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  2. PERSONAL.

    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 ...

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  3. FEDERAL GRANTS.

    A 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 ...

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  4. "BUSINESS AS USUAL"

    Some 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 words
  5. EXCESSIVE PROFITS.

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  6. NEWS AND NOTES.

    The 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 ...

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  7. BUDGET POINTS.

    Points from the Budget speech delivered by the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Menzies) in the House of Representatives yesterday are given below. ...

    Article : 469 words
  8. The West Australian.

    Australia's records of sacrifice and achievement in the Great War, and the subsequent economic depression, leave no doubt of the capacity of the ...

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  9. REACTION IN SYDNEY.

    SYDNEY, Sept. 6.—Sydney's reaction to war after three days of European hostilities is, on the surface, quietly indifferent Underneath there is ...

    Article : 478 words
  10. AIR RAID MEASURES.

    As chief warden under the air raids precautions system, Professor N. S. Bayliss (head of the department of chemistry in the University of Western ...

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  11. AUSTRALIAN RECORDS

    LONDON, Sept. 8.—Australia House officials and the Agents-General are experiencing great difficulty in finding safe places for valuable documents which ...

    Article : 268 words
  12. DEFENCE CONTRACTS.

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  13. BUILDING TRADE APPRENTICES

    The 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 words
  14. THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY.

    That 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 words
  15. RISE IN WHEAT.

    NEW 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 words
  16. SUGAR AND TEA.

    Wholesale and retail suppliers have been astonished by the extraordinary demand by the public for sugar and tea. Apparent for several weeks, this ...

    Article : 392 words
  17. THETIS SALVAGE.

    LONDON, 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 words
  18. TIENTSIN TALKS.

    LONDON, Sept. 7.—In the House of Commons today, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Foreign Office (Mr. Butler) announced that the ...

    Article : 260 words
  19. DEFENCE EXPENDITURE.

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  20. THE PUBLIC DEBT.

    CANBERRA, Sept. 8.—Since the National Debt Commission was established by the Commonwealth Government in 1923, Australian public debt aggregating ...

    Article : 89 words
  21. Market Restrictions Relaxed.

    WINNIPEG, Sept. 8.—It was announced yesterday that the maximum price changes permissible daily in all grains, including wheat. would, in ...

    Article : 31 words
  22. WOMEN'S NATIONAL REGISTER.

    The 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 words
  23. Large British Purchases Reported.

    CHICAGO, Sept. 8.—Private messages from Buenos Aires state that 100,000,000 bushels of Argentine wheat have been sold to Great Britain. ...

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  24. MEAT SURPLUS.

    MELBOURNE, Sept. 8.—When questioned today on the Prime Minister's statement that Britain would buy Australia's exportable surplus of primary ...

    Article : 155 words
  25. TODAY'S ENTERTAINMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 words
  26. DEFENCE DONATIONS.

    CANBERRA, Sept 8.—The Commonwealth Government will be glad to receive citizens' donations towards the cost of national defence. This was announced ...

    Article : 105 words
  27. Japanese and European War.

    TOKIO, 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 ...

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  28. IN THE SUBURBS.

    A 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 ...

    Article : 216 words
  29. Suburban Theatres.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 words
  30. ROYAL SHOW.

    Greater 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 words
  31. Attache Released.

    PEIPING, Sept. 8.—Lieut.-Colonel Spear (British Military Attache in China, who was arrested by the Japanese last May), was recent transferred to ...

    Article : 52 words
  32. TRADE BALANCE.

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  33. WAR NEWS IN THE OUTBACK.

    DARWIN, 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 words
  34. BONUS SHARE ISSUES.

    CANBERRA, 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, ...

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  35. WELL-KNOWN ARTIST DEAD.

    LONDON, 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 words
  36. GERMAN FREIGHTER WRECKED.

    LONDON, Sept. 8.—The Oslo correspondent of the Australian Associated Press states that the German freighter Vegesack was wrecked to the rocks near ...

    Article : 47 words
  37. B.B.C. FOREIGN BROADCASTS.

    LONDON, Sept. 7.—The British Broadcasting Corporation is now broadcasting in Afrikaans, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Polish, Hungarian and ...

    Article : 24 words
  38. Advertising

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