CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Control over persons suspected of acting in manner prejudicial to the defence of the Commonweatch was tightened by amending ...
Article : 179 wordsAlthough preference votes, which will decide the issue, will not be allocated until later this week, Mr. R. C. Rankin (U.C.P.) is considered certain to win ...
Article : 253 wordsTo gain greater efficiency to meet the war situation Mr. Fairbairn, Air Minister, has instituted far-reaching changes in the recruiting organisation and ...
Article : 256 wordsTHE British Empire has been forced by the grim circumstance of war to engage in a war for survival; it is possible now that it will be forced to carry on the ...
Article : 1,420 wordsBENDIGO, Tuesday.—In these days of grief, suffering, and anxiety, but also in these days of surety of the determination that the Empire would carry on whether ...
Article : 278 wordsBRIGHT. — Following a win-the-war rally which was attended by more than 200 people war saving certificate groups were formed and more than 100 persons ...
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Advertising : 568 wordsConditions on which farmers were being asked to grow flax to meet urgent demands for fibre for local consumption and for defence supplies for Britain were ...
Article : 120 wordsTo urge farmers to co-operate in the campaign for growing flax for war purposes, Mr. Hogan, Minister for Agriculture, will address meetings in Ballarat ...
Article : 49 wordsEvidence that Victorian-grown flax is suitable for manufacturing canvas and all types of piece goods was provided yesterday by Mr. R. L. Gair, managing ...
Article : 94 wordsThree nominations were received for the East Ward vacancy in Malvern Council caused by the death of Cr. G. Taylor. The candidates are Messrs. John V. ...
Article : 45 wordsA Norwegian youth at Oslo told me that 400 young reservists who believed they had been betrayed to the Germans by their officers had taken an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 214 wordsBENDIGO.—Three months' imprisonment was imposed on Roy Smith when he was convicted in the Bendigo City Court yesterday on a charge of having loitered ...
Article : 241 wordsRefusals of workmen engaged in output of goods for civil supply to continue work, demanding that they be immediately transferred to munitions production, are ...
Article : 238 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. — Heavy thunderstorms followed by light to moderate falls of rain occurred in the north-east of N.S.W. to-day. In a tropical deluge at ...
Article : 136 wordsThe marriage in England the other day of Miss Laura May Martin, a London girl to Sydney Preece, a widower, of Maidenhead, was the climax to an ...
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Advertising : 376 wordsGEELONG.—Two motor-car drivers were convicted in the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on charges of having driven while under the influence of ...
Article : 521 wordsMr. L. F. Loder, chief engineer of the C.R.B., was selected yesterday by State Cabinet as new chairman of the board, at £1,500 a year; and Mr. F. M. ...
Article : 189 wordsRecent milltary developments have made buyers very hesitant to enter into new commitments, and business is of only moderate volume. Prices are unchanged. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Government of Nyasaland Protectorate has offered to make a present each year of war to Great Britain of the whole amount by which its surplus ...
Article : 119 wordsNEW YORK, Monday. — Quotations of average 64's American wool tops are:— July delivery, 94.2 cents per lb.; October, 93.5 cents; December, 92.5 cents. ...
Article : 31 wordsFRANKSTON, Tuesday.—Describing the case as one of the worst that had ever come before him, Mr. Jackson, P.M., to-day sentenced Travers Parker, of Watts ...
Article : 187 words"A most magnificent drawing of the original member of the Wankles Club" was how Captain George Sutton, staff officer of the Southern Command, de ...
Article : 220 wordsTERANG, Tuesday. — When the car in which she was travelling ran off the Prince's Highway and crashed into a fence near the Peterborough road ...
Article : 59 wordsReal estate of £76,497 and personal property of £15,821 were left by Mr. Theodore Beggs, of Eurambeen, Beaufort, grazier, who died on April 2. He ...
Article : 142 wordsTwo American medical students at Lausanne University, Switzerland, who went rowing on Lake Geneva found themselves involved in an "incident." ...
Article : 122 wordsBALLARAT. — Because it was a first offence, leniency was shown by the City Court Bench yesterday to Gordon Frances Walsh, potato digger, of Clark's Hill, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 264 wordsHoney prices were above production cost for the first time in many years. Mr. L. Wills, Victorian Apiarists' Association president, told the 41st annual ...
Article : 73 wordsAmerican aeroplane engineers have developed a basic design for a 125-ton aeroplane with a speed of as high as 280 miles an hour and a cruising range of 11,000 ...
Article : 66 wordsMickey Miller (N.S.W.), bantam and feather-weight champion of Australia, who will fight Young Roberts (Victoria), at the stadium to-night will defend his feather-weight title for the second ...
Article : 146 wordsVictorian rail services, country passenger, goods, and suburban, are now normal, practically all the coal strike cuts having been restored. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 19 Jun 1940, Page 6
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