Vegetables are becoming seareer, and even with heavy rain within a few weeks prices are likely to remain high for months. ...
Article : 223 wordsNearly 900 more motorists were charged with traffic offences in the second half of 1937 compared with the first half of the year. ...
Article : 252 wordsTIME-HONOURED CEREMONY of piping in the highlight of the Burns anniversary night at the Hardware Club Hall last night. (Left to right) Messrs. A. Tainsh, W.McDonald (the president). A.Joss, Jock Brown, J.C.Ferguson, P. J. Holmes, and Dr. Maloney, M.H.R. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 wordsGreat Australian development, embodied in vast changes in all that he has seen, and crystallised in the architectural modernity of ...
Article : 683 wordsA graphic description of the flight of civilians from the western suburbs of Barcelona as the Nationalist forces approached was given by ...
Article : 960 wordsAddressing a national service rally in the Albert Hall last night, the Minister for Civil Defence (Sir John Anderson) asked the people ...
Article : 223 wordsPlans have been completed by the Victorian Department of Mental Hygiene for the special training of sub-normal and abnormal ...
Article : 267 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—Mr.Martin O'Meara, V.C., who enlisted from Western Australia, and won the V.C. at Pozieres in September, 1916, and who died in ...
Article : 172 wordsImpeachment proceedings against the Secretary of Labour (Miss Perkins) have been filed in the House of Representatives by a ...
Article : 186 wordsDissatisfaction was expressed by the State council of the Railways Union at the adjustment of wages figures issued by the Commonwealth Statistician which ...
Article : 202 wordsThe death of Mr.E.Roy Burgess.of Albany road Toorak, a well-known Melbourne barrister, occurred yesterday Mr. Burgess who was secretary of the ...
Article : 204 wordsTWELVE Swedish members of Parliament announced yesterday that they are recommending to the Nobel prize committee that the Nobel Prize ...
Article : 44 wordsAn official of the British Air Ministry, who began an investigation yesterday into the forced landing in the Atlantic on Saturday of the Imperial Airways flying-boat ...
Article : 134 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Manufacture of synthetic "wool" was increasing rapidly, particularly in germany and Japan, according to a report by the New South ...
Article : 152 wordsNobody can yet be sure how many Port Phillip sea pilots will be spending a busman's holiday on the pilot steamer Akuna next Tuesday but as this is usually the ...
Article : 116 wordsExtension of the parking ban in Swanston stieet to other main city streets was suggested yesterday by the chairman of the Tramways Board (Mr.H.H.Bell) ...
Article : 101 wordsTaunts and gibes were exchanged by the crews of the Italian steamer Conte Rosso and the French steamer Marcechal Joffre, which berthed alongside each other ...
Article : 118 wordsCriticism of the erection of a new postoffice in Sydney at a cost of £1,000,000 was not justified, the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) said yesterday. ...
Article : 87 wordsNot only did all the Australian animals for the Golden Gate International Exhibition survive the sea trip, but the number was increased by three during the ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Empire flying-boat Centaurus, which was forced down near Bastia (Corsica) yesterday, by bad weather, may continue her flight to-day to Southampton. ...
Article : 88 wordsSearlet fever remains rather prevaient in Victoria said the medical superintendent of the Queen s Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital (Dr.F.V.Scholes) in ...
Article : 69 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Board of Health alleged at the Parramatta Police Court to-day that William Knight, licensee of the Royal Hotel, South and ...
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Advertising : 44 wordsAn agreement has been signed by Poland and Germaby for ending the deportation of Jews and minorities by each country. ...
Article : 153 wordsOn his visit to the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield yesterday, where he fired 30 rounds from a Bren machine-gun at a target 200 yards away, the ...
Article : 121 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Possibilities of increasing Australian expoits to the United States were discussed by the Minister for Commerce (Sir Earle Page) at the ...
Article : 89 wordsTo teach film and microphone technique, Cinesound Productions Ltd., whose studios are in Sydney, will open a school of instruction to coach prospective Australian ...
Article : 98 wordsField-Marshal von Mackensen and exAdmiral von Schmidt presented the former Kaiser Wilhelm with a silver souvenir cup on behalf of the German ...
Article : 56 wordsEight employees of Australian National Airways—seven in Melbourne and one in Adelaide—have married recently or are about to marry. The company is giving ...
Article : 85 wordsA new type of training plane, which consumes only three gallons of petrol an hour, arrived at Essendon yesterday from Sydney, It is a high-winged, cabin ...
Article : 117 wordsMelbourne echidnidee, or "porcupines," which are more numerous in the metropolitan area at this season than at other times, puzzle the Chief Inspector of ...
Article : 107 wordsA Curtiss Hawk pursuit plane exceeded all known speed records at Buffalo by diving at more than 575 miles an hour in a test. ...
Article : 69 wordsAfter having, been in session for three days. a conference of six representatives of the Peiping and Nanking puppet Governments, with 20 Japanese observers, ...
Article : 101 wordsTo-night Captain C.A.S. Mansbridge. author and traveller, who has travelled 35,000 miles in the last five years in his caravan "The Wanderer," will give at Shell Corner ...
Article : 92 wordsGeorge James Windram labourer of Edward street East Brunswick was convicted at the Brunswick Court yesterday on six charges of having between March ...
Article : 177 wordsWages ranging from 98/ to 104/ a week of 46 hours for certain classes of adult employees are provided in the fit st detetmination of the Sausage Casings Wages ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Federation Aeronautique Inernationale has approved the Royal Air Force non-stop flight from Egypt to Darwin as a world's record, the distance flown ...
Article : 35 wordsSYDNEY Wednesday.—There would be another European crisis in a few weeks resulting in a second "Munich agreement." the Chief Scout of Hungary (Dr.F.M.de ...
Article : 190 wordsThe following prisoners were sentenced by Judge Richardson in General Sessions yesterday:— Arthur John Whittam aged 27 years of St. ...
Article : 448 wordsThe 1st Battalion, Royal Scots, arrived at Southampton yesterday in the troopship Nevasa after nearly a year of service in Palestine, where the battalion suffered ...
Article : 42 wordsIn an interview Mr. Nagy said that for two years he had worked to organise Hungarian connections so that he could act as an agent for the importation of ...
Article : 53 wordsONE OF THE LARGEST GIRDERS ever used in Australia. Seventy feet in length, seven feel in height, and weighing 42 tons, the girder is being used in extension work on the building of the Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd., of Collins street. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 49 wordsStatements alleged to have been made by Harold Francis Martin, aged 37 years, of Berry street, Richmond. in which he admitted having obtained £11/10/ in ...
Article : 169 wordsBadly battered in the worst storm known on the Cornish coast for many years, no fewer than eight steamers put into Falmouth Harbour yesterday. and four others ...
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Advertising : 123 wordsIn a reserved decision delivered at the Brunswick Court yesterday afternoon, Mr. Blair, P.M., held that there was a case for Stanley Robert Richardon, of Victoria ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 26 Jan 1939, Page 9
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