CANBERRA, Wednesday. — "The Governor-General's speech at the opening of Parliament will be short," Mr. Menzies said to-night. "The ...
Article : 1,218 wordsCANBERRA. Wednesday.—All discussions about the probable personnel of the new Cabinet which Mr. Menzies hopes to announce at the ...
Article : 620 wordsDrugs, dressings, and other hospital needs have risen in cost enormously because of the war. Two of the most extensively used drugs ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 298 wordsWhile he strongly supported the suggestion of Mr. G. H. Limb Essendon district warden that A.R.P. work should be declared a necessary home defence ...
Article : 170 wordsThe impending move of the Workers' Compensation Board to new premises in Collins street was described as "a disgrace to the Ministry and an absolute ...
Article : 204 wordsAn attempt to limit to one a week the number of meetings held on dog-racing grounds was defeated in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, and the Police ...
Article : 250 words(Councillor Beaurepaire) opens Spring Gorden Week at the Fitzroy Gardens Conservatory. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 16 wordsPlans to assure the future of the wheatgrowing industry will be discussed tomorrow at a conference between Mr. Cameron, Minister for Commerce, and ...
Article : 173 wordsAlthough some Labour members of the City Council have suggested that the present allowance of £2,500 a year for the Lord Mayor is not sufficient, the ...
Article : 54 words"I prefer Roosevelt, with his known faults, to Mr. Wlllkie, with his unknown virtues. "President Roosevelt during the last ...
Article : 745 words"If the Electricity Commission is not to have the right to market electrical equipment the State should never have embarked on the supply of electrical ...
Article : 180 wordsReductions from 80 per cent, a year to 50 per cent. in the rate of interest chargeable by pawnbrokers is provided in a bill introduced in the Legislative ...
Article : 90 wordsPolice warders, and road patrols are conducting a wide search for four youths, one only 15, who escaped from Castlemaine reformatory late on Tuesday night ...
Article : 120 wordsThe increase in attacks on women in recent months is causing detectives some concern, and they urge women and girls to exercise caution in going Out at night ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. Louis Barnett, one of the few theatrical wigmakers in Australia, and one of the original Melbourne hairdressers, died at his home at 43 Rockley ...
Article : 157 wordsRecent statements in Russia and the United States have shown that foreign experts agree with British experts that the strength of the R.A.F. bombing arm ...
Article : 114 wordsCrown Law authorities announced yesterday that no presentment would be filed against Ralph William Hume, of Yarra Junction, timber worker, who last ...
Article : 51 wordsJunior symphony orchestras are established in many American cities. Why Melbourne should attempt something similar is told in "The Australasian," now ...
Article : 30 wordsAltona, seaside resort of 2,000 people, gave several reasons to the Local Government Advisory Board yesterday in support of its desire to be severed from the ...
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Advertising : 130 wordsARe Australians misrepresented by Australian playwrights, as a correspondent asserted yesterday? Are Australian made to appear as "illiterate, ungrammatical ...
Article : 240 wordsPilot-Officer Keith Ian Macdonald, 20, of the R.A.A.P., who was found shot in a flat in South Yarra on October 3, where he had intended to make his ...
Article : 145 wordsA Rolls-Royce sedan has been presented to the Victorian division of the Red Cross Society, for the use of patients of Stonnington convalescent hospital, by Mr. ...
Article : 81 wordsTourist resorts within 50 or even 100 miles of Melbourne will have a busy time during the Christmas holiday season, according to the Victorian Government ...
Article : 163 wordsAs Victorians have already contributed nearly enough to buy all the 5/ Christmas hampers which the Victorian division of the Australian Comforts Fund ...
Article : 682 wordsWith £244,645 in cash donations and amounts of £5,963 in other funds not yet included the total of the British Bombing Victims' Fund reached £250,608 ...
Article : 322 wordsHIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA, — Before the Full Court.—In No. 1 Court. — At 10.30—Motions— Appeals: (1) E. T. Fisher and Company Pty. Ltd. and another v. English, Scottish, and ...
Article : 241 wordsEmily Maud Lemon, late of Church st., Middle Brighton, widow who died on September 2. left by will dated December 6. 1938. personal property valued at £20,187 to her sons and granddaughter. ...
Article : 215 wordsPOSTAGE HATES (For To-day's Issue of "The Argus").—Australasia and New Zealand. 1d.; United Kingdom (overland). 1d.; (all-sea route), 1d.; other British possessions, 1d.: U.S.A. and ...
Article : 75 wordsPERTH, Wednesday. — Private John [?] Emms, single of the 2/6the Bat[?], who was injured by a car yesterday, died in the Lucknow Military ...
Article : 57 wordsIs golf a dangerous game for men who have passed middle age? An American medical specialist's opinions are published in the golf page of "The Australasian" ...
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