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, ...
Article : 372 wordsOnly one person was killed in road accidents in Victoria at the week-end. Swinging out to pass a car, a ...
Article : 157 wordsOf 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 ...
Article : 358 wordsSYDNEY. Sunday. — Peace, security, standards of living, and social conditions —all the things that Australians most value—were threatened by the fall in the ...
Article : 201 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Statements repeated made in Queensland that the Commonwealth Government had no intention of attempting to defend northern ...
Article : 182 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday. —Three State byelections caused by the deaths of sitting members were held in Queensland on Saturday. The Labour party is assured ...
Article : 241 wordsSuch 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 ...
Article : 264 wordsWith the object of determining a common policy on the questions of zoning. the appointment of municipal officers, compulsory voting in municipal elections, ...
Article : 220 wordsFive 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 ...
Article : 186 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — The practicability of paying invalid and old-age pensions by posting cheques to pensioners so that they will not have to call at ...
Article : 100 wordsSYDNEY, 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 ...
Article : 104 wordsMembers 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 ...
Article : 142 wordsMrs. Angela Booth, who had announced that she would be a candidate and who unsuccessfully sought the endorsement of the United Australia party, ...
Article : 185 wordsMr. Peter Dawson,the famous baritone will not retire for at least five years. When he arrived in the Oronsay last night Mr. Dawson ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 220 wordsWar was a "fresh crucifixion of Christ," said Miss Helen Topping, secretary to Dr. Kagawa, the Japanese Christian evangelist, at the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon ...
Article : 150 wordsInexperience 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, ...
Article : 99 wordsAUSTRALIA'S "young Prime Minister" was getting two days older every day, Mr. Menzies told his audience at an Empire Day ...
Article : 142 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—Six persons were injured when two cars collided in Inglewood road, Bendigo, at 12.15 a.m. to-day. ...
Article : 135 wordsNearly 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 ...
Article : 176 wordsMiss 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. ...
Article : 53 wordsAs 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 ...
Article : 129 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 56 wordsWhen 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 ...
Article : 157 wordsThe 58th Battalion (Essendon-Coburg-Brunswick Rifles) marched from the drill hall in Pascoevale road, Moonee Ponds, yesterday morning to St. Thomas's Church ...
Article : 138 wordsSix 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 ...
Article : 200 wordsMr.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 ...
Article : 121 wordsAbout 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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Detailed lists, results, guides : 327 wordsSYDNEY. 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 ...
Article : 122 wordsMembers 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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Detailed lists, results, guides : 874 wordsA new job has been found for " Cappy," the small Capuchin monkey whose antics have amused the hundreds of children who have watched the performing ...
Article : 110 wordsMelbourne will have a model despatch and carrier service when the Royal Automobile Club completes its objective and enrols 400 members, aged more than 45 ...
Article : 83 wordsVictorian nurses, especially those connected with the Victorian Trained Nurses' Club Ltd., lost a valued friend and advisor by the death of Miss Jessie ...
Article : 190 wordsOne 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 ...
Article : 137 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—Riding pillion on a motor-cycle that collided with a tramcar in Canning Highway at midnight last, night, Walter James Worthington, aged ...
Article : 68 wordsSir, — With regard to the report in "The Argus" on Saturday, under the heading of "Judgment Against Principals," naming us as former principals ...
Article : 118 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 100 wordsFive 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 ...
Article : 58 wordsThrown 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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Detailed lists, results, guides : 175 wordsWith Boy Scouts forming a guard of honour, more than 200 nurses in their brilliant uniforms marched into the Palmerston street Methodist Mission, ...
Article : 111 wordsAt 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 ...
Article : 52 wordsFalling in Faraday street. Carlton, yesterday afternoon, James Higginbotham, aged 63 years, of Rathdown street. Carlton, suffered a probable fracture of the ...
Article : 39 wordsMr 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 ...
Article : 130 wordsWhen 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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Advertising : 30 wordsAn 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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Detailed lists, results, guides : 299 wordsVictor 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 ...
Article : 525 wordsOUYEN, Sunday.—Mr. H. M. Sanders. a Cramenton settler, stated to-day that grasshoppers were hatching in millions toward the Murray River, near Cramen ...
Article : 60 wordsMrs. 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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Detailed lists, results, guides : 510 wordsPORT 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 ...
Article : 88 wordsCANBERRA. 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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Detailed lists, results, guides : 373 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—Father and son—R. Stamford, sen. and jun. —made first and second fastest time, with one-fifth of a second ...
Article : 48 wordsWhen 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 ...
Article : 93 wordsFollowing 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 wordsAn unoccupied building, comprising a garage and four rooms on the nrst story, was extensively damaged by fire in Bay street. Sandringham, yesterday morning. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 81 wordsFour 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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Advertising : 2 wordsTo-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 ...
Article : 163 wordsSYDNEY, 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 ...
Article : 80 wordsInjured when he was attacked near a hotel at Hawthorn on Saturday afternoon. Leslie Rowe, mechanic, of Grosvenor street, Abbotsford, was later admitted to ...
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