Widespread public interest has been aroused by a special article in "The Argus" on Tuesday suggesting the elimination of the four months' militia training, and the enlistment in the Second A.I.F. of militia volunteers at a living ...
Article : 610 wordsThat the world owes its prese[?] deplorable condition to the aba[?] donment of the principle of Coll[?]tive security among nations, [?] ...
Article : 1,091 wordsBased on the increased rates an-' nounced in the Budget, State income tax for 1939-40 is estimated to yield £4,410,000, compared with ...
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Advertising : 78 wordsUnable to go home because of the outbreak of war, the Vienna Mozart Boys' Choir, which recently toured Australia, has disbanded ...
Article : 287 words"I am in the place where I am demanded of conscience to speak the truth, and therefore the truth I speak, impugn it whoso list." ...
Article : 34 wordsNothing so inspires our imagination as the spectacular evidence of man's conquest of the air; nothing so overshadows our hopes as the ...
Article : 759 wordsDaisy may once again have to come to the bail an hour earlier, and Chanticleer may have to send abroad his joyous crow at an ...
Article : 269 wordsLady Dugan, accompanied by Lady Armitage, was present at the annual meeting of the Victorian Society for Crippled Children, held at the Town Hall ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Lord Mayor of Melbourne (Councillor A. W. Coles) received at the Town Hall yesterday Dr. J. J. North, principal of the Baptist College of New Zealand, ...
Article : 435 wordsSir,—Your paper is to be congratulated on the constructive article published on Tuesday regarding the Militia forces. It is the only really constructive scheme yet ...
Article : 195 wordsSir,—Unjust exploitation of a voluntary Militia force is something one hardly expected of a democratic Government. When we joined in peace time we considered it ...
Article : 136 wordsSir,—There must be hundreds, if not thousands, of men who are to-day receiving unemployment relief benefits, the cost of which is found by the taxpayers, ...
Article : 106 wordsYouthful genius raises its head here and there at the exhibition of arts and crafts by pupils of the Melbourne Technical College, which ...
Article : 220 wordsSir,—Your clear-sighted and vigorous leader, "Defence Policy," will meet with the approval of all long-visioned Australians. The supine ineptitude of our ...
Article : 108 wordsSir,—Engineering students have been urged to finish their course, as engineers will be vitally necessary during the war. Yet engineers under the age of 25 are ...
Article : 123 wordsSir,—I have two sons, one in the Permanent Forces, the other a Militia-man at present undergoing six weeks' training in camp. He is an apprentice engineer, ...
Article : 83 wordsHitler's speech has been broadcast through huge amplifiers on the Western Front. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 18 wordsTo give elderly people an opportunity of seeing Mebourne's beautiful Botanic Gardens, a road should be built around their western boundary, Councillor H. E. ...
Article : 155 wordsWhile Australia is to play an important part during the war as a supplier of raw materials and foodstuffs to the United Kingdom, it may not be so generally ...
Article : 144 wordsAborigines who deserted the Cumen[?] gunga (N.S.W.) aborigines' station[?] refused to send their children to the [?] South Wales school, asked the Minis[?] ...
Article : 164 wordsOnly one section of the Commonwealth Constitution had not been the subject of legislation by the Federal Parliament, Mr. Gerald Lightfoot, of the Council for ...
Article : 111 words"Butter is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure, and trouble therewith."—Proverbs xv.: 16. ...
Article : 21 wordsA prominent city site, on the north-east corner of Collins and Spencer streets, was sold at auction yesterday afternoon for £35,000. ...
Article : 107 wordsA decision to endow six new scholarships for children attending schools in the municipality was nnde by the South Melbourne Council lost night. It was ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Sailors and Soldiers' Fathers' [?] sociation will make the annual pilgri[?] age to the Shrine on Sunday, October 15. at 3 p.m. All mothers, fathers, [?] ...
Article : 36 wordsMilkmen and other early workers, and those who care to rise at dawn to-morrow, will, if conditions are favourable, see the sun rise in a state of partial eclipse. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 12 Oct 1939, Page 8
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