With the temperature rising to 100.5 degrees on Sunday the heat wave in Perth became the most sustained since 1933 and the most ...
Article : 700 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec 14.—The proposals by the present Commonwealth Government for obtaining plenary powers to control Australia after the ...
Article : 401 wordsThe Naval Board has received advice that the King has approved the mention in dispatches for good service in the Malayan campaign of ...
Article : 276 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec 14.—A record last-minute rush for bonds in the Austerity Loan which closes tomorrow night commenced today and is ...
Article : 307 wordsAt approximately 10.40 o'clock last night, the city and suburbs were plunged into darkness owing to a temporary breakdown of the electric ...
Article : 383 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 14.—Referring to-day to recent criticism of allegedly indiscriminate arrests of workers Attorney-General (Dr Evatt) said ...
Article : 287 wordsResuming the desert offensive, the Eighth Army is on the way to completing a new and vital chapter in the two and a half years' history of ...
Article : 874 wordsPresident Roosevelt will give a Christmas Eve broadcast, it was announced from Washington yesterday, in the form of a short seasonal ...
Article : 289 words'The statement on Saturday by the Director-General of Manpower, indicating that the position of Sydney hospitals with regard to ...
Article : 407 wordsWhen the special State Labour congress meets next Friday in Perth to consider the Prime Minister's proposal to make the militia ...
Article : 175 wordsMembers of a fighter squadron of the US Navy have painted a tombstone insignia on the tail of their aircraft as a monument to the squadron's triumph over Japanese flyers in the Solomon Island. Each ball represents a Japanese aircraft destroyed early in the battle. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 69 wordsBRISBANE, Dec 14.—The Minister in charge of civil defence (Mt Hanlon) made a vigorous attack on the regulations under the National ...
Article : 512 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 14.—The Minister for Commerce (Mr Scully) said today that he hoped to call a conference soon between the ...
Article : 198 wordsCANBERIRA, Dec 14.—If the Government goal of 500,000 subscribers to the £100,000,000 Austerity Loan was to be reached 150,000 must ...
Article : 303 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 14.—Discussion on the Prime Minister's mililtia proposal is in abeyance here pending the vital West Australian decision ...
Article : 56 wordsIn connection with the temporary abandonment of the proposal to disemploy domestic servants the Deputy-Director-General of ...
Article : 154 wordsMELBOURNE. Dec 14.—The ABC has written to the Minister for Aircraft Production (Senator Cameron) stating that it is unable to accede ...
Article : 184 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 14.—The Commonwealth telegraph conference will open at Canberra tomorrow to discuss communications problems which ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Austerity Loan campaign will close in Perth today with a non-stop show in Forrest-place from 11 am to 3.30 pm. ...
Article : 339 wordsCLOSING TIMES.—Closing times here Under are for the Perth GPO. Registered articles must be posted 1 hour before closing times for letters, and between ...
Article : 289 wordsMELBOURNE. Dec 14.—Boys and girls in Victoria who leave school this year will be called upon to render some form of national service ...
Article : 78 wordsReferring to a Canberra message relative to the probable attitude of the WA executive of the Australian Labour Party which appeared In ...
Article : 161 wordsThe sudden heat wave has caught Perth ice manufacturers unprepared. Added to their difficulties manufacturers have been affected by ...
Article : 107 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 14.—Reviews which are being made by the Government and the Commonwealth Bank Board of current tendencies ...
Article : 391 wordsThe deputy-chairman of the Liquid Fuel Control Board (Mr T. H. Bath) said yesterday that acting under instructions from the ...
Article : 360 wordsCBIMINAL COURT.—At 10.30 am, before the Chief Justice and a jury. BANKRUPTCY COURT.—At 10.30 am. before Mr Justice Dwyer: In the matter ...
Article : 85 wordsGeorge Johnston, Australian war correspondent, has sent from the Buna front a series of four intimate articles ...
Article : 97 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 14.—The form of the inquiry into the activities of the Allied Works Council which Federal Labour caucus instructed ...
Article : 75 wordsALBANY, Dec 14.—There was unanimous support for the Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) when a motion was submitted yesterday to a ...
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Advertising : 125 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 14.—The Director- General of Manpower (Mr Wurth) said today that a number of prosecutions had been authorised by ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Prime Minister's plan has the support of the postal workers of Australia, said the secretary of the WA Branch of the Amalgamated ...
Article : 115 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec 14.—A stock census of cotton and rayon piece goods will be taken by the Rationing Commission. Registered ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON, Dec 14.—A large majority of non-party conference leaders including non-members attending the Standing Committee ...
Article : 101 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 14.—Latest subscriptions here to the Austerity Loan include: Zinc Corporation, Ltd, No 1 Account, £100,000; Insurance ...
Article : 97 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec 14.—Efforts were being made to overcome the shortage of perambulators so that every mother who needed a pram ...
Article : 149 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 14.—Reports have been received from war factories that some employees in addition to absenting themselves from work ...
Article : 139 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 14.—An amendment to the National Security Regulations issued today by the Minister for Labour (Mr Ward) preserves ...
Article : 104 wordsBRISBANE, Dec 14—The Minister for Agriculture (Mr Bulcock) said today that he would take the necessary steps to resign from the ...
Article : 108 wordsBUNBURY, Dec 14.—South-West potato growers are facing severe loss because of the probability of 2,000 tons of potatoes being affected by ...
Article : 110 wordsA final appeal to the people of WA to support the Austerity Loan was made by the Premier (Mr Willcock) yesterday. "Many people," ...
Article : 184 wordsLONDON, Dec 14.—It was announced today that the British Government had requistioned Earl Baldwin's home, Astley Hall, Stourport ...
Article : 64 wordsOTTAWA, Dec 13.—The Canadian Minister for Munitions (Mr C. D. Howe) announced today that Canada is undertaking a tremendous power ...
Article : 53 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec 13.—A Navy Department communique today stated: "In the North Pacific on December 11, 3 Army Marauders ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, Dec 14.—The German- controlled Trans-Ocean Newsagency asserts that the Japanese have put in commission several 42,500-ton ...
Article : 38 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 13.—A troop train carrying 250 war prisoners was derailed near a Missouri camp. One American soldier was killed and 7 ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON. Dec 14.—Berlin radio says that the Axis has decided to grant safe conduct for ships and planes carrying Moslems to the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 15 Dec 1942, Page 2
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