Monsignor P. M. Haydon said yesterday that the erection of a modern boys', high school was the next building project of the Catholic Church ...
Article : 139 wordsMrs. A. Percival was re-elected unopposed as president of the Canberra branch of the Young Women's Christian Association at the annual ...
Article : 448 wordsThe staff strike at Gorman House was short-lived as most of the girls resumed work following a deputation to the Department of the Interior ...
Article : 372 wordsDuring the hearing before the "Arbitration, Court to-day into the A.C.T.U. claim for a 40-hour week, the court was asked to say if it ...
Article : 286 wordsTHE decision that the operations of U.N.R.R.A. shall be wound up does not mean that the more fortunate members of the United Nations, so far as food supplies are concerned, propose to abandon the world to the ravages of famine. The United Nations Relief and ...
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Family Notices : 130 wordsFreezingweather has gripped the southern part of the State and heavy falls Of snow had been reported from Kosciusko and Kiandra. ...
Article : 150 wordsMore than 100,000 tons of flour, or nearly 33 per cent, of the previous consumption were saved in the first three weeks of the bread rationing, ...
Article : 162 wordsFollowing stiff opposition, the Minister for Justice (Mr. St. Laurent) withdrew an amendment to the Judges Act which would have had ...
Article : 72 wordsA woman, who was alleged by the police to have broken a glass in a hotel at Camperdown on Saturday and slashed a marr across the face ...
Article : 93 wordsCenturies from the Stone Age to 1946 was bridged for the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester when, on the last day of their visit to Darwin, they ...
Article : 201 wordsThe father of Phyllis Haynes, a chorus girl who died after being burned in a fire at the Tivoli last year, has been granted £350 by ...
Article : 117 wordsHostility among wheat growers to the Ministerial direction of the Wheat Board will harden when they compare the details of the recently ...
Article : 243 wordsA painting, "Portrait of a Lady," bought at 1,800 guineas under the Felton Bequest, is, the latest addition to the National Art Gallery. ...
Article : 56 wordsAn authoritative announcement in Moscow, quoting Stalin, declared that the Soviet Union in developing a peacpful social construction must ...
Article : 104 wordsMiners at Elrington and Hebburn No's 1 and 2 collieries, who had been Idle last week as a protest against the prosecution by the management ...
Article : 160 wordsFamilies living in "squatter's camps at Amersham are preparing to go over the British Government's head and appeal to tho America ...
Article : 135 wordsApplication was made to the High Court to-day on behalf of Eric Kelly for special leave to appeal against life sentence imposed by the ...
Article : 130 wordsA fire which menaced the whole snapping centre at Oakey, on the Dialing Downs, until a south-west wind blew back the flames to-day, ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Departments of State, War and Navy jointly announced they are devising procedures to enable American former prisoners of war to ...
Article : 117 wordsDespite rumours of a hitch in the settlement of the foundry dispute, the ironfounders section of the Chamber of Manufactures decided ...
Article : 130 wordsSeveral mines, which exploded at Vergarola, near Pola, resulted in 43 persons being killed and 57 injured, including two British soldiers. ...
Article : 55 wordsMajor I. R. McDermott has denied a report that he was dismissed from his post as Military Secretary to the Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Rother River, near Mayfly in Sussex, overflowed its banks and flooded adjacent fields to a depth of four feet and such a quantity of ...
Article : 127 wordsCheering crowds greeted the men of the Victory Contingent, when they paraded through Adelaide today, led by Major-General Eather. ...
Article : 66 wordsIn a statement on the anniversary of the defeat of Japan, Stalin declared that the Japanese aggressors did not last even three weeks after ...
Article : 64 wordsThe first party of 1000 building tradesmen being brought from the United Kingdom by the Commonwealth Government will arrive in ...
Article : 43 wordsIn evidence before the War Crime's Tribunal, Herny Pu Yi, former puppet ruler of Manchuria, declared that the Japanese murdered his lo ...
Article : 55 wordsA factory owner and his brothers were clearing rubbish from a lane at the rear of Botany Street, Waterloo, to-day when they found an ...
Article : 51 wordsMrs. Sigrid Hayden, an Australian, who was involved in a series of adventures to join her husband in South Africa, is being sent back to ...
Article : 104 wordsDescribed by counsel as a "member of a family we all know well," Trevor Hubert Windeyer, 24, appeared in the Central Court to-day ...
Article : 103 wordsSouth-Eastern Districts: Scattered showers on the Highlands, light falls of snow on the Alps, otherwise fine with cool to mild temperatures and ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Canberra Citizens' Rights League is considering a proposal for the drawing up of a petitlon to be presented to the new parliarrient by ...
Article : 82 wordsBy order of the Police Commissioner (Mr. Duncan) two constables, charged with assault and robbery, have been Suspended from duty. ...
Article : 80 wordsWaterside workers returned to work at 2.30 p.m. They decided to admit an additional 50 new members to the union ...
Article : 60 wordsCommenting on complaints by some interstate buyers at the Disposals Commission sale at Cairns, the Minister for Supply and Shipping (Senator ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 wordsThe Census Bureau reported that a commercial census of wool stocks on July 29 showed that there were 363 million lbs. of scoured wool on ...
Article : 65 wordsIt was announced that Lord Stangate had a 90-minute talk with the Egyptian Premier (Sidky Pasha) and the Foreign Minister (Luftydssayed) ...
Article : 66 wordsA German court at Schwerin sentenced to death four persons who admitted injecting between 500 and 700 patients-at the former ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully), at the Agricultural Council yesterday, flatly turned down renewed requests by the South Australian ...
Article : 42 wordsThe village of Gerief, four miles west of Khartoum, was submerged when the Blue Nile rose 54ft., but the inhabitants evacuated in time. ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Tue 20 Aug 1946, Page 2
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