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  2. TOBACCO LEAF PRICES

    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 words
  3. Letters to the Editor

    Sir,— 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 words
  4. COUNTRY NEWS

    ARARAT.—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 words
  5. WHEAT OUTLOOK

    Prices 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 words
  6. NEW PREFERENCE ISSUE

    SYDNEY, 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 words
  7. HIGHER PROFIT BY MAXWELL

    Profit 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 words
  8. FINANCE AND COMMERCE

    Trading was fairly light in a quiet market at the Stock Exchange of Melbourne yesterday. Gold-mining issues were slightly easier. ...

    Article : 818 words
  9. LOAN OF £180,000 AT £3/10/[?]

    Metropolitan 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 words
  10. BALLARAT ITEMS

    Charged 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 words
  11. DIVIDEND DECLARATIONS

    Ronpibon 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 words
  12. MAXWELL NORTH

    In 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 words
  13. AUST. GENERAL INVESTMENT

    Directors 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 words
  14. MINE REPORTS

    COCKS 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 words
  15. COMMODITY PRICES

    Sir,—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 ...

    Article : 120 words
  16. PRICE FLUCTUATIONS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 438 words
  17. Advertising

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    Advertising : 192 words
  18. R.A.A.F. LETTERS

    Sir,—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 words
  19. MEAT SUPPLIES FOR GREECE

    Although 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 words
  20. GEELONG EVENTS

    When the Geelong City Geelong West and Newtown and Chilwell councils agreed to finance the municipal contribution toward the cost of a Government ...

    Article : 280 words
  21. WAR FINANCE

    Sir,—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 words
  22. WHOLESALE PRICES

    Fair 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 words
  23. TEACHERS' ELECTION

    Sir,—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 words
  24. PRIMARY PRODUCERS' PROBLEMS

    Shortage of labour in primary industries, post-war primary production, petrol rationing, the wheat stabilisation scheme, and extension of water storage facilities ...

    Article : 92 words
  25. GRIM PHOTOGRAPHS OF SOIL EROSION

    Graphic 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 words
  26. INTERSTATE SALES

    SIDNEY 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; ...

    Article : 308 words
  27. Advertising

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    Advertising : 137 words
  28. NEW SEASON'S FLAX

    Favourable 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 words
  29. BAD SPELLING

    Sir,—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 words
  30. BENDIGO NEWS

    Cr. 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 words
  31. MELBOURNE BANK CLEARINGS

    Clearings 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 words
  32. SHEPPARTON PATRIOTIC RALLY

    At a recent patriotic rally at Shepparton, two motor ambulances given by 3SR's Friendship Club to the Defence Department were formally handed over. ...

    Article : 41 words
  33. QUOTATIONS AND SALES INVESTMENT STOCKS MELBOURNE, MARCH 25

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 904 words
  34. BROADCASTING

    Seven 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 words
  35. PRICES AND PROFITS

    Sir,—While mounting prices certainly accompany inflation, they also result from the policy of maintaining or increasing profits in face of wage rises. "Passing the ...

    Article : 102 words
  36. Advertising

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    Advertising : 209 words
  37. Y.M.C.A. REST-ROOM

    A 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 words
  38. PLANNED ECONOMICS

    Sir,—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 words
  39. MAILS

    Letter 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:— ...

    Article : 352 words
  40. Advertising

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    Advertising : 158 words
  41. KILLING OPOSSUMS

    Sir,—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 words
  42. CARTRIDGE SHORTAGE

    Sir,—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 words
  43. POSTAGE RATES

    POSTAGE 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 ...

    Article : 79 words
  44. Advertising

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    Advertising : 50 words
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