Articles from page 5: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. TO STRENGTHEN HOME DEFENCE

    Suspension of recruiting for the A.I.F. (see Page 1) will allow the Government to concentrate on raising the home defence force to ...

    Article : 516 words
  3. FOURTH AIR CONTINGENT

    It is officially announced that the fourth contingent of Australian troops has arrived in England. The men were in excellent spirits after ...

    Article : 720 words
  4. Petrol Rationing MORE DETAES THIS WEEK

    SYDNEY, Monday.—Further details of the Government's petrol rationing scheme probably will be announced this week. ...

    Article : 125 words
  5. ORGANISATION OF TRAFFIC

    to meet any emergency was considered yesterday by this conference of Victoria Barracks. From Left.—Lieut.—Colonel F. E. Wells, deputy quartermaster-general; Major-General E.K. Smart, quartermaster-general; Lieut.—Colonel N.G. Harris, Chief Commissioner of Railways, Mr. A. B. Corbett, Director-General of Civil Aviation; Mr. A. A. Shoebridge, Administrator of Road Transport, N.S.W., Mr. E. Simms, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 111 words
  6. DAILY DIGEST OF WORLD NEWS AND VIEWS

    Labour is greatly inspired. The nation is greatly led. Mr. Churchill. with risinp emergency, grows in stature as in calmness of command. His chief colleagues ...

    Article : 703 words
  7. FOUR MEN SENT FOR TRIAL

    SYDNEY, Monday. — The conspiracy to defraud case, the hearing of which began on October 3 last year, ended in the Central Police ...

    Article : 529 words
  8. ROAD TRANSPORT SERVICES

    Even if operators equip their vehicles with producer gas plants to overcome difficulties created by petrol rationing drastic reduction in the number of ...

    Article : 416 words
  9. FARM PLIGHT "DESPERATE"

    Many wheatgrowers were in a desperate position and were drifting from the land, the Premier said yesterday when he renewed his ...

    Article : 377 words
  10. CITY TRAFFIC CHANGES

    Public service hours will be altered, and secondary school hours probably will be changed, as the first instalment of the "staggering" of metropolitan, traffic to ...

    Article : 421 words
  11. H.M.A.S. SYDNEY PRAISED

    Messages of congratulation were sent to Captain J. A. Collins, of H.M.A.S. Sydney, yesterday by the Governor-General and the Prime Minister. ...

    Article : 121 words
  12. OLD PARADIANS PROUD

    "An extremely quiet, gentlemanly little fellow, with no interest in more violent forms of life." That was how Rev. P. A. Rahill, of St. Kevin's College, Toorak, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 269 words
  13. A.I.F. CASUALTIES

    Only three names are on the 12th Victorian casualty list, issued yesterday They are:—Overseas—VX8923 Pte. B. M. Cameron, infantry, seriously ill. ...

    Article : 43 words
  14. TRANSPORT IN WARTIME

    Appointed by the Commonwealth and State Governments, the Transport for Emergency Committee held its first meeting in Melbourne yesterday to devise a ...

    Article : 123 words
  15. CHARGES FAIL

    Repudiating an alleged confession that he broke into the Methodist Babies' Home offices to seek information obout a boarded-out child, Joseph Michael ...

    Article : 127 words
  16. FEDERAL LOAN

    CANBERRA, Monday. — No action has been taken to raise the £20,000,000 war loan approved by Parliament in June. ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. TRAINING PLANE OVERTURNS

    KYNETTON, Monday.— When an R.A.A.F. training plane made a forced landing on the property of Cr. P. A. McNiff, at Redesdale, to-day, the ...

    Article : 165 words
  18. CAN CARRY ALL TRAFFIC

    If all road hauliers who now run parallel to railways were entirely eliminated, Victorian railways could easily cope with the increased traffic, Mr. N.C. Harris, ...

    Article : 63 words
  19. WHEN PURL AND PLAIN CAUSED TEARS TO SCHOOLBOYS

    How many men in Victoria can remember the days when they had to sit in their school classrooms and knit? Probably a good many, because Mr. ...

    Article : 286 words
  20. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 116 words
  21. FARMERS' PROPOSALS

    WARRACKNABEAL, Monday.— Concern at the effect petrol rationing would have on power farming was expressed at a well-attended meeting of primary ...

    Article : 124 words
  22. CLAIM FOR LOSS OF EYE

    Judgment was reserved by the Workers' Compensation Board yesterday on a claim for £300 by Edith Marie Lording, 21, salesgirl, now unemployed, of High st., ...

    Article : 433 words
  23. U.S. LEGATION OFFICES

    CANBERRA, Monday.—Minute details will be studied at Washington before permanent legation buildings are erected at Canberra for Mr. Clarence E. Gauss, U.S. ...

    Article : 214 words
  24. SOME DARWIN PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE LUXURY

    DARWIN, Monday. — The luxurious new hotel which was recently opened here has been the scene of several regrettable incidents, which seem to be a poor reward ...

    Article : 165 words
  25. UNOFFICIAL RATIONING

    An effective, private contribution to the Transport Regulation Board's programme for the organisation of the dairying industry to meet petrol rationing has been ...

    Article : 132 words
  26. NEW SOLDIERS' HOSTEL

    Red Shield House, new hostel for soldiers on leave will be ready in three weeks Provided and equipped by the Australian Comforts Fund, the hostel will ...

    Article : 389 words
  27. 24/29th BATTALION

    Seeking 170 volunteers for home defence training, the 24/29th Battalion invites men aged between 25 and 45 to apply to drill halls at Ringwood, Surrey ...

    Article : 56 words
  28. OVERSEA MONEY ORDERS

    CANBERRA, Monday.—Stricter control of remittances oversea by money order will be enforced by the Government. Regulations will be issued soon to limit ...

    Article : 128 words
  29. STOCKING PRICES

    CANBERRA, Monday.—Socks, stockings, and resin were to-day brought under the averaging principle of price control by Professor Copland, ...

    Article : 58 words
  30. PRIZE SHIP HERE

    The Remo, an Italian motor-ship, which was seized at Fremantle the day Italy declared war, is now in Melbourne discharging cargo consigned to Victorian ...

    Article : 29 words
  31. IT WAS A CASE

    of look out below when one of the Royal Australian Air Force's new Fairey Battle bombers went into action yesterday. With Squadron-Leader Lerew at the controls the machine came through a grue[?]ling test flight with flying colours. For 45 minutes the bomber banked, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 66 words
  32. TWO INJURED IN CRASH

    WAGGA (N.S.W.), Monday. — When a motor-car crashed into a culvert on the Lockhart road Athol William Borlace, 22, suffered injury to the spine and severe ...

    Article : 59 words
  33. RAILWAY SICK PAY

    Despite repeated requests by the Aushalten Railways Union, neither the Railways Commissioners nor the Ministry for Transport have yet notified raliway ...

    Article : 154 words
  34. MILITARY COMPETITIONS ABANDONED

    Several Commonwealth military competitions would be discontinued for the duration of the war, Brigadier Street, Army Minister, said yesterday. ...

    Article : 111 words
  35. ROPER RIVER MISSION

    Readers cf "The Argus" subscribed £982/15/6 for the Roper River Mission Appeal, and the Church Missionary Society has acknowledged receipt of a ...

    Article : 55 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$