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]
Article : 1,290 wordsOrganisers 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 ...
Article : 183 wordsSeven 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 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Dr. Evatt and Mr. Beasley, Labour members of the War Advisory Council, yesterday expressed grave concern ...
Article : 593 wordsSpeaking for the Vichy Government a few days ago. Admiral Darlan noted with satisfaction that Germany had released some requisitioned wheat for Prance and ...
Article : 618 wordswho learned to fly in Australia and finished their training in Canada. Pilot-Officer Ken Hicks, of Perth (left), and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsAdministrative details of the operation of the revised petrol ration scale will be announced this week by Senator McBride, Minister for Supply. ...
Article : 158 wordsMr. Fadden Acting Prime Minister, has expressed satisfaction at the response by small investors to the commonwealth Government's £35,000,000 War and Work ...
Article : 361 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Two pilot-officers were killed when a single-engined R.A.A.F. aircraft crashed at Sackville Reach, near Windsor, on Friday. ...
Article : 136 wordsAUCKLAND, Sun.—"The colonel of a Maori regiment was the hero of Thermopylæ Pass. Becoming exhausted, he ordered his men to leave him behind. ...
Article : 212 wordsLivelihood of petrol resellers would be affected seriously by the new petrol cut, Mr. H. A. Allibon, Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce secretary, said on ...
Article : 127 wordsHarold Barnett, aged 9, of Ballarat rd., Deer Park, was drowned yesterday afternoon whcu he fell into Kororoit Creek. ...
Article : 112 wordsTotal 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. ...
Article : 52 wordsDespite 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 ...
Article : 45 wordsOn Dangerously Ill List.—PHILLIPS, Pte. V. P., Brisbane, Q. (Inf.); ROBERTS, Gnr. G. A., Lutwyche, Brisbane, Q. (Arty). ...
Article : 35 wordsCOBDEN, Sunday. — Four cases of diphtheria have occurred in one family living eight miles from Cobden. Those affected are youths, 17 and 19, and ...
Article : 72 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday. — Two men were killed and five injured when a bus containing 35 employees of Whyalla shipyards came into collision with a line of ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Institute of Automotive Engineers will meet to-day to discuss the action of the Commonwealth Government in declining to accept a gift from the ...
Article : 105 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—Sentence of life imprisonment was passed by Justice Macrossan in circuit court at Cunnamulla yesterday on James Callaghan, who ...
Article : 170 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—With the head severely battered with a heavy pointed weapon, the body of William Thomas Halse, 77, boot repairer, of North ...
Article : 99 wordsBecause of the low and unprofitable prices of potatoes representatives of growers have had under consideration a Federal marketing plan. It is understood ...
Article : 40 wordsGUNNER 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 ...
Article : 201 wordsAdditional 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, ...
Article : 78 wordsHOBART, 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, ...
Article : 65 words"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. ...
Article : 161 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A few minutes before he was to have appeared at Gosford Police Court on Friday William Alfred Stevenson, 48, alias Alfred ...
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Advertising : 14 wordsSALE, 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 ...
Article : 99 wordsKicked 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 ...
Article : 135 wordsMr. 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 ...
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Advertising : 179 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Alderman A. H. Tait, deputy Lord Mayor of Brisbane, has been appointed an Australian Comforts Fund commissioner in Malaya, and ...
Article : 109 wordsStrong criticism of street raffles and appeals was expressed in resolutions passed by the social service department of the Methodist Church. Substitution ...
Article : 106 wordsSYDNEY, 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 ...
Article : 102 wordsA 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 ...
Article : 80 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday. — It is expected that Dr. G. S. Plant, of the University of Adelaide, will submit his nomination for selection as the official Labour ...
Article : 100 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Discussions at a conference of taxation experts, which will begin in Canberra on Tuesday, are expected to facilitate later consideration ...
Article : 68 wordsThird victim of an accident in Point Nepean rd., outside Cheltenham police station, on Friday night, Donald Kinsey, 7½, of Bendigo st., Cheltenham, died in ...
Article : 81 wordsSYDNEY. Sunday. — Unless butchers' shops are closed on Saturdays, and unless other conditions are granted to employees in the shops, a strike may be declared. ...
Article : 76 wordsComplaints that rabbiting was taking place in the grounds of Keilor Cemetery were made by Mr. Norman Woods, shire secretary, to Keilor Council on Saturday. ...
Article : 101 wordsWARRNAMBOOL, Sunday. — At the first district rally in support of the Commonwealth war loan Woolsthorpe people contributed £11,160. Of this £5,000 ...
Article : 41 wordsBecoming uncontrollable when the steering gear failed, a car containing four persons overturned on the Western Highway, about a mile from Melton, yesterday ...
Article : 102 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Both Mr. Mair, Premier, and Mr. McKell, Opposition leader, returned to Sydney at the weekend after strenuous election tours. Mr. ...
Article : 57 wordsWhile 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 ...
Article : 61 wordsThe 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{No abstract available}
Advertising : 47 wordsFRANKSTON, Sunday. — Frankston and Hastings Shire Council unanimously agreed to inform the Deputy Director of Recruiting that they strongly favoured ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 5 May 1941, Page 5
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