Senator H. B. Collett will leave by train tomorrow for Canberra to attend further sittings of the Federal Joint Parliamentary Committee ...
Article : 254 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—The Federal UAP Leader (Mr Hughes) said to-night that he had telegraphed to-day to the Prime Minister (Mr ...
Article : 376 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—Despite unexpectedly bad weather the RAF took every opportunity during July to continue its bombing offensive. The ...
Article : 872 wordsSYDNEY, Aug 17.—Judge O'Mara said in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court today that the demand for equal pay for the sexes would ...
Article : 439 wordsSo far as Western Australia was concerned, the decisions reached at the meeting of the Loan Council which he attended could be ...
Article : 357 wordsADELAIDE, Aug 17.—The Premier (Mr Playford) on Saturday submitted a plan to the Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) for the rationing of coal in ...
Article : 801 wordsBroadcast listeners' licences in force in Western Australia at the end of June numbered 91,945, an increase of 58 over the previous ...
Article : 658 wordsSir Earle Page on his return to Australia at the weekend was able to report the accomplishment of a highly important mission the results ...
Article : 921 wordsCANBERRA, Aug 17.—The high prices being asked for beef and mutton are not thought justified in many cases by Federal authorities. ...
Article : 110 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug 17.—Consideration is now being given by the Department of War Organisation of Industry to the question of ...
Article : 128 words"Change the law so that the militia can fight anywhere overseas, the same as the AIF," is the attitude of 5 out of 9 people in Australia who ...
Article : 387 wordsCANBERRA, Aug 17.—The price of binder twine for the coming harvest will be 9¾d a lb compared with Bid last season and 8 7-8d in ...
Article : 161 wordsCANBERRA, Aug 17.—The Potato Controller (Mr A. C. Foster) met officers of the Department of Commerce in Canberra today, when the ...
Article : 74 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 17.—The Prime Minister (Mr Curtin), who is in Brisbane, said tonight that there had not been any political ...
Article : 107 wordsSYDNEY, Aug 17.—A system of post-war credits was urgently needed because of the evident signs of inflation and the high spending power ...
Article : 181 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—Goverment surveyors are at present in Zululand investigating the possibility of obtaining rubber. ...
Article : 20 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—Mr Warwick Fairfax, managing-director of John Fairfax and Sons, Pty, Ltd, announced tonight that he had advised ...
Article : 44 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 : 379 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—Mr W. J. Brown, Capt A. S. Cunningham-Reid and Mr E. Granville, Independent members of the House of ...
Article : 264 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—An undertaking that requests for the restoration of the waistcoat to the new men's wartime Victory suits would ...
Article : 89 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—The Minister for War Organisation of Industry (Mr Dedman) said in Sydney today that he was not ...
Article : 134 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The "Daily Express" says that 9 new deep shelters in London with a capacity for 70,000 people have now been ...
Article : 71 wordsCLOSING TIMES.—Closing times hereunder are for the Perth GPO. Registered articles must be posted 1 hour before closing times for letters, and between ...
Article : 192 wordsSYDNEY, Aug 17.—Judge O'Mara postponed the operation of a new award for women employees in the metal trades industry because he ...
Article : 153 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 17.—The general manager and chief engineer of the Tramways Trust (Sir William Goodman) stated today that owing ...
Article : 68 wordsADELAIDE, Aug 17.—The refusal of about 40 workmen to handle coal supplies during the weekend meant the loss of 4 hours to this State when ...
Article : 191 wordsCANBERRA, Aug 17.—The Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) was charged in a statement issued by the director of the Associated Chambers of ...
Article : 182 wordsIN CHAMBERS.—At 10.30 am, before the Chief Justice. NISI PRIUS.—At 10.30 am, before Mr Justice Dwyer: The Federal Commissioner ...
Article : 65 wordsSYDNEY, Aug 17.—Mr Justice Webb today convened a compulsory conference to discuss the threat of the Bakers' Union that after August ...
Article : 178 wordsMany instances of prices higher than the award rates or customary prices being offered or demanded for shearing had came under notice, ...
Article : 116 wordsCANBERRA, Aug 17.—The Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) has sent air mail letters to State Premiers asking them to vacate the ...
Article : 117 wordsCANBERRA, Aug 17.—By gazettal today Professor Copland, Commonwealth Prices Commissioner, fixed the maximum price for kiln-dried ...
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Advertising : 68 wordsThe West Australian Coal Committee, which has been appointed to control the distribution of all coal within the State, at a meeting ...
Article : 78 wordsCANBERRA, Aug 17.—An appeal for a more austere standard of living is expected to be made by the Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) when ...
Article : 51 wordsCANBERRA, Aug 17.—The Minister for the Interior (Senator Collings) announced today that, acting on the recommendation of the War ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Deputy Director-General of Manpower (Mr H. T. Stitfold) drew attention yesterday to the restrictions imposed by the National ...
Article : 214 wordsBRISBANE, Aug 17.—With an unannounced reversal of policy Australians were allowed into American canteens on Saturday and ...
Article : 177 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—American soldiers in Britain may now marry. Their wives will be paid the full allowance, which is £8/15/ a month ...
Article : 92 wordsSYDNEY, Aug 17.—The Australian Comforts Fund no longer sends tobacco to troops in Darwin because the Customs Department demands ...
Article : 285 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The German radio states that a Portuguese invention of cork tyres was given a 200 mile test at Lisbon. The tyres showed ...
Article : 38 wordsNEW YORK, Aug 17.—The Army has requested mayors of all cities to contribute trophies of the 1914-18 war, such as captured cannon and ...
Article : 56 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug 17.—The Minister for Customs (Senator Keane) told a deputation from the Local Option Alliance, a temperance body. ...
Article : 182 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—Trading banks have been asked by the Minister for War Organisation of Industry (Mr Dedman) to prepare a ...
Article : 181 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The "Daily Mail's" correspondent in Bombay states that Major-General Sutton, known as "One-armed Sutton," was ...
Article : 84 wordsNEW YORK, Aug 17.—The US War Department has announced an intensive training programme for dogs in the new canine corps now ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON. Aug 17.—The Johannesburg Gold Producers' Committee and the Transvaal Chamber of Mines have announced that S ...
Article : 72 wordsNEW DELHI, Aug 16.—Hundreds of people have been rendered homeless by the flooding of the River Jumna, which has destroyed ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—It is announced that Fighting French passports are now recognised by all Governments of the British Empire, ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—The will of the late Viscount Stonehaven which has been lodged for probate shows that he left personal estate valued ...
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