Gallantry in action against the enemy has earned Flying-Officer Dereck Jack French, 25, son of the chief Commonwealth auditor, ...
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Article : 142 wordsDrill of the A.I.F. in Palestine is described by older men as the smartest yet performed by Australian soldiers. The old idea of the ...
Article : 149 wordsAfter an encouraging first month some changes of policy are planned in arranging the programmes for the De Basil ballet at His Majesty's. ...
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Article : 105 wordsTo-day the football season will open with prospects somewhat uncertain because of the war, although up to the present the ...
Article : 233 wordsWhen a car overturned on the Hume Highway near Seymour on March 17 Alvin Thomas McRae, 25, of Docker street, Elwood, and Neville E. Treadwell, 19, of ...
Article : 68 wordsRevenue estimated at about £70,000 had been lost by the Railways Department since it began to reduce services because of the coal ...
Article : 132 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—A promise that the Government would review the decision to discontinue the fertiliser bounty of 10/ a ton was made to a deputation by Mr. ...
Article : 49 wordsCASTERTON, Friday.—The Casterton branch of the Returned Soldiers' League passed a resolution urging that all members of the civil service be asked to take ...
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Advertising : 300 wordsThe death occurred this week of Mrs. Mary Forbes at the home of her daughter, Mrs. S. C. Handley, at Dandenong. Mrs. Forbes, who was aged 88, was born in ...
Article : 111 wordsPupils and their parents liked examinations—in fact, they would like more of them if they could get them, Mr. J. D. G. Medley, ...
Article : 193 wordsImportant military duties as commanding officer of the Third Division will not prevent Judge Drake-Brockman, who has the rank of Major-General, from hearing ...
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Article : 112 wordsAlfred James Doonan, 51, of Clarendon street, East Melbourne, merchant, was found not guilty by a jury in the Criminal Court yesterday on two charges of having ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 20 Apr 1940, Page 5
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