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  2. 109 MISSING

    Names of 109 men posted missing, more than halt of them believed to be prisoners, are included in the latest casualty list for live States, issued at the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. LOAN RALLY TO-MORROW

    Organisers expect to see Melbourne Town Hall packed to capacity for the official opening of the £35,000,000 Commonwealth war and works loan at 8 ...

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  4. CAR 360ft. OVER CLIFF

    Seven persons escaped with injuries when the car in which they were travelling along the Acheron Way yesterday rolled over the cliff and fell 360ft. to the ...

    Article : 348 words
  5. ARMS LAG AND "HUSH HUSH"

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — Dr. Evatt and Mr. Beasley, Labour members of the War Advisory Council, yesterday expressed grave concern ...

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  6. DAILY DIGEST

    Speaking for the Vichy Government a few days ago. Admiral Darlan noted with satisfaction that Germany had released some requisitioned wheat for Prance and ...

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  7. AUSTRALIAN PILOTS

    who learned to fly in Australia and finished their training in Canada. Pilot-Officer Ken Hicks, of Perth (left), and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. NEW PETROL RATIONS

    Administrative details of the operation of the revised petrol ration scale will be announced this week by Senator McBride, Minister for Supply. ...

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  9. SMALL INVESTORS

    Mr. Fadden Acting Prime Minister, has expressed satisfaction at the response by small investors to the commonwealth Government's £35,000,000 War and Work ...

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  10. BLIND-FLYING ACCIDENT

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — Two pilot-officers were killed when a single-engined R.A.A.F. aircraft crashed at Sackville Reach, near Windsor, on Friday. ...

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  11. THERMOPYLÆ HERO

    AUCKLAND, Sun.—"The colonel of a Maori regiment was the hero of Thermopylæ Pass. Becoming exhausted, he ordered his men to leave him behind. ...

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  12. RETAILERS SUFFER

    Livelihood of petrol resellers would be affected seriously by the new petrol cut, Mr. H. A. Allibon, Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce secretary, said on ...

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  13. BOY DROWNED

    Harold Barnett, aged 9, of Ballarat rd., Deer Park, was drowned yesterday afternoon whcu he fell into Kororoit Creek. ...

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  14. WAR SAVINGS GROW

    Total sales of war savings certificates in Australia were reported on Saturday to have reached £19,946,989. Victoria's contribution amounted to £5,434,073. ...

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  15. NO REGISTRATION FEE CUT

    Despite the additional drastic cuts in petrol allowan[?] for all types of vehicles, no reduction [?] motor registration fees will be made in Victoria. A Minister said ...

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  16. CASUALTIES IN AUSTRALIA

    On Dangerously Ill List.—PHILLIPS, Pte. V. P., Brisbane, Q. (Inf.); ROBERTS, Gnr. G. A., Lutwyche, Brisbane, Q. (Arty). ...

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  17. FOUR DIPHTHERIA CASES IN FAMILY

    COBDEN, Sunday. — Four cases of diphtheria have occurred in one family living eight miles from Cobden. Those affected are youths, 17 and 19, and ...

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  18. BUS STRIKES TRUCKS

    ADELAIDE, Sunday. — Two men were killed and five injured when a bus containing 35 employees of Whyalla shipyards came into collision with a line of ...

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  19. PRODUCER GAS OFFER

    The Institute of Automotive Engineers will meet to-day to discuss the action of the Commonwealth Government in declining to accept a gift from the ...

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  20. BURNT VICTIM'S BODY

    BRISBANE, Sunday.—Sentence of life imprisonment was passed by Justice Macrossan in circuit court at Cunnamulla yesterday on James Callaghan, who ...

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  21. MAN FOUND DEAD

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.—With the head severely battered with a heavy pointed weapon, the body of William Thomas Halse, 77, boot repairer, of North ...

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  22. POTATO PRICE FIXING

    Because of the low and unprofitable prices of potatoes representatives of growers have had under consideration a Federal marketing plan. It is understood ...

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  23. PERSONAL NOTES

    GUNNER L. C. WILKIN (missing, believed prisoner) is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Wilkin. Married last November, he was educated at Box Hill ...

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  24. CRICKETERS' SPITFIRE FUND

    Additional subscriptions toward the Victorian Cricketers' Spitfire Fund:- Per Melbourne C.C.—G. S. Stewart. £5/5/; G. W. Dowling, £3/0/6; C. J. Arter, M. J. Tonkin, ...

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  25. BURNIE POTATO MARKET

    HOBART, Sunday.—Only 14,836 sacks of potatoes left the North-West Coast for mainland markets last week, owing to a delay in provision of shipping facilities at Devonport and Stanley, ...

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  26. "SUICIDE SQUAD"

    "Suicide Squad" is the nickname given in Britain to the bomb demolition workers —the men whose dangerous job it is to handle unexploded or time bombs. ...

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  27. SHOT HIMSELF JUST BEFORE TRIAL

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—A few minutes before he was to have appeared at Gosford Police Court on Friday William Alfred Stevenson, 48, alias Alfred ...

    Article : 119 words
  28. Advertising

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  29. SUPPORTS Cr. COLES

    SALE, Sunday.—The district R.S.L. board has passed a resolution viewing with alarm the fact that after 20 months of hostilities Australia is not yet organised ...

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  30. ASSAULT ON GREEK

    Kicked in the eye, Con Perdikaris, 32, Rathdown st., Carlton, was seriously injured when he was attacked by a soldier at the door of a Greek Club in Lonsdale ...

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  31. WOUNDED SECOND TIME

    Mr. and Mrs. P. Lammin, of Clunes, have received official notification that their son, Cpl. J. Les Lammin, who was wounded in action in the battle of ...

    Article : 193 words
  32. Advertising

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  33. A.C.F. COMMISSIONER

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—Alderman A. H. Tait, deputy Lord Mayor of Brisbane, has been appointed an Australian Comforts Fund commissioner in Malaya, and ...

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  34. STREET RAFFLES

    Strong criticism of street raffles and appeals was expressed in resolutions passed by the social service department of the Methodist Church. Substitution ...

    Article : 106 words
  35. KILLED IN CRASH

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — Major William Broome, 32, and his wife, of Bayview rd., Dulwich Hill, were killed when their car crashed into a telegraph post at the ...

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  36. INTRUDER LEAVES SHOES AND CAR

    A car and a pair of shoes were found outside St. Margaret's flats, at the corner of Park st. and Toorak rd., South Yarra, after an intruder had been disturbed on ...

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  37. BOOTHBY BY-ELECTION

    ADELAIDE, Sunday. — It is expected that Dr. G. S. Plant, of the University of Adelaide, will submit his nomination for selection as the official Labour ...

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  38. TAXATION CONFERENCE

    CANBERRA, Sunday.—Discussions at a conference of taxation experts, which will begin in Canberra on Tuesday, are expected to facilitate later consideration ...

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  39. THIRD DEATH IN ACCIDENT

    Third victim of an accident in Point Nepean rd., outside Cheltenham police station, on Friday night, Donald Kinsey, 7½, of Bendigo st., Cheltenham, died in ...

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  40. BUTCHERS MAY STRIKE

    SYDNEY. Sunday. — Unless butchers' shops are closed on Saturdays, and unless other conditions are granted to employees in the shops, a strike may be declared. ...

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  41. RABBITING IN CEMETERY

    Complaints that rabbiting was taking place in the grounds of Keilor Cemetery were made by Mr. Norman Woods, shire secretary, to Keilor Council on Saturday. ...

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  42. WOOLSTHORPE RAISES £11,160

    WARRNAMBOOL, Sunday. — At the first district rally in support of the Commonwealth war loan Woolsthorpe people contributed £11,160. Of this £5,000 ...

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  43. FOUR HURT IN CAPSIZE

    Becoming uncontrollable when the steering gear failed, a car containing four persons overturned on the Western Highway, about a mile from Melton, yesterday ...

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  44. N.S.W. ELECTION CAMPAIGN

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—Both Mr. Mair, Premier, and Mr. McKell, Opposition leader, returned to Sydney at the weekend after strenuous election tours. Mr. ...

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  45. ARREST AFTER SMASH

    While a car driven by William Wallace, of Malvern rd., Glen Iris, was stopped at the corner of Toorak rd. and St. Kilda rd. on Saturday night, another car travelling ...

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  46. GIFTS TO FUNDS

    The following amounts have been received by the Editor of "The Argus" for war funds:- SALVATION ARMY WAR FUND.—Previously acknowledged, £33/11/; Barwon Heads Bridge ...

    Article : 41 words
  47. Advertising

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  48. CONSCRIPTION FAVOURED

    FRANKSTON, Sunday. — Frankston and Hastings Shire Council unanimously agreed to inform the Deputy Director of Recruiting that they strongly favoured ...

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