Except for a small block, accommodating 60 of the 300 inmates of the Children's Welfare Depot at Royal Park, the ...
Article : 196 wordsGaol-like buildings of the Balllarat and Sunbury Mental Hospitals are to be replaced by modern hospitals at a cost of about £290,000, ...
Article : 130 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Enlistment of men for the new special militia force of 14,000 will begin at once, according to an ...
Article : 260 wordsSir,—It is a pleasure to read the spirited reply of "Live and Let Live" to the criticisms of "Widowed Mother" on married women who work. The working married ...
Article : 205 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Details of an extensive organisation which had been prepared to evacuate 20,000 people from the ...
Article : 409 words"For long Victoria has been regarded as the miser State of the Commonwealth in regard to social services," said Mr. Clarey, M.L.C., ...
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Advertising : 763 wordsSir,—My letter to "The Argus" on refugee doctors was abridged by the Editor, and did not quite convey my purpose in writing, which was to warn ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Director of Mental Hygiene (Dr. J. Catarinich) will be chairman of the new Mental Hygiene Board which it is proposed to establish to administer the ...
Article : 120 wordsWith John Brownlee and Ivor Newton on the platform and Dr. Malcolm Sargent in the audience, the Town Hall housed three distinguished visitors last night. ...
Article : 338 wordsSir,—Mr. Lewis should be commended by all true anglers for closing the dome hole at the Eildon Weir until November, also for reducing the bag limit. In ...
Article : 180 wordsThe secretary of the Employers' Federation (Mr. L. Mann) said yesterday that the extended leave might mean a material loss, to small employers particularly. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe questions of medical services in isolated centres and the registration of alien doctors were two unrelated issues, said the medical ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 wordsTaxi-drlveis employed by the Blue-Top Taxi Company, who have been on strike since noon on Tuesday, rejected proposals for a ...
Article : 273 wordsSir,—Mr. Durward points out that the military defence of the British Isles alone would cost little more than that of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. It is perhaps ...
Article : 112 wordsSenior militia officers do not agree that the new military command system with its consequential promotions will act to the detriment of ...
Article : 156 wordsOUYEN, Thursday.—At a meeting of farmers, business men, and workers last night resolutions were passed declaring that the proposals of the Governments ...
Article : 139 wordsSir,—This following may perhaps be regarded as a sidelight emphasising the necessity for Sir Stanley Argyle's bill for the amendment of the Game Act:—In ...
Article : 80 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The paddle wheel steamers which run on the River Murray when the water is high enough to float them were ...
Article : 94 wordsSir,—Our thanks are due to "Bank Clerk" for a more accurate description of his conditions of employment. A comparison of salaries, however, is still ...
Article : 151 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Described by the police as a "notorious gunman and the husband of Tilly Devine," James Edward Devine[?] ...
Article : 167 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — The Federal Ministry has decided to create a Federal department of social services. An amendment of ...
Article : 172 wordsRidden in a bathroom in a house at Clifton Hill, the Melbourn Cup won by Artilleryman in 1919 was found by detectives yesterday. Ihe cup was stolen ...
Article : 109 wordsAmendments proposed to the National Register, Supply and Development, and the Defence Acts, which Labour members will submit ...
Article : 256 wordsSir,—The most recent letter of Tillie Gerson is her most entertaining contribution to your columns. Nevertheless, while I share her desire to tinge ...
Article : 144 wordsSTAWELL, Thursday. — The Broken Hill flying doctor. Dr. Woods, and his co-pilot. Mr. John MacDonald, arrived in Stawell this evening with Mr. Little, ...
Article : 117 wordsFalsification of entries in a Commonwealth Savings Bank passbook was alleged in a case at the Footscray Court yesterday. ...
Article : 217 wordsSir,—While much money is being spent in making the front of the Melbourne Public Library look pretty, facilities inside the building could also be improved. ...
Article : 147 wordsFlying back to Sydney to resume his work at the beginning of next week, Mr. Gordon Elliott, a member of the New South Wales Aero Club, arrived at ...
Article : 167 wordsReginald Burgess, of Gooch street, Thornbury, butcher, was acquitted in the Criminal Court last night of shopbreaking and stealing, and alternatively, of ...
Article : 83 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The Federal Ministry intends to appoint immediately a senior public servant to control the National Register, under the direction of a ...
Article : 51 wordsMore frequent inspection of metropolitan theatres, and of churches, Sunday schools, and day schools throughout the State ...
Article : 187 wordsMILDURA, Thursday.—Dorothy Chisholm, aged 7 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chisholm, of Lemon avenue. Mildura, died at the Mildura Base ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 326 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Applications from refugees for admittance to Australia had fallen off very considerably, said the Minister for the Interior (Senator Foll) ...
Article : 49 wordsA recommendation that the price of bread should be Increased by proclamation has been submitted to the State Government by the Wheat Products Prices ...
Article : 129 wordsMr. John Sylvester F[?]ehan, of Macedon, who died on August 17, left £5,000 to the Lord Mayor's Fund, it was announced at a meeting of the fund executive ...
Article : 50 wordsPERTH. Thursday. — William Purdom Scott, aged about 55 years, married, orchardist and pastoralist, and chairman of the Bridgetown Road Board, was killed ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 25 Aug 1939, Page 2
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