Another addition wos mode to Australia's Navy on Saturday, at Ba[?]main shipyards, when the corvette H.M.A.S.. Litngow was launched by Mrs. W. S. Bennett, wife of the managing director of the shipbuilding firm responsible for construction. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 55 wordsSir, — Commenting on my statement that there should be much more public money spent on education, your correspondent, J. Bradshaw, doubts the ...
Article : 292 wordsEmployces at the State Coalmine who are protesting that they have been underpaid in their holiday pay have no justification for holding a stop-work meeting, ...
Article : 331 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Some confusion exists about the position of married men in the new call up for registration for oompulsory military training. Mr. Spender, ...
Article : 230 wordsTwo hundred men of the three services enjoyed a special Christmas dinner yesterday at Blamey House. Here are some of the men of the Army present. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 32 wordsWhy don't you take your [?]at on to Mr. Churchill, Hitler[?]—you, who claim to love the leadership principle? Why don't you take your hat off to a member of ...
Article : 721 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — Activities of enemy raiders have accentuated the problems confronting a Pacific Islands Conference, which began at the week-end in ...
Article : 259 wordsCHELSEA, Sunday. — "The vexatious hospital problem would be largely solved if there vere a hospital of this type in eveiy community," said Mr. Field, M.L.A., ...
Article : 342 wordsThe progressive stages of the campaign in the U.A.S. to bring about legislation for the labelling of all materials sold as woollens disclosing the actual fibre ...
Article : 225 wordsSir, — The letters following mine of December l8, and the correspondence I have received, show that there is a feeling of deep resentment throughout ...
Article : 489 wordsDARWIN, Sunday.—Alarmed at the severity of the meningitis epidemic many residents of Darwin are attempting to leave for the south to avoid infection. ...
Article : 183 wordsNominations for the Toorak State seat will close at noon to-day. So far there are two nominations those of Mr. H. E. Thonemann endorsed U.A.P candidate, ...
Article : 360 wordsWONTHAGGI, Sunday. — Declaring that the union had done everything possible to bring about amicable industrial relations, Mr. I. Williams, Wonthaggi ...
Article : 322 wordsIt has been officially announced from London that the King will broadcast a message to the Empire on Christmas Day. ...
Article : 111 wordsto be used For this interesting sidelight on a great dictionary in the making Mr. J. Macdonald Alexander, Flat 4, 88 Blessington ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 459 wordsMT. MACEDON, Sunday. — At the Church of the Good Shepherd this afternoon, Archbishop Head dedicated a stained glass window to the memory of Sir ...
Article : 83 wordsCity emporiums will stay open until late on Christmas Eve All will close on Christmas and Boxing Day Banks, butchers' shops, grocers' ...
Article : 146 words"There's murder being committed next door," gasped an excited resident of a northern suburb through the telephone to Room D24, Russell st., on Saturday ...
Article : 238 wordsResults of the raffle conducted by Lady Angliss for the Australian Comforts Fund are announced. The raffle raised £72. The seed pearl was won by C. Macrow. ...
Article : 75 wordsAppointment of Judge Drake-Brockman, of the Federal Arbitration Court, as chairman of the Central Reference Board for the adjustment of disputes in the ...
Article : 223 wordsSir, — In the light of recent controversy concerning the Comforts Fund, the following extract from a letter which I received some weeks ago from my ...
Article : 173 wordsDr. Goebbels is admittedly a master of propaganda, but he has a careless disregard for facts which must tell heavily in neutral countries against the efficacy ...
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Advertising : 26 wordsMen from the fighting forces who are billeted in the city will not go without Christmas dinner this year. Red Shield House gave the men at the ...
Article : 175 wordsSir, — I think it is a shame for your paper to print such words as "Good holiday weather at Xmas — this is the welcome long-range forecast made by ...
Article : 166 wordsA widow with five young children lost all her property when her house was destroyed by fire. She was without friends, and for several nights slept with her ...
Article : 175 wordsThe following amounts have been received by the Editor of "The Argus" for the Comforts Fund:- Previously scknowledged........ £3,395 8 1 ...
Article : 43 wordsA pillion rider's attempt to secure his balance caused a fatal smash at the South Yarra railway viaduct in Alexandra ave. yesterday morning. ...
Article : 119 wordsDonations to the fund opened to buy an Australian-built bomber for the R.A.F. will help Britain's ability to strike heavy blows in answer to attacks on English ...
Article : 81 wordsPreviously acknowledsed, £34,392/12/9. 3AW Women a Association, £310, South Yarra and district (per Mrs. Newson), £30/10/ proceeds of R.A.C.V. golf tournament £15/19/1, Camberwell ...
Article : 57 wordsAn excellent series of pictures of the A.I.F. in the Middle East occupies two pages in "The Australasian," on sale tomorrow. These photographs were among ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 301 wordsStocks of perambulators were saved with difficulty when firemen fought a fire in Mr. F. Phelan's baby carriage factory, Fletcher st., Essendon, for nearly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 266 wordsFor a long time to come thieves who broke into the Rising Sun Hotel Burnley st Burnley on Saturday night, will not lack pennies. ...
Article : 148 wordsChristmas cards addressed to friends were found in a small case beside an elderly man who was knocked down and killed by a motor-cycle in Johnston st., ...
Article : 44 wordsNews of the death of their second son, Leading Aiicraftman Harold Joseph, in a flying accident in England on December 17 has been received by Mr. and Mrs. ...
Article : 107 wordsMore than 120,000 articles including phonographs a piano, bandages crutches and deck chairs were sent away by the Victorian division of the Red Cross Society ...
Article : 179 wordsBALLARAT, Sunday. — Mr. C. L. Kersey, of Nell st, has received word from the British Phosphate Commission that his son, Mr. Gordon M. Kersey, was an ...
Article : 74 wordsThe following amounts have been received by the Editor of "The Argus" for the fund opened by the British and Foreign Bible Society for the purchase of ...
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Advertising : 26 wordsGEELONG, Sunday. — The Gordon Institute of Technology has announced the following scholarship awards:- Australian Cement Ltd.—Industrial Chemistry, ...
Article : 152 wordsThe death occurred on Saturday of Mm. H. I. Cohen, wife of Mr. H. I. Cohen, former M.L.C. and State Minister. Before her marriage Mrs. Cohen was Miss Ethel ...
Article : 93 wordsThe following amounts have been received by the Editor of "The Argus" for distribution and Christmas charity:- £5 from Mrs. H. M. Schutt—£1 each to ...
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Article : 10 wordsThe Editor of "The Argus" will acknowledge contributions to the Greek War Relief Fund. He has received the following amounts:— ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 23 Dec 1940, Page 5
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