MAJOR DEFENCE PROPOSALS were discussed by the Australian War Cabinet at its inaugural meeting yesterday at Victoria Barracks. Top (from left): The Minister for Commerce (Senator McLeay), the Minister for External Affairs (Sir Henry Gullett), the Minister for Supply and Development (Mr. Cosey), the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies), the Minister for Defence (Brigadler Street), and the secretary of the Defence ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 66 wordsFine weather is likely to help to-day to break attendances records for "People's Day" at the Royal Show. There is a small but ...
Article : 218 wordsTo make facilities at Point Cook available for the training of a large number of civil pilots as flying instructor. preliminary instruction of recently enlisted ...
Article : 236 wordsA claim that his father had promised to leave him a 94-acre paddock was made by Allan Horatio Robinson, who is contesting the will ...
Article : 358 wordsFollowing an inquest by the city coroner (Mr. Tingate, P.M.) into the death of Albert Sharpe, aged 24 years, of Stewart avenue, Port ...
Article : 464 wordsWithin two months Australia should be producing petrol from shale at the rate of 10,000,000 gallons a year, and within 12 months ...
Article : 437 wordsIntroducing a drastic system of safeguards against abuses of outdoor employment and sub-contracting in the clothing trades, including ...
Article : 403 wordsTo reduce the volume of matter for debate before Parliament during the war, a suggestion that no contentious motor legislation be placed ...
Article : 260 wordsTraining of Victorian volunteers in air-raid precautions has been hampered by an inadequate supply of gas-masks and de-contamination ...
Article : 160 wordsAlthough it regards the work as "very desirable," the State Cabinet has deferred a decision on a proposal that £200,000 should be spent ...
Article : 173 wordsSuggestions that sentences of convicted criminals should be remitted if they undertook to join the military forces are unacceptable to the Chief Secretary (Mr. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe widow who owns Murroa Station, near Penshurst, and who is being sued by neighbouring graziers for nearly £10,000 damages ...
Article : 300 wordsEric Benjamin Southan, aged 40 years, of Lygon street, Carlton, was found guilty in the Criminal Court yesterday of a charge of having wounded his wife, ...
Article : 230 wordsCORRYONG, Wednesday.—When his motor-truck went through the Geehi bridge into the Murray River near Biggara yesterday, Mr. J. B. ...
Article : 122 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Immediately after the body of Horace Southan, aged 34 years, of Mullens street, Balmain, had been taken ...
Article : 140 wordsPresent indications were that the necessity for rationing petrol [?]ould not arise for some considerable time, said a joint statement ...
Article : 252 wordsRobert Vivian Storer, of Chapel street. St. Kilda, company director and former medical practitioner, in the Kew Court yesterday was committed for trial at the ...
Article : 154 words"SPORTS," says Anæsthesia to me yesterday, looking up from her fashion pages with a look that makes me realise how patient and long-suffering is her ...
Article : 740 wordsSydney Robert Gill, aged 17 years, of Cole avenue. Footscray, was killed instantly yesterday evening. He was cycling along Ballarat road toward Footscray ...
Article : 39 wordsEvidence that a bone in his leg had been broken when a car ran into him at the intersection of Burwood and Glenferrie roads was given yesterday in the ...
Article : 103 wordsDevelopment of educational facilities would not be neglected because of the war, the Minister for Education (Sir John Harris) said last night. ...
Article : 86 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The estate of Judge Alfred Paxton Backhouse, who died on August 1, has been sworn for probate at £31,397. Subject to legacies ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Fred J. Bowden deives far into the past for this Melbourne Cup story. It is an interesting one, and 5/ will go to him at 144 Hopetoun avenue, West ...
Article : 488 wordsGoods or material of any kind (other than paper, printed or otherwise) intended for transmission by airmail, whether prepaid at letter rate or not, must ...
Article : 46 words"The award embodies the principles underlying the union's proposals for controlling the contract system in the trade," declared the Federal secretary of the ...
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Advertising : 90 wordsAn appeal to the public to re[?]rain from spreading false and misleading rumours was made yesterday by the Minister for ...
Article : 199 wordsDARWIN, Wednesday. — Since Monday, when they refused work on the new Royal Australian Air Force aerodrome and carried their ...
Article : 206 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — No export [?]cences will at present be required for [?]ds intended solely for use or consumption in the British Solomon Islands ...
Article : 72 wordsSteps will be taken by the Commonwealth Government to ensure that donations to patriotic funds will not be subject to taxation, the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 323 wordsThe 57th Battalion of the A.I.F. will hold its annual pilgrimage to the Shrine on Sunday at 2.45 p.m. A guard of the 57th Battalion, A.M.F., will parade with regimental ...
Article : 44 wordsCAMERA ART by members of the British Institute of Photographers on display ot the Kodak Gallery, Collins street. The exhibition was opened yesterday by Sir Walter Leitch (left), who is shown inspecting some of the exhibits with Mr. F. J. Muirhead, Victorian manager of Kodak (A/asia) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 28 Sep 1939, Page 7
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