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  2. PRAYERS FOR EMPIRE

    In response to a request by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies), to-morrow will be observed throughout the Commonwealth as a National Day of Prayer. The day ...

    Article : 543 words
  3. CRASHING OF BOMBERS

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Appointment of Judge Piper, of the Federal Arbitration Court, to the Air Force Court of Inquiry into two recent disasters to Anson ...

    Article : 178 words
  4. STAFF OF DUKE OF KENT

    CANBERRA, Friday.—The total expenditure incurred in preparing residences for the Duke of Kent and his staff during his term of office in Australia was not yet ...

    Article : 217 words
  5. PERSONAL

    Mr. G. E. Newton secretary in Victoria for the Trintiy College of Music London has been advised that the board of the college has appointed Mr. Henry Gibson ...

    Article : 702 words
  6. Advertising

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    Advertising : 284 words
  7. CAR STRIKES BRIDGE Family Injured

    Skidding in Dynon road, North Melbourne, a car containing four members of a family crashed into the parapet of the railway bridge near the North Melbourne ...

    Article : 121 words
  8. TO SAFEGUARD EMPLOYEES

    CANBERRA, Friday.—When the debate on the Supply Department Bill is in the committee stage next week the Opposition will submit an amendment ...

    Article : 318 words
  9. WOMAN INJURED

    After she had been struck by a motorcycle in Sydney road, Coburg, and flung against the kerb, an elderly woman, whose name is believed to be Rees, of Linda ...

    Article : 53 words
  10. ONLY "CAT'S PAW" IN PLOT

    Described by Judge Richardson as only a cat's paw in a conspiracy, Ernest Campton, aged 43 years, of Rothesay avenue, Elwood, was sentenced ta General Sessions ...

    Article : 231 words
  11. DISTRIBUTION OF NAVY WORK

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Distribution of naval defence work through the States, and especially to Victoria, was urged by Mr. Holloway (Lab., V.) on the motion ...

    Article : 180 words
  12. MOTOR-CYCLISTS HURT

    Two motor-cyclists were injured in accidents yesterday afternoon. Leonard Lavery aged 23 years, of Queen's parade, Clifton Hill, was admitted to St. Vincent's ...

    Article : 101 words
  13. VALUABLE WORK OF Y.W.C.A.

    In urging the public to support the appeal of the Young Women's Christian Association in Melbourne for £1,650, the association points out that it is more than ...

    Article : 163 words
  14. HOLIDAY ON PAY FOR ALL

    AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday.—To test the opinion of all sections of industry the draft bill which proposes for all workers employed for hire or reward ...

    Article : 139 words
  15. PASSING TIME AT SEA

    Plans for passing the time between Melbourne and Portsmouth are occupying the minds of the 500 officers and ratings of the Royal Australian Navy who ...

    Article : 174 words
  16. PLANES DELAYED

    Because the Mascot aerodrome was fogbound yesterday morning the departure of Melbourne and Adelaide planes was delayed for about two hours. ...

    Article : 201 words
  17. BRITAIN GAN PAY IN CASH

    Proposing a toast to international trade at the annual dinner of the London Chamber of Commerce last night, the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Oliver ...

    Article : 135 words
  18. MORE WHEAT, LESS FLOUR

    Increased supplies of wheat were exported from Australia in the week ended May 15, but shipments of flour were smaller Wheat was 1,913,365 bushels, and ...

    Article : 245 words
  19. WARD CHANGES

    No proposal for resubdivision of the wards of the City Council will be adopted without opposition, but it is probable that the suggested plan for 11 wards, each ...

    Article : 162 words
  20. MORE MONEY FOR MUSICIANS

    Wage increases of 3/ a week are granted to musicians employed by the Australian Broadcasting Commission by an agreement which was sanctioned by Judge ...

    Article : 160 words
  21. CHILD OFFENDERS

    Pending the introduction of amending legislation, juvenile offenders are to be prosecuted, where practicable, under the Children's Welfare Act and not under ...

    Article : 132 words
  22. BRANDING OF B[?]NANAS

    All cases of bananas sold in Victoria must in future be branded with the name of the variety. Provision for this, the Minister for ...

    Article : 58 words
  23. Obituary

    The death has occurred of Mrs. Nora McCarthy at her home in Traralgon. Mrs. McCarthy, who was aged 75 years, was the wife of Mr. Daniel J. McCarthy, one of the ...

    Article : 87 words
  24. APPEALS ALLOWED

    Judge Stretton in General Sessions yesterday upheld the appeal of Reginald Riordan, aged 35 years, of Nicholson street. East Brunswick, who had been sentenced ...

    Article : 83 words
  25. P.W.M.U. CONFERENCE AT NATHALIA

    NATHALIA, Friday.—The annual conference of members of the Presbyterian's Women's Missionary Union in the Goulburn Valley, was held at Nathalia ...

    Article : 199 words
  26. CANNED FRUITS

    In the 1939 season a record amount of 1,852,796 cases of canned peaches was processed in Australia, compared with 1,791,000 cases in the preceding ...

    Article : 123 words
  27. LONG CANOE TRIP

    SYDNEY, Friday.—After many minor adventures, Messrs. A. C. Hunt, of Goulburn, and A. H. Harrison, of Sydney, who are travelling from Canberra to ...

    Article : 111 words
  28. DUMOSA MURDER

    Two men who were repairing or assembling a motor-cycle and sidecar under a clump of trees on the Lalbert road, six miles from Dumosa, about 2 p.m. on ...

    Article : 101 words
  29. Advertising

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  30. CIVIL AIR CENTRE REMAINS HERE

    CANBERRA, Friday.—It is unlikely that the central offices of the Civil Aviation Department will be transferred from Melbourne to Canberra in the near future. ...

    Article : 92 words
  31. SHOOTING CHARGE

    SYDNEY, Friday.—Ronald Kingston, alias Pearce, aged 27 years, wireworker, was charged by provisional warrant at the Central Police Court to-day with having ...

    Article : 57 words
  32. PERTH FACTORY FIRE

    PERTH, Thursday.—Wood and iron buildings of Povey's furniture factory in Newcastle street, West Perth, were swept by a fire to-night. Dozens of finished and ...

    Article : 55 words
  33. TRAINING CRUISE FOR H.M.A.S. SWAN

    CANBERRA, Friday.—The escort vessel H.M.A.S. Swan will make a training cruise to Port Moresby (Papua), Darwin, Singapore, and ports in the East ...

    Article : 100 words
  34. COMMERCIAL EXAMS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 words
  35. UNION ELECTION

    To fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alderman B. Deveney as secretary of the electric train drivers' branch of the Locomotive Engine-men's Union, a ballot ...

    Article : 56 words
  36. HAWTHORN BY-ELECTION

    Plans for the United Australia party's campaign in the Hawthorn by-election will be decided on Monday when Councillor L. Tyack, the endorsed candidate, will ...

    Article : 92 words
  37. The Argus

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 506 words
  38. LAW NOTICES—(For Monday)

    HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA.—Before the Full Court.—In No. 1 Court.—At 10.30— Jones v. Commonwealth Commissioner of Taxation (for judgment). Aiken v. the ...

    Article : 255 words
  39. MILITIA IN DAWN ATTACK

    A general alarm was sounded in the Broadmeadows camp at 4 a.m. yesterday. The 7th Battalion Militia was marching across the railway line to meet the ...

    Article : 108 words
  40. TRAINING NURSES

    The Royal Melbourne Hospital has agreed with the Victorian branch of the Australian Nursing Federation to arrange for small groups of former nurses to ...

    Article : 76 words
  41. Country Woman's Challenge to City Bachelor

    A Gippsland woman has thrown down a challenge to a well-to-do Melbourne bachelor, who said this week that he was perfectly prepared to provide for ...

    Article : 329 words
  42. Advertising

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    Advertising : 77 words
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