PREPARATION of a £6 million budget will be the first major task of the new City Council which takes office next week. Officials expect the 1946-47 expenditure to be a ...
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Article : 264 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—A flight of ducks attracting the attention of two women, one of whom was from Brisbane ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Australian Wool Realisation Commission has arranged a provisional programme of wool auction sales for the 1946-47 season up ...
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Article : 174 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—A Union organiser was fined £5 on an unanimous decision of the State Arbitration Court ...
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Article : 85 wordsThe triennial Stare Labour convention this time will be held at Townsville, in February. It is 15 years since the last ...
Article : 105 wordsApplications for the new appointment of State Librarian for Queensland are being sought throughout Australia. ...
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Article : 167 wordsReadjustment training in Australia for American servicemen discharged here has been arranged by the Veterans' Administration. ...
Article : 129 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Dutch nationals from either Java or Hol-land at present living in Australia would be returned to their homes ...
Article : 75 wordsThe London Times' Singapore correspondent says that Christmas Island (in the Indian Ocean) plans to double its pre-war production ...
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Article : 67 wordsThe two houses built by post-war reconstruction trainees were outstandingly good and he would be happy if he could live In one of ...
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Family Notices : 139 wordsLONDON, May 8 (Special).—The author, Compton Mackenzie, said to-day that after writing the history of India ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Thu 9 May 1946, Page 3
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