The economic loss caused by "hold-ups" to traffic at railway crossings on busy suburban railway lines, such as at Heidelberg-road, Clifton Hill (as shown in the illustration), and at Glen Huntly-road, Elsternwick, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 200 wordsAn order for a number of "extremely powerful" fighter aircraft, which are not yet in production, but will have a performance in advance of any existing ...
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Article : 1,215 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--Counsel for interested parties gave an assurance at the G.P.O. inquiry to-day that they imputed no impropriety or dishonesty against the former Minister of Works (Mr. Thorby) in approving the contract ...
Article : 1,260 wordsJames Crouch, the King's Jockey, is missing on an aeroplane journey to Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was the only passenger in an aeroplane ...
Article : 108 wordsAfter a sensational trial, Judge Martin Manton, of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, has been imprisoned for two years and fined £10,000 dol. (£A2500) ...
Article : 126 wordsTony Galento has signed an agreement for a return title fight with Joe Louis in September in the event of him winning the championship. In the ...
Article : 284 wordsPalestine is being visited by the greatest expert in the world on soil erosion problems, the American Doctor Lowdermilk, chief of research of soli ...
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Advertising : 172 wordsThe Spanish ambassador in Paris, Genor la Querica, has assured M. Bonnet, French Foreign Minister, that the recent statement by General Kindelan, chief of ...
Article : 140 wordsCompton, racing against the clock and threatening rain, scored the season's fastest century, occupying 82 minutes. He hit 22 in one over off Partridge, and ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Commissioner General for the Commonwealth in New York, Mr. L. R. McGregor, addressing the annual convention of the Canadian Manufacturers' ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.--A report from Victoria of the occurrence of cabbage butterfly has caused officials of the South Australian Department of ...
Article : 82 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--Giving evidence at the Air Force Court of Inquiry to-day into the Avro-Anson crash, in which four men were killed at Riverstone ...
Article : 306 wordsMENZIES' CREEK, Wednesday.--Interest in education in the Dandenongs has been quickened by closer collaboration between teachers and parents to ...
Article : 157 wordsPresident Roosevelt, who does not want Congress to adjourn before it deals with the neutrality legislation, when asked whether the bill would help to keep the ...
Article : 85 wordsAt the request of the British Government, Herr Reinhardt, the German consul at Liverpool, has been recalled to Germany. ...
Article : 57 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--Action by employes. probably unprecedented in commerce, was revealed in the Causes Court to-day. Harold Meggitt, governing ...
Article : 144 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--At Central police court to-day Leslie Lang, 28 years, was committed for trail on a charge of having, while armed, robbed Cora ...
Article : 60 wordsAn interesting paper on centrifugal and reciprocating pumps was read by Mr. A. B. Robison (of Messrs. Robison Bros., South Melbourne) at the monthly ...
Article : 107 wordsARARAT, Wednesday.--A fire which broke out yesterday evening in the Midland Theatre, which was built last year at a cost of £28,000, did damage to the ...
Article : 93 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.--Wallace Dudgeon, 12 years, was found hanging from a tree at his parents' residence at Cottesloe to-day. It is thought he was ...
Article : 51 wordsPart of the freight of the Canberra, due to-day, will consist of 40,000 qulnnat salmon eggs from New Zealand for the Fisheries and Game department, Efforts ...
Article : 78 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--Mention of a combine in the coal trade was made by Alderman Campbell at a meeting of the Metropolitan Water Board to-day, when ...
Article : 80 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.--The Coal Mine Owners' Association and the Minister of Mines are considering the question of seeking miners from ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Tasmanian police have requested the assistance of Victorian detectives in an attempt to discover the identity of a man, believed to be a visitor from ...
Article : 128 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--Seeking an adjournment of the case at the Central Police Court to-day, Mr. A. J. Barry, of the Crown Law Office, stated that the ...
Article : 104 wordsPending an interview with the Premier (Mr. Dunstan) on Monday next, there will be no extension of the strike of 150 sustenance workers at the Boulevard, Cotllingwood. ...
Article : 187 wordsAn excellent presentation of The Quaker given by the Essendon Operatic and Choral Society in the Moonee Ponds town hall last night to assist the Essendon branch of ...
Article : 143 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--For breaches of the traffic code, D. H. (Darby) Munro was fined 15 in the Traffic Court today for overtaking traffic on a bridge. ...
Article : 44 wordsPreviously acknowledged £1199 15; R. Collie and Co. Pty. Ltd., £3 3; T. and H. Hunter Pty. Ltd., £2 2; H.B. (Richmond). £1 10; Chas. Steel and Co. Pty. Ltd., ...
Article : 96 wordsRussell-street police desire to warn the public that an errand boy employed by a city firm of wholesale chemists lost a small brown paper package containing ...
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Advertising : 55 wordsA free midday concert, under the auspices of the City Council, will be given in the Town Hall to-morrow by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade's band, conducted by Mr. F. C. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 22 Jun 1939, Page 12
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