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  2. Shipping Losses Force Japs To Shorten front

    A FURTHER contraction of the main Japanese Pacific defences was indicated by General MacArthur in his communique yesterday. He said it was apparent that ...

    Article : 667 words
  3. HEAVY POLL LIKELY

    POLLING is expected to be heavy to-day at the powers referendum. Voting is compulsory. Voting will begin at 8 a.m. and the polls will close at 8 ...

    Article : 522 words
  4. Referendum Ballot Paper

    THE ballot paper will be in this form: Submission to the electors of a proposed law for the alteration ...

    Article : 133 words
  5. NAZI 'DEAD HEADS' ON SHOW IN LENINGRAD

    Pyramid of captured German field helmets was the grim centrepiece of a display of captured enemy equipment ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 71 words
  6. Petersen And "Scalpers" Were K.O'd

    AFTER 2min. 57sec. of fighting, Tommy Burns knocked out Laurie Petersen in the first round of the welterweight title ...

    Article : 237 words
  7. NO POST-WAR 'EASY' MONEY

    Argument that because money had been found readily for war, it could be found just as easily for post-war development was queried ...

    Article : 156 words
  8. HAY LOSES CASE AGAINST A.W.U.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—William Beecher Hay's application to the Federal Arbitration Court for an order directing the Australian Workers' Union and executive officers of the union to ...

    Article : 314 words
  9. SHOT GIRL HE LOVED, SAY POLICE

    MARYBOROUGH, Friday.—"I have just shot the girl I love," Leslie Andrew Kersnovske, 18, railway cleaner, is alleged to have ...

    Article : 240 words
  10. 4000 IDLE AT N.S.W. COAL PITS

    SYDNEY, Friday.—More than 4000 mine workers at 12 collieries were idle on seven northern coalfields of New South Wales to-day. ...

    Article : 280 words
  11. LEADERS SUM UP ON POLL

    In a final referendum summing up last night the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) and the Federal Opposition leader (Mr. Menzies) ...

    Article : 430 words
  12. UPLIFT FOR HUNS

    Mechanical lifter at work stacking 1000lb. bombs on a Royal Air Force flying field in Normandy. The lifter is highly mobile, and also is used for loading and unloading transport aircraft. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 81 words
  13. Bostons Hit Hard At Trapped Japs

    WITH the American beachhead firmly established at Sansapor, a secong Jap. army is desperately attempting to escape ...

    Article : 224 words
  14. 3 KILLED IN SMASH

    MELBOURNE, Friday.—Three women tram passengers were killed when an R.A.A.F. 10-wheel trailer-transport and a tram ...

    Article : 193 words
  15. PILOT'S WIFE LOVED MAJOR

    When R.A.A.F. Flying Officer Robert Tyndole McGeoch returned from overseas his wife told him the was in love with an American ...

    Article : 184 words
  16. MINERS NOT TO GET SANDSHOES

    "We have not the sandshoes available to give to miners in the Howard district," said the Deputy Directors of Rationing (Mr. S. F. ...

    Article : 120 words
  17. Move To Free Internees

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Alien internee camps throughout the Commonwealth are being inspected by a special inquiry board to ...

    Article : 198 words
  18. BACKING FOR CITY PAY RISE

    It is expected that the Parliamentary Labour Party will soon approve of legislation to increase salaries of City Council aldermen. ...

    Article : 91 words
  19. Babies Taking U.K. Back To Victorians

    LONDON, August 18 (Special).—Behind the birth statistics for British families—greatest at 17.9 a thousand since 1926—is confirmation of what some doctors said early in the war—that newlyweds were serious-minded in ...

    Article : 467 words
  20. VISIT OF WOOL BOARD CHAIRMAN

    To afford wool trade interests an opportunity of meeting the Australian Wool Board chairman (Mr. D. T. Boyd) during his visit ...

    Article : 101 words
  21. PROBATE GRANTED

    Probate was granted in the Supreme Court yesterday in the wills of Flora Elizabeth Rose Edwards, widow, Eton Street. ...

    Article : 101 words
  22. DEADLOCK OVER LAND TO TROOPS

    CANBERRA, Friday.—A deadlock was reached at a preliminary conference to-day between liaison officers of the Commonwealth and States on proposals for post-war land settlement of returned ex-servicemen. ...

    Article : 252 words
  23. SOLDIER CLEARED OF KILLING

    MELBOURNE, Friday. — John Ernest Turnbull, 28, soldier, was found not guilty of murder and not guilty of manslaughter by a ...

    Article : 62 words
  24. SHIPPING FOR GOODS

    SHIPPING space for all essential requirements for Queensland is likely to be better in the future. ...

    Article : 104 words
  25. PINES ORDER CHALLENGED

    A challenge to the Federal Government over pineapple acquisition was made yesterday with the issue of a writ out of the ...

    Article : 178 words
  26. Premier's Reply On Sugar Posts

    "It is evident that Mr. Brand, M.L.A., desires to bring the sugar industry into the political arena," said the Premier (Mr. Cooper) ...

    Article : 185 words
  27. SAW "ANCIENT" DESKS IN SCHOOLS

    Some desks and forms used now in State schools had been condemned many years ago, the president of the Greater Brisbane State ...

    Article : 106 words
  28. Advertising

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  29. Soldier Injured By Fire Engine

    Neil Turton, 26, an Australian soldier, was seriously injured when he was knocked down by a fire engine in Brunswick St., Valley, at ...

    Article : 147 words
  30. NO RECOGNITION FOR A.W.C. MEN?

    MELBOURNE, Friday.—Although Allied Works Council engineers, architects, works supervisors, and clerks had worked ...

    Article : 92 words
  31. MUCH FOOD FOR PACIFIC WAR

    SYDNEY, Friday.—Any reduction in meat and butter exports to Britain must be balanced against the big quantities of food ...

    Article : 80 words
  32. PREMIER DENIES 70 P.C. TEACHERS BELOW £300

    THE Premier (Mr. Cooper) denied yesterday that 70 per cent of Queensland's teachers were being paid £300 a year or less. The president of the ...

    Article : 207 words
  33. Londoners Defy Flying Bomb

    LONDONERS had not allowed flying bomb raids to interfere in any way with their normal routine, and they carried out their normal work in a most impressive fashion. This is the outstanding ...

    Article : 235 words
  34. RUBBISH & RAT DRIVE RESUMPTION SOON

    The City Council's clean-up drive on accumulations of rubbish in the city will be resumed on August 28, when gangs will ...

    Article : 92 words
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