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  2. CATHOLIC BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL FOR CANBERRA

    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 words
  3. MRS.PERCIVAL TO LEAD CANBERRA Y.W:C,A.

    Mrs. A. Percival was re-elected unopposed as president of the Canberra branch of the Young Women's Christian Association at the annual ...

    Article : 448 words
  4. STAFF STRIKE AT GORMAN HOUSE SHORT-LIVED

    The 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 words
  5. UNIONS TO MAKE FAR-REACHING ECONOMIC CLAIMS

    During 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 words
  6. "For the cause that lacks assistance, Gainst the wrongs that need resistance For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do." The Canberra Times

    THE 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 ...

    Article : 379 words
  7. Family Notices

    {No abstract available}

    Family Notices : 130 words
  8. SOUTHERN ALPS IN GRIP OF COLD SPELL

    Freezingweather has gripped the southern part of the State and heavy falls Of snow had been reported from Kosciusko and Kiandra. ...

    Article : 150 words
  9. SUBSTANTIAL SAVING WITH BREAD RATIONING

    More 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 words
  10. NO PENSION RIGHTS FOR JUSTICE DAVIS

    Following stiff opposition, the Minister for Justice (Mr. St. Laurent) withdrew an amendment to the Judges Act which would have had ...

    Article : 72 words
  11. WOMAN SLASHED MAN'S THROAT WITH GLASS

    A 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 words
  12. NATIVES STAGE CORROBOREE FOR ROYAL PARTY

    Centuries 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 words
  13. TIVOLI THEATRE PAYS £350 COMPENSATION

    The 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 words
  14. SHARP DECLINE SEEN IN WHEAT PRICES

    Hostility among wheat growers to the Ministerial direction of the Wheat Board will harden when they compare the details of the recently ...

    Article : 243 words
  15. ART GALLERY PHYS 800 GUINEAS' FOR PORTRAIT

    A 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 words
  16. RUSSIA CLAIMS TO BE BULWARK FOR WORLD PEACE

    An authoritative announcement in Moscow, quoting Stalin, declared that the Soviet Union in developing a peacpful social construction must ...

    Article : 104 words
  17. NORTHERN MINES TO RESUME

    Miners 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 words
  18. "SQUATTERS" TO DEFY GOVERNMENT

    Families living in "squatter's camps at Amersham are preparing to go over the British Government's head and appeal to tho America ...

    Article : 135 words
  19. APPEAL TO HIGH COURT AGAINST SENTENCE OF LIFE IMPRISONMENT

    Application 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 words
  20. FOUR BUILDINGS LOST IN FIRE

    A 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 words
  21. U.S. War Prisoners May Claim Compensation

    The Departments of State, War and Navy jointly announced they are devising procedures to enable American former prisoners of war to ...

    Article : 117 words
  22. IRON FOUNDRIES TO WITHDRAW DISMISSAL NOTICES

    Despite rumours of a hitch in the settlement of the foundry dispute, the ironfounders section of the Chamber of Manufactures decided ...

    Article : 130 words
  23. HEAVY CASUALTIES IN EXPLOSION OF MINES

    Several mines, which exploded at Vergarola, near Pola, resulted in 43 persons being killed and 57 injured, including two British soldiers. ...

    Article : 55 words
  24. MAJOR MCDERMOTT RESIGNED FROM POST. NOT DISMISSED

    Major 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 words
  25. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD CROPS IN SUSSEX

    The 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 words
  26. VICTORY CONTINGENT IN ADELAIDE

    Cheering crowds greeted the men of the Victory Contingent, when they paraded through Adelaide today, led by Major-General Eather. ...

    Article : 66 words
  27. DEFEAT HASTENED BY SOVIET BLOWS

    In 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 words
  28. TRADESMEN MIGRANTS TO ARRIVE

    The first party of 1000 building tradesmen being brought from the United Kingdom by the Commonwealth Government will arrive in ...

    Article : 43 words
  29. PUPPET LEADER'S WIFE POISONED

    In evidence before the War Crime's Tribunal, Herny Pu Yi, former puppet ruler of Manchuria, declared that the Japanese murdered his lo ...

    Article : 55 words
  30. 25-POUNDER SHELL FOUND IN LANE

    A 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 words
  31. WOMAN'S ADVENTURES TO JOIN HUSBAND IN SOUTH AFRICA

    Mrs. 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 words
  32. HAD GOOD TIME ON VALUELESS CHEQUES

    Described 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 words
  33. FORECAST

    South-Eastern Districts: Scattered showers on the Highlands, light falls of snow on the Alps, otherwise fine with cool to mild temperatures and ...

    Article : 32 words
  34. ELECTORAL RIGHTS PETITION TO PARLIAMENT

    The 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 words
  35. TWO VIC. CONSTABLES SUSPENDED

    By order of the Police Commissioner (Mr. Duncan) two constables, charged with assault and robbery, have been Suspended from duty. ...

    Article : 80 words
  36. NEWCASTLE WHARFIES RESUME WORK

    Waterside workers returned to work at 2.30 p.m. They decided to admit an additional 50 new members to the union ...

    Article : 60 words
  37. BUYERS HAD NO CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT AT DISPOSALS' SALE

    Commenting on complaints by some interstate buyers at the Disposals Commission sale at Cairns, the Minister for Supply and Shipping (Senator ...

    Article : 143 words
  38. CANBERRA WEATHER

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 words
  39. WORLD RECORD PILE OF SCOURED WOOL

    The 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 words
  40. BRITISH TALKS WITH EGYPT

    It was announced that Lord Stangate had a 90-minute talk with the Egyptian Premier (Sidky Pasha) and the Foreign Minister (Luftydssayed) ...

    Article : 66 words
  41. GERMANS TO DIE FOR CRUELTIES

    A German court at Schwerin sentenced to death four persons who admitted injecting between 500 and 700 patients-at the former ...

    Article : 55 words
  42. NO EXEMPTIONS FROM WHEAT SCHEME

    The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully), at the Agricultural Council yesterday, flatly turned down renewed requests by the South Australian ...

    Article : 42 words
  43. RECORD FLOOD ON NILE

    The village of Gerief, four miles west of Khartoum, was submerged when the Blue Nile rose 54ft., but the inhabitants evacuated in time. ...

    Article : 40 words
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