LONDON, Aug. 20 (B.O.W. & A.A.P.) Interesting comparisons between the Australian and German troops as desert fighters--to the great ...
Article : 493 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.--There was a dramatic last-minute move late to- night to resolve the unsatisfactory position which has arisen over the proposal that the Prime Minister should go back to London. It is now suggested from ...
Article : 790 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.-- The possibility of an Imperial conference being held in London in the very near future was canvassed here ...
Article : 199 wordsAnxiety amongst the Japanese as to movements of British forces which have been concentrated to protect Empire interests in the Far ...
Article : 466 wordsThe case for the Victorian Railway Commissioners in the first of the claims brought against them over the Torquay-Morlac fires was outlined to ...
Article : 371 wordsThese are two views of the Hurricane eight-gun fighter presented to the Commonwealth by the British Secretary for Air. This machine has passed tests here, and will shortly be sent on tour to stimulate recruiting. The top picture is a side view of the machine, and below ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 72 wordsTwo vital problems confronting the public hospitals of Victoria are treatment of chronic invalids and the large proportion of cases due to ...
Article : 237 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--A solvent which will enable methylated spirits and petrol to be mixed, and used as a motor fuel, has been discovered by ...
Article : 134 wordsThe 12.10 p.m. Mass at the Church of St. Francis will be offered every Friday during the period of the war to obtain peace and God's special ...
Article : 451 wordsIn a reserved judgment, in the First Civil Court yesterday, Mr. Justice Lowe found' in favor of Alfred King, bookmaker, Palmerston-street. ...
Article : 291 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 wordsDifficulties grocers are confronted with in connection with deliveries of their goods owing to the operation of the petrol rationing scheme were ...
Article : 172 wordsPENSHURST, Wednesday.--When a car ran into a pine tree at the junction of Caramut-road and Blackwoodlane on Tuesday evening, Herbert ...
Article : 81 wordsStatements and denials made by leading members of the Victorian Labor party regarding the implications to be drawn from the action ...
Article : 270 wordsNews of the destruction of Swan Hill power station was read in "The Age" by the Minister in Charge of Electrical Undertakings (Mr. Old) as ...
Article : 181 wordsRev. John Donovan, parish priest of North Brunswick, died yesterday at the age of 53 years. He was born at Ballineen, County Cork, and was ...
Article : 186 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.--The Minister of Supply (Senator McLeay) to-day emphatically denied a suggestion by the secretary of the Motor ...
Article : 119 wordsThe State secretary of the Australian Railways Union (Mr. P. A. Randies) said yesterday that at a full meeting of the State branch council, ...
Article : 212 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. -- Wing-Commander T. W. White, U.A.P. member for Balaclava in the House of Representatives, has been appointed ...
Article : 95 wordsIn the County Court yesterday a jury awarded £133 910 as damages to Mrs. Elsie Mary Lindow, St. Kildaroad, Melbourne, in an action ...
Article : 211 wordsSWAN HILL, Wednesday.--Emergency meetings were held this morning of the sewerage, water trust, the borough and shire councils and the ...
Article : 227 wordsFollowing references last night at the annual meeting of the Sub-district Cricket Association to an article concerning old Brighton in "The Age" ...
Article : 158 wordsMrs. F. Brennan, wife of Mr. Brennan, M.P. for Batman, died on Tuesday night, after a sudden Illness, at her home in Northcote. She had ...
Article : 97 wordsViola Wilson is expected to return from Queensland in time to play Princess Ida at His Majesty's Theatre on Saturday, September 13. ...
Article : 136 wordsEast Camberwell and Hampton drew in the Doubles section of the is grade L.T.A.V. women's pennant tennis final yesterday. Tills has created much interest in the result of the singles to be ...
Article : 157 wordsAfter his father had secured his release from the Militia to help on the farm, a young man from the Mildura district was so keen on army life that ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Victorian secretary of the Tramway Employes' Association (Mr. J. I. Abfalter) said yesterday that the executive had decided to lodge a ...
Article : 164 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--A powder monkey, Claude John McLean, 34, fell 70 feet over the ledge of a metal quarry at Gaulburn to-day, with two ...
Article : 78 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 582 wordsAt the V.B.A. meeting last night it was decided that, as a result of the petrol restrictions, the number of games in the four-fours and three-tours Saturday competitions for the ...
Article : 214 wordsA documentary film, Coastal Defence, produced by the British Ministry of Information, and released by Warner Brothers, will be shown at ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Justice Martin, in the Practice Court yesterday, approved of a scheme of arrangement adopted by meetings of both ordinary and preference ...
Article : 129 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--The Kasima Maru has been enabled to make a straight run to Japan as a result of a Canberra decision to-day ...
Article : 83 words"Effort, Not Talk, Ensures Results," was the final sentence among the heat entries adjudged the winner of the final prize of £50 in the Red ...
Article : 87 wordsThe honorary organiser of the R.A.C.V. war transport committee (Mr. G. F. Griffith) said yesterday that the R.A.C.V. agreed with the ...
Article : 148 wordsAt the last meeting of the Tramway Employes' Association opposition was expressed to the proposal of the Tramways Board to employ female ...
Article : 96 wordsA broken rail and tracks of a motor car on Altona pier directed attention yesterday to a submerged car off the end of the pier. The top ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Sub-District Cricket Association at the annual meeting last night adopted the proposal of the Victorian Cricket Association that in one-day matches in which the baiting time ...
Article : 171 wordsMembers of the Railways Patriotic committee inspected the rest room of the Catholic Welfare Organisation and delegation offices, ...
Article : 114 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--In the Supreme Court to-day a jury awarded Ernest Frederick Weingarth, tobacco merchant, 2 damages in his action ...
Article : 83 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) said to-day that it was his intention to prevent the sale of land to Italians. ...
Article : 60 wordsMen engaged at Coburg tramway depot, as a protest against the Tramways Board s appointment of an employe to a position inside the depot, ...
Article : 99 wordsCASTLEMAINE, Wednesday.-- While working on trust, but under supervision, in the front garden with five other inmates of reformatory ...
Article : 98 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 165 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.--Tax concessions amounting to £80,000 were announced by the Premier (Mr. Playford) in his budget speech to-day. ...
Article : 92 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 wordsAn interesting match between Melbourne Grummur, winner of the Public School pennant, und the leading University (under 19) team, was played yesterday at the Melbourne cricket ground. ...
Article : 48 wordsBerlin radio broadcast an appeal to crews of the Red Navy not to scuttle their ships, but hand them over to the Germans. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe secretary of the Munition Workers' Union (Mr. J. M. Mackay) said yesterday that concessions in railway travelling would be sought for ...
Article : 72 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 115 wordsCASTLEMAINE, Wednesday.--When the staging on which they were working collapsed last night, Archie Thompson and Frank Wilson were ...
Article : 54 wordsAdvice has been received by relatives that Squadron-Leader John James Ralston, R.A.F., was killed in action on August 12. He was attacked when he went back to rescue his men ...
Article : 75 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 62 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 21 Aug 1941, Page 6
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: