Delivering the 13th annual report of Mather's Commercial College at the Railways Institute on Thursday, December 11, the principal, Mr. T. W. Mather, P.C.T., F.C.T.S. (Inc.), F.I.P.S. (Eng.), L.S.W. (Vict), F.P.S.A., gold medallist (200 words a minute), said:— ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,935 wordsStrong support for "The Argus" quest for a symbol to typify the spirit of Australia was expressed at a meeting of the Victoria Centenary ...
Article : 211 wordsCreation of the Patriotic Funds Council, with a term of two years, was formally approved yesterday by the State Executive Council. ...
Article : 114 wordsWith reverent pageantry and song, Churches to-morrow will celebrate the 1939th anniveisary of the birth of Christ. Special services ...
Article : 725 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — The Chief Judge of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court (Sir George Beeby) to-day rejected the Metal Trades ...
Article : 401 wordsSir,—The suicide of the captain of the Graf Spee is an indication of German mentality which Australians for the most part do not understand. The officers and ...
Article : 344 wordsThe organisers of the Victorian division of the Australian Comforts Fund make a special Christmas appeal for donations, so that the ...
Article : 136 wordsThe question of relative and complementary spheres of Commonwealth and State control, of patriotic funds will be discussed further between the Federal and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 words"Blamey House," the club for members of the Second A.I.F., at the corner of King and Collins streets, will open to-day. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe welfare of the Second A.I.F. is causing some concern to the Returned Soldiers' League, and an editorial article published in the ...
Article : 202 wordsWalking out of a meeting at the Town Hall yesterday, the president of the Returned Soldiers' League (Mr. G. W. Holland) and the secretary (Mr. C. W. Joyce) ...
Article : 169 wordsSir, — Your amusing paragraph of December 21, concerning the many certificates possessed by the present High School students, has a more serious side. ...
Article : 242 wordsAll Australian States are expected to have filled preliminary quotas of young men to be trained as tradesmen for the Defence Forces and for munition and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 289 wordsEvery Australian soldier who is required to spend Christmas Day in camp will be given meals appropriate to the occasion, a special ...
Article : 86 wordsSir, — Few, if any, readers will take seriously the letter signed "Maurice G[?] Pearson." His description of the "Questions and Answers" session as "weekly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 886 wordsTo all ranks of the R.A.A.F. Christmas greetings were conveyed by "signal" to-day from headquarters to all stations and units of the force, including No. 10 ...
Article : 136 wordsSir, — There is little more to be said. If "Sober Seventeen" can preserve his high ideals until he is the age of Mr. Menzies, and can then teach the people ...
Article : 61 wordsAlthough they thought yesterday that they would have to return to the camp at Puckapunyal to spend their leave, five stranded privates will spend 10 days ...
Article : 113 wordsSir,—Besides adding to our geographical lore, war forces into the spotlight the study of foreign pronunciations, embarrassing to those who honestly believe ...
Article : 176 wordsAbout 200 delegates from every State in the Commonwealth will meet in Melbourne next week for the first Australian congress of Naturopathy and the annual ...
Article : 85 wordsRates of pay for members of the nursing service who travel oversea for service with the Second A.I.F. were fixed by the War Cabinet at its meeting ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 427 wordsMr. Robert Arthur Henty, who died at his residence, Devon street, Heidelberg, yesterday, was the fourth son of the late Mr. Thomas Henty, M.L.C., of Pakenham ...
Article : 107 wordsChildren on holiday this summer will have their own music session broadcast exclusively for them. The A.B.C has arranged for a special half-hour programme ...
Article : 64 wordsSir, — "Farmer" complains about a shortage of labour on farms, while city men are unemployed. But if the farmer would pay a fair wage and give a decent ...
Article : 126 words"The Argus" has received the following additional amounts for Christmas charities:— Mrs. H. M. Schutt, £5; G.W.B., £1. ...
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Advertising : 513 wordsSir,—Fruit shops are to close at 7 p.m. on most days of the week in future, in addition to being completely closed on Saturday afternoons from May 1 to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 292 wordsOfficial information has been received by the Retail Motor Dealers' Association of Victoria, said Mr. E. K. Varcoe, secretary, to-day to the effect that there ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsStudents are reminded that current Text Books are now being bought at CHESHIRES, Booksellers, Elizabeth House Basement, 338 Little Collins street. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 15 wordsA proclamation was made yesterday by the Governor (Sr Winston Dugan), bringing into operation on January 1 the new Hospitals and Charities Act. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 23 Dec 1939, Page 2
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