CANBERRA, Tuesday.—For their 1941 crop Australian tobacco-growers will receive 25 per cent, increase on the 1939 price schedule. This is an increase of ...
Article : 174 wordsSir,— Conversion of the Port Pirie-Broken Hill line to standard gauge would connect the trans-Australian line to the N.S.W. system, providing an alternative ...
Article : 363 wordsARARAT.—Mr. D. F. Green, engineer attached to the engineers' branch of the Postal Department, has been transferred to Melbourne after four years in Ararat. ...
Article : 604 wordsPrices of wheat were firmer in Chicago on Monday, and closed at half a cent to seven-eighths of a cent a bushel higher than Saturday's rates. Despite reports ...
Article : 407 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. — Directors of Tableland Tin Dredging N.L. propose to increase capital of the company to £346,000 by creation of 100,000 fixed ...
Article : 209 wordsProfit of Maxwell Consolidated N.L. in the year ended November 30, 1940, was, £12,497, compared with £11,927 in the previous year and £7,494 in the year ...
Article : 256 wordsTrading was fairly light in a quiet market at the Stock Exchange of Melbourne yesterday. Gold-mining issues were slightly easier. ...
Article : 818 wordsMetropolitan Gas Company, Melbourne, is offering a cash and conversion loan of £180,000 at 3½ per cent., with a currency of 14½ years, maturing on April 1, 1956. ...
Article : 151 wordsCharged in the city court yesterday on two counts of larceny and with having had a skeleton key in his possession, John Owen. 53, of no fixed place of ...
Article : 283 wordsRonpibon Tin N.L.—The 50th. preference 1/, ordinary 10½d., payable April 10. Books clase 5 p.m. April 1. McNlven Bros. Ltd., of Sydney.—Final, ...
Article : 39 wordsIn a drive off the north shaft at 75ft., a 12in. vein, giving fair prospects by dish samples, was encountered by Maxwell North (Daylesford) N.L. in the year ...
Article : 429 wordsDirectors of Australian General Investments Ltd. report that in the half-year ended December 31 results were satisfactory. Profits in the period had been maintained at their usual level. ...
Article : 115 wordsCOCKS PIONEER, Eidorado (v.). 20th.—No. 1 plant (barge) siuiced 135.41 hrs., equal 93.54 p.c. time worked: nozzles cont. cutting down into wash for week. ...
Article : 636 wordsSir,—In advocating an increase in price of butter, Mr. A. J. Hunter, of Cobden, realises that there would be opposition from some in high ralaried positions, and ...
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Advertising : 192 wordsSir,—When are relatives of the R.A.A.F. in Canada to be granted some concession on airmail charges? The difference between 9d. to soldiers in the East and ...
Article : 114 wordsAlthough shipping space for meats and other exports to Britain is restricted greatly, supplies are being taken constantly from Australia to the Middle East ...
Article : 154 wordsWhen the Geelong City Geelong West and Newtown and Chilwell councils agreed to finance the municipal contribution toward the cost of a Government ...
Article : 280 wordsSir,—In regard to the suggestion of your correspondent concerning war finance (21/3/41), it is apparent that the additional Commonwealth Bank deposits ...
Article : 72 wordsFair arrvals of potatoes, Market barely steady, and some carried over at Spencer st. Old stock onions sold at £8/10/ a ton. Trading in oats quiet but good milling steady at unchanged prices ...
Article : 606 wordsSir,—The names "primary," "secondary," and "teclinical" after the men and women on Mr. C. Jordan's circular refer to the divisions of the service with which ...
Article : 125 wordsShortage of labour in primary industries, post-war primary production, petrol rationing, the wheat stabilisation scheme, and extension of water storage facilities ...
Article : 92 wordsGraphic Informative photographs of soil erosion being shown at the Kodak gallery suggest that the camera might be employed more often than it has been ...
Article : 159 wordsSIDNEY Tuesday.—BANKS — C'clal 13/10; C'cial, Syd., £18/16/. £18/15/; Union, £6/12/, £6/13/. BREWERIES — Toohey's, 28/6; do., sec, A pf., 23/; Tooth, 53/6. COAL—Caledonian, 2/4; ...
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Advertising : 137 wordsFavourable conditions for the ground preparation of this season's flax crop had been created by recent State-wide rains, Mr. H. A. Mullett. Director of ...
Article : 170 wordsSir,—While we try to conform to the present unsystematic, inconsistent use of a bad instrument, English spelling must remain bad. In other words, we have a ...
Article : 150 wordsCr. J. A. Michelsen announced yesterday that he was going to make an offer to resign his seat in the city council as a member for Barkly Ward on condition ...
Article : 269 wordsClearings of the Melbourne banks for the week ended March 24 were £16,263 677 (less Treasury bills £100,111), £16,163,566. For the week ended March 25, 1040, £10,355,808 (£15,008), £10,340, 800 ...
Article : 68 wordsAt a recent patriotic rally at Shepparton, two motor ambulances given by 3SR's Friendship Club to the Defence Department were formally handed over. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 904 wordsSeven news sessions will be presented from station 3AR to-day—6.45 a.m., 7.45, 12.50 p.m., 1.35, 4.15, 7, and 11. Sir Harold Luxton, chairman of the State ...
Article : 229 wordsSir,—While mounting prices certainly accompany inflation, they also result from the policy of maintaining or increasing profits in face of wage rises. "Passing the ...
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Advertising : 209 wordsA series of pictures taken at the Y.M.C.A. rest-room in Elizabeth st., Melbourne, appears in "The Australasian" now on sale. ...
Article : 23 wordsSir,—Mr. Vincent Pantin's letter shows how we can save £1,000,000 a year by absorbing and rebuilding on the trading bank credits. It defines our powers on ...
Article : 159 wordsLetter mails close at Eliz. st P.O. as [?] G.P.O., Spencer st., 20 minutes later, unless marked which indicates same time at both offices:— ...
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Advertising : 158 wordsSir,—I hope the Red Cross will neither ask nor accept dubious profit from opossum skins. The objections were clearly stated in the letter from B. E. Waymouth, ...
Article : 74 wordsSir,—Mr. E. J. Martin's letter would indicate that trap-shooters are, for some mysterious reason, able to obtain supplies denied to rabbit shooters. Such is not ...
Article : 161 wordsPOSTAGE RATES (For To-day's Issue of "The Argus").— Australasia and New Zealand, 1d., United Kingdom. 1d.; other British possessions, 1d.; U.S.A. and other Foreign Countries. 2d. To ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 26 Mar 1941, Page 2
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