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  2. MILITIA VOLUNTEERS FOR NEW A.I.F.

    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 words
  3. Dr. Millikan Asks... CAN THE NATIONS OUTLAW WAR?

    That the world owes its prese[?] deplorable condition to the aba[?] donment of the principle of Coll[?]tive security among nations, [?] ...

    Article : 1,091 words
  4. DROUGHT AND INCOMES

    Based on the increased rates an-' nounced in the Budget, State income tax for 1939-40 is estimated to yield £4,410,000, compared with ...

    Article : 308 words
  5. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 3,024 words
  6. Advertising

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    Advertising : 78 words
  7. NEW CHOIR AT ST. PATRICK'S

    Unable to go home because of the outbreak of war, the Vienna Mozart Boys' Choir, which recently toured Australia, has disbanded ...

    Article : 287 words
  8. The Argus

    "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 words
  9. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1939 A LEAGUE OF EAGLES

    Nothing so inspires our imagination as the spectacular evidence of man's conquest of the air; nothing so overshadows our hopes as the ...

    Article : 759 words
  10. Daylight Saving Plan Would Mean Early Rising

    Daisy 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 words
  11. VICE-REGAL

    Lady 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 words
  12. PERSONAL

    The 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 words
  13. PUBLIC OPINION FAVOURS CHANGE

    Sir,—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 words
  14. WORRYING PROSPECT

    Sir,—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 words
  15. "NO VACANCIES"

    Sir,—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 words
  16. EXHIBITION BY PUPILS

    Youthful genius raises its head here and there at the exhibition of arts and crafts by pupils of the Melbourne Technical College, which ...

    Article : 220 words
  17. BEST FOOT FORWARD

    Sir,—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 words
  18. RESERVED LIST

    Sir,—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 words
  19. ONE IN, ALL IN

    Sir,—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 words
  20. ATTACK AND COUNTER-ATTACK!

    Hitler's speech has been broadcast through huge amplifiers on the Western Front. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 18 words
  21. NEW PARK ROAD

    To 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 words
  22. BUY BRITISH GOODS

    While 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 words
  23. BLACKS WANT SCHOOL

    Aborigines 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 words
  24. NEED FOR STANDARDS

    Only 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
  25. TEXT FOR TO-DAY

    "Butter is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure, and trouble therewith."—Proverbs xv.: 16. ...

    Article : 21 words
  26. £35,000 FOR CORNER

    A prominent city site, on the north-east corner of Collins and Spencer streets, was sold at auction yesterday afternoon for £35,000. ...

    Article : 107 words
  27. COUNCIL'S SCHOLARSHIPS

    A 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 words
  28. SHRINE PILGRIMAGE

    The 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 words
  29. DAWN ECLIPSE

    Milkmen 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. ...

    Article : 50 words
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