IN a fireside chat that fairly bristles with good points-as far as we arc concerned—President Roosevelt spoke of the threats to "this hemisphere if the ...
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Article : 329 wordsCandidates for the Toorak by-election on January 11 have largely dispensed with meetings, and are relying mainly on personal canvass. Interest has waned ...
Article : 306 wordsAlthough Victoria's holiday death toll for the Christmas week this year was 24 31 persons were killed in the same week in 1939. ...
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Article : 471 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Distribution of application forms for registration of wheat farms and licensing of wheatgrowers will begin within a few days. ...
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Article : 330 wordsLAUNCESTON (T.), Monday. — Tasmanian wool appraisement will begin at Launceston on January 3 and end on January 8, and at Hobart it will begin ...
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Article : 239 wordsWhen a produce merchant went to the home of Sun Tung, 63, a Chinese, of Boundary rd., St. Albans, yesterday morning, he found him dead in a horse stable. ...
Article : 62 wordsReversion to the original petrol-saving plan of the dairying industry, by which cream-collecting trucks were not allowed to enter farms, is expected next month. ...
Article : 294 wordsSales of war savings certificates had increased during the closing weeks of the year, and augured well for the continued success of the campaign in the ...
Article : 215 wordsThe following amounts have been received by tile Editor of "The Argus" for the appeal of the Children's Aid Society for £3,000:— ...
Article : 77 wordsA tunnel 2,000ft. in length is being driven through an Intervening ridge at Forrest to divert the flow of the West Barwon River to the Bellarine system. ...
Article : 121 wordsMembers of the Light Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment under Lieut-Colonel S. J. Ainsworth C.O., paid a last tribute yesterday to Gunner Henry John Oswald ...
Article : 261 wordsThe Summer Orchestral Hour is to be presented from 3AR to-night at 8 by the Melbourne Orchestra, conducted by Noel Nickson. The news will be heard at 6.45 ...
Article : 350 wordsSir,—Recently the Government received full power over our persons and our property. Since then—the irony of it!—organised labour has daily struck. A Budget ...
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