Members of the Navy, Army and Air Force commenced work together at 930 am yesterday at the Fremantle wharf to unload a ship ...
Article : 309 wordsLEYTE, Dec 26.—Marooned for two months on small islands of the Philippines, seven surviving members of an American Navy Liberator crew ...
Article : 674 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 26.—It is expected that most miners will obey the direction of their union and end their Christmas holidays on January ...
Article : 229 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 26.—There are strong possibilities of worthless land becoming valuable through new processes worked out by expert ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Federal plans for rehabilitation of ex-servicemen, outlined yesterday, are necessarily at this stage tentative and incomplete, but ...
Article : 744 wordsMr E. J. Holman, MLA, and the Town Planning Commissioner (Mr D. L. Davidson) will leave Perth for Donnybrook this morning. They ...
Article : 237 wordsWith the celebration of Boxing Day yesterday the Christmas spread of holidays concluded and work in shop and factory, office and ...
Article : 186 wordsA man said the other day: "Christmas was Christmas In my young days; now it is Xmas." He spoke sadly and regretfully, but he ...
Article : 629 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec 26.—Australian and NZ fighting men comport themselves when abroad even better than when at home, according ...
Article : 146 wordsMr Churchill reads the inscription on a gold-mounted walking stick the gift of the Acting Prime Minister (Mr Forde), which was presented to him by the Australian High Commissioner (Mr S. M. Bruce). The stick was taken to England in the record-breaking bomber Aries. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 52 wordsAfter the unrestrained gorging of Christmastide most people wake up on Boxing Day with a feeling of extreme gastric satiety almost ...
Article : 734 wordsJobs that fall to the lot of a Pressman take a wide range. Some prove interesting and colourful: others the reverse. I was confronted ...
Article : 520 wordsBRISBANE, Dec 26.—A crowd of 2,000 gathered at Valley Corner, Brisbane, early tonight when a brawl said to have started with an ...
Article : 107 wordsSir,—The roster system which at present is being opposed by the waterside workers at Fremantle is in operation in every other main port ...
Article : 206 wordsLONDON. Dec 26.—The Australian Minister for Air (Mr Drakeford) replying to a question concerning a report from the United States that ...
Article : 97 wordsIt was recently revealed In London that the Campo Santo, or cemetery, of Pisa, had been considerably damaged by shellfire. The comment ...
Article : 424 wordsMr Edgar Rowland Dawes, who was recently appointed a member of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, is 42 years old and is Chief ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 202 wordsLONDON, Dec 26.—The Americans have announced that they are strengthening the noses of cargo gliders and equipping Flying ...
Article : 116 wordsLONDON, Dec 26.—It Is now revealed that, in the early days of the blitz, a high-explosive bomb, three feet long, fell on Buckingham ...
Article : 73 wordsCLOSING TIMES.—Closing times hereunder are for the Perth GPO. Registered articles must be posted an hour before ordinary letters, hut not earlier than 9 ...
Article : 307 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 26.—English cars should have a bigger sale in Australia as a result of the change in the method of computing the ...
Article : 359 wordsDr W. Somerville, a member of the Senate of the University of WA, who returned last week from a visit to the Eastern States, made some ...
Article : 644 wordsDARWIN. Dec 26.—Christmas celebrations of the armed forces in the Darwin area took an unusual course on Christmas Eve, when a ...
Article : 336 wordsSYDNEY. Dec 26.—Large quantities of New Zealand grass will be shipped to Sydney early In the new year if arrangements can be made ...
Article : 252 wordsRAAF personnel on Leyte Island had a pleasant surprise when delicious boiled chicken, and plenty of it, was served up at one meal. Here the messing officer, Flying-Officer F. C. Washing (left), of Perth, 5gt R. Wilson (right), of Sans Souci (NSW), and the unit butcher ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 65 wordsIt will have been encouraging to West Australians to read the hopeful review by the president of the Chamber of Manufactures ...
Article : 309 wordsMELBOURNE. Dec 26.—Terms, of reference for the special committee recently appointed by the Federal Government to investigate the ...
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Advertising : 122 wordsLarge crowds enjoyed surf bathing at the metropolitan beaches yesterday. They were kept under observation by voluntary patrols of the ...
Article : 293 wordsLONDON. Dec 26.—Preliminary steps towards the re-building of the Norwegian Merchant Navy, of which nearly 50 per cent has been lost ...
Article : 263 wordsLONDON, Dec 26.—The Queen and the Princesses heard the King's broadcast yesterday at firsthand, being in the same room for the first ...
Article : 128 wordsCANBERRA, Dec 26.—By next June Melbourne will receive its time signal service from Mt Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, instead of ...
Article : 42 wordsBUNBURY, Dec 26.—Today at Waterloo the body of an elderly man believed to be about 70 years of age was found in a disused goods shed ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 27 Dec 1944, Page 4
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