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Advertising : 359 wordsWhat was all right for Singapore was not all right for Sydney or other vulnerable areas along the coast, stated the Minister for N.E.S. (Mr. ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Premier (Mr. McKell) replied in vigorous terms to-day to the criticism made yesterday by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Mair) that ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) in a statement to Parliament declared that the war situation in the Pacific was the most ...
Article : 151 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Monday. ‑ It has been announced officially that eight Swedish merchantmen, totalling 27,000 tons, were lost in February, ...
Article : 30 wordsWASHINGTON, Monday. — The Senate Finance Committee to-day unanimously approved of a Bill, increasing the Federal debt limit to ...
Article : 41 wordsDETROIT, Monday.—The death occurred to-day of Albert Fisher, aged 78, founder of the Fisher Body Company and pioneer motor-car ...
Article : 39 wordsUNDER the Southern Cross, 88 years ago Australians first took the oath "to stand truly by each other and to fight and defend our liberties." At the time it was taken on the eve of what has gone into history as the Eureka Stockade, it constituted in the ...
Article : 611 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin), after a study of all reports of air raids in various war zones, believes the best type of protection for ...
Article : 115 wordsNEW YORK, Monday.—The American Bureau of Shipping has announced suspension of the publication of its monthly magazine, which is one ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Secretary for Agriculture (the Duke of Norfolk) in a speech to farmers, declared that the statement that the nation's life may be ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Lieutenant Governor-General of the N.E.I. (Dr. van Mook) to-day denied the accuracy of the claim made by Tokyo radio that 50,000 ...
Article : 96 wordsNEW YORK, Monday—The Chilean steamship Tolten was torpedoed last Friday, 37 miles from New York. She sank within six minutes. It is ...
Article : 34 wordsOTTAWA, Monday.—The Department of Munitions and Supply to-day ordered a sharp curtailment of road construction and maintenance ...
Article : 58 wordsBags filled with sand or soil and exposed to the weather are particularly liable to rotting and within a few months may become a source ...
Article : 371 wordsOTTAWA, Monday.—Two persons were killed and five injured in an explosion at the Welland chemical plant near Niagara Falls. No details are ...
Article : 35 wordsNearly 200 miners at the Glen Davis oilfields, who were ordered back to work by the Commonwealth Government yesterday, were granted ...
Article : 134 wordsCeylon is now [?] defence-minded. There is no comparison between Colombo, which to-day is a city without frivolities, and Singapore and ...
Article : 96 wordsNEW YORK, Tuesday.—Devastating tornadoes swept through six southern and mid-western States on Monday, causing 120 deaths and ...
Article : 34 wordsIf the Dutch had received in Java all the fighter planes they had paid for and gave to Britain, Java would still be in Allied hands, declared Mr. ...
Article : 119 wordsApplication of the 44-hour week was yesterday extended by an order under the National Security Act to the Federated Marine Stewards and ...
Article : 33 wordsStocks of new hand tools, frozen since the beginning of the year under a National Security control order, may now be sold. The Minister for ...
Article : 59 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The defence authorities to-day commenced the collecting of all small craft excepting those engaged on essential ...
Article : 28 wordsThe "New York Sun" prominently displays a letter, written to the editor, dealing with criticism of Australia for not having filled its vast ...
Article : 91 wordsThe general secretary of the Co-operative Building Societies' Association (Mr. Pooley) to-day claimed that the moratorium regulations to protect ...
Article : 143 wordsTwenty-seven applications have been received in reply to the call for women conductors in the Canberra City Omnibus Service. ...
Article : 127 wordsSpecial camp hospitals are to be attached to convalescent depots di[?] ectly associated with base military hospitals in capital cities. ...
Article : 90 wordsA special meeting of the Canberra Community Hospital Board has been convened for tonight by the chairman of the board (Archdeacon ...
Article : 74 wordsSir: With the acute shortage of labour it seems tragic that we should still have a 100 or more men engaged in the non-essential, ...
Article : 207 wordsOfficial figures, dealing with the shortage of oil on the east coast, show that submarines and ship transfers to other waters have cut ...
Article : 82 wordsViscount Bennett, a former Prime Minister of Canada, in a speech to-day, said, "There is something wrong with Britain. I cannot say what it is, ...
Article : 74 wordsSergeant-Pilot S. G. Welshman (25). R.A.A.F. pilot serving in a R.A.F. squadron in the Middle East has been awarded the D.F.M. for an ...
Article : 218 wordsA long conference yesterday between representatives of engineering unions and Commonwealth Ministers failed to reach areement on the ...
Article : 82 wordsIt is believed that the Government does not intend that men enlisted in The labour corps members are to tection from the moratium ...
Article : 78 wordsA Court of Marine Inquiry to-day inquired into the circumstances surrounding the collision between the Newcastle and Hunter River steamer ...
Article : 87 wordsUnder National Security Regulations, the Commandant of the First Military District (Major-General Durant) has declared Cairns and the ...
Article : 145 wordsTo ensure that vessels will not be available to the enemy, a National Security, Order was issued yesterday enabling naval authorities to ...
Article : 176 wordsAmplifying his statement that a workless weekend in Australia constituted a danger period the Minister for Labour (Mr. Ward) said ...
Article : 138 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie), attended by Brigadier-General A. T. Anderson, inspected various Port Phillip defence zones and ...
Article : 73 wordsWhile they are keenly aware that the forthcoming battle for Australia will be grim the authorities recognise that the retention of Australia ...
Article : 80 wordsThe use of paper in the printing or publishing of books, newspaper posters, pamphlets or maps will be permitted in future only on authority. ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Wed 18 Mar 1942, Page 2
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