynn, ...

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  30. KILLED BY FERRY GANG PLANK

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Crushed beneath an upper deck gang plank at Manly Wharf late this afternoon, Ian Arthur Reid, of McLachlan-street. Orange, died ...

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  31. SIX NORWEGIANS GAOLED

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Six Norwegians were sentenced to six months' imprisonment pending deportation, at Central Police Court to-day. The men left ships ...

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  32. ELECTRICIAN KILLED AT PORT KEMBLA

    WOLLONGONG, Thursday.—Stanley Clifford Rich, 27, electrician, of Coniston, was killed at the Port Kembla Steel Works last night while making electrical ...

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  33. HARVEST SERVICES AT SPEERS POINT

    Harvest services at Speers [?] Congregational Church were conducted by the Cha[?]man of the Congregational Union of No South Wales (Rev. A. G. A. Taylor), Brows ...

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  34. CESSNOCK BOY WHO EARNED HIS JOB

    "YOU CANT RIDE 80 miles a day looking for work," said a works foreman at a Newcastle industrial plant to the 16-year-old youth who stood before ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  35. UNIONS TO CONSIDER COURT'S RULING

    The combined unions' committee will meet at Newcastle Trades Hall to-morrow morning, at 10 o'clock, to consider the Court's ruling to uphold the ...

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  36. SCHOOL FOR LIBRARIANS

    At the outbreak of war, the Library Act of 1939, which had been only partly proclaimed, provided for a school for the training of librarians in the Public ...

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  37. MINOR ACCIDENTS

    Harold Davidson, 16, of Maitland-road, Mayfield, Suffered a lacerated and contused wound to the thigh, and shock, when kicked by a horse. Davidson was leading horses ...

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  38. RIGHT NAME, WRONG CASE

    Because of similarity in the names of two women, there was slight confusion in the hearing of a tenancy matter at Newcastle Courthouse yesterday. ...

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  39. Cessnock Struck by Fall of Coal

    James Plant, 55, of Allandale-street, Kearsley, a miner at Abermain No. 2 colliery, was struck by a fall of coal yesterday. He suffered lacerations to the scalp. Cessnock ...

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  40. Charlestown Party Planned

    The Secretary reported to Charleston Send-off and Welcome Home Committee the owing to poor support, a theatre entertainment had been a failure. Mr. Silverthor[?] ...

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  41. GIFTS FOR SOLDIERS AT BANK CORNER

    At a party given to private R. J. Tinning of Newcastle by "friends at the Bank Corner," several members of the A. I.F. received presentations. Private Tinning received a ...

    Article : 110 words
  42. Weston KNITTERS WANTED

    The organising Secretary of the War Comforts Fund (Mrs. E. M. Davies) said yesterday that the committee needed women to knit socks, balaclavas, mittens and ...

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  43. BAND PRESENTATION

    Weston Town Band held a social in home of the former Secretary (Mr. W. Wilson), w[?] has Joined the A.I.F. He was presented w[?] a wallet and notes by the band's old ...

    Article : 83 words
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