The weather forecast for the metropolitan area today is: Cool with variable could and fresh west to south-west winds backing ...
Article : 519 wordsWeather: Rising temperatures in Perth yesterday were halted by the advent of north-west winds. Cloud developed and there was a ...
Article : 476 wordsThe announcement by the Minister for Works (Mr. Hawke) that the State Government had decided to make available £108,500 ...
Article : 732 wordsWONGAN HILLS, Dec. 26.— Started by a spark from the exhaust of a tractor, the worst fire in the history of Wongan Hills ...
Article : 342 wordsMr. H. V. Johnson, Minister for the Interior, will leave Perth this morning for Geraldton to attend to matters of importance to that ...
Article : 536 wordsBoys and girls, about 2,200 of them in this State between the ages of 14 and 17, said a permanent good-bye to their State schoolrooms this month, and now their thoughts are on getting a job—starting out in life. Approximately half the number are boys and half are girls. For ...
Article : 1,376 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 26.—Australia would be taking a very brave step to separate herself from any Empire policy, including the Bretton Woods ...
Article : 337 wordsWith the main object of consolidating friendship and securing increased cooperation between engineers in Great Britain and the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 410 wordsMERREDIN, Dec. 26.—The Merredin district today maintained its bad reputation for bushfires. Some scrub was seen burning three or ...
Article : 357 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 26.—Latest developments in the gas dispute indicate that no settlement is likely before January 13, when the Full ...
Article : 121 wordsPASADENA (California), Dec. 25. —Mr. W. C. Fields, the famous film comedian, has died here, at the age of 67. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 318 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 26.—A woman and her five-month-old baby were killed and five other persons were injured in a level ...
Article : 247 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 26.—Whether Sydney gas employees stopped work again would depend on how speedily their claims were considered, said ...
Article : 118 wordsBritain is to have a research centre to study and combat rheumatism. A grant of £100,000 spread over 10 years, has been made by the ...
Article : 314 wordsLONDON, Dec. 26.—The Chief of the Imperial General Staff (Field Marshal Lord Montgomery). in a Christmas broadcast to the ...
Article : 140 wordsNegotiations are in progress between the owners' representative of the Grosvenor Hospital, Beaconsfield. and a nurse with the ...
Article : 181 wordsHOBART. Dec. 26.—The strike by Hobart tramwaymen on their demand that the Hobart City Council shall pay time and a half for work ...
Article : 104 wordsWYALKATCHEM, Dec. 26.—Said to have been started by sparks from railway engine, a disastrous fire today swept through the property of ...
Article : 246 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 20.—This year British and foreign films are taking more money out of the pockets of American audiences than they have ever done before. British films this year will earn something like 8,500,000 dollars (£A2,600,000). This is four times as much ...
Article : 761 wordsThere can be no doubting the extreme importance to the States, and especially the weaker States, of the matter of additional ...
Article : 304 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 26.—John Worthington (16), of Lakemba, was fatally injured at Avalon today when he fell down a cliff to the rocks below. ...
Article : 278 wordsLONDON, Dec. 26.—Mr. A. V. Alexander, former First Lord of the Admiralty, now Minister of Defence-designate, has announced that the ...
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Advertising : 160 wordsThe following exhibitions were awarded for Music and Art of Speech, on the examinations held in May and September by the ...
Article : 198 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 26.—Victor' John Travis (20). gunman and housebreaker, who escaped from Boggo-road gaol, was recaptured at ...
Article : 172 wordsSuffering from infected burns on his back and arms William Muir (24), of Bramall-street, East Perth, was admitted to the Royal Perth ...
Article : 122 wordsCOPENHAGEN, Dec. 26.—Norway has given Russia permission to employ Norwegians in the only Russian whaling expedition operating in the ...
Article : 73 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 26.—The Japanese Home Ministry announces that the casualties as the result of the earthquake and tidal wave last week are ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, Dec. 26.—The Italian trade delegation which has been holding a series of discussions with the Board of Trade and other ...
Article : 73 wordsMOSCOW, Dec. 26.—Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" have been translated into Russian for the first time and published in Moscow, ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 27 Dec 1946, Page 9
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