A hint that restrictions might be imposed on exports of Australian primary products to Britain was given yesterday by the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Cameron). He would give no details, but said he would make a full ...
Article : 89 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—The wearing of rubber boots by miners in or about shafts was condemned by a mining jury in the Coronor's Court at Bendigo ...
Article : 130 wordsWhile secret moves are afoot to unite the Federal A.L.P. and the A.L.P. Non-Communist Party (N.S. Wales) following the suspension of the State A.L.P. executive by the Federal executive, five members of the House of Representatives and one Senator ...
Article : 998 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Sunday.—Alexander Hald, an enemy alien, and manager of a foreign company in Wellington, was sent to gaol for 14 days for ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Government is considering a number of plans for increasing technical training facilities. ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Assistant Minister for Commerce (Senator M'Bride) announced to-dny that the Australian Wheat Board had sold more than 2,000,000 ...
Article : 247 wordsPostal notes for 5/, 10/ and £1 will be available to-morrow at all money order offices for forwarding to soldiers in Palestine or in ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Federal Parliament will reassemble in Canberra on Tuesday for a session which promises in its opening stapes at least to be of ...
Article : 185 wordsThe British Y.W.C.A. has appealed to its sister Australian organisation for £5000 to provide centres for British war women. ...
Article : 143 wordsThe man whose skeleton was "discovered on Tuesday in the bush near the Donna Buang Road, two miles from Warburton, was Charles ...
Article : 179 wordsLAUNCESTON, Sunday.—The Handicap Hurdle event at the Launceston Greyhound Racing Club's meeting last night proved to be thrilling. Five of ...
Article : 342 wordsA man, a woman and a child were killed and ll persons injured in road crashes to-day. In two of tho accident's husbands ...
Article : 181 wordsFrance will have to submit to short rations next winter, according to a serious warning issued by the French Ministry of ...
Article : 347 wordsBy falling flat on his face and allowing a train to pass over him, a railway signalman saved his life in the Jolimnot yards yesterday. ...
Article : 158 wordsYvonne Roach (19 months), of Wollongong, yesterday bit a dog on the car. She did this in retaliation because thE dog, an ...
Article : 95 wordsDARWIN, Sunday.—Because it was believed he had caiiscd the death of a tribal patriarch by "pointing the bone" at him, an aboriginal was ...
Article : 139 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—The Full Arbitration Court will to-morrow hear applications for an increase in the basic wage for unionists working under ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, Saturday. — Thousands of posters bearing the tricolor are appearing on hoardings throughout Britain, addressed to Frenchmen in French, with the ...
Article : 97 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — Complaints have reached the Federal authorities that many grocers and storekeepers are reluctant to supply full requirements ...
Article : 86 wordsFive thousand more Army cooks will he trained in the next 12 months in the new scientific methods of feeding Australian troops, which ...
Article : 184 wordsTHE Berlin Newsageney says the Australian Government's decision to include New Guinea and Papua in the Australian defence system has aroused indignation in Germany. It is described by the Berlin morning newspapers as "a ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON, Saturday. — The London office of the Havns semi-official French nowsageucy has severed connection with the French organisation, which ...
Article : 159 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—The first meeting or the now season was conducted at the T.C.A. ground last night by the Hobart Greyhound Racing Club. ...
Article : 305 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) has invited Lord Beaverbrook to join the War Cabinot. For the time being, Lord ...
Article : 154 wordsIn a statement made from No. 10 Downing street, the Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill) wishes it to be known that the ...
Article : 204 wordsJERUSALEM, Saturday. — Ali Khan, on route to Cairo to join the British press, having relinquished a commission in the Syrian colonial ...
Article : 130 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Without night flying, the link that had been fixed between the Tasman and FanAmerican air services was the best ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The Admiralty announces the following casualties: H.M.S. Wren: Four officers killed and two wounded; 31 ratings killed and six ...
Article : 123 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The Federal Attonicy-Gcnoral (Mr. Hughes) said today that the Government had no official confirmation of the arrest of ...
Article : 109 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday. — The growing popularity of egg pulp, both in local and export markets, is said to be causing a minor revolution in industry. ...
Article : 134 wordsPORT SAID, Saturday. — British naval officers reveal that a false declaration by the captain of the Italian steamer Verbania was responsible for ...
Article : 125 wordsUsually-reliable members of Congress are predicting that the United States will shortly intensify its aid for ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—It was officially announced to-day that a limited number of children was still being evacuated overseas in small convoys. ...
Article : 76 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—"Tn my opinion, wet canteens should be in the camps." said the Commission of Police (Mr. M'Kay) to-day. They would ...
Article : 102 wordsLATROBE CLUB.—The Riding Seclion of the Latrobe Bicycle Race Club conducted a junior race over 4 miles on Saturday. A new course record was ...
Article : 276 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that a considerable force of Italians is concentrated ou the LibyanEgyptian frontier, to which point ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, Saturday. —, A report from Helsinki says that Soviet roports of terrorism in Finland aro exaggerated. Threee hundred "Friends of ...
Article : 117 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—The military authorities are endeavoring to avoid delay to persons travelling oversens. It was stated at Anglesea Barracks ...
Article : 227 words"The reconstructed Liquid Fuel Control Board has been asked by the Government to expedite its report on petrol rationing," said the Minister for Supply (Sir Frederick Stewart) yesterday. A deputation from tho Labor Council and the Amalgamated Engineering ...
Article : 434 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday. — The report of the public works committee recommending a scheme designed to supply 1,200,000,000 gallons of water a year ...
Article : 133 wordsLONDON, Saturday. — A company has successfully challenged the right of the Ministry of Supply to take over control of companies engaged in war work. ...
Article : 136 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—Italy is reported to be having dilliculty with the Albanian tribesmen. An Italian battalion suffered 100 casualties and lost ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—The famous English miler, S. Wooderson, broke the allcomers' Scottish mile record at Glascow to-day by a second. He covered ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Mon 5 Aug 1940, Page 5
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