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  2. GRENADIER GUARDS TAKE TO WHEELS

    Motor cycles and Bren gun carriers of the Grenadier Guards during exercises. Britain's and perhaps also the world's most famous foot regiment is now a mechanised and quick-striking force of modern warfare. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 41 words
  3. USE OF JOBLESS MANPOWER

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) announced to-day the appointment of a committee of five members of Parliament to investigate Australia's resources of unemployed or partially unemployed manpower, and the extent to ...

    Article : 488 words
  4. MINISTER OUTLINES MAIN FEATURES OF CHILD ENDOWMENT SCHEME

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Salient features already decided in the Commonwealth Child Endowment scheme were announced to-night by the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr. Holt). They included:— ...

    Article : 927 words
  5. OLD BANK NOTES UNREDEEMED

    CANBERRA, Thursday.— Banking statistics issued to-day reveal that £166,838 worth of bank notes issued by private ...

    Article : 95 words
  6. BUILDING SHIPS

    MELBOURNE, Thursday. —A programme of merchant shipbuilding in Australia, for which the Federal ...

    Article : 267 words
  7. JAPAN MOVES SOUTH

    TOKIO, Jan. 27.—Some day, perhaps, Australia will startle the diplomatic world with talk of "expansion to the north." It will, of course, be like the southward expansion of Japan, "peaceful and economic." In the Australian ...

    Article : 1,202 words
  8. Code System Conveys Kisses

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The Postmaster-General said to-day that four phrases appeared so frequently in cables sent to ...

    Article : 59 words
  9. Hitch in Getting Reserve Stocks of Sugar

    The establishment of the sugar beet industry in Tasmania was worthy of consideration if representations by the State Government to get ...

    Article : 444 words
  10. TURKEY STILL ALLIED WITH BRITAIN

    "Turkey's policy is tightly linked to Britain's by an alliance that has not been changed and is not being ...

    Article : 328 words
  11. Aero Club May Lose Dutch Pupils

    The Commonwealth authorities' insistence on a rigid petrol rationing, it is believed, will prevent a number of ...

    Article : 312 words
  12. BROADCAST OF RACES

    Despite efforts on behalf of the Pakenham Racing Club, its meeting to-day was broadcast by a commercial station. ...

    Article : 375 words
  13. Greyhound Racing SHIRARCH FOR CUP FINAL

    Shirarch won his semi-final so convincingly that he looks to have an undeniable chance of taking the final of the top ...

    Article : 495 words
  14. N.Z. BAN HITS MUTTON BIRD INDUSTRY

    The New Zealand Government has forbidden the importation into the Dominion of mutton birds, and the industry on the Bass Strait islands will ...

    Article : 571 words
  15. Vote for Bases at Guam and Samoa Passes

    Admiral Harold Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, said to-day that Congress should pay no attention to Japanese objections ...

    Article : 268 words
  16. Ironworkers Strike

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—A complete stoppage of work took place at the factory of G. E. Crane and Co. Pty. Ltd. at Forest Lodge to-day, when ...

    Article : 182 words
  17. FRUITGROWERS' RELIEF

    The question of financial relief to berry fruit growers and orchardists who had suffered losses as a result of hail, frost and wind damage during ...

    Article : 140 words
  18. SMALLER RETURN FROM TAXES, TREASURER SAYS

    The total receipts from state taxation would be about £112,000 less in 1940- 41 than in 1939-40 and the new special income tax was estimated to return ...

    Article : 152 words
  19. ROYALTIES FOR GAME RAISE £101,000

    The value of the game industry to the state was shown by figures quoted at the meeting of the Fauna Board at Hobart yesterday by the newly-elected ...

    Article : 109 words
  20. Heavy Raid on Swansea

    LONDON, Thursday.— Night fighters challenged a stream of raiders arriving over South Wales last night, ...

    Article : 217 words
  21. TO-DAY'S SUMMARY

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 words
  22. R.A.A.F. PLANE DOWN IN SEA

    MELBOURNE. Thursday—The Air Board announced to-night that the bodies of two airmen were recovered from the sea near Fremantle, West ...

    Article : 228 words
  23. RAILWAY STAFF CHANGES

    The Commissioner for Transport (Mr. S. M. Wilson) has announced that the following transfers among the staff of the railway branch of the ...

    Article : 96 words
  24. Advertising

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    Advertising : 271 words
  25. FLAX YIELD TO BE DOUBLED

    MELBOURNE. Thursday.—The Federal Government hopes to double the yield of flax in Australia by next harvest. First crops in Victoria. ...

    Article : 104 words
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