The State Ministry will shortly be called upon to decide whether it will import from Germany a 30,000-kilowatt turbo-alternator ...
Article : 437 wordsFREMANTLE (W.A.), Friday.—One of two modern cruisers recently acquired for the Australian Navy, H.M.A.S. Hobart, arrived at ...
Article : 163 wordsRepresentatives of the Commonwealth and New Zealand Governments and of Qantas Empire Airways will meet in Melbourne on Monday at the Victoria ...
Article : 226 wordsThe first step has been taken by the British Government for a trade drive against subsidised foreign competition, especially ...
Article : 249 wordsAlthough tempers are reported to be rising in Tunisia, the police force, which has been strengthened, is in control of the situation in the ...
Article : 357 wordsReading the anemometer (left), the instrument which records the velocity and direction of the wind, at the Weather Bureau yesterday, while on the roof the instruments (centre) whirled at breakneck speed. At Essendon aerodrome (right), where at times the wind reached a velocity of 90 miles an hour, landing lights were switched on before 5 p.m. for the guidance of pilots. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 61 wordsFull advantage was taken yesterday by prospective militia recruits of the inquiry bureau outside the Town Hall, and many inquiries were made. The men were ...
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Article : 106 wordsChief Justice Greenshields, of the Superior Court of Quebec, has taken sharp exception to earlier Judgments of Justice Forest on the quest of the validity ...
Article : 378 wordsOn the eve of the opening of the important Pan-American Conference at Lima, the United States Secretary of State (Mr. Hull) warned the ...
Article : 147 wordsGreater guarantees of security for Australia and New Zealand by the development of regional pacts with the United States, the Dutch East Indies, China, the ...
Article : 139 wordsVigorous police action, which resulted in brief, intensive street fighting and more than 20 arrests, checked students' demonstrations from reaching riot proportions. ...
Article : 101 wordsA gigantic petition to the British Prime Minister urging the opening of Palestine to persecuted Jews is being prepared by Jews in London. Scores of depots have been opened for the signing of the petition ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 53 wordsYielding to the request of the interstate executive of the Austialasian Council of Trade Unions which is meeting at the Trades Hall, the Federal Attorney-General ...
Article : 179 wordsTHE' "Sentinel" will present his weekly talk on foreign affairs from 3UZ and 3UL at 9.45 p.m. to-morrow. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe directors of the Texas Company (Australasia Ltd.) have made the following statement:— "There has been considerable agitation ...
Article : 94 wordsBefore leaving London for Cape Town, the South African Minister for Defence (Mr. Pirow) and Mrs. Pirow had luncheon with the King and Queen at Buckingham ...
Article : 190 words(From Page 1) A massage from Barcelona reports that the possibility of big battle on the ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Victorian Master Drapers' Association decided at a council meeting held on Thursday to recommend to its members that they grant facilities to all eligible ...
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Advertising : 23 wordsA band of robbers halted a train near Metuchen (New Jersey) a few miles from New York City, and stole goods valued at 50,000 dollars ...
Article : 100 wordsThe suggestion that Melbourne should be turning its attention to the provision of underground shelters for the protection of civilians during air raids was made ...
Article : 110 wordsA serlous food shortage and the refugee problem were the two great difficulties which were being faced by Republican Spain, said Mr. Arthur Howells at a ...
Article : 148 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Henry R. Gough, managing director of Hackshalls Ltd., which controls bakeries in many suburbs, said to-day that master ...
Article : 205 wordsOptimistic reports on the progress of the campaign against highway accidents were made at the opening of the National Institute for Traffic Safety Training, in ...
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Article : 138 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—Entire dissatisfaction with South Australia's share in the Commonwealth's 1938-39 allocation for defence works was expressed to-day ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Charles Booth, aged 71 years, chairman of the Booth Steamship Company, and a director of the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway Company, ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Minister for Foreign Affairs (M. Bandler) stated that Swedish firms which trade with Germany have been informed that it will be impossible for them to ...
Article : 169 wordsA cartridge with a threatening note signed with a swastika have been sent to the Mayor of New York (Mr. La Guardia), who is an ...
Article : 127 wordsIt is almost certain that an appeal will be lodged by the other unions against the granting of registration to the National Union of Railwaymen by the industrial ...
Article : 119 wordsFour persons were killed when a plane crashed in an experimental flight at the Schiphol airport. The machine was completely destroyed by fire. ...
Article : 44 wordsThirty-five Barnardo boys and l8 girls are leaving for Australia in the Strathaird to-day in the charge of the Rev. R. Snowdon Smith and four assistant ...
Article : 80 wordsSYDNEY. Friday.—A special meeting of the Executive Council to-day approved the issue of a proclamation fixing the price of bread at 5¼d, a loaf, cash over ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 295 wordsThe secretary of the Grocers' Association of Victoria (Mr. H. J. Book) said yesterday that the retail price of flour and flour products had been increased ...
Article : 56 wordsExceeding the previous British speed record for locomotives by 11 miles an hour, an L.N.E.R. Coronation streamlined express, the Mallard on a recent test run ...
Article : 307 wordsGeneral Suglyama, whose appointment to supreme commnnd of the Japanese forces in North China, was announced a few days ago, was pieviously a strong ...
Article : 130 wordsPIG IRON PILED HIGH on the wharf at Port Kembla (N.S.W.) awaiting shipment to Japan. Waterside workers at the port have refused to load the metal. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 10 Dec 1938, Page 7
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