His Excellency the Lieutenant- Governor (Sir James Mitchell) will attend a special screening of the Ministry of Post-war Reconstruction ...
Article : 31 wordsBROOME, Dec. 16.—The 1947 pearling season is now virtually at an end and luggers are preparing for the lay-up season. This year has ...
Article : 210 wordsNo matter what diplomatic gloss may be laid upon the adjournment of the Council of Foreign Ministers in London, the sudden brea[?]own ...
Article : 1,148 wordsOn his first interstate visit since he was elected Primate of Australia three weeks ago, Dr. Howard West Kivington Mowll, who is also ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 595 wordsHOBART, Dec. 16.—When the Leader-elect of the Parliamentary Labour Party (Mr. Brooker) formally takes over the administration ...
Article : 712 wordsToday's weather forecast for the metropolitan area is: Fine with moderate temperatures. Moderate south-east to south-west winds. ...
Article : 448 wordsMr. Ross McLarty, the Premier, accompanied by Mr. G. H. Yates, M.L.A., will attend a business men's luncheon arranged by the South ...
Article : 198 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 16.—The Full Bench of the Industrial Court today fined Michael O'Brien (State president) and Francis George Nolan ...
Article : 171 wordsFour thousand children, many of whom come from the country areas of Western Australia, will be deprived of the opportunity of ...
Article : 420 wordsRequests from producers in all potato-growing areas of the State would be answered by the Potato Growing Industry Trust Fund Bill, ...
Article : 347 wordsMr. T. S. Parry, who had had a lifetime association with surveying in this State and had been Surveyor- General since February 1, 1945, died ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 466 wordsLocked in a Perth bank last night was a penny stamp which is claimed by its owner to be one of the rarest and most valuable stamps in the ...
Article : 355 wordsThe West Australian Government Tramways and Ferries Bill was over- whelmingly defeated in the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon ...
Article : 255 wordsNORTHAM, Dec. 16.—Goods of an estimated value of £1,000 were destroyed by a fire in two railway vans in the Northam yards just ...
Article : 234 wordsAlthough a Government measure and strongly supported by Sir Hal Colebatch (Lib.), the Constitution Acts Amendment Bill (No. 4) to ...
Article : 273 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 16.—Thanking the Federal Government for increasing the funeral grant from £15 to £20, the federal president ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Deputy Prices Commissioner (Mr. C. P. Mathea), said yesterday that as from today the approved retail prices of President and Luxor ...
Article : 93 wordsFor treatment of poisoning, Margaret McCaig (51), married, of Lake-street, Perth, was admitted to the Royal Perth Hospital last night. ...
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Advertising : 894 wordsAfter sitting for seven days and considering 201 major items the 20th triennial congress of the West Australian branch of the Australian ...
Article : 182 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 16.—The Minister for Supply and Shipping (Senator Ashley) said tonight that the Federal Government had done its part in spreading the sacrifice associated with the pending 10 percent cut in the petrol ration as equitably as possible over all consumers. ...
Article : 372 wordsWhat caused John William Ferguson (29), of Canning-highway, Victoria Park, to fall from his bicycle in Riverside-drive, Perth, late ...
Article : 91 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 16.—Butter coupons Nos. 1, 2 and 3 will be good until January 4. The Director of Rationing (Mr. J. B Cumming) ...
Article : 156 wordsROEBOURNE, Dec. 16.—About 4.30 p.m. on Saturday J. Couchman, auditor, was drowned in a waterhole used as a swimming pool at ...
Article : 81 wordsGNOWANGERUP, Dec. 16.—Richard Fairclough (36). married, of Maylands, who received a fractured skull when he fell 30ft. from ...
Article : 69 wordsWhen he fell from a box at his home in Lawler-street, Mt. Lawley, yesterday evening. Ernest John Williams (54), married, suffered ...
Article : 44 wordsROEBOURNE, Dec. 16.—High temperatures still prevail in Roebourne and today the 13th consecutive reading well over the century ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 17 Dec 1947, Page 6
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