Since the outbreak of war, a large number of refugees in Australia have offered themselves for overseas service, but as the Defence Act specifically ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 407 wordsAn all-day fight yesterday by hundreds of men in the Carabost area, about 35 miles from Wagga, culminated in the turning of the bush fire threatening the Murraguldrie No. 1 pine plantation back into scrub country. ...
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Advertising : 68 wordsA German plane cropped two bombs on a patrol ship and another vessel lying at roadstead on the East Coast The ship zig-zagged and the bombs ...
Article : 234 wordsIf the criticism levelled by Sir Earle Page against the quality of condition of food found in A.I.F. camps is anywhere near the mark, an intolerable position exists, endangering the health of the soldiers, and argent steps should be taken to correct it. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 20 wordsThe installation of cooling chambers and refrigeration units in all camps in Australia had been approved of by Army headquarters in Melbourne, it ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 416 wordsThe residence at Bowral of the late Dr. W. S Ziele (who died after a motor car accident come months ago), was practically destroyed by fire at the ...
Article : 119 wordsThe magistrate at the Richmond Court to-day expressed surprise when informed that when a constable visited a military camp to serve a ...
Article : 182 wordsA large grey plane believed to be German was sighted off the east coast, heading north. Three fighters pursued it to sea. Machine guns were ...
Article : 63 words"Only amazingly good fortune prevented the week-end road toll being increased tenfold by the reckless behavior of some motorists in bush fire ...
Article : 127 wordsTwo passengers were hurt, one seriously, and a large number of others were badly shaken when two railway trains collided during shunting ...
Article : 134 wordsThe death has occurred in the Leeton District Hospital of Mrs. Annie Jane Allen, at the age of 68 years, her husband having predeceased her ...
Article : 155 wordsA reunion smoke social will be conducted by the Wagga sub-branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. on Friday, February 9 The president of the Wagga sub-branch ...
Article : 55 wordsA deputation representing the Master Builders' Association of N.S.W. to-day waited on the Minister for the Interior (Senator Foil) and urged that ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Minister for Supply (Sir Frederick Stewart) has announced that the new £1,000,000 factory for the manufacture of Pratt and Whitney ...
Article : 388 words"Far from there being any lack of organisation, the position is that never before has the State been better prepared to meet the fire menace," ...
Article : 167 wordsTwo Drainers, aged 23 and 28 years, who were committed for trial at Manly to-day on a charge of breaking, entering and stealing, escaped from the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Junee Formers and Settlers' ssociation is protesting against the lack of bulk wheat loading facilities at Old Junee. forcing farmers to carry ...
Article : 46 wordsIt was reported to-day that the Commonwealth Government may in the near future initiate negotiations with the British Government for the ...
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Advertising : 32 wordsThe Wagga District Ambulance wishes to acknowledge with thanks the sum of £56, being the net proceeds of the speedboat carnival held last ...
Article : 152 wordsQuestioned yesterday as to whether the lowering of the school entrance age from seven to six years, had made any appreciable increase in the ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the British United Press states that the Japanese Prime Minister (Mr. Arita) had a conference with the British ...
Article : 51 wordsThe following are the latest official weather forecasts:— State: Cloudy and unsettled with some scattered thundersqu[?]lls in the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe minister for supply Development (Sir Frederick Stewart) announced to-day that Chapman Engineering Pty. Ltd.. Sydney, had been ...
Article : 72 wordsIn the Central Court to-day a witness in the Wool cott Forbes conspiracy case stated that it was the usual practice in Sydney for companies to buy ...
Article : 102 wordsAccording to the Washington correspondent of the United Press, the British Empire has shipped to the United States the following amounts of gold ...
Article : 61 wordsA Wagga District Ambulance cat travelled 60 miles yesterday to bring in an injured employee from Ball's Run Station, on the Narandera-road, ...
Article : 80 wordsAlthough the fires in the Yass district were reported to be under control to-day, hundreds of men were out watching smouldering embers to ...
Article : 435 wordsMigration in 1939 resulted in a net gain to the Australian population of 12,527 persons Arrivals of permanent new residents numbered 24,068 and ...
Article : 108 wordsPhot R. Doyle and two natives were killed in a plane crash at Wau aerodrome this afternoon Doyle was flying a Dragon machine for W R. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 18 wordsA very pleasant evening was spent at night tennis on Friday evening last in honor of Miss Bobbie Nye. During the supper a ...
Article : 88 words[?]ramping for miles through flooded country, a party of constables and a blacktracker found Henry Cameron, aged 48 years, exhausted, starving and ...
Article : 69 words"The true function of censorship in time of war is to protect the national interests, the interests of troops which may be moving from one place to ...
Article : 245 wordsJunee residents were treated to a musical feast on Sunday, when more than 200 bandsmen from all the leading Riverina towns gave a big recital ...
Article : 336 wordsMr. J. T. Vinton Smith, Melbourne sharebroker, was unanimously selected at Corio to-night by the electoral convention of the U.A.P the Young ...
Article : 108 words"Warryallah" Station, at Boorooban N.S.W. was sold in Melbourne yesterday for £46,721 to Mr Alex Younger The property, which is 42 miles from ...
Article : 46 wordsTransport chaos continues throughout Britain, adding shortages of fuel and food to the bitter onslaughts of winter London is cut off from ...
Article : 129 wordsNo further permits are to be issued by the Christchurch Council for the holding of meetings by Pacifists or Communists. The council reached this ...
Article : 66 wordsThe engagement has been announced of Gladys, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs S. J Castle, of Hill-street, Wagga, to Jack, sen of Mrs. Freeman ...
Article : 109 wordsA free library is in no way a charitable institution, but the co-operative effort of a whole community." writes "Scribe" in a further article on page ...
Article : 83 wordsThe American Ambassador (Mr. Johnson) has arrived at Hankow He said that the United States Navy was not aware of the alleged Chinese plot ...
Article : 56 wordsMiss Winifred Sharpe, an advanced member of the Royal Academy of Dancing, London, will resume her school of dancing above Maples' branch ...
Article : 103 wordsAerial accommodation similar to first class railway sleepers for night flights across the Tasman is likely when the new service becomes ...
Article : 110 wordsThe police to-day began inquiries into the cause of fire as a sugar elevator at the Colonial Sugar Refinery Company's works at Pyrmont early this ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry for Food (Mr. A T. Lennox-Body) has announced that vitamins will be added to margarine from ...
Article : 95 wordsOn the petition of his former wife, an order for the sequestration of the estate of Arthur Brook Eli Carter, well-known grazier, was made by Mr. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Minister for the Interior (Senator Foil) announced to-day that despite the Commonwealth Government's decision to abolish the Commonwealth ...
Article : 70 wordsThe weekly meeting of the Catholic Younger Set was held last night. Discussion took place regaling the advisability of holding a club picnic next ...
Article : 64 wordsWhen a fire destroyed a but in the bush about half a mile from St Arnaud last night, the occupant. John M'Conachie, an old age pensioner, was ...
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Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW : 1911 - 1954), Wed 31 Jan 1940, Page 2
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