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  2. COAL STRIKE THREAT FOLLOWS BRISBANE CLASH

    Swift trade union reaction in several States to the clash between police and strikers in Brisbane yesterday, in which two of the demonstrators were injured, included a threat of a Commonwealth-wide coal strike unless the Government's antipicketing legislation was withdrawn. ...

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    HOW EUROPE IS DIVIDED TO-DAY.—The Russian east, the unpredictable centre and the Democratic west. The Russian sphere has spread alarmingly since the war. Will it spread farther-to Italy, Turkey, Greece, Austria? ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. BUTCHERS DEMAND WITH PRICES OFFICER

    HOBART, Wednesday.—In a bitter protest against heavy fines imposed on butchers convicted of over charging and against high stock prices prevailing at the abattoirs, about 50 Southern master butchers to-night demanded a "show down," with the Deputy Prices ...

    Article : 525 words
  5. Control of Building Costs

    CANBERRA, Wednesday. — The power which the Commonwealth Government is to seek by referendum will cover ...

    Article : 77 words
  6. WOULD MEET HIGHER WAGES FROM PROFITS

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— The president of the A.C.T.U. (Mr. P. Clarey, M.L.C.) claimed to-day that the Federal ...

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  7. BILL TO CONTROL BUILDING MATERIALS "KILLED" IN COUNCIL

    HOBART, Wednesday. —— The Bill to amend the Building Materials Act, which provided for the control of essential building materials, was killed in the committee stage in the Legislative Council to-night. ...

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  8. DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Found guilty at the Central Criminal Court to-day of rape. Ronald Joseph Miller (24), laborer, of Rose Street, ...

    Article : 74 words
  9. C.S.I.R's. PART IN ATOMIC RESEARCH

    CANBERRA, Wednesday. — When Professor Oliphant, a world figure on atomic energy, meets the Minister for Defence ...

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  10. ARGUMENT ON SECTION 92

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. Section 92 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth, which sets out that trade, ...

    Article : 272 words
  11. £3533 DAMAGES

    SYDNEY, Wednesday—The widow and three juvenile daughters of a man who was fatuity. Injured in crushing machine 18 months ago were ...

    Article : 111 words
  12. FINLAND DRAFTS COUNTER PROPOSALS

    LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.) — The Helsinki representative of the British United Press says the Finnish Parliamentary Foreign Affairs ...

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  13. TO SEEK FIVE—NATION DEFENCE CONFERENCE

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—An immediate defence conference between Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Britain and America is to be urged by delegates'to the Country Party conference, to begin in Melbourne on ...

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  14. Visiting Air Marshal

    Air Marshal Sir Hugh Pugh Lloyd,; ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 52 words
  15. THREAT OF COAL CRISIS

    SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Unless the continued stoppages on the northern coalfield are arrested Australia may face a ...

    Article : 173 words
  16. WILL "BAT" FOR CRIPPLES

    PERTH, Wednesday.— The cricket, bat with which Don Bradman made eight centuries in Australia this season, will help ...

    Article : 45 words
  17. Wants Warships to Take Scouts to Jamboree

    HOBART, Wednesday.— The Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) has asked the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley') to make a naval vessel ...

    Article : 180 words
  18. CITIZEN FORCE PAY

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.— Citizen Force pay and conditions would be lined up broadly with the common pay code ...

    Article : 135 words
  19. Unlucky

    Fred and Fondo Kountz of Memphis, U.S.A., quietly moved into a vacant house, 25 years later had to start paying rent when the landlord ...

    Article : 84 words
  20. Appeal Agfainst Death Sentence Fails

    PERTH, Wednesday—Application for leave to appeal against the death sentence by Mohamed Jama Omer (27), a North African ship's fireman ...

    Article : 111 words
  21. Parliamentary Summary

    HOBART, Wednesday. — The President (Sir Rupert Shoobridge) tool the chair in the Legislative Council at 2.30 p.m. to-day. ...

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  22. SPREYTON APPLES GOING TO HOBART

    Apples are being; sent from Spreyton to Hobart to make up the consignments required for Immediate shipment to Britain, ...

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  23. STRIKE FUNDS ACCEPTED FROM ANY SOURCE.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — There was nothing irregular in the Brisbane Trades and Labor Council accepting from the ...

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  24. Internationa Television Soon

    TELEVISION, a scientific marvel which combines radio and moving pictures in home entertainment, is sweeping the United States like wildfire. Its expansion will make it international in scope within ...

    Article : 633 words
  25. Wrongly Arrested: Released

    SYDNEY, Wednesday. — A man who was wrongly arrested as an R.A.F. deserter outside East Maitland gaol recently, and taken ...

    Article : 129 words
  26. OVERCROWDING OF BUSES

    HOBART, Wednesday.— An allegation by Mr. Bethune in the House of Assembly this evening that a 47seater bus belonging to the ...

    Article : 110 words
  27. Pig Meat Racket Uncovered

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.— A racket in the sale of pork and pig products in Sydney has been uncovered by prices officers Investigating meat ...

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  28. PLANE SABOTAGED

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Detectives are investigating a report that a Douglas airliner which completed a fight from Sydney to Darwin only ...

    Article : 81 words
  29. TO EASE BAN ON TRIPS ABROAD

    LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.) — Reuter says Sir Stafford Cripps told the House of commons that the ban on pleasure trips abroad would be ...

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  30. 5- Day Week for Victorian Police

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — Members of the Victorian Police Force were to-day granted a 40hour five-day week by the Police ...

    Article : 194 words
  31. No More Stout

    The world champion cow, Bridge Birch, of England, with a taste for four bottles of stout a day, has gone teetotal. ...

    Article : 170 words
  32. COULD SEND MORE EGGS TO BRITAIN

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.— Due to the stubbornness of the British Ministry of Food, the Victorian Egg Board had not ...

    Article : 198 words
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