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MELBOURNE.
EH!., DEC. 1944. 15,
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8 PAGES.
ISSUE, NEWS OF THE ABOUT PEOPLE
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The King yesterday celebrated
lekkeKd to tfie SdlfayL
the 49th anniversary of his birth

TESTS FOR ANTI-LABOR FORCES day. of congratulation TRAFFIC CIVIL STRIFE

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poured into Buckingham Palace CITY IN
WAR COUNCIL

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The future role of the Austra There were no official celebra
tions, as the anniversary is for- It is regrettable that the chair With reference to the letter of
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aftermath of last the individual must be the mally observed in June. Melbourne and Mr. Grant
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the basing of the Pa- man of the Taylor (14/12),' it

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electoral of advancement, The Minister for the Interior Board might be pointed out that
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mainspring cific Fleet In Australia were Metropolitan Tramways Mr.

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(Senator Collings) announced to-
to consolidate anti- the notion of to the defend the Churchill has stated "The
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inevit- existed Advisory War Council yesterday. demic of indifference to traffic E.L.A.S. had an organised plan
Labor elements were state of things that Downes, C.M.G., V.D., had been

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chief of the general
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that the U.A.P, had run its as much a pipe dream as the chief of the air staff and the in the present General
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part their effect is number of Germans were left: be

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col- second naval member. The Act Downes lor
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was responsible on the present
prac hind, and are fighting In the
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war planners. also dis of area very E.L.A.S. ranks." The
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parties Given common ground on cussed the for Army in Australia. In 1941 he manv of the board's drivers, then, from which ammunition,
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pressed Its satisfaction that the Services, and in thnt role visited light, and actually against, the !
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would be when the change hap- unity not necessary when
wreckage. Salvage operations prospects of its lmplementa- British Empire more the troops in New .Guinea, Ra- red light is so
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tinued at in -.the. non-Government members of and indiscriminate double the Russian

Albury hope forces were recently the The for Transport streets, that Revolution was

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that groups sharing general five in a vigorous campaign, | (Mr. that,

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to said their co-operation and ad Advisory Council. He will leave flow in Swanston-street resistance of practically. 100 per
Though subject serious
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powers vice had been of great value to; for board's shuntlng.loop at- Victoria-' cent, of the peasants, thus
on Saturday Sydney.
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abuses, party system pre peace time many things which the -Government In the con- The
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Minister for Information

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a strong other national Governments; (Mr. Calwell) left Melbourne for position is':

tions of war which had bourne's traffic management, and is based on terror."
alternative to whatever policy Canberra He will go proletariat
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can do without having to yesterday. situated that has its effect
come before the council. On be- so it The Soviet attack on- tiny /Fin
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that ground, the conveyed to tne secretary (Sir Duke's Residence; In readiness the occupation hv the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, south and consequently on pact with, the Nazis proves that
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challenge. It may not. be.i of entrance. of of
vice chiefs of all ready. Above view the residence, showing the main the removal the shunt
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must.be wel been appointed to the command
party of Australia .arrangement
practicable for a decade to members of the splendid services In northerly and| its
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of a Bomber Command station"
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comed as a sign vitality. revive question equip- they to. the events in Belgium, Greece,
the
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the hope, that by the end of the North England, at which an Aus
ment, were generally realised; the following
&c. 'They are
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Having earlier tested tralian Air Force .Lancaster only
ping our own National Parlia-I coming complete -victory would force its

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based. public ..opinion out of the well-known dictum of

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Leader would be in sight. squadron Group transfer.— JAMES S. DISNEY

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powers j, Parsons Is 30. He was previously Imperialist
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position squadron commander his pre-,
national tasks. The influence) Duke on Austerity bourne- City Council).
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ahead of the sent station, and led his squadron' was being attempted here in
by approval

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gene of fetters is
existing specially Australia prior to the Nazi at
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connection in the last attack against'Essen,

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marked in those spheres in the' tack on the U.S.S.R., and which

with Royal visits is to. be cur The Staff Association of
tions. How the varied elements, A. as- Is still being made
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which modern Governments, tailed as a war-time austerity pre-,

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Federal and State, are sen ted Mr. G. R. Leggelt with a sumes .

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called to measure. In the past during such
are being upon play in or to draw, out
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suitably inscribed; gold watch as power,- to pump
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fused within a more active role in securing
occasions-.- it has' been customary
'a token of esteem on his retire what lie calls "credit" just how A.L '.P. and Socialism
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and methods laid to present illuminated addresses
principles ment from the post of- head of /and when they may desire.1 In

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Industrial
of loyalty and welcome, usually is
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months actual

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no
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and decent condi- of a verv elabornte and costl.v Mr. R. Wlngrove should
ensuring has held for 18 years. such power. The 'banks could not
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now becomes a direct pro nature. The Premier announced
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ago Hons of for its citizens. prevent from buying farms seek enlightenment on the
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living Mr. H. "E. Boden as been ap people
speech yesterday that he had been ad-
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indictment tion of Architects, Engineers, 1929 period with borrowed money. and Socialism,
was a formidable ter,1 while the desire although it
Governmental
new unity by no
were means appreciating
Still Surveyors and Draftsmen of Aus They could not force the. public Is. regrettable that
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of some deliver such addresses
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the to add to their deposits with the
least prominent in urging had suggested tliey tralia. Mr. Boden recently relin should .need. Informing that
Misgiv come,
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actions and .that banks, neither could, or can/ they
policies. that extra with these in quished his position as general Socialism: is not a
plank in
powers should be presented typescript not got.
From "The Age" Special .Correspondent in London
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at the deterioration of secretary of the Australian- Insur lend what they have
ings war measure. uie. juaoor. pariy.s; piaoiorm, and
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be withheld from form, as a special
objectives ance Federation. Mr. Young not -agree "with
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which this Parlia Staffs may that dictionaries are not exactly
standards
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national authority. Anzacs at The Shrine After of successive
five crises, surmounted by a variety of a meeting the Edith the above, but if he does hot, will Ideal reference books for
the conduct our -own
years At of eluci
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this recent advice in Cavell Trtistees held
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yesterday dation of such questions.. The

Bearing coal mining remains Britain's. /most intractable ;

things Will he face

section of Once the Gallipoll temporary expedients, do those 7 »

of a considerable a year Mr. L. H. McBrien, M.L.C., and Labor itself has never de
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the will not be few more 'facts ? Between June; party
mind, people Legion of Anzacs hold evacua
Production continues J. Langham, assistant a fined/the meaning of
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and industrial problem. its social!-

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members, and at evidences to decline, Miss,
far-reaching

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1927 and 1931 the trading banks satiori
deceived by a facade of at tion service at the Shrine, and matron of military hospital, Heid pledge, and Imposes no
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of bitter partisanship increased their of Go

and reserves have so diminished that the Minister of Fuel and Power elected of holdings

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tractive that "outrun although the numbers are dwin elberg, were members particular interpretation of it
policies vernment and securi
marked last session, are by no there very re the trust, municipal upon its members. Those signing
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to sponsors of the constable." One of the
This year (Major Gwilym Lloyd George has beer) impelled to warn that )
Mr. Si T. Edwards, managing
ties by £7,500,000 and their ad thq pledge may, .-
therefore, in
means confined presentative gathering, vances to the public by
first things the party director Mcllwraith, McEach- tend application in
danger of the nation's effort be
new the service will be held on Sun 'of its only a
the latest move. In
assailing i

The the output is increased there is war

arn Pty. Ltd., has been re-elected £27,300,000. It is. wrong to ac limited sense, reserving the. right
must do is to show how the day, December 17, at 3 p.m.
and cept; unproved assumptions to resist measures which
the lapses from propriety Ellis, chairman of the Australasian would
guest speaker will be Judge ing impeded;
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Commonwealth can act in merely because one is unwilling violate social justice.
stigmatising in the last war, Steam Ship Owners' Federation Actually

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decorum," 'and M.C., who served to a'
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study problem and ascertain the: is committed to
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various spheres price control; and who, besides winning the, entertained workers, owners'." with further- for,the fifth' consecutive A.L.P., a
managers arid- a drop to 2.75 in year.
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things its depression was democratic Parliamentary

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for' M.C., was several limes men- It is often claimed for nation 1943 and 2.72 in the half or Mr. S. H. Earle, ehnlrman of pro
Mr. was exarnple— when the war I
that the new wages agreement first
due mainly to the restoration of cedure' which renders
Ministers, Menzies Impossible
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tioned In despatches. Among benefiting the, miners entered into alisation that the knowledge that 1944, This 111 spite of rising earn Automotive .Products- Manufac
time expire. Its" leaders food production in Europe,; after ,-

the Introduction of absolute

firm Certain mem powers several books which he wrote was promote an in are "working for the com From: 55/9 in 1938 the -ave turers' Section of tlie Victorian
last April would they; ings,
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on ground. will that the actual the 1914-18 war and the resulting Socialism, or Communism. The
recognise the history of the 5th Australian in output have been sadly mon weal instead -
of for private rage weekly cash earning of all Chamber of Manufactures, and
bers on the .Opposition side, crease loss' of marker.; for wheat grown socialisation be in
Division, for which, as a thesis, reveal that gain would the employes .coal mining wage earners rose of the. Federal Council pledge must
policy, when proclaimed, must dashed. Latest figures inspire president in the great exporting countries
-to terpreted within the limits of the
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too, contributed a deplor he received the degree of Doctor fell again in the 'third, to greater' efforts. Nationalisa to 102/5 ih' 1943. The Ministry of Automotive Products Manu
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be accompanied production like ROBERT H. constitutional: methods
able exhibition of bad political by practical, of Letters. The Rev. W.-E. Dex quarter of this year, although tion -is offered- as a means of of Fuel attributes the production facturers, was the guest of mem binding

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SIMPSON (Hawthorn). the Communists
proposals for its implementa D.S.O., M.C., D.C.M., Will workers industry on its feet upon party.
manners.
ter, more were employed. The putting the decline to absenteeism, which- the bers at a gathering at Menzies'
that tne A.L.P. cannot In
/ conduct service; and Mr. J. effect miners' agree
been tion.' If there be no power the total' was 44,298,000 tons, coin- through': the': on .
miners'' spokesmen attempt to Hotel yesterday. A preseritatlon Transport Control

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These: censures will Members reinforced by a pro Socialism,'
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and there can be no genuine in assemble the St. of more efficient State- In disguise their contempt for
"the important for his activi "The Age" of 12th it'
will at corner .of same last year. It is in gramme.; ing of workers at the coal faces; ciation of members Inst,
delivered, period

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Hilda-road and Alexandra-ave operation. On the stated that Mr. Ward, Minister democratic parliamentary pro
of the conference tention. The Liberal party teresting to note that' the tonnage sponsored :
However, the Ministry points ties In bringing to a successful is
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decisive task cedure.
like nue at 2.30, and march to the lost through disputes fell from other hand," the mine owners say Out that absenteeism is most conclusion the organisation of for Transport, has called a con They know that the only

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the any political party— can of get complete Socialism
is demonstrate
to what Shrine, headed by the A.I.F. 587,000 tons In the- second quar- that -whenever ...the miners) de prevalent among the younger the Federal body. ference of the various classes way to; is
from the blunders It will violent revolution, and the

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a poten- profit and Legion of Anzacs Band. and the mand Is conceded the output authorities. very by'
Liberal party offers as ter to 171,000 tons, goes mine workers. ;

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disputes down; /throughout quickly be noticed that those Mr. establishing of a permanent dic
demerits of its opponents, but time lost In was /:

Experience MacNeil) was

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firmly College (Mr. N.-Hv
Big Insurance Bonus
tal to a en Whatever the true explanation,
alternative the lowest recorded since the the war certainly seems to bear last elected president of Ward has called are all public tatorship. Labor repudiates that.
having a. genuinely successful career whatever the nation's decision- '
night
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trenched Individuals and companies, first quarter full; the main the Save the Forests Campaign
must be founded not nationalisation, not competent, but I main Ponds).
majorities in both Houses. on a, policy regular clients of problem is one concern
tenance, Council. Mr. Isaac, M.L.C., was are

Data perhaps the enlargement,

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criticism serves salu of positive worth and progres- ing Britain vonly as a nation at Significant- of the Government's directive elected secretary and organiser, tain there are many men
The Liberal Creed
"Vigorous |
the State Accident Insurance war. Throughout her rise to in the public service who have far
sive action. Production figures under the or a return to the con Rt. Rev. Dr. R. Wilson
and is one of with regard to workers' powers, knowledge of road trans
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tary purposes, Office' dustrial leadership Britain's eco greater It seems to ask the
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have of-
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compensation, received a has been based private enterprise, than of these public
the safeguards of a healthy nomy on cheap introduced in. 1942 are quoted by fact seems that effi Presbyterian Church, will ad port some
so-called Liberals now meeting
handsome Christmas present, in and abundant coal Inescapable servants, and their help, know-
democracy. Sometimes, to in- HOSPITAL STAFF the shape of rebates this year.
supplies. advocates
as the best
of private
reason for.
enterprise
pessimism
ciency must be the industry's dress the
Service
Friday
in
rmdday Inter
the ledge and experience would be nt Albury .what has become of

dict .and to expose may be No less than £176.130 has been Scarce and Dear// guiding principle. The alterna cessory Baptist of great assistance to any such those Tories who up to now never

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concerning coal mining under tive is compel, British manu Churcn, Collins-street, to-day.
distributed in bonuses,
SHORTAGE
to...
represent conference. had good word to say of the
to cause objection a
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sufficient 49 Britain's coal to-day Is both nationalisation. They are Indeed facture to labor under the
ing, in most cases, per cent, .As far as Victoria is concerned
and Between 1938- and old Liberal party, declaring that
able practices inept the annual premium. That scarce and comparatively dear. significant. crippling handicap of the high I am are many of,

to cease. Sociali
of
means that for every second year Coal is a basic fact and a basic 1941 the output, of salable coal high cost of Its basic need. And THE SICK COME these
sure,
men
there
who/would be only too it pandered to the common mob.
gaucheries cost of British industry. The. pre per man shift at the coal face modernisation is to be a Mr. Alfred Deakin, Sir George

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en each policyholder gets a free going to give "their- advice and
sation against the free
Conference to be sent of coal mining in varied between 2.97 and 2.94 business between FIRST willing Turner. Mr. Justice Higgins were
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policy. knowledge.- Going through the
which Mr. dicates there' little prospect tons. In 1942, with Government £200,000,000 and £300,000,000 truly great Liberals
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Y-et they
terprise system, ing a charwoman, had the plea is
to
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of -names that Mr. Ward has pub
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that when the European war ends control, the output fell 2.87 the latest estimate. were as bitterly assailed by the
also may be a sure of .receiving baok the whole lished, I astounded to find
Menzies
testing issue
raises,
for-: the future,
Held To-day of his premium. In this case, of there
abroad,
will be any
although it
surplus
will then
to sell
-be
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No Civic Square that the name

was
of Mr. A, J. Fraser,
Tories
leaders
of
of
their
the. Labor
day as

party
are
by the
the

course, the bonus was small, only Director of Emergency Road

but there are others. The Minister for Health (Mr. so valuable an article of exchange, The Premier is' unimpressed by Tories of to-day. The work of
many -/ 3/9, but there were many other was not included. This
essential imports, But even a fresh for demolition' Transport, the old-time Liberals made it
last two decades Macfarlan) has called a confer who also re lor agitation one
Over the larger policyholders is gentleman who by long
more alarming as it concerns the of the old Royal Melbourne Hos possible for. the working people
ence. of societies and ceived the full amount of the experience has gained such prac
.anti-Labor
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the 'ecord/ of the ;
hospital future of basic British industries pital, now. known as Central Hos- to advance Is the
two- of politically.!
10 premium knowledge
authorities as representing a tical and' expert
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in Melbourne at
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parties has been bonus. When asked yesterday pital, that class of transport that his "
party going
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largely a.rriitlo-day' to: discuss means of year to Britain's post-war- bid- to regain square. Mr. Dunstan said yeste. to continue this good work? It
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sistance arid' negation towards how it was possible make such advice would, I/am sure; be of
overcoming the acute world markets.- day that /would be tima>.a(&Oilgn difficult to convince the
present official' -it wj.ll be;
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a" big rebate, an of the .-.j valuable assistance in any, deli be.--

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State Insurance Office referred rations— (Or.) E. L. JONES
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social and and untrained nurses and domes high because the output in rela down that valuable hospital in consistently opposed the
pecially of the to the very low expense rate of Council). political
tics work in hospitals. and labor force it (Melbourne, City
for "It tion .to wages is ten or fifteen years, when and social advancement of the
kinds. If the Liberal 10.2 per cent. is often argued
economic Reviewing the serious too low is uncontested. There is would be possible to quickly re
Landlords as a whole has had a real

party hopes to convince the yesterday, The Minister

position
said the
that we do not pay taxation;"
less >unanimity -of view on the
place it by a building elsewhere. Maligned people
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Government was very perturbed means for correcting the posi At present, however, there was The letteri-signed "All-British," (Moonee Ponds)
unattached mass that more such advantage is offset by

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at the inability of some civilian tion. The owners blame' the not the remotest possibility of published in ''The Age" of 13th
the fact that we have to accept
than a change of name is
hospitals to obtain sufficient bad risks that companies miners, and the miners with- equal doing that. Inst., is calculated to bring into Australia's New Strain
private la or
of in- vigor attribute further the landlords
afoot, past associations staff. can refuse. However, by spread responsibility The Premier said the need at ill-repute
As The appeal of the Acting Prime
Organisations which will meet the owners. And inevitably the the moment was not for civic apartment houses. one of
components in the ing the risk over safer industries, Minister, Mr. Forde, to civilians
fluential to-day are the Metropolitan Hos question of nationalisation Is them, I take leave 'to: wonder
but for sufficient
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it has been possible for us to squares, hospi to show'-' a spirit of the
fresh alignment must some
pitals, Country Hospitals and given prominence. tal accommodation for the people. whether all the- facts have been worthy
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make a good surplus to be re
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new strain soon to be imposed on
how be off and Private Hospitals Associations, Perhaps the most, persuasive Until normal times returned the revealed, and why an old-age
sloughed a turned to our policyholders."
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of our fighting forces, is not likely
Hospital Staff Recruiting Bureau, argument, for nationalisation Government would continue Its pensioner should desire to pay 24/.
new infused into the to be In vain, But it would be
spirit the failure of pri
Mount Royal, and Melbourne Students' Politics the industry is present policy of making the best weekly, for -a single room ;? So
more, successful If the public hart
Asylums, Fairfield various many letters us (is de
amalgamation. Benevolent vate-enterprise, for. :
possible use .of hospital space represent reasonable assurance that the Go
new step is marked to promote a determined liberate of the scarcity
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of Hospital, Mental Hygiene and A in causes, available.' Parliament had ap exploiters
A mere placard vaguely policy of modernisation of coal- of accommodation' that I take vernment had taken Its referen
T.B, divisions of the Health de student democracy wltn the for proved of that policy by voting

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generalised aims 'is not methods. It leave to quote which have dum defeat in the manner of men
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partment "and the Charities mation of a Students' Council winning is pro the money necessary for the pur prices and intended to
out that without remained and sportsmen,
declarations unchanged "for- many
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enough. / The / Board. at the Melbourne Technical Col perly pointed chase of the old Royal Melbourne: honor, both in the spirit and In
A submitted to the Min Five ago the National coal there could not have been so that it could be con months, although occupied by
first meet plan, lege. years Hospital,

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coming from the the letter, the Prime Minister's
industrial revolution/Yet coal different tenants. Furnished "

by Major A. R. Union of Australian an verted for the

but
ister-
Appleford,con University immediately spe promise that no Socialistic
ing were unexceptionable, A.W.A.S., will be seriously Students was formed, creating a mining was by-passed in that re cialised treatment in distinct sec single, ill/6; furnished double, legis
lation would be introduced In
wore the of a sidered at the conference. It first link. Their volution, and since has lagged be tions of cancer, tuberculosis and 17/6; ;-flat,,-2 rooihsi and kitchen
appearance significant war-time.,. -

covers all semi-trained and un- achievements have been mani hind technical, advances in most V.D., as well as for a ette, '25/. The locality is one of
rather than defi providing
manifesto a
other industries. the best; near trams', and shops, Decent -men in .every
'
section

.
trained nurses
!
and domestic staff, fold, from a "Student News," number of general and accident
nite and set of specific and everything is thoroughly clean of the community; are disgusted
-policy and aims at making: the .condi circulated throughout Australia, cases.

objectives. It remains to be tions of employment

j

more attrac to the newly established subsidy Obsolete Methods Mr. Dunstan added that while and respectable. /The occupants rit the political cynicism, chi-
who and 'bad which '

tive arid providing of em scheme which has opened the he believed in ample open .spaces are tradesmen, earn up to canery faith,'
;
.
the security The pace of modernisation and
seen whether conglomera It also doors of the universities much In the city, there was a time and £10 weekly. Is this exploitation ? appear to" be getting worse rather
ployment. is suggested so
mechanisation noticeably speeded It is only fair to that better, and are re
tion of political groups shar that the service be given a special wider. With the existence of an place for everything. -The present add there .than greatly
up in Britain in the years just Lieut,- General Walter (-. Kreuger, commanding American (ilh are tenants whom one 'would sponsible; for. the widespread rest
that uniforms be pro representative was certainly not the time for
ing dislike of the ways of name, official grout before the -war, but the industry Army on Le.vte (left), talking with General Sir Thomas Blarney expensive and ambitious civic pro- lose, even if they paid lessness and disunity so prejudi
vided and that the term "do within the technical school the still is burdened by conditions gladly, ,

be induced to agree (luring General Blarney s visit to the Phliinnines- three times these amounts. cial which
Lapor can jects at the expense1 of those who to/- winning —
a war Is

.
mestic" be eliminated. general feeling that co-operation and methods surviving from the (Australian Official
—
which photograph.) needed the best treat LANDLORD (St. Hilda). far. from won yet. Let the Go
on a policy recognises between the college and Univer- nineteenth century— on the eve urgently ; ,

well
Kif.V nporifnl efart to ment and hospital accommodation vernment, by its actions as
that live in Nominations for the Egg and Egg WAS n. of an era when it is destined
we a changed Board- close with the the State could it
as words,- unite the nation, and
Pulp Marketing in discussions the feel keenly the provide. Also,
exploring pos even more com
Munition Works Closed
world, arid that, even though Chief Electoral Oltlcer Mr. J. -Ii.
WAR & WINTER SUBDIVISIONS was difficult to reconcile the views -when. the' war Is won let the
.
;
sibilities of l
affiliation, whereby petition of more efficient pro
the energies ancl initiatives of at noon on January 3. now united nation address Itself to so
Eabry) of some of those the
all students would- be united in ducers' abroad. As emphasised in desiring at Christmas
OF HOUSES
-
cial reforms long overdue, and
common
Union
cause in a National the "Times," ii is mis state of IN BERLIN demolition
bourne
of the
Hospital
old Royal
with sentiments
Mel
CANBERRA, Thursday. Mu social .experiments which may be
—
of Australian Students. If low productivity that has made well worth a trial. (Rev. Dr.)

—
at they had expressed previously on nitions establishments will close
the February conference the it impracticable for the coal in »
other down for about nine days at C. N. BUTTON (Ballarat).
city projects. Even the
Melbourne &
Metropolitan of Board plan
Improbable
is carried
Works that
through,
it will
it is
in
quite
its
dustry
demands
to meet
for
the
greater
miners'
economic
just
Support for' Mayors immediate post-war period
in.
it Christmas. The only work to be
would be just carried out be repairs nnd
first
the hat,"
years

but
"draw
students
rabbits
may
from
opti
security,
welfare,
and
safety
higher
and
standards
leisure.
of
"Wrecked, Cold & The Controller of Accommoda iresent to
as necessary
conserve
as
valuable
at
maintenance
will
for which not a Sydney-Auckland
CONVERSION OF LOAN "V" mistically, look forward to n "new "Coal mining," says the tion. (Mr. E. Bartrop) yesterday luildings for medical purposes. large amount of coal is needed.
Under 6 Hours
Holders of debentures or .Inscribed
reminded
stock
that
in
they
Loan "V,"
dcBlre
maturing
convert
on deal." "Times,"
stance of
"is an outstanding in Hungry City" supported the attitude of the Some
however, that
-people seemed
as soon
to imagine,
as the war
The
Mnkin)
Minister,
said
for
to-day
Munitions
that the
(Mr.
Go SYDNEY, Thursday.— A Llba-
the 1st January, 1945,
are If to industry handicapped
.
conference on housing of Mel-
their holdings Into debentures or stock of Loan No. 140, at par, bearing State Finances Healthy and impoverished by technical "The Age" Special Correspon ended the Government would vernment was maintaining pro rator of the R.A.F. 'Transport
interest at the rate of three pounds seven shillings and sixpence per dent in London. bourne mayors and town clerks have to commence a huge duction of essential ammunition Command broke the Tasman
backwardness . and. . by the scrap i

applications must be lodged with the Secretary of uniform taxation arid

cent, per annum, Despite resulting and cumulative embit- A wrecked, cold, hungry city,;
on Wednesday, when steps were ping and wreaking scheme. The and reserves were adequate at crossing record last night from
the Board THIS DAY. the decrease of war expenditure demand would not
terment of relations between in which food, fuel and tobacco taken to urge the Premier (Mr. be for demoli the moment. The Government Sydney to Auckland. The ma
Full particulars of the loan are contained In the prospectus, copies in Victoria, particularly on State tion, but for construction, to make had been with ammuni took 5 hours 52 minutes
of which mny be obtained at the bonrd's office, 110 Spencer-street, Mel- were bartered, Is the description Dunstari) to prevail on assisting chine
transport services/ State finances the Com good the
bourne, C.l. of Berlin given to the Stockholm great leeway that -had tion supplies from the reserves for the flight, lowering the pre
continue to remain healthy. This monwealth to rectify anomalies occurred In building
15tli December, 1944.
J.
CHAS.
C. JESSOP.
J. W,
Chairman.
BRIGGS, Secretary. was shown by the monthly state AUSTRALIANS IN correspondent of the "Daily Tele-
left
in the Landlord and Tenant -Act ing the war. That
projects dur
not
to Britain,
to see
and
reserves
It would
were
be its
mnin-
vious
utes.
record
established
of 5 hours
In
56 min
October,
graph" by a German who and increase facilities for applied job
.
to
ment issued by the Treasury BURMA only to hospitals, but
1
yes there five to homes tnlned. 1941.
days ago. .

terday. The shortage at .Novem home building. lor the people.

"The most jeered at building the
ber 30 was £2,414,429, repreient- He agreed that transfer of
in Berlin is Goering's Air Mints-,
ing of £91,352 tenancies without the knowledge
an improvement
.compared with' the position Air Force
try," the German said. "It Is
and consent of an owner or the BIG DOCK READY
November 30, 1943. The improve
on
Members so badly battered that "Luftwaffe
agent was most undesirable. A
executives can work only in the
in the general The Age Special of the subdivision of
'

ment account was Correspon basements and tunnelled feature

fn India. deeply by the
£198,622, and in- the State Coal dent To homes schcriie, sponsored
Mine account £19,555. However, unc continues to meet Aus
cellars.
the Luftwaffe
Berliners
of
that
to-day—
typifies
driven War Housing Division of the To Service British
this was offset by re tralians scattered throughout Federal Department of Labor
£126,825, to
presenting a decline in railways the. Burma theatre of war, the
underground
citizens
and powerless
from Allied
!

nnd the Department of War Or Fleet

finance. protect of Industry, which
of the ganisation CANBERRA, Thursday.
'
majority being members bombs."- The
—
i
. ,
..
Air i lounti nve had.. been extended, -to Mel Minister for the Navy
'
force, young The added that (Mr. Ma-
Wanted : a Theatre Australian attached to a
correspondent bourne, was the ready co-opera kin) said to-dcy it had
pilots the German had told him of the been a

squadron not far from tion of municipal councils and marvellous achievement to have
Representatives of Melbourne's Spitfire fantastic efforts by the Berlin
.
.
Kabaw This is one /of their officers. In all cases the carried out the construction
intensely active amateur theatre Valley. authorities to camouflage vital oi
the oldest department abided by the local the Sydney dock
movement met at the Assembly Spitfire squadroris, targets. The KUngenberg power graving during
having taken part in the Battle by-laws, The division, in ap war time and to have had it
Hall last station on the Spree,, in eastern
.
night to arrange, under
of Britain, the African invasion proved cases, offered initial archi ready in time for units
the of the Council Berlin, was camouflaged to look servicing
.
sponsorship tectural advice, and facllitatel
for the and the campaigns in Sicily, water, and the of the British' Fleet.
Encouragement of Music like Spree was
of building
and Italy and Burma, but some of disguised' to like a power the securing permits, Its construction was an indi
the Arts, a drama festival \
appear
the Australians are station. hotel and, if necessary, loans could be cation of the
for next compara The only Berlin farsightedness
.
April. Beginning on the new to it. Five were 'ail which advertised that still arranged for the work. Under manifested for un
7th of that month and running tively it was originally,
warrant N. A. to receive the this scheme selection of indi there always had been

[?]
for one officers, viz., open guests was doubtedly
.
week a music festival
Bondi, Sydney; P. W. railway vidual tenants was entirely a the. that, dav
will be held in the Town Hall, Black/of Excelsior, near Anhaiter thought some it
Clark, of King's Cross, Sydney: station. The German matter for the owner or the would be necessary for a substan
with noted orchestras and choirs explained.
performing. But the drama, as
R. E. C. .Hurman of Coorparoo, "Fuel Is bartered for" tobacco and agent. > tial British force to take its part
Brisbane; R. Partridge, of food, which in turn are bartered in the Pacific war.
one representative it. seems
put Workshops being constructed
-
to be "a lost Brisbane, and M. J. Bell, of for clothing. It is. a continual to
child." There Is
Maidstone, Melbourne. struggle to keep warm. Even Vacancies on London assist in servicing the British
plenty of talent, are
.
scripts wood
commanding debris because Fleet units would be completed
available, technicians and de The officer of the
everything uusable-'
is scarce,
Staff towards the end
are squadron is a South African, is taken -away of February and
signers all active and the
interest and the pilots also New by clearance squads. CANBERRA, Thursday.— The March,
public is kindling into ipclude
Zealanders '.'All schools in- the. greater Commonwealth Government, is
a fire. there— and Canadians. At ;

Everything is
recently Berlin area are' closed. Medical Increasing the staff at the
Some lioy everything a theatre. The one
stage the Allied MINISTER CORRECTS
,
except
«Ia.y your short, burns at Australia
|

had supplies are oil for migration office

C.E.M.A., which takes its name troops to wait the compter in
tion of river. is scarce, and there are few House, London, preparation
from the English organisation of a bridge across a
bandages and drugs, scheme. RUMORS
WILL NEfill MONEY The work was performed by >nn especially for its migration
-
the same j

name, hopes to produce

a different Indian bridge building morphine. Barges converted into The .Commonwealth "Gazette"
play each night for a company,
week, with comprising Sikhs. Muslims and Heating hospitals, with rough and to-day notifies vacancies for the
the contribut
day your boy will need money with which to teire his opportunities groups Hindus. Their commander was ready stretchers, are spaced along appointment of two clerks there, Purchase of Cars
SOME
and to solve his
problems. Trobahly he will need it most on the
ing
how
Individually. But no matter
Major C. W. Williams, of Timaru, the Spree. When flllod after a
for a
period ranging from three CANBERRA, Thursday.
—
eager they are they cannot raid in long lines The
they are towed
!
threshold of manhood. At that critical time 4 little money hit own do this without New Zealand, who was a mem to five yenrs, on a
salary of up Minister for the Interior (Senator
of a theatre. to clearing on the out positions I

that Neither would to ber of the Ail Black Rugby Union hospitals to £598 a year. The Colllngs) said to-day the Com-
will give him that handgrip on Opportunity a youngster needs. it be practical skirts.
t

use a hall, or tenm in Australia in 1938. carry a living allowance. monwealth Government had
be old circus site, the "In enstern Berlin damage pur-
Through the A.M. P. you can arrange wow that the money will the cnasea, ac an
representative stated Inst average cost of
1
iTtilable then. the that for this night, is not so bad. Factories are made
Moreover, money you store purpose now
adding £800 each, 25 new cars, which
that not
will War Loans, will serve a double purpose while worth
bitterly if it was to function somehow. It is in Treatment of Cancer were the last turned out bv the
go straight into so it
producing properly it was the big tenement blocks, holding
your boy grows up. not worth producing at all. To hundreds of poor families, that The cancer treatment referred Chrysler Company of America. |

the cabled report of the Describing as "utterly fantas-

an objectjrVe observer recalling ®Uir e the toughest Berliners live, They to in
I
tic," the reported statement
recent talk of culture in the com iVigK?, seem to survive the heaviest British Empire Cancer Cam that;

A.M.P. SOCIETY munity

that
In a
this
it does
position
seem
should
ludicrous
exist. WILL
raid.
"Berlin this winter will be
paign's
been
In Australia.
meeting
practised
in London
tairiy
was
extensively
has each
Colllngs
mistake
car had

had
said
cost

been
quite
£1600.

made
obviously
Senator

between
a I

city where an American ghastly. Many of the older .This pointed

i
Security through Co-operation, comedy out by a Melbourne the pound sign and dollar sign.
can hold the boards for NOT BE PUBLISHED will are too yesterday
,
people starve— they- He added that
VICTORIAN BOARD. over a year, who emphasised that, the vehicles were
where culture can old to battle for rations -in the specialist,
Hon. Sir Arthur Rohlnson. H.C.M.G., Chairman. was nothing new in essential to replace a fleet which
almost "boil over," chacs after raids. while there
G. H. Grlmwade, Esq.. Deputy Chairman; Hon. Sir Frank surely a
ON heavy treatment, long since had passed the safety
Clarke. E. T.H. Richardson. Air Vice-Marshal theatre enn be found. "Berliners are suffering so the it '-eld high pro
K.B.E.,M.L.C.; Esq.; future In mark for the speoial work which
Victor Hurley (on war-service leave); Manager, H. B, McLarty. much that they are stunned and mise for envelopments
they were to do.
te attack on the disease. How required One
MONDAY,
-
The
425 MELBOURNE.
DEC. 25
.
Collins-street (corner Market-street), Department of the Army dumb in thoir misery, but those
it should be understood that Minister in particular had had
Other Branch Offices at Brisbane, Adelaide. Perth, Hnbnrt and Can- has asked for the orchestration of who remember the last war claim ever,
to make
..
A.C.T. the Australian version (CHRISTMAS (hat better the treatment was not curative, frequently long ear trips
t berra. of Ull DAY) they are still eating
'
value being in the alleviation with the cabin filled with
HEAD OFFICE: 87 Pitt-atreet. SYDNEY. DISTRICT OFFICES Marlene, as published than then, not so hungry its engine
all States.
by the V.B. and are
or arrest of the '>ancer<
L throughout Harmony Hits. as they were in 1917-18."
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