FRANKSTON, Sunday.—"The real task in seeking necessary amendments is to create intelligent public opinion on the subject," ...
Article : 767 wordsReducing seven compartments to a tangled mass of splintered woodwork and twisted steel a train which was being shunted crashed ...
Article : 457 wordsIn bright, warm sunshine and beflagged streets, cheering crowds yesterday gave Their Majesties a gala farewell all the way from Buckingham Palace until the spotlessly white liner. Empress of Australia, left ...
Article : 1,637 wordsSIDNEY, Sunday.—Shot through the body, Richard Barker, or Mealing, aged 34 years, wharf labourer and barrowman, of ...
Article : 173 wordsA record rapid development in the air defences of Britain in the last two months was announced by the Secretary for Air (Sir Kingsley ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 387 wordsHAULING ON A STAY ROPE during bridge building operations at the Engineers' Depot, Batman avenue, yesterday. Eighty officers and men of the 15th Field Company held a week-end bivouac at the depot. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 32 wordsPERTH, Sunday.— Thomas Charles Letts, aged 27 years, labourer, who was recently married, pleaded guilty in the Perth Police Court yesterday to having, ...
Article : 141 wordsAustralian youth was prepared to defend the principles of democracy to-day as firmly as ever, said the Rev. E. G. Petherick yesterday ...
Article : 216 wordsAlthough only three people were killed in Victoria, road accidents at the week-end were again numerous. Many people were injured both in the city and the country. ...
Article : 39 wordsThere had been no discussion by the Federal Cabinet of any proposal that the Commonwealth should send a Minister to New Zealand to discuss with the New ...
Article : 82 wordsA woman and her daughter were injured when a car in which they were travelling in Plenty road, Morang, skidded on loose gravel and overturned last ...
Article : 87 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—James Rankin, aged 49 years, who lived in Hereward street, Maroubra, was crossing Mons avenue, Maroubra, during heavy rain last night ...
Article : 156 wordsAnother broadcast in the series "Sidelights of the Services" will be presented by 3UZ and 3SR at 9.15 to-night. This programme tells of life and adventure ...
Article : 61 wordsNews of the projected tour of Australia by Richard Crooks, world-famous tenor, has been received with great interest ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 92 wordsCOLAC, Sunday. — When a motortruck overturned on Simon's Hill road last night Beverley Fleming, aged 6½ years, was killed. ...
Article : 85 wordsFrederick Victor Lowery, aged 23 years, farm labourer, of Mentone, was remanded at the City Court on Saturday until May 12 on a charge of having ...
Article : 49 wordsCHILDREN were given Italian and Nazi paper flags to wave when the German Foreign Minister (Herr von Ribbentrop) and the Italian ...
Article : 62 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—Nellie Margaret Kelly, aged 25 years, single, of Claremont, was knocked down by a motor-car in Stirling Highway, Claremont, during heavy rain ...
Article : 55 wordsDiscussing the campaign for an independent teachers' tribunal, members of the council of tho Victorian Teachers' Union urged that it would allow teachers ...
Article : 118 wordsBALRANALD (N.S.W.). Sunday.—John Hogan, married, of Euston, a ganger on the Victorian Railways, was killed last night when a motor-car, of which he was ...
Article : 73 wordsThe British Ambassador in Tokio (Sir Robert Craigie) is repotted to have protested to the Japanese Government against the bombing of the British ...
Article : 222 wordsWounded in the thigh when two shots were fired from a canoe on the Yarra, near the Hawthorn bridge, yesterday afternoon, Thomas Hill, aged 12 years, ...
Article : 121 wordsCHRISTCHURCH (N.Z.), Sunday. — William Holder and his daughter, Rita, were killed in a collision between two cars near Oxford, and two other persons were ...
Article : 37 wordsThat was a fine passage in Colonel Beck's speech on Friday in which he said that while peace was Poland's aim she did not want it "at any price." Then ...
Article : 425 wordsWhen his motor-cycle and a car collided at the corner of Burwood road and Beryl street, Burwood, on Saturday afternoon, Vincent A. Sheppard, of Kallista, ...
Article : 370 wordsA man, whose identity has not yet been established, was fatally injured when he was knocked down by a car in Punt road, near Laing street South Yarra on ...
Article : 66 wordsWhile the s.s. Reliance was out in the bay on a fishing excursion yesterday a piece of wreckage floated past her. The vessel was turned and the wreckage ...
Article : 56 wordsOverturning three times after a collision with another car at the corner of Toorak and St. Kilda roads on Saturday night, a car struck a rockery and the ...
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Advertising : 394 wordsTwo youths were injured when a motorcycle and a car collided in Hoddle street, near Heidelberg road, Clifton Hill, on Saturday night. The rider of the machine, ...
Article : 76 words"Reynold's s New s'says that parents of men serving in H.M.S. Endeavour, the survey vessel at the New Zealand station, are acutely concerned at its reputation ...
Article : 111 wordsWhen James Smedley, aged 63 years of Mint place, city, was struck by a motorcycle in Elizabeth street, city, on Saturday evening he suffered a fractured nose, ...
Article : 64 wordsWhen a car in which she was travelling collided with a tram in Carlton on Saturday. Laura Ball, aged 40 years, of Robb street, Spotswood, suffered a ...
Article : 44 wordsUniforms for city Council employees in parks and gardens are suggested in a report which will be considered by the council on Tuesday. It is considered ...
Article : 79 wordsCrashing into a tree in St. Kilda road, near the Victoria Barracks, early yesterday morning, a car driven by James H. Knape, of Wood street, East Preston, was ...
Article : 65 wordsA censorship was imposed at Gibraltar yesterday on all telegraph messages sent and received. The ordinance empowers the Governor ...
Article : 52 wordsIt was estimated that 3,000 people visited the Essendon airport yesterday, Commercial aircraft catering for short flights were kept busy from 1.30 p.m. till ...
Article : 30 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—Clifford Bennett, 14, Down street, Ipswich, was fatally injured when his bicycle struck a stationary motor-truck in Down street. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Brunswick City Junior Band won four cups in a series of contests which ended yesterday afternoon on the Brunswick Recreation Reserve. The awards ...
Article : 78 wordsThe first woman professor at Cambridge University was elected yesterday, when Miss Dorothy Garrod, of Newnham College, was appointed Disney Professor of ...
Article : 28 wordsTHE FIRST TIGER MOTH for the Royal Australian Air Force was completed at the De Havilland Aircraft Company's works al Mascot (N.S.W.) on Friday, and is shown awaiting a test flight. There are 20 on order as training machines. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 39 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The river steamer Kalipso (119 tons) was burnt to the water's edge at Grafton to-day. The vessel was berthed at the wharf, and the owner ...
Article : 101 wordsSeveral hundred pounds are being spent by the State Government to keep the water out of the State Rivers and Water Supply commission. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 8 May 1939, Page 9
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