The Hoddle bridge over the River Yarta at Punt road was opened yesterday by the Premier (Mr. Dunstan). ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 563 wordsIn the reshuffle of the Cabinet which is expected next month Mr. Anthony Eden, the former Foreign Secretary, may, it is ...
Article : 204 wordsThe Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. Shakespeare) was asked in the House of Commons by what date ...
Article : 220 wordsA motion urging the Government, in conjunction with the Dominions, to consider all practicable plans for promoting the ...
Article : 519 wordsTo provide material for the air raid precautions programme the Government intends to spend £20,000,000. An announcement ...
Article : 358 wordsIt is understood that the Union Government is making plans for the formation of a naval reserve. The Minister for Defence (Mr. Pirow) is reported to have ...
Article : 51 wordsA demand that Hong Kong, which is a British possession, should be returned to China is made by the vernacular Press, which claims to represent influential ...
Article : 104 wordsALICE SPRINGS, Thursday.— Tragedy overtook a party of five that was on its way to Alice Springs to begin business there. ...
Article : 410 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Portion of the top walls and the tower of the Royal Exchange Hotel at Marrickville collapsed to-day, and about 20 tons of bricks, ...
Article : 260 wordsAlthough the reconstruction of Punt road between Alexandra avenue and Toorak road probably would not be completed until the end of January there had ...
Article : 338 wordsAll the American nations except Argentina have reached virtual agreement on a proclamation declaring their solidarity in co-operative defence. ...
Article : 128 wordsAl Capone, the former gang leader, who is serving a sentence of imprisonment on Alcatraz Island for having evaded the payment of income tax, is said to be "stony ...
Article : 123 wordsThe arrest of two men and a girl suspected of shoplifting from the Myer Emporium led to the alleged clearing up of a long series of thefts from showcases ...
Article : 295 wordsIt is believed that the Italian Foreign Minister (Count Ciano) forged a new Rome-Budapest-Berlin axis during his recent visit to Hungary. ...
Article : 88 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The decline in savings bank deposits which always takes place as Christmas approaches occurred earlier than usual this year. In ...
Article : 108 wordsPeter Foerster, who with a companion killed a guard and escaped into Czechoslovakia from the concentration camp at Weimar in May, was, following his ...
Article : 83 wordsForty valuable windows in the 16th century loggia of St. Raphael, in the Court of San Somasso, at the Vatican, were shattered to-day by a thunder-clap. ...
Article : 55 wordsDevelopment of Flemington bridge as a city gateway will be urged strongly by Councillor H. Carter, a representative of Hopetoun Ward in the City Council, early ...
Article : 141 wordsRuling that certain books and magazines seized by the police from the Conference Book Store, Flinders street, were obscene within the meaning of the ...
Article : 339 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—Mr. G. S. Webb, who was a Protestant Labour candidate for Ithaca in the last State elections, to-day lodged an appeal to the ...
Article : 98 wordsSnow fell all day in London and the southern parts of England to-day, and considerable delay to road and railway traffic was caused. Air services were ...
Article : 55 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Stephen George Edward Purdy, described as a journalist, of Annandale, who chained himself to a verandah stanchion in William street, last ...
Article : 101 wordsWAGGA (N.S.W.), Thursday.—The nine months' old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roche, of Tarcutta, received severe injuries to her face to-day when she crawled ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Air Ministry announces that the Royal Air Force Blenheim bomber that was reported missing on December 12 after it had left Bagdad on a flight to ...
Article : 53 wordsConflicting evidence regarding the colour of a costume worn by the defendant on November 14 caused the Collector of Customs (Mr. J. J. Kennedy), at an ...
Article : 206 wordsBALLARAT, Thursday.—Two motor-cycles come into collision in Sturt street to-night. One of the cycles was ridden by Ronald Hardwood, of Talbot street, ...
Article : 97 wordsTHE MINISTER FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (Mr. Hughes) speaking to the United States at the inauguration on Wednesday of a direct radio telephone service between Australia and all States of the United States. Mr. Hughes spoke from the office of A.W.A. in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 55 wordsThe Speaker of the Lower House ruled out of order to-day an attempt by the Ukranlan Parliamentary group to introduce a bill providing for an autonomous ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. John McCormack, the Irish tenor, announced to-day that he intended to apply for a licence to conduct a theatrical concert and cinema artists' employment ...
Article : 43 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. James Johnstone, superintendent of the mines of J. and A. Brown and Abermain Seaham Collieries Ltd., in further evidence before ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Dionne quintuplets have written to Father Christmas at Callander (Ontario), asking him to leave them dogs. They have taken an intense interest in animals ...
Article : 39 wordsProtests against the persecution of minorities in Germany were made at a meeting, in the Brunswick Town Hall last night. ...
Article : 66 wordsWAGGA, Thursday.—A fire broke out early this morning in a weatherboard cottage occupied by a market gardener, Tommy Ah Wah and five Chinese ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 23 Dec 1938, Page 9
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