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Article : 30 wordsThe recruits at Beaufort district ca[?] have completed their third week of training. The Ripon shire recruiting officer, Sergeant S. Smith, obtained 28 recruits in ...
Article : 86 wordsNegotiations between the general manager of the State coal mine (Mr. Broome) and representatives of the miners on strike resulted on Saturday in what is officially ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 348 wordsThe council of the Pastoralists' Association of Victoria, Mr. J. C. Ri[?] being in the chair, on Friday received a letter from Mr. A. S. Rodgers, M.P., explaining ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 wordsA recruiting meeting was held at Dookie on Friday, under the auspices of the Shepparton council. A strong appeal for recruits was made by Captain Herring. He ...
Article : 70 wordsFollowing on the official notice that appeared in the "Government Gazette" of 2nd inst., the Department of Defence has issued a statement in regard to the use of ...
Article : 268 wordsSwallow and Ariell's Busy Bees have just completed a most acceptable gift, consisting of 1200 children's garments. This work is to be given to the Maternelle Societe of Paris, Madame ...
Article : 107 wordsHamilton borough's quota of 58 recruits for the new army was completed on Friday, when out of fourteen volunteers eleven were accepted. ...
Article : 26 wordsDr. Harper, of the local hospital, has resigned in order to offer his services to the Defence department. Thirty-five recruits who have been undergoing training ...
Article : 62 wordsWith a view to encouraging enlistment in the Australian Expeditionary Forces, the above trust in August, 1914, decided that it would pay to the representatives of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 wordsThree brothers of fine physique, Messrs. Sanderson, from Buffalo River, were accepted on Friday for service at the front. W. H. Sanderson, aged 33 years ...
Article : 92 wordsEvery interest in Caulfield has been stirred in the preparations for the Red Cross exhibition, carnival and fair, to be held in the Kooyong military hospital ...
Article : 81 wordsAn application has been made by the Clerks' Union to have the wages board called together again, in view of many complaints from commercial clerks that ...
Article : 96 wordsFive members of the Surrey Park Swimmers Club, viz., Privates R. Traill, L. Swindon (who rescued two boys from drowning in a lagoon last year, and received ...
Article : 88 wordsThough the northerly winds gave place to southerlies very early on Saturday morning, and by 9 a.m. the storm trough responsible for the change had reached ...
Article : 225 wordsBetween 8 and 9 p.m. on Saturday, Mr. Daniel Donovan, who was driving a buggy, while turning from Point Nepean-road to go towards Cheitenham, brought one of the shafts into collision with ...
Article : 170 wordsSir,—Much has been said and written of the great work our sailors are doing in defence of the Empire and our oversea trade. It only remains, I think, to let ...
Article : 161 wordsAt the last meeting of Winchelsea council the following motion was carried unanimously:— That the council do not employ in any capacity ...
Article : 112 wordsDuring the week ended on Saturday 49 new applicants for employment—all discharged soldiers—were registered at the soldiers' employment bureau, and ...
Article : 362 wordsAt a well attended meeting of the Theatrical Employes' Association yesterday complaints were make in regard to the sweating rates of wages paid by some of the ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Warrnambool camp was closed on Saturday, when the commanding officer, Major Begg, and 520 officers and men left by special train for Geelong and ...
Article : 44 wordsArchbishop Clarke, at St. Paul's Cathedral last evening, preaching the introductory sermon to the Lenten course of addresses on The Church's Message on the ...
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Advertising : 82 wordsA new order affecting the leave of soldiers in military hospitals and convalescent homes has been enforced by the military medical authorities. In the past ...
Article : 247 wordsWhile Michael Mulhall, 17, licensee of the Victorian Hotel, Gisborne, was filling his motor car with petrol on Saturday night he struck a match to see if the tank was full. The flame came too ...
Article : 77 wordsThe principal reason for the reorganisetion of the New Zealand forces, and with it the Australian forces, seems to be the accumulation of reserves of reinforcements ...
Article : 603 wordsA successful jumble fair was held in the grounds surrounding Mr. J. A. Wise's residence, Carrington-road, Box Hill, on Saturday afternoon, in aid of the funds of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 75 wordsHAMILTON.—A boy, aged 2 1/2 years, son of Mr. B. Osborn, was drowned in a tub of water at his parents' home, Penshurst-road, on Sunday. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe matters in dispute between the Small Arms Factory Association and the factory management have been referred to the Industrial Registrar, as the Board of ...
Article : 55 wordsOUYEN.—On Friday an aged man, John Martin was found dead on the road between the camp and the railway station at Underbool. Death had evidently taken place about a week ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsWANGARATTA.—Messrs. John Byrne and William M'Donald were the victims of a motor car accident last night through their car colliding with a telegraph pole on Parfitt-road. Mr. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe employes at Randwick tram shops took a ballot yesterday to decide whether they should return to work to-morrow. The voting was as follows:—For ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 27 wordsBROKEN HILL.—Roger Cashel, 55, while working in the new mill at the Proprietary mine on Saturday suddenly dropped dead. Death was due to heart failure. Deceased had been employed at the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsBefore evacuating the position at Anzac many efforts were made by sections of the army to ensure that the graves of their fellow comrades might be guarded and ...
Article : 113 wordsThe council of the federated clothing trades of Australia commenced its annual conference at Sydney on Friday. Delegates were present from Queensland, New ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 708 wordsDr. Hugh Boyd had been attending a patient at Kangaroo Gully to-day, and as he was returning home something went wrong with the fan of his motor while ...
Article : 262 wordsThe following contribution has been received by the hon. treasurer, Mr. O. Morrice Williams, 403 Collins-street:—Mrs. John Sanderson, £12. Total, £9830 13/3. ...
Article : 30 wordsAt a meeting of the Cranbourne shire council on Saturday a letter came to hand from the protest committee of Traralgon urging further action with respect to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 wordsWhen it was announced by the Minister of the Navy that the whole of the supply of Christmas stockings that had been sent to the Australian fleet unit for distribution ...
Article : 220 wordsAddressing an audience of about 1000 boys and girls, assembled in the hot auditorium of the Port Melbourne town hall on Saturday afternoon, the mayor, Cr. A. ...
Article : 354 wordsThe Victorian Football League will this evening hold one of the most important meetings since its establishment. Delegates will determine whether football ...
Article : 525 wordsA sad case of mental breakdown through strain induced by anxiety over the war has occurred at Mentone. A married woman, aged 39, whose husband is at the ...
Article : 186 wordsThe following awards of scholarships for University students proceeding to the ministry of the church have been made:— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 478 wordsDiscussion took place at a meeting of the South Melbourne, branch of the Labor party on Saturday night regarding the punishment meted out to Mr. J. Skurrie ...
Article : 383 wordsThe results of three district courts-martial were made available on Saturday. All three men were charged with desertion from his Majesty's service. Two ...
Article : 180 wordsSir,—Amid the bursting of shells, the thunder of the guns and the tragic heroism of men on the battle field, when the fate of nations is swaying with the fortunes of ...
Article : 655 wordsAt a meeting of the Mining Managers' Association on Saturday the president (Mr. T. Bunner) reported that the federated body on 28th February carried a ...
Article : 215 wordsMr. H. J. Richardson, secretary of the Aspendale Progress Association, at the meeting of the body on Saturday night, drew attention to a recent debate by Dandenong shire council as to ...
Article : 263 wordsThe ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a new presbytery at Warrnambool was performed by Archbishop Carr yesterday in the presence of a large gathering of ...
Article : 220 wordsChaplain William M'Kenzie, of the Salvation Army, who was in the trenches with the Australian soldiers at Gallipoli, in a letter to his head quarters in Melbourne ...
Article : 208 wordsWilliam Agar, of Swan-street, Richmond, furniture dealer. Cause of insolvency: Falling off in business owing to the war and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £386; assets, £350 7/3 ...
Article : 38 wordsAn almost total failure of the water supply in some parts of the town occurred last night owing to a break down of the pumping plant at Umberumberka. It is expected ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 263 wordsBEALIBA.—At the local court Chas. Hislop was fined £1, with 17/6 costs, for traveling in a ladies' compartment on a train between Du[?] and Bealiba. Walter Moran, for travelling on ...
Article : 45 wordsA correspondent has supplied the following report:—"On 10th ult. a meeting of the employes at the Government Printing Office was held during the lunch hour for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 wordsThe Marine Underwriters' and Salvage Association of Victoria reports having received the following cablegram from the Institute of London Underwriters, dated ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsConfirmatory news has been received by Mr. and Mrs. G. Bird, of Eyre-street, Ballarat, regarding the death in action at Gallipoli of their son, Eric J. Bird. Deceased, who was born at ...
Article : 91 wordsThe following persons have been appointed as members of the provincial printers' board:—Representatives of employers: Messrs. George Adolphus List, Robert M. Mercer, Percival Loinson ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 6 Mar 1916, Page 8
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