Every day householders throw into the dust bin valuable war materials that in peace time were regarded as rubbish. ...
Article : 668 wordsWithin a few days the Federal Ministry hopes to be able to announce complete plans prepared by the Military Board and the Army ...
Article : 204 wordsThe attitude of 2,000 French nationals in Australia to the armistice signed by the Bordeaux Government will be determined by the nationals themselves at a special meeting in Sydney at 11 a.m. to-day, convened by M. Tremoulet, ...
Article : 1,724 wordsmen of the A.I.F. are receiving training as signals technicians. Top:—Practice in sending and receiving with the Morse telegraph. Lower:—In the lecture-room. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 31 wordsThe keynoter at a national convention is the man who wakes the opening speech. His job is to blow a fanfare loud enough to drown out all the sour notes The man ...
Article : 747 wordsAlthough results of the war savings drive have exceeded official expectations group membership and registrations suggest that there are still hundreds of ...
Article : 420 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — The ban on five Italian members of the Stockton-Borehole Lodge, which was lifted after representations made by the Northern Miners' ...
Article : 118 words—Private R. E. Carr decided that Army life will do him if he suffers no more pain than he felt when he had a tooth ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 60 wordsOne Army helped another Army last night, when the Salvation Army band played on the portico of the Town Hall while young men were ...
Article : 225 wordsChildren of the State schools are doing surprisingly good work to the purchase of war savings certificates and in helping Red Cross and Comforts funds. in the ...
Article : 115 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—By proclamation in a special Commonwealth Gazette to-day, the Communist League of Australia is declared to be unlawful. This ...
Article : 48 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Mr. Hughes, Federal Attorney-General, said to-day that members of the Communist League of Australia had been asking again and ...
Article : 128 wordsAustralian canned barracoota may be the answer to the increasing difficulty in importing canned fish. Experiments had shown, the Council ...
Article : 132 wordsMelbourne's dentists are "pulling their weight" literally in their voluntary war effort to assist the A.I.F. to become 100 per cent, dentally fit. They have ...
Article : 286 wordsNew positions in the R.A.A.F. will be found for clerks, cooks, fitters, and wireless operators who are normally too old for active service, as a result of recent ...
Article : 152 wordsThe religious situation in the Polish dioceses incorporated into the German Reich is described in a letter received by Archbishop Mannix from Cardinal ...
Article : 91 wordsThree hundred members of the munition workers' section of the Returned Soldiers' League have passed a motion affirming their "loyalty in this present ...
Article : 37 wordsCollingwood Citizens' Band will give a concert in the King s Theatre on Sunday night Leading artists will assist, and proceeds will be in aid of the Lord ...
Article : 42 wordsNo attempts had been made in Melbourne to pass bogus £5 notes, as had been reported in Sydney, bank officials stated vesterday. ...
Article : 29 wordsImportation of 3,000 to 5,000 tons of New Zealand potatoes into Australia, according to trade opinion, is likely to have no effect on prices here. ...
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Advertising : 66 wordsWith the third intake of 284 pilots, air observers and wireless air gunnery to initial training schools at the week-end, more than 1,000 air crew personnel have ...
Article : 55 wordsMany congratulations were received by Mrs. Mary Anderson, of Bilston street, Footscray, yesterday, when she celebrated her 100th birthday. ...
Article : 151 wordsDARWIN, Monday. — The Australian Inland Missions £5,500 welfare club for soldiers in Darwin will be opened on Wednesday by Professor A. Albiston, ...
Article : 134 wordsThere was plenty of activity at Puckapunyal yesterday, with new courses beginning, many new arrivals, and some good football besides. ...
Article : 126 wordsBalloon barrages brought down two enemy bombers in last week's raids. This has just been disclosed. ...
Article : 38 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Application was made to Judge O'Mara in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day to vary the Textile Workers Award to allow ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Debating Association of Victoria held a debate last evening in aid of the Red Cross funds. The A grade singles final was won by Mr. T. G. Paterson, ...
Article : 42 wordsLimbless ex-soldiers, many of whom have been trained as lift attendants, are seeking employment. The Limbless Soldiers' Association wishes business houses ...
Article : 65 wordsFigures supplied by Army Headquarters yesterda showed that on Saturday night 46,436 members of the A.I.F. were in camp in the Commonwealth State totals ...
Article : 97 wordsUrging the redistribution of national income, Mr. Clarey, M.L.C., and member' of the A.C.T.U. emergency committee, told Constitutional Club members ...
Article : 79 wordsAn appeal to Belgians to light at Britain's side has been broadeast by the former Belgian Prime Minister s nephew, Marcel Jaspar, who is the only Belgian ...
Article : 88 wordsAny delays in the distribution of A.I.F. mails were not due to any inefficiency in oversea postal units of the A.I.F., said Brigadier Street, Army Minister, ...
Article : 90 wordsEmployees of 32 factories in Footscray have agreed to contribute 3d. a week to the local Comforts Fund The response by employees was 100 per cent The ...
Article : 258 wordsADELAIDE, Monday. — Work on a new military camp, costing £65,000, to accommodate 2,500 men, will begin at Oaklands immediately. Troops will be ...
Article : 32 wordsFuture of the French Patriotic and Relief Fund will be decided at a meeting of the executive committee at the Town Hall to-morrow Professor A. R. ...
Article : 211 wordsIn a statement to a Berlin news agency, M. Tsvetkovitch, the Prime Minister, reaffirmed Jugoslavia's neutrality. "Cooperation and friendship between ...
Article : 67 wordsMen who wish to volunteer for home defence, and who are not members of the Returned Soldiers' League, are anxious to know when enrolments will begin and ...
Article : 97 wordsSo that any medical student at the University of Melbourne who wants to enlist when he has finished his course will be familiar with the duties of an ...
Article : 117 wordsThe reported use of a searchlight by a German fighter plane in operations against British bombers over Germany was discredited in Me bourne yesterday. ...
Article : 66 wordsOn their way to Caulfield camp a draft of Prahran. A.I.F., recruits was farewelled yesterday at the Prahran Town Hall by Cr. and Mrs. M. G. Sloman Mayor and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 168 wordsMrs. Margaret Hunter Kennon, of Kenlock, Olinda, whose funeral took place [?] had three main interests in a life devoted largely to philanthropy. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe following transfers, &c., of victuallers' and other licences have been approved by the Licensing Court:— COUNTRY. — Barmah Hotel, Barmah—Mabel ...
Article : 131 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — The body of Mrs. Florence Isobel Stewart. 46. of Glenview st., Paddington, was recovered from the sea at the foot of The Gap, Watson's Bay. ...
Article : 80 wordsThree years' imprisonment was imposed by sir Frederick Mann, Chief Justice, in the Criminal Court yesterday on Harry Arthur Crout, of Jersey parade, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 25 Jun 1940, Page 5
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