Sweeping into Victoria from southern Queensland and New South Wales, a tropical depres, sion drenched the Northern an[?] ...
Article : 281 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — A member defied the Speaker, and Mr. Spooner, who has criticised the Ministry's financial policy, was ...
Article : 569 wordsThe State Government would take every step possible to increase water storages in Victoria, the Premier (Mr. Dunstan) told a deputation from the ...
Article : 273 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—As part of the programme "speed up" of defence works the Federal Ministry will take immediate steps to ...
Article : 218 wordsSir,—Great Britain is proving herself the diplomatic captain of old. Her safe steering through many a treacherous political sea since the conversations at Munich ...
Article : 123 wordsWho is the real Sir Mark Loddon baronet[?] member of Parliament, and owner of one of the finest estates in Norfolk? Skilfully argued by the learned counsel ...
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Advertising : 599 wordsSir,—Rearmament is only a temporary expedient for saving out freedom. If there is no moral change the contrast between the birth rate of aggressors and ...
Article : 130 wordsSir,—Although the Women's Voluntary Aid Detachment is organised wholly by the Defence Department, members are required to pay 5/ enrolment fee to supply ...
Article : 80 wordsEffective dimming of outside lighting, particularly lights on railway station platforms, has been solved by a member of the Victorian Railways staff. ...
Article : 204 wordsInjuries into the theft of Black Abbott, a valuable racing dog, from his kennel after he had won the main race at Maribyrnong on July 24, have revealed that ...
Article : 167 wordsWithin the next few weeks "The Argus" quest for the most popular footballer in the League and the Association will be decided. The competition has reached ...
Article : 175 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Storms between Brisbane and Sydney caused the cancellation of Airlines of Australia's service to Sydney this afternoon. It is ...
Article : 256 wordsSir,—I have read with interest the articles from John Gunther's "Inside Asia," and the one in to-day's issue about Nehru is indeed interesting. I had the privilege ...
Article : 233 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Australia's precautions against espionage and subversive propaganda in defence activities are as complete and effective as possible in ...
Article : 139 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—Railway employees who could not be spared from duty to attend the funeral of the late Premier (Mr. A. G. Ogilvie) are seeking ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. John R. Manson, of Caithness, Newry, and the Majestic Mansions, St. Kilda, one of Gippsland's best-known graziers, died in Hamilton Russell House ...
Article : 203 wordsThe possibility of the Government's defeat on Mr. Spooner's motion was keenly examined by members of all parties in the lobbies to-night. Shortly before the ...
Article : 246 wordsSir,—Mr. J. Hume-Cook's letter on the wheat industry rises to the height of absurdity in the suggestion that the wheat industry can be "protected." The only ...
Article : 130 wordsBad weather on the direct air ro[?] between Melbourne and Sydney necessitated cancella[?] of the DC3 Douglas plane Warana[?] Hight from Sydney to ...
Article : 66 wordsAfter investigation of a complaint by Wing Young and Company that onions imported from Japan had been repacked in bags branded "Produce of Australia," ...
Article : 171 wordsCriticism of the age and unsightliness of Defence Department buildings in Sturt street was expressed by members of the South Melbourne Council last night, when ...
Article : 165 wordsSir,—Your article is timely. Municipal action might well begin with the removal of the horrible yellow and black direction sign placed on the lawn of the otherwise ...
Article : 49 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday.— Otago snowstorms have caused heavy stock losses. Farmers are thought to have lost 50 per cent. of their flocks in ...
Article : 76 wordsSir,—Why should not all teachers in the first subdivisions of their classes who have the necessary qualifications and confirmed efficiency marks of the correct ...
Article : 173 wordsDARWIN, Wednesday.—Claims for increased wages and, in some respects, better conditions for all employees of the Commonwealth Works Department in Northern ...
Article : 211 wordsAfter he had been struck by a car in Swan street, Richmond, George Sumerset Hopkins, aged 8½ years, of Lord street, Richmond, was admitted to the Children's ...
Article : 135 wordsSir,—If any organisation has asked for dismissal it is the Egg Marketing, Board. The board has ignominiously failed to secure the confidence or respect of many ...
Article : 209 wordsSeventeen candidates have nominated for election as representatives of bush fire brigades on the Bush Fire Brigades Committee, on which there are only three ...
Article : 154 wordsFalling 80 feet from a city building yesterday afternoon, George Hudson, aged 47 years, of Derby street, Northcote, suffered a compound fracture of the skull ...
Article : 96 wordsSir,—I am an old age pensioner, and have seven children, but now find myself in poor circumstances. I badly need new glasses, but find I have to pay at least ...
Article : 87 wordsir,—-When r.i Dunstan visits Donald this week in connection with the wheat question, he might also inquire why local bakers charge 1/1 and 1/2 a large loaf for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 252 wordsNearly a score of houses, costing more than £12,300, will be built immediately at Yallourn by the State Electricity Commission. Tenders for these were let this ...
Article : 133 wordsSir,—I agree willi "Brix" that traps are cruel. Night and morning my thoughts and prayers are for the poor tortured creatures caught in traps—walting for ...
Article : 52 wordsAt 9.15 to-night, 3UZ and "The Argus" network of country stations will present "Swallow Night." To-night's broadcast is entitled "Our World," and, with the aid ...
Article : 94 wordsBALLARAT.—The name of Mr. A. R. Loft, president of the Victorian branch of the Textile Workers' Union, has been mentioned as a likely Labour candidate ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 3 Aug 1939, Page 2
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