Trains leaving Sydney last night for holiday resorts were only comfortably crowded—a contrast to the stampedes for seats by luggage-laden crowds on previous holiday eves. ...
Article : 345 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Discharged Servicemen unable because of temporary employment on essential war-time work to ...
Article : 412 wordsThe Duke of Gloucester, Governor-General designate of Australia, listening intently to Lady Gowrie recounting the latest news about Australia at an Australia Club luncheon in London recently. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 32 wordsNEWCASTLE, Friday.—Production in mines at work on the northern coalfields to-day dropped 33 per cent, because of absenteeism and an early rush by miners to catch holiday trains. ...
Article : 203 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Miners' leaders are believed to consider Government promises on health and pensions of importance. ...
Article : 209 wordsBetween 1,500 and 2,000 parcels had to be re-wrapped by postal workers each day because of the carelessness of the senders, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 185 wordsLittle or no coal would be available for even the highest priority industries if the miners did not resume work until ...
Article : 209 wordsMore than 30 scrub and grass fires were fought yesterday by metropolitan brigades. A strong westerly wind drove the flames. The worst outbreaks were at Terry Hills and Avalon. ...
Article : 299 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Restrictions on the provision of new telephone services for business purposes in country centres are being withdrawn. ...
Article : 93 wordsSuburban tram, train, and bus services will be reduced over Christmas, and the public is asked to refrain from ...
Article : 166 wordsThe 11 p.m. Cremorne ferry had just left Circular Quay last night so the sailor had the place to himself. ...
Article : 101 wordsPERTH, Friday.—Sir Hal Colebatch, a member of the Western Australia Legislative Council and a former Western Australian ...
Article : 70 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—The Minister for W.O.I., Mr. Dedman, the president of the A.C.T.U., Mr. Clarey, M.L.C., and ...
Article : 95 wordsLord Nuffield, well-known motor car magnate and philanthropist, has arrived in Australia for a spell after what he ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 119 wordsFred Hartley, specialist in light music, and one of the B.B.C.'s best-known broadcasters, reached Australia yesterday. He is under engagement to ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. E. H. Scott, of Chicago, who, for the past three years, has been conducting an Anzac Club at his own expense, arrives ...
Article : 107 wordsSeven ships were immobilised in Sydney yesterday and many others worked short-handed because of a shortage of 2,000 ...
Article : 120 wordsThe threatened strike of firemen and deckhands employed by the Manly and other Sydney ferry services has been averted. ...
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Advertising : 229 wordsGOSFORD, Friday.—Cabbage growers at Mangrove Mountain have decided not to enter into contracts lo grow cabbages for ...
Article : 176 wordsRyde Council will apply immediately for the resumption of land for a pre-school kindergarten at East-wood. ...
Article : 132 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Two hundred New Zealand escapees from Italian prisoner-of-war camps recently passed through Melbourne on their ...
Article : 110 wordsAn appeal for more effort and more discipline on the coal front was made in a statement issued yesterday by the central ...
Article : 178 wordsAfter a private conference before Mr. Justice De Baun, of the Industrial Commission yesterday, the representatives of the union agreed to ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. H. B. Edwards has been promoted from the position of assistant chief mechanical and electrical engineer of the ...
Article : 107 wordsNo burials will be possible in Sydney between this afternoon and next Wednesday because of a decision by the Undertakers' Assistants Union. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe decision of the State Transport Advisory Committee to oppose the proposal of the Railway Commissioner, Mr. Hartigan, that the railways should ...
Article : 86 wordsThe body of Allen Huish, 3. was found in Cook's River, 100 yards from his home, Berna Street, Canterbury, yesterday. ...
Article : 94 wordsPolice have asked the State Government to increase the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer of Mrs. ...
Article : 154 wordsAnti-garnishee strikes kept six mines idle in New South Wales yesterday. Thev were— ...
Article : 58 wordsOnce upon a time the public was exhorted to "Shop Early for Christmas." That seems to have gone the way of cigarettes, chocolates, beer, bobby-pins, ham, and other things I am too weary to itemise. ...
Article : 313 wordsDetails of the privileges given to members of the Services and their dependants under Commonwealth law, and of the free legal assistance ...
Article : 135 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—An education and training scheme for its employees has been inaugurated by Dunlop Rubber, Australia, Ltd., and will be an important part of its post-war plans. ...
Article : 192 wordsIn a tribute to Dr. H. F. Consett Davis, who was killed in an air accident in New Guinea, the Professor of Zoology at Sydney University, ...
Article : 132 wordsHerbert Vivian Amotto, 22, of Ellaroo Avenue, La Perouse, was killed last night when his bicycle crashed into the rear of a motor truck in ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 23 Dec 1944, Page 4
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