CANBERRA, Dec. 10.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) will definitely take part in the Swan by-election campaign and will address a series of meetings. ...
Article : 200 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 10.—The Minister for the Army (Mr. Spender), who, in his six weeks of office has put into effect several major reforms in army ...
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Advertising : 553 wordsHis Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor and Lady Mitchell will attend the children's Christmas party organised by the Child Welfare Department to be held ...
Article : 77 wordsUnsettled weather, with lower temperatures, westerly winds and a tendency to thunder, is forecast for the metropolitan area today. The maximum shade ...
Article : 682 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 10.—Australia's total expenditure on defence and war services from July 1, 1939, to the end of last month amounted to approximately ...
Article : 192 wordsThe problem of the raider and the minelayer has become an urgent one in Australian waters. Four ships have been sunk by mines near the ...
Article : 870 wordsMr. J. Curtin. Leader of the Federal Opposition, will leave Melbourne on Sunday next and is due to arrive in Perth by the Westland express on the following ...
Article : 507 wordsCANBERRA,. Dec. 10.—Australia's expenditure on the war in the five months ended on November 30 amounted to £53,788,000. The Commonwealth Budget ...
Article : 97 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 10.—Dr. H. V. Evatt, M.H.R., left Sydney tonight for Western Australia to assist Mr. J. Dinan in his campaign in the Swan by-election as the ...
Article : 503 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 10.—The Joint Parliamentary Committee appointed under the Budget compromise terms to review the Government's proposals for imposing ...
Article : 290 wordsWe must wait to see the scope and purpose of the British attack that General Sir Archibald Wavell has launched in the Egyptian desert against ...
Article : 959 wordsTo make representations to the Federal Government with the object of obtaining relief from the British Government's excess profits tax of 100 per ...
Article : 629 wordsDealing with the retail prices of food and groceries (41 commodities) in the metropolitan area for November, 1940, the Acting-Government Statistician (Mr. ...
Article : 171 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 10.—The Minister for External Affairs (Sir Frederick Stewart) in a broadcast tonight declared that the danger that Germany might be ...
Article : 195 wordsSYDNEY. Dec. 10.—Already there has been a response to the appeal made by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) and the Treasurer (Mr. Fadden) for ...
Article : 360 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 10.—The formation or extension of 10 units in four States, is involved in further R.A.A.F. developments under the Empire air scheme announced ...
Article : 205 wordsEach week in "The Western Mail" appears a six-page summary of the world's news, including local news and sporting events. Cut out ...
Article : 45 wordsKALGOORLIE. Dec. 10.—After several weeks of sultry and at times dusty weather, Kalgoorlie recorded its first century of the season today—exactly 100 ...
Article : 145 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Mr. Wesley Frost, the new United States Consul-General in New Zealand, will leave for Auckland-by the Monterey on January 7. ...
Article : 27 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 : 345 wordsLONDON. Dec. 9.—Air Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, who will leave England in the near future to take up the position of Governor-General of New Zealand in ...
Article : 89 wordsMIAMI (Florida), Dec. 9.—Fifty police have been detailed to guard the wharf upon the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor on the yacht ...
Article : 72 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 10.—West Australian members of the R.A.A.F engineering school at the showground were deeply concerned today when they were told ...
Article : 156 wordsLONDON, Dec. 9.—The Secretary for the Colonies (Lord Lloyd) Las appointed Dr. A. G. H Smart his medical adviser in succession to Sir Wilson Jameson, who ...
Article : 88 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 11.—The House of Representatives Passed through all stages early this morning a Bill to pay the following State grants:—South Australia, ...
Article : 55 wordsThe sponsors of the country children's holiday scheme in arranging summer holiday homes for close upon 100 wheatbelt children may justly ...
Article : 268 wordsThe organising secretary of the State War Loans Committee (Mr. R. W. Lloyd) said yesterday that during the day amounts of £5,000 from Boans, Ltd., and ...
Article : 104 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 : 377 wordsMr. Noel Coward, the English playwright, actor and composer, who is touring Australia to raise funds for, the Red Cross, is at present in Adelaide, and he ...
Article : 202 wordsQuestions were recently asked in the House of Commons as to whether British prisoners of war in Germany were receiving parcels of food and clothing sent ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 wordsSince the German occupation of Denmark and the resultant stoppage of that country's export of butter, the task of supplying Britain with dairy produce has ...
Article : 268 wordsBOMBAY, Dec. 9.—Mrs. Vijaya Pandit, the first woman Cabinet Minister in India and a sister of Pandit Jawahadal Nehru (a former Congress president), who was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsAUCKLAND. Dec. 10.—Wives and other dependants of the officers and crew of the missing steamer Holmwood, winch is overque on a voyage from ...
Article : 73 wordsCANBERRA. Dec. 10.—The £1,000,000 which the Commonwealth Government has undertaken to provide for drought relief will be distributed only among ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, Dec. 9.—Mr. A. O. Edwards, the backer of Captain C. W. A. Scott and the late Mr. T. Campbell Black who won the Melbourne centenary air race in ...
Article : 82 wordsOTTAWA, Dec. 9.—Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, accompanied by Baron Devos, will leave for Washington on December 17 on a brief visit to ...
Article : 53 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 10.—Alderman Crick was today unanimously re-elected Lord Mayor of Sydney for 1941. In a policy statement later, he said that he would ...
Article : 46 wordsNISI PRIUS.—At 10.30 a.m., before the Chief Justice: Vincent Menara v. Herbert W. Green. IN CHAMBERS.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. ...
Article : 27 wordsLONDON. Dec. 9.—The Spitfire Fund has reached £15,000 with a gift of £5.000 acknowledged by the Minister of Aircraft Production (Lord Beaverbrook) from the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 11 Dec 1940, Page 8
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