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Advertising : 39 wordsA special nulling of Government Senators yesterday agreed that the Ministers' Salaries Bill should be allowed through the Senato to-day in its original form, thereby providing four Cabinet Ministers with an extra £500 a year ...
Article : 346 wordsNOTHING VIOLENT—just the traditional Shrovetide football game at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, where it has been played since the 14th century. Players scramble for the hand-painted ball in a local stream. Everybody can join in—and usually does. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 wordsThe Works Department has applied to the Treasury for additional funds to prevent a hold-up of works in the A.C.T. during the remainder of the current financial year. It is believed the Works Department is seeking a sum ...
Article : 283 wordsRecord breaking rain and devastating foods in Australia were not being caused by nuclear ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Federal Government, has appointed Sir Alan Watt, at present Australian Commissioner for ...
Article : 104 wordsA special committee now making a detailed survey of the state of the Australian economy will report to the Government next Monday. The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, announcing this in the ...
Article : 373 wordsThe unions' claims for a £1/15/- pay rise would cost employers an extra £200 million a year, union counsel ...
Article : 204 wordsLarge supplies of anti-polio vaccine should be ready in about three months, the Minister for Health, Dr. Cameron, said in the House of Representatives yesterday. ...
Article : 302 wordsRepresentatives of the Dairy Farmers' Cooperative Milk Co. Ltd. conferred Cor more than an hour ...
Article : 125 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. — Patrick Huggins, 26, a student, was fined £1 by West London magistrates ...
Article : 55 wordsBritain was yesterday criticised by Australia and by the British National Farmers' Union for not entering the new International Wheat Agreement. ...
Article : 252 wordsA grazier navigated a small boat through 30 miles of floodwaters to get a dangerously ill woman to hos ...
Article : 124 wordsFrance is studying a request from the Vietnam Government to withdraw her whole expeditionary force from ...
Article : 55 wordsAll pastoral employers were bound by the Federal award reducing rutes for shearers and other pastoral ...
Article : 110 wordsFLYING MACHINE that can be taken in a trunk to the airport. The lightweight monoplane is made of rubberised airmat fabric. At Akron, Ohio, engineer Robert L. Wolcott, of Goodyear Rubber, shoulders ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 71 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday. — The U.S. State Department says it has no evidence to support Communist ...
Article : 48 wordsAtomic tests to be held at Monte Bello and in Australia from April may be watched by some Federal ...
Article : 69 wordsA witness collapsed during, proceeding's in the Canberra Court of Petty Sessions yesterday. ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Barwon River was building up to a second crest to-night and flood-hound towns were waiting anxiously for the full force of water to strike. ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Parliamentary Labour Party again boycotted the Government's joint committee on Foreign Afflairs. ...
Article : 137 wordsWreckage which might be the missing Flying Doctor aircraft in North-West Australia, was sighted ...
Article : 117 wordsCANNES, Wednesday. — Doctors now are optimistic for a quick recovery of the Aga Khan. The condition of ...
Article : 102 wordsA former radio repair man who once ran round in his van mending crackling radios to-day becomes a ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Thu 23 Feb 1956, Page 1
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