Two armed bandits shot and wounded two police detectives in a street battle near the Cabramatta post office early this morning. ...
Article : 342 wordsASTRONOMY is an older science than meteorology and despite the fact that meteorology appears to be more closely related to the earth and human affairs, the trend of recent years has been to demonstrate that astronomy in its various branches is more closely related ...
Article : 508 wordsA programme which is being developed in astrophysics at the Commonwealth Observatory at Mount Stromlo, promises to make an important contribution to the study of atomic phenomena. With an exceptionally clear sky for observations and the ...
Article : 796 wordsFrom a peak wartime figure of 214,691 employees, the Commonwealth Public Service has been reduced to 67,125, said the Prime ...
Article : 237 words{No abstract available}
Family Notices : 40 wordsAn audience which filled not more than two-thirds of the Albert Hall last night was delighted with an exhibition of fine, well-balanced ...
Article : 512 wordsThe threat of an immediate general strike on the coalfields was averted to-day by the Central Council of the Miners' ...
Article : 125 wordsDuring the hearing of the 40-hour week claim before the Arbitration Court to-day, Mr. R. Loft, general secretary of the Textile Workers' ...
Article : 221 wordsBy 28 votes to 11 the annual conference of the Pastures Protection Boards decided to oppose, the suggested establishment of fox-fur ...
Article : 156 wordsHis Royal Highness the GovernorGeneral 'received the Right Honourable J. B. Chifley (Prime Minister) at Government House yesterday ...
Article : 55 wordsArrangements are being finalised by a representative citizens' committee' of the carnival at Manuka Oval on Monday, June 1, in connection with the ...
Article : 283 wordsAttention was focussed on accommodation facilities for the paying. public at the Rugby League game between England and Group 8 on ...
Article : 336 wordsLack of staff at the Government Printing Office is causing concern. The shortage of trained men is the worst in the history of the Printing ...
Article : 165 wordsFive men and a woman appeared in various courts in the metropolitan area to-day charged with the possession of firearms. ...
Article : 118 wordsGlaring angrily through steelrimmed spectacles, Sauckel told the Tribunal that the document, in which he confessed to a 100 per cent, ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Thursday.— Six of the crew of the tug, Nancy Moran, are feared lost, following the sinking of a tug after a collision with the ...
Article : 112 wordsA deputation from the Returned Soldiers League, representing all States, interviewed the Minister for Post War Reconstruction (Mr. ...
Article : 145 wordsThe accommodation for essential workers is so acute that the Department of Interior will remove two huts from 2 S.T.T. to serve as ...
Article : 121 wordsDr. Ian Clunies Ross has been appointed to the position of Executive Officer of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and also a ...
Article : 151 wordsBodies of American servicemen previously buried at Canberra had been removed to the Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, and, accordingly, ...
Article : 66 wordsThomas Tie, a soldier who'brought his furniture from Labourne to take [?] home on which he had paid a rental deposit, found the house ...
Article : 90 wordsSouth-Eastern Districts: Cloudy at first with showers on the slopes and tablelands, later becoming chiefly fine except for scattered falls on the ...
Article : 43 words"I have been waiting for the Prime Minister to do something" about Mr. Ward's outburst on High Court Judges," said the Leader of the ...
Article : 69 wordsA verdict for£2,137 was awarded to the four Ronald brothers, of Trinkey, Quirindi, when they claimed £5,000 compensation from the ...
Article : 116 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 wordsMr. W..f. Healy, the contributors' representative on the Commonwealth Superannuation Board, will be visiting Cauberra on Monday. ...
Article : 66 wordsHarry Rose was to-day sentenced to 10 years gaol for attempting, while armed, to rob the Castlereagh Street branch of the Bank of New ...
Article : 53 wordsA State funeral of the late Senator Keane will be held to-morrow at the Brighton Cemetery, leaving St. Patrick's Cathedral af 12.15 p.m. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Australian Red Cross has been appointed as a National Tracing Bureau to assist in tracing the fate of German civilians with relatives in ...
Article : 40 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Robert Martin, a ship's fireman, was to-day committed for trial at Central Police Court on the charge of stealing a ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Nine leaders of the mutiny in the North Allerton military prison last March were sentenced to penal servitude, ranging ...
Article : 33 wordsBOMBAY, Thursday.—Police twice opened fire this morning during clashes between caste Hindus and Untouchables in the Wirli Mill area ...
Article : 19 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Fri 31 May 1946, Page 2
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: