Two bars will be opened to-day in the basement of the new Hotel Australia building on The Block. One will be entered from Collins street ...
Article : 197 wordsMany weaknesses in the Victorian weights and measures law will be remedied if the State Parliament approves a bill prepared for the ...
Article : 252 wordsMiss Freda Thompson, winner of many trophies as an airwoman, was successful in a forcd linding competition held by the Royal Victorian Aero Club in a paddock ...
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Advertising : 360 wordsBALLARAT, Sunday.—When they were struck by a motor-van in Albert street, Sebastopol, last night, one man was killed and ...
Article : 131 wordsSix men and youths were arrested by police early yesterday and charged with thefts of petrol. Patrolling Dandenong road. Caulfield, ...
Article : 213 wordsRations of rum in empty milk tins were served to all who attended the Commercial Travellers' Association ex-seivice men's reunion ...
Article : 229 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—The formation of a National Ministry and the election of a Prime Minister by all the members of the party ...
Article : 381 wordsErnest Arko, of Johnston street, Newport, died in the Royal Melbourne Hospital yesterday morning, nine hours after he had been admitted suffering from ...
Article : 46 wordsNew office buildings are to be erected by Howard Smith Limited on a site at 522 Collins street, on the north side, between William and King streets. Tenders for ...
Article : 76 wordsTiles were removed by thieves from the roof of the Southern Cross service station, at the corner of Smith street and Queen's parade Clifton Hill, on Saturday night. ...
Article : 41 wordsWilliam Holloway, aged 52 years, of Como parade, Mentone, was killed instantly when he was struck by a car while wheeling a bicycle across Point Nepean ...
Article : 100 wordsTHE "Evening Standard says that the Conscription Bill in its present form implies the calling up of women as well as men, because ...
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Article : 65 wordsMrs. Edith Jane Prowse, wife of Mr. Prowse, M.H.R., died at a private hospital in Perth on Saturday night, after an illness of several weeks. She was aged 70 ...
Article : 95 wordsThere was an interesting ceremony at Electra House, Victoria Embankment, London, last Tuesday, when the various documents completing the agreements ...
Article : 109 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Fired at by a burglar, Mr. A. E. Houston, a city business man, pursued the intruder into the street and threw stones at him. The burglar, ...
Article : 56 wordsThree persons suffered fractures of their legs when the car in which they were travelling struck a tree at the corner of St. Kilda and Toorak roads early ...
Article : 65 wordsNo date has yet been fixed for the closing of nominations for endorsement as candidates of the United Country party of Victoria at the next Federal elect[?] ...
Article : 89 wordsThere was a large attendance at the St. Kilda Cemetery on Saturday at the funeral of Mr. William Nott, a leading optician, who for many years was ...
Article : 93 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A young man stole £53 from a ticket window at the Plaza Theatre, George street, city on Saturday night and escaped. The girl in the box ...
Article : 58 wordsAdmitting that the incident was regrettable, the Minister for Defence (Brigadier Street) issued a statement last night on the alleged assault by members of the ...
Article : 440 wordsFollowing an accident in which a taxicab knocked over a concrete electric light standard, Mrs. Ethel Alice Grant, of Lewisham road, Windsor, was admitted ...
Article : 66 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—A suggestion for the promotion of world peace by the institution of a system for the exchange of ideas between the individuals of various ...
Article : 99 wordsDARWIN, Sunday.—Flying his own plane, Mr. Roy Edwards, the 31-year-old Darwin pilot, who was missing for four days from Tuesday on a flight over eastern Arnhem Land, arrived back at Darwin ...
Article : 939 wordsMany interstate members of the Austialasian Massage Association airived in Melbourne at the weekend to attend the second interstate ...
Article : 254 wordsIn a washhouse at the back of her home, Miss Evelyn Jane Richardson, aged 47 years, of Melville road, Pascoevale, was found dead last night. The gas ...
Article : 59 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—Ian Ronald Conway, aged 26 years, married, of Queenstown, was killed instantly, and four other men narrowly escaped death, when a ...
Article : 104 words"Bradshaw's Guide" for May, containing all the latest alterations and additions to the railway time-tables, postoffice, tramway, and other useful ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Shop Assistants' Union has commenced a campaign urging members of the State Parliament to support an amending Shops Bill which will provide ...
Article : 90 wordsFriday, May 5.—The Rev. E. Worms, rector of the Pallottine College. Kew, will give a lecture on the aborigines in the north-west of Australia at a meeting of St. Patrick's ...
Article : 58 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—The secretary of the Electrical Employees' Union, Mr. Charles Thomas Bevis, of Fitzgerald street, North Perth, collapsed at the wheel of the car ...
Article : 75 wordsBy posing as the friend of a sick parishioner, a well spoken man entered the presbytery of Our Lady's Church, Sunshine, last night, and walked out ...
Article : 261 wordsBasil Blake, aged 10 years, of The Grove, Coburg, suffered a fractured skull when the bicycle which he was riding came into collision, with a motor-car in Nicholson ...
Article : 232 wordsThe Young Nationalist Organisation will hold its annual conference at Ranelagh House. Mount Eliza, near Frankston, on Satin day and Sunday May 6 and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 492 wordsTWO garden fetes were held on Saturday. At the Garden of Memory, beside the Braille Library, in Prahran, recently laid out to commemorate the 21 ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Royal Victotlan Aero Club's exhibits at the International Motor Show are striking examples of the progress made in aviation. ...
Article : 96 wordsBALLARAT.—James Hevey, aged 16 years, of Smythesdale, was attempting, with a companion, to smoke a fox out of its burrow, when he set fire to an old ...
Article : 71 wordsBecause of cost of living adjustments in the basic wage, the rates in Victoria under Federal awards will be increased by 2/ a week, payable from the first pay ...
Article : 154 wordsCommander Harvey, R.N., Director of Naval Communications, will broadcast from 3UZ at 9.15 to-night about the navy in the Mediterranean. His talk will be ...
Article : 40 wordsRoy Maloney, aged 23 yeais, of ritzroy, labourer, was remanded at the City Court on Saturday to appear at the Fitzroy Couit on May 4 on a thaige of robbeiy ...
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Family Notices : 35 wordsThe Mayor of Essendon (Councillor R. J. Gilbertson) will give prizes for the best three essays by children based on the literary extracts which were embodied in ...
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Advertising : 53 wordsEinest Aldous, aged 35 years, labourer, of Latrobe stieet, city, was found shot in the head at his home on Saturdaj afternoon. A rifle was lying neal him. He ...
Article : 43 wordsSpecial precautions were taken at Lincoln Cathedral to-day following the receipt of letters by the Chief Constable and Canon Larken, signed by the I.A.A. ...
Article : 40 wordsWhen scaffolding attached to a building in Flemington loud, North Melbourne, collapsed on Saturday, Reginald Lowe, aged 34 years. carpenter, of Raglan street ...
Article : 46 wordsTen men were drowned when a boat [?]ringing the crew of a submarine to hore for leave capsized near Oskarshamn. ...
Article : 28 wordsTennis. swimming. lowing, ana wiestling form the basis of Lajos Steiner's baining for chess. Natmally Steiner. the Hungarian master, who has left foe Sydney, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 1 May 1939, Page 2
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