About 25,000 acres of the 100,000 acres in the Suggan Buggan district, which the Ministry announced recently would be available for settlement, will be thrown open soon to young men in 2000-acre blocks. Each will require about £500 capital to fence ...
Article : 536 wordsTaking the tally of the result of a picker's morning (oil at Eurobin, where hop-picking is now in full swing. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 23 wordsBecause the marketing proposal to be submitted to electors by referendum on March 6 is not a party issue, political organisations have adopted different ...
Article : 395 wordsGhurka wheat, which has received high praise from crop competition judges in the last season, will probably be sown on about 35 or 40 per cent of the Victorian ...
Article : 309 wordsRecord Greasy Fleece Price. ...
Article : 1,927 wordsAlthough entries for the Geelong Rowing Association's 62nd annual Barwon regatta, to be held on the Barwon River on Saturday, March 6, will not close, until ...
Article : 694 wordsWARRAGUL, Thursday.—After repeated ratepayers' deputations to the Warragul Shire Council about the pollution of Hazel Creek, the shire council sent ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 282 wordsSEA LAKE, Thursday.—Returned soldiers and others who have been indebted to the Closer Settlement Commission for many years have now fully discharged ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 304 wordsGEELONG, Thursday.—Wool is now being received by the Geelong wool stores in small lots from the south-eastern areas along the South Australian border and ...
Article : 137 wordsFor having used abusive language with intent to provoke a breach of the peace Roy McKane, aged 85 years, labourer, of Rocklyn, was fined £2, or ...
Article : 159 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Thursday.— At Hamilton Supreme Court to-day Petrina Kui, aged 29 years, was charged with having attempted to murder her two young ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Rev. H. Palmer Phillips, chairman of the United Peace Council of Victoria, who represented Victoria at the world peace conference in Brussels in September, ...
Article : 547 wordsKORUMBURRA, Thursday.—The Jumbunna Telephone League had such trouble with its lines after the electric transmission lines were placed near the ...
Article : 144 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—There was a good demand for all best fleece wool and skirtings at the Sydney sales to-day. All other descriptions of merino fleece and ...
Article : 116 wordsEvidence that the depredations of rabbits caused disastrous erosion and situation in streams" was obtained by the Minister for Lands (Mr. Lind) during a ...
Article : 152 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The Minister for Commerce (Dr. Page) announced to-day that the levies imposed under the Dried Fruits Export Control Act for the ...
Article : 71 wordsGEELONG, Thursday—Senator Guthrie to-day received a telegraph message from the members of the South African delegation who attended the Empire Wool ...
Article : 62 wordsPrices of super lines of sheepskins at yesterday's auction sales declined 1d. per lb. Prices of other grades fell from 1d to 1½d. per lb. Catalogues comprising 29,090 sheepskins were ...
Article : 51 wordsGEELONG, Thursday.—The Geelong City Hall was packed to-night when the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Menzies) and others spoke in support of the "Yes" ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsBitten by Snake at Cricket ...
Article : 921 wordsThe Mildura City Band intends to conduct a band rally at the recreation reserve during the Easter holidays. It is expected that more than 100 ...
Article : 519 wordsA bowls match between teams from the Warrnambool and the City Council was won by the club team by 46 to 26. The players were afterwards entertained by the ...
Article : 149 wordsMrs. W. T. Mitchell, of Arcot Estate, Bethanga, has been advised from Cunnamulla (Q.) that her husband died there on Tuesday. Because of floods no other ...
Article : 153 wordsPlans were made yesterday at a conference of members of the State Parliamentary Labour party and of the central executive of the party for a vigorous ...
Article : 98 wordsUNDERBOOL, Thursday.—Many local residents and farmers heard addresses on the referendum by the Attorney-General (Mr. Bussau), and the president (Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 63 wordsSir,—An account of a shipment of chilled beef from Melbourne contained in "The Argus" of February 11 states that it was the first commercial shipment of ...
Article : 125 wordsSir,—The board of directors of the A.N.A. claims that in supporting a Yes vote it is moving towards its objective— increased Commonwealth powers. But no ...
Article : 655 wordsShe had tried so many "remedies" —always without result—that she had little faith in anything. But finally something induced her to try Kruschen ...
Article : 190 wordsAt a large and representative gathering of parishioners of St. Patrick's Church the Rev. Father Patrick Ford, who was admitted into the priesthood on Sunday by the Roman ...
Article : 168 wordsTUMUT, Thursday.—Nancy Treweek, aged 12 years, was drowned in the Tumut swimming pool while with a party of schoolgirls who were learning to swim. ...
Article : 30 wordsSir,—In "The Argus" of Thursday Mr. George F. Hollins asked:—If a "Yes" majority is recorded— (1) Will it be possible for a Victorian ...
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Advertising : 37 wordsCOBDEN.—The Cobden Ladies' Benevolent Society officers are:—President, Mrs. R. Adkins; vice-presidents. Mesdames J. Kerr, L. Baker, and Miss Morehouse; secretary and ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 19 Feb 1937, Page 5
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