BRISBANE, Monday.—Two more persons, making a total of 10, are now believed to have perished in the blaze that destroyed the Grand ...
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Article : 134 wordsSir,—My suggestion for Australia's symbolic figure is a stockman. A sun-tanned and bright-eyed young man astride a sleek bay horse, gazing into the far ...
Article : 97 wordsThose with ears to the ground in Italy (and Signor Mussolini is one of them) know that the Italian people have always disliked the German alliance. There are ...
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Article : 177 wordsExpressing the nation's hope of better things to come, President Roosevelt, in his Christmas eve broadcast last night, offered the ...
Article : 287 wordsWAGGA, Monday.—One man was killed and several people were injured in accidents which kept the Wagga district ambulance busy ...
Article : 265 wordsSir,—I, like thousands of other farmers' wives, am indignant about the excessive salaries managers of boards are getting out of the farmers' hard ...
Article : 163 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—Five girls and four youths were rescued by Sandgate police this afternoon after they had clung for more than an hour to an upturned ...
Article : 102 wordsWAGGA (N.S.W.), Monday.—A backfire in a tractor, which was being used to plough a fire break, started a fire. which swept through acres of grassland ...
Article : 101 wordsSir,—The comments of Aquarius on my reference to the sad end of a distinguished captain acting under orders really raises a larger question. Very many ...
Article : 206 wordsBENDIGO, Monday.—Walter Henry Clayton, 67, of Moore street, Bendigo, a member of the Bendigo Bowling club, collapsed and died on the green this ...
Article : 63 wordsHOBART, Monday.—The five members of a Buckingham Women's Rowing Club crew were thrown into the water when their boat crashed into a pile of the ...
Article : 56 wordsGEELONG, Monday. — The woman who suffered fatal injuries when a motor-car overturned on the Melbourne road on Sunday morning has been identified ...
Article : 78 wordsTrainloads of oil and grain, which had been secretly despatched from Russia to Germany for the first rail link-up, are expected to be revealed to-day. ...
Article : 58 wordsGEELONG, Monday. — It Is expected that early in the new year the hospital committee will seek a review of the agreement between the municipalities and the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 381 wordsBENDIGO.—The death has occurred of Mr. Samuel Hewitt at the age of 87 years. He had lived in Bendigo for 76 years, and for 54 years had been a master ...
Article : 73 wordsBENALLA, Monday. — When a truck and a motor-car collided at the turn-off to Dookie, on the Benalla road, the car was Wrecked. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd and ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Spanish trawler Pepita Perez capsized in a gale at Vilanova, and 48 members of the crew were drowned. ...
Article : 28 wordsSir,—Before anything can be done in this world with any real gusto and perseverance, there must always be some tangible incentive, some urge to keep us ...
Article : 158 wordsLeslie Robert Johnson, of East Warburton, a bullock driver, was gored by a bull on his farm to-day. He sustained severe injuries to his thigh. ...
Article : 30 wordsWONTHAGGI, Monday.—Seventy surface workers of the State coal mine are to be paid approximately £120 by their co-workers at Wonthaggi to make up ...
Article : 107 wordsBALLARAT.—Mr. Joseph Keith died on Monday morning at the age of 89 years. He is believed to have been the oldest precentor of the Presbyterian Church. ...
Article : 69 wordsLAUNCESTON, Monday.—Robert Irwin, 58, of Keane street, Launceston, was killed instantly and five others, including his wife, were injured ...
Article : 64 wordsThe committee of the Austin Hospital last night thanked the subscribers to the 3KZ Christmas broadcast appeal for the hospital for their generous response. The ...
Article : 37 wordsSir,—As a professional teacher of English, I listen with keen interest to all pronunciations coming from speakers in public places—not in any carping spirit, ...
Article : 188 wordsBallarat detectives are investigating the theft of 368 sheep, worth £400, from Mr. William Rowe's station, Naringal, near Linton. ...
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Article : 78 wordsThe decision of the Australian Wheat Board to maintain a heavy dockage on flour sacks when they are used for wheat was explained by the State ...
Article : 103 wordsGEELONG, Monday. — Caught in a strong undertow at Anglesea this morning, Harold Urch, 20, of Ballarat, narrowly escaped drowning. ...
Article : 52 wordsSir,—At the break-up of a higher elementary school prizes were distributed to the duces of the forms. When the "list of honour" was given out the real dux ...
Article : 128 wordsI have just been suggested a very good idea, the which I have passed on to the Proper Quarters, and I am now about to announce a staggering announcement. ...
Article : 766 wordsProduction of gold in Victoria last month amounted to 15,319 ounces fine, an increase of 1,198 ounces fine on the production of November, 1938. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 26 Dec 1939, Page 2
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