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  2. TOUR OF ARMY ESTABLISHMENTS

    Pictures taken during a recent tour of Tasmanian Military establishment by a representative party. Top: Brigadier Vowles tests the wire netting at a detention camp. Centre: Party interested in equipment. Lower: A.A.M.W.S. girls (formely V.A.D.'s) who form part of the staff at a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. TEXTILE STRIKE MAY EXTEND THROUGHOUT N.S.W.

    SYDNEY, Friday. — Unless striking textile workers decide at mass meetings on Monday to return to work, the dispute is likely to ...

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  4. JAPANESE SHIPPING AT RABAUL AGAIN MAIN TARGET ALLIED FOMlRS

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Friday.—Japanese shipping was again the main target of Allied bombers operating over the South— Western Pacific Area yesterday. Six vessels were attacked, most of them damaged and one left in a sinking condition. ...

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  5. MR. CURTIN APPEALS TO STATES TO TRANSFER POWERS

    CANBERRA, Friday.—An appeal to thc States to recognise thc urgent need-for granting additional powers to the Commonwealth for five years after the coming of the peace was made by thc Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) on the adjournment of thc Mouse of Representatives to-day. ...

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  6. BATTLE WITH COW WHICH GORED WIFE

    MELBOURNE, Friday.—Clinging to the horus of a cow which had attacked and gored his wife, Mr. H. Brvant, manager of a dairy ...

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  7. MINERS' PENSION SCHEME

    HOBART, Friday. — A minimum pension of £2 per week and a maximum of £4/5/6 is provided in the Coalminers' Pensions Bill which ...

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  8. SUBMARINE WAS LESSER EVIL

    The skipper of a small Allied ship recenMv had to choose betweeu the risk of being wrecked pu the Australian coast or encountering an enemy ...

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  9. UP-TO-DATE SYSTEM OF BOOK-KEEPING FOR COUNCILS URGED

    A modernised system of bookkeeping for municipal councils was advocated by the Circular Hoad Council at a special meeting on Thursday, and at ...

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  10. ENTITLE MAY ADD TO RECORD IN H.T.C. CUP

    Entitle and Lord Saltash, respective winners of the Launceston and Hobart Cups, are expected to fight out the finish of the Hobart Turf ...

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  11. SOLDIERS KILLED IN NEW ZEALAND

    WELLINGTON, Friday. — An officer and two privates were killed, and ll injured, three of them dangerously, when a bank over which a tank was travelling ...

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  12. Cheap-Rent Houses to Be Mass Produced

    CANBERRA, Friday.—During the Mortgage Bank Bill debate in the House of Representatives to-day, the Treasurer (Mr. Chifley) said ...

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  13. Building Permits Only in Cases of Urgent Need

    HOBART, Friday. — The Deputy Director of War Organisation of Industry (Mr. M'Kinley, M.H.A.) has been advised by the Director-General of the ...

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  14. Alleged Assault By Military Police

    MELBOURNE, Friday.—After he had stopped a fight in Mundy st., Bendigo, he was arrested and beaten by a member of the Provost Corps ...

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  15. MAY REQUISITION TYRES OF UNREGISTERED CARS

    MELBOURNE, Friday.—Unregistered ears may have to give up their tyres for use by the military, services, ambulances and medical services and ...

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  16. CRUISER SHROPSHIRE TO RETAIN NAME

    CANBERRA, Friday. — The croiser Shropshire, which has been presented to the Australian Government and which was to have been renamed Canberra, will now ...

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  17. A.A.M.W.S. DOING GREAT WORK IN ARMY HOSPITALS

    In smart military uniforms, pin-pointed by the Geneva Red Cross, Tasmanian women of the A.A.M.W.S. are doing a great work in military hospitals. In this sphere the sex in provingt its adaptability and reliability as in many other theatres of useful activity. Nothing they havew undertaken is more appreciated by ...

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  18. Our Polly: By Law Appeal at Mowbray

    Our Polly, who has been racing consistently, and who won impressivvely on Janury 30, is selected to win the February Handicap at the N.T.T.C.'s ...

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  19. Goal of 10,000 Tons Alnminium Yearly

    CANBERRA, Friday.—The Government is aiming at the production of 10,000 tons of aluminium ingot a year from Australian bauxite. ...

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  20. ESCAPE FROM GAOL FARM

    HOBART, Friday—Ernest William Henry Lavelle (22) escaped from the gaol farm at Hayes about 9 p.m. yesterday and has not yet been recaptured. ...

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  21. Air Power Will Drive Japs from China

    WASHINGTON, Friday. — The Chinese Foreign Minister (Mr. T. V. Soong), after conferring with tho Secretary of State (Mur Cordell Hull) and ...

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  22. CHILD ELECTROCUTED

    HOBART, Friday. — Kenneth Goudie (4), of 102 Warwick st., was electrocuted early to-night when he grabbed a live wire after climbing to the roof of ...

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  23. Nominations for Newnham Close on Tuesday

    Nominations are due at 4 p.m. on Tuesday for minor events on the programme for the Newnham Club's Cup meeting on March 13. Entries for the ...

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  24. Carried Off in Float Plane by Japs

    SOMEWHERE AUSTRALIA, Friday.—The Japanese have taken their first prisoner in Australian waters. He was carried off in a ...

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  25. BREACH ON MILITIA ISSUE

    CANBERRA, Friday.—The rejaction by the House of Representatives yesterday of the Senate Bill to amend the National Security Act to ...

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  26. STARTING TIMES FOR MAINLAND EVENTS

    Seven-event programmes will be decided at Mentone. (Victoria) and Rosehill (N.S.W.) this afternoon. Starting times for the varions races in the two ...

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  27. BURNIE SCHOOL TO BE RENEWED

    HOBART, Friday.—Referring to-day to the claim by the Burnie Practising School Parents and Friends' Association for a new school, the Minister for ...

    Article : 112 words
  28. EXAGGERATED CLAIMS OF ENEMY SUBMARINE SKIPPERS

    WASHINOTOM, Friday.—The Office for War Information says that German and Italian submarine commanders are inflating their reports fo Allied ...

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  29. Committee to Protect. Producers' interests

    HOBART, Friday. — Delegates from primary producers' organisations will meet at Hobart on March 23 to discuss the lormation of a vigilance committee to ...

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  30. INCOME TAX BILL

    CANBERRA, Friday. — Several amendments to the Income Tax Assessment Bill now before the Federal Parliament will be proposed in committee by Mr. Blackburn ...

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  31. STOWPORT CHOPPING CARNIVAL ON MARCH 13

    Prize-money totalling £17 has been provided for the three principal events at the chopping carnival to be staged by the Stowport Patriotic Sports ...

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  32. FIXED PRICES FOR MEAT

    CANBERRA, Friday.—The Minister for Customs (Senator Keane) to-night issued an order declaring all classes of meat subject to price ...

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  33. No Agreement Yet on T.U.C. Delegation

    CANBERRA, Friday. — Although the Dominions Trade Unions Congress will be bold in England in April. the federal Government and the A.C.T.U. ...

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  34. SCHEME OF INDUSTRIAL REHABILITATION URGED

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Mr. Caluwell (Lab., Vic), resuming the second readins debate on the Mortgage Bank Bill in the House of Representatives to-day, urged that the measure bc withdrawn and replaced with a comprehensive scheme of industrial rehabilitation. He said that, although he would support the bill ...

    Article : 338 words
  35. R.S.L.'s Militia Problem

    SYDNEY, Friday.—Because the voting was so close at the Federal Executive meeting in Melbourne, the proposal to grant R.S.L. membership to ...

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  36. U.S. Squadron Leader Missing in Action

    SYDNEY, Friday.—One of the outstanding figures in the U.S. Air Corps in the S.W. Pacific, Major William G. Benn has been reported missing in ...

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  37. NO INCREASE IN PRICE FOR RASPBERRIES

    HOBART, Friday.—It was reported at a meeting of the Stone and Berry Fruits Board to-day that, the Minister for Customs (Senator Keane) ...

    Article : 170 words
  38. NEWNHAM RACING CLUB CUP MEETING

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 words
  39. CYCLING

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 words
  40. CANTEEN MANAGER GAOLED

    SYDNEY, Friday.—Arthur Douglas Percy Higgitt (44), caterer, charged with having, at Albury, stolen £203/9/9 belonging to the Commonwealth ...

    Article : 63 words
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