The Government experimental wheat plots on Messrs. Ryan Bros.' farm at Pine Hills, near Berrigan, N.S.W., have been harvested under the supervision of ...
Article : 546 wordsThere are needed for the firing line 25,000 Victorians, and they have to be ready in the camps in ten weeks. It has been done in the past; it can be done now if those ...
Article : 700 wordsThere is no need to doubt that the country is on the eve of a great occasion, and the House of Commons on the eve of a momentous decision. London is simmering ...
Article : 3,458 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture yesterday announced further sales of wheat abroad. In an official statement he made available for publication he said:— ...
Article : 458 wordsExplanatory notes. Rain has fallen. Light. Gentle or Mod. R Thunderstorm. Fresh. Strong Breeze. Fresh gale. R. Rough. M. Moderate. S. Smooth. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 16 wordsA preliminary meeting of the Brighton recruiting committee was held last night in the local town hall, the mayor (Cr. J. B. Grout) presiding. Mr. W. A. Adamson, ...
Article : 187 wordsAt the request of the State Recruiting Council, the Lord Mayor has appointed a recruiting committee and sub-committees within the city of Melbourne to consider ...
Article : 173 wordsTo-day's recruits totalled 449, and of these 362 were accepted. This makes 1843 accepted for four days. Men from Snowy River marched out of ...
Article : 52 wordsAlthough the reports from South Australia have not been received the isobaric chart was completed from those received from Western Australia, and shows that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 351 wordsFor the week ended on Monday last the number of recruits accepted in Western Australia was 323. To-day in Perth 50 passed for service. ...
Article : 31 wordsImportant alterations were made yesterday by the State Commandant and the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee in the instructions which have been issued to local ...
Article : 211 wordsThe local district recruiting committee for Tawong shire has to date received 400 replies to census papers. Of this number 35 are willing to enlist at once, and 25 ...
Article : 66 wordsIn reply to the statement of the Minister of Agriculture regarding the issue of certificates to farmers who gave a lien on their crops to the Government, the ...
Article : 161 wordsThe State Recruiting Committee is at present considering the question of who to appoint to serve on a central committee to investigate recruiting replies which, the ...
Article : 93 wordsDuring 1915 26 insolvency schedules were filed at Ballarat. showing debts totalling £21,291, with assets amounting to £12,023, the aggregate deficiency being £9268. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe defence authorities estimate that at least 150 medical officers will be needed for service with the medical units that are to accompany the new Australian force ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 14 wordsThe danger of lighting a fire with kerosene was emphasised yesterday in the case of Mrs. Mary Perks, 48, living at 35 Primrose-street, Mconce Ponds. She was lighting the copper fire early ...
Article : 116 wordsThe principal medical officer has arranged to despatch a military doctor and a military officer for attestation purposes by Monday next to each of the new final ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 155 wordsThe appearance yesterday of resellers on the cornsacks market was the first, indication of an improvement in the outlook for the farmer in need of bags. It ...
Article : 183 wordsBernard Nugent, laborer, who had been having been conviction a week ago on a charge of having been found by night without lawful excuse on the premises of Mr. F. Sweeney, a ...
Article : 144 wordsCOLAC.—An infant named [?] Gray, aged eighteen months, died at Colac Hospital through drinking out of a tin that had contained [?] soda. The father, Mr. J. D. Gray, who is a ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Defence department has notified the State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee that men who are of military age and are eligible for active service should not be ...
Article : 66 wordsFor some time past the Director-General of Medical Services has been considering the advisability of reserving the military base hospital in St. Kilda-road entirely for ...
Article : 180 wordsSTAWELL.—On Wednesday afternoon Wm. Joseph Tippet, aged 3 years 5 months, son of Wm. Joseph Tippet, of Austin-street, Sodden, was drowned in a dam on the property of Frank ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 681 wordsAt the city police court on Thursday a man named James Harrison was committed for trial on a charge of having obtained a cheque for £6 by means of false ...
Article : 96 wordsOver 230 soldiers left Ballarat camp on Thursday for Melbourne, where they will undergo further training, preparatory to going to the front. The camp band ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Ovington, secretary of the Necessary Commodities Control Commission, states that on the question of coal wholesalers and retailers have been called upon to ...
Article : 120 words"Party, atten—shun !" yelled the recruiting sergeant, as the Governor-General. Sir Ronald Ferguson, entered the recruiting room at the Town Hall quite unexpectedly ...
Article : 347 wordsSYDNEY.—The third half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Kampong Kamunting Tin Dredging Ltd. was held on Thursday, Proposing the adoption of the reports and statements of ...
Article : 216 wordsGeneral Joffre, in a stirring Army Order, states:—"The Allies' strength is growing incessantly. It is holding uncontested the command of the seas. Germany has been ...
Article : 196 wordsSergeant-Major Warren, who prior to his enlistment last year was in the employ of Messrs. Leggo and Co., has returned from the front disabled. He is ...
Article : 62 wordsAbout 130 men, the last of those trained in the local camp, left at 10.50 on Thursday morning for North Williamstown to undergo a ten days course of musketry ...
Article : 94 wordsThe mayor of Bendigo, Cr. Beebe, has convened a meeting of representatives from different public bodies, with a view to appointing a committee to carry out ...
Article : 134 wordsSome excitement was created at the Trades Hall yesterday consequent on at attempt to hold an anti-recruiting meeting. During the morning leaflets against ...
Article : 164 wordsA special meeting of shareholders in the Colac Dairying Company was held today to protest against the embargo on the export of butter. ...
Article : 221 wordsThe proposal of Mr. T. J. Hewitt, of Daylesford, that the miners' association, should take over the suspended mine of the Victoria United Company, Ballarat ...
Article : 270 wordsBENDIGO.—South New Moon, resumed operations on Monday, although with a reduced number of hands. Crashing was started on Wednesday, but it is probable they will not clean off until ...
Article : 84 wordsAt the police court to-day ex-Constable Foley, who was recently dismissed from the force, was sentenced to three months imprisonment under the first offenders' act ...
Article : 47 wordsFurther opposition to the Government's recruiting scheme comes from the Amalgamated Miners' Association. The A.M.A. has carried the following resolution:— ...
Article : 69 wordsFREMANTLE.—The P. and O. liner Karm[?] arrived from London on Wednesday, with the following passengers:—For Adelaide: Miss Thompson, Mr. Bethune and son. For Melbourne: Mes[?] ...
Article : 96 wordsA pamphlet prepared at Victoria district head quarters for distribution among the men in camps throughout Australia gives a number of valuable hints to men entering ...
Article : 119 wordsMajor-General M'Cay, the inspector-general of the Australian Imperial Force, left Melbourne yesterday by the Sydney ex-press, on a visit of inspection of the ...
Article : 64 wordsAt a meeting of the Eaglehawk borough council on Thursday night the mayor (Cr. Oswald) announced that he had convened a meeting of representative public bodies ...
Article : 62 wordsThe commander of a British naval expedition on Lake Tanganyika (East Africa) reports that on 26th December the expedition attacked the German armed steamer ...
Article : 69 wordsReceived by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd.:—London, 5th January.—Tallow: Little or no business on a c.Lf. basis has been done, but ...
Article : 58 wordsDivid Leviston, of Anderson-street, Ballarat, coach driver. Causes of Insolvency: Sickness in family, want of employment and pressure of creditors. Liabilities. £28 1/3; assets, £5; ...
Article : 39 wordsSpeaking at a breakfast given by the Citizen's Committee to the reinforcement at the town hall on Thursday, Mr. A. J. Hampson, M.P., said that some people ...
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Advertising : 198 wordsA good deal of confusion appears to exist locally among those who have received the war [?] forms, as to the proper place to send the enlistment ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 179 wordsLarge orders are at present being placed by the contracts branch of the Defence department in connection with the provision of equipment for Australia's new army. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 wordsLord Brassey has made a gift of his well-known yacht Sunbeam to the Government of India. The yacht will be fitted out as a hospital ship. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 45 wordsA proposal has been made to the defence authorities that picked men, over 45 years of age, should be allowed to enlist for service in the new Australian force of 50,000 ...
Article : 237 wordsA number of returned sick and wounded soldiers last night formed an association to look after the interests of the men with regard to amelioration of conditions, pay, ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 7 Jan 1916, Page 8
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