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 wordsCANBERRA, 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 wordsCANBERRA, 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 wordsMr. 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 ...
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Advertising : 284 wordsSkidding 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 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—When the debate on the Supply Department Bill is in the committee stage next week the Opposition will submit an amendment ...
Article : 318 wordsAfter 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 wordsDescribed 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 wordsCANBERRA, 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 wordsTwo 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 wordsIn 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 wordsAUCKLAND (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 wordsPlans 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 wordsBecause the Mascot aerodrome was fogbound yesterday morning the departure of Melbourne and Adelaide planes was delayed for about two hours. ...
Article : 201 wordsProposing 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 wordsIncreased 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 wordsNo 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 wordsWage 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 wordsPending the introduction of amending legislation, juvenile offenders are to be prosecuted, where practicable, under the Children's Welfare Act and not under ...
Article : 132 wordsAll 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 wordsThe 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 wordsJudge 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 wordsNATHALIA, Friday.—The annual conference of members of the Presbyterian's Women's Missionary Union in the Goulburn Valley, was held at Nathalia ...
Article : 199 wordsIn 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 wordsSYDNEY, 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 wordsTwo 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 ...
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Advertising : 54 wordsCANBERRA, 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 wordsSYDNEY, 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 wordsPERTH, 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 wordsCANBERRA, 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 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsTo 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 wordsPlans 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 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 506 wordsHIGH 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 20 May 1939, Page 2
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