Legislation will be introduced shortly to make drastic reforms in Victoria's penal code. The Inspector-General of Prisons (Mr. A. R. Whatmore), who said this yesterday at a Rotary Club luncheon, explained that the present system was not up to date. ...
Article : 545 wordsThe president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (Mr. P. J. Clarey) said yesterday the A.C.T.U. would play ...
Article : 197 wordsBIG FISH.--Port Phillip Bay schnapper weighing up to 22½ lb. and 33 inches in length were proudly exhibited yesterday by Messrs. W. and T. Fergus. The fish were caught during Easter off Safety Beach, Dromana. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 37 wordsThe Chief Justice of Victoria (Sir Edmund Herring) yesterday appealed to lawyers to lead in protecting and shielding free government and the individual. Sir E. Herring, opening the ...
Article : 779 wordsTaking advantage of the absence during Easter of occupiers of many houses, thieves escaped with booty worth ...
Article : 115 wordsRepresentations the Shop Assistants' Union and the Grocers' Association might make to him on a five-day ...
Article : 93 wordsDecentralisation of price control by restoring authority to the States is favored by the Premier (Mr. Hollway). ...
Article : 107 wordsBecause of the removal of the penalty clause from the constitution of the A.L.P. industrial groups, the State ...
Article : 132 wordsTramwaymen who criticise the new five-day rosters do not possess a thorough understanding of how they will ...
Article : 186 wordsA bush fire threatened to wipe out the township of Laang, in the Western district, yesterday while most of the townspeople were away shopping at Warrnambool. Urgent calls for fire fighters ...
Article : 359 wordsA "vast project" and the erection of a hot and cold strip mill and tinplate plant will be undertaken at the Port Kembla works of Australian Iron and Steel Ltd. ...
Article : 245 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--Ambulance officers carried Patricia Worthington, 10 years, of Goulburn, up 2000 feet from a ...
Article : 112 wordsPayment of £5018 12 for the Lord Mayor's Rolls-Royce car was described by Cr. E. L. Morton at the City Council meeting yesterday as a wanton waste of ...
Article : 166 wordsHOBART, Wednesday. -- When working at the jam factory of H. Jones and Co. Pty. Ltd., Hobart, this afternoon, ...
Article : 63 wordsOfficials of the Seamen's Union admitted yesterday that the union was boycotting the coastal freighter Mildura. She ...
Article : 118 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--A £15,000 four-engined Halton Halifax freight plane may soon be abandoned at Mascot 12,000 ...
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Advertising : 193 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--The beer drought in Sydney will continue for another week at least. ...
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Advertising : 338 wordsHOBART, Wednesday. -- A former boxer who assaulted Dr. Gaha, M.P., in his surgery was fined £10 and ...
Article : 125 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.-- One of the best dramatic shots in the film The Blue Lagoon, being made in Fiji, was ...
Article : 122 wordsA patrol boat and a Catalina have been ordered to rush to the rescue of five survivors from an aircraft reported to have crashed last October on the lonely Vitu ...
Article : 272 wordsWELLINGTON, March 31. Because she won 26 at a game of housey, Mrs. L. A. Bleach, of Ranfurly, Central Otago, decided to share the ...
Article : 51 wordsWARRNAMBOOL, Wednesday.--Mr. E. J. Magill collapsed to-day while speaking at a farmers' meeting of ...
Article : 95 wordsEXTENSIVE DAMAGE to a sedan car, which came into collision yesterday with a van in South Melbourne. The car is being hoisted by a breakdown truck. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. -- Helen Keller, the noted blind and deaf authoress, to-day greeted 300 guests at a late ...
Article : 156 wordsAn appeal to users of railway trucks to expedite unloading so that they may be released for other urgent ...
Article : 86 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--The driver and conductor of a tram which collided head-on with a five-ton garbage truck ...
Article : 154 wordsPassenger train services to the country will be slightly improved as a result of the seasonal reduction in coal ...
Article : 64 wordsMilitant unions are now unlikely to carry out earlier plans for a large scale stoppage of work on April 9 as a ...
Article : 146 wordsA basis for fixing valuations of Housing Commission homes will be set by the Government as soon as Parliament has ...
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Advertising : 394 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.--Unless Fireman Donald Moore, who is also secretary of the Tasmanian Firemen's Union, is reinstated to his position as a member of ...
Article : 183 wordsA cool south-west change with showers is expected to cross Victoria to-day. Gusty north-west winds ...
Article : 98 wordsSales of surplus War department materials by the Commonwealth Disposals Commission have yielded £116,000,000. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 1 Apr 1948, Page 3
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