Record sales have already been reported by shops, and it was said yesterday that the Christmas trade will exceed the £3,000,000 ...
Article : 541 wordsAccepting as final a statement by the leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives (Mr. Curtin) that he was satisfied, the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
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Advertising : 304 wordsThe iodine in salmon, barracoota, and sea mullet meals, estimated after the method of Tressler and Wells (1924), is of the order of 1 ...
Article : 838 wordsSome of the guests at a cocktail party given by Mr. Ernest Marks at Menzies Hotel in honour ot Mr. Laurance Mayer, vice-president of Julius Kayser and Co., New York. From the left they are:—Messrs. Ernest Marks, of Julius Kayser (Aust.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 64 wordsSeventy thousand recruits — the objective in the militia campaign —should be achieved by the end of March, 1939, or at latest by the ...
Article : 312 wordsEvery wise woman realises that make-up for the summer must be very different from that for the winter. The winner of the Pygmalion summer cruise contest will ...
Article : 384 wordsCONTRARY to practice in Christmas week, there will be this year six issues of "The Argus" instead of five. It is customary to ...
Article : 53 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—Mr. Curtin said to-day that last night, while he was attending a function he received a telephone message that Mr. Thorby had ...
Article : 202 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—It is understood that a schedule of 15 grievances of Commonwealth railways employees were referred to the commissioner (Mr. ...
Article : 241 wordsThe submarine Phœnix is being lent to the Commonwealth Government by the Royal Navy for exercises with the ships of the Royal Australian Navy, the ...
Article : 153 wordsHOBART, Tuesday.—With poultry in keen demand for the Christmas season, many thefts from fowl yards have been reported. Even the State pen in ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Industrial Advisory Panel on defence has agreed to co-operate in the defence programme announced recently in the Federal Parliament, the Minister for ...
Article : 111 wordsThe mail branch of the Postmaster-General's Department handled 2,250,000 articles on Tuesday. It was the first of the peak days, with heavy interstate ...
Article : 111 wordsWell known formerly as a professional footrunner, Reginald Sorrell, aged 34 years, of Maribyrnong road, Ascotvale, was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital ...
Article : 112 wordsThe State Ministry decided yesterday to agree to a proposal that it should co-operate with the Federal Government in works to relieve unemployment, which ...
Article : 74 wordsStruck by falling stone at the quarries of Mr. G. H. Reid in Sydney road, Coburg, yesterday, John O'Connor, of Brooks crescent, North Fitzroy, suffered ...
Article : 46 wordsA 200-mile dash by the industrial officer of the Australian Workers' Union in South Australia (Mr. M. J. Murphy) from Adelaide to Port Augusta, followed a ...
Article : 158 wordsA special tram and bus service will be run by the Tramway's Board from the Flinders and Swanston streets intersection after the midnight choral service in ...
Article : 73 wordsWhile cycling along the Geelong road near Ralph's abattoirs, yesterday, John Lalor, aged 37 years, of McDonald road, Brooklyn, was struck by a motor-truck, ...
Article : 38 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Nearly 10,000 people in Martin place at lunch-time to-day cheered the war-time Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) when he appealed for ...
Article : 202 wordsDANDENONG, Wednesday. — About 6.15 p.m. to-day a motor-car driven by Mr. Bennett, M.L.A., collided with a bicycle ridden by Thomas Saunders, of ...
Article : 56 wordsWards and the dining-room at me Caulfield Repatriation Hospital were decorated yesterday for a Christmas treat, in the provision of which the ...
Article : 184 wordsMURTOA, Wednesday.—When driving a motor-car over the level crossing on the Minyip-Murtoa road, Moses Glebov, mercery hawker, of McIlwraith street, ...
Article : 50 wordsAdvertising Australia is a specialty of the Australian National Travel Association, and this will be done in America in a "big way" next year, when two elaborate ...
Article : 143 wordsBRIAGOLONG, Wednesday. — A successful recruiting meeting was held last night under the chairmanship of Mr. T. X. Feely. ...
Article : 42 wordsSEYMOUR, Wednesday.—A motor-cycle travelling to Melbourne, ridden by John Mark Davis, of Queen street, Blackburn, skidded and struck a guide past on the ...
Article : 49 wordsAn appeal for a broader municipal outlook upon the elimination of "bottlenecks" from roadways was made by the chairman of the traffic committee of the ...
Article : 125 wordsCOBDEN, Wednesday.—Addressing the Heytesbury Shire Council regarding the formation of a militia unit in Cobden, Lieutenant Newstead said the Defence ...
Article : 116 wordsPrivate aeroplanes will probably be banned from the Essendon aerodrome on Saturday because of heavy commercial air traffic. ...
Article : 69 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. S. I. Love, a Melbourne mining engineer, who arrived by the Tasman to-day, after having spent four months at the chromite mines in ...
Article : 79 wordsIt was expected that, when the national Insurance plan became operative funds would be available to assist the extension of medical services in remote country areas ...
Article : 97 wordsAppealing for consideration from motorists during the holiday season the Chief Commissioner of Police (Mr. A. Duncan) sold yesterday:— ...
Article : 255 wordsThe body of William Cunningham, aged 52 years, of Gamon street, Seddon, labourer, who had been missing from his home since Tuesday, was found ...
Article : 42 wordsPERTH, Wednesday. — Mr. Justice Draper, who is aged 73 years, will retire from the Supreme Court Bench after a six months' vacation, which will begin at ...
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Advertising : 165 wordsSister Elizabeth Kenny, of Brisbane who recently returned to Australia from London, and whose methods of treating infantile paralysis are being tested at the ...
Article : 65 wordsMany reports have been received by the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria of motorists being stranded at night time through lack of, petrol or through ...
Article : 223 wordsWhile the City Council was trying to have petrol pumps removed from the footpath the act which restricted garage trading hours would have the effect of causing ...
Article : 63 wordsThe State Cabinet at a meeting last night decided to reappoint for a further term of three years retiring members of the Metropolitan Tramways Board. ...
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Advertising : 7 wordsOn Christmas Day station 3UZ and "The Argus" will present the first episode of "The King of Kings," a serial dramatisation of the life of Christ. It will be ...
Article : 46 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Friedrich Ernst Menzie, aged 72 years who was remanded at Kingaroy on Monday on a charge of having unlawfully attempted to ...
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