There was no striking change in the figures in the doubtful scats when rechecking and a few postal and absentee votes were checked ...
Article : 304 wordsIn the broadcast of the "Diggers' Session" in Canberra last night, Mr.' R. Rowe, a past-president of the A.C.T. branch of the Returned ...
Article : 255 wordsLeading figures of the House of Representatives clashed in a 40 Minutes debate in the House yesterday after Sir Earle Page had been ...
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Family Notices : 29 wordsANNOUNCEMENT by the Prime Minister of the possibility of the recall, even temporarily, of the leader of the Australian delegation to the I.T.O. conference at Geneva, scarcely comes as a surprise in view of the extraordinary complication injected into the talks by the ...
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Advertising : 49 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday—A T.A.A Skymaster will leave to-morrow, via Darwin and Manila, with medical supplies for China. It—will bririg ...
Article : 147 wordsMr. Abbott (New England) yesterday declined to abandon his right under parliamentary privilege to refer to persons or associations. ...
Article : 158 wordsThe amount of luggage which public servants returning from overseas had brought into Australia-labelled "Personnel luggage" was questioned ...
Article : 383 wordsUnless the Arbitration Court gives a favourable decision on their claims for week-end penalty rates of pay, unions concerned will meet on ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts may sponsor a campaign for the erection of an openair theatre in Canberra. ...
Article : 262 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General, Mr. W. J. McKell, received Sir Douglas Mawson and Dr. Roland Wilson at Government House, Canberra, ...
Article : 48 wordsGovernment employment figures continued their steady rise throughout February at the end of which, 550,100 employees were on the ...
Article : 155 wordsThe practice of carrying resolutions of condolence to relatives of deceased former members of Parliament has been dropped. ...
Article : 186 wordsIt will take a fortnight before suburban train and tram services are back to normal, though they might be 85 per cent. normal by Thursday, ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) announced yesterday that the interest rate on the next loan will be maintained at £3/2/6 but there will be no ...
Article : 126 wordsSix passengers on the liner Wahine, of 4,436 tons, were injured when a huge wave battered the ship as it neared the end of its ...
Article : 113 wordsSamuel Peters, a Sydney bookmaker, who alleged he had been 11belled by a short story published in the "Sporting Globe," was awarded ...
Article : 97 wordsRepresentatives of ex-servicemen's associations to-day considered what action should be taken as protest against an action of the Sales Tax ...
Article : 100 wordsFurther concessions regarding supplementary examinations for ex-service students at the Canberra University College have been granted by ...
Article : 145 wordsAfter a discussion with counsel for the unions the Arbitration Court this afternoon decided to hear the appeal of the Metal Trades Union against ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Minister for Health and Social Services (Senator McKenna) said yesterday that he hoped that both Houses of Parliament would pass the ...
Article : 91 wordsJudges in the Arbitration Court today criticised strongly a leading article in a Melbourne paper referring to what was believed to have taken ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Queensland Turf Club will offer £13,950 in prize money at meetings on August 9,13 and 16. Principal events on the first day ...
Article : 112 wordsHarold Watson Masson, 51, labourer, of the Riverview Hostel, found guilty on two counts of drunkenness and drinking methylated spirits ...
Article : 57 wordsMrs. Charlotte Green, 74, of Vancouver, Canada, who arrived by skymaster from Canada, was greeted by her sister, Mrs. Caroline Green, 79, of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 wordsCharles Schmidt, 75, caretaker, employed at Newport was found horlibly mutilated at Beaconsfield Street this afternoon. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Government will consider holding a special celebration in honour of the United States naval force which it to visit Australia shortly. ...
Article : 102 wordsMaterial for future productions by the Canberra Repertory Society is not wanting judging by the welcome response to the audition night on ...
Article : 70 wordsDr. John B. Grant, of the International Health Divison of the Rockefeller Institute of America, arrived in Canberra last night for ...
Article : 79 wordsAs a result of consideration shown by other Allied nations, the alocations of industrial equipment from Germany to Australian as ...
Article : 72 wordsWhen the scheme is fully organised, whereby people may post food coupons to food relief for Britain, it will be possible to post them ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Wed 7 May 1947, Page 2
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