MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The tragic toll of the great bush fires rose to-night to 18 deaths. Forty-four others injured in the fires are in hospitals, and many are in a critical condition. Many thonsands of people are homeless, and more than 1000 ...
Article : 1,165 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — Federal Cabinet will be asked this week to insist that, the manpower authorrities specifically direct many former ...
Article : 154 wordsRear-Admiral B. W. Radford, U.S.N., transferring from a destroyer to a carrier during operations in the Gilberts.—Official U.S. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsBig money is obtainable from carrots these days with the price fixed at £[?]2 and yields in the Far North-West ranging up to 40 tons to the acre. A district farmer states that in the rich swamp lands a yield of 30 tons is common. However, the labor for weeding and thinning is very considerable. ...
Article : 657 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—With, a revolver dropped by an injured detective, a young woman at a Y.W.C.A. hostel at East Melbourne, ...
Article : 186 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — The terrible bush fires raging throughout Victoria are causing the Commonwealth Government grave concern, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 502 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—It was revealed this afternoon that the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, has been re[?]perating at Marrakesh, in Morocco, and that he ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — Two British Navy prisoners of war, in letters home, give reassuring news of conditions in the Jupanese war prisoners' camp at ...
Article : 114 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — The chairman of the Rationing Commission (Mr. A. W. Coles) yesterday listed the points that would ...
Article : 519 wordsThe Zeehan Municipal Commission is to advise the Deputy Director of Rationing that with the advent of meat rationing more pentiful supplies ...
Article : 486 wordsADVANCED NEW GUINEA HEADQUARTERS Saturday. — Australia's magnificent jungle fighters are now at Sio. They will ...
Article : 256 wordsLONDON, Sunday.— "Passenger stratosphere flights at extremely high speed are well within the bounds of possibility with ...
Article : 177 wordsS.W. PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS, Sunday.—Australian troops have reached Sio Mission station, on the coast of thE Huon Peninsula (New Guinea) without any reported Japanese opposition. Announcing thE further Australian advance, General ...
Article : 1,191 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday. — Pacific Fleet Headquarters announce that 7th Air Force planes attacked the Mili atoll (in the Marshalls) in daylight on ...
Article : 279 wordsBUENOS AIRES, Sunday.—It is officially announced that a great number of persons were killed and injured in [?] violent earthquake in Western ...
Article : 44 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — Duntroon Military College was for a time threatened by bush fire on Saturday. Firemen and volunteers from the college beat out ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—According to the Ankara Radio, all Japanese military attaches in Europe have assembled in Budapest for their annual ...
Article : 73 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.— Future food supplies will be reduced by the bush fires, according to experts tonight. There will be a serious ...
Article : 119 wordsAt a special meeting of the Zeehan Municipal Commission a resolution was passed adopting the Libraries Act, 1943, for application ...
Article : 48 wordsLONDQN, Sunday.—For reselling a passenger from the blazing debris of a Mosquito which crashed, with ammunition exploding all round, Flight Sergt. ...
Article : 48 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—The fixation of specific wholesale and retail prices of offal meat throughout Australia is expected soon. At present these prices ...
Article : 93 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Trading was light in a firm market on the Stock Exchange yesterday. Industrials secured two rises. Government loans were slightly ...
Article : 76 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — Although no date has yet been fixed for the Conference of Empire Prime Ministers in London, a decision is expected shortly, ...
Article : 227 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—An order under the National Security (Economic Organisation) Regulations has been issued by the Commonwealth Bank ...
Article : 111 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday. — The sudden appearance in Washington of the Allied Air Commander in the S.W. Pacific (Lieut.-General ...
Article : 116 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—The operation of meat rationing in Australia will be one of the subjects which will be investigated by members of the N.Z. ...
Article : 131 wordsMELBOURNE — SALES — Australian Consols: 2½ p.c. 1945-46, £100/57; 2½. 1947, £100/3/9; 3 1-4, 1956, £101/6/3; 3 1-4, 1957, £100/5/6; 3 1-4, 1958, £100/7/6: 3 1-4, 1950, ...
Article : 147 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Agreement on a common policy between Australia and New Zealand on post-war civil aviation in the Pacific will be an important objective of the conference of Commonwealth and New Zealand Governments at Canberra this week. ...
Article : 282 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday. — Captain Caspar John, British Naval Attache in Washington, announces that one-third of British naval aviators, with ground ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Mon 17 Jan 1944, Page 3
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