SYDNEY, Sunday.—Cut off by flames. Edgar Hardcastle, aged 32 years, caretaker, was dramatically rescued by firemen ...
Article : 143 wordsCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY has its first woman professor. Miss Dorothy Garrod, daughter of the late Sir Archibald Garrod, has been ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 41 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—The cost of providing the new seapiane station for the Royal Australian Air Force at Rathmines. Lake Macquarie, will be about ...
Article : 202 wordsThe British Empire would become completely united in an immense defensive effort if attacked, but would never unite in an act of ...
Article : 461 wordsSOUTH AFRICAN WAR VETERANS assembled in Alexandra avenue yesterday before marching to the South African Memorial in St. Kilda road for their annual memorial service. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 25 wordsA brilliant ceremony in honour of the King's birthday, which was observed throughout Canada yesterday, and a brief speech by the Queen, the only one that she will make on the tour, were the highlights of ...
Article : 1,912 wordsNo soldier from an attacking nation would ever succeed in invading Germany through her western fortifications, says Lieut.-General von Wedal, of the General ...
Article : 120 wordsCount Micard, the explorer, who has been seriously ill in Greenland, was taken aboard the Norwegian rescue ship Veslekari to-day. ...
Article : 95 wordsSinging, shouting, laughter, and tears from a crowd of 500 people marked the departure of the Blue Funnel Line freighter Autolycus from Station Pier, Port ...
Article : 203 wordsWhile five bombing planes and three fighters roared overhead, nearly 4,000 men of the Naval Reserve and militia units marched past Government House gates ...
Article : 204 wordsYARRAM, Sunday.—A finding that death had been due to a parachute failing to open was recorded by the deputy colonel (Mr. A. L. Fennis) at an inquest ...
Article : 235 wordsWENTWORTH (N.S.W.), Sunday.— In a bag shack on the Murray River at Gol Gol living with their mother, who is a widow, six children were found last ...
Article : 356 wordsA visitor from the United States[?] claimed to be the land of true democracy —expressed his amazement on Saturday at the real democracy of Australia— ...
Article : 240 wordsPublic opinion in the United States had been impressed by Britain's "firmer line," said the Secretary of the Overseas Trade Department (Mr. Hudson), on his return ...
Article : 187 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Two hundred engines for the first 100 Bristol Beaufort bombers to be built in Australia would be imported from Great Britain, said the ...
Article : 210 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—When the Indian Ocean survey flying-boat, Guba returns to New York it will have crossed the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and the South ...
Article : 148 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Riflemen stopped shooting at Long Bay rifle range on Saturday to help two Eastern Suburbs ambulance men to recover the body of a ...
Article : 143 wordsUnion representatives of four States attended a conference of the interstate executive of the Australasian Council of Trade Unions, which was opened at the ...
Article : 250 wordsA Shetland pony owned by Prince Edward, son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, will the Sunday Express" says, be shipped by the Strathaird, on which ...
Article : 76 wordsSuggestions by the Premier (Mr. Dunstan) that the financial policy of Sir Stanley Argyle when he was Premier and Treasurer was responsible for the lack ...
Article : 169 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.— Suggestions that Australia should produce large quantities of power alcohol from grapes or grain to replace imported motor fuels ...
Article : 139 wordsAn order worth £A3,750,000 for 150 new bombing planes has been placed by the War Department as part of the mass production programme. ...
Article : 40 wordsLAUNCESTON, Sunday.—"I am conscious of standing in the shadow of a man dear to you in life and honoured in his passing said the Minister for ...
Article : 222 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—Following the death of a man who was found battered and bleeding on the roadside, two brothers were charged with manslaughter at a ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Lord Baldwin Fund for Refugees yesterday reached the total of £480,065. ...
Article : 18 wordsMany listeners to the programme from 3AR last night were surprised when transmission suddenly stopped while Dr. W.G.K. Duncan was giving a talk on ...
Article : 156 wordsOld boys of Wesley College will meet the head master-elect of Wesley (Mr. Neil MacNeil) at their monthly luncheon at the Victoria. Little Collins street, at ...
Article : 60 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Battle practice on an extensive scale will be conducted off the coast near Sydney this week. Naval, military and aircraft units will ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Glasshouse Hotel, at the corner of Gipps and Rokeby streets, Collingwood has been sold by Mrs. Millicent Fife, who has conducted it for the last ...
Article : 116 wordsRepresentation at the Labour unity conference in New South Wales might still be altered by the Federal executive of the party to meet the objections of the unions. ...
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Article : 294 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—Manufacture of big guns for vulnerable points should have preference over the provision of drill halls, the Minister for Defence (Brigadier ...
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Article : 221 words"A Philisophy of Handicaps was the subject of an inspiring address at the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Wesley Church Central Mission by Miss Tilly ...
Article : 184 wordsIn his opening address at the annual country conference of the Gippsland district of the Communist party, at which 18 delegates were present. Mr. J. D. Blake, ...
Article : 170 wordsFITTED WITH ITS COMPLETE WAR EQUIPMENT, the Australian-built Wirraway was given exhaustive tests in a special flight at Fishermen's Bend on Saturday. The first machines of this type will soon be handed over to the Royal Australian Air Force. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 42 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—John Williams, 29 of Isobel street, Belmore, was severely slashed on the arm with a razor or some other sharp instrument last night. ...
Article : 121 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—Coming to Brisbane on a health trip, Alfred Clarke, 70, married, of Badger Creek, Victoria, collapsed and died in the interstate Kyogle ...
Article : 74 wordsA political purity campaign is being conducted by the Dunstan Ministry. It is not associated with the abolition of plural enrolments of electors or the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 22 May 1939, Page 9
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