Rise in Pacific War Risk Rates
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—War risk insurance rates rose from 4 to 7½ per cent. for Australasian shipments, via the Panama Canal, across the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1942
2,993 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 150
War Has Given Occupational Therapy Boost
As military hospitals began to fill, the Government was recogntsing the value of occupational therapy and was taking…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The State Labour Party summer school, which concluded its sittings to-day, adopted a resolution demanding intensification…
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LONDON. Dec. 20 (Air Mail). — A big comb-out of "Al" men in lobs which "C3' men can do was carried out by the British War…
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Merewether Red Cross has arranged a special appeal for goods to be stored for use in an emergency. Members of the branch will make a…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—The formation of committees by the American Federation of Labour and the Congress of…
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LONDON, Jan. 26.—One hundred and fifty-six delegates representing 130,000 workers in 51 Midlands factories demanded a six-point…
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CANBERRA, Monday.—The Federal Government is perturbed at the shortage of skilled fruit pickers, particularly in the Leeton and Mildura…
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LONDON, Jan. 26.—Lieutenant-Colonel G. P. L. Drake-Brockman, D.S.O., M.C., who last March was court-martialled and dismissed the…
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.âA Treasury Department report on the international drug traffic charges Japan with having started a secret…
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Mr. Curtin put his finger, perhaps more penetratingly than he knew, upon the defect of Mr. Churchill's great and brilliant…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The courage and skill of Australian cameramen in risking capture by the Japanese to secure what is officially described as…
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SYDNEY. — The mine rescue stations at Abermain, Boolaroo. Bellambt and Lithgow have been placed on a war footing, the…
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SYDNEY. — Emphatic opposition to any proposal to introduce war prisoners as laborers in the a first industry was expressed in…
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The president of the New Lambton Red Cross (Mrs. S. Brian) reported at meeting yesterday that buttons to the valse of £10 2s had been sold by…
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PERTH. — Ruthlssly outspoken on matters vital to the Pacific, the Minister for External Affairs (Dr. Evatt) is favored for selection as Australia's representative on the Imperial War Cabinet and the Pacific War Council…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A cable setting out broad principles of the plan to give Australia a direct voice in high war strategy, particularly in the Pacific, is believed to have been received to-day from the British Government…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—After falling from the centre of the Storey Bridge into the Brisbane River, 120 feet below, Frederick Charles Linden,…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Admitting that they had wrecked a kiosk at Central railway station on January 17, seven A.I.F. men were to-day in…
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LONDON, Jan. 28.—Au Australian, Lieutenant John Steel Lewes, of the Welsh Guards, has been reported killed in action. Lieutenant Lewes rowed…
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