A.I.F. recruits being taught the correct method of sighting a rifle. The rifles are attached to tripods to ensure steady aim at small targets which are used for training purposes. The results are afterwards checked by instructors. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 37 wordsThe restriction in hotel trading hours to seven per day, as proposed by the Commonwealth Government, is to be postponed until after the ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. R. D. Elliot, who returned to Melbourne yesterday after almost two years absence abroad in close association with Lord Beaverbrook's work on ...
Article : 329 wordsDelegates of the United Automobile Workers' Union, at a special war conference at Detroit, unanimously approved of their executive board's ...
Article : 603 wordsThe importance of recreation huts for convalescent men in military hospitals was stressed by the newly appointed Director-General of Medical ...
Article : 376 wordsStrong protests regarding the State Government order increasing hours were made at a meeting of 1000 State servants at the Taxation Offices ...
Article : 300 wordsAlthough quite clear about the proposal to reduce hotel trading from nine to seven hours daily, the Victorian Government is at a loss to ...
Article : 514 wordsThe pioneer of the wire industry in Australia, Mr. James K. MacDougall, died at Cliveden Mansions, East Melbourne, yesterday morning. Mr. ...
Article : 356 wordsMr. R. V. Monahan, counsel for Mr. Herbert James Allen, representative of O.T. Ltd., told the board of inquiry investigating allegations ...
Article : 513 wordsMiss McQuade White, who is matron of a military hospital in Northern Australia, is spending a brief period of leave in Melbourne. She has been ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 239 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--In addition to partial hold-ups at two collieries, eight coal mines were idle to-day, the loss of production being 9000 tens. ...
Article : 211 wordsLabor opened its campaign for Port Melbourne seat in the Legislative Assembly at a meeting at the local town hall last night. The State ...
Article : 373 wordsDuring the past year Malvern auxiliary raised £432 for the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind. This was announced at the annual meeting ...
Article : 114 wordsA meeting of the executive committee of the Housewives' Association expressed the hope that the salary of £1500 to the chairman of the Tea ...
Article : 210 wordsSpecial guests at an entertainment and fashion parade held at Foy and Gibson's yesterday for the Victorian War Nurses' Comforts Fund included ...
Article : 158 wordsMen employed on the delivery of milk have been exempted from the military call up until April 30. Consideration will then again be given to ...
Article : 164 wordsThe traffic committee of Melbourne City Council yesterday considered the abolition of certain daytime parking areas, but no finality was reached. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe marriage of Heather Belle, elder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Miller, Fairfield-avenue, Camberwell, to Captain James Winston Kent, A.A.M.C. eldest ...
Article : 100 wordsIt was pointed out at U.S. head quarters in Australia yesterday that General MacArthur was still in command of the Philippines forces, and ...
Article : 77 wordsAn appeal to principals of colleges to abolish school uniforms for the duration of the war was made by the Minister of War Organisation of ...
Article : 351 wordsThe marriage was quietly celebrated at Camberwell yesterday of Maisie Alice, younger daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Parkinson, Burke-road, ...
Article : 109 wordsPeggy Charlotte, only child of Mr. C Anderson, Toorak, and the late Mrs. Anderson, niece of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Mustard, Eastgate-street, Oakleigh, to ...
Article : 140 wordsA decision likely to have far-reaching effects was made by Judge Richardson in the Second County Court yesterday, when he ruled that a tribunal ...
Article : 641 wordsThe Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced that National Police Academy police courses will be resumed on April 20. The fourteen weeks' course ...
Article : 371 wordsThe "Time's" Lisbon correspondent says famine has overtaken Belgium at the end of the long winter. Social workers say thousands have ...
Article : 126 wordsThe shortage of eggs for several weeks was felt in some of the service camps, and the position was accentuated when supplies had to be ...
Article : 79 wordsAt a special meeting of the Master Carriers' Association on Tuesday night a plan for pooling vehicles was adopted owing to the urgent necessity ...
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Advertising : 54 wordsWith only 30,000 acres of potatoes planted compared with 43,500 acres last year, a dearth of potatoes was expected in Victoria this year, but ...
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Advertising : 201 wordsAccording to messages from Bucharest, the town of Vidin, with a population of about 20,000, had been completely, destroyed and 700 houses. ...
Article : 49 wordsAlbert Dekker plays a homicidal maniac in Paramount's "horror" film, Among the Living, which is due at the Liberty on Friday. Susan Hayward, Frances ...
Article : 118 wordsBecause of the movement in prices since the war began, the Federal conference of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union, now meeting in ...
Article : 141 wordsWhilst appreciating the valuable contribution to the war effort by the increased employment of female labor, the Federal conference of the ...
Article : 138 wordsTwenty-four separate writs were taken out in the Supreme Court yesterday against Truth and Sportsman Ltd. All the plaintiffs alleged that they had ...
Article : 90 wordsThe University announces the following scholarship awards:-- Robert Bage Memorial Scholarship and Dixson Research Scholarship: Mr. R. E. ...
Article : 81 wordsOne plan of the Railway Commissioners for coping with the ever-increasing congestion of suburban traffic is the provision of underground ...
Article : 170 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--For more than three hours to-day police patrol waggons were engaged in collecting and transporting from a Sydney wharf ...
Article : 75 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.--Reginald Sandery, soldier, was charged in the Adelaide police court to-day with having murdered James Hampton, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 192 wordsA Jury in General Sessions yesterday acquitted Frederick Brainwood, seaman. Wellington-street, Richmond, on a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. ...
Article : 82 wordsReported to have been injured in a brawl at St. Kilda on Tuesday night, George Abbott, 48 years, Park-street, St. Kilda, was admitted to Alfred ...
Article : 94 wordsThe chairman of the Tramways Board (Mr. Bell) said yesterday that before women were employed as bus drivers, further calls would be made ...
Article : 91 wordsMORTLAKE, Wednesday.--Dogs were responsible for the loss of 300 sheep, which were grazing on the property of Mr. Ernest Holdsworth near the racecourse. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 9 Apr 1942, Page 3
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