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  2. Advertising

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  3. NEWS AND NOTES.

    Cloudy weather on the south-west and south coasts, with a few showers, and fine weather elsewhere in the sub-tropics is forecast for today. The maximum ...

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  4. HIGH HUMIDITY.

    After a heat wave lasting six days, Perth experienced a return to normal summer temperature yesterday, but the relief was only partial, for a moist ...

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  5. FEDERAL CENSORSHIP.

    SYDNEY, Jan. 12.—The question of censorship as applied to political criticism will be discussed at a deputation led by Mr. Beasley, M.H.R., to the Prime ...

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  6. PERSONAL.

    The Minister in Charge of War Service Homes (Senator H. B. Collett) will leave Perth by the Westland express today to attend a meeting of the Federal Cabinet ...

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  7. WHEAT AND FLOUR.

    MELBOURNE, Jan. 12.—In the negotiations concluded after an "'anxious week" for the sale of 1,500,000 tons of this season's wheat and 150,000 tone of flour to ...

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  8. STATE'S FUTURE.

    BUNBURY, Jan. 12.—Prophesying that in the not far distant future Western Australia would come into its own as a State of secondary as well as primary ...

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  9. PROBATE.

    The late Mr. Cecil Edward William Zimpel, managing director of W. Zimpel, Ltd., Perth, who died at Cottesloe on October 17 last, at the age of 38 years. left estate which has been ...

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  10. WAR IN CHINA.

    LONDON, Jan. 11.—The Chinese claim to have entered the city of Anking, on the Yangtze river, in the central-eastern province of Anhwei, where, it is reported, ...

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  11. The West Australian.

    Recently, in the columns of a London contemporary, a contributor has drawn attention to the late G. K. Chesterton's suggestion, that every famous ...

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  12. MODERN FARMING.

    The failure of farmers and their sons to take advantage of the facilities for agricultural education available in this State was criticised by the principal of ...

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  13. "POSITION VERY SATISFACTORY"

    The sale by the Australian Wheat Board to the British Government of 56,000,000 bushels of wheat and 150,000 tons of flour, which was announced on ...

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  14. APPLES AND PEARS.

    At a series of meetings extending over the holiday period, the State Apple and Pear Acquisition Committee reached decisions affecting the handling of apples ...

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  15. LESS WATER CONSUMED.

    There has been a slackening in the demand for water in the metropolitan area since the record consumption of 35,021,000 gallons on Wednesday. ...

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  16. PRIDE IN SIR HENRY PARKES.

    LONDON, Jan. 11.—A civic ceremony at Coventry today was marked by an exchange of flags between the Mayors of Parkes (New South Wales) and Coventry ...

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  17. SHIPPING PROBLEM.

    CANBERRA, Jan. 12.—The condition which, it is believed, has been attached to the sale of 56,000,000 bushels of Australian wheat that the British ...

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  18. SCORCHING HEAT.

    The following reports of the heat wave in the country were received last night from correspondents of "The West Australian":— ...

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  19. INDIA'S STATUS.

    BOMBAY, Jan. 12.—Mr. M. . Gandhi has organised millions to recite the following pledge on January 26. when Congress will hold its tenth annual ...

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  20. DANIEL DODGE ESTATE.

    DETROIT, Jan. 11.—The Probate Court has ruled that Mrs. Annie Laurine Dodge, widow of Daniel Dodge, should receive 1,250,000 dollars (about ...

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  21. IRON AND STEEL.

    CANBERRA, Jan. 12.—An amazing growth in Australia's export trade in iron and steel has occurred since the outbreak of war, Exports for the five months to ...

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  22. THE COST OF LIVING

    During December there was little change in the retail prices of food and groceries (41 commodities) in the metropolitan area, and during the quarter ...

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  23. ENEMY COMPANIES.

    CANBERRA, Jan. 12.—As part of the economic blockade of Germany, about 80 companies were today added to the Commonwealth schedule of enemy ...

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  24. JAPANESE POLITICS.

    TOKIO, Jan. 12.—The Domei News Agency says it is reported that the Prime Minister (General Abe) will resign on Sunday. On December 27, it will be ...

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  25. U.S. MINISTER TO AUSTRALIA.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Mr. Clarence E. Gauss, the veteran American Consul-General in Shanghai, as the first ...

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  26. Survey of Scrap Resources.

    MELBOURNE, Jan. 12.—An immediate and comprehensive survey of Australia's scrap iron resources under wartime conditions is to be made by officers of the ...

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  27. MEATWORKS DISPUTE.

    SYDNEY, Jan. 12.—The Riverstone meat workers who ceased work in protest against the introduction of time-recording clocks at the works, will ...

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  28. STUDYING THE THEATRE.

    A method of study new to Perth will be used in the evening sessions of the drama course at the summer school of the Adult Education Board of the ...

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  29. TRADE TREATIES.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The Secretary of State (Mr. Corden Hull), defending the Trade Agreements Act before the Ways and Means Committee of the House ...

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  30. METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES.

    CANBERRA, Jan. 12.—A purchase of 15,000 pilot balloons for meteorological purposes has been made in the United States by the Department of the ...

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  31. CHARGES ACT PROCLAIMED.

    CANBERRA, Jan. 12.—The Apple and Pear Export Charges Act, 1938, was proclaimed today and will operate from Monday. The charge brought into ...

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  32. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT.

    (Every request for information must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.) ...

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  33. DRIED FRUIT PRICES.

    CANBERRA, Jan. 12.—Increases in the prices of dried fruits sold by the Australian Dried Fruits Association were announced today by the Commonwealth ...

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  34. SOUTH AFRICAN CHARTERS.

    CAPE TOWN, Jan. 11.—The South African railways are chartering two cargo ships to carry timber and steel from Australia and fertilisers from the ...

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