More than 5,000 soldiers of the Second A.I F left Puckapunyal camp yesterday to begin preembarkation leave of six clear days ...
Article : 213 words"Feebleness in its Government is the most frightful calamity that can befall a nation." "Put no faith in talk which is not ...
Article : 672 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies), in a statement on the coal dispute to-night, repeated his earlier ...
Article : 290 wordsTHE MAYOR OF ESSENDON (Councillor W. L. Lewellin) yesterday presented flags to three units of the Second A.I.F. at a special ceremony ot the Showgrounds. The picture shows the troops marching from the arena with their new flags. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 67 wordsOne of the oldest of all Easter customs still survives in the humble Easter egg, hundreds of thousands of which are being sold in Victoria this ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 196 wordsThe first session of the 34th Parliament of Victoria will be opened on May 1, but it will be a brief meeting, and only urgent ...
Article : 691 wordsSir,—The Rev. Hopper is reported as having said at Wonthaggi that if he were a miner he would "require" £20 and 10 hours weekly. Now, I take it that the ...
Article : 173 wordsSir,—While the Department of Fisheries and Game prosecutes one man who was most considerate to his birds, it permits others to house birds in the ...
Article : 107 wordsSir,—I did duty as a poll clerk on Saturday last, and after working from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. received £1, with no allowance for dinner or tea. The ...
Article : 121 wordsCANBERRA, Wedensday.—On his recall to avtive duty to take up the position of Chief of the Australian General Staff, Lieutenant-General ...
Article : 108 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—An instructor and an air cadet were killed this morning when a Moth Minor monoplane nose-dived into a ...
Article : 181 wordsFurther extensive cuts in train services, affecting both the transport of commodities and passengers, are to be made by the ...
Article : 190 wordsSir,—The policy of the British Navy under Lord Jellicoe was that of the "wet" canteen, and this policy has remained unchanged to-day. It is based on ...
Article : 54 wordsSir,—An aspect of the sale of the Australian wool clip to the British Government is the raw deal meted out to a large number of wool sorters and classers. ...
Article : 119 wordsCommanding officers to the 6th and 7th Divisions of the Second A.I.F. are expected to be appointed at a meetintg of the War Cabinet ...
Article : 268 wordsEight years' imprisonment was imposed on James Simpson, 33, of Buncle street, North Melbourne, wharf labourer, in General Sessions ...
Article : 200 wordsSir,—I suggested a while ago that the speed limit should be 20 miles per hour for Melbourne and suburbs, and was at once proclaimed an antediluvian fool. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe handful of pupils at the little State school at Drummond North, near Malmsbury, have all contributed toward a donation of £1/12/ received by the ...
Article : 270 wordsThe effects of the coal strike in Victoria were discussed yesterday by the State Cabinet, which heard a report by the Minister for Transport (Mr. Hyland), ...
Article : 86 wordsSir,—In Mr. Boyd's letter replying to "Reality," regarding women on farms, he mentions only starting of tractors. Most tractors have magnetos equipped with ...
Article : 183 wordsBALLARAT, Wednesday. — Between 150 and 200 soldiers of the Second A.I.F. arrived in Ballarat to-day on their final leave. They will form the contingent ...
Article : 92 wordsAlthough officials of the Miners' Federation intimated to the Melbourne Trades Hall Council that £22,000 a week would be needed for the maintenance of the ...
Article : 171 wordsThe second annual conference of the Liberal Country party will be held in Melbourne on April 11 and 12, the general secretary (Mr. L. R. D. Stahle) ...
Article : 80 wordsSir,—Those who urge creation of credit, mean, I think, creation of "national" credit, or, perhaps, "using" national credit. They seem to think ...
Article : 237 wordsAn unsuccessful campaign, which he declared cost him only £2/7/6, was described by Boroondara's Independent candidate (Mr. Kefford) as a "trial stakes, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 335 wordsBALLARAT.—Norman Kent, 15 years of Sebastopol, was returning home from the high school yesterday when he fell from the tram in which he was a ...
Article : 46 wordsR.A.A.F. units, members of the Australian Women's Legion, and V.A.D.'s will march only from Alexandra avenue along Swanston, ...
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Advertising : 31 wordsThe appointment of the present leader of the United Australia party (Sir Stanley Argyle) as Speaker of the new Parliament was ...
Article : 219 wordsSir,—Mr. Cordell Hull has set an example in trying to bring the United States into a saner and peace-making trade system, but a greater measure of freedom ...
Article : 189 wordsSir,—Acting on advice from our agricultural experts, many farmers within the last year have gone in for pig raising. They are now faced with the problem of ...
Article : 90 wordsDonations in money, amounting to £37,759, and goods valued at £9,600, had been received by the Victorian division of the Australian ...
Article : 164 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — The large crowd around the ring at the showground where the Royal Easter Show is being held, were given a thrill ...
Article : 120 words"The postponement of the 1940 Soapbox Derby will he regretted by many thousands," said an organiser of the carnival (Mr. maurice Nathan) ...
Article : 162 wordsSir,—The Soap-box Derby held at St. Kilda in 1939 aroused widespread public interest attracted a vast attendance of [?]rderly and reputable spectators, ...
Article : 178 wordsABIIRATION COURT. — Before the Chief [?] (Sir George Beeby). — In No. 1 Court —At 10.30—Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association and others, Burns, Philip, and Co. ...
Article : 96 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday.—The most severe earthquake experienced at Wairoa, Hawkes Bay, for some years occurred early this morning. Shakes of ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 21 Mar 1940, Page 5
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