CANBERRA, Tuesday.—To strengthen dollar funds the Government to-day decided upon partial mobilisation of dollar ...
Article : 386 wordsLetter from British airman to a German mother:— "It's your son. I know you can't forgive me, for I killed him. But I want ...
Article : 890 wordsDemands that the war should be described as Imperialistic and capitalistic and should not be supported by the Australian Labour ...
Article : 197 wordswhich yesterday inaugurated live regular Tasman air service. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 11 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Carrying nine passengers and about 40,000 letters, the flying-boat Aotearoa flew from Auckland to Sydney ...
Article : 289 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Acting on representations by Mr. Curtin, Mr. Menzies this evening agreed to defer again promulgation of ...
Article : 231 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—A resolution urging the Federal Government to begin planning to prevent as far as possible "the unemployment ...
Article : 317 wordscommander of Aotearoo, photographed with his baby son. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 13 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Damage estimated at £5,000 was done by fire to-night at the premises of Bradford Dye Works Pty. Ltd., in ...
Article : 135 wordsCan spotting champions succeed in politics? The question is prompted by forthcoming Tasmanian Legislative Council ...
Article : 278 wordsDeploring competition between Churches in small country towns, Rev. Walter Albiston, Congregationalist Home Mission ...
Article : 172 wordsSheepskin buyers and exporters are confused by the Federal Government's withholding of shipping permits for skins bought in the ...
Article : 254 wordsWholehearted strpport in any firm action to deal with future strikes at the State Coal Mine, Wonthaggi, was promised yesterday ...
Article : 133 wordsNew Zealand airmail will arrive in Melbourne to-day at 11 a.m. Return mail will close at the G.P.O. at 12.20 p.m. to-day, and at Elizabeth street at noon. ...
Article : 38 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—First since 1932, a tariff board inquiry will be held into the Australian tobacco-growing industry at the ...
Article : 99 wordsA system of "avoiding but not evading" the payment of an "away from home" allowance of 6/ a day to carpenters engaged ...
Article : 123 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.) Tuesday.—The ban on dealings in stocks and shares of companies domiciled outside New Zealand has been relaxed and sales may now be ...
Article : 156 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—About 300 employees' of B.H.P. at Whyalla were put off to-day, and more dLsmissals may follow. This is first mass dismissal of ...
Article : 40 wordsNo slump in prices can curtail severely next season's wool returns, Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. states. The British wool purchase ensures ...
Article : 176 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—Relatives who went to the South Brisbane railway station to-day-for the departure of troops for the south ...
Article : 145 wordsKew Council decided last night to seek legislation for compulsory oaths of loyalty by public servants, but Port Melbourne will take no ...
Article : 196 words"A literary pursuit in Australia is a crutch rather than a calling," said Captain C. H. Peters, general manager of Robertson and Mullens ...
Article : 228 wordsAt an impressive ceremony last night M.W. Bro. W. J. Byrne was proclaimed Grand Master of the Victorian Grand Lodge of Freemasons for his second term. ...
Article : 139 wordsMelbourne's young motorists are not so sentimental as those in Sydney, who are reported to be prepared to delay registration until ...
Article : 148 wordsCommander Frederick William Evans, of Mitford street, St. Kilda, who served with the Royal Navy in the North Sea in the 1914-18 war, died at a private ...
Article : 165 wordsBoth the Commission of Public Health and the British Medical Association recommended a revised schedule of payment for municipal medical officers, but the ...
Article : 88 wordsObjection to Kew Council's policy of accepting invitations to special church services was taken by Councillor Price at a council meeting last night. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe R.A.C.V. does not favour New Zealand's decision for an annual driving test for motorists over 70. Mr. Alured Kelly, president, said ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Frank Tavlor who died in a private hospital at the age of 85, came from an old hat-manufacturing family Taylor Bros., established in Denton, England, in 1808 ...
Article : 107 wordsSweden's swift A.R.P. measures include building huge shelters at Stockholm. One to house 3,000 will be completed at the week-end. ...
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Advertising : 56 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Germany's occupation of Denmark will not affect the status of Count Erik Schack, who is on his way to Sydney to take up the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Meates family of Melbourne has what is probably a record. In three generations it has given a total of 235 years' service to the Metropolitan Gas ...
Article : 89 wordsWhen the Germans said this was going to be a war of nerves, they conceded the enemy a great advantage; they may almost be said to have conceded England ...
Article : 229 wordsBritain's destroyers have given a good account of themselves. Day after day they score some new triumph. Remarkable little ships. They vary in size from ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. Stanley Learmonth, 81, retired grazier, of Hamilton, died yesterday. Mr. Learmonth, who was born at Hamilton, went to New Mexico in 1883, and with ...
Article : 88 wordsMost fishermen agree that the trout season which closed yesterday had been good. Many of the 13,000 licensed fishermen ...
Article : 54 wordsWhile the Country People's Holiday Camp Association has ample accommodation, it was proposed at its annual meeting at the Town Hall yesterday to extend ...
Article : 84 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Panic occurred in Manning Chambers, Pitt street, city, to-day, when a fire in the switchboard plunged the building into darkness. About ...
Article : 68 wordsPte. E. J. Vearing, late of the 38th Battalion, A.I.F., and of No. 1 Guard, 12th Garrison Battalion, stationed at Victoria Barracks, died suddenly at his home in ...
Article : 70 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Commonwealth Government has acquired from Captain Frank Hurley 230 photographs, depicting beauty spots and tourist resorts ...
Article : 58 wordsA jumble sale will be held at the City Free Kindergarten, corner Exhibition and Little Lonsdale streets, on May 17 at 2.30 p.m. Gifts may be left at ...
Article : 50 words"Hold your tongue!" Thousands of listeners in Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania will continue to hear this warning from all ...
Article : 120 wordsIn aid of the Red Cross funds the Real Estate and Stock Institute of Victoria will hold a ball at the Palais, St. Kilda, on Thursday, June 6. The early sales of ...
Article : 113 wordsmade these lads wish for tropical climes. They are in training at Caulfield for the Darwin Garrison Force. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 21 wordsAssociates of Royal Melbourne Golf Club have arranged a lucky dip for their gymkhana on Friday for the Children's Hospital and the Golfers' War Relief ...
Article : 58 wordsWinners of four pictures given to the artists' group of the Comforts Fund are:— Picture by Charles Wheeler, ticket No. ...
Article : 182 wordsPlans for merging of interests of Australasian Paper and Pulp Co. Ltd., Cumberland Paper Board Mills Ltd., and the operating company. Australian Paper Manufacturers ...
Article : 92 wordsBecause of cyclonic weather conditions the Douglas plane on the Perth-Melbourne service was held at Adelaide last night. It is due at Essendon early this morning, ...
Article : 36 wordsWhile beef was reported to be about to rise in price, bullocks were being sold at the Board of Works Werribee farm at £3/10/ a head for dogs' meat, said ...
Article : 56 wordsIn aid of the Mayor of Caulfield's Canteen Fund the Emergency Squad will hold a ball at Caulfield Town Hall on May 23. Ticket secretaries are Misses ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 1 May 1940, Page 9
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