S.W. PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS, Wednesday.— Japanese troops in the Solomons have been isolated by the Allied occupation of the Green Islands, 40 miles north-west of Buka, and face disaster from disease and starvation. ...
Article : 878 wordsCANBEHEA, Wednesday.— The steamer service between Tasmania and Melbourne would be suspended for about five weeks from Friday ...
Article : 126 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.— The Opposition Leader (Senator M'Loay), speaking on the Unemployment and Sickness Benefits Bill in ...
Article : 508 wordsCANBERRA. Wednesday.— An Opposition motion of censura over the alleged criticism of certain members of the United Nations by the Minister for Transport (Mr. Ward) in Parliament last week was launched against the Government by the Leader of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 738 wordsFour-motored B-24 Liberator bombers of the 14th U.S. Army Air Force soar majestically through the skies on their way to bomb Japanese installations in occupied China.— (U.S. Office of War Inf.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 32 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.— The prosecution of hotelkoepers throughout Tasmania with the atmost rigor for their continued defiance of the Women's ...
Article : 141 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.— The open cut at Yallourn was still burning to-day over a distance of several hundreds of yards along a face of coal. 200ft. deep. It will bc several days before thc fire is out, and the extent of the damage and time necessary to get back into production will not be known ...
Article : 732 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.— As a preliminary te full scale, work being resumed, a number of men Is expected to bo sent to the Butler's Gorae ...
Article : 150 wordsS.W.PACIFIC JIEADQUAKTEKS, Wednesday.— General MacArthur said to-night that the Japanese could not he defeated through ...
Article : 199 wordsHOBART,— Wednesday.— The statements made by Mr.K.C.Procter, secretary of the Tasmanian Government Railways, at a meeting of the Women's ...
Article : 183 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.— A suggestion that wardens of municipalities which includoe districts where bush fires are likely to occur should call public ...
Article : 111 wordsLase week Teddy Frankcombe, of Beulah, caught a Tasmanian devil in a rabbit trap. These animals are exceptionally rare, ...
Article : 71 wordsAt a xneetinK of the committe of the Burnie Agricultural and Pastoral Society last night au interim statement of receipts and ...
Article : 207 words''Can a young man trust his Bible?" was the subject for discussion at the first meeting of the year of the Queenstown Churchmen's Fellowship. ...
Article : 70 wordsHOBAKT, Wednesday.— The Minister for Health (.Mr. Howroyd) said to-day he had received a letter from Cr. E. H. Batten, of Devonport, pointing out that a ...
Article : 115 words"WASHINGTON, Wednesday.— Tile Secretary for the Navy (Colonel Knox) told a Press conference that the Americans were attacking ...
Article : 110 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.— Several candidates will contest tile election for the B:ckinghnm seat in the Legislative Council to he held on May 2. ...
Article : 114 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Taken to a house iu Blair Street, Coburg, to-night, by a man who called at his surgery and said he ...
Article : 157 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.— Following determined, but unsuccessful attempts to settle the general strike on the Southern coalfields, the ...
Article : 301 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.— The Minister for Health (Mr. Howriyd) said today that estimates were being prepared for the opening of a kitchen at the ...
Article : 47 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.— An Austin roadster stolen from a laneway at 9 Bathurst street, Hobart, at the week-end, was recovered by the police at a garage at ...
Article : 56 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Trading moderated in a firm market on the Stock Exchange, to-day. Industrials had three rises and one fall. ...
Article : 92 wordsCANBERRA,Wednesday.— Because new urgent projects in Northern Australia would require laber in large numbers, all ...
Article : 126 words"MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Edward Wellesley Miller (50), of North Caulfield, garage proprietor, was sentenced in the Bankruptcy Court to-day to six ...
Article : 100 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.— Referring today to the proposal that the sanatorium should become a State instrumentality, the Treasurer (Mr. Dwyer Cray) paid that ...
Article : 251 wordsVaudois continue to hinder the efforts of the Salvage Committee at Queenstown. The depot has to be left open all day so that paper may be left there at ...
Article : 204 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.— The present allocation of prisoners of war for rural work in Tasmania was 500, said Senator Ashley, representing the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 375 wordsHOBART, Wednsday.—The Women's Employment Board at Hobart today beard applications for the board's ruling on "the employment of women ...
Article : 103 wordsBRISBANE. Wednesday.— Cargo, originally destined for Bowen, which watersider refused to handle at the port bccause they resented what was ...
Article : 63 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.— Unable to read a warning on the door. Violet May M'Fadden (48), of Rose Street, City, was killed by fumes in a residential ...
Article : 71 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.— Beyond representatives of banks, companies and the Registrar-General's Department being called to tender documents whick ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.— Mr. Churchill told the House of Commons to-day that between September 3, when the Britiwh troops first landed ...
Article : 216 wordsLAUNCESTON, Wednesday.— The Launceston Trades Hall Council at a meeting to-night agreed to ask the Minister for Labor (Mr. Holloway) to ...
Article : 186 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.— The wellknown radio actor. Michael Willoughby (40), was found lying unconscious is a gas-filled room at his flat in ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Queenstown Horticultural Society, which will hold its 31st annual summer show it the Capitol Theatre to-morrow, has an interesting history. ...
Article : 277 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.— The Prime Minister (Arr, Curtin) told Mr. Oliy (CAP., Tas.) in the House of Representatives to-day it was not ...
Article : 37 wordsLAUNCESTON, Wednesday.— Official reports do not indicate a falling off in interest in the V.D.C. to an extent that would warrant placing the ...
Article : 207 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.— All classes of income, with the exception of that earned by companies, will be subject to the principle of pay-as-you-earn taxation from July 1 if the report of the All-Party Parliam ntary Committee is adopted by the Government. The report recommends the "forgiveness" ...
Article : 299 wordsLAUNCESTON, Wednesday.— Applications for loans on mortgage totalling 70 showed an increase over the precious year, and the number granted, 66. ...
Article : 126 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.— Bought under Government order from the U.S., 30,000 alarm clocks have reached Australia, and 40,000 more are due soon. ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Thu 17 Feb 1944, Page 3
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