Show week is a week of conferences. There is a popular suspicion, well founded in a general sense, that everybody comes to town for the big display, and ...
Article : 766 wordsSince, the purchase of land for the settlement of returned soldiers was commenced a total of £711,159 has been spent by the Slate in the acquisition of 54,144 acres. Of ...
Article : 298 wordsPreliminary to the National Convention of the Y.M.C.A. a conference of the general secretaries is being held at the national office, Elizabeth House. Yesterday's ...
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Article : 4 wordsAt the meeting of the city council on Monday night, Cr. Crocker said the bill introduced in the Legislative Assembly dealing with land on which high schools ...
Article : 67 wordsA farewell dinner to the 13th reinforcements of the 1st Battalion was held in Sargent's Cafe last night. Pte. Alex. Rogers, of Beaufort, is the ...
Article : 1,067 wordsPte. PERCY DAVIS (late of Raymond-street, Sale), sot, of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Davis, Kooweerup, was killed in action in France on 31st August. Pte. Davis was born at Kooweerup, and was 23 years of age. ...
Article : 1,684 wordsBellarine shire council, has accepted the invitation of Geelong Harbor Trust to be present on the occasion of the interview between the trust and Portarlington Shell ...
Article : 48 wordsBetween Saturday and Sunday the office of Castlemnine Butter Supply Co. was entered by thieves, and the sum of £6 8/10 in cash, together with a cheque for £11 ...
Article : 83 wordsMonday's isobaric chart shows tropical low pressures occupying the north-west, with an extensive anti-cyclonic belt centred well to the south of the southern ...
Article : 158 wordsCOBDEN.—At the police court on Thursday the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals charged Gorden Waterfall, a storekeeper at Timboon, with cruelty to a sheep. The evidence for ...
Article : 2,202 wordsThe number of men now on the books of the Repatriation department in Victoria awaiting employment is 535, which is the lowest in the history of the department in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 wordsBEAUFORT.—Under the auspices of Ripon shire repatriation committee, a working bee waa held on Saturday to assist ex-Ptc. Frank Hunt, a returned soldier, to ...
Article : 60 wordsHARDEN (N.S.W.).—The residents of this district are exasperated at the treatment meted out to them by the Repatriation department. An enthusiastic public ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 wordsBRISBANE.—The chairman of the returned soldiers' land settlement committee states that 436 discharged soldiers have already selected land comprising 135,643 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 290 wordsThe Tramway Board has agreed to an application by the Victorian No. 1 branch of the Australian Tramway Employes' Association for the payment of 10/ per day to ...
Article : 53 wordsA largely attended meeting of the above society was held on Friday; Mr. T. G. M'Kenzle, J.P., presiding. The turnover showed a substantial increase of £4522 on the corresponding half ...
Article : 502 wordsZEEHAN.—When the members of the A.W.U. on the mine end of the Mount Lyell field drew up their new wages log the men on the smelter end of the field ...
Article : 219 wordsAssociated with the conference of the Farmers' Union, a meeting of women, at which Mr. Stewart, M.L.A., presided, yesterday decided to form a Women's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsOne of the recommendations approved by the Farmers' Union Conference at its session on Saturday last was "that wheat boards be asked to utilise private sheds in ...
Article : 229 wordsWELLINGTON.—The terms of settlement of the coal mining dispute involve the acceptance of the owners' offer to increase the existing bonuses by 7½ per cent, to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 420 wordsThe 27th annual festival of the Anglican diocese of Melbourne attracted a large audience to the Town Hall last night. Archbishop Clarke, who presided, ...
Article : 353 wordsTenders were accepted by St. Kilda council on Monday for the following annual services:—General cartage, Tucker Bros, at rates scheduled; removal of house refuse, Tucker Bros, £1450; pt ...
Article : 55 wordsIt has been resolved by the Gas Employes Union that any scheme for closser organisation must provide for industrial unionism on federal lines, and must safeguard the right of appeal to the Federal ...
Article : 111 wordsThe annual session of the Water Works Trusts' Association is to be held at the office of the association, Old Exchange, Collins-street, to-morrow, at 10 a.m. ...
Article : 93 wordsHorace Wilfred Shorten, of Doveton-street, Ballarat West, grocer, Causes of insolvency: Inability to gen in outstanding debts and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £562 13/7: assets, £481 5/; ...
Article : 40 wordsBALLARAT.—A report was on Monday received by the coroner from Le[?]month police that Mary Warren, a widow, 74, had been found drowned in a water hole on her farm at Windermere. It is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 196 wordsThe Government is still endeavoring to increase the strength of citizen force units by the enlistment for the period of the war of men between the ages of 21 and 50 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsECHUCA.—A serious gun accident occurred at Tougala on Sunday, George Bohm, 38, blacksmith, having his left hand badly shuttered. He was in the act of putting a loaded gun under ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsMr. W. S. Keast, stock and station agent, begs to report having sold, on account of John Peavey and Sons, of Gisborne, V., station property in New South Wales, containing 8820 acres, known ...
Article : 58 wordsMARYBOROUGH.—On Saturday a child, two years old, was found by several ads struggling in the lake in Princes Park in about 4 feet of water. A man to whom the lads appealed ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 24 Sep 1918, Page 8
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