MELBOURNE will not be caught napping in the event, of air raids if the State Emergency Council has its way. Here are today's pictures showing aspects of A.R.P. activities. Above: Printing the A.R.P. booklet at the Government Printing Office. The compiler of the book (Mr. F. H. Parr)--left--is examining one of the sheets as it comes off the press. Below right: A pile of the printed sheets on their way to the guillotine. Below left: Major ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 106 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.--By the elimination of Sydney sandstone --a yellow stone -- from the specifications for the new Sydney Post Office, and the stipulating of white sandstone, tenders were made less competitive. Mr. ...
Article : 851 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons today, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) said that the British Ambassador at ...
Article : 355 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.--A strange fish that reached the Sydney fish markets from the Macleay River today puzzled many experts. ...
Article : 127 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.-- The proposal of the Minister for Transport (Mr. Sample) to make if an offence for the driver of a car ...
Article : 152 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday. -- Commercial aviation in Australia may lose a number of experienced pilots because salaries and ...
Article : 349 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.--George Jones, 43, a recently-married man, of Kelso, was killed and five other men injured today when a motor lorry, in which ...
Article : 140 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. -- Masters of coastal ships arriving in Newcastle today had found no trace of two missing men who left Newcastle in a ...
Article : 131 wordsNow is the time to test your football judgment in The Herald Football Competition, in which you may win a cash prize of £350. ...
Article : 92 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. -- Both the Lang and Heffron Parties agreed today to attend the conference of executives decided upon yesterday by the Federal A.L.P. Interstate Executive. The Lang Party will hold a special ...
Article : 373 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. -- Compulsory attendance of citizens at lectures on air raid precautions was urged today by Mr. Cyril Docker, Metropolitan ...
Article : 123 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday. -- A doctor gave evidence in the Criminal Court today that a young mother told him she killed her sick nine-month-old son ...
Article : 444 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. -- Contending that the incident had "put Moree on the map," Alderman Deakins unsuccessfully asked Moree Council last ...
Article : 148 wordsPERTH, Tuesday.-- An isolated farm ten miles from the nearest settlement was the setting for a tragedy yesterday morning, when the father of four ...
Article : 144 wordsSome of the trams on the St. Kilda Brighton Beach should be thrown out, but it was a question of finding the money to replace them, the ...
Article : 107 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. -- Australia and Japan will not enter into a new trade agreement to replace the existing arrangement ...
Article : 649 wordsCharged at Prahran Court today with having illegally used a motor car at Toorak on June 6, John Francis Page. 17, of High Street, Armadale Stanley ...
Article : 117 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. -- Eugenie Norman, 30, who escaped in a woollen nightgown on Saturday night from the Kenmore Mental Hospital, Goulburn. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe manager of the Cumeroogunga Aboriginal Station, in New South Wales (Mr. A. J. McQuiggan) denied today a recent statement by the ...
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Advertising : 90 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.--A little publicity about Australia in Holland would be necessary to inform Dutch migrants on Australian conditions, ...
Article : 92 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.--As a move in the trade union campaign against the National Register, the Queensland branch of the Seamen's Union ...
Article : 86 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.--A blizzard raging round Mt. Kosciusko has brought the biggest snow storm for seven years. The new Chalet, which shelters 42 ...
Article : 105 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.--"If some gentlemen in other parts of the world died at an early age, the cost of additions to the Bunnerong power ...
Article : 199 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.--Charged at the Sydney Quarter Sessions today with armed robbery at a garage, where a amn was hit over the head, Joan ...
Article : 107 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. -- Powerful financial interests have begun preliminary work on the establishment of a chain of fruit and vegetable shops. ...
Article : 62 wordsHOBART, Tuesday.--Departure from custom is likely when the State Parliamentary Labor Party meets on July 5 to elect a new leader in succession ...
Article : 124 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.-- The decision of the Minister for Customs (Mr. Lawson) to refer the operations of Australian Consolidated Industries Ltd. to ...
Article : 106 wordsFrank Castle, five years, of Wandong, Vic., who was staying with friends at Cubitt Street, Richmond, was knocked down by a motor car today while ...
Article : 57 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday. -- Competition was general when the wool sales were continued today. France was a little more in the picture with early ...
Article : 55 wordsNo objections were raised today by Superintendent Kelly, Superintendent of Police at Ballarat, to the suggestion that a reward should be offered for ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Tue 27 Jun 1939, Page 3
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