CANBERRA, Sunday.—The change of Government in New South Wales may make it impossible for the Premiers' Conference in Melbourne on August 10 to ...
Article : 219 wordsPolitics should be a career, not just a hobby, in the opinion of Mr. Arthur Dunstan who, at the age of 25 years, will make his first attempt to enter the ...
Article : 303 wordsFlood waters receded and rivers and streams that had nearly broken their banks fell during the week-end following the cessation ...
Article : 269 wordsNEW MINISTRY IN NEW SOUTH WALES—Country party (top) and United Australia pa[?]y Ministers on their way to Government House, Sydney, on Saturday to be sworn in after the Governor of New South Wales (Lord Wakehurst) had commissioned Mr. Mair (right) to form a Ministry. Mr. Mair was sworn in on Saturday afternoon as Premier of New South Wales. (From left) Top: Messrs Vincent, Bruxner (deputy Premier and leader of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 98 wordsThe French and British military missions of high staff officers of the armies, navies, and air forces of the two countries left Tilbury Docks ...
Article : 355 wordsA decree has been issued that the new Spain will be ruled by the Phalangist (Fascist) party, with General Franco as the executive ...
Article : 256 wordsAdditional loan funds to finance the proposed subsidy to wheatgrowers will probably be demanded by State representatives when a conference of Premiers ...
Article : 259 wordsAlthough the weather has interrupted interstate airline schedules in the last few days, it has not affected bookings. Airliners on Saturday had large bookings. ...
Article : 204 wordsShould members of the Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association give effect to their threat to cease work to enforce their claim for higher wages, dislocation ...
Article : 106 words"Reynold's News" says that the massing of Nazi troops on the Polish border has reached such ominous proportions that the Minister for War (General Kasprszyeki) ...
Article : 193 wordsThe performance of "Switzerland, the ice-skating revue at His Majesty's Theatre, was marred on Saturday night by the collapse on the ice of the leading ...
Article : 194 wordsImprovements in the social system were urged by the leader of the State Labour party (Mr. Cain) in an address at the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon service ...
Article : 320 wordsAn unusually small amount of business has been lifted by the Government for consideration by the State Parliament both Houses of which will meet to-morrow. ...
Article : 245 wordsAmong the collection of jewels which the Duchess of Kent will take to Australia will be £25,000 worth of Queen Mary's jewellery. ...
Article : 92 wordsFunctions organised on any of the four Sundays during Melbourne's spring carnival, from October 21 to November 18 will not be recognised by the City ...
Article : 89 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—Sheer necessity that something had to be done made him more hopeful that results would be achieved at the conference, said the Premier (Mr. ...
Article : 63 wordsWAGGA (N.S.W.), Sunday.—Water in the Burrinjuck dam was only 3ft. 6in. below the spillway to-night. Heavy rain over the catchment areas caused the ...
Article : 49 wordsWhen the deportation hearing against Harry Bridges is resumed to-morrow the defence will attempt to prove that improper inducements have been offered to ...
Article : 310 wordsA State-wide search has not yet traced Leonard Jackson, aged 23 years, who escaped from custody at the Spencer street railway station on Thursday night. ...
Article : 100 wordsHOPETOUN, Sunday. — About 250 people, representing the farming community, professional and business interests, and workers, attended a public ...
Article : 102 wordsA plan to establish a self-governing Federal Dominion in the British West Indies will be submitted to the British Government when the Royal Commission ...
Article : 123 wordsDuring an operation at the Eye and Ear Hospital on Saturday doctors removed the left eye from Frederick Hobby, aged 68 years, of Overend street, ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Imperial Airways flying-boat Caribou left Foynes (Eire) last night with 1,500lb. of mail on the inaugural flight of the British ...
Article : 134 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Guido Calletti, aged 35 years, who was a wellknown figure in Sydney's underworld, was shot in a house in ...
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Advertising : 242 wordsAsked whether Mr. Chamberlain's statement on Friday regarding the British trade treaty with Japan as "accompanied by treaties between the Dominions, or ...
Article : 195 wordsTwelve thousand Territorials were flooded out of their camps by torrential rain at New Forest (Hampshire) yesterday and are now quartered in barns, ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Lincoln Ellsworth intends to lead another expedition to the Antarctic in 1940-41. He announced this fact before he left for Europe ...
Article : 96 wordsSeven people were killed including Colonel von Scheele, the German air attache at Madrid, when a German airliner crashed near Hospitalet late on ...
Article : 53 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Police have not yet identified a man who was reported to have jumped from the Harbour Bridge on Friday night, and whose body was ...
Article : 91 wordsEight suspected I.R.A. men, against whom deportation orders have been signed have disappeared. It is believed that they are still in England. One is ...
Article : 81 wordsA young man who complained that he had been slashed on the neck was arrested on Saturday night after the Coburg police had investigated his story. ...
Article : 117 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Sunday. — After a comfortable week-end, the Prime Minister (Mr. Savage), who underwent a serious operation on Friday, was reported ...
Article : 126 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The body of Louis Gordon Kitchen, aged 16 years, was found by a fisherman in Lake Illawarra to-day ...
Article : 87 wordsThis week the Operative Bakers' Union and the Bread-carters' Union will distribute 10,000 "white" lists of bakers' shops in suburbs north of the Yarra ...
Article : 116 wordsPrincess Juliana, the heir to the Netherlands throne, has given birth to another daughter. A bulletin was issued last night saying ...
Article : 136 wordsAUCKLAND (NZ), Sunday. — The dead body of a six-months-old boy was discovered in the bath of an apartment above a city shop. Death was apparently ...
Article : 52 wordsSeized by the throat by one of two men who attacked him in a lane between Nicholls and Williams streets, Abbotsford, on Saturday night, Eugene ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 86 wordsAfter having been a representative of the Maribyrnong Riding of the Keellor Shire Council for 15 years, Councillor J. H. Stevens does not intend to nominate ...
Article : 80 wordsWalking along a lane near her home on Saturday evening. Mrs. Mccall, of Chapel street, South Yarra, was robbed of her handbag by a man who rode up ...
Article : 43 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday. — Police intend to seek a further remand of the 37 men charged following the raid on Parliament House on Friday when they appear in the ...
Article : 76 wordsLeaving tobacco worth £40 wrapped in sheets taken from beds, thieves dashed out the front door of the shop of Mr. W. R. Tyley, hairdresser, Mar[?]byrnong ...
Article : 59 wordsThe first session of the 75th Congres adjourned indefinitely on Friday night after it had speedily passed numerous [?]inor bills. ...
Article : 84 wordsBecause the "old boy at the counter" might be an officer of the United Country party, members of the State public service have been warned by the official ...
Article : 218 wordsWhen you are tired of four walls a[?] a ceiling—weary of dishes and dustersbored by gas-stoves and the eternal planning of meals; when you feel all [?] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 7 Aug 1939, Page 9
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