Sir,—"Penny wise and pound foolish" is the attitude of the Government in deciding not to have a residence for the Governor-General. It is a short-sighted ...
Article : 75 wordsUnless a good downpour of rain is received very shortly the Victorian fruit crop, except thst in Gippsland and some of the irrigated areas, and grapes in the ...
Article : 420 wordsIt is not surprising that the attempts made so far to bring about general reauctions in the United States wool import duties have been unsuccessful, or that the ...
Article : 338 words"Wonderful work has been done in overcoming drought conditions and improving crops in the wheat and fruit industries, and I do not see why similar work should ...
Article : 332 wordsWhen motoring from Shepparton to Avoca Mr. E. Garner, of South Yarra, saw a snake and a hawk fighting. So intent were the pair on the combat that ...
Article : 57 wordsWork has been begun on the Donald Macdonald Memorial by Mr. Stanley J. Hammond, the young sculptor entrusted with the modelling and erection of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 126 wordsAlready luxuries in many households, fruit and vegetables are likely to become more expensive, while many producers, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,453 wordsSir,—While at Sorrento one of my crew noticed a speed-boat flash between the piles of the jetty at about 25 miles an hour. On Monday last, while my yacht ...
Article : 201 wordsWilma Anderson, aged 2½ years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Anderson, of Mountain Hut, was bitten by a red-backed spider. She was taken to the Maryborough ...
Article : 39 wordsSpecial attention was recently directed at the Buninyong Council to me unsatisfactory condition of the Clarendon to Lal Lal read, one of the principal roads in the ...
Article : 105 wordsRecently an alteration was made in the conditions regarding the attendance of firemen at theatres. There is considerable criticism in Ballarat because of the ...
Article : 71 wordsSir,—Permit me also to seek enlightenment upon a statement of our distinguished visitor. In his "A Short History of the World," chapter xiii., Mr. Wells has ...
Article : 78 wordsOn Thursday a report was received from the district health officer (Dr. Brennan) by the Buninyong Shire Council, suggesting that steps should be taken to ...
Article : 69 wordsWhen a car overturned on the Mansfield road, near Yea, early yesterday morning, Robert Gardiner, aged 19 years, of Curran street, North Melbourne, suffered ...
Article : 51 wordsSir,—Much has been said and written about employment of boys, but I would like to direct your attention to clause 5, paragraph 2, of the metal trades award, ...
Article : 226 wordsObjecting to being remanded on a charge of the larceny of the racehorse Roist, James Edward Donovan, aged 58 years, painter, of Spencer street, city, told ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 190 wordsThe fire in the old Clarence shaft at Eaglehawk is still burning, but work was resumed at 12 noon to-day in the South New Moon mine adjoining. The miners ...
Article : 62 wordsWhen she was struck by the Stony Point to Melbourne express passenger train at the McDonald street level crossing, near the Mordialloc station, Mrs. ...
Article : 64 wordsAccording to an announcement by the Ayrshire Cattle Herd Book Society, Barclay's Betty, owned by Mr. H. J. Chisholm, proprietor of the Strathglass herd of ...
Article : 151 wordsRecognising the urgency of the work the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission is making fast time in laying the 24in. pipe line from Tandara to Bendigo, ...
Article : 76 wordsCORRYONG, Thursday.—Injured when a car overturned on the Cudgewa road, near Corryong, early this morning. Mr. W. Krausgrill died later in the Corryong ...
Article : 54 wordsWhen lightning struck a wireless mast at the home of Mr. E. Adams, of Cobden, during a storm, it broke the mast, wrecked a radio set in the dining-room, melted the ...
Article : 57 wordsVegetables and milk, and milk and milk products, were essential in every diet, the chairman of the Health Commission (Dr. H. N. Featonby) said yesterday. The ...
Article : 87 wordsCASTLEMAINE, Thursday.—Falling from his father's lorry at Newstead yesterday afternoon, Graham Ebury, aged 9½ years, was severely injured when the ...
Article : 53 wordsIf imprisonment were not imposed for such offences without the option of fines, the police would constantly have to guard motor-vehicles, said Mr. Meehan, P.M., in ...
Article : 152 wordsGEELONG, Thursday.—The Department of the Interior has accepted the tender of Messrs. J. C. Taylor and Son. Geelong, for the erection of a new ...
Article : 82 wordsSir,—As a number of sporting officials are not returned soldiers, how can they seek the enlistment of their numbers to join the militia? Men who did not fight ...
Article : 69 wordsAn amended determination of the Boot Board, which comes into force to-day, provides for an increase of 1/ a week in the wages for adult males, and the rates ...
Article : 245 wordsLast year Colac Rye Grass Ltd. handled nore than 10,000 bushels of seed, but owing to the exceptionally dry season the harvest is expected to be only ...
Article : 61 wordsAllan Hood, aged 20 years, of St. Leonard's road, Ascotvale, suffered fractures of the pelvis and collarbone when his bicycle and a car collided at the corner ...
Article : 48 wordsA street fight, following incidents in a cafe at St. Kilda Junction, was the subject of evidence at the St. Kilda Court yesterday. ...
Article : 125 wordsIn 1938 Geelong Pire Brigade responded to 97 calls, of which 45 were fires in buildings, 25 false calls, 25 rubbish or grass fires, and two chimney fires. The ...
Article : 74 wordsA finding of suicide was recorded by the city coroner (Mr. Tingate, P.M.) yesterday at the inquest on John Strong, alias Alfred James Constantine, aged 30 years, ...
Article : 170 wordsSir,—As an ex-soldier and one who served his country during three successive reigns. I have been in close touch with the trend of things for some years, and I ...
Article : 320 wordsBENDIGO, Thursday.—The Bendigo City Council is making application to the Federal Government for a grant of £1,800 to enable it to complete the ...
Article : 48 wordsA charge of having illegally used a motor-car on December 23 was brought at the St. Kilda Court yesterday against Leslie Gleeson, aged 19 years, of Bay ...
Article : 129 wordsAlthough the apricot crop was uniformly light, a fair tonnage was processed at Krabram cannery. The processing season, which has been shorter than usual, will ...
Article : 62 wordsGEELONG, Thursday.—The Country Roads Board has given notice of the closing of the Great Ocean road for its entire length from Torquay to ...
Article : 78 wordsTo help to overcome the shortage of trained veterinarians the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hogan) announced yesterday that the Government had decided ...
Article : 120 wordsThe consumption of water by the Railways Department at Kyneton for 1938 amounted to 13,833,000 gallons, the greatest consumption for any year, and ...
Article : 80 wordsWilliam George Keeley, of Liscard street, Ripponlea, was fined £20, with £1/18/ costs, at the Footscray Court yesterday on a charge of having driven a ...
Article : 49 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Better results in crime detection would have to be shown or many changes would be made. This warning was given to the police ...
Article : 161 wordsCut worms are attacking potato crops in the Gordon and Bungareee districts. Several farmers are using the poison recommended by the Department of ...
Article : 39 wordsCommenting on a letter published yesterday in "The Argus," in which a complaint was made of lack of attention by officers of the Lands Department to a man ...
Article : 77 wordsGEELONG, Thursday.—The Geelong Waterworks and Sewerage Trust has received approval from the State Executive Council to borrow £306,050 for the ...
Article : 66 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—William Thomas Denman, aged 65 years, farmer, of Harrisville near Ipswich, was drowned in a wading-pool at Wynnum Central ...
Article : 52 wordsOfficers of the Maldon Associates' Golf Club had been elected as follow:—President, Mrs. Thomas Bell; vice-president, Mrs. Ware; captain, Miss Gallaugher; ...
Article : 60 wordsAnswering criticism that the temporary reduced size of potatoes—1¼in.—would result in reduced business and would react on the grower, the president of the ...
Article : 111 wordsThe annual conference of the Victorian Teachers' Union will be begun on January 24 and will last for three days. Speakers will include Dr. Anita Muhl, who is ...
Article : 81 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Erection of a control building at the Darwin flying-boat base will begin soon. Tenders are called in to-day's Commonwealth Gazette. ...
Article : 52 wordsCASTLEMAINE, Thursday.—Two cases of typhoid fever having occurred within the Borough of Castlemaine, the medical officer of health (Dr. J. E. Thompson) ...
Article : 74 wordsSir,—There is surely little likelihood of any criticism levelled at Mr. Wells's philosophy being very destructive from our quarter of the globe. Mr. Wells is a ...
Article : 217 wordsMr. John Monaghan, grazier, of Vine Lea, Green's Creek, was injured yesterday when the car he was driving skidded in some loose sand, and, hitting some trees ...
Article : 50 wordsBelieved by the Postmaster-General's Department to be due to substantial price concessions, telephone communication between Australia and England in the holiday ...
Article : 85 wordsGEELONG, Thursday.—The first wool sale for 1939 will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, when four selling brokers will submit catalogues aggregating 20,000 ...
Article : 65 wordsDARWIN, Thursday.—Delayed by monsoonal rains at Bima, the incoming Dutch airliner reached the Ross Smith airport four hours late to-day. The machine, ...
Article : 46 wordsThe joint application of Sisters Fahey and Bootes, of Broken Hill and Cowes respectively, has been accepted for the position of lessee of the Kaniva District ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Rev. Harry Thorpe, of Orange (N.S.W.) will arrive in Melbourne on Tuesday, in charge of a contingent of New South Wales members of the Church of ...
Article : 72 wordsHorace Edward Pool, labourer, of Sea Lake, was drowned in the Murray River, near Swan Hill, on New Year's Day while attempting to rescue his daughter, who ...
Article : 59 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The Export Sugar Committee has determined the following rebate rates which will be payable on the sugar content of goods exported ...
Article : 62 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—A good selection of 11,388 bales was submitted at the wool sales to-day. The sales at auction totalled 10,590 bales, and a further 1,457 bales ...
Article : 103 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Thursday.—Mrs. Gladys Lane was found by her husband on his return to their Rotorua home with a fatal wound in her throat and her ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Victoria Gold Dredging Company, Newstead, has installed a pump to supply water to the dredge from a bore at the side of the Newstead-Daylesford road. ...
Article : 111 wordsThe tidings and exemplary behaviour of the record crowds which patronised metropolitan beaches in the Christmas holidays have been a source of ...
Article : 109 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital committee, advice was received from the Commonwealth Government that the hospital had been ...
Article : 70 wordsAt a meeting of the Undera branch of the United Country party it was decided to forward a resolution to the Kyabram district council urging the party's central ...
Article : 79 wordsCOLERAINE, Thursday.—As the result of a tree being struck by lightning the previous night, a fire broke out in Gringegalgona district yesterday. About 150 ...
Article : 45 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—Just before she left Melbourne for Colombo in the Orford on Tuesday Mrs. Norah Bowie, of Melbourne, was robbed of a suitcase ...
Article : 53 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has decided to undertake a detailed investigation of the physical properties of wool. ...
Article : 67 wordsSir,—To further any cause one must have a working hypothesis to present before discarding the last. If "natural selection" as a scientific proposition is ...
Article : 217 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—A special committee, which will be sponsored by the Department of the Interior, will be appointed soon to inquire into the ...
Article : 105 wordsOUYEN, Thursday.—The post-office store and dwelling at Linga, owned and conducted by Mrs. Seddon, was destroyed by fire last night. Telephone services ...
Article : 48 wordsThe banks of the Merri River for a distance of a mile and a half from the mouth were strewn with dead bream and mullet to-day. It is believed that the ...
Article : 52 wordsBy a majority of 54 votes, Mr. G. L. Walsh has been elected to fill the vacancy in the Ouyen Riding of the Walpeup Shire Council. The final figures at the ...
Article : 50 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—If the parties to the coal-mining case could agree, he might be able to make a more comprehensive award for the industry than he originally ...
Article : 76 wordsDuring December the Dogs' Home and Animal Hospital, Langford street, North Melbourne, received the following animals for treatment:—437 dogs, 51 cats, five ...
Article : 60 wordsMrs. Herbert Austin, who for many years was one of the foremost social workers in the Geelong district, has died. A member of the Red Cross since its ...
Article : 163 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Members of the Australian Meat Export Control Board have been reappointed for three years from January 30 by the Minister for ...
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Advertising : 39 wordsA public meeting of irrigators held at Beverford last night discussed the present unsatisfactory position of the water supply roster in the vinesyards, now six days ...
Article : 65 wordsTo-morrow afternoon 30 boys from poor homes in industrial areas, who have never been to the country and who have never had a holiday, will be taken to Officer ...
Article : 97 wordsRobert Jamison, of Huon, farmer and grazier, who died on September 24, 1938, left by will dated September 15, 1937, real estate of a gross value of £5,000 and personal ...
Article : 128 wordsThe following report on entries for the September all-Australian export lamb competition, judged in London on December 15 by Mr. J. I. Hamilton, has been received by the Australian ...
Article : 103 wordsIt appeared that Coburg cycling track was not as safe as it might be, and he thought the Coburg Council should examine it, said the city coroner (Mr. ...
Article : 80 wordsMT. GAMBIER. Thursday.—Mr. Alex, Galway, aged 50 years, farmer, of Wandillo, was seriously injured when he was tossed by a Shorthorn bull at his home ...
Article : 53 wordsThieves entered a confectionery shop in the Woodend Theatre buildings last night and stole about 15/ in money and a small quantity of confectionery. The theatre ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 6 Jan 1939, Page 9
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