The necessity for organising the country's resources and the spontaneous offer of engineering and metal working firms to place their establishments at the ...
Article : 487 wordsWriting to his brother at Harker street, Alphington, Private T. C. Boyd, who is in the Malta Hospital, says:— "I don't think I'd ever been so tired ...
Article : 592 wordsMuch dissatisfaction and no little indignation is felt by wholesale and retail grocers at the manner in which the AttorneyGeneral (Mr. Hughes) has postponed from ...
Article : 610 wordsThe financial position of some of the League football teams is causing much concern to the committees, and reductions are being made all round. The St. Kilda club ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 wordsMr. O'Malley asked the Assistant Minister for Defence (Mr. Jensen) in the House of Representatives yesterday, whether, in view of the[?]fact that the British ...
Article : 90 wordsSir—I am fully in accord with Mr. A. J. Day's letter to-day. I feel certain that if there was anything definite arranged by the authorities I could organise a number ...
Article : 68 wordsSir,—On the 4th inst. I wrote suggesting that a corps be formed from rejected volunteers to use as military police or in some other capacity to relieve accepted men of ...
Article : 220 wordsQuotations received yesterday from London show that "spot" spelter is still quoted at £110; while metal for forward delivery had advanced £5, to £105, since last ...
Article : 906 wordsAt the meeting of the Victorian Football League, the following resolution was unanimously passed:— "That with a view of adding to the patriotic ...
Article : 103 wordsDuring question time in the House of Representatives yesterday Mr. Brennan asked the Prime Minister if, in, view of the widespread misery and loss occasioned by the ...
Article : 229 wordsSir,—As munitions of war are so urgently needed for our troops, it is a pity that the services of leisured women in the community could not be utilised to assist in ...
Article : 81 wordsA lively debate occurred in the Senate, on the motion for the adjournment yesterday afternoon, when Senator Millen (N.S.W.) vigorously condemned the ...
Article : 2,337 wordsSir,—We are dance musicians, and through the war have next to nothing to do in the evenings. If any work is begun, as suggested by Mr. Arthur Day, we would ...
Article : 63 wordsSir,—It appears to me that an association of the abovenamed would be of the utmost value to our country and the Government in a crisis such as we are now ...
Article : 187 wordsThe debt one Australian owes to his comrades is affectingly told in the letter of Corporal R. L. Dyer, G Company, 8th Battalion, to his mother. He is reported ...
Article : 492 words"What made me annoyed," says Sergeant Harold Annear, in a letter to his parents, "is that after eight months' training I only lasted one day." Sergeant Annear formerly ...
Article : 630 wordsSir,—I read with surprise the letter by Miss Glover, president R.V.T.N.A., to-day. I cannot see the necessity for allowing trainees to attend the wounded (who will ...
Article : 201 wordsSince the allotments of Government-imported wheat were made under agreement to metropolitan millowners it has been suspected that quantities of flour made from ...
Article : 473 wordsSir,—Upon reading the announcements of the generous offers of various owners of engineering shops in Melbourne, and realising the importance of turning out unlimited ...
Article : 291 wordsIn a statement which he made yesterday on the suggested organisation of industry throughout Australia, the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) said that in the first ...
Article : 387 wordsSir,—In a few weeks we may expect to find our public institutions taxed to the utmost to find room for our wounded heroes returning from the front. I know the ...
Article : 152 wordsWELLINGTON, Friday.—The following lists of casualties among the New Zealand troops at the Dardanelles have been published:— ...
Article : 219 wordsSir,—At a meeting of the committee of the Toorak branch of the People's Liberal Party (women's section), the following resolution was passed:—"That, seeing that ...
Article : 200 wordsSir,—Mr. W. Reid to-day makes a gibe at the Methodists, "having tasted blood over the liquor traffic," and now want to stop racing. He must know that thousands ...
Article : 691 wordsA report by the director-general of Works in New South Wales (Mr. J. Davis) upon a visit that he recently paid to the Small Arms Factory at Lithgow by ...
Article : 597 wordsA meeting of the directors of Carl Werner and Co. Ppy. Ltd. was held on Thursday in connection with the proposed manufacture of munitions of war for the Defence ...
Article : 88 wordsSWAN HILL, Friday.—Speaking to-day at a dinner given by the Swan Hill and Piangil residents, in celebration of the opening of the Swan Hill to Piangil railway, the ...
Article : 681 wordsA letter received from the front from Colonel C. Ryan, Army Medical Corps, contains the following passage:— "We have been on shore ten days, ...
Article : 180 wordsThe charges of conspiracy against four persons in connection with army supplies on indictments filed by the Commonwealth Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) are to come ...
Article : 293 wordsAuckland Mounted Rifles.—Sergt-Major Mart, Sergt. Farree, Troopers Bradley, Brico, Brow[?], Bryan, Gould, Moody, Munro, Northcroft, Page, Penman, Sullivan, Thompson (next of kin, James ...
Article : 196 wordsBENDIGO, Friday.—The interesting information published in "The Argus" to-day, regarding the ability of Victorian engineering firms to ...
Article : 93 wordsThe shortage in the supply of chaff has been severely felt this week, and the wholesale market has advanced once more. Yesterday, £12/15/ per ton was realised in ...
Article : 52 wordsSir,—I read in your columns recently that "the Glasgow citizen force is providing night shifts for making shells after the ordinary day's work has ...
Article : 250 wordsSir,—A band of workers are utilising old kid gloves to make waistcoats for the soldiers, which have been proved in England to be most acceptable, and are ...
Article : 124 wordsPrivate Henry Olden, of the 7th Battalion, who was wounded in the landing at Dardanelles, and is now a patient in Mena House Hospital, Cairo, in writing to his ...
Article : 185 wordsWellington Mounted Rifles.—Trooper Hastie. Wellington Battalion.—Lieut. Cargo. Engineers.—Sapper Murdoch McKenzle. Auc[?]land Mounted Rifles.—Trooper Arthur Hacker. ...
Article : 165 wordsSir,—In justice to the Postal department, which is coming in for a considerable amount of abuse over the non-receipt by our soldiers of letters, &c., forwarded from ...
Article : 176 wordsFollowing is an extract from a letter by Private Geoffrey Hall (wounded) to his father, Mr. James Hall, solicitor, of Williamstown:— ...
Article : 482 wordsSir,—In "The Argus" to-day there appears a paragraph which might create a doubt in the mind of the public as to the payment of funeral allowance to the ...
Article : 101 wordsSir,—The time is surely at hand for the formation of a Citizens' War Supplies League. Numbers of willing workers are offering, but there is no organisation to ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 12 Jun 1915, Page 18
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