This afternoon the Minister of Public Helath (Mr. Fitzgerald) was in consultation with the Director-General of Public Helath (Dr. Paton) and the Minister ...
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Article : 96 wordsThe Pl[?]nary Peace Conference met this afternoon. Mr. W. M. Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia), Sir Joseph Cook (Minister of the ...
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Article : 116 wordsSir Joseph Cook, the Minister of the Commonwealth Navy, left Paris for London yesterday on urgent business connected with Commonwealth naval ...
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Article : 43 wordsAt the City Court to-day. Harnett Gabriel Walsh, formerly secretary of the Wharf Labourers' Union, was charged with feloniously uttering and forging a ...
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Article : 64 wordsThe "Daily Express" says it understands that new army proposals in Great Britain provide for the formation of the army of occupation on a ...
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Article : 98 wordsA party of 150 wounded Australian soldiers in London have telegraphed to Mr. W. M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, as follows:—"Every success, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 28 Jan 1919, Page 5
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