The drug traffic in Melbourne is being relentlessly suppressed by the Police Department's vice squad, which was reorganised this year. ...
Article : 683 wordsTHE conversion of Canada into a vast training camp for the Empire Air Force scheme can be accomplished swiftly and smoothly. ...
Article : 599 wordsYesterday seven citizens of Melbourne—Archbishop, judge, jockey, walter, actor, sculptress, newsboy— revealed their New Year ...
Article : 467 wordsWar had-always meant hardship and sorrow for women, said Mrs. Chamberlain, wife of the Prime Minister, in a broadcast yesterday ...
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Article : 205 wordsOnly. officers and men of the fighting services are mentioned in the King's "New Year honours list," which is published in an ...
Article : 209 wordsAs the country from which the Khyber Pass gives access to India, Afghanistan has always possessed strategic importance In Eastern affairs. It has again ...
Article : 302 wordsNew Year was celebrated twice yesterday by the Australian airmen. They had lunch yesterday at 2 p.m.— corresponding to midnight in Australia— ...
Article : 104 wordsHints to growers of apricots are contained in a statement issued by the Department of Agriculture. The cool storage and subsequent ...
Article : 268 wordsDAKWIN, Monday.—Arrested after recent tribal fighting in Arnhem Land, an aborigine, Jarkala, agter about 20, was charged ...
Article : 132 wordsAddresses and statements on the international situation made by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) in the week before war broke out, the broadcast ...
Article : 103 wordsA Royal Air Force casualty list announces that Pilot-Officer S. M. Wickham, who was born at Parramatta (N.S.W), has been killed on active ...
Article : 104 wordsThe New Year celebrations in New York were te gayest since the depression. All bars were open for the night, and hotels restaurants, and night clubs ...
Article : 114 wordsExternally very little of Cambridge is changed; naturally one is a little grieved by the presence in a passage in King's of an enormous and ungainly fire pump. ...
Article : 153 wordsAdvance parlies of the Third and Fourth Divisions, Militia Forces, will travel by railway this week to camps in the Mount Martha and Seymour districts. ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A suggestion that the State should issue licences to Domain orators will be made to State Ministers by the deputy ...
Article : 150 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Three petrol pumps and a motor-car were burnt, a man was injured, and a garage was scorched in a fire which ...
Article : 156 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Two constables risked their lives to save Sergeant J. D. Honey, of the Second A.I.F., from being killed by ...
Article : 171 wordsBroadcasting a New Year prayer, the Minister for Propaganda (Dr. Goebbels) said that if God did not help the Nazis he should not help ...
Article : 107 wordsBecause this is the holiday season a few hints on how to avoid accidents are more appropriate than in normal times. Here are some ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 353 wordsamong the wide selection of good used cars listed daily in "The Argus" MOTOR MARKET.—[Advt.] ...
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Article : 44 wordsBy royal decree a census will be taken of all copper in Italy before Its enforced purchase by the State. The decree dooms one of the most ...
Article : 81 wordsBENDIGO.—Mrs. Kathleen Alice Hartley, 45, of McRae street, knocked at a door in Myers street, this afternoon and asked for a glass of water. A short time ...
Article : 40 wordsMY paper informs me that a certain amount of tut-tutting is going on round and about the rise of 100 per cent. in the price of whale oil. ...
Article : 873 wordsSir Frank Benson, the actor-manager and a contemporary of Henry Irving, died yesterday at the age of 81. When told that he had been knighted ...
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Article : 41 wordsSeven general councillors of the Trades union Council, headed by the general secretary (sir Walter Citrine), have issued writs for libel against the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 2 Jan 1940, Page 3
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