DIMBOOLA, Monday.—At a meeting of wheatgrowers it was agreed to urge the State Ministry to bring in a Flour Acquisition Bill, and the Federal Ministry ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Lloyd Punell who is visiting Australila as an examiner to the Associated Board of the Royal Colleges of Music London, will give a lecture-piano recital ...
Article : 55 wordsBENDIGO, Monday.—The police investigating the circumstances of the Strathfieldsaye tragedy have established practically beyond doubt that the charred body found ...
Article : 360 wordsThe Victorian Football League will meet on Friday night to receive the statement of the finance committee on the distribution of the profits of the season, and especially ...
Article : 369 wordsMany requests for the improvement of the condition of the unemployed were made yesterday to the Minister for Labour (Mr. Goudie) by representatives of the Trades ...
Article : 525 wordsFurther discussion of the Transport Regulation Bill occupied the State Cabinet for some time yesterday afternoon, and as a result the Minister for Railway (Mr. ...
Article : 200 wordsAn effort to reach a basis of negotiation for a settlement of the strike of members of the Meat Industry Employees' Union at the export meatworks and in the retail ...
Article : 400 wordsNo action is likely to be taken by the Federal Ministry to precipitate a crisis this week in the House of Representatives when amendments in committee are being ...
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Advertising : 353 wordsSir,—There has been a lot of beating the air in connection with the Transport Regulation Bill now before the Victorian Parliament in the committee stage. I ...
Article : 251 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Records compiled by the Federal Pensions department suggest that the saving to the Federal Government in pensions payments since the ...
Article : 461 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—According to a cable message received in Sydney to-day the Commonwealth and Dominion Line freighter Port Bowen and the Dutch motor ...
Article : 66 wordsDespite adverse conditions, encouraging reports for the year were received from all Baptist missionary organisations at the union's assembly yesterday. ...
Article : 432 wordsSpeakers at a meeting of retail butchers and contract slaughter-men, held at the Manchester Unity Hall, Swanston street, last night, declared that the extension of ...
Article : 179 wordsA special meeting of the Board of Control will be held to discuss the reply by the Marylebone Cricket Club to the Board's last cable message on the cricket controversy. It ...
Article : 72 wordsFor the management of a modern seaside home a man and wife are required. Four full-sized billiard tables are ...
Article : 88 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—After the New South Wales Cricket Association to-night had sat in camera the secretary (Mr. H. Heydon) announced that the following ...
Article : 108 wordsDONALD, Monday. — A full board is now operating at the Donald freezing works, and the 1,000 a day killing mark was reached yesterday by the volunteers. ...
Article : 70 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—The second series of wool sales opened to-day, when 11,072 bales were offered. The selection generally was rathet above the average. The wool ...
Article : 292 wordsThe Minister for Lands (Mr. Danstan) said yesterday that he expected that the bill to authorise the extension of the M.C.C. ground would be introduced in the ...
Article : 207 wordsIn approving of a suggestion that cricketers should be restrained from writing for the press, as is the case in Yorkshire, the Yorkshire "Post" says:—"The fact that ...
Article : 135 wordsSir,—It is curiously difficult for many members of Parliament to remember that they are spending, not their own, but other people's money. Dr. Earle Page is no ...
Article : 403 wordsArrangements are being completed for an exhibition of models of Drake's famous ship the Golden Hind, plans for which have been explained in "The Argus" Camera ...
Article : 172 wordsMrs. Graham Mirfield, of Rabaul, was killed here yesterday afternoon when a seaplane, owned by the Ranaul Airways Syndicate, crashed near Kokopo. The ...
Article : 101 wordsSir,—It is apparent that the Melbourne Cricket Club is to be granted extra ground to enable it to give more accommodation to the general public. I hope that full ...
Article : 292 wordsThe Melbourne woolbrokers' advise that the average price realised for greasy wool sold in Melbourne in the week ended October 14 was 12.45d. a 1b., or £13/17/ a bale, on an average weight ...
Article : 47 wordsThe nineteenth number of "(1933) 'The Argus' Law Reports" will be published today. It contains three cases decided by the Full High Court at its last sittings in ...
Article : 165 wordsMrs. Eva Crockford aged 23 years of Epsom road, Ascotvale, had her skull fractured when a motor-cycle and sidecar in which she and her husband, aged 27 years, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsThirty men on horseback and four bands escorted the head of the Irish Freee State Government (Mr. de Valera), who rode in in open carriage, with a coachman and ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. H. Collins, a leading raechorse owner, is willing to match Strathearron with Winooka, over five furlongs, for £1,000 a side, with a side wager of £500, provided ...
Article : 69 wordsGARFIELD, Monday.—Mr. W. Purvis, of Garfield, narrowly escaped death when the 4.30 p.m. passenger train fron Bairnsdale collided with his motor-truck at the ...
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Advertising : 67 wordsWith the end of the flat racing season only a month distant, W. Johnstone, the Australian jockey, has ridden 70 winners. France's champion jockey. Duforez, has ...
Article : 67 wordsWild seenes followed the fatal shooting of a publican named Dan O'Boyle. An infuriated crowd attacked houses and broke windows in the course of a search for his ...
Article : 70 wordsAn interesting story lies behind the British Admiralty's denial of the Hood "mutiny." Only one London newspaper published an allusion to "unrest" in the ...
Article : 169 wordsThe price of gold to-day is £6/8/6. compared with £6/11/6 yesterday. [The price is equal to about £7/18/7? anounce for fine gold in Australian currency, ...
Article : 79 wordsAn indication that the authorities of Northern Ireland are determined to suppress subversive influcuces, is given by the intereeption of the British communist ...
Article : 79 wordsAs a compensation for the long and arduous voyage the crews of the five destroyes which have been lent to Australia will receive the regular rum ration, which is ...
Article : 114 wordsBad luck continues to follow the Metropolian Opera Company, which hoped by a week's season in Birmingham, to restore its fortunes, but only "token payments" ...
Article : 154 wordsMr. G. H. Pelham entered upon his duties to-day as His Majesty's Trade Commissioner for Hong Kong and British commercial secretary for South China. He ...
Article : 126 wordsAt the weekend the price of brine-cooled and pasteurised milk will be reduced ½d. a gallon. The quotation will be 8d. a gallon on rails, and 9d. a gallon delivered by ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 17 Oct 1933, Page 8
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