A record number of visitors travelled by road and rail to Punkapunyal yesterday to visit soldiers of the Second A.I.F., only a few ...
Article : 168 wordsSir,—"Inquirer" must be a glutton for music. Looking through the A.B.C. programmes, he has surely noticed that there are musical sessions every day in the ...
Article : 129 wordsSYDNEY, Saturday.—Vacancies exist for 500 young fully qualified turners and fitters and machinists to undergo a course of intensive ...
Article : 199 wordsAustralia lacks a national figure to typify her, and "The Argus" is seeking to find one. We consider that it is time Australians, with ...
Article : 241 words"The ultimate goal of man's quest for truth is to discover not what this or that bit of his experience means, but what it all means, to ...
Article : 300 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Controllers of six German businesses carried on in Sydney were appointed in the High Court on Saturday on the ...
Article : 518 wordsSir,—It is obvious that the principles of real feminism are still largely misunderstood. Its aim has never been to underestimate the importance of the ...
Article : 175 wordsAs the appeal for Christmas hampers for Victorian members of the Navy. Army, and Air Force has now closed, further contributions will be devoted to ...
Article : 257 wordsAll members of the Australian Natives' Association who enlist will be relieved of all contributions while on active service, but the benefits accruing to themselves ...
Article : 128 wordsA note of optimism for next year was sounded by the head master of Mentone Grammar School (Mr. J. J. Thorold) in his annual report at ...
Article : 230 wordsSir,—Finland—a poor country, a land of sandy soil, vast forests, and innumerable lakes, peopled by a hard-working, hard-fighting race—is at the present ...
Article : 177 wordsFive thousand persons picked St. Patrick's Cathedral at the 8 a.m. Mass yesterday for the annual combined Communion of past pupils of ...
Article : 294 wordsIn addition to lectures, debates, boxing and wrestling, table tennis tournaments, games competitions, the Y.M.C.A. has provided 16 concert programmes for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsSir,—I was interested to read that the Trades Hall Council condemned the Soviet Union for its invaston of Finland. It must be comforting to the great bulk of ...
Article : 155 wordsA screening of the film "Damaged Goods" was held for troops at Puckapunyal Military Camp on Saturday evening. Mr. Norman Bede Rydge, chairman ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 40 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday. — An inspiring public farewell was given to the 2nd/10th Battalion of the Second A.I.F. when the men left by two special troops trains for ...
Article : 129 wordsA high standard of efficiency had been reached by the school's cadet corps. said the principal of Haileybury (Mr. S. R. Dickinson) at the school's 48th annual ...
Article : 145 wordsAn offer by the Australian Academy of Art to conduct an art union for the Red Cross war appeal has been accepted by the Lord Mayor (Councillor A. W. ...
Article : 105 wordsA new convent, which cost £15,766, for the Dominican Sisters at East Camberwell, was blessed and opened yesterday afternoon by Archbishop Mannix. ...
Article : 152 wordsSir,—The explanation that the female brown trout caught at Portarlington got its bright pink flesh through feeding on marine growths, particularly shrimp, ...
Article : 197 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — "Australia can best play its part in this war by supplying wheat, wool, shells, planes, and everything we produce, but not men." ...
Article : 118 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—When a steam passenger train crashed into a stationary stock train at Riverstone station last night, both crews saved themselves from ...
Article : 95 wordsCertificates and prizes at Lauriston Girls' School speech night at the Malvern Town Hall on Friday night were distributed by Miss Constance Duncan, not ...
Article : 42 wordsA parcel containing reading matter, cigarettes, fine cut tobacco, cigarette papers, handkerchiefs, soap, notepaper and envelopes, coffee and milk, socks, ...
Article : 93 wordsSix hundred and fifty nurses of the Australian Army Nursing Service had applied for service oversea with the Second A.I.F., Army Medical authorities ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 500 words"Is the universe, including man evolved by atomic force?" was the subject of the lesson-serman at all Churches of Christ, Scientist, yesterday. ...
Article : 160 wordsSir, — I, too, have experienced short weight in shops. On Friday I had personal proof of a butcher "rushing the weight" to the extent of l½oz., shortage on ...
Article : 89 wordsOwing to a knave taking the place of a king, which has occurred before in history with disastrous results, bridge problem No. 10 in the competitive series ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 101 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — The rate of flour tax from the beginning of business to-morrow will be decreased fiom £3/5/3 a ton to £2/2/3 a ton. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 246 wordsSir,—Like many others I was gratified to read your recent leader advocating the formation of another division for service oversea. I trust you will not let the ...
Article : 174 wordsPhotographs taken by you during the holidays may earn you handy pocket money and win for you prize money amounting to £50. All you have to do is to enter them for "The Argus" Snapshot Competition. ...
Article : 251 wordsA Communion set for the use of chaplains allotted for duty with the Second A.I.F. is being given by the Elders' Association of the Presbyterian Church of ...
Article : 87 wordsMILDURA, Sunday. — A poll to determine whether an additional victualler's licence should be granted in the Patchewollock district was held yesterday, under ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Rev. Rex Dakers, of the Barkly street Methodist Church, Footscray, has been appointed a chaplain to the Second A.I.F. He is being given a series of ...
Article : 82 wordsSir, — May I appeal through your columns to the authorities in charge of the M.U.R. units at Mount Martha? These men have made great sacrifices, ...
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Advertising : 572 wordsAt Cairns Memorial Church last night an augmented choir, under the direction of Mr. R. J. Oehr, sang selections from Handel's oratorio "The Messiah." The ...
Article : 100 wordsAs a result of head injuries suffered on December 9, when he jumped from an upstairs window of the Alpine Retreat Hotel, War[?]rton, to esca[?] a fire in his bedroom. ...
Article : 67 wordsSir, — The terrible realisation of the number of unemployed, brought home forcibly by Armstrong's cartoon and by statistics, is criminal when labour is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 209 wordsSir,—I do not believe that members of the Master Retailers' Association are short-handed because employees have gone into military campus. I have tried to ...
Article : 95 words"The Argus" country network—3SR. Shepparton; 3YB. Warrnambool; and 3UL, Warragu[?]—has already presented an hour's broadcast of the pantomime, "All ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 18 Dec 1939, Page 2
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