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  2. POST-WAR HOUSING.

    CANBERRA, Feb 14.—A housing plan providing for the building of between 4,000,000 and 4,500,000 houses in from 10 to 12 years ...

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  3. FEDERAL POWERS

    CANBERRA, Feb 14.—While the need to confer certain increased powers on the Commonwealth was recognised, the holding of a ...

    Article : 238 words
  4. REHABILITATION.

    In its plans for the re-employment of ex-servicemen and women the Manpower Directorate is taking care to avoid any scheme which will ...

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  5. ICE SHORTAGE.

    Government control of the ice industry in Perth is advocated in a letter which has been sent to the Minister for War Organisation of ...

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  6. THE FOOD FRONT.

    CANBERRA, Feb 14.—There were signs of an approaching world short- age in many basic food products, the Minister for Commerce (Mr Scully) ...

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  7. PERSONAL.

    Lady Arthur Hill, composer of the song "In the Gloaming," died in England on Sunday. She had a special gift for composing light. ...

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  8. NEWS AND NOTES.

    The Perth City Council agreed yesterday, subject to endorsement by the finance committee, to a works committee recommendation to widen ...

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  9. The West Australians

    Today calls up tragic memories which will never be wholly expunged in any pride of recovery from one of the bitterest defeats ever suffered ...

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  10. "PLEASE EXPLAIN."

    SYDNEY, Feb 14.—Pilot-Officer M. Falstein, MHR, appeared on invitation before the executive officers of the Official Labour Party in the ...

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  11. ARMY DEFAULTERS.

    SYDNEY, Feb 14.—Nineteen Australian soldiers escaped from a detention camp at Miranda at 12.30 pm when more than 100 men made a ...

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  12. AUSTRALIAN COMMITTEE.

    CANBERRA, Feb 14.—A special committee of departmental experts will be set up soon to report on possible plans for post-war housing in ...

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  13. SUGGESTED CONFERENCE.

    SYDNEY, Feb 14.—The Premier (Mr McKell) tonight replied by telegram to the Leader of the Opposition in the West Australian ...

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  14. ESSENTIAL WORKERS.

    CANBERRA, Feb 14.—Persons who will be regarded as essential workers and who will receive preference in obtaining accommodation ...

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  15. AGAINST CARTELS.

    WASHINGTON, Feb 13.—The Assistant Attorney-General (Mr Berge), in a speech here yesterday, said that Britain and America could ...

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  16. CIVIL AVIATION.

    NEW YORK, Feb 13.—The Washington bureau of the "New York Times" states: "Explanatory discussions on post-war aviation are ...

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  17. FOOD SUBSIDIES.

    WASHINGTON, Feb 13.—The Senate has passed the Bank-head Bill banning Government payments to farmers and food ...

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  18. ADVERSE REFERENDUM.

    BRISBANE, Feb 14.—If the Federal powers referendum proposals were not carried it would be open to the Commonwealth to assist ...

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  19. N.S.W. RAILWAYS.

    SYDNEY, Feb 14.—In the fifth year of the war the railways were doing a bigger business than ever before, said the Commissioner for ...

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  20. BRITAIN'S NEED.

    CANBERRA, Feb 14.—The leader of the UK Food Mission (Mr W. Bankes Amery) stated at the Australian Agricultural Council meeting ...

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  21. MORE INFORMATION WANTED

    J. L. Paton, chairman, West Australian Constitutional League, writes: The summary of the proposed Bill set out in "The West ...

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  22. DAYLIGHT SAVING.

    CANBERRA, Feb 14.—The Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) said today that the Government did not intend to continue daylight saving after March ...

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  23. GIFTS TO ARMY.

    MELBOURNE, Feb 14.—The Minister for the Army (Mr Forde) today expressed appreciation of the outstanding generosity of Mr Philip ...

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  24. FEMALE LABOUR.

    SYDNEY, Feb 14.—The Director-General of Manpower (Mr Wurth) said today that while no alteration had yet been made in the ...

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  25. STOCK FODDERS.

    CANBERRA, Feb 14.—Guaranteed returns for oats production without restriction on the acreage sown were urged tonight by the Australian ...

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  26. QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

    (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.) ...

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  27. AIR TRAINING CORPS.

    WELLINGTON, Feb 14.—Three thousand Air Training Corps cadets have enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force since the formation of ...

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  28. MAIL TIMETABLES.

    CLOSING TIMES.—Closing times here-under are for the Perth GPO: Registered articles must be posted an hour before ordinary letters but not earlier ...

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  29. WHEAT PAYMENTS.

    CANBERRA, Feb 14.—An increase in the payment to wheatgrowers for the first advance on the 1944-45 wheat crop was announced by the ...

    Article : 188 words
  30. OUR BUTTER RATION.

    CANBERRA, Feb 14.—Although a similar move was previously rejected it is likely that strong representations will again be made to the ...

    Article : 116 words
  31. SUPERPHOSPHATE.

    Although it is now late in the season for the placing of superphosphate orders, there are not enough being received to enable two of the ...

    Article : 482 words
  32. EMPEROR HIROHITO

    CANBERRA, Feb 14.—A report that an instruction had been sent by the army authorities to official army publications that nothing ...

    Article : 84 words
  33. TODAY'S LAW COURTS.

    CRIMINAL COURT.—At 10.30 am. before Mr Justice Dwyer and a Jury. ...

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  34. PACIFIC WAR.

    CANBERRA, Feb 14.—The magnitude of the Pacific war and what, it meant to Australia was fully realised in England, said the Deputy ...

    Article : 165 words
  35. Advertising

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  36. FOR SERVING STUDENTS.

    Following a recent approach by the Returned Soldiers' League to all Australian universities to secure an extension of postal tuition and the ...

    Article : 295 words
  37. RURAL LABOUR.

    CANBERRA, Feb 14.—The formation of an emergency rural labour corps from which labour could be switched to meet the needs of ...

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  38. U.S.A. AND PACIFIC.

    SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 13.—In a broadcast here today, Mr Wendell Willkie said that the United States Government should be persuaded, ...

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  39. U.S.A. PRESIDENCY.

    CHICAGO, Feb 13.—Col McCormick, publisher of the "Chicago-Tribune," has formally withdrawn his name from entry in the Illinois ...

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  40. PAPUAN VOLCANO.

    SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Feb 14.—A volcano is in erupation 130 miles east of Port Moresby at Goropu Mountain. After a series of loud ...

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  41. A.W.U. REVERSE.

    BRISBANE, Feb 14.—The surprise of the opening day of the triennial Labour convention at Bundaberg today was the reverse suffered by ...

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  42. QUEENSLAND ORCHARDS.

    BRISBANE, Feb 14.—Efforts of' many of the 500 members of the Women's Land Army sent to Stanthorpe district to harvest fruit have ...

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  43. MAIL FOR TROOPS.

    MELBOURNE, Feb 14.—Cyclonic weather during January and February has caused h big hold-up in mails to and from troops in New ...

    Article : 89 words
  44. SHEEPSKINS FOR RUSSIA.

    CANBERRA, Feb 14.—The Government will buy 30,000 dressed sheepskins worth £10,000 and send them as a gift to Russia. The Prime ...

    Article : 68 words
  45. TRANSVAAL FLOODS.

    JOHANNESBURG, Feb 13.—One of the worst floods for 10 years is at present sweeping down on the Transvaal's high veldt. Millions of ...

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  46. AFLOAT AGAIN.

    WASHINGTON, Feb 13.—The Navy has announced that the battleship Oklahoma is once more afloat, after drydock repairs to her hull. ...

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  47. WOMAN FLYER KILLED.

    LONDON, Feb 14.—Miss Jane Minstone, one of New Zealand's best-known women flyers, who was serving as a ferry pilot, was killed at the ...

    Article : 40 words
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