Victoria's contribution to the campaign for national fitness was advanced last night when an enthusiastic and representative gathering of citizens resolved to form an advisory committee to assist the State Council for Physical ...
Article : 613 wordsThe Minister of Social Services (Sir F. Stewart) speaking at the meeting at the Town Hall last night of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 173 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.--Surveys of the possibilities for complete motor car manufacture in Australia will be made by representatives of British motor car interests. The present cost of producing essential replacement parts and the ...
Article : 363 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.--Cockatoo dock, yard is a hive of activity as a result of the expanded defence programme of the Federal Government. The sloop ...
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Advertising : 346 wordsThe appointment of inspectors to police Commonwealth Arbitration Court awards and a comprehensive investigation by the State Government into the ...
Article : 446 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.--It is practically certain that Mr. H. Clapp, chairman of the Victorian Railway Commissioners, will be appointed manager of ...
Article : 157 wordsUnless the Federal and State Governments realised the necessity for making preparation for productive work, there would be great hardship "if the Powers ...
Article : 241 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.--Applications for the first special-entry officers' training course of six months at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, will ...
Article : 169 wordsMembers of the executive of the Liberal Country party discussed the decision of the Federal country party with Messrs T. Paterson and J. McEwen. M's.P.. to ...
Article : 328 wordsA highly successful concert was tendered to Mr. Noel J. B. Nickson at the Town Hall last night, an enthusiastic audience aiding the pleasure of the occasion ...
Article : 313 wordsBENDIGO, Tuesday.--The body of John Rooney was this afternoon recovered from Johnson's old mine shaft at California Gully. The expert miners ...
Article : 188 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.--To relieve the shortage of medical practitioners in country districts, the Government introduced a bill in the Legislative Assembly ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Defence department has made an offer, through the Institution of Engineers of Australia, of commissions in the Staff Corps engineer units to qualified ...
Article : 116 wordsBALLARAT, Tuesday.--There was a largo attendance of delegates at the autumnal session of the Baptist Church to-day. Rev. A. H. Potter, of South ...
Article : 305 wordsIn several quarters in, the last few days allegations have been made that sweating is rampant among Australian workers in many trades. One ...
Article : 191 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.--Arrangements have been made for a special seven weeks' course for 33 regimental cooks enlisted in the new permanent force ...
Article : 83 wordsPERTH, Tuesday.--Mr. J. H. Curie, one of the best-known travel authors, stated when he arrived at Fremantle by R.M.S. Strathmore to-day that he had ...
Article : 172 wordsMelbourne University medical students held their annual dinner at Carlyon's Hotel last night. The guests included the former dean of the faculty, ...
Article : 105 wordsThe celebrated German pianist and interpreter of the works of Beethoven, Artur Schnabel, arrived in Melbourne by aeroplane from Sydney yesterday to ...
Article : 250 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.--Information supplied by the Treasurer to-day, in answer to a question by Senator Darcey (Lab., Tas.), showed that the expenses ...
Article : 66 wordsSHEPPARTON, Tuesday.--That the Federal Government should exercise its national right and restrict alien immigration to preserve national unity, ...
Article : 153 wordsKALGOORLIE, Tuesday.--Work has been held up for a day and a half on the sinking of the new Ajax shaft of the Western Mining Co.'s Central Norseman ...
Article : 84 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.--The hearing of the case in which George Henry Dowsing claimed £400 damages from Walter Joseph Lyons, better known as Don ...
Article : 59 wordsTo enable the City Council to resurface the roadways and restore them to their normal condition, the public works committee at its meeting yesterday ...
Article : 120 wordsFifty-nine bricklayers and builders' operatives arc leaving London by the Rangitiki for New Zealand as the first instalment of 500. All have been ...
Article : 347 wordsWith claps of encouragement punctuating enthusiastic applause less frequently as the show got under way, Getting the Bird, the University students' ...
Article : 322 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.--The calling of a conference between the Commonwealth and State authorities with a view to the effective policing of industrial awards will ...
Article : 63 wordsMuch bright humor and clover dancing to interspersed among tho ten oversea variety acts in Broadway Hat Shots at the Tivoll Theatre, which is presented twice dally. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe fourth Celebrity Concert of the series to bo given by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, in conjunction with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, will be hold in the ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.--Robert William Meek, formerly treasurer of the Railway and Tramway Officers' Association, was charged at the Darlinghurst Quarter ...
Article : 68 wordsSeveral shots were fired by members of a police wireless patrol before two youths, who the police allege had broken into the Albion railway station ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsOver 700 parents of scholars attending the Methodist Ladies' College farewelled the retiring principal, Rev. J. W. Grove, and Mrs. Grove, at Hawthorn town ...
Article : 163 wordsMEENIYAN, Tuesday.--A car driven by Mr, N. McDonald, of Leongatha, skidded on the South Gippsland highway this afternoon, and collided with ...
Article : 79 wordsOne of the proposals for the city carnival to be held in October is a floral pageant. Invitations have been circulated among all Victorian municipalities ...
Article : 121 wordsDARWIN, Tuesday.--Boarders at the Victoria Hotel, Darwin, to-day had to got their own lunch because of a strike among the employes. Armed with trays, ...
Article : 76 wordsIn co-operation with the medical and dental professions the Australian Apple, and Pear Council will conduct an apple week in Melbourne from June 19 to 24. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 17 May 1939, Page 14
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