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Advertising : 35 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Science Congress will be opened by the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) to-morrow. At the opening session of the congress ...
Article : 172 wordsSir,—The Forests Commission has taken more trouble than ever before to prevent forest fires, and with very small results; yet the publicity has had effect on campers, ...
Article : 304 wordsExtraordinarily high temperatures which were recorded throughout the State yesterday resulted in heavy mortality among poultry. ...
Article : 1,343 wordsDisappointment has been expressed at the delay in erecting the new police offices at Bendigo. It is understood that plans were completed some time ago and ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. R. J. Elliott, who for the last 10 years has resided at Bannockburn as noxious weeds inspector, has been transferred to the Altona district. The ...
Article : 53 wordsBuffering from severe sunburn, Kenneth Worladge, aged 12 years, of Bond street, was admitted for treatment at the base hospital to-day. The lad stayed too ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. H. G. Wells escaped much of Melbourne's severe heat yesterday by spending most of the afternoon in his room at Menzies Hotel. Having no public ...
Article : 52 wordsFollowing the interest displayed by Lord Hampton in the Ballarat troop of Boy Scouts at the Sydney Jamboree, where the boys provided their own tourist ...
Article : 49 wordsRepresentatives of lessees and licensees operating on the Lakes Entrance oil field agreed in principle yesterday, at a conference with officers of the ...
Article : 182 wordsSir,—Our Government is calling for 70,000 young men to train for defence of Australia's shores against possible attack. In the hands of the young men of the ...
Article : 338 wordsHector James McKenzie of Donnelly avenue, North Shore, was fined £15 in the Geelong Court to-day on a charge of having, on December 24, driven a ...
Article : 88 wordsWAGGA, Tuesday.—The water shortage is becoming acute in south-western Riverina and central slopes. Creeks and water-courses are drying up, and water ...
Article : 231 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Following the further sharp fall in Customs receipts during December, the Federal consolidated revenue ...
Article : 218 wordsMr. B. L. Warner, J. P., deputy coroner, conducted an inquest to-day at Meredith into the deaths of Mabel Dunstan aged 46 years, and Margaret Dunstan, aged 68 ...
Article : 55 wordsA public meeting has been called to consider improvements to the Kyneton mineral springs, which this summer have been visited by record crowds. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Kyabram Waterworks Trust, to the end of the financial year, collected 97 per cent. of rates and 72 per cent. of arrears. Sales of water yielded a record ...
Article : 91 wordsThe crops exhibited in the Kerang district crop competition were a remarkable achievement when the rainfall during the last two years is considered, and ...
Article : 165 wordsEntering Mr. R. Walker's home while the family was asleep, a thief stole a case containing from £25 to £30. Detective Long, of Mildura, is ...
Article : 33 wordsSir,—I appreciate Mr. R. C. W. Bunny's views regarding the products of our Art Gallery teaching. Instead of any person being permitted to enter the gallery to ...
Article : 58 wordsMILDURA, Tuesday.—Because of the low level of the Murray drinking water in Mildura has caused several cases of severe stomach disorder. Warnings have ...
Article : 54 wordsThe first meeting of the Western Metropolitan Market Trust, which is to control the new pig market at Brooklyn, will be held at the Footscray Town ...
Article : 101 wordsInforming people in the North-west Mallee that no further water supplies could be given until rain fell in the catchment areas, the State Rivers and ...
Article : 113 wordsSir,—If the killing and injuring of people by those who drive motor-vehicles is to be decreased, there must be deterrent punishment. There is such an ...
Article : 152 wordsROCHESTER, Tuesday.—The Rochester Advisory Board met to-day to discuss the position regarding irrigation water. Mr. N. Ferguson, superintendent of water ...
Article : 279 wordsROSEDALE, Tuesday.—Mr. Silas Clark, owner of Ridge Estate, and Mr. D. Pennyfarthing, an employee, were both seriously injured when eight plugs of ...
Article : 105 wordsThe death has occurred at Birchip of Mr. S. E. D. Carlisle, chemist, at the age of 76 years. Mr. Matthias O'Keefe, farmer and grazier, of Birchip, has also ...
Article : 124 wordsRetail dairymen in the metropolitan area have been invited by the Victorian Retail Dairymen's Association to attend a meeting at the Chamber of Manufactures ...
Article : 156 wordsSir,—In all garages there is always a large percentage of free petrol fumes, which will be pumped into the compressed air cylinders, thus becoming a source of ...
Article : 87 wordsWARRNAMBOOL, Tuesday.—A letter from the Belfast and Koroit Steam Navigation Company stating that unless the Railways Commissioners ceased "unfair ...
Article : 160 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mrs. Clara B. Warner, aged 36 years, of Belmore, was killed and five other persons were injured when a motor-car carrying a party of ...
Article : 108 wordsSir,—I feel I would like to express an opinion concerning an advertisement which invited applications for the posttion of "nurse, fully trained, for surgeon," ...
Article : 105 wordsA party of 75 from the University camp at Cowes went to Flinders Naval Depot to-day in a pinnace which met great difficulties in navigation because of bad ...
Article : 149 wordsKYABRAM, Tuesday.—The Minister for Water Supply (Mr. Old) has told the Goulburn Valley branch of the British Ex-Service Legion that the policy of the ...
Article : 122 wordsSir,—I heartily agree with the letter "Prayers for Rain," published on January 5, signed "I Believe." I also believe that a day should be set apart for the churches ...
Article : 163 wordsA cyclist collided with the side of the Upper Ferntree Gully train about 5 p. m. yesterday at the level crossing on the Melbourne side of the Bayswater station. He ...
Article : 64 wordsContinued dry weather and a severe plague of cutworms and other grubs will probably cause a substantial reduction in the Victorian potato crop this season, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 583 wordsWhen he was riding a bicycle in a side street off Swan street yesterday, Frank Healy, of Green street, Richmond, was struck by a motor-car. He was admitted ...
Article : 54 wordsA fine of £5, in default 14 days' imprisonment, was imposed upon Robert Richmond, of Swan street, Richmond, at the Dandenong Court on Monday on a ...
Article : 145 wordsWERRIBEE, Tuesday.—Alarmed at the desperate position in which they have been placed by the breakdown of the water supplies, Werribee South irrigationists ...
Article : 68 wordsGEELONG, Tuesday.—Albert Woodman, aged 46 years of Lethbridge, who was seriously injured on Monday, when he was dragged some distance by a ...
Article : 39 wordsAugustus Turnley, aged 44 years, of Laity street, Richmond, who struck his head when he fell from the back of a motor-lorry on Monday, is on the danger list at ...
Article : 53 wordsSir,—All vegetables which are now matured have been artificially watered from the day the seed was planted, at a heavy cost in water fees and wages. ...
Article : 155 wordsBACCHUS MARSH, Tuesday.—At the largest meeting of irrigators for many years it was decided unanimously to invite the Premier (Mr. Dunstan) to visit ...
Article : 225 wordsA proclamation issued yesterday by the Governor in Council, applicable to the whole of the State, declares Indian hemp (Cannabis Sativa) a noxious weed. ...
Article : 26 wordsCUDGEWA, Tuesday.—Mr. F. Payne, who was a passenger in the motor-car driven by Mr. F. Morley which overturned on the Corryong road on Thursday ...
Article : 61 wordsThe managing director of the National Utility Poultry Breeders' Association Co. Ltd. has instructed the auditors of the company (Messrs. Hornemann and ...
Article : 71 wordsMILDURA, Tuesday.—Mrs. E. A. Cassidy, aged 72 years of Koondrook, near Swan Hill, who was travelling to Mildura by passenger bus to see her ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsA busman's holiday was spent yesterday by the 120 boys from Gippsland who have been brought to Melbourne by the Rev. R. G. Nichols, of Fitzroy, for a fortnight's ...
Article : 106 wordsFunds were not available to provide work for all farmers in the drought-affected parts of the State to tide them over until April, the Minister for Public ...
Article : 98 wordsAttacks made recently on the Premier (Mr. Dunstan) by Mr. Allnutt (U.C.P., Mildura) will be discussed to-day at a special meeting of the United Country ...
Article : 60 wordsBAIRNSDALE, Tuesday.—The body of Mr. Richard Hayward was found hanging to-day by a rope from a rafter in a slaughter house by Roy Balmer, with ...
Article : 59 wordsSir,—These hot days housewives who have no ice-chests despair of keeping the children's milk fresh. Here's a brain wave: —Let them put their jugs and billies back ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 11 Jan 1939, Page 4
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