CANBERRA, Friday. — Commonwealth finances for the year just closed showed a surplus of receipts over expenditure of ...
Article : 786 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Described by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) as a substantial advance in the Loan Council's control over public ...
Article : 419 wordsSale of any fruit by count, instead of [?]reight, was permissible in Victoria, the [?] of Agriculture (Mr. H. A. Mul[?] said yesterday. ...
Article : 301 wordsTHIS SIGN, "NO FISHING ALLOWED," placed in an unmade lane off Epsom road, Ascotvale, between Charles and Doncaster streets, was the bait used by dissatisfied residents in an attempt to "get a bite" from the Essendon Council. They are angling for the secession of the Ascotvole ward from the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 63 wordsSeeking legislation to encourage a reciprocal interchange of British films with Australian and other Empire films by means of a quota, a deputation waited on ...
Article : 344 wordsCriticism of the City Council for providing £15,000 for the spring carnival was described as unfair yesterday by the chairman of the carnival committee ...
Article : 366 wordsAs the master in charge at the Melbourne Grammar School of the department which sought to provide careers for boys who were not going to the ...
Article : 426 wordsAfter 13½ years' service as Deputy Commissioner of Repatriation in Victoria and 21 years in the Commonwealth Public Service, Mr. J. C. McPhee retired yesterday ...
Article : 213 wordsDARWIN, Friday. — Darwin is suffering the mast acute accommodation shortage in its chequered history, principally because the Federal Government refused to ...
Article : 226 wordsIn some of the official maps of Australian air routes hills of 700ft. are shown, but mountains 2,000ft. high are omitted. The Minister for Civil Aviation (Mr. ...
Article : 320 wordsThough the State Government would not accept responsibility for the establishment of an airport at Fishermen's Bend, it would consider any representations by ...
Article : 131 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday.—Mr. John Pomeroy, of Melbourne, who is returning from the United States in the Mariposa, claims to have a contract with one of ...
Article : 167 wordsMr. Thomas C. Fairbairn, the famous operatic producer, will arrive in Melbourne on September 2 by the Dominion Monarch under engagement to the Melbourne City ...
Article : 68 wordsHigher wages, improved conditions, and annual holidays are prescribed by the amended determination of the Garden Employees' Wages Board, which became ...
Article : 246 wordsNo comment was offered yesterday by the Premier (Mr. Dunstan) on the revival by Mr. [?]Kenzie (Lab., Wonthaggi) of the proposal that a system of pensions ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. Henry Dundas, of New York, senior vice-president and director of the Standard-Vacuum Oil Company, who is visiting Australia for the second ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 687 wordsStatements in which four youths were alleged to have admitted that they had been implicated in the blocking of coin chutes in public telephone booths at ...
Article : 142 wordsADELAIDE, Friday. — "This is mere speculation," sadi the Prime Minister Mr. Menzies) commenting to-night on a report that the cash surplus had been ...
Article : 85 wordsTschaikowsky's "Nutcracker" suite was an immediately successful item at the concluding concert of the municipal winter [?]eason given yesterday at the Town Hall ...
Article : 230 wordsYou've all heard of Rip Van Winkle, the man who went to sleep for so long that when he woke up he found everything changed, even himself. ...
Article : 162 wordsWhile he may be able to obtain a decision by the Legislative Assembly on his proposal to establish a State lottery in Victoria, Mr. Hayes (Lab., Melbourne) ...
Article : 153 wordsHOBART, Friday. — The Attorney[?] General (Mr. E. J. Ogilvie) said to-day that an announcement would be made early next week regarding the ...
Article : 127 wordsDelayed at Fremantle by heavy rain, the R.M.S. Largs Bay, from London, is now due to berth at Melbourne on Tuesday instead of Monday. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe map which appears in "The Argus" Week-end Magazine to-day has been prepared especially for the benefit of students who are taking the course of radiofilm ...
Article : 122 wordsThe sooner the report was submitted the more [?]e would be pleased, the chairman of the City Council traffic committee (Councillor T. Kerr) said yesterday, ...
Article : 190 wordsFor success in hymn singing, the first essential was to extract the utmost mea[?]inw from the words and above all to make them common sense, said Mr. ...
Article : 357 wordsHOBART, Friday.—The State Cabinet to-day commuted to life imprisonment the sentence of death passed on Cyril Estcourt for the murder of his wife, Laurel ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 8 Jul 1939, Page 3
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