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  2. Will be Clash Over Loan Expenditure

    The Commonwealth and the States will clash at the Loan Council meeting in Melbourne on January 19 ...

    Article : 270 words
  3. Conference Delegates

    From the left, Misses Joan Hawkins, Jean White and Marjorie Ion, of Perth, with Misses Jill Morey and Thelma Pettigrew, of Sydney, who arrived in Brisbane to-day on their way to Southport where they will attend the Y.W.C.A. Conference which begins to-morrow. Misses Pettigrew and Morey, who are both Y.W.C.A. secretaries, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 85 words
  4. Reasonable Fruit Prices For First Time in Weeks Welcomed by Public

    For the first time in weeks the public has been able to buy fruit at reasonable prices, and this casing of rales has many compensations. Admittedly the prices still asked for good apples and oranges, two of the staple lines, are still high, but stone fruit and grapes can be had at rates about ...

    Article : 1,383 words
  5. AIR CHIEF IS SENIOR DEFENCE OFFICER

    APPOINTMENT of an officer of the standing of Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett as chief of the Australian Air ...

    Article : 246 words
  6. More Pay For Troops When Abroad

    WAR CABINET has decided that members of the 2nd A.I.F. while abroad will be entitled to draw in sterling ...

    Article : 253 words
  7. 400 Yards of Lace in Dress

    THE marriage of Miss Eileen Forbes, youngest daughter of Mrs. A. Forbes, Duke Street. Kangaroo Point, and of the Jute Mr. T. A. Forbes, to Mr. Roy Nasser. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 199 words
  8. Motor Imports To N.Z. For 6 Months From Britain Only

    Motor imports into New Zealand for the first six months of this year will be restricted to British vehicles. ...

    Article : 140 words
  9. Inter-State Ships for Overseas Run?

    Proposals designed to minimise Australia's shipping problems are being examined by the Federal Government, and ...

    Article : 245 words
  10. Tomatoes Costing 10d. a lb. Thrown At Pacifists

    Followed by an angry crowd, two pacifists were driven out of Strafford's main street after they had spoken on a soapbox on the ...

    Article : 71 words
  11. £85 more in tolls on Hornibrook Highway last month

    Compared with December, 1938, £8595 more was collected, in tolls on the Hornibrook Highway in December, 1939. ...

    Article : 118 words
  12. HAIL RUINS FRUIT CROPS

    Some idea of the heart breaking damage wreaked on the fruit crop in the Amiens-Bapaume district, near Stanthorpe by the hail storm which hit ...

    Article : 537 words
  13. Week-end Weather Likely To Be Uncertain

    An uncertain week-end is the best that can be promised for the city and the Immediate south and north coastal resorts. The weatherman points out that ...

    Article : 267 words
  14. Military To Take Over N.S.W. Canteens This Month

    The State Canteen Board will probably take over the management of all major military canteens in New South Wales this month. ...

    Article : 137 words
  15. Boy Killed, Three Adults Injured When Car Overturns

    Harold Payne, 13, of Mlldura, was killed and three adults were injured, when a car overturned late, yesterday on the Colder Highway, at Boonoonar, ...

    Article : 81 words
  16. Minister To U.S.A. To Be Announced Next Monday

    The Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) will announce the appointment of the first Australian Minister to the United States of America on Monday. ...

    Article : 98 words
  17. OLD MAN BURNT TO DEATH

    William George Lappin, 77. of Indigo was burnt to death when a five-roomed weatherboard house in which he lived alone, caught fire about fire about midnight last ...

    Article : 49 words
  18. Officials from Thai Visiting Australia

    High officials from the Land of the Thai, as Siam is now officially called, are at present in Brisbane carrying out investigations on behalf of their ...

    Article : 116 words
  19. YOUNG DARWIN MEN MISSING IN BOAT

    Leo Hickey, 22, and J. Murray, 26, left here a fortnight age in a 16 feet open launch on a holiday trip to Melville Island and Port Essington, on the ...

    Article : 92 words
  20. Head of Vic. War Nurses Contingent

    Matron Anne M. Sage has been chosen as head of the contingent of more than 40 Victorian nurses who will accompany the Second A.I.F. overseas. ...

    Article : 34 words
  21. Death of Dr. S.L. Cook, of Goodna Mental Hospital Staff

    Dr. Sydney Leicester Cook, who possessed fine literary gifts, contributing many articles and poems to American and Australian journals, died at his ...

    Article : 259 words
  22. City Temperature

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 words
  23. Man Who Escaped from Police Escort Recaptured

    Wireless broadcasts and a 10 hours search by 25 police and 50 district residents led to the recapture early last night of a man who escaped from his ...

    Article : 60 words
  24. ROAD TO ANYWHERE

    A long way from anywhere. A signpost on the Surat-St. George road near the famous stud farm owned by ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 39 words
  25. SUNDAY'S TIDES

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 268 words
  26. BIG BUSHFIRE QUELLED NEAR COBAR, N.S.W.

    The bushfire which for a week raged on a 20-mile front in the Hillston district and threatened the town of Cobar has been quelled. ...

    Article : 97 words
  27. U.S.A. ARGENTINE NEGOTIATIONS OFF

    The correspondent in Washington of the Associated Press says that the State Department has announced that the trade treaty negotiations with Argentina ...

    Article : 76 words
  28. Woman Collapses and Dies in Dentist's Chair

    While her husband looked on nursing their two children. Mrs. Jessie Saunders, 30, of Ingleburn, collapsed aud died in a dentist's chair in the city ...

    Article : 167 words
  29. Canberra Fishermen and Graziers at Loggerheads

    Six licensed fishermen to-day left the city to fish in the troubled waters of Canberra's trout streams and thus defy the local graziers whom they claim are ...

    Article : 103 words
  30. FIFTH BIRTHDAY PARTY

    Small guests at the 5th birthday party of Lorne Kessels. daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel O. A. Kessels and Mrs. Kessels, held at their home, Valwen, Nundah. In the picture, from the left are the guest of honour, Lorne Kessels, Dorothy Woods, Mary cooksley, and Jim ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 48 words
  31. AUSTRALIAN INVITED TO GENEVA MEETING

    Australian representation at a meeting of the governing body of the International Labour Office, which is to meet at Geneva on February 1, is invited in a ...

    Article : 87 words
  32. SOUTH AFRICA EXPEDITING INTERNMENTS

    A thousand Germans and pro-Nazi South Africans have been interned, the latter including two professors of the Grey University at Bloemfontein, also a ...

    Article : 56 words
  33. Ex-bookkeeper on Two Stealing Charges

    Frank Llewellyn Jones, 28, clerk, was charged in the Police Court to-day, that on June 1, 1939. at Crossmore Station. Muttaburra. he stole a cheque for £12. ...

    Article : 153 words
  34. Former Countess of Jersey's Mother Weds

    Mrs. Richards, widow of Mr. Kenneth Richards, grazier, of New South Wales, and mother of the former Countess of Jersey, married Sir ...

    Article : 112 words
  35. Falling Tree Kills Boy in Gale

    During the height of the gale on Friday a large poplar tree at Glenorchy fell and killed Kenneth McKay Tuttle, aged 8. ...

    Article : 32 words
  36. Melbourne Tramways To Have Own Factory For Making Uniforms

    The Melbourne Tramways Board has decided to establish its own clothing factory because of the difficulty in meeting uniform needs for conductors and ...

    Article : 57 words
  37. Trading Bank Deposits. Up £3¼millions in Victoria Last Month

    Deposits of the [?]ne trading banks in Victoria show a rise of £3¼millions in the quarter ended December 31, 1939. compared with the previous three months, and a gain ...

    Article : 69 words
  38. Balonne River Rising

    The Balonne River is rising Latest reports from St. George indicate that heavy rains during the past few days have caused the river to run strongly, ...

    Article : 57 words
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