VICTORIA DOCK, usually alive with activity, presented a deserted and lonely appearance yesterday when wharf laborers walked off the job for their New Year holiday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 46 wordsAn application for three weeks' annual leave for all workers covered by Federal ...
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Article : 582 wordsGEELONG, Friday.--It is a disgrace for an Englishman to come to a new country and destroy trees. ...
Article : 247 wordsBefore any drive is made by either the State Government or municipal councils to rid the bayside beaches of litter, especially broken glass, the individual picnicker must ...
Article : 414 wordsSearching for spare parts for his bicycle in a rubbish tip at West Melbourne yesterday afternoon, Ivan Lawson, 12 years, Footscray, found the body of a woman with the throat cut and the head battered. ...
Article : 273 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--A crippled returned soldier, Max Whalen, 26 years, saved a school master and his son from ...
Article : 150 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--All retiring officials were beaten by Australian Labor party candidates in the ballot for the ...
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Advertising : 74 wordsAustralian Workers' Union will decide early in January whether the Victorian branch will remain affiliated with the Trades ...
Article : 110 wordsHOBART, Friday.--Distribution of preferences in the Tasmanian Senate election tonight resulted in the following being ...
Article : 88 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. -- The second Australian-built jet Vampire fighter plane produced by the de Havilland ...
Article : 128 wordsWARRNAMBOOL, Friday.-- After five years as senior veterinary officer at Nestle's condensory at Dennington, Mr. ...
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Article : 32 wordsMembers of the Victorian Aero Club will today begin flying from the new airport at Moorabbin. They moved this ...
Article : 104 wordsBENDIGO, Friday.--Maintaining "round the clock" haulage, the Victorian Railways are making good progress ...
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Article : 216 wordsAny move that may be made by the Iron Workers' Association to limit the number of new Australians entering heavy industries in Victoria is not likely to be ...
Article : 379 wordsPolice stations and mobile units throughout Victoria were put on the alert late yesterday afternoon, when three prisoners escaped from Ballarat gaol. ...
Article : 261 wordsFollowing publication on Wednesday of a picture and report of four British migrants in the steamer Chitral, who wanted temporary jobs in Melbourne until ...
Article : 388 wordsThe Australian Workers' Union will advise Victorian shearers against taking jobs on stations where it considers ...
Article : 172 wordsSix glass doors and three panel doors were stolen early yesterday morning from a house being built in ...
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Advertising : 172 wordsFranciszek Popiel, 30 years, a Polish migrant, who arrived in Melbourne on Wednesday, was drowned yesterday in the ...
Article : 45 wordsA three-year-old girl, an infantile paralysis victim, is fretting for her 14-year-old brother, who ran away from ...
Article : 118 wordsMILDURA, Friday.--A four- year-old Redcliffs boy, believed to be the youngest person in Australia to swim 33 yards ...
Article : 107 wordsThe State secretary of the Australasian Society of Engineers (Mr. E. Gallagher) has been re-elected by an eight to ...
Article : 40 wordsBALLARAT, Friday. -- A prominent district grazier said today that so far as Ballarat district and surrounding wool ...
Article : 108 wordsApplications for appointment to the new Soli Conservation authority will close today. Cabinet is expected to ...
Article : 74 wordsDetectives, who are making a drive to clear up recent city shopbreakings, yesterday arrested and charged two men. ...
Article : 50 wordsAn ice waggon and a dixie of hot water were responsible for admissions to the Children's Hospital yesterday. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe new cookery wing to be built at the Pakenham consolidated school will be completed about the middle of ...
Article : 78 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.-- Miss Dorothy Mary Otte, 55 years, pensioner, of Holt-avenue, Cremorne, leapt 50 feet to her ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 31 Dec 1949, Page 3
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