HOBART, Tuesday.—A dramatic conclusion foreshortened the Royal Commission to-day, when Mr. Justice Reed, who was inquiring into allegations of the improper payment by certain road transport operators of £5400 to the Premier (Mr. Cosgrove), announced that the Attorney-General (Mr. Fagan) had accepted his ...
Article : 995 wordsHOBART, Tuesday. — Preparation of the indictment against the Premier would occupy a day or so, ...
Article : 65 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Conferences to discuss stepping up Australian food production to assist Britain have been opened between the Commonwealth Government and representatives, of the British Ministry of Food. ...
Article : 228 wordsGeoff Brown crumples up to allow Adrian Qtiist to smash a return to C. Pym and K. Slater in the men's Victorian doubles championships at Melbourne. Quist and Brown won, 6—4, 6—1, 6—1. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 41 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Federal Government has 102 vacancies on the staff needed to administer the pharmaceutical benefits scheme, ...
Article : 95 wordsHOBART, Tuesday.— The House of Assembly this evening rejected a Legislative Council recommendation for appointment of a Royal ...
Article : 528 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday. — Train timetables have been disorganised in three States and trains held up through ...
Article : 254 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.— Australian Wheat Board announced to-day that while a short time ago a record wheat ...
Article : 179 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The Government faced a serious deterioration in the finances of this State, and it had no option ...
Article : 286 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday. — The best way cigarette smokers could help themselves to meet the effects of further tobacco cuts ...
Article : 158 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.— Overseas Corporation (Australia) Ltd., which was formed into a public company about ...
Article : 199 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.— The Agricultural Department's report states that good yields of new potatoes are being obtained. ...
Article : 111 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Forecasts of probable unemployment in industries affected by dollar restrictions would be studied at a further dollar conference in Sydney next Sunday night, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) revealed to-day. ...
Article : 512 wordsHOBART, Tuesday.—A bill to amend the Lending of Money Act was again before the Legislative Council in committee ...
Article : 230 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.— Commenting to-day on the hold-up of wool cargoes, Mr. H. R. Cowdery, chairman of the ...
Article : 274 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.— The Government referendum on prices and rent controls would not be held before Easter, it was officially ...
Article : 111 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — The Commonwealth Government is unlikely to agree to the Victorian Government withdrawing from the ...
Article : 82 wordsHOBART. Tuesday.— The President (Sir Rupert Shoobridge) took the chair at 7.30 p.m. The Factories Bill was defeated on ...
Article : 421 wordsEnger to trinke the most of opportunities in their new land, 827 cheerful Baltic migrants who arrived in Melbourne in the Kanimbla at the weekend set off for Bonegilla camp, near Albury, on Monday. At Bonegilla they will spend three months learning ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 98 wordsHOBART, Tuesday.— The Administrator of Road Transport (Mr. A. W. Newton) said to-day he was endeavoring to approach petrol authorities in ...
Article : 60 wordsHOBART, Tuesday. — If the Government persisted with its colossal building programme and spent the enormous amount ...
Article : 290 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday. — Sweden is keen to send migrants to Australia, but this is not possible because manpower ...
Article : 225 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Mrs. Clarence Reeves, wife of the boxer, Alabama Kid, said to-day that if the immigration authorities did not ...
Article : 112 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Members of the Waterside Workers' Federation to-day decided to enforce the ban on the export from Victoria of beer and malt and to ignore the decision of the Trades Hall Disputes Committee last Friday that the ban should be lifted. ...
Article : 123 wordsHAVANA, Tuesday (A.A.P.) —The United States, which fathered the International Trade Organisation to work ...
Article : 142 wordsMELBOURNE. Tuesday, — When they discovered that their widower father planned to put them in a children's ...
Article : 137 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — The Civil Aviation Department is planning further development of country aerodromes, both ...
Article : 85 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—In answer to statements on the slow movement of shipping, made yesterday by the Minister for Housing ...
Article : 129 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday. — Selection of 24 cadets to enter next February the R.A.A.F. College at Point Cook, for training as officers, will be ...
Article : 116 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.— A leakage of millions of gallons of petrol above the authorised consumption has been reported to the ...
Article : 108 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—As a result of the new nurses' award, which came into force in N.S.W. yesterday (metropolitan and country private ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).— The "Financial Times" correspondent in Cairo says it is strongly rumored that oil has been ...
Article : 47 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—The increase in the price of medicine will not exceed 10 per cent, on the 1943 level, said the Prices Commissioner ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Wed 10 Dec 1947, Page 5
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