J. C. Moore and Son, of Glenmoor, Hall, won the A.C.T. P. and A. Association's Field Wheat Competition for 1947 with a crop of Bencubbin ...
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Family Notices : 679 wordsA record for marriages, births and deaths was established in the A.C.T. during 1947. In December alone, 30 marriages ...
Article : 216 wordsA steady increase in the home building programme throughout Australia is shown in figures released yesterday by the Government ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Sydney cutter Morna was first to the finishing line in the SydneyHobart yacht race. Early this afternoon a crowd of ...
Article : 361 wordsHISTORY is a record of events, but the various incidents which make history are themselves a great stream whose volume is made up by drops contributed by millions of the world inhabitants but the course of which is fashioned by the thoughts and ideas of the greater or ...
Article : 663 wordsA dramatic swing of public opinion against Australian Labour during 1947 was claimed to-day by the Leader of the Federal Opposition ...
Article : 137 wordsThe coal industry in New South Wales was entering a new era in 1948, the director (Mr. K. A. Cameron) of the Joint Coal Board said ...
Article : 84 wordsIn the Arbitration Court to-day the question was raised whether employees covered by the Federal awards would be required to work ...
Article : 116 wordsFatal road accidents for the year rose to 503 to-night, when Robert Miller, 50, of Bridge Road, Forest Lodge, died in Royal Prince Alfred ...
Article : 45 wordsThe former State President, of the Returned Soldiers' League (Col. A. W. Hyman) died suddenly to-day aged 67. ...
Article : 122 wordsAustralia had an even chance of winning the 1948 Davis Cup challenge and intends pressing the issue at the L.T.A.A.conference, to be ...
Article : 200 wordsStill in pyjamas and sucking his pipe, Mr. Chifley, interviewed at his hotel shortly before noon to-day, refused to discuss major problems ...
Article : 94 wordsIn a message to the Commonwealth Government from Havana, the Minister for Post-War Reconstruction (Mr. Dedman) said that ...
Article : 46 wordsTwelve tough prisoners made a bloody break form the State Prison on Tuesday afternoon and early this morning. ...
Article : 207 wordsA young woman from Wagga made desperate but unavailing attempts to save a youth from drowning at Narrabeen Lakes late to-day. ...
Article : 100 wordsEfforts are to be made by the Overseas League to find up to 1,000 British children for the Shaftsbury Homes in Queensland, a similar ...
Article : 283 wordsThe latest official figures show that 41 Jews and six Arabs were killed and 42 Arabs and seven Jews wounded in the fighting which followed the ...
Article : 246 wordsThe price of British newsprint will be increased to £48/7/6 stg. a ton after January 4, compared with £32/5/- stg. a ton six months ago, ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) will fly back to Australia from New Zealand to-day and will arrive in Canberra to-night. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe examination of General Tojo may be curtailed greatly as the result of a decision of the International Military Tribunal to-day to permit ...
Article : 84 wordsHans Van Meegeren, Dutch painter, died to-day in hospital, aged 57. His fakes of the Great Masters brought him £500,000. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 177 wordsRecording companies are making last frenzied efforts to put music on wax before the ban of the president of the Musicians' Federation (Mr. ...
Article : 129 wordsThe resignation of the Director. General of Medical Supplies of the A.M.F. (Major-General S. Burston) was announced by the Army ...
Article : 38 wordsActors, Clark Gable and Frank Morgan, were arrested yesterday by a game warden at the exclusive gun club near Bakersfield, on a charge ...
Article : 77 wordsIn a fracas at the Wentworth Cafe to-night, Keith Bloom, 21, was stabbed in the right arm, and an artery was severed. ...
Article : 56 wordsLord Nuffield is planning to open a new assembly plant in Australia. He left for Australia and New Zealand yesterday on the Orient liner ...
Article : 60 wordsJean Simmons, star of "Blue Lagoon" and the leading man, Donald Huston, narrowly escaped from serious injury when a car driven by ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Thu 1 Jan 1948, Page 2
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