The Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) continues to improve in health and yesterday he had settled down at The Lodge at Canberra for the ...
Article : 397 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 29.—Civil defence in Australia is to be placed on a reserve basis, but a nucleus organisation will be retained to meet ...
Article : 394 wordsThere was little alteration yesterday in the position on the waterfront at Fremantle over the refusal of the waterside workers to accept work ...
Article : 359 wordsADELAIDE, Dec 29.—A dense pall of dust which spread over the metropolitan area today and extended over the whole of the settled areas ...
Article : 390 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 29.—The decrease in agriculture in Australia was the result of our war effort and a small part of the price we are ...
Article : 535 wordsUrging the Commonwealth Government "to give consideration to the immediate and post-war requirements of the gold industry, with a ...
Article : 1,055 wordsThe office of "The West Australian" will be closed all day today, tomorrow and Monday (New Year's day). While the office is closed ...
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Advertising : 378 wordsToday we look back over 1944, measuring its early promise against the accomplishment of the United Nations in the fifth year of the ...
Article : 1,078 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec 28.—Representative Ploeser, one of the Congressmen who recently visited the Pacific, told the Australian ...
Article : 318 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 29.—Any hold-up of ships at wharves would be disastrous, the Director of Shipping (Sir Thomas Gordon) said today, when ...
Article : 150 wordsThere were 11 West Australian entrants in the 1944 courses at the Royal Military College. Duntroon. Academically and in the sporting ...
Article : 373 wordsADELAIDE. Dec 29.—The most disastrous fire in the history of the district destroyed four homes at Port Elliot today and burnt ...
Article : 112 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 29.—The Minister for the Navy (Mr Makin) said today that a magnificent effort had been achieved in Australian ship ...
Article : 296 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 29.—The central executive of the Miners' Federation today ordered all miners throughout Australia to resume work on ...
Article : 197 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 29.—Bushfires broke out between St Ives and Gordon today when a freshening wind fanned smouldering embers from ...
Article : 123 words"The rotary system is in operation in the Eastern States," said the Acting Minister for the Army (Senator Fraser) yesterday, "and in ...
Article : 128 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec 29.—After having been away from Australia for up to four years, 190 members of the RAAF returned from the Middle ...
Article : 518 wordsLONDON, Dec 29.—The Queens- land-born Air Vice-Marshal D. C. T. Bennett, Chief of Bomber Command's Pathfinders, is president of the ...
Article : 79 wordsIn order to give families in receipt of assistance from the Child Welfare Department greater opportunity to improve their ...
Article : 177 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec 29.—It will not be necessary for the next-of-kin of any Australian prisoner of war to call at or write to a Red Cross ...
Article : 213 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 29.—After the Commander-in-Chief of the British Fleet (Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser) had turned the first sod on the Hyde ...
Article : 322 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 29.—Reorganisation of the Commonwealth Public Service Board, making provision for the appointment of a chairman ...
Article : 218 wordsMELBOURNE. Dec 29. With the proposed establishment of a Commonwealth Mint at Canberra it was not known whether the Royal Mint ...
Article : 132 words"F/L Ferry has completed numerous operations against the enemy in the course of which he has invariably displayed the utmost fortitude ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 152 wordsAsked yesterday whether steps were being taken to replace the consignment of 7,000 tons of Newcastle coal which was lost through ...
Article : 138 wordsLONDON, Dec 29.—Mr Churchill in a message to London today, said he regretted he could not answer personally all the many kind greetings ...
Article : 59 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 29.—Tokio radio reports Domei newsagency as saying that the steamer Hoshi Maru sails from Kobe on January 4 for ...
Article : 37 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 29.—Mr Ward Johnson, member of the US House of Representatives, was apparently one of those American politicians ...
Article : 122 wordsLONDON, Dec 29.—The political correspondent of the "Daily Express" says His Majesty the King has offered and Mr Lloyd George has ...
Article : 122 wordsCLOSING TIMES.—Closing times hereunder are for the Perth GPO Registered articles must be posted an hour before ordinary letters, but not earlier than 9 ...
Article : 306 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 29.—The Acting Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr Dickson) today summoned a conference of all parties to the milk ...
Article : 195 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 29.—Hotelkeepers had no right under law to keep bottled liquor for their own customers, Mr Eric S. Miller, KC, suggested ...
Article : 170 wordsMEXICO CITY.—A dispatch from the American Associated Press correspondent states that there were disorders and stampedes at the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe display of war equipment in the windows of the Ministry of Munitions, Hay-street, is still attracting public interest. A sample of ...
Article : 128 wordsMrs Irene A. Greenwood, organising secretary of the Sheepskins for Russia Fund, Russian Medical Aid and Comforts Committee, states that ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Under-Secretary for. Agriculture (Mr G. K. Baron-Hay) has announced that applicants for feeding meal will not be required ...
Article : 93 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 29.—Tokio radio announced today the completion of the boring of the tunnel connecting the mainland of Honshu ...
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