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Article : 138 wordsA method of overcoming anomalies in the child endowment scheme was submitted to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Social Security by Mr. ...
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Article : 392 wordsONE of a number of Soviet engineers who visited the Ruhr in June stated that Essen was a city of ruins. The streets, he added, were covered ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Rev. H. J. Ralph, president of the State Council of Churches said yesterday that he welcomed the timely utterances by the Archbishop of ...
Article : 455 wordsMR. AND MRS. G. E. SMITH, of Monbulk (V.), have 12 sons in the A.I.F.—seven serving overseas, two of whom are prisoners of war in Greece— ...
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Article : 77 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The New South Wales Nurses' Association will protest to the Minister for the Army (Mr. Spender) about the rates of pay for voluntary aids ...
Article : 227 wordsCompilation of records from tombstones in St. David's Park was undertaken by the Hobart City Council before the park was laid out on the site of the former cemetery ...
Article : 124 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—Judge Kelly, president of the South Australian Industrial Court, is to be appointed to the Commonwealth ...
Article : 339 wordsLONDON, Monday.—Berlin Radio declared yesterday that airmen shot down by German defences included an Australian, Sgt. Alan Ernest Ross Barton. ...
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Article : 47 wordsSeven Parliaments for 7,000,000 people was like having seven bakers for 70 people, said the Rev. T. J. O'Donnell in evidence to the ...
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Article : 218 wordsTHE British United Press correspondent at Cairo says that a Germansponsored military plot to overthrow the Iran Government is reported to have ...
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Article : 167 wordsTHERE is no confirmation in London of a report that the Soviet Premier (M. Stalin) has reminded the Shah of Iran of the treaty of 1921, ...
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Article : 30 wordsLONDON, Monday.—The Admiralty announces that the destroyer Defender has been sunk, but without loss of life. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 12 Aug 1941, Page 2
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