LONDON, Dec. 6.—Addressing the annual meeting of the P. and O. Steam Navigation Company today, the chairman 4 Sir William Currie) described the ...
Article : 236 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—Power is taken by the Federal Government in a Bill introduced in the House of Representatives tonight to purchase factories for ...
Article : 132 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—Australia's overseas broadcasting service to be conducted throughout the war by the Department of Information will be inaugurated on ...
Article : 344 wordsGENEVA. Dec. 6.—When the Budgetary Committee of the League of Nations met today the Secretary General (M. Avenol) said that further economies ...
Article : 141 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—Because of a sudden change in plans, the Federal Parliament is being asked to pass in the early hours of tomorrow morning and ...
Article : 552 wordsAUCKLAND. Dec. 7.—An amazing case was heard in the Auckland Magistrate's Court today, when the principals in what is known as the "Station Hotel Mystery" ...
Article : 401 wordsNORTHAM, Dec. 7.—Members of the 6th Field Battery of the 2/3rd Field Regiment and the 2/3rd Field Company of Engineers took part in a march-past ...
Article : 187 wordsFalling about 100ft from a window of the emporium of Boans, Ltd., in Murray- street yesterday morning, a man was killed instantly when he struck a ...
Article : 441 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) today reiterated his declaration that the Empire Air Agreement would immeasurably increase ...
Article : 168 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 7.—Reference to risks of financial ruin taken by members of the Police Force when making statements or expressing opinions as to ...
Article : 507 wordsLONDON, Dec. 7.—The Rome correspondent of the Associated Press states that 13 army flyers and a farmer were killed when three Italian bombers ...
Article : 71 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies). in replying to Mr. Francis (U.A.P., Qld.), in the House of Representatives today, said that a ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, Dec. 7.—The Australian Minister. for Air (Mr. J. V. Fairbairn). who has been in Canada discussing with representatives of other Dominion ...
Article : 120 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—An allegation that the Government was losing large amounts of money in the construction of defence works was made by Mr. Nairn ...
Article : 107 wordsTHE HAGUE, Dec. 7.-The Minister for the Colonies has announced that Holland is considering the dispatch of bombers to the Netherlands East Indies ...
Article : 34 wordsMOSCOW, Dec. 6.—The Communist International declaring that Rumanian minorities and workers are oppressed and exploited, urges the creation of a ...
Article : 54 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—Allegations of a defect in the Wirraway aircraft that are being produced at Fishermen's Bend, Melbourne, for the Royal Australian Air ...
Article : 141 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—Allegations by the Auditor-General (Mr. R. Abercrombie) that there had been a waste of £31,000 on equipment for the ...
Article : 145 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—In Introducing revised Works Estimates in the House of Representatives today, the Acting-Treasurer (Mr. Spender) said that the amount ...
Article : 579 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Pan-American Airways will shortly Increase its transatlantic service to six flying boats a week. The president of the company ...
Article : 73 wordsSYDNEY. Dec. 7.—In the Supreme Court today Mr. Acting-Justice Barton non-suited the plaintiff Garry Bray Raymond Kidd Gordon, a former public ...
Article : 208 wordsAUCKLAND, Dec. 7.—A sensation was caused tonight by the revelation that threats to his life and of damage to his property had been made against the ...
Article : 218 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 7.—The Royal Netherlands Indies Airways Lockheed plane assigned to relieve the airliner stranded with eight passengers at Brunette Downs ...
Article : 99 wordsAUCKLAND, Dec. 7.—Sweeping changes are contemplated in the public service. The present system of promotion on seniority will be replaced by ...
Article : 61 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—The Acting- Minister for Air (Mr. Holt) told Sir Charles Marr (U.A.P., N.S.W.) In the House of Representatives today that civil ...
Article : 96 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 7.—Henry Thomas Bindley (57), of South Kempsey, was blown' to pieces when he dynamited a log for firewood today. Bindley left home ...
Article : 95 wordsBOMBAY, Dec. 7.—The president of the Moslem League (Mr. Jinnah) has proclaimed December 22 a "day of deliverance and thanksgiving," as a result ...
Article : 70 wordsOn Christmas Eve, an open-air, community carol-singing party will be held on the Perth Esplanade. Assisted by the Metropolitan Gleemen's Choir and the ...
Article : 228 wordsLONDON, Dec. 6.—The High Commissioner for Australia (Mr. S. M. Bruce) announced today that a conversion operation of Tasmanian stock was being ...
Article : 105 wordsCANBERRA. Dec. 7.—The Assistant- Minister for Supply and Development (Mr. Holt) said today that his department was investigating the flax ...
Article : 69 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—The copyright fees from sales in Australia of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" will be retained In the Commonwealth until the end of the war. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe No. 83 charities consultation was drawn yesterday and three of the four big prizes went to New South Wales. The drawing took place publicly at the ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. Hugh Hamersley, of Lockridge, has given to the Historical Society a copy of the "Journal of Exploration from the De Grey to Port Darwin under Alexander ...
Article : 164 wordsTORONTO, Dec. 6.—Charles Millard. organiser in Canada for the American Committee of Industrial Organisation, who was active in the motor car strike ...
Article : 67 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—Despite warm criticism from Opposition members, the Senate today passed the Bill ratifying the agreement between the ...
Article : 44 words"This building is in accordance with' our by-laws, so we are restricted in our remedies," said the town clerk (Mr. J. G. Foreman) at a meeting of the ...
Article : 349 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 6.—The German Consul-General's secretary, Dr. Walter Engleberg, has been beaten to death with an axe and a hammer in his own home in ...
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Advertising : 220 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—In accordance with a decision made about the time of the Kyeema disaster, the Federal Government will shortly create an Air Court ...
Article : 108 wordsCANBERRA. Dec. 7.—The salaries bill for the Federal Public Service has increased by £1,118,000 in the last 12 months and for 1939 it will be £12,114,237. This ...
Article : 89 wordsH. Marshall, the prominent Fremantle cyclist, will essay to perform two feats at the gymkhana to be held at Richmond Park on Monday night, in aid of' ...
Article : 134 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.The Prime Minster (Mr. Menzies) told Mr. Ward (Lab. N.S.W.) in the House of Representatives today that he was not aware that Dame ...
Article : 96 wordsCANBERRA. Dec. 7.—Emphatic protests against the expenditure of £20,000 on a memorial to be erected in Canberra in memory of the late King George ...
Article : 127 wordsAUCKLAND, Dec. 7.—The Minister for Marketing (M. Nash) announced today that the first payment for wool bought by Britain. amounting to nearly ...
Article : 44 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—Tenders were called by the Department of Supply to- day in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide for nearly 400 producer gas ...
Article : 80 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—An attack on Sir Archibald Howie, who is chairman of the Commonwealth Building Advisory Panel. was made by Mr. Beasley (Lab, ...
Article : 205 wordsThe question what rate of pay should be paid to journeywomen making military officers' jackets came before the State Arbitration Court yesterday when Jack ...
Article : 98 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 7.—An increase in the Australian Broadcasting Commission's permanent orchestra in Perth from 18 to 32 members, to provide the nucleus ...
Article : 83 wordsYUNA, Dec. 7.—While harvesting yesterday, Mr. K. Criddle. of Naraling, lost 70 acres of crop, estimated to yield 20 bushels per acre, by are. His tractor, ...
Article : 49 wordsMELBOURNE. Dec. 7.—Frank Anstey (74), of Park-.street, Brunswick, who was formerly member for Bourke in the House of Representatives, collapsed this ...
Article : 46 wordsAUCKLAND, Dec. 7.—The Executive Council today commuted the death sentence passed on Arthur John Patience, who was convicted of the murder of his ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, Dec. 7.—The Turin newspaper "La Stampa" says it has learnt "from the highest possible authority" that the governors of the Suez Canal have ...
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