The honorary secretary of the Naval Welfare and Comforts Fund said yesterday that plans were in train to send a Christmas box to every West Australian ...
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Advertising : 1,409 wordsA CARNIVAL dance, arranged by the Social Club for the Blind, took place last night at the Perth Town Hall in aid of naval welfare funds. There was ...
Article : 223 wordsThe following donations are acknowledged by the honorary treasurer of the West Australian division of the Australian Camp Comforts Fund (Mr. R. B. ...
Article : 222 wordsThe following contributions to the fighting fund of the 14th Battery. A.I.F. Northam, are acknowledged by Major Nunn:— ...
Article : 74 wordsThis is a further article in a series dealing with the National Fitness Campaign. It has been written by the President of the National ...
Article : 718 wordsA donation of £11 has been received by Red Cross headquarters from Matron Peachey, of Heathcote Hospital. from a bridge evening. ...
Article : 354 wordsCANBERRA. Aug. 14.—Lord Lurgan has presented the Australian Red Cross Society with a cheque for £450 in memory of the late Dame Nellie Melba and to ...
Article : 88 wordsYesterday the Allied Liquor Trades queen (Mrs. G. Hack) took the lead in the voting in the Patriotic Queen Carnival contest. She has lodged 254.142 ...
Article : 448 wordsThe recital of British music which will take place at the Karrakatta Club hall next Monday, the proceeds from which will aid the R.A.A.F. Comforts Fund. promises to be very ...
Article : 124 wordsCAPE TOWN. Aug. 13.—Ninety refugee children en route for Australia have been landed at Cape Town. They were passengers on the liner Ceramic (18,713 ...
Article : 155 wordsThe honorary secretary of the Old Metals Branch (Mr. E. T. Stringer) said yesterday that the branch's waste-paper department had been thoroughly ...
Article : 232 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 13.—Following the visit by President Roosevelt and Colonel Knox (Secretary of the Navy) to Newport (Rhode Island) it is reported that ...
Article : 83 wordsAN adequate weekly diet for a family of five, including two boys 14 and 8, and a girl 12, would cost £1/19/6, according to evidence given by Miss Elizabeth ...
Article : 312 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14.—The Pan-American Airways clipper was slightly damaged today while cruising in Canton Island harbour, delaying its departure for ...
Article : 53 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 14.—The inclusion of Suva as a port of call on the Pan-American Airways Pacific service, was indicated by Mr. Harold Gatty, of the ...
Article : 95 wordsThe work of the catering committee of the Citizens' Reception Council in the Barrack-street buffet had been steadily growing, it was reported yesterday. For ...
Article : 191 wordsFree-of-interest loans amounting to £70 were received at the Commonwealth Sub-Treasury, Perth. yesterday. The total for this State was increased to ...
Article : 118 words"We are now serving nearly 16,000 men in 14 different centres and there is not less work in front of us but more." This statement was made by the general ...
Article : 241 wordsMadame Bennett Wilkinson has been able to arrange, through the courtesy of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. for parties of invalid soldiers to attend the Capitol ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, Aug. 14.—The Amazon Defence Corps has been renamed the Women's Home Defence Corps. The secretary, Miss Nora Robbins, invites women ...
Article : 44 wordsMEXICO CITY, Aug. 13.—The Senate today unanimously passed the Conscription Bill. It has been sent to President Cardenas for his signature. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 15 Aug 1940, Page 5
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