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    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]

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  3. HOTEL TRADING HOURS

    The restriction in hotel trading hours to seven per day, as proposed by the Commonwealth Government, is to be postponed until after the ...

    Article : 107 words
  4. REPRESENTATION IN LONDON

    Mr. R. D. Elliot, who returned to Melbourne yesterday after almost two years absence abroad in close association with Lord Beaverbrook's work on ...

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  5. OVERTIME PAY WAIVED

    Delegates of the United Automobile Workers' Union, at a special war conference at Detroit, unanimously approved of their executive board's ...

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  6. WOMEN'S SECTION

    The importance of recreation huts for convalescent men in military hospitals was stressed by the newly appointed Director-General of Medical ...

    Article : 376 words
  7. STATE SERVICE HOURS

    Strong protests regarding the State Government order increasing hours were made at a meeting of 1000 State servants at the Taxation Offices ...

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  8. "Consumption Would Increase"

    Although quite clear about the proposal to reduce hotel trading from nine to seven hours daily, the Victorian Government is at a loss to ...

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  9. OBITUARY

    The pioneer of the wire industry in Australia, Mr. James K. MacDougall, died at Cliveden Mansions, East Melbourne, yesterday morning. Mr. ...

    Article : 356 words
  10. COUNSEL'S PLEA FOR CLIENT

    Mr. R. V. Monahan, counsel for Mr. Herbert James Allen, representative of O.T. Ltd., told the board of inquiry investigating allegations ...

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  11. Army Matron From the North

    Miss 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 words
  12. TAKE OVER COAL MINES

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.--In addition to partial hold-ups at two collieries, eight coal mines were idle to-day, the loss of production being 9000 tens. ...

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  13. PORT MELBOURNE SEAT

    Labor 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 words
  14. £432 FOR BLIND INSTITUTE

    During the past year Malvern auxiliary raised £432 for the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind. This was announced at the annual meeting ...

    Article : 114 words
  15. Food Prices And Housewives

    A 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 words
  16. Mrs. MacArthur At Fashion Show

    Special guests at an entertainment and fashion parade held at Foy and Gibson's yesterday for the Victorian War Nurses' Comforts Fund included ...

    Article : 158 words
  17. MILK CARTERS

    Men 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 words
  18. PARKING AREAS IN THE CITY

    The traffic committee of Melbourne City Council yesterday considered the abolition of certain daytime parking areas, but no finality was reached. ...

    Article : 80 words
  19. Father Officiates

    The 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 words
  20. FIGHTING IN THE PHILIPPINES

    It 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 words
  21. SCHOOL UNIFORMS ABOLITION

    An 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 words
  22. Quiet Ceremony

    The marriage was quietly celebrated at Camberwell yesterday of Maisie Alice, younger daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Parkinson, Burke-road, ...

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  23. Engagements Announced

    Peggy 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 words
  24. LEASE COVENANTS

    A decision likely to have far-reaching effects was made by Judge Richardson in the Second County Court yesterday, when he ruled that a tribunal ...

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  25. AMERICAN NEWS IN BRIEF

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced that National Police Academy police courses will be resumed on April 20. The fourteen weeks' course ...

    Article : 371 words
  26. FAMINE IN BELGIUM

    The "Time's" Lisbon correspondent says famine has overtaken Belgium at the end of the long winter. Social workers say thousands have ...

    Article : 126 words
  27. EGG SUPPLIES

    The 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 words
  28. Cartage of High Priority Goods

    At a special meeting of the Master Carriers' Association on Tuesday night a plan for pooling vehicles was adopted owing to the urgent necessity ...

    Article : 133 words
  29. Advertising

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    Advertising : 54 words
  30. Good Potato Crop

    With 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 ...

    Article : 66 words
  31. Advertising

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    Advertising : 201 words
  32. DISASTER FROM DANUBE FLOODS

    According to messages from Bucharest, the town of Vidin, with a population of about 20,000, had been completely, destroyed and 700 houses. ...

    Article : 49 words
  33. LIBERTY THEATRE

    Albert 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 words
  34. New Basic Wage Requested

    Because of the movement in prices since the war began, the Federal conference of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union, now meeting in ...

    Article : 141 words
  35. Women in Industry

    Whilst appreciating the valuable contribution to the war effort by the increased employment of female labor, the Federal conference of the ...

    Article : 138 words
  36. TWENTY-FOUR WRITS AGAINST NEWSPAPER

    Twenty-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 words
  37. RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS

    The University announces the following scholarship awards:-- Robert Bage Memorial Scholarship and Dixson Research Scholarship: Mr. R. E. ...

    Article : 81 words
  38. Subterranean Platforms at Flinders-street

    One plan of the Railway Commissioners for coping with the ever-increasing congestion of suburban traffic is the provision of underground ...

    Article : 170 words
  39. 249 Seamen Charged

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.--For more than three hours to-day police patrol waggons were engaged in collecting and transporting from a Sydney wharf ...

    Article : 75 words
  40. Soldier on Murder Charge

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--Reginald Sandery, soldier, was charged in the Adelaide police court to-day with having murdered James Hampton, ...

    Article : 63 words
  41. LAW LIST--THIS DAY

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  42. Acquitted by Jury

    A Jury in General Sessions yesterday acquitted Frederick Brainwood, seaman. Wellington-street, Richmond, on a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. ...

    Article : 82 words
  43. Fatal Sequel to Brawl

    Reported 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 words
  44. Women As Bus Drivers

    The chairman of the Tramways Board (Mr. Bell) said yesterday that before women were employed as bus drivers, further calls would be made ...

    Article : 91 words
  45. Dogs Kill 300 Sheep

    MORTLAKE, Wednesday.--Dogs were responsible for the loss of 300 sheep, which were grazing on the property of Mr. Ernest Holdsworth near the racecourse. ...

    Article : 83 words
  46. Advertising

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