SYDNEY, Wed: Many industries may be crippled, thousands of workers unemployed, and country towns will suffer severe black-outs unless a strike by Shell Oil Co. employees is settled quickly. A survey today showed the company's stocks of petroleum products would be ...
Article : 209 wordsImprovements to the repair of the Canning Dam-Perth channel are being continued and it is hoped that within a few days it will be possible to get nearly normal supplies down the channel and to lift water ...
Article : 202 wordsAs drivers of the St. John Ambulance Perth depot were lunching today a head appeared over the back yard ...
Article : 160 wordsIt was a far cry at the Wool Exchange yesterday to the grim days of 1930-31, when the average price for wool in this State dropped to a miserable 7.7d lb. At the Wool Exchange yesterday there was a Test Match intensity among the farmer Dectators. When an offering of fine wool came under the hammer those in the know leant ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 390 wordsMELBOURNE, Wed: Compared with levels in other centres" last week, prices for most merinos, comebacks and fine crossbred wools are now five per cent higher, according to a report by Melbourne wool brokers following yesterday's ...
Article : 97 wordsAbout 3.45 a.m. today there was a brief display of the Aurora Australis in the southern section of the sky. ...
Article : 42 wordsSYDNEY, Wed: A man swung on a rope 200ft. down the face of a cliff at Woonona yesterday to rescue a dog. He is Mr. J. Sangster of Bulli. Sangster clung to a tree on a small sloping ledge above a ...
Article : 114 wordsSYDNEY, Wed: While racing from Broken Hill to Ivanhoe, in north-western NSW, yesterday, the diesel air-conditioned train "Silver City Comet" caught fire and the engine was destroyed. ...
Article : 91 wordsDAR ES SALAAM, Wed (AAP): Eleven Africans were killed and many injured, eight seriously, when a train ...
Article : 31 words'THE dangerous work of delivering underground news sheets and arms, supplied from Britain, was the wartime job of Mrs. W. Hryniewicz, from Poland, who passed through Fremantle today in the Dundalk Bay. ...
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Advertising : 96 wordsThe State Transport Board had approved a - licence for Chart-Air Aviation Service to operate a weekly service to ...
Article : 99 wordsWhile investigating the cause of a Bayswater timbermill fire on January 3, two detectives found a diesel engine valued at £100 which had been stolen from operative Bulk Handling ...
Article : 214 wordsMELBOURNE, Wed: As only one State — South Australia — had ratified a rail standardisation agreement with the Commonwealth ...
Article : 113 wordsMotorists who intend to park their cars in King's Park on Australia Day, next Monday, are warned by superintendent ...
Article : 161 wordsWhile wholesale prices for peas were higher today, the retail prices were slightly lower. ...
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The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), Wed 25 Jan 1950, Page 2
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