Fine and warmer weather, with south- easterly winds, is forecast for the metropolitan area today. An afternoon sea breeze is expected. The maximum shade ...
Article : 723 wordsThe Commisisoner of Taxation (Mr. M. D. Mears) said yesterday that many more income tax returns were expected this year, when the Income Tax Assessment ...
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Advertising : 299 wordsSir Herbert Gepp has been awarded the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy medal for 1939, "in recognition of his services to mining and ...
Article : 460 wordsCANBERRA, March 13.—It is expected by the Federal Government that the final returns will show that some thousands of pounds more than was sought have ...
Article : 215 wordsWASHINGTON, March 12.—In a frank and frequently witty address at a luncheon at the National Press Club today the Australian Minister (Mr. R. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 531 wordsCANBERRA, March 13.—Unofficially, but in well-informed quarters, it was revealed today that there is the strongest likelihood that Senator P. McBride, who ...
Article : 265 wordsLONDON, March 12.—The volume of applications for the £300,000,000 3 per cent war loan issue received today confirms expectations that the loan will be ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, March 13.—The Leipzig Fair of 1940 is a complete failure from every point of view. Visitors generally have commented that it is the "greatest ...
Article : 218 wordsThe desperate courage and brilliant military skill which has won for the Finns the admiration of the world have gone down before the weight of ...
Article : 1,171 wordsCANBERRA, March 13.—The Commonwealth Government has decided to permit the export of further quantities of Australian sheep and lamb skins and ...
Article : 135 wordsSince 1936 when he returned to Australia from England to become research fellow at the Commonwealth Solar Observatory at Mt. Stromlo, near ...
Article : 350 wordsWASHINGTON, March 12.—The House of Representatives yesterday passed the Bill providing for a two-years expansion of the naval programme and ...
Article : 98 wordsEaster is a time when many families find the problem of buying poultry very difficult to solve. This problem does not arise because ...
Article : 149 wordsCANBERRA, March 13.—The Economic Cabinet today decided to establish a division of industrial chemistry of the Council of Scientific and Industrial ...
Article : 269 wordsMAIL CLOSING TIMES.—The closing times hereunder are for the Perth G.P.O. Registered articles must be posted at the G.P.O. one hour before the closing time for letters, but ...
Article : 222 wordsLONDON, March 12.—Lieut.-Col. Sir Henry Galway, who was Governor of South Australia from 1914 to 1920, in a letter to "The Times" today, states ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 219 wordsCANBERRA, March 12.—The Leader of the Country Party (Mr. Cameron), on the eve of his appointment as Deputy- Prime Minister, today made a statement ...
Article : 219 wordsAUCKLAND, March 13.—Grave concern at the spread of Communist propaganda throughout the universities, schools and public. libraries, to the detriment ...
Article : 141 wordsEASTERN STATES.—Tuesday and Thursday, at 2.30 p.m. (late fee, 3 p.m.); Saturday, at 12.30 p.m. (late fee, 3 p.m.). AMERICA and CANADA.—March 23, at ...
Article : 61 wordsPERTH-EASTERN STATES.—Outward mails for the Eastern States close at the G.P.O., Perth, at 5.30 am. (late fee, 5.45 am.) on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Inward ...
Article : 149 wordsLONDON, March 13.—Japanese opinion attaches great importance to the imminent formal establishment of the new central puppet government in China ...
Article : 215 wordsSYDNEY, March 13.—The Grazers' Association Conference agreed today that the State and Commonwealth Governments were pampering secondary ...
Article : 258 wordsLONDON, March 12.—Five residentiary canons of Canterbury Cathedral in a letter to "The Times" today, dissociate themselves from "the political utterances" ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 169 wordsLONDON, March 12.—Deaths from road accidents in Britain during February numbered 416, which is the lowest monthly total since the war began. The ...
Article : 67 wordsRATES OF POSTAGE.—The following amended charges now operate in connection with correspondence posted in Australia for conveyance by the Empire air mall service:— ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, March 12.—The Chamber of Princes, under the chairmanship of the Viceroy of India (the Marquess of Linlithgow), says the New Delhi ...
Article : 138 words(Every request for information must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication. but as a guarantee of good faith.) ...
Article : 532 wordsNISI PRIUS.—At 10.30 a.m., before the Chief Justice: (1). In the matter of the Crown Suits Act, 1893, between J. H. Greenhill (petitioner), and the Crown (respondent), (2) ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, March 12.—Mr. H. G. Wells. the eminent author, was shouted down by Fascists when he was speaking at Westminster today. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 160 wordsWASHINGTON, March 13.—In a radio message today, Rear-Admiral Byrd said that further exploratory flights by his antarctic expedition were impossible at ...
Article : 61 wordsAMBASSADORS: "The Housekeeper's Daughter" and "Charlie Chan at Treasure Island"; 10.50 a.m., 2 p.m. and 7.45 p.m. GRAND: "The House of Fear" and "Gambling ...
Article : 132 wordsADELAIDE, March 13.—For the first time in the 82 years of the State's recorded meteorological history, a seven-day spell of heat exceeding 100deg. has ...
Article : 107 wordsMELBOURNE, March 13.—With the approval of the Commonwealth Government. Mr. W. S. Kelly, a member of the Tariff Board. will go to England to help ...
Article : 99 wordsSYDNEY, March 13.—For the second time within six months the Minister for Mines (Mr. Vincent) today made a statement in the Legislative Assembly in ...
Article : 227 wordsBEACON (South Fremantle): "Let's Make a Million" and "The Longest Night." CLAREMONT and SWANBOURNE: "King of the Castle" and "Call of the Yukon." ...
Article : 197 wordsAs from next Monday the Perth to Melbourne air servcie will be changed to allow departure from Maylands on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday each week, ...
Article : 171 wordsHOBART, March 13.—The highest March temperature on record—99.1 degrees—was registered at Hobart today. Records have been kept for the past 94 ...
Article : 26 wordsTORONTO. March 12.—The Premier of Ontaria (Mr. Hepburn) said today that Mr. Harry Nixon. whose resignation from the position of Provincial Secretary was ...
Article : 121 wordsLONDON, March 12.—It had been forecast n the Press that a statement would be made in the House of Lords today on the Government's intentions ...
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