Melbourne's Showgrounds are being replanned "from fence to fence" to include multi-storeyed buildings with escalators, bigger stands incorporating modern cafes and exhibition centres, and more space for ...
Article : 265 wordsTHE "SMARTEST CLASS OF POLICE RECRUITS EVER" will begin duty in Melbourne today. They passed out yesterday from their recruit training at the Police Depot, St. Kilda road, and are shown receiving the congratulations of their instructor, Sen-Constable K. Hamilton (right). ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 152 wordsTHE storm that caused damage in various parts of Victoria on Sunday moved eastward yesterday, and about 8.30am a violent thunderstorm struck Bairnsdale, where 173 points of rain fell in less than two hours. ...
Article : 269 wordsBallarat would be the location of the paper mill which Thomas Owen and Co proposed to open, Cr G. Stewart, Mayor of Ballarat, said ...
Article : 186 wordsAn inquiry into the Braund cancer treatment will not be held by the Government. Cabinet decided yesterday that if ...
Article : 90 wordsGrocers' shop assistants were awarded 7/ a week rise yesterday by the State Wages Board. They sought a £2 increase. ...
Article : 94 wordsWELLINGTON, Mon: Action would be taken against persons responsible for instigating go-slow tactics in the New Zealand building industry, Mr ...
Article : 151 wordsTrading banks in Melbourne discounted a New York report that funds are being transferred in unusual volume from sterling into ...
Article : 64 wordsCANBERRA, Mon: Mr Johnson, Minister for the Interior, today said that the decision by the Government to resume properties within ...
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Article : 61 wordsFishermen who did not venture out of Victorian harbours during a south-westerly blow were sensible, not "sissy," Mr A. D. Butcher, chief ...
Article : 114 words"This Government's policy is to unfetter private enterprise and initiative. The more this can be done, the better it will be for ...
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Article : 65 wordsMany Derrinallum farmers have for the first time produced excellent crops of linseed from seed supplied by the Department of Agriculture. ...
Article : 48 wordsCANBERRA, Mon: Government buying of raw jute and jute goods is to continue in the 1948-49 financial year because of trading and ...
Article : 95 wordsTwo men were killed on Sunday night by a State Government car, travelling to Shepparton to pick up Mr McDonald, Deputy Premier. ...
Article : 81 wordsDr C. R. Merrilees, chairman of the Health Commission, has reported that the decay which caused an outer stairway at the Regent ...
Article : 63 wordsMrs Jem ina Kendrick, widow, of Ormiston, near Cleveland, Brisbane, who died in November, 1946, left £300 each to King's School, ...
Article : 227 wordsHis Excellency the Governor received the Consul-General for the USA, Mr S. J. Fletcher, at Government House yesterday morning. ...
Article : 46 wordsMOST members of the City Council, which met yesterday, bitterly opposed a motion by Cr O. J. Nilsen that the Exhibition Building should be demolished and the site used for the new Federal offices ...
Article : 254 wordsMr W. V. Wallens, Deputy City Engineer of Melbourne, has resigned. He will retire on November 10 this year. ...
Article : 22 wordsOne of the Ballarat district's oldest residents, Mrs J. Simpson, of Grenville, died on Sunday, aged 96. She left Scotland as a child of two, and ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 17 Feb 1948, Page 3
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