Stirring scenes marked the opening of the city recruiting depot at the Town Hall yesterday, and what was practically the inauguration of the new campaign proved ...
Article : 806 wordsVictoria requires an average of 80 recruits daily, to reinforce Victorians at the front. Qualifications.—Age, 18 to 45 years; ...
Article : 217 wordsThere were remarkable scenes of enthusiasm at South Melbourne town hall. Two flue brass bands played an overflowing audience into the hall. The strains of ...
Article : 1,079 wordsWith the prospect of the early formation of another Australian contingent for service at the front, the permanent officers attached to the A. and I. stiff of the ...
Article : 322 wordsSir,—I am a farmer, eligible for active service, have passed two country doctors easily, single and of the age when the best can be expected from a man. I am ...
Article : 130 wordsA cablegram has been received by the Defence authorities stating that the second of three antidotes suggested by Mr. R. J. Fletcher, president of the Geelong ...
Article : 63 wordsParticulars with regard to the new system of dealing with country recruits are being arranged hy Colonel Wallace, State Commandant. The Minister of Defence ...
Article : 115 wordsSir,—I am appealing through your columns to all motorists to offer their services and their cars for part of their time to the Parliamentary recruiting committee ...
Article : 103 wordsConsideration has been given by the State Ministry to the question of making up the difference in pay between the military wage and the salaries of civil servants ...
Article : 192 wordsObservation at the Town Hall depot yesterday showed clearly two things that might easily be done to enhance the results of the campaign. Scores of young ...
Article : 247 wordsThe gallant 5th Australian Infantry Battalion, which lost so heavily in the initial fighting in Gallipoli, again figures prominently in the latest list of casualties ...
Article : 341 words'Tis the call! 'tis the call of the drum, boys! Up and respond to its beat. Take your stand with the gallant band, Whose motte is "No defeat." ...
Article : 301 wordsReports received from country centres indicate that the recruiting movement is being enthusiastically supported. In many instances local committees were formed last ...
Article : 1,255 wordsMany visitors were interested spectators of the busy scenes in the courtyard of the Town Hall. The Governor-General, Sir Ronald Ferguson, arrived at 12.30 p.m., ...
Article : 107 wordsAt last night's meeting of the V.R.A. the question of competitions during the coming season, in view of the war crisis, was thoroughly discussed. It was ...
Article : 146 wordsSir,—Lost night I attended the meeting at the Lyric Theatre, Prabran, and was deeply impressed with the stirring appeals of Mr. Robinson and Rev. Mr. Townsend, ...
Article : 153 wordsVigorous campaigning is the order of the day in the suburban areas, and on all sides there are indications that a strenuous week will be pone through. Last night meetings ...
Article : 393 wordsA strong protest against the manner in which God was being connected with the war by theologians, bishops and others was made by Mr. Wyndham S. Heathcote, ...
Article : 515 wordsAdams's Hall, Hawthorn, was filled last evening with an enthusiastic audience, the members of which showed their patriotism not only by applauding, but in many ...
Article : 519 wordsRev. J. Henahan, Roman Catholic priest, who has been resident here for some time, has enlisted as a private. Father Henahan is a keen sportsman and a ...
Article : 57 wordsYesterday morning the Governor-General paid a visit to the recruiting depot established at the Town Hall. The Governor-General entertained ...
Article : 394 wordsMr. H. Twines, head teacher of Cobden State school, has volunteered and gone into camp. He was superintendent of St. Mary's Church of England Sunday school at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 wordsMany men from this district who have offered themselves for active service have been rejected. Robust recruits have been passed out for minor defects while others ...
Article : 40 wordsThe inaugural meeting of the Parliamentary recruiting campaign in the Heidelberg shire was held in the Fairfield Hall last night. Despite the adverse weather ...
Article : 434 words"Know 'em? Of course I do. Didn't they both go to State school with me," said the delicate looking man with the bad cough. "Jack, there, was a quiet ...
Article : 257 wordsThe public meeting called by the recruiting meeting of Williamstown, and held in the mechanics' institute at Williamstown last evening, was marked by sensational ...
Article : 1,589 wordsOwing to the pouring into the Flanders front of British troops early movements may be expected. There is no use in disguising the fact that field and heavy ...
Article : 272 wordsA special meeting of the members of the Liberal Workers' Institute was held last night at the club rooms, Flinders-street, Mr. A. A. Myers being in the ...
Article : 523 wordsSir,—Truth, indeed, lay in a nut shell when Lord Rosebery said, "A man of 5 feet, in good health, makes just as good a soldier as anybody else." Lord ...
Article : 516 wordsMuch enthusiasm was displayed at the meeting held in the Lyric Theatre, Prahran, over which the mayor (Cr. Heywood) presided. There were about 800 people ...
Article : 820 wordsThe practical result of last night;s meeting at Hawthorn was not ascertainable, except in the most vague and uncertain way, by the process of shaking a locked box and ...
Article : 213 wordsAn electric tram car in Lisbon caught fire, and many people were injured, including Dr. Alfonso Costo, who threw himself on to the street and fractured his skull. ...
Article : 40 wordsA meeting of district railway employes was held on Sunday afternoon, when a resolution was carried that the Hamilton branch of the Victorian Railways Union ...
Article : 61 wordsAt a meeting of the Echuca branch of the Political Labor Council to-night the following resolution was carried:— That the action of the "Argus" lately was of ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 6 Jul 1915, Page 8
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