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  2. BUSH FIRE DEATHS MOUNT TO 18 DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £2,000,000

    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 ...

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  3. RURAL WORKERS MAY BE ORDERED BACK ON TO FARMS

    CANBERRA, Sunday. — Federal Cabinet will be asked this week to insist that, the manpower authorrities specifically direct many former ...

    Article : 154 words
  4. The Admiral Goes For a Ride

    Rear-Admiral B. W. Radford, U.S.N., transferring from a destroyer to a carrier during operations in the Gilberts.—Official U.S. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. AGRICULTURE IN FAR NORTH-WEST

    Big 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. ...

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  6. Knocked Out Intruder With Police Pistol

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—With, a revolver dropped by an injured detective, a young woman at a Y.W.C.A. hostel at East Melbourne, ...

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  7. LOSSES CAUSE CONCERN

    CANBERRA, Sunday. — The terrible bush fires raging throughout Victoria are causing the Commonwealth Government grave concern, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. MR. CHURCHILL FULLY RECOVERED

    LONDON, 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 words
  9. REASSURING NEWS FROM JAPANESE PRISON CAMP

    LONDON, Sunday. — Two British Navy prisoners of war, in letters home, give reassuring news of conditions in the Jupanese war prisoners' camp at ...

    Article : 114 words
  10. Butcher and Customer Must Co-operate in Meat Ration Scheme

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — The chairman of the Rationing Commission (Mr. A. W. Coles) yesterday listed the points that would ...

    Article : 519 words
  11. The West Coast

    The Zeehan Municipal Commission is to advise the Deputy Director of Rationing that with the advent of meat rationing more pentiful supplies ...

    Article : 486 words
  12. AUSTRALIANS REAL HEROES OF NEW GUINEA

    ADVANCED NEW GUINEA HEADQUARTERS Saturday. — Australia's magnificent jungle fighters are now at Sio. They will ...

    Article : 256 words
  13. Stratosphere Flights at High Speeds With Jet-Propulsion

    LONDON, Sunday.— "Passenger stratosphere flights at extremely high speed are well within the bounds of possibility with ...

    Article : 177 words
  14. AUSTRALIANS TAKE SIP MISSION

    S.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 ...

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  15. Attacks on Marshalls Continue

    WASHINGTON, Sunday. — Pacific Fleet Headquarters announce that 7th Air Force planes attacked the Mili atoll (in the Marshalls) in daylight on ...

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  16. VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE IN ARGENTINA

    BUENOS AIRES, Sunday.—It is officially announced that a great number of persons were killed and injured in [?] violent earthquake in Western ...

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  17. Duntroon Threatened

    CANBERRA, Sunday. — Duntroon Military College was for a time threatened by bush fire on Saturday. Firemen and volunteers from the college beat out ...

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  18. JAP. MILITARY ATTACHES CONFER IN BUDAPEST

    LONDON, Sunday.—According to the Ankara Radio, all Japanese military attaches in Europe have assembled in Budapest for their annual ...

    Article : 73 words
  19. Fires Will Reduce Food Supplies

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.— Future food supplies will be reduced by the bush fires, according to experts tonight. There will be a serious ...

    Article : 119 words
  20. FREE LIBRARY FOR ZEEHAN

    At a special meeting of the Zeehan Municipal Commission a resolution was passed adopting the Libraries Act, 1943, for application ...

    Article : 48 words
  21. B.E.M. TO AUSTRALIAN

    LONDQN, Sunday.—For reselling a passenger from the blazing debris of a Mosquito which crashed, with ammunition exploding all round, Flight Sergt. ...

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  22. OFFAL MEAT PRICES

    CANBERRA, Sunday.—The fixation of specific wholesale and retail prices of offal meat throughout Australia is expected soon. At present these prices ...

    Article : 93 words
  23. STOCK EXCHANGES

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Trading was light in a firm market on the Stock Exchange yesterday. Industrials secured two rises. Government loans were slightly ...

    Article : 76 words
  24. EMPIRE TALKS

    CANBERRA, Sunday. — Although no date has yet been fixed for the Conference of Empire Prime Ministers in London, a decision is expected shortly, ...

    Article : 227 words
  25. BANK INTEREST CUT ¼ P.C.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—An order under the National Security (Economic Organisation) Regulations has been issued by the Commonwealth Bank ...

    Article : 111 words
  26. THREE-PRONGED DRIVE ON JAPAN?

    WASHINGTON, Sunday. — The sudden appearance in Washington of the Allied Air Commander in the S.W. Pacific (Lieut.-General ...

    Article : 116 words
  27. MEAT RATIONING LIKELY IN N.Z.

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  28. QUOTATIONS AND SALES

    MELBOURNE — 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, ...

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  29. COMMON POST-WAR AIR POLICY IN PACIFIC

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  30. British Naval Airmen Training for Pacific

    WASHINGTON, Sunday. — Captain Caspar John, British Naval Attache in Washington, announces that one-third of British naval aviators, with ground ...

    Article : 45 words
  31. Advertising

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  32. BOY LOSES LEG IN SHARK ATTACK

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—Victim of this season's first shark attack, Peter [?]r (14) has lost his right leg, and his left leg is badly lacerated. ...

    Article : 104 words
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