The first of the Victorian wool sales for the 1937-38 season was held this week in Melbourne. The market was firm throughout, and good clearances were made at satisfactory prices. ...
Article : 389 wordsFewer than 260,000 people visited the Royal Show during the nine days and five night on which it was open, compared with 311,000 on the ni nedays last year.' This decline of 50,000, it is believed, was caused mainly ...
Article : 540 wordsStriding Out The 12th annual report of the Geelong Rotary Club for the year ended September 30 refers to the work of Mr. O. C. Hearne ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 638 wordsEvporters and persons engaged in the canned fruit industry in Australia will greatly appreciate the increase in the preference extended to Australian canned ...
Article : 354 wordsRain is needed urgently in all Victorian wheat areas. A few light showers fell in southern Victoria at the end of last week, but the weather bureau ...
Article : 144 wordsDr. and Mrs. Courtney, who are leaving Penshurst to live on Palm Island, North Queensland, were bidden farewell at a public gathering on Saturday night. They ...
Article : 909 wordsOfficials of the Returned Soldiers' League at Griffith state that the reply of the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Main) to a question in the Legislative Assembly ...
Article : 179 wordsST. ARNAUD.—Swanwater district annual schools' sports meeting, held at Coonooer. The cup was won by Coonooer West from Coonooer Bridge, and Sutherland third. Results:— Boys' ...
Article : 837 wordsSelections from oratorio and art song by a modern British composer, in bracketed numbers, which occupied the judge (Mr. Lindley Evans) throughout the day, ...
Article : 623 wordsMany demands for increased wages and improved working conditions were adopted at a meeting yesterday of about 400 workers in the full-fashioned hosiery trade ...
Article : 308 wordsVictorian teams won decisive victories in both events of the Australian contract bridge championships. In the open event, Victoria (V. Braham, ...
Article : 550 wordsTo the last day, the ring events at the Showground maintained the texture and pattern of the outback. On Saturday, the crowds of spectators in the stands were ...
Article : 539 wordsKeen interest was displayed in the dog section of the Royal Show on Saturday morning, when the American judge, Mr. George Steadman Thomas, selected the ...
Article : 188 wordsSheepdogs showed their skill in the arena when they came through yarding tests with yelps of delight in response to applause from the ringside. In the ...
Article : 110 wordsAlthough an agreement was reached recently between the Bank of New South Wales and the Bank Officials' Association about the salaries of the staff of the bank, ...
Article : 223 wordsAlertness on the part of a watchman led to the arrest on Saturday night of a man who had broken into the premises of Emerson Bros. Ptv. Ltd., furniture ...
Article : 105 wordsThought to be the victim of serious wounding, William Kincaid, aged 40 years[?] labourer, of no fixed abode, was admitted late on Saturday night to the Wag[?] ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. G. S. Thomas, of the United States, who was one of the three judges of dogs at the Show, said on Saturday that Australia was the best country in the world ...
Article : 204 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 476 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 94 wordsIt is to be suggested to the Centenary Celebrations Council that reunions of the various Ballarat State schools be held on a special day in Floral Week in March, ...
Article : 489 wordsCOLAC, Friday.—At weekly stock sales prices all classes beef firm. Sheep sold at late rates. Lambs were easier. Lightweight steers made to £9/15/; he[?]fers, to £8/2/6; meaty cows, to £6, older £4/15/; ...
Article : 777 wordsAfter a conference of Commonswealth public service unions, convened by the Postal Workers' Union, It has been decided to lodge claims for an increase in the ...
Article : 93 wordsSteady Pull Contest for Draught Horses (open): John Sharp and Sons Ltd., 1 and 2; C. G. Sutherland. 3. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe value of carbon dioxide as a means of saving life has been again demonstrated by the Wagga District Ambulance. An old-age pensioner, John Myers, ...
Article : 103 wordsA protest against the alleged failure of the coalmine owners in the Korumburra district to observe what was said to be a legally constituted award, and also ...
Article : 90 wordsSenior Plain clothes Constable A. G. Evans and Plain-clothes Constable A. Boater yesterday arrested Samuel Carlyon, aged 63 years miner, of Solomon's Hill. ...
Article : 295 wordsA conference to discuss a reduction of working hours from 48 to 44 a week has been granted to the Wool and Basil Workers' Union by the Master Fellmongers' ...
Article : 79 wordsThe annual convention of Zone No. 1 of Victorian Apex Clubs was held in Echuca at the week-end 120 delegates attending from Victorian centres and ...
Article : 169 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 31 wordsAt the stand of J. Kennon and Sons Pty. Ltd during the recent Royal Agricultural Show, Melbourne, a free prize of £5 was offered to any woolgrower who ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Kyneton Agricultural Society has taken out an insurance policy for £50 against 10 points of rain falling between specified hours on show day. ...
Article : 90 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 4 Oct 1937, Page 14
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: