With reference to the recent reconstruction of the Queensland State Recruiting Committee, a letter has been written to Mr. D. Mackinnon, Director-General of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 583 wordsTwo letters, one by "Fair Play" and another by Cr. H. H. Smith, regarding the forthcoming election of Lord Mayor of Melbourne, were yesterday brought under ...
Article : 2,188 wordsDuring the hearing of the conspiracy case at the Criminal Court last week it was stated in evidence that the father of the child born at the house of Nurse Dent was ...
Article : 218 wordsAt a meeting of clergymen and other citizens on Monday it was decided that the annual charity collections this year be taken on Sunday, 28th October. Street ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 wordsAt a special meeting of the city council on Monday for the election of a mayor the retiring mayor, Cr. Beebe, gave a review of the business of the council during ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Brunswick recruiting committee contemplates holding a reunion of returned [?]oldiers who were former residents of the city. The committee will in glad if returned men who come under this ...
Article : 47 wordsThe retiring mayor (Cr. Webb), in his annual report to the town council on Monday mentioned that £5244 had been raised for patriotic purposes in the town. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 155 wordsTo such a state has recruiting fallen in Melbourne that only five recruits were enrolled yesterday. Thirty-five volunteers attended at the Town Hall recruiting depot ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 4 wordsThe enrolment of volunteers in Victoria for service with the sportsmen's battalion is proceeding steadily, though not so rapidly as the organisers of the unit desire. Up ...
Article : 61 wordsThe monthly visitors' afternoon in connection with the 6th Infantry Brigade will be held to-day at 2.30 p.m., in the railways concert hall (entrance by lift near Elizabeth-street). ...
Article : 130 wordsWANGARATTTA. — The Sportsmen's Thousand Band visited here an Saturday and Sunday. At a concert on Saturday night a recruiting speech by Sergeant ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 62 wordsThe temporary military camp which has been established at Bendigo fur the purpose of accommodating A.I.F. troops from Seymour is to be opened to-day. The ...
Article : 130 wordsCr, J. P. Crichton, who was [?] as mayor by a referendum of Port Melbourne ratepayers last week, was formally elected by the council yesterday. To the usual allowance of £100 a ...
Article : 137 wordsAn American evening will be held in the concert hall, Victorian Railways Institute, Flinders-street Station-buildings, on Wednesday. at 8 p.m. Members and friends are asked to bring a ...
Article : 51 wordsSYDNEY.—Damage estimated at over £50,000 was done by an outbreak of fire this morning at the Australian Paper Company's' five-story building, ...
Article : 218 wordsThe record of service of Lieutenant Colin F. Croswell, Royal Navy, who was killed in action on 20th inst. is one of which his school—Melbourne Grammar—and his country may well be ...
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Article : 110 wordsSir,—A young man who is the only son and sole support of a widow has a life policy for £200. He wishes to enlist, but if he goes on active service he will have to ...
Article : 194 wordsAUCKLAND.—The waterside workers strike at Vancouver on 30th July was owing to a dispute an the rates for handling goods. The men's claims were ...
Article : 172 wordsBALLARAT.—Although Cr. George, the new mayor of Ballarat East, is a strict [?], he will not abolish liquor froth the mayoral cupboard. He states that as a teetotaller he will ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 wordsThe following notifications have been received by relatives or friends of soldiers at the front:— Killed in Action. Sergeant-Major ARTHUR F. C[?] son ...
Article : 260 wordsAt the meeting of Prabran city council yesterday, when Cr. Embling was unanimously re-elected mayor, Cr. Gin[?] tendered his abject apology" to the mayor for "anything offensive ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 wordsSir,—Please permit me to place before you the following facts, with the object at drawing attention to a defect in the pension scheme which I think should be ...
Article : 314 wordsAt the Cathedral Hall, Fitzroy, last night Mr. E. Adams gave an address on the Emancipation of the Worker, in which he expressed the hope that Catholic workers ...
Article : 338 wordsJudgment was given yesterday, in the Banco court by Mr. Justice Hodges in a case wherein a caveat was lodged by Arthur James Maddock against the granting ...
Article : 259 wordsThe trouble w[?]ch has been threatening in connection with the running of the Northcote cable tramway has come to a head. Thirty-six men—the, gripmen and ...
Article : 195 wordsPERTH.—The W.A.T.O. committee on Monday upheld an appeal and removed the disqualification imposed on P. A. Connolly (owner), C. Fletcher (rider) and the horse Pilbarra by the stipendiary ...
Article : 65 wordsSir,—In your issue of 27th inst. there is a paragraph stating that the customs authorities have received a letter which says many gas mantles were exported from ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 wordsRelatives and others d[?]ring [?] of sick, wounded returning of [?] are invited to write to, or call at, the Red Cross Information [?] 60 Market-street ...
Article : 33 wordsAgainst the acquittal by Cr. J. P. Cri[?]ton, Messrs. A. Tucker and T. Test[?] J. P., at Port Melbourne on 21st May, of David Williamson on a charge of street ...
Article : 79 wordsAmount previously acknowledged [?]6305 1/3. The Benalla Entertainers, £49 8/1; [?] Morgan, proceeds of sale of flowers at Chettebham, [?] August, 5/6. Total, £6354 14/10. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 28 Aug 1917, Page 6
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