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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Apr 27, 1939
Page
4
A fragmented OCR item mentions Teli, Tom, Harry, Doreen Rowley, and April at Allawah Private Hospital. It references Meend Mm B, TL Mapes, and Morice in an apparent attendance or ceremony context amid partial names and locations.
Loving memory of Tommy, who passed away on April 27, 1986, as mourners recall a brother and son. He is remembered by his loving parents and brother, with heartfelt tributes from family.
The discussion explores establishing regular parliamentary sessions with flexible agendas. Proposals include spring and midweek sittings to allow private members time while balancing government business and public duties.
Fragmentary text reports on a governor chairing a Federal Incentive Council meeting. Mentions Canberra perhaps, and references to military college and a poem appointment related to Warewekes. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
Menzies outlines a Pacific oriented national policy stressing justice as a core aim. He calls for direct ties with Pacific neighbours, stronger links with the United States, Japan, China, and the Netherlands Indies, and a shift from European Atlantic framing to a broader regional engagement.
Canberra College held degree presentations at Alban Hall with Sir Robert Garvan presiding. Recipients included Mary McIntyre Patrick Mia and others as the Rhodes Memorial Prize and Minkater Prize were announced by Sir Robert Garvan and college officials.
The article details a Cabinet push to create a Department of Supply and Development under Mr Mensies, with a permanent secretary from the public service and co option of external bodies. It covers aims for war time stockpiling, a revamped Munitions Supply Guard, and the role of universities in training leaders while stressing Democratic accountability and Parliament.
The advisory council debated housing rents and wage fixation in the Territory. It considered A, C, and cheaper rental series, temporary cottages, and the impact on the basic wage. Measures to regulate milk pricing and possible tribunals or boards were discussed, with emphasis on imports and hawkers regulation and transport policy.
Legislation to compel alien migrant registration in Australia and to compile a national masspower register is to be introduced in the season. The bill would cover all males aged between 18 and 40, following lines suggested by the previous ministry. The report notes political debate and March 1930s context.
Fi defence outlines a brief statement by Sir John House on how to locate loans. The note emphasizes swift action and accuracy in tracing financial sources amid ongoing inquiries.
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