Mr. Love reports that Messrs. Dunlop and Hunt. Pty., Ltd., have just completed eight building contracts in Geelong, including a brick shop and ...
Article : 145 wordsLittle could be ascertained at the Victoria Barracks yesterday about Staff Sergeant Gressham, who was reported to have been served with a warrant to ...
Article : 331 wordsLondon, Thursday.—An Amsterdam, message, says that 1,000,000 men and women munition workers in Germany threaten to begin a food strike on May ...
Article : 271 wordsLondon, Thursday.—A German official message says:—"Attacking waves thrice stormed our positions southward of the Scarpe, and thrice were compelled ...
Article : 256 wordsIn the House of Lords, Lord Beresford, referring to submarining, said the losses were terrifying. The public should be told more of the gravity of ...
Article : 338 wordsMajor J. L. Baird, D.S.O., Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Board, told the House of Commons on Thursday that, taking the imaginary figure ...
Article : 378 wordsIt has been decided by the Geelong West Tennis Club to conduct a mixed doubles tennis tournament on behalf of the Kitchener Memorial Hospital. ...
Article : 98 wordsIt was announced last night that £87 15/- has been handed in up to the present for the sale of Anzac buttons. It is expected that £150 will be realised. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Kindergarten Hall at Scots' Church, West Geelong, designed by Laird and Buchan, architects, is nearly completed. The furnishings for it are ...
Article : 41 wordsWhile he was in Geelong last week, Mr. J. F. Farrer, M.L.A., expressed himself very confidently as to his ability to retain his seat in November. Mr. ...
Article : 116 wordsA cablegram was received this week from Mr. Hitchcock's London office that the Rev. Chas. Tregear would be leaving London early in May, and also that ...
Article : 59 wordsJust before closing time yesterday a shearer who said he was from Ta[?]cola station, New South Wales, presented a bogus £5 note to the teller of the ...
Article : 285 wordsIt has been arranged by the football committee that the State school children shall have the use of the Oval for their patriotic display on May 26th. ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Robinson, the London "Times" correspondent at the British headquarters, says that the last 24 hours have been comparatively quiet, except ...
Article : 324 wordsGerman soldiers are unremitting in their attempts to parley with the Russian troops. They are displaying placards hearing the words, "Do not ...
Article : 147 wordsSergt. Lister will address meetings on Monday as follows:—Barwon Heads at 2.30, Conuewarre Last 3.30, Connewarre 4.15, Mt. Moriac 8 o'clock. A meeting ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Moorabool is due to arrive on Wednesday. After discharging coal and loading produce, she will sail on Friday. S.S. Saros will call this ...
Article : 73 wordsThe whole press refers in the gravest tone to the food menace and exhorts everybody to realise that the situation is serious, and must be resolutely ...
Article : 276 wordsLondon, April 26th, 5.15 p.m.—Mr. A. Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was to have delivered his Bodpet speech in the House of Commons ...
Article : 64 wordsMessrs. Huddart, Parker, Ltd., notify that the s.s. Courier leaves Moorabool-street pier this afternoon, at 3.30, for Portarlington and Melbourne, the ...
Article : 109 wordsLabor rallies in support of Mr. A. T. Ozanne are being arranged by the Corio Campaign Council, and all parts of the electorate are being attended to ...
Article : 132 wordsSir Owen Philips, chairman of the Royal Mail Steam Packet, Company and other shipping companies, presided at a luncheon given by the British ...
Article : 180 wordsTo-day the members of the Geelong branch of the Typographical Society are visiting Melbourne to engage in an angling competition with the members ...
Article : 73 wordsWashington, April 26th, 1.25 p.m.—Official news has been received that the American schooner Percy Birdsall (1128 tons) has been sunk by gunfire from a ...
Article : 358 wordsOn Wednesday the Electric Lighting Company increased the cost of supply to the consumer by ½d. per unit, both for lamps and power and radiators, and ...
Article : 107 wordsSenator J. H. Keating, of Tasmania, yesterday announced his intention of proceeding against the proprietors of the "Australian Statesman and Mining ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 29 wordsThe Farmers' Co-operative Association desires the council to make certain alterations to their building in the Market Square. These will not ...
Article : 96 wordsThe United Service says that fighting is momentarily less intense on the British front. The Paris "Matin" says that the ...
Article : 117 wordsThe London "Times' shipping correspondent says the Shipping Controller is purchasing every available ship throughout the Globe. British ...
Article : 60 wordsLoud and long have been the complaints of motorists and others about the state of the "glue-pot" near Little River, on the Melbourne-Geelong road. ...
Article : 120 wordsis still held by the Defence Department in readiness for a military hospital. Staff-Sergeant Fitzgerald, who is in charge, has with him Private Perks, ...
Article : 57 wordsParis, April 27th.—It is officially stated that the arrivals at French ports during the week ending 22nd April numbered 993, while 923 vessels sailed. ...
Article : 50 wordsReplying to a question by Sir C. Kinloch-Cooke, Mr. A. H. Steel-Maitland, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, said that the committee ...
Article : 68 wordsLondon, Thursday.—Detailing severe fighting, a French communique says:—"North of the Aisne the enemy again vainly attempted to drive us away ...
Article : 223 wordsTo encourage the Geelong West children in the sale of tickets for the concert being promoted by the borough, council on behalf of the hospital, the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe quarrymen at Messrs Windmills', Samson's and Watson's quarries were called out on strike by organisers from Melbourne as a demand on employers ...
Article : 43 wordsA cable has been received by the Prime Minister from the High Commissioner, stating that the Ballarat was torpedoed and sunk at the entrance to ...
Article : 45 wordsAt a special meeting of textile workers held in the Trades Hall last evening it was arranged to convene a special meeting of the union for Friday, May ...
Article : 103 wordsIt is announced by the Official Press Bureau that, at the Government's instance, the petroleum companies have arranged to pool shipping tonnage and ...
Article : 41 wordsAccording to a return prepared by the clerk of courts (Mr. A. M. Cook) there were 114 cases at the Geelong West Court during the quarter ending ...
Article : 156 wordsIt is reported that the newest Zeppelin airship was destroyed in a trial flight between Friedrichshaven and Wilhelmshaven on Monday. A storm ...
Article : 52 wordsFatter F. Clune, brother of the Most Rev. Patrick Clune, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth, an old, white-bearded padre, with a New ...
Article : 185 wordsA German official message, referring to operations on the Macedonian front, says: "Prisoners' statements indicate that the English attack near Lake ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Pebbles are now enjoying a wellearned week's holiday after their strenuous Geelong season. Only Miss Gard'ner, Mr. Rose and Mr. Proctor, ...
Article : 95 wordsChicago, April 26 th.—Wheat advanced by long jumps to-day to new record figures, touching 2 dollars 68 cents. President Wilson announced ...
Article : 72 wordsEligible returned soldiers who have not been enrolled, must obtain certificates entitling them to vote next Saturday. Application forms are available ...
Article : 573 wordsLondon, April 26th, 7.25 p.m.—An official despatch received by the War Office from German East Africa says:—"The season is the wettest for nine ...
Article : 100 wordsSome enterprising newsboys reaped a fair harvest yesterday. They toured the suburbs calling "Extraordinary." Visions of a great victory or a great ...
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Advertising : 151 words(Such of the cable news on this page so headed has appeared in the London "Times," and is cabled to Australia by special permission. It should be ...
Article : 49 wordsThe gardeners complain that no action is taken to protect the shrubs and plants in Gordon-avenue. Yesterday about 90 pigs, driven from the city sale ...
Article : 118 wordsPassed through Bendigo on the way to Mooreoduo from Bamawm, near which an ostrich farm is situated. ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Sat 28 Apr 1917, Page 3
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