LONDON — Britain's giant dock strike ended on Saturday wheh 44,000 jubilant dockers in eight key ports voted to return to work tomorrow. They claimed they had won a "glorious victory." Approximately 5000 ...
Article : 424 wordsLONDON — The Minister of Supply (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd) has ordered an immediate inquiry into ...
Article : 185 wordsTHIS loco., drawing the morning passenger train to Launceston, was derailed in the railway yards at Burnie on Saturday morning just after it drew away from the station. At a switch, it collided with some goods trucks which, standing on another track, had been set in motion by vibration. Breakdown gangs worked all ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 70 wordsHOBART — A 16-year-old apprentice baker, Brian James Harris, of Geeveston, was killed instantly on ...
Article : 137 wordsThe general manager of T.A.A. (Mr. L. Brain) stressed last night that the crash was purely a training accident, and there was nothing to suggest any loss of confidence in the Viscount. T.A.A. would take delivery of three more Viscounts before Christmas, the next being due in Australia about November 20. ...
Article : 376 wordsLONDON — Kevin Sheehan, 25-year-old Irishman from Limerick, has completed his 127-hour talking marathon at Oldham, Lancashire. Then he collapsed in the middle of a speech of thanks to the 450 ...
Article : 383 wordsMELBOURNE — A 32-yearold, prisoner escaped from Pentridge gaol on Saturday afternoon and was at large for ...
Article : 88 wordsSAN FRANCISCO. — Use of Mariner hulls and machinery would permit construction of two liners for the ...
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Advertising : 294 wordsSYDNEY — The sensational allegation that Mr. B. Santamaria, lay member of Catholic Action and national secretary to the National Catholic Rural Movement, had subverted the Victorian Labor movement has been made in a letter from Mr. Robert W. Holt, former Minister in the ...
Article : 361 wordsUnless otherwise stated overseas new in this issue is supplied by Australian Associated Press, of which this newspaper ...
Article : 28 wordsSchool savings banks, which were introduced in 1927 to inculcate thrift in thc minds of children, had grown steadily until there were 53,000 depositors with a credit of more than £316,000. ...
Article : 251 wordsHOBART — The Tasmanian Government would support to the hilt the newly-formed Australian Travel League, the Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) said on Saturday. He was addressing league ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Mon 1 Nov 1954, Page 2
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