City shops were thronged today with crowds of eager buyers. Father Christmas was working overtime in a dozen stores. Even larger crowds are expected tomorrow, when the Christmas trade usually reaches its' feverish peak. ...
Article : 788 wordsTWO KISSES FOR THE COOK: "Happy" Butler (left) and Cyril Hyde, patients at the Rockingham Convalescent Home, Kew, for servicemen and ex-servicemen, reward "Cookie" Carroll, who cooked their Christmas dinner. The Red Cross gave a party to all patients there this afternoon. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 wordsTOKYO, Sunday. -- Casualties and damage caused by the earthquake and accompanying tidal waves in Southern Japan on Saturday were announced by the Japanese Home ...
Article : 263 wordsSir Alan Newton has been appointed Stewart Lecturer in Surgery at the University. He will succeed Mr ...
Article : 269 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. -- At least four State Governments have told the Federal Government ...
Article : 155 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--A publishing firm has received a postcard from a Japanese, who obtained its address from a prewar trade magazine. He wrote:-- ...
Article : 138 wordsAccording to a message received at BCOF Melbourne Headquarters this afternoon, four Australian soldiers who jumped from the ...
Article : 129 wordsElectric globes had frequently been shot at in officers' messes and he had never known disciplinary action to be taken, said Captain Waterston, of Murchison P.O.W. Group, in evidence at the court martial ...
Article : 786 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--David Stewart Dawson, 24, of Elizabeth Bay, company director and well-known in Sydney society, was sentenced by Judge Holt in Quarter Sessions today to 10 years' imprisonment with ...
Article : 763 wordsBush fire, hazard in northern Victoria is "high and increasing," the Weather Bureau announced today. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 90 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. -- Frederick William Cooper, 65, of Surry Hills, old age pensioner, asked Mr Hardwick. SM. in the Central Court ...
Article : 136 wordsLOS ANGELES, Sunday. -- Bernborough, whose sale by Mr A. O. Romano, of Sydney, to the film magnate Mr Louis B, Mayer ...
Article : 90 wordsSYDNEY. Monday. -- Two further charges of murder against William Hollebone, 30, laborer, who was acquitted recently on a ...
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Advertising : 20 wordsSome of the members of the Plumbers and Gasfitters' Union employed at the Armadale depot of the Metropolitan Gas Coy. ...
Article : 182 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--The secretary of the NSW branch of the Gasworkers' Union (Mr J. C. West) said today the union's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 203 wordsParts of the city were obscured early this afternoon by a blue smoke haze which drifted in from the direction ...
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Advertising : 1 wordsNo extra trains or trams will be provided on Christmas Eve. Normal timetables will be followed. There will be some trains and ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Mon 23 Dec 1946, Page 3
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