BRADFIELD (N.S.W.), Sunday.—Messages from the King and the World Chief Scout (Lord Baden-Powell) were read when the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie), 'who is Chief Scout of Australia, officially opened the Australasian ...
Article : 524 wordsMOUNT GAMBIER, Sunday.— Police believe that terrific explosions which wrecked a freezing works plant here early ...
Article : 296 wordsGermany's proposal to build submarine tonnage equal to the total submarine tonnage possessed by members of the British Empire may be a prelude to a dramatic plea for an all-round reduction of armaments. ...
Article : 314 wordsA NEW CITY HAS GROWN at Bradfield (N.S.W.). This special aerial view shows some of the hundreds of tents of Scouts attending the Australasian Jamboree. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 25 words—Victorian Scouts took part in this tableau before the GovernorGeneral (Lord Gowrie) at the Jamboree on Saturday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 22 wordsThe rights referred to provide that Germany, while not exceeding 35 per cent, of British total tonnage, shall have the right to possess submarine tonnage equal ...
Article : 274 wordsFamilies now occupying sub-standard houses in the worst areas of South Melbourne and Port Melbourne will be transferred to the new housing settlement at ...
Article : 365 wordsIn his address Lord Gowrie said:— "The brotherhood of mon would be more than a mere ideal if we could find expression for the Boy Scout spirit in our ...
Article : 777 wordsBrian Crover, the young British engineer who flew from Stockholm to Starltza, 100 miles from Moscow, in November, in an attempt to rescue his Russian wife from ...
Article : 172 wordsThis year will mark a new peak of activity in connection with the £40,000,000 project for the development of London's traffic facilities. ...
Article : 140 wordsFalling overboard from a boat 100 yards from the shore at Mordialloc yesterday afternoon. Jack Holt, aged 21 years, of Como parade, East Mordialloc, was ...
Article : 89 wordsIn an interview with the "Sunday Times," the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon) reviewed the trade position for the ...
Article : 155 wordsRouting the Italians in a counteroffensive on a large scale south of Lerida, the Republicans have temporarily, at least, ruined General ...
Article : 168 wordsWhile thousands of West End revellers were waiting to sing out the old year and sing in the new last ningt, 150 unemployed staked the streets, headed by ...
Article : 192 wordsBoth the political and the industrial sections of the Labour Movement have given assurances of assistance in the organisation of the voluntary national ...
Article : 94 wordsWANGARATTA, Sunday.—A young man, Alfred Waldo Goodrope, of Harding street. Coburg, was drowned in a lagoon near the Ovens River at ...
Article : 64 wordsThat temperature was 22deg. higher than the normal maximum recording for January Soon after 4 p m. a cool sea breeze blew up, and the temperature ...
Article : 242 wordsDAYLESFORD, Sunday.—In full view of a crowd of holiday-makers, Cecil Hedley Grenfell, aged 13 years, of California Gully, near Bendigo, sank in the ...
Article : 172 wordsAlthough in Kenya, thousands of miles away, the World Chief Scout (Lord BadenPosvell) delivered an address to 6,000 Boy Scouts on the arena at the Jamboree ...
Article : 420 wordsBefore leaving London yesterday for a tour of South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, Lord Nuffield said that there should be a definite improvement in ...
Article : 190 wordsLast-minute hitches in the passage of the French Budget which according to law, should have been passed before midnight yesterday resulted in the clocks ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Republican destroyer Jose Luis Diez, which was attacked by Nationalist warships when she tried to slip out of Gibraltar early on Friday morning, has ...
Article : 181 wordsBelieving that prospeilty was returning people in the United States last night held the wildest New Year's Eve celebrations for a decade. ...
Article : 156 wordsQUEENSCLIFF, Sunday.—A woman spectator at the front beach this afternoon gave the alarm when she saw a middleaged man disappear under the water. The ...
Article : 54 wordsAlthough the total rainfall in Melbourne last year was far below the average, the total hours of sunshine were also fewer than usual. ...
Article : 99 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A special committee appointed by the Federal Australian Labour party executive some months ago to investigate disunity in the New South ...
Article : 178 wordsROSEDALE, Sunday.—Thomas Hill, aged 18 years of Cobain Estate, near Sale, was drowned at 7.30 p.m. to-day in a billabong near the homestead of Mr. ...
Article : 73 wordsSmart work by the police wireless patrol car in charge of Senior-constable Murphy on Saturday resulted in the clearing up of a Williamstown robbery within three hourse ...
Article : 208 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Firemen fought desperately to save an old man from a burning cottage at 5 Railway street, Marrickville, yesterday morning. The fierce ...
Article : 260 wordsThe Secretary for Air (Sir Kingsley Wood), in a new year message said:— "There are those who constantly would heap condemnation on other countries ...
Article : 141 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—Never has the old Sulby Glen property at Cudlee Cieek seen so many visitors as passed through its befiagged entrance gates yesterday ...
Article : 172 wordsThe transports Sphinx and Chantilly sailed for French Somaliland yesterday with 760 troops, 16 French officers, 100 mules, and enough equipment to supply ...
Article : 106 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—The body of Cecil Francis, aged 20 years, of Cheltenham parade, Cheltenham, was recovered from the Torrens River. near the city weir, ...
Article : 63 wordsThe lowest rainfall on record was received at many, stations in northern Victoria in 1938, and almost generally. over the State the falls were below average. ...
Article : 189 wordsDAYLESFORD, Sunday.—The search for a buried treasure at Queenscliff, which was made unsuccessfully in 1937 by a Daylesford syndicate headed by Messrs. ...
Article : 172 words"Reynoldss News publishes on its iront page to-day a report that the Pope may transfer his headquarters to Australia. ...
Article : 157 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—Severe wind storms were experienced in parts of the Darling Downs last night. Considerable damage was caused at Dulacca, where the ...
Article : 80 wordsPiesldent Roosevelt has approved the Budget of 1939-40, which provides for the expenditure of 8,880,000,000 dollars (£A2,220,000,000), including ...
Article : 91 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—Mr. H. G. Wells, the famous author, who has spent the last four days in Adelaide, left soon after 10 a.m. to-day to drive to Melbourne with. ...
Article : 51 wordsLeno a lioness was given an audition at the B.B.C. last month. She was taken in a taxi and was escoited into the offices of Mr. Arthur H. ...
Article : 110 wordsMiss Jane Stott, of Tyldesley, a 50-yearsold Lancashire weaver, cheerfully said good-bye to her 80-years-old mother last month when she left on a 5,000-miles trip ...
Article : 116 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—Donald Henry Kennewell, aged five years, was burned to death last night at the home of his patents in Wills lane, Railway Town. ...
Article : 55 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—While out shooting on Friday night, E. Inge, 57. of Main North road, Prospect, was shot dead. He and three companions were shooting ...
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Advertising : 64 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—In a quarter-final of the State singles championship yesterday N. Wasley defeated the title-holder G. B. Davis 6-4, 7-9, 6-4, 6-4. Wasley ...
Article : 54 wordsThe death has occurred of Mrs. Lucy Hyde, wife of the President of Eire (Dr. Douglas Hyde). ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 2 Jan 1939, Page 7
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