Cloudy at times, with a tendency for showers, but chiefly fine is the weather forecast for the metropolitan area today. City Council By-Election. ...
Article : 616 wordsMr. Alan S. Watt, of the Department of External Affairs, has been appointed First Secretary of the Australian Legation, Washington. He will leave for ...
Article : 560 wordsAfter having intensified rapidly on Friday night, a depression moved across the southern half of the State during the week-end, bringing stormy weather ...
Article : 344 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 25.—An agreement covering more than 9.000 men and 10.000 women employees in the woollen, worsted and cotton sections of the textile industry ...
Article : 208 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 25.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) said yesterday that important munitions projects, widely distributed over the commonwealth, were ...
Article : 265 wordsThere can be little doubt that the men now ruling France are more afraid of a British than a German victory. They all belong to groups who had ...
Article : 945 wordsDARWIN, Aug. 24.—"Since the out-break of the war Australia has certainly pulled itself up by its boot straps," said Mr. Steven Richards, a member of the ...
Article : 305 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 25.—The Minister for Trade and Customs (Senator McLeay) announced today that following upon the recent fixation of the price of mica by ...
Article : 120 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 23.—The Secretary of the Navy (Colonel Knox), in summarising a series of four articles by Colonel William J. Donovan (the American ...
Article : 181 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 25.—An arrangement for the sale of more butter and cheese to Great Britain during the coming season at the same prices as last ...
Article : 153 wordsLONDON, Aug. 23.—According to the Press Association malcontents are endeavouring to hold up work at the Liverpool docks. Members of certain ...
Article : 116 wordsThe following reports were received from country correspondents during the week-end:— MARRADONG.—Heavy rain Fell at ...
Article : 173 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 23.—The committee appointed by the House of Representatives under the chairmanship of Mr. Martin Dies to investigate un-American ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Minister for Industrial Development (Mr. A. R. G. Hawke), who represented the State at the recent meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council in ...
Article : 716 wordsSYDNEY. Aug. 25.—The seventh and probably the last ship that will carry evacuees from Hong Kong to Australia arrived on Saturday afternoon with 179 ...
Article : 124 wordsFollowing are the official rainfall registrations for the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. on Saturday:— NORTH COASTAL.—Geraldton, 2 Points: ...
Article : 265 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 24.—Further impressions of Australia are contained in a dispatch sent from Brisbane on Thursday by Mr. Harold Callender, a member of ...
Article : 786 wordsJohn David Meldrum (69), of Rokeby-road, Subiaco, died at the Perth Hospital about 8.50 p.m. on Saturday from injuries received when a parlour car and ...
Article : 138 wordsAt the city recruiting depot on Saturday, 135 men of the 22 age group in the metropolitan military area 44A answered the call-up under the national training ...
Article : 406 wordsThe courage and tenacity shown at Mons, when the men of Britain's "contemptible little army" faced a German army immeasurably superior in men and ...
Article : 762 wordsBUENOS AIRES, Aug. 24.—The Argentine Legislative Assembly today rejected the resignation of President Ortiz by 170 votes to one. One Senator ...
Article : 71 wordsAn elderly woman received fatal injuries when she was struck by a motor cycle near the Mt. Lawley subway about 9 p.m. on Saturday. She was Eliza ...
Article : 175 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 25.—The maximum temperature in Sydney on Saturday was 78.9 degrees and today 79.2 degrees. These were the warmest two consecutive days ...
Article : 36 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 : 298 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 25.—Mr. Justice Lowe, of the Supreme Court Bench of Victoria, will open in Melbourne on Tuesday next a public inquiry into the Canberra air ...
Article : 122 wordsYARLOOP, Aug. 25.—Four members of a family were injured when a small sedan car somersaulted near Yarloop about 11.45 a.m. today. The victims ...
Article : 165 wordsMONTREAL, Aug. 23.—A liner has visited an eastern port with 800 children evacuated privately from Great Britain. Two hundred and eighty-five, aged from ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Minister for Education (Mr. W. H. Kitson) gave an address at the University yesterday morning before the instructors and leaders who are ...
Article : 181 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 25.—National Security Regulations issued yesterday confer on the Australian Wheat Board power to adjust disputes over contracts affected ...
Article : 93 words(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.) ...
Article : 182 wordsWhen a motor car in which she was a passenger collided with a utility truck in Claremont about 7.50 a.m. on Saturday. Constance Power (23), of ...
Article : 172 wordsKeen interest is being shown at Fremantle in the question of Sunday sport Several weeks ago the Fremantle City Council refused applications by both ...
Article : 345 wordsIt is probably inevitable that the strain of war finance should be reflected in rising costs of primary production, but it is important that such a vital ...
Article : 486 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 25.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) said on Saturday that voluntary defence units in Australia must be equipped as soon as possible after the ...
Article : 165 wordsAMBASSADORS: Three Cheers for the Irish and Too Dangerous to Live. GRAND: Law of the Pampas and Our Neighbours, the Carters. HOYTS: Daytime Wile and Years Without ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON. Aug. 25.—The Ministry of Supply announced yesterday that fresh arrangements had now been made with the Government of the Union of South. ...
Article : 128 wordsLONDON, Aug. 24.—The defence that cows are adversely affected by air raids was successfully pleaded at Barry yesterday, when a summons was dismissed ...
Article : 98 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 23.—The magazine "Editor and Publisher" has conducted a survey which shows that 66.3 per cent of the nation's daily newspapers are ...
Article : 137 wordsBEACON: Ninotchka and Destry Rides Again. CLAREMONT and SWANBOURNE: U-Boat 29 and Green Hell COMO and HURLINGHAM: Damaged Goods ...
Article : 165 wordsSYDNEY. Aug. 25.—The Power Alcohol Committee, which will investigate the possibilities of producing power alcohol from suitable agricultural products, is ...
Article : 62 wordsSYDNEY. Aug. 25.—The Postmaster- General (Mr. Thorby) on Saturday expressed a hope that the proposed establishment of radio-telephonic ...
Article : 55 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—In response to an inquiry from the American Consul in Mexico City, the State Department has refused to admit the body of M. Leo ...
Article : 55 wordsIN CHAMBERS.—At 10.30 a.m.. before Mr. Justice Wolff. ...
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