A refusal by the retiring secretary to stand for re-election, statements by speakers that there was an undercurrent of ill-feeling, and a request ...
Article : 444 wordsEvery effort was being made by the Government to divert sugar supplies from New South Wales and Queensland to save the Victorian ...
Article : 120 wordsThe prospect of a Commonwealthwide 40-hour week will prompt State Premiers to revise their tax reimbursement demands on the ...
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Family Notices : 67 wordsThe close relationship of the initia[?] stages of the Australian immigration policy to the rapid development of Canberra as the national capital, was ...
Article : 645 wordsLONG before the last depression brought misery to millions of peoples in almost every land, there had been warnings of what was to come, but the world was still unprepared when the expected happened although it was not to know from what quarter the blow would fall. ...
Article : 507 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day, George Macgrath, 91, grazier, of Emu Plains, unsuccessfully sued the former Taxation Commissioner (Mr. ...
Article : 199 wordsIt was not likely that shipments of oregon timber to ease the housing shortage would be forthcoming from Canada even if the import duty were ...
Article : 128 wordsRemoval of the export levy on rabbit skins was dependent on the amount of funds accruing from the tax, said the Minister for Commerce ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Arbitration Court adjourned this afternoon for consultations to decide whether or not it would take the basic wage and the 40-hour week case ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Australian Lawn Tennis Association selectors to-night decided to send four players to represent Australia in the Davis Cup. ...
Article : 128 wordsTo "end the vicious campaign of mendacity and misrepresentation on the question of refugee immigrants," the Minister for Immigration (Mr. ...
Article : 391 wordsThe Commonwealth Government will issue invitations to-day for the investiture of the Governor-General designate (Mr. McKell) on Tuesday, ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Minister for Supply and Shipping (Senator Ashley) entered hospital to-day for treatment for antrum and eye trouble. ...
Article : 57 wordsSeveral Canberra service stations were without petrol early yesterday, but deliveries arrived later in the day. The shortage of supplies in the ...
Article : 146 wordsParliament House cricketers engaged the Postal Institute at Turner on Sunday and the game resulted in a win for the latter by four runs. ...
Article : 95 wordsFruit and vegetables were in heavy supply at the markets to-day and prices of some lines fell by as much as 50 per cent. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe resu[?]pion of work at the Sydney dockyards on Thursday morning may be prevented by two unions which intend to defy an instruction ...
Article : 169 words"The unexpected development in New South Wales with the 40-hour week is confusing the people," said the director of the Associated ...
Article : 176 wordsIn a statement from the dock, Frederick Lincoln McDermott, who was charged with the murder of William Henry Lavers in 1936, declared ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 90 wordsNo response has been received from the Department of the Interior, following a delegation from C.E.M.A. last year for a £200 subsidy to enable ...
Article : 85 wordsPlanting of the nurses' memorial gardens at the Canberra Hospital is expected to begin in the next few weeks. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe hearing of the Australian Journalist Association's claim for inclusion in the 7/- a week basic wage increase, which is being opposed by ...
Article : 72 wordsThere is no provision for a five-day week in the 40-hour week legislation to be introduced to State Parliament, said the Premier (Mr. McGirr) ...
Article : 129 wordsWedged against the cabin of a vehicle, in which he was travelling, by machinery, weighing approximately two tons, Colin McFadden, of ...
Article : 78 wordsThe first steel home, built by the Commonwealth Experimental Building Station was opened at Centennial Park to-day by the Minister of ...
Article : 87 wordsA 3[?] lb. baby, kept alive by oxygen and wrapped among heated water bottles & blankets, was flown to-day from Lord Howe Island to Sydney ...
Article : 196 wordsStaff engineers, doing the work normally performed by maintenance engineers who have been withdrawn by the A.E.U., have enabled the ...
Article : 53 wordsGoods, valued at £860, were stolen during the week-end from shops and factories in Sydney and a hotel at Camden. ...
Article : 66 wordsAn interim award covering employees of the Australian Railways Union in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 27 wordsAllan Hugh Williams, 39, tram driver was to-day sentenced to a month's gaol at the Central Police Court for having been found drunk ...
Article : 85 wordsBruce Spence, 10, was injured severely when a two inch mortar bomb, with which he was playing in the backyard of his home in Brookvale, ...
Article : 79 words"Absolutely without foundation and untrue" was how the Premier (Mr. McGirr) described a report from Canberra that New South Wales officials ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Minister for Lands (Mr. Dunn) announced to-day that 14 blocks of Orrondumby Estate, near Walcha, in the north-west, had been made ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 wordsSAN DIEGO, Monday.—Ben.Hogan won the challenge 36-hole golf match against Britisher Dai Rees, six up and four, taking the 5,000 dollars ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Tue 25 Feb 1947, Page 2
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