Mr. A. C. Perkins, formerly Superintendent of Postal Services in this State. died suddenly at Williams on Thursday night. The late Mr. Perkins entered the Postal ...
Article : 472 wordsA grant of £595,000 to Western Australia for the year 1939-40, compared with £570,000 made last year, is recommended by the Commonwealth Grants ...
Article : 725 wordsSome of the delegates to the annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Manufactures in Australia, which met in Melbourne on August 28, returned to ...
Article : 317 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 8.—Giving effect to a promise that immediate steps would be taken to prevent profiteering, a proclamation was issued tonight by the Minister ...
Article : 472 wordsThe general purposes committee of the Perth City Council recommends that, subject to a title to the land being given to the council, Harper-square, at the ...
Article : 678 wordsPoints from the Budget speech delivered by the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Menzies) in the House of Representatives yesterday are given below. ...
Article : 469 wordsAustralia's records of sacrifice and achievement in the Great War, and the subsequent economic depression, leave no doubt of the capacity of the ...
Article : 1,041 wordsSYDNEY, Sept. 6.—Sydney's reaction to war after three days of European hostilities is, on the surface, quietly indifferent Underneath there is ...
Article : 478 wordsAs chief warden under the air raids precautions system, Professor N. S. Bayliss (head of the department of chemistry in the University of Western ...
Article : 665 wordsLONDON, Sept. 8.—Australia House officials and the Agents-General are experiencing great difficulty in finding safe places for valuable documents which ...
Article : 268 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 8.—Incentive to reduced production costs is not provided by the present methods of letting contracts for defence materials to many private ...
Article : 276 wordsThe military training obligations of apprentices in the building trades have given rise to questions by employers concerning the pay of such apprentices and ...
Article : 286 wordsThat Great Britain now faced the worst danger in its history was a warning issued last night by Mr. N. Keenan, M.L.A., when addressing a large public ...
Article : 333 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 7.—Economists on the staff of the Stanford University (California), which is well known for its wheat studies, fear that a collapse may ...
Article : 198 wordsWholesale and retail suppliers have been astonished by the extraordinary demand by the public for sugar and tea. Apparent for several weeks, this ...
Article : 392 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—The first of the 99 bodies in the British submarine Thetis, which is now being salvaged, floated to the surface today when the removal of ...
Article : 76 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—In the House of Commons today, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Foreign Office (Mr. Butler) announced that the ...
Article : 260 wordsCANBERRA, Sept 8.—Expenditure by the Department of Supply and Development for defence purposes in the States for the year ended June 30, 1939, ranged ...
Article : 138 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 8.—Since the National Debt Commission was established by the Commonwealth Government in 1923, Australian public debt aggregating ...
Article : 89 wordsWINNIPEG, Sept. 8.—It was announced yesterday that the maximum price changes permissible daily in all grains, including wheat. would, in ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Lady Mayoress of Perth (Miss Sylvia Harper), who is president of the West Australian Council of the Women's Voluntary National Register, yesterday ...
Article : 288 wordsCHICAGO, Sept. 8.—Private messages from Buenos Aires state that 100,000,000 bushels of Argentine wheat have been sold to Great Britain. ...
Article : 24 wordsMELBOURNE, Sept. 8.—When questioned today on the Prime Minister's statement that Britain would buy Australia's exportable surplus of primary ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 wordsCANBERRA, Sept 8.—The Commonwealth Government will be glad to receive citizens' donations towards the cost of national defence. This was announced ...
Article : 105 wordsTOKIO, Sept. 8.—The Japanese Foreign Office spokesman said today that so far there had been no response to the Japanese statement of the desirability for ...
Article : 82 wordsA large number of men enrolled as air raid wardens last night at a public meeting held at the Loch-street hall by the Nedlands branch of the West Australian ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 wordsGreater entries than usual for the Royal Show were reported yesterday by the secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society (Mr. C. W. May). Entries closed ...
Article : 191 wordsPEIPING, Sept. 8.—Lieut.-Colonel Spear (British Military Attache in China, who was arrested by the Japanese last May), was recent transferred to ...
Article : 52 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 8.—Due to heavy exports in the last two months, Australia's trade balance for July and August is appreciably more favourable than for ...
Article : 106 wordsDARWIN, Sept. 8.—Settlers on the banks, of the Daly River, 175 miles from Darwin, knew nothing of the outbreak of war until a native messenger reached ...
Article : 157 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 8.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies), replying to a question asked by Mr. Lazzarini (Lab., N.S.W., in the House of Representatives today, ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—The death has occurred of Mr. Arthur Rackham, the artist and illustrator, at the age of 72 years. He was a member of the International ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, Sept. 8.—The Oslo correspondent of the Australian Associated Press states that the German freighter Vegesack was wrecked to the rocks near ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—The British Broadcasting Corporation is now broadcasting in Afrikaans, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Polish, Hungarian and ...
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