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  2. SIDELIGHTS OF STATE ELECTION POLLING DAY

    A STEADY STREAM of people arrived at polling booths today to record their votes for the State election. From left.—Unsuccessful ' candidates" for many Years. these Dickens characters still appear on "How to Vote" posters. (Dickens, by the way, spell No. 5 with one "t"). A returned member of the R.A.N, tills in his card, it would not be a polling booth without a policeman to look after the children of women voters; while mother studied her "How to Vote" cards, these two lads played a different card game at the Hawthorn Town Hall; a Fairfield butcher was faced with the problem of politics ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 122 words
  3. Crops, Pastures Benefit By Good Rains

    Rain which has fallen in Victoria will not only stop 5 the immediate danger of bushfires, but will prove a boon to the cattle and sheep industry and be of benefit to the crops. ...

    Article : 625 words
  4. Chiefly Asked To Act

    ADELAIDE. -- To avert a 24-hour transport stoppage on Monday, the Premier (Mr. Playford) has asked the ...

    Article : 349 words
  5. INTRUDERS AT POLICE H.Q.

    Russell Street police have called in assistance to ileal with ! intruders at their headquarters. This week's Government. ...

    Article : 94 words
  6. AFTER 7 YEARS

    PERTH.--Seven years ago a young Perth woman had an abscessed front tooth removed, treated and replaced ...

    Article : 117 words
  7. NEW BOUNDARIES CONFUSE MANY ELECTORS AT TODAY'S POLL

    Many electors were confused in their voting today by the changed boundaries of electorates. Even many of those who had followed politics to the extent of knowing that their district had been ...

    Article : 742 words
  8. 80,000 Food Parcels to Britain From Australia Each Month

    Eighty thousand food parcels are going each month from Australia to the under-fed families of Britain's overseas servicemen in one of the Commonwealth's least publicised but most important goodwill schemes of the war. ...

    Article : 599 words
  9. Broke Gaol To Aid Sick Son

    PERTH. -- Telephoning to the Perth detective office to meet him at a city rendezvous at 7 last night, the Pardelup escapee. ...

    Article : 186 words
  10. ALBERT PARK GUEST HOUSE SUITS GRAB

    Entering a guest house in Albert Park at 4 p.m. yesterday, the 14 year-old son of the proprietor saw in stranger in the passage. ...

    Article : 152 words
  11. Nine Voters' Ages Total 776 Years

    FRANKSTON.--Nine residents, whose ages totalled 776 years, voted before noon at Frankston today. One of the first was Mr. ...

    Article : 40 words
  12. As Easy As A.B.C., But Not For D.

    Police told today the story of a polite pickpocket whose plans went astray. ...

    Article : 173 words
  13. 90 German Scientists For America

    LONDON, Friday.--Ninety mystery German scientists, travelling as civilians, boarded the liner Argentina at Le Havre today for ...

    Article : 119 words
  14. £3,000,000 NEEDED FOR LOAN

    When business opened this morning, on the last day of the £85,000,000 Fourth Victory Loan, £3,000,000 was still needed. Total subscriptions will not be known until Monday night. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 186 words
  15. NEWS IN BRIEF

    ALIENS' LAND-BUYING should as be controlled, as in South Australia, the State president of the R.S.L. (Mr. G. W. Holland) ...

    Article : 144 words
  16. 3 HURT IN CRASH NEAR ANGLESEA

    GEELONG. -- Three women were slightly injured when a Lome 'tourist bus and a baker's delivery car collided today at Sunnymeade, ...

    Article : 110 words
  17. VICTORIA TO SEE DUKE NEXT WEEK

    CANBERRA.-- The Governor-General (the Duke of Gloucester) and the Duchess of Gloucester will leave Canberra on Thursday for Victoria, where they will remain for about a month. ...

    Article : 262 words
  18. Advertising

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    Advertising : 113 words
  19. CABBAGE LOSS

    Commenting this afternoon on the report that cabbages had been delayed at Orbost because the Fuel Transport Board insisted on their ...

    Article : 212 words
  20. LIABLE TO MUTINY CHARGE, RAAF TOLD

    BRISBANE. -- When 300 RAAF men at Drayton, Toowoomba, refused duty yesterday over messing conditions, the Commanding ...

    Article : 93 words
  21. B CLOTHING COUPONS EXPIRE NEXT WEEK

    The B clothing coupons will expire on November 15. On the same day the Z coupons on the clothing card issued last June will ...

    Article : 57 words
  22. NEW LEAVE ALLOWANCE

    Army servicemen given leave from the Royal Park Discharge its Centre for 24 hours or more will in future be paid a subsistence ...

    Article : 109 words
  23. Police Chiefs Move Defeated

    A motion that all Chief Commissioners of the Australian police forces should be Australian-born was proposed by the general ...

    Article : 85 words
  24. CAPITAL CITY TEMPERATURES

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 26 words
  25. SEAMAN FOUND DEAD IN COAL BUNKER

    AUCKLAND (N.Z.) .--After the Union Co's. coastal steamer Korowai put to sea from Auckland, a trimmer. Leslie Stafford, 18, was ...

    Article : 57 words
  26. Advertising

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    Advertising : 39 words
  27. RECORD ENDOWMENT CHEQUE FOR MOTHER OF 15

    GEELONG. -- A record child endowment cheque of £1910- will be paid on Tuesday to Mrs James Turley, of Swanston Street, Geelong, whose 15th child was born recently. ...

    Article : 179 words
  28. FAREWELL LUNCHEON TO EVACUEE CHILDREN

    Evacuee children who will leave Melbourne on Monday and Tuesday for overseas will be given a farewell luncheon in the Lower Town Hall on Monday at noon. The State Welfare Department ...

    Article : 191 words
  29. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 67 words
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