An announcement by the Federal Government of its intentions in regard to petrol rationing and petrol prices is being awaited with a degree of impatience in ...
Article : 771 wordsThings are serious for us in Belgium and France, but they are no less serious for the Germans. We must try to see behind the picture as it is obvious to ...
Article : 553 wordsCANBERRA, May 20.—A hint that the Federal Government is favourably considering a proposal that it should launch an extensive shipbuilding industry in ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Minister for Industrial Development (Mr. A. R. G. Hawke). accompanied by the president of the Chamber of Manu. factures (Mr. H. L. Brisbane). the ...
Article : 154 wordsSYDNEY, May 20.—The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Cameron), in an address to the Millions Club today, said that the Federal Government would soon ...
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Advertising : 262 wordsFine but cloudy weather, with light to moderate northerly winds, is forecast for the metropolitan area today. The maximum shade temperature at the Perth ...
Article : 830 wordsItaly's Foreign Minister has been silent this year, but at last he has joined the chorus of those who warn the Italian people, in language more ...
Article : 942 wordsThe following are due to arrive In Perth by the Westland express tomorrow:—Drs. Mater and Guilfoyle; Archbishop Timiotheus; the Rev. Father Vill: Misses Dalglish. ...
Article : 93 wordsPrior to his departure for Sydney on Friday, Mr. P. A. Nikles, a Swiss expert on the viscose transparent paper (Cellophane) industry, expressed his ...
Article : 423 wordsSYDNEY, May 20.—The Premier (Mr. Mair) said tonight that restrictions on the use of gas and electricity must be continued for the present. He appealed ...
Article : 147 wordsTremendous happenings in Europe during recent weeks have had upon world opinion an influence which can be felt in Australia in the growing ...
Article : 954 wordsLAUNCESTON, May 20.—Work in all Tasmanian coalmines was resumed to-day. It is probable, however, that a coal shortage will exist in Tasmania for ...
Article : 60 wordsCANBERRA, May 20.—The Commonwealth Government is extending its precautions to see that no "fifth column" activities menace the safety of Australia. ...
Article : 114 wordsLast night the University Senate considered a recommendation from its general purposes committee that an appointment to the Chair of Economics be ...
Article : 378 wordsLAVERTON, May 20.—The Lancefield goldmine at Beria, five miles from Laverton, has closed down. Several hundred men were employed on the mine and now ...
Article : 559 wordsMELBOURNE, May 20.—Adequate measures have been taken by the Federal Government to guard against possible subversive activities of "fifth columnists,' ...
Article : 82 wordsMOSCOW, May 20.—The President of the supreme Council of the Soviet Union (M. Kalinin); hi a speech yesterday, said that the time for the world revolution ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Perth City Council, at a meeting yesterday afternoon, approved a recommendation of the finance committee that the proposed Rating Appeal Bill, which ...
Article : 295 wordsMEXICO CITY, May 20.—A message from Mexcala tin southern Mexico) today stated that 50 persons were dead and 15 Injured in earthquakes and a subsequent ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON, May 19.—Since the invasion of Belgium and Holland there has been a definite theatrical slump. Ninety-five per cent of London's theatres were ...
Article : 155 wordsCLOSING TIMES.—Closing times hereunder are for the Perth G.P.O Registered articles must be posted one hour before closing time for letters, but between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. ...
Article : 290 wordsThe Government Astronomer (Mr. H. B. Curlewis) writes:—"The earthquake in Southern California was recorded on the Perth seismograph and the trace showed ...
Article : 165 wordsSYDNEY, May 20.—The Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) today heard the first applications, made under the war legislation dealing with patents and ...
Article : 130 wordsMELBOURNE, May 20.—Labour's war policy will be revised and postwar problems discussed at a special Federal conference of the Australian Labour Party ...
Article : 82 wordsCANBERRA, May 20.—The Federal Ministry will probably introduce In the House of Representatives tomorrow the Bill to ratify the agreement between the ...
Article : 208 wordsThe University Senate last night discussed at length whether the Warden of Convocation and the president of the Guild of Undergraduates should be ...
Article : 396 wordsLONDON. May 19.—A message to Finland from Sir Walter Citrine, as president of the International Federation of Trade Unions, was broadcast in the ...
Article : 219 wordsSYDNEY, May 20.—Apprehension is growing in aviation and political circles that certain vital phases of the Empire air training scheme are not being ...
Article : 214 wordsCANBERRA, May 20.—The Minister for Trade and Customs (Senator McLeay) today repeated to traders his warning that the Commonwealth trading ...
Article : 119 wordsFULL COURT.—At 10.30 am., before the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Wolff.—In the matter of the Legal Practitioners' Act, 1893. motions for admission of Michael French ...
Article : 113 wordsThe secretary of the Victorian section of Australian Aerial Medical Services (Mr. J. W. Collings) states: "In his weekly letter Dr. Keith Sweetman, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 wordsLONDON, May 19.—The Paris correspondent of "The Times" has revealed that the French Government has confiscated a nest-egg from which the German ...
Article : 53 wordsRecruits are required for the artillery battery to be raised in Western Australia for the 7th Division. The battery will be trained at Northam. Details of the ...
Article : 159 wordsThe chairman of the Royal Australian Air Force Recruiting Drive Committee (Sir Donald Cameron) has announced that the dental examination of applicants ...
Article : 134 wordsSYDNEY, May 20.—Senator Dein and Captain J. R. Patrick were selected to-night as United Australia Party candidates for the next Senate election. Sir ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 wordsMELBOURNE, May 20.—Extensive aerial searches today by 15 Royal Australian Air Force planes from Point Cook and Laverton over a wide area of eastern ...
Article : 98 wordsVacancies exist for approximately 20 recruits with the 35th Fortress Company, Engineers, at Fremantle. Enlistment is for the duration of the war and 12 ...
Article : 76 wordsPARIS, May 19.—General M. L. A. Guillaumat who had been a member of the Higher Council of War since 1919 and was Minister of Defence in 1925, ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 21 May 1940, Page 12
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