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  2. WIRELESS BROADCASTING.

    Final results of the voting to decide the order of preference in which listeners in value the various features on the wireless broadeasting programmes will be published ...

    Article : 694 words
  3. MILL DAMAGED BY STORM AT BALLARAT.

    A very severe windstorm swept over Ballarat on Tuesday, and caused the collapse of the storeroom of the Ballarat North Flour Mill, a two-story structure, which contained 20,000 bags of flour. Many of the workmen had narrow escapes from the falling timber, and they afterwards worked hard to place the flour under cover from the rain. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 62 words
  4. NEW SHELTER-SHED FOR SEAMEN.

    After the last maritime strike an award of the Arbitration Court granted definite "pick-up" hours to seamen awaiting engagement. Tha men are engaged at the Mercantile Marine offices, and a shed is being built in the yard at the back of the Custom House to accommodate them. The wooden shed, with its iron roof, does not harmonise with the substantial buildings which surround it. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 68 words
  5. INTRUDERS SURPRISED.

    Surprised by the manager of the shop into which they were said to have broken, two youthful intruders were captured at the point of a revolver in premises in ...

    Article : 785 words
  6. REPAIRING DRY DOCKS.

    For many weeks a crack in the sloe of the smaller of Duke and Orr's dry docks grew steadily larger until the bulging timbers and falling earth made it necessary for repairs to be put in hand. The heavy piles are very difficult to remove, as they have to be pulled away from the side of the dock by a winch and tackle. Shipping in the River Yarra is temporarily deprived of docking space, as the dock next to the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 95 words
  7. WINDOW DISPLAY FOR "EMPIRE WEEK."

    On Monday the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Amery) officially opened "Empire Shopping Week" at the Langham Hotel, London. In all parts of the Empire shopkeepers are displaying stocks of goods produced within the Empire, and many tradesmen in Melbourne and its suburbs have attractive window displays. The photograph was taken in Bourke street yesterday, were many passers-by wereo interested by a display ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 84 words
  8. [?] FARMER'S WILL.

    Mr. Justice McArthur, in the First Civil Court yesterday, delivered judgement on an originating summons seeking directions in connection with the will of William ...

    Article : 552 words
  9. CHARGE OF FALSE PRETENCES.

    On a charge of having obtained £11/19/ by [?]ans of false pretences Cyril Augustine Fowler, aged 38 years, who was arrested at Colac, appeared in the Colingwood Court on Thursday. ...

    Article : 433 words
  10. TEMPLETON CUP.

    Many years ago the Victorian Rifle Association won the Templeton Cup, in competition with other States. It was given for competition among rifle clubs, and was recently won ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 41 words
  11. FINE ALSATIAN WOLFHOUND.

    A passenger on the Largs Bay, which reached Melbourne yesterday, Was this fine Alsatian wolfhound, which has been purchased by Mr. A. R. Vermeulen, of Sydney. Pinkerton Rhoda, as he is named, has won many prizes, and is valued at £500. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 45 words
  12. FEDERAL HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, CANBERRA.

    This photograph, taken recently, shows the progress of the work of building the Federal Parliament Houses at Canberra. In the background is Mount Ainslie, upon which it is proposed to build a national war memorial. Last week the Minister for Home and Territories (Senator Pearce) reported that the work was progressing satisfactorily, and that Work on the main block of buildings was well advanced, including ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 83 words
  13. DIRTY GROCERY STORE.

    Although a warning had been given to C. Champion, grocer, of Spensley and Berry streets, Clifton Hill, to clear up his shop, he is said to have taken no action to obey the warning. In ...

    Article : 408 words
  14. NEW ARRIVALS ON LARGS BAY.

    New arrivals and returning Australians eagerly fined the rail of the steamer Largs Bay as she entered Victoria Dock yesterday. The group pictured on the right were some of the 182 migrants who lett the steamer at Melbourne. On the left is a party of girls, from Bradford, who are expert "minders," and have come to work at the Valley Woollen Mills at Geelong. They were taken direct from the docks to Geelong-by the car in which they are seated. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 87 words
  15. BATH-HEATER DEVICE.

    A device for perfecting the manufacture of bath-beaters was exhibited at the Fitzroy Court yesterday in a case in which David Marshall, a chemical engineer, of Leicester street, Fitzroy, ...

    Article : 392 words
  16. NOT GUILTY OF THEFT.

    Charged with having stolen 38 sheets of galvanised iron, the property of the Commonwealth Government, Leo Alphonsus Miliar, aged 25 years, labourer, of Riversdale road, Hawthorn a ...

    Article : 213 words
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