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ARTS SOCIETY
INAUGURAL MEETING CONSTITUTION ADOPTED
The Society of Arts and Literature was inaugurated at a largely attended meeting at Hotel Canberra on Tuesday night. ...
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AUSTRALIAN RULES
Visiting Queenslanders HERE ON AUGUST 6
The progress of Australian football in the Territory will receive added impetus from the visit of a Queensland team to Canberra on August 6. ...
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RAILWAY WORKERS
Annual Meeting WEEK'S POSTPONEMENT
The annual meeting of the A.W.U. Railway Workers' Industry Branch of New South Wales, which was to have been held in Canberra next Monday, has ...
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COMMISSION GOVERNMENT
SOCIAL SERVICE SPHERE DEFINED SIR JOHN BUTTERS EXPLAINS An insight into its problems and the methods adopted by the Federal Capital Commission to solve them in the development and government of Canberra was given by Sir John Butters, Chief Commissioner, at the Social Service meeting on Wednesday evening. The menace to Social Service of anything but a strict adherance to the highest ideals was emphasised in what is probably the best exposition of the practical side of commission government yet heard in Australia.
Speaking to the proposed amendment to widen the objects of the Canberra Social Service Association, Sir John Butters said that it appeared to him ...
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In order to help defray the expensesof the cars used in connection with the work of the Catholic Church, a euchre party, to be followed by a ...
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KNOWN ALL OVER AUSTRALIA.—The Tingira (formerly the Sobraon), on whose d[?]cks thousands of Australians have been trained, for the se,is being broken up. Future cadets will be trained at G[?]ng. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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A social evening will be held on Thursday next, July 14, at the Acton Hall, and the society, has extended an invitation to Sir John Butters ...
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ON TOUR
FEDERAL MINISTERS DEPART MELBOURNE, Thursday.
Taking advantage of recesses in the Federal political sphere and the absence of Cabinet meetings while, the Prime Minister is on tour in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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SERVING A CITY
Canberra's Electric Supply BIG DEMANDS ON EASTLAKE STATION Canberra's electric supply, as one of the cardinal forces in the development and life of the city, has been prepared for the big demands which the growth of the city entails. The Eastlake power station is well ahead of Canberra's needs and through an inspection this week by a representative of "The Canberra Times," the public is afforded a glimpse of the working of this public service
Completed in 1915 at a total cost of £88,196, the power-station was the first large building erected in Canberra. The capital cost has since been written ...
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PACIFIC FLIGHT
AUSTRALIANS' AMBITION MELBOURNE, Thursday.
"It is the ultimate ambition of Capt. Kingsford Smith and myself to be the first to fly across the Pacific." Keith Anderson, the pilot in the ...
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The challenge match between Eastlake (holders) and Northbourne for the Gorman Cup will be played at Eastlake to-morrow. ...
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