SIR F. STEWART, who is to take over the Federal supply portfolio permanently. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 16 wordsFrederick Stewart will become Minister for Supply, and the Acting Treasurer (Mr. Spender) will be promoted to ...
Article : 410 wordsStating that thE Commonwealth would spend £75,000,000 this financial year on direct war purpose, the acting Federal Treasurer (Mr. ...
Article : 803 wordsA heat wave which extended throughout most of N.S.W. to--day caused the death of two people and injuries to others. ...
Article : 715 wordsTightening up of the national security (capital issues) regulations in their application to goldmining companies was announced ...
Article : 82 wordsFurther restriction of imports from non-sterling countries may be necessary to conserve the dollar exchange. The Commonwealth Government will not take action unless it has no alternative, but at all costs it has to find dollars for ...
Article : 373 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Five discussions on various defence problems in democracy will be held at the Summer School of the Australian Institute of ...
Article : 132 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Action has been taken by the Commerce Deportment to maintain a close check on Australia's refrigeration facilities. ...
Article : 79 wordsLines of progress in tho equipment of the Australian Army with armored fighting equipment, and the evolution from home-drawn to ...
Article : 969 wordsCAIRNS (Qld.), Thursday.—In mountainous country seven miles from Ravonhoe to-day, a search party found Mrs. R. Erikson (30), who had been ...
Article : 66 wordsThree Australian defence tenders, involving (in expenditure of nearly £.0000, have been let to a Japanese firm. ...
Article : 132 wordsWhen she saw a large brown snake disappear through the skirting-board of a kitchen in which she was working, Mrs. ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Commonwealth authorities will investigate immediately the cabled reports that Ceylon tea is available in ampio quantities at ...
Article : 168 wordsThe sinking of tho Swedish stenmer Patrin, of 1200 tons, brings neutral losses in the past 24 hours to three ships, all of which were ...
Article : 480 wordsThe sub-committee of the Federal Economic Cabinet will meet representatives of the Queensland Canegrowers' Council soon to dis ...
Article : 164 wordsThe creation of a food inspection staff within tho Supplies and Transport Service of the Army was announced by the Minister for the ...
Article : 382 wordsHarry William Solomons, "formerly sporting commentator for 3XY, was to-day committed for trial on two charges of having ...
Article : 558 wordsMobile recruiting units to enlist men in country districts would be a feature of Australia's drive for recruits for the Empire ...
Article : 189 wordsSeveral prisoners in N.S.W. gaols have applied for their release to enlist with the A.I.F., but it is unlikely the Govern ...
Article : 54 wordsTwo more telophone channels were to he added to the Tasmanian submarino cable to meet heavy traffic demands. ...
Article : 125 wordsDavies Coop and Co. Ltd. and Olympic Tyre nnd Rubber Co. Ltd. have decided to float a new company, Tyre and Fabrics Pty. Ltd., ...
Article : 153 wordsResentment has been caused among State public servants by a statement in the Government Gazette this week that an amend ...
Article : 139 wordsAustralia's war effort would be impaired seriously if there were a vicious spiral of increasing costs and prices, but he believed this could be avoided, the Minister for Customs (Mr. Lawson) said to-day. lt was essential, he said, that increased costs be confined to those forced by overseas conditions. Mr. Lawson was commenting on cabled reports from London that wages in England had already risen by 41 per ...
Article : 370 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Lieut.. Colonel John Wesley Mitchell (48), of East St. Kilda, commander of the 2nd/8th Battalion of the Second A.I.E., ...
Article : 136 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.-—Temporary telephone subscribers in future will be asked to pay only the actual cost of erection and dismantling of circuits. ...
Article : 77 wordsSYDNEY", Thursday.—Two prisoners, aged 19 and 20, esceped from Goulburn Reformatory to-dav in a car owned by the visiting gaol surgoon (Dr. ...
Article : 63 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday—Regulations issued to-night confer officer rank on chemists mid dentists serving with the Australian Citizen Forces. Qualified ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Fri 26 Jan 1940, Page 7
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