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  2. ENEMY GETTING SHIP NEWS

    CANBERRA, Monday—A secret session of Parliament to discuss the leakage of vital information, particularly about the movements of ...

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  3. CURTAIL THEIR SPEECHES

    CANBERRA, Monday—With the promise of recess at the end of the week and freed from the tension that marked the early stages of the ...

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  4. Labour and Budget MR. CURTIN TO CRITICS OF COMPROMISE

    CANBERRA, Monday — Suggestions made in Sydney in a Sunday newspaper that he was preparing the way for a National ...

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  5. RUM RATION FOR A.R P. SQUADS.

    The Issuing of the rum ration to exhousted rescue porties was adopted by the Stoke Newington Borough Council at the request of Major Creswick Atkinson, A.R.P. officer and chief warden. Here is Major Atkinson personally supervising the rum ration ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. HIDE-AND-SEEK WITH RAIDER

    A thrilling account of a game of hide-and-seek with the enemy raider which sank the Port Brisbane in the Indian Ocean, 1,200 ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. DAILY DIGEST OF WORLD NEWS AND VIEWS

    Japan has "missed the boat" in the Netherlands East Indies, say important oil men in close contact with Far Eastern affairs. ...

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  8. DEFENCE WORKS STOP AGAIN

    SYDNEY, Monday.—The metal trade industry will be practically at a standstill to-morrow, when the engineers will hold a stop-work ...

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  9. ARGYROKASTRON,

    Strategie Itahan base in southern Albonia, which has fallen to the Greeks in their advance. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. Mr. Hitler Needs Cement

    Adolf Hitler is in an embarrassing predicament. He is a conqueror who has acquired a vast empire and yet possesses no means of binding it together. ...

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  11. WAR PENSIONERS MAY BENEFIT

    CANBERRA, Monday — Federal Government is considering extending to war pensioners the increased payment to old age and invalid pensioners provided ...

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  12. SUICIDE THREAT ALLEGED

    Evidence that William John Cook, 50, of Shackell st, West Coburg, who was charged in the Ctiminal Court yesterday with the murder of his ...

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  13. LIGHTER SIDE OF AIR WAR

    Britain's bulwarks against the Luftwaffe are the men and machines of the Fighter Command. The coolness of these daring aviators, even in the face of ...

    Article : 161 words
  14. WARM WELCOME FOR BALLET

    A full house gave an enthusiastic welcome to the first performance of the Borovansky Australian Ballet Company at the Comedy last night. Even those who ...

    Article : 236 words
  15. TRAVELLING AT CHRISTMAS

    SYDNEY, Monday. — Air trainees from Victoria and other States in camp near Sydney are indignant because they have been told that they will not be able to ...

    Article : 137 words
  16. HALVE WORK OF WASHING

    To-day's winner of the Thomas Edison competition for the best labour-saving device or household hint is Mrs. D. McNale, of Hillside, Kangaroo Flat, ...

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  17. London Carries On

    J.B. Priestley, English author and playwright, radiocast a story last night to illustrate the undauntable spirit of the British people in the war. He told of a ...

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  18. DR. MALONEY FUND

    Mr. McNamara, M.L.C., acknowledges the following subscriptions to the Dr. Maloney Memorial Fund:—Previously acknowledged, £227/1/6, Amalg. Engineering Union, £5/5/; Plumbers and ...

    Article : 87 words
  19. Advertising

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  20. QUESTIONS STIR MR. MENZIES

    CANBERRA, Monday. — Repeated questioning about a National Government in the House of Representatives to-day stirred the Prime Minister from his usual ...

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  21. NO RESTRICTION HERE

    Arrangements had been made with the Military Authorities to break camps at a time which did not conflict with the busy holiday period, Mr. M. J. Canny, one ...

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  22. COMPARISON ON TAXATION

    The Premier yesterday commented on suggestions that Victoria should adopt a similar financial policy to New South Wales, which has just allowed a remission ...

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  23. PAY FOR MILITIA

    CANBERRA, Monday. — Militia forces will receive pay for their eight days' leave at Christmas, Mr. Spender Army Minister, said to-day in reply to a question in ...

    Article : 60 words
  24. VARYING SALES TAX RATES

    Decision to make an emphatic protest to the Federal Government in respect of the three rates of sales tax imposed was reached at a jouit conference of the ...

    Article : 184 words
  25. QUESTION OF DOMICILE

    SYDNEY, Monday. — Mr. Justice Nicholls directed in the Probate Court to-day that the will of Mrs. Ben Shashoua (formerly Miss Joan Norton) ...

    Article : 187 words
  26. Obituary Y.M.C.A. GENERAL SECRETARY

    Willie being driven home by car last night, Mr. George W. W. B. Hughes, general secretary for 17 years of the Y.M.C.A., Melbourne, had a heart attack, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  27. SHIPS TO TAKE PRODUCE OVERSEA

    CANBERRA, Monday. — More ships to carry Australian produce oversea will be available early in the new year. At present the Commonwealth has at its ...

    Article : 97 words
  28. ANTI-JEWISH SOCIETY

    CANBERRA, Monday. — Immediate action was urged to-day in the House of Representatives against persons responsible for the publication in Sydney of an ...

    Article : 71 words
  29. BILLETS FOR TROOPS

    Although Comforts Fund officials consider that a new hostel with 400 or 500 beds to accommodate troops on weekend leave in Melbourne is urgently ...

    Article : 177 words
  30. FAMILY HELPED BY HOME

    When a policewoman went to a Fitzroy home she found a family of five suffering greatly from poverty. The husband had contracted a miners' complaint, the ...

    Article : 251 words
  31. BRANCH VOTE RESENTED

    CANBERRA, Monday.—Some members of the Official Labour party were deeply concerned at the resolution adopted yesterday by the Canberra branch of the ...

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  32. CALL-UP UNCERTAIN

    No details of the call-up of new age troups would be available until Cabinet had fully considered the matter, army officials said yesterday. ...

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  33. NO STOP-WORK MEETING

    Stop-work meetings of all members of the Ironworkers" Union employed in ship repairing work, which were to be held to-day, have been postponed. ...

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  34. MORE BOOKS WANTED

    Books and magazines are urgently needed by the six working parties which handle them at No. 1 Red Cross Store, Red Cross House, Swanston st., as their ...

    Article : 227 words
  35. NINE APPOINTMENTS

    State Cabinet last night made nine important appointments in the State Public Service. Eight of these were reappointments, the only new appointment being ...

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  36. PREMIER'S COMMENT

    The Premier said lost night that recent Government surveys of city accommodation available for troops on leave had shown that requirements were being met. ...

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  37. HOTEL TRANSFERS

    The Licensing Court has approved of the following transfers, &c. to victuallers' and other licences:- METROPOLITAN.—City Arms Hotel. Melbourne: ...

    Article : 258 words
  38. LUCKY BUTTON PRIZES

    Mrs. John Shannon, of Tennyson st., Sandringham, holder of button No. 53,907, from the recent Red Cross Lucky Button Day, collected her prize of a ...

    Article : 68 words
  39. SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

    Although there were 640 candidates for the Brunswick Technical School entrance examination last Thursday, only about 220 of them can be [?]commodated next year. Scholarships have been ...

    Article : 180 words
  40. ANTS ATTACK BABY

    PERTH. Monday. — Hearing a baby crying in the bush near Noggerup, a man who was passing that way found a newborn infant lying on the ground. It ...

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  41. SUNDAY TRADING FINES

    Charged with having kept a fruit shop open on a Sunday, Percy Olarenshaw, Barkly st., West Footscray, was fined £1, with £1/3/6 costs, at Footscray Court ...

    Article : 65 words
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