CANBERRA, Wednesday. — The first member of the Naval Board of Administration (Rear-Admiral William R. Napier) will retire from his position when his ...
Article : 207 wordsThe National Union of Conservative Associations has elected as its chairman Mr. Gwilym Rowlands, a working man, who spent many years in a Welsh ...
Article : 342 wordsThe trial of five men charged with having bombed the Greek Club, in Lonsdale street, on the night of December I will end to-day. Yesterday was the seventh day ...
Article : 1,813 wordsThe British Engineers' Association has issued a statement in which it contends that criticisms of its manifesto issued on January 28 were not justified by the ...
Article : 1,218 wordsThe fifth Test match, the last ot the series, will begin on the Melbourne Cricket ground on Friday, March 8. The Englishmen, who are to meet Victoria on Friday, ...
Article : 1,020 wordsThe alleged Franco-Belgian agreement was the subject of two interp[?]llations in the Belgian Chamber of Deputies, to which the Foreign Minister (M. Hymans) replied ...
Article : 506 wordsYesterday was the third day of the inquiry into the loss of the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Kanowna, which struck a rock in the A[?]ser group, off Wilson's ...
Article : 1,389 wordsThe wheat harvest now ending has been the greatest since that of the 1916-17 season, according to the figures of the Railways department. The commissioners said ...
Article : 208 words"We are facing the winter with more than anxiety. The position is heart-breaking, and unless assistance is forth-coming at once we shall have to close," ...
Article : 422 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Pennington) announced yesterday that he had refused a request that a State factory for the manufacture of starch and glucose ...
Article : 192 wordsA film, "An Epic of the South Pole," which records Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition, after it had been specially shown at the Albert Hall, in the presence ...
Article : 225 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Nationalist and Country parties in the Federal Parliament will meet jointly to-morrow morning to consider the Ministry's ...
Article : 220 wordsThe aviation correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that an organised effort is being made to obtain a world market for British aeroplanes. Already aviation ...
Article : 165 wordsMr. J. Petrus van Heerden, a member of the Union Parliament, who visited Australia in 1926 as a member of the Empire Parliamentary Delegation, replying to the ...
Article : 113 wordsSurprise was expressed yesterday by the Minister for Health (Dr. Argyle) when statements that the Federal Ministry desired to control public health activities ...
Article : 357 wordsState Ministers expect that at the conference of Premiers which the Prime Minister (Mr. Bru[?]) proposes should be held in Canberra soon after Easter, the Premier ...
Article : 181 words"I am dubious about your policy—whether you ought to drag me into a gathering of enthusiasts," said Professor W. A. Osborne at the first meeting of the newly ...
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Article : 72 wordsDuring an exciting period of play in the polo tournament at the Moonee Valley racecourse yesterday, Major R. H. Nimmo, of the Moonee Valley C team, fell heavily ...
Article : 148 wordsThe forces of "Big Bill" Thompson, the former anti-British mayor of Chicago, suffered further defeats at the municipal elections to-day when party lines were ...
Article : 103 wordsThere is every indication that the consumer will be called upon to pay higher prices for prime joints to the butcher during the autumn. This week the sheep ...
Article : 249 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday.—The disappearance of Mr. G. A. Campey, a former resident of Auckland, from the Ma[?]ka while travelling from Melbourne ...
Article : 126 wordsBROKEN HILL (N.S.W.), Wednesday. —Because the Broken Hill Municipal Council gave a position to a man named Chigwidden this morning, in the face of the ...
Article : 147 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday. — Addressing a conference of New Zealand manufacturers, the Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) said that his Ministry had ...
Article : 80 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday.—The Methodist conference has passed a resolution to attempt to raise £20,000 for the Western Solomons Mission medical and ...
Article : 70 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday. — A letter of apology has been received by the mayor (Alderman Jolly) from the Tasmanian commissioner of police (Colonel J. E. C. Lord) ...
Article : 111 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.— Opening the annual conference of the New Zealand Rotary clubs at Christchurch to-day, Sir Alexander Roberts said that the ...
Article : 89 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—Referring to the drift from the churches, the Rev. J. W. Grove, principal of the Methodist Ladies' College, Hawthorn, Victoria, and lately of ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Admiralty has placed contracts for five new submarines. ...
Article : 18 wordsYARRAWONGA, Wednesday.—Miss H. Newton, of Yarrawonga, has died, aged 104 years. Miss Newton had lived in Victoria for 38 years, and for most of this time ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 28 Feb 1929, Page 7
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