Three carriages on yesterday's express from Brisbane to-Sydney were reserved for Jap prisoners of war while scores of civilians had to stand ...
Article : 201 wordsBY an amazing coincidence, the Minister for Commerce and the Food Controller have in the month of December, 1944, both come to the conclusion that Canberra is not being well treated in the distribution of certain food and commodity supplies. This has long been known ...
Article : 860 wordsIf the miners wanted the forces of reaction to regain power then they were going the right way about it, the acting Prime Minister (Mr. ...
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Family Notices : 58 wordsPlans for the transfer of staff of the Department of Social Security to Melbourne were assailed as a waste of public money ...
Article : 449 wordsThe admission by the Commonwealth Food Controller (Mr. J. F. Murphy) that Canberra was among the worst served centres in Southern ...
Article : 416 wordsThe Federal Council of the Locomotive Enginedrivers' Union decided to-day that, unless their claim for extra pay for night work is granted ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs (Dr. Evatt) yesterday entertained members of the Diplomatic Corps at lunch at Parliament House, Canberra. ...
Article : 279 wordsOn his arrival to-day, Mr. Donald Nelson, President Roosevelt's personal representative, would not disclose the purpose of his secret ...
Article : 50 wordsThere would be no accommodation in Canberra for any except those with with very important official business during the parliamentary sittings ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) has promised a deputation from the A.C.T. Trades and Labour Council that inspectors will check up ...
Article : 264 wordsThe Government was gravely concerned with the problem of soil erosion, which would be the prime subject for consideration by the ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) said yesterday h[?]at private operators had contributed comparative ly little to Australia's aviation ...
Article : 126 wordsThough broad policy had been decided on, the Commonwealth plan of bringing an average of 17,000 children to Australia annually, details of ...
Article : 306 wordsTheir Excellencies the Acting Governor-General and Lady Dugan gave an Afternoon Party at Government House, Canberra, yesterday. ...
Article : 30 wordsA conference of all unions will be held in Sydney on December 19, to consider the threatened industrial upheaval on the coalfields. ...
Article : 229 wordsThe R.A.A.F., which had 400 operational planes on December 7, 1941, when the Pacific war started, could now count their planes in thousands ...
Article : 73 wordsBecause of its junior Davis Cup programme the United States will have a great advantage over the rest of the world when international ...
Article : 113 wordsThe A.C.T. branch of the Teachers Federation has arranged to send about 80 children to the federation's holiday home, Stewart House, at Dee ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 77 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) announced yesterday that War Cabinet had approved, of the intake of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, ...
Article : 73 wordsWa[?] Cabinet yesterday adopted a scheme for the training or employment of a number of service personnel who were prisoners of war ...
Article : 127 wordsWarning that the, food position next year would be most serious, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Scully) said yesterday that Australia must ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 wordsA National Security Regulation signed by the Minister for Supply (Mr. Beasley) yesterday, limits The Christmas holiday period of coal ...
Article : 157 wordsBecause of an anticlpaod shortage of seasoned timber, post-war housing projects may be limited and material would not be available for ...
Article : 112 wordsAustralia enters the fourth year of the war "against, Japan with the knowledge that in the year about to close coal, production was down more than ...
Article : 114 wordsThe important thing was to formulate a policy of migration which would continue irrespective of what Government was in power during the next ...
Article : 84 wordsThe former Governor-General of Australia (Lord Gowrie) has accepted appointment as director of two of Australia's largest companies, Dalgety ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Fri 8 Dec 1944, Page 2
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