When passing through Paris yesterday for Geneva, the Republican Foreign Minister (Senor Delvayo) declared that there was absolutely ...
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Article : 60 wordsTo lecture throughout Australia on the spiritual, political, and social objectives of the Roman Catholic Church, the Rev. Father Owen Dudley, superior of the ...
Article : 678 wordsSpecial services were held in Anglican Churches in Australia yesterday to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Church of England Boys' Society, which was established by an act of Synod in 1913. Mother's Day also was celebrated in ...
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Article : 186 wordsEstimate of the cost of establishing a chair of aeronautics at the University of Melbourne which have been prepared by the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering ...
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Article : 81 wordsGrowing uneasiness among local Roman Catholics gives prospects that a court action may lead to the settlement of the convent dispute. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe annual sports and prize presentation was held at Chelmsford Girls' Grammar School, Glen Iris, on Saturday afternoon. ...
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Article : 425 wordsLord Harlech died to-day, at the age of 83 years. He will be succeeded by his son, Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, who is Secretary of State for the Colonies. ...
Article : 58 wordsThree youths each aged l8 years, who were detained at Gembrook on Friday by Mr. L. Jennings, a garage proprietor, appeared in the City Court on Saturday. ...
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Article : 109 wordsThe British Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax), accompanied by Foreign Office experts, has arrived here to attend the meeting of the League of Nations. ...
Article : 48 wordsAt the final meeting of the newly appointed committee of the Victorian division of the Australian Institute of Butter Factory Managers and Secretaries the ...
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Article : 60 wordsA further extension of trolley-bus routes in London was made yesterday, as a result of which the London Passenger Transport Board will have 738 trolley-buses ...
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Article : 33 wordsThe amended determination of the Pottery Board, which will operate on and after May 12, provides a 44-hour working week for the trade, without reduction of ...
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Article : 81 wordsSome 1,200 racing pigeons, valued at £2,000, which were being taken from Peterborough to Doncaster were burned to death when a railway waggon caught ...
Article : 34 wordsThe intake of Territorial recruits for April constitutes another record. A total of 10,395 men joined the forces between April 1 and May 1, a higher total than in ...
Article : 68 wordsTheir Excellencies the Administrator and Lady Huntingfield, attended by members of the personal staff, were present at divine service at St. John's Church, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 9 May 1938, Page 9
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