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  2. HOLIDAY PAY CASE

    CANBERRA, Friday— The Commonwealth Government is investgating the possibility of appealing to the Privy Council against the ...

    Article : 254 words
  3. DETERMINED JAPANESE BID TO HOLD

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Friday— Throwing in marines and strong air forces, the Japanese are making a still more determined bid to hold the Buna beach-head in north Papua, and the Australian and American land assault, heavily supported from ...

    Article : 562 words
  4. CONSTITUTION CONVENTION STATES MAY AGREE TO TRANSFER POWERS TO COMMONWEALTH

    CANBERRA, Friday— Although little progress was made towards a decision at the Constitution Convention to-day, the convention is expected to end on Monday with a compromise. Discussions outside the convention have reached a stage where delegates will almost ...

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  5. NOISY DISCUSSION ON DARLAN'S POSITION

    LONDON, Friday— When the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden), in the House of Commons, announced the business for the next sitting, Mr. Aneurin Bevan (Ind. Lab.) started a noisy discussion by asking for an early opportunity to discuss a motion relating to Admiral Darlan's position. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. R.S.L Would Curb Aliens Activities

    SYDNEY, Friday— Protests were made to-day at the R.S.L. congress that enemy aliens were enriching themselves at the expense of Australia. It was ...

    Article : 129 words
  7. APPLE AND PEAR ADVANCES

    CANBERRA, Friday— The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) said to-day that, in respect of apples and pears to be ...

    Article : 93 words
  8. JAP FORCES HARASSED ON GUADALCANAL

    WASHINGTON, Friday— U.S. Army fighters are harassing Japanese positions on Guadalcanal, but there has been no recent ground ...

    Article : 282 words
  9. Curb on Sunday Radio Advertisements

    MELBOURNE, Friday— Mention of laxatives or the deodorising value of certain soaps, or comments on the effect of medicines on specific organs of the ...

    Article : 198 words
  10. POLICE FIND YOUNG ESCAPEES IN SECRET PASSAGE

    ADELAIDE, Friday— How three police constables crawled along a duety secret passage under a floor to find two 13-year-old escapees ...

    Article : 340 words
  11. PRISONERS IN JAP. HANDS

    CANBERRA, Friday— The Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) announced to-day that a small number of names of Australian ...

    Article : 312 words
  12. Four Coalmines Idle

    SYDNEY, Friday — Stoppaeges at four mines to-day lost 4700 tons of coal: 1782 men were idle. A fresh strick at the Richmond Main, the ...

    Article : 83 words
  13. TRANSPORT OF BEER INTER-STATE

    MELBOURNE, Friday— The transport of beer inter-State will be permitted in future only if a State cannot meet its own quota requirements. ...

    Article : 68 words
  14. ARDUOUS CAMPAIGN

    ADVANCED U.S. BASE IN PAPUA, Thursday— D. N Caswell, United Press correspondent in New Guinea, said in a despatch to-night ...

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  15. C.C.C. Workers Demand Dismissal of Mr. Packer

    SYDNEY, Friday— At a stopwork meeting at an important defence job to-day 2000 workers de= manded the immediate dismissal of ...

    Article : 276 words
  16. FLOODS IN GIPPSLAND SUBSIDING

    MELBOURNE, Friday —Except for the MacAlllister at Glen Maggie, all the Eastern Gippsland streams that have been in flood during the past ...

    Article : 96 words
  17. TASMANIAN HARVEST COMMITTEE

    CANBERRA, Friday— A Wheat Harvesting Employment Committee for Tasmania was gazzetted to-night by Mr. Ward. Its personnel is: Charman, ...

    Article : 61 words
  18. ITALIAN PARATROOPS REFUSED TO JUMP

    LONDON, Friday— The "Daily Telegraph's" Cairo Correspondent says that a captured document signed by a divisional general of Italian paratroops, ...

    Article : 64 words
  19. FEDERAL STANDARD OF CARE FOR MOTHER AND CHILD ADVOCATED

    HOBART, Friday — The setting up of a Federal standard of care for mother and child by the Commonwealth was advocated by the president of the Tasmanian State Council for Mother and Child (Mrs. E. A. Waterworth), when giving evidence before the Federal Pailiamrntary National Security Committee ...

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  20. Guests Poisoned at Thanksgiving Dinner

    MELBOURNE, Friday— Twelve U.S. soldiers and two young women poisoned by food eaten at a thanksgiving dinner last night are in hospital. ...

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  21. ENLISTMENT RACKET EXPOSED IN CANADA

    QUEBEC Friday— Court-martial proceedings have exposed a scheme whereby some Canadian men went through the motions of enlistment ...

    Article : 150 words
  22. NAZIS TESTING "SCYTHE OF DEATH"

    LONDON, Friday— The Berlin Radio says that armament technicians, testing a new electric machine-gun fring 3000 rounds a minute, approve of the name ...

    Article : 62 words
  23. Soldier Killed; 16 Injured in Riot

    BRISBANE, Friday— One soldier was killed and 15 soldires and a civilian injured in a riot of servicemen in the city last night. ...

    Article : 90 words
  24. FRENCH SCUTTLE PORTION OF

    LONDON, Friday— Berlin reports that, under orders from Hitler, German troops last evening marched into the port of Toulon, the French Mediterranean naval base where the French Fleet is lying. It adds that resistance to the Axis forces broke out ...

    Article : 305 words
  25. MANY TOWNS PASS LOAN QUOTAS

    MELBOURNE, Friday— Twentyone Victorian suburban and country towns have passed their quotas for the Austerity Loan compared with ...

    Article : 176 words
  26. WOOLGROWERS TO GET FULL CONTRACT PRICE

    CANBERRA, Friday— Mr. Scalty (Minister for Commerce) described as hoplessly incorrect a statement by Mr. J.H.Lienhop, M.L.C., Victoria that ...

    Article : 138 words
  27. JAPAN'S REASONS FOR WAR WITH U.S.

    NEW YORK, Friday— According to the Tokio Radio, Mr. Kurusn (who was participating in the negotiations in Washington at the time Japan attacked ...

    Article : 149 words
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