ON ITS WAY to the Far East for service with the British Navy, this huge concrete fronting dock is being towed down the River Mersey, England, by powerful tugs on the first part of its journey. The dirck took only three months to build.—Beam Wireless Picturcgram. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 59 wordsGREEN BEACH, BALIKPAPAN, Monday.—Green beach is the scene of almost inconceivable destruction. It is not surprising that the Japs, offered little resistance. They were stunned by the preliminary barrage. The invasion fleet is the biggest used in the Pacific war since ...
Article : 827 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—The administrative technical machinery for the Federal Government's programme for the construction of upwards of 50,000 houses in 1946-47 has been completed, and the Government is confident that a substantial improvement in the housing ...
Article : 372 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—In the maintenance of future world peace everything depended on continuance of unity, particularly among those known as the Big Five of the United Nations, the deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) said in a broadcast to-night on the results of the U.N.C.I.O. at San Francisco. ...
Article : 335 wordsMELBOURNE, Mon. — The Lord Mayor (Cr. Sir Thomas Nettlefold) is going to ask the State Government to let him ...
Article : 76 wordsLONDON, Monday.—A big crowd welcomed the first Australian cricket team to visit Oxford since 1938 when Australian Services, ...
Article : 295 wordsHOBART, Monday. — Awards announced by the Royal Humane Society of Australasia include the names of 20 Tasmanians, who receive two ...
Article : 265 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — Federal Cabinet to-day approved of the final advance of the 1 1-8d per bushel bagged and l-4d. per bushel bulk for wheat in ...
Article : 97 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — With the exception of minor details which have yet to be finalised, almost complete understanding has ...
Article : 227 wordsAlong the dusty road between Brooketon and Brunei plods a mixed group of natives. Javanese, they comprise an entire family — ...
Article : 249 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Resident medical officers in the Sydney and Newcastle hospitals received substantial increases in a new salary scale ...
Article : 88 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—According. to official figures supplied by the Australian Red Cross Society, there are 1981 Australian prisoners of war in Borneo. ...
Article : 95 wordsPERTH (W.A.), Monday. — Two service leaders are leaving W.A. commands for operational service. Commodore J. A. Collins, R.A.N"., left Perth ...
Article : 69 wordsHOBART, Monday. — Decrees nisi were granted in six undefended divorce suits heard by the Chief Justice (Sir John Morris) in the Divorce Court ...
Article : 136 wordsLONDON, Monday. — The trial of eight German prisoners of war, all young non-commissioned officers, who are accused of the murder of a fellow ...
Article : 529 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday. — The Commonwealth Salvage Commission has authorised an Australiawide appeal for clothing for ...
Article : 300 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday. — A violent eruption last niglit blew a geologist and his companion out of the Mt. Ruapehu ...
Article : 201 wordsHOBART, Monday.—The Transport Workers' Union applied to the Arbitration Court to-day for variation of the award to provide a war loading ...
Article : 169 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A big oil refinery in Australia to produce lubricating oils and bitumen is contemplated by the ...
Article : 68 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Seven menhers of a travelling rodeo show were injured when a frailer crashed over an embankment near Newcastle to-day ...
Article : 78 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — Increased importance would be attached to the Navy as one of the effective defence mediums to ...
Article : 138 wordsLAUNCESTON, Monday. — A warning that if the appeared in court again he might be recommended for an indeterminate sentence was given to ...
Article : 85 wordsHOBART, Monday—The Transport Workers' Union applied to the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. G. A. Mooney) at a sitting of the Arbitration ...
Article : 184 wordsHOBART, Monday.—The establishment of an Adult Education Council, constituted by Statute and [?]onsisting of seven members, is recommended in the report of a Board of Inquiry into Adult Education. The board comprised— he Chief Justice (Sir John Morris), Professors A. B. Taylor and J. R. ...
Article : 728 wordsPEHTH (W.A.), Monday. — Hotels in Perth will remain open until 7 p.m. after July 16. The State Government decided to-day to amend the war time ...
Article : 47 wordsHOBART, Monday. — A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Coroner (Colonel J. P. Clark) at the conclusion of an inquest at Hobart to-day on Mabel ...
Article : 254 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—In future the currency of sugar coupons will be terminated three times in the ration year instead of ...
Article : 195 wordsHOBART, Monday. — The question of uniform taxation is to be raised at the coming Premiers' Conference by the Premier of Victoria (Mr. Dunstan). ...
Article : 214 wordsLAUNCESTON, Monday. — Enginemen may cease work unless repairs are made to the floor at the Launceston railway round house within 14 days. ...
Article : 98 wordsMANILA, Monday.—Tokio Radio says that the Allies, besides landing at Balikpapan, also landed at Kulla Samboja, 31 miles to the ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, Monday.—The Yugoslav New[?]gency says British soldiers attacked a group of villagers, who declared themselves to be Slovenes, at ...
Article : 97 wordsLAUNCESTON, Monday. — Displays of documentary and educational films and recitals of recorded music are amone the activities likely to be ...
Article : 76 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Television was costly and did not possess entertain ment value, while ordinary broadcasting would provide good home enter, ...
Article : 68 wordsBRISBANE, Monday. — The Cairns Hospital domestic staff early to-day implemented an ultimatum to strike if the shortage of slaff was not made ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Tue 3 Jul 1945, Page 5
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