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  2. 23-POINT POLICY

    Detailed comments on the 23 points of national policy proposed by Cr. Coles, M.P., in a letter to Mr. Fadden, Acting Prime Minister, ...

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  3. ARMY TAKES TRUCKS

    was inspected yesterday by members of the State Emergency Council. The unit consists of a breakdown van and a fire-fighting waggon. From Left: Mr. G. G. Jobbins, Mr. H. H. Bell, chairman Tramways Board; Sir John Harris, Minister for Health; ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. INTENTIONS OF JAPAN

    Appreciation was expressed by Mr. W. Y. Tsao, Chinese ViceConsul, yesterday, of the statement of Sir Frederick Stewart, Minister ...

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  5. RECRUITS FOR A.I.F.

    Enlistments in the A.I.F. have trebled since the intensive recruiting campaign began last week. Both in the metropolitan area and in the country excellent ...

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  6. CITY WAR LOAN RALLY

    When he opened the Victorian section of the Commonwealth Government's £35,000,000 war loan appeal before a lunch-hour crowd of thousands in Collins ...

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  7. CASH ORDER EVIDENCE

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Three retailers, one of whom said, "We are afraid to squeal to the companies gave evidence before the board of inquiry into cash ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. DAILY DIGEST

    The best indication of the seriousness with which the Nazis took the Balkan threat was the name of the man who was in charge of operations there: ...

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  9. RESUMPTION OF PARLIAMENT

    No date has yet been fixed for the promised early session of the Federal Parliament to discuss the Greek campaign and war developments in the Middle East. ...

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  10. BIGGER RECRUITING DEPOT

    At the request of Southern Command the lower hall of the Town Hall would again be made available as a recruiting depot, Cr. F. Beaurepaire, Lord Mayor, ...

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  11. BRITAIN READY FOR CHALLENGE

    A statement by Cr. Coles, M.P., in Essendon Town Hall last night, that if the remainder of the Empire would do the same as the people of Britain were ...

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  12. "THE SAINT'S" CAREER WAS SHORT BUT AMBITIOUS

    These words, scrawled on scraps of paper beside a drawing of a haloed head, have been found in a number of robbed factories in North and West Melbourne ...

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  13. GOOD SUPPORT

    The public gave good support yesterday to the new £35,000,000 war and works loan. The number of applications received was officially described as very ...

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  14. FIGHT AGAINST DRINK

    The leader of a deputation from the Local Option Alliance to the Congregational Union conference, yesterday, said that Germany, Italy, Russia, and France ...

    Article : 251 words
  15. BREAD TRUCKS CRITICISED

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Horace Stanton Crouch, foreman at the bakery of R. J. White and Co., told the Army Bread Board Commission to-day that bread ...

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  16. CAR INDUSTRY DEFENDED

    Cr. Coles, M.P. was apparently entirely ignorant of the sacrifices being made by the motor industry, Mr. H. W. Harrison, secretary of the Chamber of ...

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  17. FIRM'S GOODS "DECLARED"

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.—All goods sold by Robert Reid and Co. Ltd., Melbourne, warehousemen, have been declared goods under the National Security ...

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  18. MASTER MISSING

    The second master from Wesley College to be reported missing since the outbreak of war, Captain H. J. Kroger, was, before he enlisted in 1939, a leading ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 330 words
  19. £50,000 FROM BOARD

    The finance committee of the Metropolitan Board of Works decided yesterday to recommend to the board meeting next Tuesday that £50,000, portion of its ...

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  20. WOMEN IN INDUSTRY

    An assurance that the Federal Government had not called a conference to deal with absorption of women in industry generally was given yesterday by Mr. ...

    Article : 138 words
  21. INVISIBLE BOMBER!

    Since the declaration of war the world has been kept more or less on tenterhooks by the repeated claims of Germany to possess a secret weapon. Germany, of ...

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  22. RAIL TRAFFIC NEEDS

    Traffic at peak periods on the Box Hill and Caulfield lines was rapidly approaching present capacity, but the need for extensions on other lines was not ...

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  23. £5 A HEAD OF POPULATION

    RUTHERGLEN, Wednesday.—At a war saving rally, held here to-night, presided over by Cr. S. P. Diffey, shire president, £6,000 was subscribed. As the ...

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  24. BOYCOTT OF HOTELS

    A decision to boycott all hotels, wine saloons, and catering establishments controlled by the management of Hotel Alexander was made at a meeting of the ...

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  25. £90,000 AT W.A. MEETING

    PERTH, Wednesday.—More than £90,000 was received or promised at the opening rally of the W.A. campaign for Commonwealth loan subscriptions last ...

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  26. CENSORSHIP ACTION

    When asUed whether the War Cabinet had further discussed censorship action against a section of the Sydney Press because of its crticism of the war effort ...

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  27. CAULFIELD'S A.C.F. SUPPORT

    Caulfield is a generous subscriber to the Australian Comforts Fund and Red Cross. The Lord Mayor said yesterday that Caulfield had one of the best ...

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  28. AREAS EXTENDED

    An extension of effective areas from which trainees may be drawn for universal service was announced yesterday by Mr. Spender, Army Minister. ...

    Article : 294 words
  29. PILOT'S EARNINGS

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Whether Torres Strait pilots who pilot ships between Point Danger on the N.S.W. border, and Tucker Point buoy, near ...

    Article : 139 words
  30. MODERN U.S. FIGHTERS

    Large numbers of one of America's most modern fighters—the Brewster Buffalo—have arrived at Singapore and are already being used by the R.A.F. ...

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  31. BOY RUN OVER BY TRAIN

    BROKEN HILL, Wednesday.—When playing near the back gate of his home in Argent st. this afternoon, Ronald Lively, 3, was run over by a train ...

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  34. CHARGE AGAINST N.C.O.

    Large quantities of military stores of all kinds are said to have been found in a house at Fairfield yesterday afternoon. When loaded into a large military ...

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  35. TRACING MISSING MEN

    To help in the work of tracing Ausstralian soldiers missing after the campaign in Greece, 10 more Red Cross searchers were being appointed. trebling ...

    Article : 135 words
  36. HONOURING SERVICE MEN.

    Photographs and brief personal notes of members of the services who have been reported as casualties, or who have gained distinction, will be published in "The ...

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  37. MINISTERS DELAYED

    The meeting of the War Cabinet in Melbourne yesterday was delayed about two hours because of the late arrival of the airways plane from Sydney, in which ...

    Article : 61 words
  38. NEED FOR A.R.P.

    To put before the public the need for rapid and adequate A.R.P. organisation and urge that the Commonwealth Government accept full responsibility for ...

    Article : 105 words
  39. NEW FILM OF THE SEA

    At a time when the question of convoys is so much in the news the new Ministry of Information film, "Mastery of the Sea." should prove of wide ...

    Article : 113 words
  40. AIR SCHEME PROGRESS

    A new stage in the training of air crews for service oversea was reached this week when the Empire Air Scheme began its second year of operation. ...

    Article : 97 words
  41. N.Z. DIVISION IN GREECE

    WELLINGTON, Wednesday.—After hearing a statement by Mr. Fraser, Prime Minister, on the circumstances leading to the Government's decision to despatch ...

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  42. CHORAL CONTESTS MUSIC

    Test pieces for the choral contests at this year's South Street competitions will be:—Grand Champion Choral Contest— Chorus, "The Ship," Guy Booth; part ...

    Article : 149 words
  43. APPLETON DOCK WORK

    Excavation of the first section of the new Appleton Dock was two-thirds completed under difficult labour conditions, Mr. A. D. Mackenzie, Harbour Trust ...

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  44. Obituary LIEUT.-COLONEL C. A. MITCHELL

    Lieut.—Colonel Charles Ashmore Mitchell, V.D., who died on April 24 at Caulfield. was born in 1862 at Drumreask, Co. Monaghan, Ireland. He came to ...

    Article : 140 words
  45. FODDER COMPETITION

    WAGGA.—The Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association's fodder competitions resulted:—Graziers' Section.—T. V. and R. L. Brunskill, Forest ...

    Article : 63 words
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