While being token to the cells at the Law Courts yesterday, Verne Opie, 25 years, of Pelham-street, Carlton, who had just been sentenced to two years' imprisonment made a sensational bid to escape. ...
Article : 417 wordsMore than 200 seamen were estimated to be out of work in Australian ports yesterday. There was no work for 75 ...
Article : 236 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.--The people might be dissatisfied with the rate of taxes, but certainly not with the system of taxation. As far as the Commonwealth Government was concerned, uniform taxation was here ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 681 wordsGas firms and industry are likely to be again short of coal next week, due to low production at Newcastle. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 511 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--The annual congress of the N.S.W. division of the Returned Soldiers' League to-day declared out of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 306 wordsThe A.C.T.U. has asked the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) to request Australia House, London, to arrange for members of ...
Article : 197 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The Elder Hall, scene of the congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the ...
Article : 334 wordsDairy farmers will not receive drought relief for last year. The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. McKenzie) made this "sincere and frank" statement yesterday when addressing the annual conference of the Victorian ...
Article : 453 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 87 wordsIn a Sydney statement published in "The Age" yesterday, the general secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation ...
Article : 325 wordsThe position regarding the occupation of condemned dwellings during the housing shortage was discussed by South Melbourne ...
Article : 202 wordsKALGOORLIE, Wednesday.--Hearing a scream in her kitchen shortly after 6 a.m. to-day, Mrs. M. E. O'Sullivan, of ...
Article : 143 wordsThe formation of a Federation of Victorian Co-operative Housing Societies to overcome difficulties in home building was ...
Article : 193 wordsIn a special warning yesterday to former R.A.A.F. pilots who have taken out civil licences, the Department of Civil Aviation said ...
Article : 230 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.--The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) announced to-day that compensation for the sufferings of ...
Article : 134 wordsComing to Melbourne by train from Adelaide yesterday, 24 hours ahead of the Victory Contingent, which is due aboard H.M.A.S. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 213 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.--A newsreel displaying French bathing costumes was banned in Victoria "because the people were ...
Article : 207 wordsRed Cross was at present one of the most potent forces in the world for international understanding. This was stated by the ...
Article : 191 wordsModern travel facilities are expected to promote closer Empire co-operation in scientific research. At the recent London ...
Article : 199 wordsThe egg industry was faced with serious problem in finding a market for surplus production. This was emphasised yesterday by ...
Article : 209 wordsThe people of Victoria have responded so well to the Lord Mayor's Food-For-Brttaln Fund that Cr. Connelly was able to ...
Article : 229 wordsCriticism that both the Housing Directorate and the State Government's building material control were expressed at a ...
Article : 162 wordsBecause of heavy falls of snow log production in forest areas and output of building timbers from mills have been reduced, and ...
Article : 166 wordsThe ban imposed on painting work at the show grounds has been removed by the Painters' Union. Fifty men who were ...
Article : 155 wordsLegislation will be introduced into State Parliament during the coming session to continue the present Commonwealth controls ...
Article : 114 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.--Two English engineers, Messrs. Buckton and Clark, who are to investigate for the Victorian ...
Article : 109 wordsWhile carrying out work in preparation for the Royal show at the show grounds yesterday, Mr. James Reed, 44 years, a painter, ...
Article : 53 wordsPupils at registered girls' schools next year will have their first-term holidays at the same time as pupils of public schools ...
Article : 88 wordsAn attempt to seize a till in the Elite Cafe, Acland-street, St. Kilda, last night, was unsuccessful, and the men concerned ...
Article : 102 wordsWARBURTON, Wednesday.--Strong winds, an uprooted tree and a blocked water channel were factors in a landslide which ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Justice Martin, in the Supreme Court yesterday, held that a shipping company was not liable for payment of wages to an ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. Norman Stewart, 31 years, Hotham-street, Seddon, was injured yesterday morning, when his arm caught in the belt of a ...
Article : 46 wordsWhile cleaning the windows of a block of flats at the third storey level yesterday afternoon, Mr. Ernest Boyd, 36 years, of ...
Article : 49 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 30 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 22 Aug 1946, Page 3
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: