"WITHOUT Singapore the Southern Pacific would largely lie at the mercy of any powerful aggressor," said Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, ...
Article : 431 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—If Great Britain got through June all right she would be on the way to victory, said Mr. William Holmes, a British trades union ...
Article : 225 wordsAfter months of preparatory work including extensive drilling operations to strike solid bottom, the work of filling with concrete the huge cylinder for the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 210 wordsBanks, shops, and other business houses will be closed on Monday, when the King's Birthday holiday will be observed. Many sporting fixtures have been arranged for ...
Article : 312 words"As soon as we are given permission by the authorities, we are ready to start," said Mr. F. Barnes, representative in Australia of A. Wander Ltd., ...
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Advertising : 410 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—It is authoritatively stated that the Government has decided to introduce reforms for the creation of a combined foreign service ...
Article : 218 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—Such a course would be a complete departuie in principle from the traditions followed for many generations, said the Prime ...
Article : 142 wordsA BRITISH mobile column is reported to have entered Kirkuk in Iraq, near the border of Iran, and to have received a ...
Article : 33 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday.—The Maritime Commission announces that the American freighter, Robin Moor (5,000 tons), which was sunk by a U-boat in the ...
Article : 120 wordsA request for the establishment of a second advisory committee to the Price Fixing Commission at Launceston was made at a meeting of the Launceston Trades Hall Council ...
Article : 306 wordsStirring appeals to the manhood of the Glenorchy district to give added support to the Volunteer Defence Corps were made by the Corps Commander (Col. L. M. ...
Article : 472 wordsActivities of the New Norfolk branch of the Child Welfare Association were reviewed by members at a meeting on Tuesday evening. Miss R. Procter presided. ...
Article : 138 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—The question of oil supplies for Germany, especially from Latin-America, was raised in the House of Commons. ...
Article : 99 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) refused to comment tonight on the prospect of Australia's total defence expenditure for the ...
Article : 74 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday. — Demonstrating the danger of cateless talk to the successful prosecution of the war an extract from a letter received from an ...
Article : 121 wordsSale of item tickets in booklet form, suggested by "Vigilant," was described yesterday by Aid. Watkins, chairman of the Hobart City Council Tramway Committee, as ...
Article : 112 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—After strong criticism by delegates from several of the States a conference of Federal and State tobacco experts today agreed to suggest to ...
Article : 101 wordsCAIRO, Wednesday.—A communique refers to patrol activity in the frontier area of Libya, where the situation about Tobruk is unchanged. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe New Norfolk Women's Aid Committee, which has done excellent work for the New Norfolk Cottage Hospital in the past 25 years, has resumed active work for the year after ...
Article : 78 wordsMELBOURNE, Wedneiday.—An early announcement of the Fedeial Government's decision on the proposal to appoint a commander-in-chief for the home ...
Article : 84 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—A letter received this week by Mrs. C. J. Burchell, wife of the Canadian High Commissioner in Australia, from a gunner serving in an A.I.F. ...
Article : 334 wordsThe appeal by the Lord Mayor (Mr. Soundy) for support for the drive to raise £1,000 for instruments for the Returned Soldiers' Band should commend itself to every ...
Article : 59 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Mr. W. A. Robertson, former deputy chairman of the Victorian State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, began duties today as ...
Article : 78 wordsMembers of the New Norfolk branch of the Australian Comforts Fund have completed plans to conduct a shop in the business centre at New Norfolk. A shop has been secured ...
Article : 63 wordsWith the advent of snow on the mountain, everybody feels the need of warmer clothing. When the household income is small it allows for little besides rent and the ...
Article : 133 wordsGRETNA.—There was a large attendance of Gretna residents at the funeral of Mr. Ray Derwent Barren Rainbird at St. Mary's Church of England cemetery, Gretna, on ...
Article : 375 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday. — The impression that Australian forces in Malaya were being over-indulged in social activities was described as being "very wrong" ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsWASAGA BEACH (Ont.), Wednesday. —The wreckage of an aeroplane that crashed into Georgian Bay, in February, killing two Australians, Aircraftmen Ross ...
Article : 41 wordsAll municipalities in Tasmania were advised last October that their quotas for the sale of war savings certificates had been increased, said Mr. P. S. Shadforth, ...
Article : 116 wordsThere was a further break in the weather yesterday, and considerable rain fell in the south and west, with a few showers in the north and east. By 9 p.m. 14 points had ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—The crew of an unnamed ship burnt at sea drifted in a jolly-boat for 41 days before they were picked up. They subsisted on biscuits, ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—It is now reported that the entire town of Semenaria (Yugoslavia) was destroyed in the powder depot explosion last week. ...
Article : 69 wordsCabinet decided yesterday to call fresh applications for the position of Public Service Commissioner. Applications were called a few months ago, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsThe Tasmanian Philatelic Society met at 164 Liverpool St. Hobart. The treasurer reported that there was a credit balance of £12. Mr. R. C. Walker was elected a member. The ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—As a result of the Battle of the Lakes and the River Omo advance, a further 45,000 square miles of Italian territory have fallen into ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—Second Lieut. Premindra Singh Bhaget (22), of the Indian Engineers Corps, is the first Indian awarded the Victoria Cross in this war. ...
Article : 132 wordsIn the Dover Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. W. Jackson and W. H. Knight, Js.P., Inspector T. H. Nolan prosecuting. Lindsay Oliver Carmichael was fined £1. ...
Article : 59 wordsHalf a million pounds of aluminium originally destined as tinfoil for chewinggum wrappers has been given to the United States Government by the Wrigley Co. for ...
Article : 70 wordsThe offence with which Allan Keith Reid was charged in the Hobart Police Court last week—driving at a speed dangerous to the public—occurred about 12.30 p.m., not 12.30 ...
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Article : 7 wordsAppreciation of improvements made at the Hobart Abattoirs under the direction of the Health Committee of the City Council was expressed by representatives of the ...
Article : 109 wordsTOKIO, Wednesday.—The Foreign Office announces that Mr. Masatoshi Akiyama, who is in Japan on leave from Sydney, where he was consul-general, ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Deputy Director, Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. J. E Monfries), stated yesterday that as Lebanon and Syria having been proclaimed enemy territories, telegraph and postal ...
Article : 64 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Replying to questions at his Press conference to-day, the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) said the apaointment of a Minister to ...
Article : 42 wordsCAIRO, Wednesday.—R.A.F. fighters intercepted four Savoia 79's 50 miles west of Malta on Monday, shot down 2, and badly damaged the other two. ...
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