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 ...
Article : 154 wordsCANBERRA, Feb 14.—While the need to confer certain increased powers on the Commonwealth was recognised, the holding of a ...
Article : 238 wordsIn its plans for the re-employment of ex-servicemen and women the Manpower Directorate is taking care to avoid any scheme which will ...
Article : 729 wordsGovernment control of the ice industry in Perth is advocated in a letter which has been sent to the Minister for War Organisation of ...
Article : 371 wordsCANBERRA, Feb 14.—There were signs of an approaching world short- age in many basic food products, the Minister for Commerce (Mr Scully) ...
Article : 453 wordsLady Arthur Hill, composer of the song "In the Gloaming," died in England on Sunday. She had a special gift for composing light. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Perth City Council agreed yesterday, subject to endorsement by the finance committee, to a works committee recommendation to widen ...
Article : 701 wordsToday calls up tragic memories which will never be wholly expunged in any pride of recovery from one of the bitterest defeats ever suffered ...
Article : 1,026 wordsSYDNEY, Feb 14.—Pilot-Officer M. Falstein, MHR, appeared on invitation before the executive officers of the Official Labour Party in the ...
Article : 196 wordsSYDNEY, Feb 14.—Nineteen Australian soldiers escaped from a detention camp at Miranda at 12.30 pm when more than 100 men made a ...
Article : 345 wordsCANBERRA, Feb 14.—A special committee of departmental experts will be set up soon to report on possible plans for post-war housing in ...
Article : 83 wordsSYDNEY, Feb 14.—The Premier (Mr McKell) tonight replied by telegram to the Leader of the Opposition in the West Australian ...
Article : 148 wordsCANBERRA, Feb 14.—Persons who will be regarded as essential workers and who will receive preference in obtaining accommodation ...
Article : 60 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb 13.—The Assistant Attorney-General (Mr Berge), in a speech here yesterday, said that Britain and America could ...
Article : 195 wordsNEW YORK, Feb 13.—The Washington bureau of the "New York Times" states: "Explanatory discussions on post-war aviation are ...
Article : 269 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb 13.—The Senate has passed the Bank-head Bill banning Government payments to farmers and food ...
Article : 229 wordsBRISBANE, Feb 14.—If the Federal powers referendum proposals were not carried it would be open to the Commonwealth to assist ...
Article : 137 wordsSYDNEY, Feb 14.—In the fifth year of the war the railways were doing a bigger business than ever before, said the Commissioner for ...
Article : 99 wordsCANBERRA, Feb 14.—The leader of the UK Food Mission (Mr W. Bankes Amery) stated at the Australian Agricultural Council meeting ...
Article : 300 wordsJ. L. Paton, chairman, West Australian Constitutional League, writes: The summary of the proposed Bill set out in "The West ...
Article : 429 wordsCANBERRA, Feb 14.—The Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) said today that the Government did not intend to continue daylight saving after March ...
Article : 83 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb 14.—The Minister for the Army (Mr Forde) today expressed appreciation of the outstanding generosity of Mr Philip ...
Article : 72 wordsSYDNEY, Feb 14.—The Director-General of Manpower (Mr Wurth) said today that while no alteration had yet been made in the ...
Article : 174 wordsCANBERRA, Feb 14.—Guaranteed returns for oats production without restriction on the acreage sown were urged tonight by the Australian ...
Article : 149 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 : 213 wordsWELLINGTON, Feb 14.—Three thousand Air Training Corps cadets have enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force since the formation of ...
Article : 110 wordsCLOSING TIMES.—Closing times here-under are for the Perth GPO: Registered articles must be posted an hour before ordinary letters but not earlier ...
Article : 209 wordsCANBERRA, 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 wordsCANBERRA, Feb 14.—Although a similar move was previously rejected it is likely that strong representations will again be made to the ...
Article : 116 wordsAlthough 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 wordsCANBERRA, Feb 14.—A report that an instruction had been sent by the army authorities to official army publications that nothing ...
Article : 84 wordsCRIMINAL COURT.—At 10.30 am. before Mr Justice Dwyer and a Jury. ...
Article : 15 wordsCANBERRA, Feb 14.—The magnitude of the Pacific war and what, it meant to Australia was fully realised in England, said the Deputy ...
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Advertising : 175 wordsFollowing a recent approach by the Returned Soldiers' League to all Australian universities to secure an extension of postal tuition and the ...
Article : 295 wordsCANBERRA, Feb 14.—The formation of an emergency rural labour corps from which labour could be switched to meet the needs of ...
Article : 326 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Feb 13.—In a broadcast here today, Mr Wendell Willkie said that the United States Government should be persuaded, ...
Article : 117 wordsCHICAGO, Feb 13.—Col McCormick, publisher of the "Chicago-Tribune," has formally withdrawn his name from entry in the Illinois ...
Article : 139 wordsSOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Feb 14.—A volcano is in erupation 130 miles east of Port Moresby at Goropu Mountain. After a series of loud ...
Article : 219 wordsBRISBANE, Feb 14.—The surprise of the opening day of the triennial Labour convention at Bundaberg today was the reverse suffered by ...
Article : 80 wordsBRISBANE, Feb 14.—Efforts of' many of the 500 members of the Women's Land Army sent to Stanthorpe district to harvest fruit have ...
Article : 127 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb 14.—Cyclonic weather during January and February has caused h big hold-up in mails to and from troops in New ...
Article : 89 wordsCANBERRA, 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 wordsJOHANNESBURG, Feb 13.—One of the worst floods for 10 years is at present sweeping down on the Transvaal's high veldt. Millions of ...
Article : 66 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb 13.—The Navy has announced that the battleship Oklahoma is once more afloat, after drydock repairs to her hull. ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 15 Feb 1944, Page 2
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