Queen of the Fair drive for Go vernment House Garden event
The Queen of the Fair Miss Joan Bale gathers support from three football codes for her crown at Government House Garden Fair on April 20. Local sports bodies back the effort with a Royal Canberra Golf Club tournament Tennis Club event and Kernel Club aid along with a garden stall sale of fruit flowers seedlings and vegetables for the Garden Stall fund.
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Queen of Part
Joan Bale
Lady Gowrie
Government House Garden
Royal Canberra Golf Club
Kernel Club
Canberra Times Ad Insertion Rules and Contact
The Canberra Times outlines advertisement rules including no responsibility for omissions, right to alter or omit ads, and the need for ads to reach by 3 p m the day before publication. Copy must be in ink and properly endorsed by responsible parties. Printed by The Federal Capital Press of Australia Ltd in Canberra.
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Penn
2.Er Times
The
Canberra Times
Federal Capital Press OF Australia Ltd
Canberra
The Canberra Times Local Advertisements and Notices
The Canberra Times lists subscription rates and agent details for Canberra in a dated promotional snippet. It includes agency names such as Capitol Newsagency and Jackson's Newsagency, along with address notes and printing references.
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Medisde
Capitol
Times
Jackson
Cibart
Devisate Johnson
Weather fragment report with unreliable OCR data
A fragmentary weather note reports high temperatures around 76 degrees and a lower reading near 50 degrees with a 24 hour period ending around the morning. Readable items are sparse and garbled.
Harold Williams to Open 1940 Celebrity Concert Series
Harold Williams presents a diverse program at the Albert Hall featuring Vaughan Williams songs and Hungarian melodies. The concert showcases Rachmaninoff and contemporary pieces with Jess McClean on violin and John Hanrell at the piano, marking the first 1940 Australian Broadcasting Commission concert in association with the Canberra Musical Society.
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Albert Hall
Ber- Stone
Herold Williama
Boris
TR. Vaughan Williams
Hade
Marishka
Rachmaninoff
Harold Ilimms
Storace
Christ
Hilla
Hageman
Morgan
Frank Bridge
Jeas Mmcclean
Birch
Brahms
Kreller
Newcastle
John Hannell
Australian” Broadcasting Commission
Canberra
Australia
Minister Benator H. 8. Foll Opens ACT Conference
Minister for the Interior Benator H.8. Foll arrived in Canberra from Melbourne yesterday morning to open the fourteenth annual conference of the ACT Branch of the RSLLA at the Albert Hall. He will travel to Sydney this afternoon.
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Benator H
Foll
Interior
Canberra
Melbourne
ACT
LLA
Albert Hall
Sydney
Bradford's Blow to Australia Over Wool Scheme
A British controlled wartime wool sale policy undermines Australian growers. The piece accuses Bradford interests of seizing profits, restricting raw wool exports, and pushing manufactured wools to enemies of Britain. It argues Australia must regain control, protect pre war prices, and revise the scheme to safeguard Australian interests.
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Bradford
Australia
United Kingdom
Woollen Milla
Uni
Australia readies 48000 strong militia force for overseas and home service
Prime Minister Menzies announced in Melbourne a plan to recruit and train 48000 men into an army corps including the 6th and 7th Divisions with further reinforcements to 90000 by June next year. The program envisions air co operation, railway and fortification units, and two years of costs near 180 million pounds, with extensive home training for militia personnel.
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Melbourne
Australia
Menzies
R.aa.f
A.lf
Local Defence Effort Amid Global War Pressures
The article outlines Australia’s defence buildup with 12 000 local forces against 4 000 prewar, expanding to an Empire Air Scheme total of 11 000, plus training 75 000 militia. It argues for broader protection beyond national borders, noting reliance on Royal Navy protection and industrial support.
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Empire Air
ALF
Australia
Europe
Royal Navy
Athagtors
Injury to Teacher at Queanbeyan Intermediate High
While hanging pictures in a classroom, Mias Sayers head mistress of Queanbeyan Intermediate High School fell from a chair spraining her ankle. Other items report militia call up results in Wagga, Goulburn Show activities, a sudden death near Goulburn, a severed wrist, a scalded leg, and a court case involving McAlpine over a February incident.
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Mias Sayers
Queanbeyan Intermediate High School
Collin Milton MrAlpine
Temore
Coolamundin
Obituary of Robert William Farrow RAAF officer
The Air Ministry in Melbourne informs Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Farrow of Kingsford that their son Pile Officer Robert William Farrow was killed in an aircraft accident in France on Sunday March 3. Farrow attended Canberra Grammar School where he was captain in 1932 and later pursued business in Sydney before joining the Royal Australian Air Force for a short service commission with the Royal Air Force in August.
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Air Ministry
Melbourne
A. E. Farrow
Kingsford
Robert William Farrow
France
Farrow
Canberra Grammar School
Sydney
Royal Australian Air Force
Fort Australia
Royal Air Force
War loan early closing expected due to strong public response
Acting Treasurer Mr Spender said the 18 million War and Public Works Loan may close before the 15 day subscription period ended. In five days 6,700 subscriptions were received. Large gifts included Perpetual Trustees Co 100,000 and Electrolytic Zinc Co 25,000 among others.
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Mr. Spender
Joan
Perpetual Trustes Co. Ltd
Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia
Broken Hill South Ltd
Chamber of Manufactures Insurance Ltd
Carricka Ltd
Herbert Adams
Cooper and Sons Ltd
Michaelis Hallenstein and Co. Pty. Ltd
Aliens anxious to be naturalised in Australia
Figures released by the Minister for the Interior show 503 forged naturalisation applications in January, compared with 153 in January 1999. The department granted 255, refused 61, and deferred 63. Italians led the applicant list. declarations were made by 24 British-born women married to foreigners who wished to retain Australian citizenship.
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Australia
Interior
Folly Saterday
Department
Call It A Day brings national flavour to Canberra stage
The Repertory Society presents the three act comedy Call It A Day with a lean Canberra cast in rehearsal week. Melbourne leads the line with Maida Parkes and several stars. Sydney contributes Dell Myine Colin Mayes Eric Colman Joan. Newcastle Brisbane Hobart and Adelaide represent. The Albert Hall shows are scheduled for Thursday and Friday next week.
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Canberra
Repertory Society
Melbourne
Maida Parkes
Ann Swindella
Betty Allen
Toni Tompson
Una Fawcett
Joyce Waterman
Marjorie Mehaffey
Sydney
Dell Myine
Colin Mayes
Eric Colman
Joan
Colin Dean
Newcastle
Blargaret Challanis
Brisbane
Pauline Dixon
Egbert
Anne MacKenzie Oration at Australian Institute of Anatomy
The twelfth Anne MacKenzie Oration will be delivered in the lecture theatre at 8.15 p.m. by Dr. Harold Ritchie of Sydney Hospital. He will discuss The Interaction of Mind and Body, focusing on how emotion affects bodily function and the nervous system. The lecture is one of five endowed by Sir Colin MacKenzie in memory of his mother.
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Anne MacKenzie Oraton
Australian Institute of Anatomy
Harold Ritchie
Ritchie
Sydney Hospital
National Health and Medical Research Council
Anne MacKengzile
Institute of Anatomy
Colin MacKensie
Anne Mac
Aeral
Arms for Brazil Purchase of surplus guns announced
Washington reports that Brazil will buy six inch guns from the U S Army surplus to bolster its defenses. The War Department notes similar sales may extend to Sweden in the near future.
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Washington
H. H. Woxdin
Brazil
Britain
United States
War Department
Sweden
Roosevelt urges faster Panama Canal third lock construction
In a press interview President Roosevelt said expanding territory to defend the canal would be silly but called on Congress to accelerate building a third set of locks for the Panama Canal project.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Congress
Corio By-Election Final Counts Show Dedman Victory
Final figures released show Dedman of the Labor party leading with 26,122 votes. O'Day and Vinton-Smith trailed with 1,486 and 29,878 respectively, giving Dedman an absolute majority.
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Vinton-Smith
USA
Dedman
Canberra RAAF food supply hit by cold storage refusal
Canberra RAAF food supplies were threatened after the Lord Mayor's Fund in Sydney refused to provide refrigeration to the Canberra station, following a similar standoff by the RAAF Supply Department. Allegations of food spoilage in hot weather and two recent dysentery outbreaks were reported from Sydney.
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Lord Mayor's Fund
Sydney
R.A.A.F
Canberra
R.A.A.F. Supply Department
Tite
Public Administration and the Rise of the State
Professor Bland from Sydney University discusses the shift from private governance to a positive state in the 20th century. He argues public administration involves institutions and methods, not just constitutional rules, and notes increased interest since World War I across universities and the British Empire.
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F. 4. Eigy
Sydney University
Universitysociation of
Canberra
Bland
Tercat
London School of Omies
Uni
Berra
Group Cay
Gress
German Army Prepares on Western Front and Swiss Border
Fresh reports indicate German military activity on the Western Front and Swiss border as observers warn of a possible offensive. Germany focuses on breaking through fortifications, reconstituting sections of the Maginot Line for experiments, and exploiting explosives for far fortified positions while aiming to deter Allied action and protect its economy.
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Comminand 18
Germany
Siegfried Line
Balkan States
Gri Five Pint A nd
An OCR fragment presents unclear wording about a points tally or score. The readable portion hints at a numeric or rating context but provides no verifiable names, organizations, dates, or locations to anchor a factual news item.
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