Painting what he termed "a not too rosy picture" of Australia's economic prospects, Mr. A. L. Pickering opened the case for the ...
Article : 556 wordsIndustrial principles that have been affirmed by the Advisory War Council as being calculated to prevent industrial disputes and so ...
Article : 438 wordsThree people are dead and two others are on the danger list in hospital as a result of a shockirg tragedy which occurred in the bush, ...
Article : 296 wordsAustralian Minister-Designate to Tokio, was guest of honour at a reception given him by Councillor Frank Beaurepaire, Lora Mayor, yesterday afternoon Messrs Amenia and Kaqeyoma, Japanese businessmen, are seen with the Lord Mayor drinking a toast to Sir John Latham. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 wordsAustralia's contract to supply 16,000 trained pilots, observers, and air gunners by March, 1943, was "no more than a sighting post," Mr. ...
Article : 296 wordsWhat binding, moving, stirring, or lovable European (or world) idea is going to enlist our energies and thaw our egotisms? Economics or religion? Legal ...
Article : 594 wordsMr. Spender, Army Minister, was interested in how to save space in packing hampers for troops when he visited the Australian Comforts ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsAmbitious plans for the development of a greater Melbourne in the next 30 years were outlined by Cr. F. R. Connelly at a meeting of the ...
Article : 580 wordsJudge Fosters order committing Mrs Edna Frances Isaacs, of Northcote av., Caulfield, into custody for alleged contempt of court without hearing her in ...
Article : 401 wordsBRISBANE, Monday. — After a will case hearing, which lasted six days, a civil jury in the Supreme Court to-day found that Edwin ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Thailand Goodwill Mission is expected to arrive in Sydney on Thursday when it will be welcomed by Sir Frederick Stewart Minister for External Affairs, ...
Article : 284 wordsRepresentations made by petrol reselling interests in New South Wales for an increase in the price of petrol by as much as 2d. a gallon were considered ...
Article : 142 wordsStrong opposition to Federal Government proposals to restrict Christmas and New Year holidays in munitions factories was expressed at a meeting of members ...
Article : 195 wordsMajor-General E. A. Drake-Brockman, G.O.C., 3rd Division, expressed satisfaction yesterday at the result of the first day's drive for 2,000 Militia volunteers. ...
Article : 193 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Beasley, Federal leader of the Non-Communist Labour, party, sold to-night that on his return to Sydney from Melbourne he would see ...
Article : 160 wordsJane Conolly's speech as Amanda Smith in "No Time For Comedy," which opened at Kings Theatre on Saturday. is probably a record in length for any speech ...
Article : 282 wordsVictoria's post-war problems, including unemployment absorption, land development, and Melbourne's expansion, will be investigated immediately by a ...
Article : 202 wordsArising out of a conversation between Mr. D. Thomson, Building Trades Federation secretary, and Senator Leckie, Assistant Minister for Labour, on ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Federal Ministry is expected make a decision this week on the vexed question whether or not there shall be wet canteens in military camps. ...
Article : 304 wordsBy a majority of one vote on a division the City Council yesterday adopted a recommendation from the building regulations committee that £1,300 ...
Article : 209 words"There is a land called Crete, in the midst of the wine-dark sea, a fair, rich land, begirt with water, and therein are many men past counUng, and ninety cities" ...
Article : 298 wordsAir-raid sirens, gunfire, and radio signals will indicate to Melbourne residents the beginning and end of the two minutes' silence at 11 a.m. on Armistice ...
Article : 314 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Stephen Gale, 26, crane driver, was committed for trial by the city coroner (Mr. E. T. Oram) to-day on a charge of having murdered his wife, ...
Article : 179 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.— The special military Court of inquiry appointed to ascertain causes of the recent Brisbane disturbances of soldiers, and to enable ...
Article : 100 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.—The story of a Melbourne taxi-driver's remarkable escapade in company with a boy of 16 and two girls, all of whom he drove to ...
Article : 273 wordsMembers of the first Commonwealth Parliament still surviving are a dwindling band. The deaths of Mr. James Mackinnon Fowler at the week-end and of Mr. ...
Article : 134 wordsWhen the finance committee submitted yesterday "for the information of City Council" the annual report of the Tramways Board, Cr. Stack complained that ...
Article : 104 wordsThe City Council markets and properties committee decided yesterday to include £8,750 in its estimates for "market repairs," but to leave the question of the ...
Article : 65 wordsRegulations governing the operation of flying-boats in harbours, removal of dangerous goods from wharves, and handling of explosives, and port charges on vessels ...
Article : 92 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — The reward of £200 offered by Dr. F. Brown Craig for information that would lead to the discovery of the whereabouts of his ...
Article : 165 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A threat to withdraw miners from all collieries on the South Coast unless the proprietors agreed to a conference to discuss the dispute at ...
Article : 132 wordsWithin a few hours of the Melbourne Cup meeting at Flemington this afternoon members of the A.I.F. should be discussing the result in Egypt and the United ...
Article : 81 wordsVictorians who wish to help Britain's air offensive which Mr. Churchill has promised will take place soon may do so by contributing to the fund to buy an ...
Article : 101 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—An investigation of the reasons which prevent the main work of the Federal Government from being carried out in Canberra will be ...
Article : 153 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — A veidict for defendant, William John Smith, director of gun ammunition in the Munitions Department, was returned by a Supreme ...
Article : 101 wordsContributions from all sources for the British Bombing Victims' Fund have now reached £257,500. The total at the Town Hall yesterday was £252,500 and there ...
Article : 142 wordsSatisfaction at the work being done by the Australian Defence Canteens Service in the Middle East was expressed yesterday by Mr. Holden, M.L.C., ...
Article : 139 wordsFor the first time since 1931 there will be no District or Sub-district pennant cricket fixtures on Cup Day. Many players are engaged in essential services, and ...
Article : 118 wordsNEWCASTLE, Monday. — A strike at the Commonwealth Steel Co's Waratah worts ended to-night. All hands due on at 11 p.m. Including employees in the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe funeral of Mr. J. M. Fowler, member for Perth in the first Federal Parliament, and until 1922, took place yesterday afternoon at Springvale cemetery. ...
Article : 216 wordsSpending of £40,000 to begin the £874,000 Glenelg water supply project to serve Wimmera and Mallee, was approved last night by State Cabinet. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe death occurred yesterday at his Tanc in Albany rd., Toorak, of Mr. Alfred Ernest Keep, who waa aged 78 years. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 wordsMore thin £1,000 has been handed to 17 charities from Sunday night radio revues held in the Princess Theatre each week. This was announced yesterday by ...
Article : 77 wordsThe following amounts have been received by the Editor of "The Argus" for the Lord Mayor's Fund for hospitals and charities: ...
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Article : 10 wordsThe British and Foregin Bible Society aims to provide every Australian soldier with a Bible. For this purpose an appeal for funds is being made. and contributions may be [?] to the Editor. "The ...
Article : 39 wordsPreviously acknowledged, £28,008/5/. Hastings group, £350; Geelong group, £150; Yea group, £37; Commonwealth Serum Lab, group, £10; London Stores Ltd. (staff), £9; Violet Town, £5; ...
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