BRISBANE, Tuesday. — The 1937-38 wool-selling season in Brisbane closed to day with keen competition and firm prices. ...
Article : 541 wordsMiss Mabel Bird, manageress of Camelot Guest House, Mount Macedon, will soon leave to take the cruise which she won in the contest held in connection with the screening at the Athenaeum Theatre of the film "I'll Take Romance." Competitors were required to write a short essay ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 63 wordsMr. W. E. Backman, of Rutherglen, was given a public farewell at which the shire president (Councillor W. R. McRae) presided. Mr. Backman, who is leaving ...
Article : 952 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The market for stud sheep was brighter when Dalgety and Co. Ltd. offered the remainder of its catalogue at the Showground to-day. ...
Article : 1,000 wordsDARWIN, Tuesday. — How he placed a number of mythical reefs on a Japanese chart to deter a Japanese lugger which he feared ...
Article : 1,107 wordsGEELONG, Tuesday. — By nine votes to five, the city council to-day adopted a recommendation by the public works committee that the tender of Mr. C. E. ...
Article : 295 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—A decision reached to-day at the annual meeting of the New South Wales Sheep Breeders' Association will mean that at Sydney sheep shows in ...
Article : 386 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Plans made by the Federal Ministry last week for the statutory control of the apple and pear export industry by the creation of an ...
Article : 178 wordsSome months ago the King George V. memorial committee decided that the memorial should be placed in Johnstone Park at the north-east corner of the art ...
Article : 359 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) and Lady Gowrie, will open the Bendigo Show on October 12. The town clerk of Bendigo (Mr. ...
Article : 126 wordsClaims for £50 damages were made by Henry Arnold, of Blakeney place, South Melbourne, and Henry Hebard, of Linda crescent, Hawthorn, in the City Court on ...
Article : 341 wordsCASTLEMAINE, Tuesday.—Addressing the Rotary Club, the president of the Royal Automobile Club (Mr. J. A. Paterson) said that there was a growing ...
Article : 163 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—A number of letters found on Hospital Hill, near Junee, several weeks ago suggested that mailbags had been rifled and that the letters ...
Article : 137 wordsWANGARATTA, Tuesday.—The Minister for tile Interior (Mr. McEwen) and Mr. Inchbold, M.L.C., addressed a public meeting at Wangaratta last night to ...
Article : 205 wordsComplaints about the speed of the Whittlesea train were answered by Mr. M.J. Canny, one of the Victorian Railways Commissioners yesterday. The train ...
Article : 129 wordsDcsp te protests the railway station at Walhalla is being demolished and the materials will be used [?] portion of the new station to be erected at Haitwell, on ...
Article : 105 wordsPERTH, Tuesday.—The wheat yield for the 1937-38 season was 35,868,000 bushels, from 3,021,000 acres, increases of 14,319,000 bushels and 446,000 actes respectively, ...
Article : 83 wordsSHEPPARTON, Tuesday.—When using a hammer to repair a spray pump on his orchard property at Orrvale, Mr. Vernon Konig was struck in the eye by a flying ...
Article : 95 wordsKANIVA, Tuesday.—While excavating on the Leeor Reserve, Mr. D. Welsh unearthed a human skull, which was intact except that the lower jaw was missing. ...
Article : 76 wordsBENDIGO, Tuesday.—William Martin, a former contractor, was found dead at his home in Old High street, Golden Square, to-day. Martin had not been ...
Article : 66 wordsMANANGATANG. Tuesday.—A queen competition in aid of the Manangatang Hospital resulted in £247 being raised. The details were; —Miss J. Lambie (Queen of the North), £98 ...
Article : 55 wordsWARRNAMBOOL, Tuesday. — Kenneth Geo, aged 13 months, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Geo. of Allansford, was admitted to the Base Hospital suffering from severe burns. ...
Article : 54 wordsIn an address before the Historical Society of Victoria on Monday the president of an association of old residents (Mr. C. R. Long) told how Alexandra ...
Article : 82 wordsTenders have been called for extensive alterations to the Ararat Town Hall. BAIRNSDALE To take advantage of a grant of £90 from ...
Article : 2,235 wordsSYDNFY. Tuesday.—Forage—Tasmanian straw, £4/15/;(oaten chaff (grain), £7 to £7/l0/, (straw) £4/10/; Victorian oaten hay, £10 ton; maize, choice yellow, 5/, white 4/10 bushel; oats, machined, 4/8 ...
Article : 867 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday. — The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Blesing) announced to-day that the director of Agriculture (Mr. Spafford) would represent South ...
Article : 72 wordsWAGGA, Tuesday.—George Kingston, a well-known farmer of French Park, was seriously injured to-day when a horse which he was riding slipped and fell on ...
Article : 47 wordsAVENEL.—In June 358 points have been registered. CASTERTON,—More rain has fallen in the last few days, making 361 points for the ...
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Advertising : 155 wordsNew Australian stamps bearing the platypus as the central feature of tho design will be issued on September 1. The stamps will be of a face value of 9d. ...
Article : 98 wordsIt is expected that the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) will open the celebrations of the golden Jubilee of the Mitcham State school in September. A week's ...
Article : 176 wordsCANBERRA. Tuesday.—The Raw Cotton Bounty Bill, Providing for the rescission of the reduction made in the bounty under the financial emergency legislation ...
Article : 79 wordsAs the Perth express arrived in Adelaide an hour late on Monday evening a special division of the Melbourne express left Adelaide at 8.31 p.m., 61 minutes after ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 29 Jun 1938, Page 6
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