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  2. 1949 SETS NEW RECORD FOR BIRTHS IN A.C.T.

    The birth rate in the A.C.T. increased by more than, 500 per cent, in the past twenty years A total of 820 births was ...

    Article : 261 words
  3. BIG N.S.W. RAILWAYS LIFT IN HOLIDAY SPELL

    Accumulated timber stocks on the North Coast were moved during the Christmas holidays, the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Garside) said to-day. ...

    Article : 501 words
  4. Display Advertising

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    Advertising : 18 words
  5. MENZIES CABINET DOWN TO HARD BUSINESS TO-DAY

    The meeting of Cabinet commencing in Canberra to-day, which is expected to last almost four days, will be the first real ...

    Article : 148 words
  6. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 38 words
  7. OIL COMPANY MAY STOP WORK IN BURMA

    The British-owned Burma Oil Company announced yesterday that it would have to dismiss a large number of workers ...

    Article : 152 words
  8. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 24 words
  9. INQUIRY ORDERED INTO DROWNING OF LIFE SAVER

    An official inquiry will be made into the drowning of 17-yearold lifesaver, Mervyn Fletcher, at the Dee Why surf carnival ...

    Article : 187 words
  10. "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

    WITHIN a month of the election, the Commonwealth, Government is called upon to act in an industrial dispute which has a distinct political flavour. The Waterside Workers' Federation is one of a group of unions which is dominated by ...

    Article : 629 words
  11. BODIES FOUND IN GRASS AFTER MOTOR FATALITY

    A man going to fetch milk, discovered the bodies of a father and son which had been hidden in long grass for several hours after ...

    Article : 97 words
  12. R.S.L. Expels Five Communists From Membership

    Five members of the Returned Servicemen's League were expelled during the week-end. Th State Council claimed that ...

    Article : 288 words
  13. Drastic Measures Proposed to Curb Road Accidents

    Unorthodox measures to counteract the rising road accident rate have been suggested by the Transport Commissioner (Mr. ...

    Article : 192 words
  14. LEVEL CROSSING FATALITY

    Arthur John Stevens (42), was killed Instantly to-night when a train crashed into the motor cycle and side-car in which he ...

    Article : 49 words
  15. Rev. H. Harrison Elected N.S.W. Moderator

    The election of the Rev. Hector Harrison, M.A., B.D., to Moderator-designate of the N.S.W. General Assembly of the, ...

    Article : 120 words
  16. U.S. NAVAL OFFICER RELIEVED OF POST

    Vice Admiral Gerald Bogan, whose letter on unification touched off the recent armed services squabble, was relieved ...

    Article : 91 words
  17. Y.M.C.A. NOTES

    The Boys [?]mmer Camp will open this morning when nearly SO boys'will enter camp. More will enter next Monday and ...

    Article : 308 words
  18. HAMBURG TO SEE JOKE BY PHONE

    Anyone in Hamburg wanting to be cheered up will soon be able to hear the latest joke simply by dialling a telephone ...

    Article : 63 words
  19. Severe Storm Unroofs Houses At Tamworth

    Five houses were unroofed and many others were partly unroofed when a severe storm struck North Tamworth this afternoon. ...

    Article : 125 words
  20. Complaint of Slow Progress on War Service Homes

    Dissatisfaction with local progress on War Service Homes has prompted the A.C.T. Branch of the R.S.L.,to seek discussions ...

    Article : 126 words
  21. COMBINED CHURCH CHOIRS

    The Editor The Canberra Times. Sir.—In your paper's recent reviews of the 1949-activities of ...

    Article : 334 words
  22. Northern Coal To Be Rushed To Essential Users

    The Joint Coal Board has issued instructions for coal to be produced from northern mines to-morrow to be rushed., to ...

    Article : 285 words
  23. Sydney-Goulburn Micro-wave Phone By Next July

    The first micro-wave telephone system in Australia will be in use between Sydney and Goulburn by July, stated a spokesman for ...

    Article : 128 words
  24. Canadian Search For Party Missing In Icy North West

    R.C.A.F. planes and mounted police, with dog sleds are searching an area of the north-west wastelands of Canada for seven ...

    Article : 124 words
  25. LESS EARNING POWER FOR BRITISH WORKERS

    Fifteen minutes' work earns an American enough to buy a packet of cigarettes, but a British workman must labour 90 ...

    Article : 105 words
  26. THE WEATHER

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 274 words
  27. IRISH MOVE TO STOP RISKY OCEAN TRIP

    Inhabitants of Kilmore, County Wexford, may petition to the Eire Government to prevent the 63-years-old Gorman radio ...

    Article : 83 words
  28. Brigade Called to Two Grass Fires

    A fire which burnt an acre of grass near the Canberra railway station at 7.15 p.m. yesterday is believed to have been caused by ...

    Article : 115 words
  29. MASKED BANDITS ROB JOCKEY

    Two armed and masked men to-night held up jockey Jack Thompson and his wife at their home in Denning Street, Coogee, ...

    Article : 87 words
  30. PRAMS, PRISONS FOR BABIES

    Prams were "prisons for babies," Dr. John Glbbens, pedistrictan to the Poplar Hospital, yesterday told women. public ...

    Article : 84 words
  31. Marriages Before Registrar Increase in A.C.T.

    More weddings' took place last year at the Registry Office,at Civic Centre than in most churches in Canberra. ...

    Article : 118 words
  32. No Fairy Tale End To Cinderella Match

    The "cinderella" marriage of millionaire Winthrop Rockefeller and Barbara ("Bobo") Paul Sears, daughter of a Lithuanian ...

    Article : 121 words
  33. Britain Now Leading French Wine Buyer

    Britain ran up a £10 million sterling wine bill with France last year. She is France's best customer, ...

    Article : 81 words
  34. SCIENTIST CYCLING TO SYDNEY

    Professor Sydney Chapman, a Cambridge professor of mathematics, left, Canberra'yesterday to cycle to Sydney after ...

    Article : 51 words
  35. 13-Year-Old Boy Charged With Intent te Murder

    A 13-years-old Red Cliffs boy has been charged with wounding with intent to murder his father, a 42-years-old labourer, who is in ...

    Article : 40 words
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