BELGRAVE, Sunday.--A good shower rain yesterday, and a further light but steady fall this afternoon, has checked the bush fires in the 25 miles of country ...
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Article : 335 wordsPro-Germanism on the part of many city residents, in the present crisis is the natural result of Britain's investment policy before Hitlerism. Millions ...
Article : 908 wordsFurther details of the plan to reorganise the Criminal Investigation Branch, an announcement of which appeared in "The Age" on Saturday, were ...
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Article : 597 wordsHonoring Sir Isaac Isaacs as the first Australian-born Governor-General of the Commonwealth, members of the Australian Natives' Association tendered him ...
Article : 1,394 wordsAs a light touring car driven by William Byrne, of Sumner-street, East Brunswick, was travelling across the intersection of Bridge-road and ...
Article : 180 wordsSir Thomas Inskip, who has been Attorney-General .since 1932, has been appointed to the new office, of Defence Minister. ...
Article : 399 wordsUPPER FERN TREE GULLY, Sunday. --Yesterday evening at Lower Fern Tree Gully a fire started close to the railway line and, driven by the fierce easterly ...
Article : 247 wordsAt midnight on Saturday two women. Nellie F. Young, 30 years, Willamstoen-road, Footscray, and Aimee Cheaters, 24 years. Tongue-street. Yarraville, were ...
Article : 101 wordsThere is at large in Melbourne to-day a gang of three masked, armed bandits who specialise in raiding motorists in lonely places in the suburbs, stripping them of ...
Article : 462 wordsGEELONG, Sunday.--Throughout Saturday, and particularly during the afternoon, the easterly wind lashed the waters of the Bay into fury. Waves crashed ...
Article : 136 wordsAt 8.30 p.m. on Saturday Martin Tobin, 45 years, a country visitor, who is stopping at the Royal Saxon Hotel. Elizabeth-street, was crossing the ...
Article : 69 wordsAs he was crossing Princes-street, Oakleigh, at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday Ian Dalton, 4 years, whoso parents live in Queen's-avenue, Oakleigh, was knocked ...
Article : 48 wordsCommunists returning from the funeral of Detective Gisbert, whom the students shot in mistake for a deputy, Senor Jimincz Asua, whom he was escorting, ...
Article : 291 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Cr. Wales) is seeking the assistance of the Premier (Mr. Dunstan) in obtaining a report on last week's bush fires with regard to the ...
Article : 69 wordsTOORA, Sunday.--The long-awaited break in the weather came yesterday, when steady ram set in from the east. Up to 9 a.m. to-day 195 points were ...
Article : 97 wordsAt the intersection of Toorak and Camberwell roads late on Saturday afternoon Ralph Lilywhite, 14 years. Station-street, Burwood, was knocked down by ...
Article : 98 wordsSCOTSBURN, Sunday.--At a meeting of the members of the local bush fire brigade, resentment was expressed at the action of the Railways department and ...
Article : 90 wordsCOBRAM, Sunday.--A severe thunder storm passed over the town this morning, 60 points of rain being registered. During the storm an electric light pole in ...
Article : 76 wordsGreensborough presented a brilliant and unusual spectacle, yesterday when the comparatively small confines of the park and picnic ground accommodated a ...
Article : 594 wordsFRANKSTON, Sunday.--Three young men were seriously injured when a motor outfit, struck a bed of drift sand beside the roadway in Point ...
Article : 69 wordsEUROA, Sunday.--The huge fire which had been burning in the Terip and Gobur district was got under control by a large band of fighters, including men ...
Article : 170 wordsMYRTLEFORD, Sunday. -- Heavy storms were experienced during lost night and to-day. More than an inch of rain fell at Happy Valley and ...
Article : 75 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--Ambulance officers had to work for half an hour using extreme caution to extricate William David McKenzie, 33 years, of Auburn, ...
Article : 138 wordsPresence of mind saved Mr. A. G. Pattinson, managing director of A. G. Pattinson Pty. Ltd., grocers, Gleniyon-road, East Brunswick, from losing a large ...
Article : 131 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--Extensive damage to crops and property was caused by a cloudburst on the south coast late last night. In some centres between ...
Article : 243 wordsAccording to a report to Cabinet by Major Arimatsus, the Soviet has massed 200,000 troops in the Far East, with 990 war planes, and has duplicated the ...
Article : 76 wordsReductions in railway fares and freights, except for the purpose of meeting road competition, are not likely to be made by the Commissioners, it is ...
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Article : 114 wordsWELLINGTON, Sunday.--The statement that the day of the small miner in the gold-mining industry had definitely gone, as promoters now had to ...
Article : 142 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--When a motor car and motor cycle collided head on at Marrickville early to-day, James Bernard Lawrence, of Punchbowl, was fatally ...
Article : 37 wordsThe English air mall was 48 hours late this week. The delay occurred in Queensland. Mails were delivered in private boxes of the G.P.O. yesterday. ...
Article : 44 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--Record rains have fallen in parts of the central west, and tropical downpours in the coastal districts blocked the main trunk ...
Article : 168 wordsA special meeting of the general council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia was held in Melbourne last week. Sir G. M. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 16 Mar 1936, Page 12
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