SYDNEY, Sunday. -- The president of the Gas Employes' Union (Mr. Smith) said to-night that a meeting of the central strike committee ...
Article : 288 wordsCommittees were appointed yesterday from the shunters' and guards' sections of the Australian Railways Union to prepare plans for bringing ...
Article : 271 wordsThe German advanced elements in Libya are reported to be exhausted. According to the Cairo correspondent of the British United Press the Germans in North Africa are showing no signs ...
Article : 680 wordsConstable William James Austin, 39 years, Stuart-street, Malvern, stationed at Montague, was killed yesterday afternoon, when a motor car ...
Article : 151 wordsA.R.P. wardens equipped with steel helmets and gas masks marching to the M.C.G. yesterday to take ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 wordsWhile a motor car was being driven over a level railway crossing near Hastings, on Saturday afternoon, it was struck by the 1.50 p.m. up train ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 wordsA London message announces the death of the Essex cricketer Mr. L. C. Eastman. He was an A.R.P. warden, and suffered severe shock when an ...
Article : 39 wordsNo agreement was reached in connection with the gas workers' dispute at the compulsory conference of the parties before Judge Piper on ...
Article : 67 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--More than 300 horses broke out of the 5th Light Horse camp at Gympic show grounds early yesterday, and bolted down some of ...
Article : 142 wordsDARWIN, Sunday.--When fierce storms struck Darwin and the lugger Ellen R in the Timor Sea recently, the nine men aboard, including three ...
Article : 357 wordsMr. James Robertson, of Latham- street, Ivanhoe, died in a private hospital on Friday. He was 86 years of age. Mr. Robertson, who was in ...
Article : 71 wordsBAIRNSDALE, Sunday.--Mr. Lancelot Phillip Skelton, 36, 11 Ellington- street, Caulfield, was drowned in Lake King, Gippsland Lakes, shortly after ...
Article : 127 wordsThe formation is announced of a "Fight - for - Freedom" committee, which will urge the United States to act on the theory that the country is ...
Article : 311 wordsAt the interview between representatives of the Federal Government and the Australasian Council of Trade Unions on Friday, at which it was ...
Article : 110 wordsIt is announced from London that Lord Kimberley has been killed as a result of enemy action. He was 58 years of age, and served ...
Article : 71 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--Mrs. M. M. Maslin, 65 years, was badly injured early this morning when she leaped from a blazing room in the San Remo ...
Article : 122 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. -- Information was received yesterday by the Port line that some members of the crews of the Port Brisbane, Port Hobart and ...
Article : 52 wordsThe strike of 20 waiters and waitresses at the Hotel Alexandra, Spencer-street, may be extended if the dispute is not settled by noon ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. Ernest W. Parkes, former clerk of the House of Representatives, died at Canberra yesterday at the age of 69. He had suffered from ill-health ...
Article : 82 wordsThe aeronautical correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says it is a grave disappointment that only six raiders were brought down by night ...
Article : 355 wordsAt Rome it is stated officially that Italian war expenditure since 1935, including the Abyssinian and Spanish campaigns, will total £1,200,000,000 ...
Article : 76 wordsMore than 500 members of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes yesterday attended the annual pilgrimage to Buffalo graves at Fawkner cemetery. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe death occurred yesterday of Mr. Patrick Wm. McCarthy, solicitor, of Lockhart, N.S.W., at the age of 68. Mr. McCarthy, who had ...
Article : 84 wordsA move for a common policy in regard to conditions in the building industry is being made by the Building Trades, Federation. The secretary ...
Article : 97 wordsPatricia Maureen Smith, four years, Wellington-street, Collingwood, died in the Children's Hospital on Saturday evening, while undergoing an ...
Article : 47 wordsWhile swimming in the sea, at Bonbeach on Saturday with two companions, Richard McCormack, 16 years, Hurtle-street, Ascot Vale, ...
Article : 68 wordsSpaniards throughout the Americas are organising to restore the constitutional monarchy in Spain. The head quarters of the movement have been ...
Article : 97 wordsA memorial service to Mr. W. B. Attwood, one of the pioneer teachers of Victoria, who died recently aged 93 years, was held at St. Stephens's ...
Article : 122 wordsHEYFIELD, Sunday.--In a motor accident about six miles from Heyfield on the Rosedale-road, Miss M. Bryer sustained a broken arm, Brian Kelly ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Japanese Foreign Minister (Mr. Matsuoka), arriving at Manchuli, told the press that he had not "expected at all" a neutrality pact with the Soviet, ...
Article : 190 wordsGeneral Motors has announced that In the interests of defence it will not make 1943 passenger models, but will continue the 1942 types. ...
Article : 169 wordsWith full recognition of the importance of flax growing to the war effort the Rope and Cordage Workers' Union is seeking an award to ...
Article : 123 wordsFollowing the track of tyre treads on a utility truck into scrub country near Macedon yesterday morning, First-Constable Hobley, of Gisborne, ...
Article : 149 wordsGUNBOWER, Sunday.--John Whitford, of Coburg, while oh a fishing expedition, was drowned in Gunbower Creek on Saturday afternoon. Cohuna ...
Article : 74 wordsThe German steamer Erlangen, 6101 tons, which has been repainted grey, is ready to leave Santiago (Chile). The Erlangen arrived there in November, ...
Article : 96 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--Labor seems certain to win the Gregory seat. After returns received to-night from the few centres where deferred polls were ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Federal conference of the Union of Locomotive Enginemen will be held at Brisbane this week, starting to-day. The Federal president ...
Article : 120 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday. -- Desmond Egan, 34 years, of Toowong, married, with four children, is missing in the bay, and it is feared he has been ...
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Article : 100 wordsAfter being 12 days at sea on starvation rations, 40 survivors of the British steamer Britannia, 8799 tons, which was sunk off the African ...
Article : 258 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday. -- William Joseph Siegert, two months, son of Mr. Lawrence Siegert, of Edward-street Edwardstown, was found dead in his ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 21 Apr 1941, Page 8
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