MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Crockery of local manufacture will soon be available to householders. A Victorian pottery firm, having ...
Article : 150 wordsAN AMERICAN "DUCK" follows Signal Corps wire crews setting up communications between ships anchored in the harbor and shore installations in the Admiralty Islands. The versatile duck —here equipped with a machine-gun mount—switches easily from land to water operations.— (U.S. Signal Corps photo.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 44 wordsSOUTH-WEST PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS, Sunday.—Another phase of the New Guinea war closed on Thursday, when Australian troops passed through abandoned Bogadjim and pressed north up the Rai coast towards Madang. Suicide squads of Japanese astride and east of the Finisterres supply road ...
Article : 914 wordsAfter scoring brilliantly from a strong field in the £33 12-inch standing chop, the principal event at the patriotic carnival conducted at Wilmot on Saturday, J. H. Smith, 29-yr.-old Sprent policeman, completed a double by winning the £10 18-inch double-handed sawing event, partnered by H. ...
Article : 1,831 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Airmen who have served overseas are resentful of the announcement by the Minister for Air (Mr, Drakcferd) ...
Article : 260 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—The Labor Government in Queensland was returned to power in the State elections yesterday with a reduced majority. The new Queensland People's Party won seven seats, with chances of three others. ...
Article : 282 wordsMELBOURNE. Sunday. — At least six more witnesses have to give evidence at the Pyjama. Girl inquest, which will be resumed ...
Article : 163 wordsLAUNCESTON, Sunday.—The Water and Sewerage Board which the Government proposes to create by means of a bill to be introduced in ...
Article : 202 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Detectives from Footscray and police headquarters are investigating the death of Albert Edward Willis (60), of Carlton, who was ...
Article : 99 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — The referendum on the granting of extra powers to the Commonwealth may be unnecessary if attempts by senior Federal ...
Article : 242 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Mr. Hugues. M.H.R., is remaining silent on his expulsion from the Federal U.A.P. He was confined to his ...
Article : 174 wordsADELAIDE. Sunday.—After a hunt of nearly 36 hours on foot, police, with blaclctrackers, arrested the 17-year-old youth who fled into the bush when ...
Article : 98 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday.—The New York "Herald-Tribune's" Washington correspondent says the visits to Washington of the Australian Prime ...
Article : 183 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—To-morrow Federal Ministers in practically all States will commence a strong drive to ensure the success ...
Article : 271 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—The whole of the £250,000 paid by Lloyds of London to satisfy the claim of the Hobart Bridge Company has been paid to ...
Article : 191 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Apparently killed in a 130-ft. fall from the top of the nurses' quarters, Edna Ethel Tomlin (20), trained nurse, of Scone, lay ...
Article : 108 wordsWhen F. R. Stewart, a Government railway fettler, of Smithton, coroneted in the seventh heat of the 10-in. standing chop at the Wilmot carnival on Saturday. ...
Article : 169 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—The Red Army's drive into portions of the southern Ukraine was so swift that the Gormans were unable to ...
Article : 206 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Stored furniture and household fittings from hundreds of homes were destroyed or damaged by a fire at the ...
Article : 170 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Medical students are experiencing great difficulty in securing skeletons and bones for their studies. ...
Article : 164 wordsDevonport No. 1, winners of the eastern section, defeated Wynyard, winners of the western section, in the final of the North-West Coast "B" ...
Article : 225 wordsNEW YORK, Sunday.—Referring to the achievement of Captain Richard Bong in shooting down his 27th Japanese plane, thus surpassing his own record in the ...
Article : 152 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — There was light trading on a firm market on the Stock Exchange on Saturday. There was one fall in a steady Government loan ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Deliveries of 7000 miles of fencing wire have already been completed under release orders given by the Ministry of ...
Article : 97 wordsCHUNGKING, Sunday.—The necessity for reorganising the Kuomintang to give China a real democracy was emphasised by Dr. Sun Fo, ...
Article : 179 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Commonwealth peace officers, acting on the authority of the N.S.W. Publicity Censor, late last night seized and prevented delivery, of the greater portion of this morning's issue of the Sydney "Sunday Telegraph." It was the first time such action had been taken against any Australian ...
Article : 517 wordsMILDURA, Sunday.—Following recovery of the body of six-yearold Dulcie Stubberfield from an underground tank at the rear of an ...
Article : 122 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday.—Demilitarisation of Rome was being considered, the Secretary of State (Mr. Hull) told Senator Bridges. ...
Article : 112 wordsShareholders in the following companies will receive dividends this week: Australian Gypsum Ltd.: 1 1-4 p.c.; Thursday. ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The British United Press correspondent at Naples says that Allied infantry and tanks, in one of the most successful ...
Article : 125 wordsBURNIE ASSOCIATION—A.P.P.M. defeated E.B.R, by 51 runs in the third semi-final of the Burnie Cricket Association's competition at South Burnie on ...
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Advertising : 179 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—Two British army officers engaged in taking the last Italian civilian refugees from the Anzio beachhead told an Associated Press ...
Article : 166 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The American Navy was now so strong that it could seek to create opportunities to strike at the main Japanese Fleet and its bases, ...
Article : 136 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—A scheme of scientific inquiry to get full information about the causes of Australia's low birthrate is expected to be evolved by ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Mon 17 Apr 1944, Page 3
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