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Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Speaking at Bundaberg last night, the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) said that he had always pointed out that the war had placed very ...
Article : 300 wordsIn the Queensland Legislative Council the Minister for Mines (Mr. Hamilton), replying to Mr. Fowles, said that his attention had been directed to a recent able message ...
Article : 1,725 wordsHer Excellency, Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, has received from Colonel James Green, senior chaplain, 1st A.I.F., a letter containing some interesting comments on ...
Article : 432 wordsUnder the Railway Loan Application Bill, which authorises an expenditure of £3,110,000 provision is made for a number of new works. At Flinders street station it ...
Article : 636 wordsThe log providing for the wages and working conditions of municipal employees expired on October 31 last, and since then the Municipal Employees' Union has been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—There are now in progress three marches of snowball armies of recruits from country centres to Sydney. Each body has adopted a ...
Article : 92 wordsThe application to continue the interim injunction against the Gold-miners' Wages Board making and publishing its determination, was argued, before the Chief Justice, ...
Article : 725 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Ninety-six men were enrolled at the Sydney recruiting depots to-day for the expeditionary forces. ...
Article : 18 wordsA new determination covering starch workers has been arrived at, and at the last meeting of the Manufacturing Grocers' Employees' Union dissatisfaction was ...
Article : 116 wordsA glowing account of the success that attended the opening of the recruiting campaign in South Australia was given by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) on ...
Article : 176 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—Remarkable evidence was given in the Supreme Court to-day in an action brought by a naturalised German, Frank Gilbert, against the officials ...
Article : 319 wordsAt a meeting of the Shop Assistants' Union it was decided that, in view of the fact that many members of the union are now employed only on half and quarter time ...
Article : 103 wordsThe authorities at the Base Hospital on St. Kilda road have been giving much attention of late to the best method of dealing with the problem of visitors to patients. A new system has been adopted, which ...
Article : 237 wordsInquiries having been made on the subject, it is now announced by the Defence authorities that men of enemy nationality, even if naturalised, are not to be enlisted ...
Article : 108 wordsSir,—Permit me to thank Mr. Clarey for his flattering remarks? It is the first time anyone has called me "a genius of finance." Is it necessary to add the ...
Article : 290 wordsA conversazion[?] of the workers and supporters of the Armadale branch of the Red Cross Society was held at St. Alban's Hall, Armadale, on Tuesday evening. Mr. Norman Bayles, M.L.A., ...
Article : 177 wordsThere are at present in the A.I.F. 37 dental officers, but authority has been given to increase the establishments of the corps to 55. This will mean that 18 additional ...
Article : 64 wordsCHRISTCHURCH (N.Z.), Wednesday.— At the Magistrate's Court, Charles Vernon (formerly known as Richard Carl Zimmerman) and Max Adolph Hartmont (formerly ...
Article : 144 wordsTwo new cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis occurred in the metropolitan area yesterday, the patients being two male civilians who were admitted to the Alfred ...
Article : 40 wordsA cable message was received from the High Commissioner (Sir George Reid) at the Department of External Affairs yesterday, stating that many letters for ...
Article : 109 wordsGEELONG, Wednesday.—Mary Wilson, aged seven years, daughter of the stationmaster at Little River, died in the Geelong Hospital to-day from cerebro-spinal ...
Article : 28 wordsBranches of the Bed Cross Society working at old linen, are reminded that surgical dressing towels, chest handages, and binders, must be made of material perfectly free from holes or ...
Article : 41 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Justice Heydon, president of the Industrial Court, had before him again to-day the case in which 22 wharf labourers were charged with ...
Article : 247 wordsThe Australian patriotic gift comedy, "Before the Dawn," will be produced in the St. Kilda Town Hall on Wednesday evening, December 15, in aid of the Caulfield Red Cross funds; and on Saturday ...
Article : 92 wordsSWAN HILL, Wednesday.—In regard to the case of meningitis reported in "The Argus" of Tuesday, the patient, a boy named Allan Black, came from Nyah. He ...
Article : 40 wordsOfficial notification was given yesterday of the decision of the temporary clerks in the Federal Government service to cease work within a fortnight if their wages are ...
Article : 457 wordsThe Broadmeadows Mending and Soldiers' Aid Society has made an appeal in "The Argus" through the president (Mrs. Knight) for funds to provide a Christmas ...
Article : 61 wordsLieutenant J. E. Lloyd, a son of Mr. W. E. R. Lloyd, of the New Zealand Loan and M. A. Co. Ltd., has been promoted to the rank of captain. Mr. J. A. Linacre, of A'Beckett street, has ...
Article : 79 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Steady rain continued to fall in the drought-stricken areas of Western Queensland last night, and in many cases the registrations ...
Article : 118 wordsA demonstration will be held in the hall and grounds, Vermont, by the Mount Pleasant Girls' Club, in aid of the Red Cross and Wounded Soldiers' funds on Saturday, December 11. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe award of the Victorian Gold Miners' Wages Board will be published shortly. The decision recently arrived at by the board will grant appreciable ...
Article : 248 wordsSir,—My brother was wounded at Lonesome Pine early in August, and was sent direct to London. The Defence department advised me to address letters to the care ...
Article : 159 wordsA meeting was held at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon to make arrangements for the celebration of the Anzac Remembrance Button Day, which is to take place ...
Article : 115 wordsSir,—Two or three years ago the Australian public received from the post office the privilege of sending lettergrams. A lettergram, as is generally known, is a ...
Article : 158 wordsThe City Council, at a special meeting held in committee yesterday, reversed its previous decision not to contribute towards the cost of establishing a park at the ...
Article : 183 wordsBALLARAT, Wednesday.—While driving to Ballarat Mr. A. McGregor came across a gig which was badly damaged. Upon driving a little farthur he found Mr. ...
Article : 132 wordsSir,—Friday, December 17, is to be observed as "Auzac Button" Day. Might we suggest that Christmas cards, calendars, book-holders, book-markers, and other small ...
Article : 116 wordsSir,—Now the summer is here, and after the day's work is done, the chaps up here look for some amusement, such as outdoor games. Therefore, we are making this ...
Article : 74 wordsBARCALDINE (Q.), Wednesday.— Annie Vale homestead, 90 miles from Aramae, one of the oldest desert stations, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is ...
Article : 31 wordsNEWLYN, Thursday.—Some striking figures were given at a recent meeting of Newlyn landowners regarding their appeals against the extraordinary valuations placed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 529 wordsMr. R. M. McC. Anderson, who recently investigated the business administration of the Defence and other Commonwealth departments, has accepted the position of ...
Article : 168 wordsAt a Quarter Past 2.—Fed. Seamen's Union v. Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association (application to vary award). At Half-past 2.—Aus. Telegraph and Telephone ...
Article : 270 wordsMORTLAKE, Monday.—A boy named Arthur Farrell, 11 years of age, was the victim of a riding accident at Caramut North Station. He was driving cows, when ...
Article : 44 wordsSir,—A few months ago I addressed a letter to "The Argus" instancing the excellent flow of water obtained by the late Mr. David Munro at Yecrung, about seven ...
Article : 291 wordsECHUCA, Wednesday.—To-day, at Torrumbarry, a man named Tram, an employee in connection with a traction engine, which was travelling through the district, ...
Article : 40 wordsAt the opening of the case brought by the meat industry employees in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court against 1,221 respondents, before, before Mr. Justice Higgins, in ...
Article : 489 wordsThe Norwegian barque Marco Polo (1,640 tons), is ashore on one of the Orkney Islands. She has lost her fore and main masts, and her bottom is damaged: ...
Article : 38 wordsA youth named Thomas Considine, employed in the Brunswick Post-office, was charged at the Brunswick Court on Wednesday, before Mr. Goldsmith, P.M., and honorary justices, with the ...
Article : 161 wordsThe mayor of South Melbourne acknowledges the following additional contributions to the fund raised to assist Mrs. Mackay, of Coventry street, whose husband was burnt to death recently:—C. H. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 9 Dec 1915, Page 8
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