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  2. £15½m. FOR NEW MUNITIONS PLANTS IN YEAR

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—Eighty thousand people would be employed by June in producing munitions, and 70,000 more would be producing materials for munitions, said the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) at Newcastle on ...

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  3. S.A. ELECTION

    ADELAIDE; Sunday.—Latest counting in the South Australian election indicates that the Liberal Country Party Government is ...

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  4. Women Help To Pick Cotton Crop

    Women have filled many gaps in the home from left vacant by their brothers joining the fighting services. During the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. LABOUR WILL DECIDE POLICY TO-DAY ON CHILD AID BILL

    FEDERAL Caucus will meet in Canberra to-day to decide how Labour will act when the Child Endowment Bill is before Parliament to-morrow. Although a few members are expected to press for changes ...

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  6. Firm's Motto Lands Self-Help Store Managers In Gaol

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Saturday.—Five branch managers and three other employees of Self-Help Stores, New Zealand's biggest ...

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  7. East Indies Speeding-up Naval Work

    BATAVIA, March 30.—Thousands of men at Sourabaya are working at top speed on new equipment for the Netherlands East ...

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  8. BIG SHARE DEAL IN RUBBER COMPANY SOON

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Directors of Barnet Glass Rubber Co., Ltd., have submitted to shareholders an offer from Dunlop. Perdriau ...

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  9. ONE-DAY STEEL WORKS STRIKE ON WEDNESDAY

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—A one-day strike at the Port Kembla works of Australian Iron and Steel Limited will take place on Wednesday as a result of the decision of the engine-drivers to-day to declare the works "black" on that day. It is expected ...

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  10. SECRET DEFENCE WORK DONE AT UNIVERSITY

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Behind closed doors and under guard by Commonwealth peace officers, work of urgent defence importance is being ...

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  11. U.S.A. Sailor's Uniform Under Wharf

    Hamilton police are trying to establish whether an American sailor's uniform found under the wharves at Hamilton yesterday ...

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  12. Whisky Drought Due To Nazis

    AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Saturday.— Not one Auckland hotelkeeper will now sell a bottle of whisky over the bar counter, not a ...

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  13. INCREASING TRADE WITH DUTCH INDIES

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—Australian and Dutch exporters were taking full advantage of the opportunities which increased trade relations between ...

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  14. 500,000 MEN ON SERVICE OR AVAILABLE

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Nearly 500,000 of Australia's male population to-day is in uniform or available—one in every five men between the ages of ...

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  15. FATAL FALL AT INNISFAIL

    INNISFAIL, Sunday.—Following a 30ft. fall on Friday night William Frederick Kilburn, 45 who came from Coolangatta six weeks ago as ...

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  16. 2 Accidents In Street In Few Minutes

    Two men, one a soldier, were severely injured in two accidents in one street of Toowoomba within a few minutes yesterday. ...

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  18. Japanese Consul To Go To New Post

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Consul-General for Japan (Mr. Akiyama), who has been recalled to Tokio for new work, said yesterday that the ...

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  19. HOSPITALS HERE CAN TAKE ALL MATERNITY CASES

    Brisbane, unlike some other Australian cities, is not finding difficulty in providing sufficient hospital accommodation for maternity cases. ...

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  20. "AMERICAN DAY"

    WASHINGTON, March 30.—President Roosevelt has proclaimed Sunday, May 18 as "I am an American" day, to be observed "In recognition of our ...

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  21. SEVERE JAPANESE DEFEAT IN CHINA

    CHUNGKING, March 30.—A Chinese communique claims that Chinese forces virtually annihilated the Japanese Oga division, in addition to the Ikeda ...

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  22. WOMEN'S LAND ARMY GOES COTTON PICKING

    Seventeen members of the Women's Land Army, under the commandant, Mrs. R. C. Philp, helped with the cotton picking at the Caboolture property ...

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  23. BUILDING OF WOODEN SHIPS HERE URGED

    CANBERRA, Sunday.—Building of wooden ships in Queensland yards to replace steel ships trading in the Pacific, so that the steel vessels may ...

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  24. YEAR'S LOSS £54,482 ON A.B.C. WEEKLY

    CANBERRA, Sunday.—A loss of £54,482 was shown on the A.B.C. Weekly for the year ended June 30, 1940, according to figures in the ...

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  25. STATE THANKED FOR WELCOME TO FLEET

    The Minister for Information (Senator Foll), before leaving for the South yesterday, expressed appreciation, on behalf of the Commonwealth ...

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  26. GUARDS ON ITALIAN SHIPS

    LONDON, March 30.—Armed United States coastguards are being placed on all Italian ships from the Panama Canal to Boston, Massachusetts ...

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  27. IN A NUTSHELL

    HAND SEVERED.—Mr. Clem Breuer, Farmer, of Laidley North, had his left hand severed on Saturday while he was working a chaffcutter on a farm ...

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  28. THEATRE GUIDE

    MAJESTIC.—"Captains Courageous"; "Mystery Sea Raider." METRO.—"Contraband"; "Gold Rush Maisie." ...

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  29. RUMANIANS ANGERED BY GERMAN DEMANDS

    LONDON, March 30.—A dispatch from the Independent French News Agency correspondent at Istanbul, says that, according to news ...

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  30. 'COMMISSION CONTROLS ELECTRICITY TARIFFS'

    "Electricity tariffs are controlled by the State Electricity Commission," said the chairman of the commission (Mr. S. F. Cochran) yesterday. ...

    Article : 79 words
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