Municipalities and shires throughout Victoria--with the exception of Melbourne and Geelong, with are incorporated under a separate act--conducted their annual ...
Article : 179 wordsA report that a site in Orrong Park, Prahran, formerly used as a rubbish tip, was intended to be availed of for the election of homes for soldiers' and sailors' ...
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Article : 725 wordsThe Nationalist party convention to select a candidate for the Echuca by-election will take place at Shepparton this afternoon, under the chairmanship of the ...
Article : 895 wordsIn an industrial sense the effects of the seamen's strike will not be wholly dissipated for some weeks. Thousands of workers have not yet regained the employment ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordsSYDNEY.--Mr. M. Morton urged the Premier in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday to make representations to the Federal authorities that the request of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordstutor of the Workers' Educational Association at Bathurst, announced on Thursday that he had been advised by the police, on the authority of the Chief Secretary's ...
Article : 126 wordsIn moving the second reading of the Local Government (Municipal Elections) Bill in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. M'Gregor recalled the fact that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 wordsThe Acting Attorney-General was asked by Mr. Boyd (V.) in the House of Representatives yesterday if it were a fact that Mr. Dethridge in his report on the wharf ...
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Article : 31 wordsSixteen soldiers' widows, together with their 56 dependent children, have been duly installed in the homes provided for them by patriotic Prahran citizens at a nominal rent of 1 a week. ...
Article : 35 wordsAt the Marine Board yesterday afternoon the pilots' representative said he wished to direct the board's attention to the fact that owing to lack of the ...
Article : 151 wordsSYDNEY.--A compulsory ballot was conducted by the Labor department on Thursday among members of the Milk and Ice Carters' and Dairymen's Employes' ...
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Article : 152 wordsBAIRNSDALE.--The flood waters reached the highest level--just short of 1916 flood--at about nightfall on Wednesday, and receded slowly at first, but more ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 wordsDischarged at the City Court yesterday after being arrested on a charge of vagrancy, Sydney H. James, a young man, committed an offence within a minute of leaving the dock, and is now ...
Article : 127 wordsPERTH.--The seamen of the State steamers Bambra, Kwinana and Eucla, in accordance with a resolution of Fremantle Seamen's Union, have decided to resume ...
Article : 52 wordsVIOLET TOWN.--Mr. Robert Thompson, one of the oldest residents of Boho district, died on Sunday morning. He was recovering from an attack of influenza and was seated by the fire, when ...
Article : 61 wordsALBERTON (Shire).--North riding: J. J. O'Connor, unopposed. South riding: J. Barry, unopposed. Central riding: B. Buckley, 467; H J. Summerfield, 397. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 29 Aug 1919, Page 8
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