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  2. Staff Officers Relate Plans for Escape of Lt.-Gen. Gordon Bennett

    Any plan for the escape from Singapore of Lieut.—General Gordon Bennett was conditional on the surrender, armistice or cease-fire taking place, declared Captain Adrian Curlewis, a former member of Bennett's staff, at the inquiry to-day. ...

    Article : 736 words
  3. INDUSTRIAL BOARD

    Determinations made by the Industrial Board affecting employees within the A.C.T. and Jervis Bay were published in the current issue of the ...

    Article : 580 words
  4. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 90 words
  5. Display Advertising

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    Advertising : 51 words
  6. P.M. REJECTS ULTIMATUM FROM MINERS

    Declaring that there was no justification for the threatened coal stoppage, which would have only disastrous results for the ...

    Article : 210 words
  7. GOVERNMENT TO RETAIN SELLING OF SAVINGS CERTIFICATES

    The intention of the Commonwealth Government to carry on the savings certificates and savings stamps as one of the means of encouraging ...

    Article : 491 words
  8. NEWS IN BRIEF

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The British Airways Corporation is to operate two services between London and Athens. One will fly via Naples, Genoa and ...

    Article : 290 words
  9. STRIKES PROVE COSTLY TO AUSTRALIA.

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, was prepared to stand by and see the machinery for the Arbitration Court brought into disrepute at a time when ...

    Article : 82 words
  10. INDUSTRIAL PEACE TALKS

    The success of the conference between the Government, union and employers, to deal with the industrial situation and to be held in Canberra ...

    Article : 115 words
  11. "For the cause that lacks assistance. 'Gainst the wrongs that need resistanc[?] For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do." The Canberra Times

    FROM the standpoint of good finance, the decision of the Commonwealth' Government to continue the national savaings campaign in peace, as in war, will be welcomed not only as a means of promoting national thrift but by the host of Australians who have been buying ...

    Article : 584 words
  12. GROWERS DEMAND PROFITS FROM WOOL DISPOSALS

    The Commonwealth Government is to be asked by the woolgrowers' council to declare its intentions in regard to the disposal of £7,000,000 ...

    Article : 113 words
  13. NATIONAL RADIOS HAVE LITTLE APPEAL

    Mr. William McNair, of McNair's Surveys, when giving evidence to-day before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Broadcasting, ...

    Article : 85 words
  14. PTE. L. W. JACKSON

    Major A. E. and Mrs. Jackson, of Cremorne, Sydney, who lived in Canberra for many years prior to the war, have received official advice of ...

    Article : 193 words
  15. PETROL SUPPLY DEPENDS ON DOLLAR EXCHANGE.

    Easing of restrictions on the use of petrol was governed by dollar exchange, and depended entirely on the outcome of financial talks between ...

    Article : 62 words
  16. SLOWER INCREASE OF SAVINGS DEPOSITS

    The rising strength of savings bank deposits throughout Australia' is not as marked now as it was during the greater part of last year ...

    Article : 109 words
  17. WATER CONSERVATION

    The Leader of the State Opposition (Mr. Mair) will seek the support of the Liberal Party conference on December 1 for a suggestion that a ...

    Article : 91 words
  18. BABY KILLED IN CAR COLLISION.

    A collision between two cars on the Pacific Highway, about four miles from Gosford to-day, resulted in the death of a baby girl and injuries to her ...

    Article : 77 words
  19. TWO MONTHS' ISSUE OF PETROL

    The Luiquid Fuel Control Authority for the A.C.T. (Mr. H. R. Waterman) indicates that petrol ration tickets for December and January ...

    Article : 137 words
  20. TO STAMP OUT RENT RACKETEERING

    Returned servicemen and others seeking accommodation were entitled to a fair deal and the Department of Housing was determined to stamp ...

    Article : 64 words
  21. VICE-REGAL.

    The Governor-General yesterday received the Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. J. B. Chifley, at ' Government House, Melbourne. ...

    Article : 121 words
  22. FORECAST

    Southern Districts and Tablelands. Cloudy with squally tool southerly change in the early morning, with scattered showers; moderate seas. ...

    Article : 71 words
  23. ANTI-T.B. CAMPAIGN

    Doubt as to whether the full scheme to check the incidence of T.B. could be carried out on the proposed allocation of £250,000 has been ...

    Article : 157 words
  24. FOOD SHIPMENTS FOR BRITAIN

    The destroyers Whirlwind and Ranger, which are leaving on Saturday, will carry with them 100 tons of food for Britain, including 10,000 ...

    Article : 72 words
  25. HISTORIC DOCUMENTS SOLD

    A bulk of historical documents, including the Tudor Document and the Royal Letters Patent, signed by Edward VI., was purchased to-day by ...

    Article : 77 words
  26. CANBERRA WEATHER.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 79 words
  27. COAL SUPPLIES FOR VICTORIA

    The State Premier (Mr. Cain) has been assured by the Prime Minister (r. Chifley) that a shipment of 10,000 tons of coal is on its way to ...

    Article : 77 words
  28. INTERMEDIATE EXAM. STUDENTS

    About 25,000 students are sitting for the Intermediate certificate examination which began to-day at 3,500 centres throughout the State. ...

    Article : 54 words
  29. VICTORIAN C.P. TO SIT IN OPPOSITION

    Rejecting a recommendation from its Central Council that it support the Labour Government the Parlia mentary Country Party decided to ...

    Article : 40 words
  30. SCHOOL BUS DIVED INTO LAKE.

    WASHINGTON, Tuesday. — Fifteen school children, aged 6 to 16, also the driver, were drowned when a school bus hit a rock and dived over ...

    Article : 49 words
  31. N.Z. POPULATION

    AUCKLAND, Tuesday.—A census revealed that the population of New Zealand is now l,735,000 an increase of 161,000, or 10 per cent., since 1936. ...

    Article : 23 words
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