The Federal customs revenue for the ten months ended 30th April amounted to £13,800,790, as compared with £11,297,306 for the same period of the last financial ...
Article : 132 wordsA forward step towards the practical realisation of the fart that the health of the community is such a vital asset in the welfare of a nation that it should be one ...
Article : 1,266 wordsThe indications are that the present influenza "wave" is receding before the new Acting Minister for Health has had time, as it were, to get into his stride. ...
Article : 210 wordsStatistics for the period 8th April, 1918, to 29th March, 1919, representing the first year's operations of the Repatriation deportment, issued on Wednesday, showed ...
Article : 114 wordsBROKEN HILL.—As the result of a dispute between the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association and the Barrier Ranges Certificated Engine Drivers, ...
Article : 231 wordsCaptain E. Fraser, who recently returned from the war, left Ballarat on Thursday for South Australia, where he has accepted a position in a metallurgical ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Governor-General will visit Sydney this month to welcome the return of a detachment of the Australian fleet. Commission on Stamps. ...
Article : 1,161 wordsRain fell fairly generally in Victoria, also in South Australia, south from Hawker, as the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 166 wordsThe remains of Private John Heuston, 31, who died after a few days' illness, were buried with military honors in White Hills Cemetery on Thursday. Deceased's father ...
Article : 167 wordsForms of application for loans under the war service homes scheme were issued by the Housing Commission on Wednesday. The scheme comprehends soldiers and ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Commonwealth's annual war pensions liability now amounts to £4,974,805, the number of pensions granted on 25th April being 175,508. The liability for this ...
Article : 414 wordsEndeavors are being made by the Acting Minister of Health to secure increased hospital accommodation in readiness for any emergency. Accompanied by the Premier ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 145 wordsCorio shire council has decided to raise £2292 for the purpose of improving the drainage at North Geelong. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Assistant Minister for Repatriation, referring on Wednesday to the conference held on Tuesday of secretaries of metropolitan local repatriation committees, said the ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Premier stated yesterday that at the last meeting of the Cabinet requests which had been made to the Minister of Railways and the Water Supply Commission in ...
Article : 149 wordsAt the general sessions on Thursday Thomas Wilson Crothers was presented for trial on a charge of perjury, alleged to have been committed when giving evidence ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 81 wordsMr. P. C. Holmes-Hunt, on behalf of gas companies that have been made respondents to the new gas workers' plaint, asked Mr. Justice Higgins, in the Arbitration ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 243 wordsThe Public Works department has recommended the acceptance of the tender of Hall Bros., Hoddle Range, at £635, for repairs to the breakwater pier at ...
Article : 347 wordsThe large number of female typists and clerks employed at the offices of the Repatriation department at Jolimont is giving rise to considerable comment. Hundreds ...
Article : 153 wordsDr. Davis, health officer, has reported to Port Melbourne town council that some affected households had been abandoned, not only by their neighbors, but by their ...
Article : 127 wordsA very large gathering of Old Wesley Collegians attended the Founders' day dinner, held in the Adamson Hall, Wesley College, last night. Many of those present ...
Article : 678 wordsBENDIGO.—Two fresh cases of influenza were admitted to the hospital on Thursday, and two patients died. There are now 37 patients in the infectious diseases ...
Article : 35 wordsDANDENONG.—At the meeting of the local shire council on Monday, a returned soldier, named Gamble, asked councillors to assist him in obtaining a block of land ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 wordsOwing to the demands made upon the organisation of the District Nursing Society, members of the committee yesterday asked the Premier to make available immediately the annual grant of ...
Article : 56 wordsBALLARAT.—Three additional cases of influenza were admitted to the isolation hospital on Thursday making [?] total of 53. Several convalescents will be discharged on Friday. There are 35 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 wordsWith reference to the proceedings [?]tration Court as between timber workers and milk companies, Mr. Justice Higgins directed when the case was further heard yesterday, that ...
Article : 133 wordsHARROW.—At a meeting of the local branch of the Repatriation Board some stringent comments were made upon the woeful and lax methods followed by those ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 270 wordsSYDNEY.—The State Cabinet on Tuesday adopted the recommendation of the medical consultative council that the existing influenza regulations should be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 423 wordsThe parties to the liquor trades dispute appeared before Mr. Justice Higgns in the Arbitration Court on Wednesday. Mr. Gill. on behalf of the Federation Liquor and Allied Trades Union, ...
Article : 260 wordsADELAIDE.—Thirteen patients have been admitted to the Exhibition hospital during the last two days. One death occurred on Thursday, and 17 cases are ...
Article : 68 wordsAttention has been drawn by Mr. D. A. Calderwood, a returned soldier, to his failure to secure the purchase, through the Closer Settlement Board, of an orchard at ...
Article : 367 wordsBRISBANE.—The first death from pneumonic influenza in Queensland occurred at the Federal quarantine station at Lytton on Wednesday night. Eight fresh ...
Article : 38 wordsKORONG VALE—Elizabeth Nioa, a young single woman who was housekeeper to Mr. Thomas Scott, [?] Flat, died on Wednesday night. The police found strychnine in a cup in deceased[?] ...
Article : 40 wordsBRISBANE.—The Home Secretary, Mr. Huxham, states that the opinion of Sir Edward Mitchell, K.C., concerning the difference which has arisen in regard to the ...
Article : 67 wordsGEELONG.—John H[?], a middle aged married man, who resided with his wife and family in Clarendon-street, Chilwell, retired to bed at 11 p.m. on Friday, 25th April. He was missing ...
Article : 56 wordsThe "demonstration" of the Socialist party yesterday in observance of May day assumed a very mild form, the members of the party who took part failing to arouse ...
Article : 301 wordsSTAWELL.—An inquiry into the death of Ernest Anderson, a resident of [?]awarra, who was shot through the head on Tuesday, was held at Stawell on Thursday. The evidence showed that deceased ...
Article : 68 wordsApart from inter-State vessels which have been withdrawn from the Western Australian service owing to the obstinacy of that Government in regard to its ...
Article : 101 wordsPurn Burridge, aged 21 years, of Bower-street, Northcote, while riding a motor cycle along [?]-road last night collided with a [?] approaching from the opposite direction. He was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 196 wordsPERTH.—A remarkable double tragedy was discovered in extraordinary circumstances early on Thursday morning. A motor driver named Weylandt drove up ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 264 wordsGEELONG.—The agriculture society on Thursday considered a circular from the Chamber of Agriculture relating to the [?] farmer's convention to be held at ...
Article : 121 wordsIn response to the appeal made on behalf of the above fund we have received £10 from [?] Pinsent. ...
Article : 24 wordsTo clear up certain misunderstandings Captain H. E. Featherstone, officer commanding at the base hospital, issued a statement yesterday, in the course of which ...
Article : 229 wordsSir,—My daughter is the wife of a returned soldier, who is supposed to be "settled" on a farm at Fern Tree Gully. They have a family of four children. On ...
Article : 207 wordsA dispensation and certificate of discharge from his debts were yesterday granted by Judge Moule in the Insolvency Court to Basil Vankeerson, of the Government Chalet, Mount Buffalo, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 171 wordsFREMANTLE.—The only alteration on Thursday in the wharf deadlock was the more hopeful deliberations between the disputes committee representing the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 2 May 1919, Page 8
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