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  2. HOUSE NUMBER SYSTEM

    As a result of the attention directed by "The Argus" to the unsatisfactory system of house numbering in many suburbs of Melbourne. it has been disclosed that, ...

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  3. ACCIDENTS AT WEEK-END Butcher Killed

    Only one person was killed in road accidents in Victoria at the week-end. Swinging out to pass a car, a ...

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  4. REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS

    Of the 707 passengers in the R.M.S. Oronsay from London, which berthed at Station Pier, Port Melbourne, last night. more than half were refugees or ...

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  5. "ENDANGERING NATION"

    SYDNEY. Sunday. — Peace, security, standards of living, and social conditions —all the things that Australians most value—were threatened by the fall in the ...

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  6. PROTECTION OF NORTH

    CANBERRA, Sunday.—Statements repeated made in Queensland that the Commonwealth Government had no intention of attempting to defend northern ...

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  7. BY-ELECTIONS IN QUEENSLAND

    BRISBANE, Sunday. —Three State byelections caused by the deaths of sitting members were held in Queensland on Saturday. The Labour party is assured ...

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  8. WARDS MAY BE CLOSED

    Such is the financial position of the Children's Hospital that at least one ward of 30 beds and perhaps two wards will have to be closed—unless the hospital ...

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  9. MUNICIPALITIES AND LABOUR

    With the object of determining a common policy on the questions of zoning. the appointment of municipal officers, compulsory voting in municipal elections, ...

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  10. EIGHT INJURED

    Five of the eight wheels on two cars were torn off when they collided in Punt road, Richmond, on Saturday night. Eight persons, including an infant, were ...

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  11. PENSIONS BY CHEQUES

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — The practicability of paying invalid and old-age pensions by posting cheques to pensioners so that they will not have to call at ...

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  12. FATAL BRAWL

    SYDNEY, sunday. — Said to have been injured in a fight in a St. Peters hotel. Charles Martin McCarty. aged 26 years. of Baysview street, Banksia, died ...

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  13. SHIELD MORALLY WON

    Members of the Victorian cricket team were the guests of the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) at an informal dinner on Saturday night. When the players were on ...

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  14. HAWTHORN POLL

    Mrs. Angela Booth, who had announced that she would be a candidate and who unsuccessfully sought the endorsement of the United Australia party, ...

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  15. PETER DAWSON NOT RETIRING

    Mr. Peter Dawson,the famous baritone will not retire for at least five years. When he arrived in the Oronsay last night Mr. Dawson ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  16. In the Churches KAGAWA AND WAR

    War was a "fresh crucifixion of Christ," said Miss Helen Topping, secretary to Dr. Kagawa, the Japanese Christian evangelist, at the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon ...

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  17. ERRATIC DRIVER ARRESTED

    Inexperience resulted in the arrest of the driver of a stolen motor-car in Nicholson street. Fitzroy on Saturday night. The owner, Mr. W. B. Calverley, ...

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  18. "TWO DAYS OLDER EVERY DAY"

    AUSTRALIA'S "young Prime Minister" was getting two days older every day, Mr. Menzies told his audience at an Empire Day ...

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  19. SIX IN CRASH

    BENDIGO, Sunday.—Six persons were injured when two cars collided in Inglewood road, Bendigo, at 12.15 a.m. to-day. ...

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  20. Obituary MR. L. J. WALKER

    Nearly a mile of cars followed the funeral to the Heldeberg Cemetery on Saturday of Mr.Lesile James Walker.who was for 15 years secretary of Foy and ...

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  21. Tennis MISS HARDWICK WINS

    Miss Mary Hardwick won the Surrey championship at Surbiton defeating Miss M.Lumb,6-4, 6-4,in the final.K[?]o sin-kie(China).who retained the British hardcourt title recently. ...

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  22. ENGLAND'S AMATEURS

    As a further move to see that a high standard of amateurism is maintained in English tennis, the secretary of the Lawn Tennis Association has issued a circular ...

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  23. SUPPORT FOR GERMAN CLAIM

    The claim made in Germany on Friday that Governor Phillip was a German was supported yesterday by Mr. R. D. Boyes, former chief librarian at the Public ...

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  24. SPEEDY DERBY RESULTS

    When Blue Peter won the English Derby last week he took 2 minutes 36 4-5 seconds to run the mile and a half and five yards at Epsom Downs. In eight seconds, the ...

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  25. EMPIRE DAY PARADE

    The 58th Battalion (Essendon-Coburg-Brunswick Rifles) marched from the drill hall in Pascoevale road, Moonee Ponds, yesterday morning to St. Thomas's Church ...

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  26. SIX BARRACKERS HURT

    Six supporters of a football team were injured when the van in which they were traveling to a match at Port Melbourne came into collision with a car ...

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  27. MR. D. G. GEORGE

    Mr.Douglas Gray George. managing director of Georges Ltd., of Collins street, died on Saturday. He was aged 46 years. Mr. George had been managing director ...

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  28. HOSPITAL WAGES

    About 1,000 employees in public and private hospitals, sanatoriums, and private mental and convalescent homes in Victoria will have their wages increased from ...

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  29. RACING CYCLIST CRASHES

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 327 words
  30. SURVEY FLIGHT TO AFRICA

    SYDNEY. Sunday. — The flying-boat Guba, Mr. Richard Archbold's long-range navy patrol bomber. in which Captain P. G. Taylor will make a flight survey ...

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  31. C.E.B.S. COMMUNION

    Members of the Church of England Boys' Society attended a corporate Communion at St. Augustine's Church of England. Moreland, yesterday morning ...

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  32. V.R.A. EIGHTS

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  33. "CAPPY'S" NEW JOB

    A new job has been found for " Cappy," the small Capuchin monkey whose antics have amused the hundreds of children who have watched the performing ...

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  34. R.A.C.V. DESPATCH CORPS

    Melbourne will have a model despatch and carrier service when the Royal Automobile Club completes its objective and enrols 400 members, aged more than 45 ...

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  35. MISS JESSIE MacBETh

    Victorian nurses, especially those connected with the Victorian Trained Nurses' Club Ltd., lost a valued friend and advisor by the death of Miss Jessie ...

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  36. CENTENARY MASS

    One hundred years ago—on Pentecost Sunday, 1839 — the Rev. Father Patrick B. Geoghegan, a Franciscan priest, celebrated the first Mass in Victoria in a store ...

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  37. PILLION RIDER KILLED

    PERTH, Sunday.—Riding pillion on a motor-cycle that collided with a tramcar in Canning Highway at midnight last, night, Walter James Worthington, aged ...

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  38. JUDGMENT AGAINST PRINCIPALS

    Sir, — With regard to the report in "The Argus" on Saturday, under the heading of "Judgment Against Principals," naming us as former principals ...

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  39. BODY FOUND IN PADDOCK

    The body of a man, whose identity has not Yet been established. was found in a paddock on the property of Mr. R. C Hatfield at Beveridge yesterday. The body ...

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  40. AIRLINERS' RADIO AIDS

    Five of the six Douglas airliners of Australian National Airways have been fitted to fly on the beam from the ultrashort-wave radio-beacons along interstate ...

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  41. BREAKS LEG ON HUNT

    Thrown from her horse as it fell at a jump at Sherwood. Oaklands Junction, on Saturday afternoon. Miss Joan Gentles, aged 17 years, of Woodlands street. North ...

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  42. Cricket

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  43. NURSES' SERVICE

    With Boy Scouts forming a guard of honour, more than 200 nurses in their brilliant uniforms marched into the Palmerston street Methodist Mission, ...

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  44. MILITARY BROADCAST

    At 9.15 this evening 3UZ and 3SR will present another "sidelight of the Services," which tells of life and adventure within Australia's public services. The ...

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  45. INJURED IN FALL

    Falling in Faraday street. Carlton, yesterday afternoon, James Higginbotham, aged 63 years, of Rathdown street. Carlton, suffered a probable fracture of the ...

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  46. MR. G. A. NOBLE

    Mr George A. Noble. principal and director of A. Noble and Son Ltd.,engineers, of Adelaide and Melbourne, died on Saturday at a private hospital in ...

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  47. FATAL COLLAPSE

    When he fell from his bicycle in Ferntree Gully road, near May road, Mulgrave, on Saturday evening, Alexander James Campbell, aged 20 years, of North ...

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  48. Advertising

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  49. DOCK WAGE INCREASES

    An increase of 3/ a week will be payable under a new determination of the Earthworks Wages Board. The new rates, which will operate from June 9. ...

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  50. CAULFIELD LAND

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  51. OTHER MISHAPS

    Victor Maher, aged 14 years, of Williamstown road, West Footscray, suffered fractures of the left leg and the ribs when he was struck by a car in Geelong ...

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  52. GRASSHOPPERS APPEAR

    OUYEN, Sunday.—Mr. H. M. Sanders. a Cramenton settler, stated to-day that grasshoppers were hatching in millions toward the Murray River, near Cramen ...

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  53. MRS. R. HANNA

    Mrs. Robert Hanna. who died at her home in Grange road Car[?]e on Saturday, was with her husband one of the best-known pioneers of the Upper ...

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  54. LAW NOTICES—(This Day)

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  55. DESERTERS DELAY SHIP

    PORT KEMBLA (N.S.W.), Sunday. — The freighter King John. which is carrying 7,400 tons of steel plates to England for air raid shelters, was delayed for ...

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  56. NEW SYDNEY G.P.O.

    CANBERRA. Sunday.—Difficulties for the Federal Ministry may arise in the Senate and the House of Representatives on Tuesday from a decision to change ...

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  57. The 1846 Argus

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  58. FAST SON'S FATHER WAS FASTER

    HOBART, Sunday.—Father and son—R. Stamford, sen. and jun. —made first and second fastest time, with one-fifth of a second ...

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  59. OVERTURNED IN DITCH

    When the driver of a motor-car in which she was a passenger swerved to avoid acyclist and overturned in a ditch at Longwarry North,a young woman was ...

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  60. THREAT TO JOCKEY

    Following a telephone warning to Reginaid Jennings, jockey, of Bambra road, Caulfield, that he would be shot if he left his home on Saturday night, police from ...

    Article : 107 words
  61. EMPTY BUILDING BURNS

    An unoccupied building, comprising a garage and four rooms on the nrst story, was extensively damaged by fire in Bay street. Sandringham, yesterday morning. ...

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  62. FREE RECITAL TO-DAY

    The first of a series of free mid-day organ recitals will be given in the Town Hall to-day by Mr. Edgar Chapple, under the direction of the City Council. The ...

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  63. SKATERS HURT

    Four skaters were injured at ice-skating rinks at St. Kilda and Princes Bridge on Saturday. They were treated at Prince Henry's Hospital ...

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  64. Advertising

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  65. COMING EVENTS

    To-day.Meeting of the Australian Sonswriters' Club at Old Players' rooms. Nicholas Builidings Swanson street..Mrs.Stanley Brooks and Mr.J.H.Keating will give ...

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  66. YOUTH FOUND SHOT

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—Gordon Raymond Hunt. 16, was found dead in his bed at his home in George street, Windsor, yesterday. He had shot himself through the ...

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  67. INJURED BY ATTACKERS

    Injured when he was attacked near a hotel at Hawthorn on Saturday afternoon. Leslie Rowe, mechanic, of Grosvenor street, Abbotsford, was later admitted to ...

    Article : 36 words
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