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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
2
A deputation told Mr Mogre-Braxon that over half the Welsh anthracite collieries are idle due to railway transport shortages. The entire industry risks shutdown and 24 000 miners could lose jobs if a solution is not found soon.
A detachment of French troops landed near the Thai frontier and made brief progress before being repulsed. A second landing party was repulsed with Micagvy casualties on the north eastern front near Nagorbanom. Thailand aviators conducted retaliatory raids destroying French military headquarters.
The Parliament Telort Committee on Hospitals criticized admission delays and proposed a central hospital admission depot reporting to all hospitals. The report, tabled in the Legislative Assembly, notes doctors often grant honorary preferences and urges limits on dual hospital roles and bed allocations to maintain a one to three ratio between senior and junior honorary beds.
The Minister for Air Mr McFinen calls for 500 wireless operator trainees. Applicants flood recruiting centres across regions promising rapid enlistment. RAAF recruiters report strong demand and expect quick processing as the appeal aims to fill the intake soon.
Air Ministry report says RAF crews in Arctic operations will be equipped with sheep skin clothing from Australian stations to withstand severe cold. The New South Wales Country Women's Association has sent 1H sheep skin materials to aid the effort.
A gas explosion at Yockful Bros fruit merchants in City Markets wrecked the banana ripening chamber and damaged the first floor. Three employees escaped injury. one man, Reginald Pettifeld, suffered cuts from flying glass. A Chinese youth was killed in a similar blast eight months earlier at the same premises.
The Court of Marine Inquiry heard Captain Lloyd recount a collision between his interstate passenger ship and the mine sweeper HMA S Coorange. Twenty four lives were lost as the other vessel sank immediately after impact near Victoria Dock.
Information from Canberra University College indicates in the Constitutional History examination a pass was recorded as No 4362. The note arrived last night with the exam record summary.
Twenty Italians partly wrecked a British post and a British business headquarters in Tangier on a Tuesday. There were no arrests reported.
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