For the first time in its history Australia is being girdled by a transport system provided by fast modern aircraft—a development ...
Article : 405 wordsFormed entirely of WA personnel early in 1940, the 2/7th Field Ambulance left Fremantle in September for the Middle East, where it ...
Article : 695 wordsColonel Knox, Secretary of the United States Navy, has recently made two illuminating statements on Allied progress in the Pacific war. ...
Article : 967 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 22.—The collapse of the seamen's strike appears to be inevitable. Sydney seamen today decided by an overwhelming majority ...
Article : 60 wordsHis Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor and Lady Mitchell will attend the Christmas party at the Children's Hospital at 3 o'clock this ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Leader of the State Opposition (Mr Watts) said yesterday that he and his Parliamentary colleagues agreed with most of the points ...
Article : 683 wordsIn the Middle East they said that the only difference between us and Wirth's circus was that we had more tents and "Blamey's Circus has ...
Article : 768 wordsTomorrow (Christmas Eve) the office of "The West Australian" will close at 5 pm. There will be no issue of "The West Australian" on ...
Article : 934 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 22.—The Australian Government knows nothing about suggestions that the British Prime Minister (Mr Churchill) might ...
Article : 117 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec 22.—An official of the Melbourne branch of the Seamen's Union said today that a wrong Impression had been formed ...
Article : 103 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 22.—The Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) said today that if seamen did not return to their ships in accordance with the ...
Article : 280 wordsKALGOORLIE, Dec 22.—Mr J. F. Thorn, manager of the Lake View and Star Gold Mine and one of the most outstanding mining figures in ...
Article : 276 wordsThe late Mr John Cunliffe Phillips of Toodyay, pastoralist, who died at Carnarvon on May 18 last, at the are of 58 years left estate of a probate Value ...
Article : 45 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 22.—The Minister for Commerce (Mr Scully) said today that ten new types of specialised machinery for vegetable crops ...
Article : 324 wordsMELBOURNE. Dec 22.—Three men and a youth have been burnt to death, many injured and a school and a number of houses destroyed ...
Article : 462 wordsMELBOURNE. Dec 22.—General Sir Thomas Blamey has received the following replies from Empire military leaders to whom he addressed ...
Article : 284 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 22.—The Volunteer Defence Corps in Australia will not be placed on the reserve as in New Zealand. This was made ...
Article : 218 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 22.—The variations in war production, which it had been necessary to effect, represented one great phase or major ...
Article : 152 words"I am sure that an WA citizens will compliment Mr Wise upon his frank and enlightening statement of the meat position peculiar to this ...
Article : 448 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 22.—The Minister for the Army (Mr Forde) said tonight that it was planned to give every Australian soldier wherever he ...
Article : 135 wordsCLOSING TIMES.—Closing times hereunder are for the Perth GPO: Registered articles must be posted one hour before ordinary letters. but not earlier ...
Article : 231 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 22.—The Director-General of Health (Dr Cumpston) said yesterday that by making greater use of artificial vitamins in ...
Article : 193 wordsMELBOURNE. Dec 22.—"National rivalry must be curtailed and regulated, as in the case of individuals, for the greater good economically ...
Article : 123 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec 22.—An employment office is now operating to handle all casual waterfront labour, except labour controlled by the ...
Article : 98 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 22.—The Federal Government expects that all four power alcohol distilleries at Cowra, NSW: Warracknabeal, Victoria; ...
Article : 92 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec 22—A fire broke out in Wahring railway yard near Nagambie today, destroying the trucking yards and a stock of ...
Article : 117 wordsTwo full pages of pictures of the first party of West Australian prisoners of war to return home from Germany are published in this ...
Article : 147 wordsNISI PRIUS.—At 11 am. before Mr Justice Dwyer: Edwin John Fisher v Elsie Fisher—part heard. IN CHAMBERS.—At 10.30 am. before ...
Article : 39 wordsBRISBANE, Dec 22.—Evidence was taken over the "Flying Doctor'' wireless network of 4,000 square miles at Broken Hill recently by the ...
Article : 103 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec 22.—The award of the British Empire Medal (Military) to AB R. Larkin, RANR, of Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, and the ...
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Advertising : 164 wordsSYDNEY. Dec 22.—In the Arbitration Court today Judge Drake-Brockman awarded adult women workers in the rubber industry a ...
Article : 133 wordsA utility truck was presented to the YWCA-ACF War Services by the Omnibus Proprietors' Association in Perth yesterday The president of ...
Article : 209 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec 22.—As the result of Government controls that had been exercised over the manufacture and sale of heating and ...
Article : 101 wordsDetails supplied by the secretary of the District Contract Board (Mr E. Longson) yesterday disclosed that recent contracts to the value of over ...
Article : 187 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 22.—The Minister for Commerce (Mr Scully) said today that a third advance of 4d a bushel would be paid on the No 5 ...
Article : 126 wordsBRISBANE, Dec 22.—"It is possible that a certain amount of canned meat will be released to supplement the fresh meat ration for ...
Article : 55 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 22.—The president of the Southern Miners (Mr F. Lowden) said today that the southern miners had not lost one working day ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Dr T. W. Meagher) entertained past and present members of the Perth City Council and their wives at the ...
Article : 128 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 22.—The chairman of the Fruit Industry Sugar Concession Committee said today that a list of fruit pulp processors ...
Article : 88 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 22.—Allegations that black marketing in poultry is taking place are being investigated by Prices Branch officials. ...
Article : 62 wordsHOBART. Dec 22.—Shortly after he had taken part in an altercation in a hotel yard at New Norfolk this evening William Norman Marsh ...
Article : 50 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 22.—The Minister for Air (Mr Drakeford) announced tonight that uniforms would be granted to all members of the Air Training Corps south of the Tropic ...
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