Comment on the statements in the State Parliament on Thursday that the Railway Commissioners were trying to Americanise the service by purchasing American and ...
Article : 338 wordsAn action has been commenced in the High Court of Australian by the General Transport Company of South Australia Ltd. and Edley Hampton Dayman, of ...
Article : 1,097 wordsSeveral hundred shareholders attended the annual meeting of the Marconi Wireless Co. Ltd. Lord Inverforth presided. Members of the board on entering were ...
Article : 503 wordsEdward Hickman, who is suspected of the murder of Marion Barker, has been arrested at Pendleton (Oregon). Hickman admitted he knew Marion Parker. He ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 440 wordsThe action brought by the Commonwealth of Australia and the Federal Commissioner of Taxation against Abrahams Bros., of the Small Arms Co., of ...
Article : 151 wordsVery soon large numbers of tourists and campers will be travelling into the country, and an appeal is made to them to be scrupulously careful in the lighting ...
Article : 511 wordsThe rafile in connection with the unemployed toy fund was drawn yesterday, the winning number being 1982. The prize can be had at 392 Bourke-street. ...
Article : 62 wordsYesterday the State president of the Returned Soldiers' League, Mr. E. Turnbull, with the vice-president, Mr. H. J. Martin, visited the Caulfield and Austin ...
Article : 117 wordsThe hopes of those who were instrumental in inducing the Government to recondition Australia's greatest scenic alpine highway, between Bright and ...
Article : 249 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—The new Stale stamp duties will come into operation to-morrow. All cheques of £2 or upwards will have to bear a twopenny stamp. The ...
Article : 86 wordsThe series of Christmas parties being given by the Salvation Army to the men, women and children accommodated in its many social institutions is being steadily ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Governor-General, accompanied by Lord Grimthorpe and attended by Flight-Lieutenant Davidson, was the guest of the committee of the Victorian Cricket ...
Article : 906 wordsSir,—It was most refreshing to read in your issue this morning of Mr. Forrest's virile attack on the unpatriotic attitude and policy of the Railway Commissioners ...
Article : 252 wordsIn "The Age" of 10th December "Railway Deficit" complained that, although a train which Mildura residents had suggested be run to Melbourne at a late hour ...
Article : 126 wordsSir,—May I use your valuable columns to urge the whole of the public of. Australia to make this Christmas as safe one. Accidents have, in the past, been so ...
Article : 204 wordsAlthough Monday is being observed as Christmas day in the Postal department, it has been decided that ordinary rates tor telegraph and telephone trunk line call ...
Article : 40 wordsCaptain Lancaster and Mrs. Keith Miller left Akyab at eight o'clock this morning. They were forced to land at Dawbon, near Poozumdaung Creek, close ...
Article : 71 wordsEvery attraction calculated to appeal to the joyous mood of holiday makers has been arranged in connection with the Sassafras gymkhana, to be held at Sassafras ...
Article : 142 wordsThe report of the Railways Standing Committee on the proposed abolition of the level crossing at Heidelberg-road, Clifton Hill, and the substitution of a subway ...
Article : 465 wordsAlthough nothing definite has been arranged yet, there is a possibility of an Australia to New Zealand flight being made by three members of the New ...
Article : 176 wordsAmerican artists new to Australia will appear in the cast of Apples and Pairs, the farce comedy to be presented for the first time here at the Palace Theatre ...
Article : 160 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—A young woman to-day went to the Commonwealth Bank and asked the officials to change 200 English hall-sovereign notes into Australian ...
Article : 121 wordsTo-night a programme of Christmas carols and other items will be given in the Salvation Army Temple, Bourke-street, by the Training Garrison staff ...
Article : 68 wordsThe new regulations framed to make camping conditions more sanitary are now in force. The Health Commission has arranged for inspectors to visit camps ...
Article : 46 wordsSir William Berry, editor in chief of the "Sunday Times"; Mr. Gomer Berry, deputy chairman Allied Newspapers Ltd., and Sir Edward Iliffe, a director of the ...
Article : 386 wordsTo-night in the Town Hall Melbourne Philharmonic Society will repeat Handel's oratorio The Messiah, in which, by arrangement with Messrs. J. and N. Tait. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Red Cross offices and stores, at 42 Latrobe-street, will be closed from Christmas eve until Wednesday, 4th January. ...
Article : 27 wordsPleasure was expressed yesterday by the chairman of the Melbourne Hospital committee (Sir A. Danks) at the report presented to Parliament yesterday by the ...
Article : 146 wordsSir,—As an opponent of the electrification of the Collins-street trams, Sir William McPherson, in effect, seeks to deprive his wage-earning constituents of the ...
Article : 272 wordsThis evening, at 8 o'clock, the annual carol service will be held at St. Paul's Cathedral. Carols, old and new, will be sung, by the choir, and many will be glad ...
Article : 53 wordsThe first performance of the new Christmas pantomime, Robinson Crusoe, will be staged at the matinee to-day at the Princess Theatre. The chief comedy ...
Article : 79 wordsThe s. Weeroona will leave Port Melbourne Station Pier as follows:—To-day, at 1.45 p.m., for Queenseliff, Sorrento and Bromans; Sunday at 11 a.m., Monday, Tuesday and ...
Article : 116 wordsNo possible effort was spared by the superintendent (Mr. McGregor) and his staff of voluntary workers to make Christmas very "really and truly" for about sixty ...
Article : 214 wordsThe first performance in Melbourne of Avery Hopwood's farcical comedy The Alarm Clock, will be staged this evening at the Athenæum Theatre. Among the ...
Article : 46 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—To be pinned momentarily beneath an overturned five-ton tractor was the experience of Mr. R. W. Lahey, manager of the Canungra mill ...
Article : 89 wordsYesterday marked an important event in the history of the Church of England in Victoria, when the crowning stone of the new western spire of St. Paul's ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Melbourne Philharmonic Society will repeat the performance of Handel's oratorio The Messiah in the Town Hall to-night. The same cast of principals ...
Article : 64 wordsPERTH, Friday.—"Our political system is wrong, and is leading the country into an economic bog," declared Mr. W. Watson, member for Fremantle, on ...
Article : 119 wordsSir,—To compare Melbourne with London, New York, Paris or Berlin is ridiculous. These places are not comparable. In these cities they have underground railways ...
Article : 124 wordsClement Thomas, late of Tennyson-street, St. Kilda, clothier. who died on 11th November, left by will dated 1st July, 1925, real estate valued at £10,[?]51 and personal property valued ...
Article : 224 wordsThe Australian Commonwealth band, which returned to Australia recently after a tour of Canada and the United States, will open a season at the Capitol Theatre, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 118 words"British Imperialist reaction must be recognised as the chief motive force in the Canton slaughter and acts of violence perpetrated on the Soviet citizens," said ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Salvation Army Temple presented a busy scene yesterday morning, when over 100 parcels of Christmas cheer were distributed to widows with children, and ...
Article : 78 wordsSir,—A sentence of my letter of yesterday has been brought under the notice of Mr. Teece, of Melbourne Hospital, and he has made comment thereon. The ...
Article : 106 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Government has announced the appointment of Dr. E. S. Morris, senior medical officer of the Health department to the sent on the ...
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Advertising : 33 wordsMr. Lewis Thomas, secretary of the Children's Welfare department, joined yesterday in the preliminary Christmas festivities at "Eden," Bayswater, the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 24 Dec 1927, Page 12
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