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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,989 wordsAn Inquiry has been received for a parcel of about 9,000 tons of flour for Alpment oversea. Substantial business could be done in flour with the East if ...
Article : 229 wordsAustralia has just suffered its driest year since records have been kept, but the drought was relieved by unusual circumstances. ...
Article : 1,045 wordsSir.—Why should not the Prime Minister and Mr. Curtin go to London? I think it would be in the best interest of Australia if they came into personal ...
Article : 290 wordsSHEPPARTON, Tuesday.—Kevin John Reynolds 18, labourer, Carlyle [?]t., Moonee Ponds, and Bernard Vaughan O' Neill, 18, engineer, Richardson st., Essendon, ...
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Article : 231 wordsBRUTHEN.—Miss Janet Muriel Stone received presents from the Bruthen State school and St. Matthew's school before leaving for Willung, whence she has been ...
Article : 684 wordsElectric Signals Ltd. was registered in Melbourne yesterday as a foreign company with a capital of £10,000. The compnny manufactures burglar alarms, ...
Article : 70 wordsPotatoes steady, and only light supply to hand[?]gatha of attractive quality sold readily, Onions firm and scarce. Trade in oats and [?]re quiet, and barley difficult of procure, Chaff ...
Article : 830 wordsSir,—The objection by Mr. Robert Lyall and another correspondent against the projected visit of the P.M. to Britain revives memories of Admiral Sims's book, ...
Article : 216 wordsEquitable Permanent Benefit Building Land and Savings Institution.—Halfyearly 5 per cent., payable forthwith. ...
Article : 19 wordsNew business written by the Commonwealth Life (Amalgamated) Assurance in its ordinary department for the year ended September 30 was 547 policies, assuring £71,296, compared with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 153 wordsSir,—A raider flying the Japanese flag and bearing a Japanese name raided Nauru. It hoisted the Nazi flag before departing, proving, no doubt, that the ...
Article : 162 wordsLONDON, Monday. — Sales of shares on the London Stock Exchange include:—South Kalguril, 19/[?]9½; Wilun[?] 5/1½ Lake View, 18/9; Gwn[?]a, 30/3¾. ...
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Advertising : 151 wordsSir, — Would the Prime Minister—or perhaps the Minister for Information— explain why we have a Prices Commissioner to keep prices down and a number ...
Article : 112 wordsAlthough supported by thousands of practical dairymen, there were a few who did not desire to sec demonstrated the practicability of the modified petrol ...
Article : 245 wordsAfter a pair of crutches had been discovered on the bank, police dragged the Yarra near Deep Rock, Studley Park, yesterday and recovered the body of a man ...
Article : 114 wordsSir, — I trust you will allow me space to refute the charge made against me by Mr. John J. Ryder, endorsed Labour candidate, in "The Argus" of to-day that ...
Article : 256 wordsThe annual convention of the Australian Workers' Union will be opened in Sydney on January 30 by Mr. J. McNeill, general president. Mr. E. Withers, ...
Article : 115 wordsBALLARAT, Tuesday. — According to letters received from Palestine by relatives of Ballarat members of the A.I.F., canteen orders for 5/ are good for only ...
Article : 59 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Potatoes, Brownells, £15: [?]arcks, £16; E[?]akes, Arran Chiefs, £13/10/; W.A. Dela[?]es, new, £16: North [?] £16 Onions, V[?] Brown Spanish, £20, ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON Monday. — Closing exchange rates [?]ddic prices):—T.T., London on New York, 4.03: [?]real, 4.45: Switzerland, 17.35: India, 1/6: [?]ng Kong, [?] Kobe, 1/2¼; Shangha[?]m 3½d.: ...
Article : 45 wordsMistaken for a shark, a porpoise which found its way into the shark-proof enclosure at Williamstown Beach caused consternation among holiday-makers, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 644 wordsMore than £60,000 has been spent by the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission in recent years on clearing streams. ...
Article : 251 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. — Corporal Eric Watts, 44, clerk at a military establishment at Bellevue Hill, was fatally injured when he fell 50ft. down the light ...
Article : 89 wordsSir,—As an Englishwoman I would like to record my disgust at the manner in which some people in Australia are celebrating these Christmas and New Year ...
Article : 100 wordsBALLARAT, Tuesday.—Mrs. Caroline Gray, 69, of Loch av., who was admitted at the Base Hospital on Sunday evening suffering from burns, died early this ...
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Advertising : 239 wordsIn addition to providing supplies for the Ballarat gaol, the extensive garden cultivated by prisoners here has produced sufficient vegetables to enable quantities ...
Article : 114 wordsSir—Is it not an anomaly that the use of telescopes and binoculars is allowed when troopships are about to depart, while the use of cameras is banned? ...
Article : 104 wordsBendigo's rainfall for 1940 was 1,182 points—about half that of a normal year. Since 1937 the rainfall has been most crratic compared with the average ...
Article : 52 wordsAbout 30 members of the Church of England Boys' Society will enter camp at Ocean Grove to-morrow. They will sleep in tents, but Lave their meals at the ...
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Advertising : 93 wordsSir,—The examples of intelligence test questions published in "The Argus" on Monday would make amusing reading, but for the fact that the Australian ...
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Advertising : 108 wordsBEECHWORTH, Tuesday. — Sydney Henry Jones McRae, 26, an aboriginal prisoner at the indeterminate sentences reformatory, escaped this afternoon by ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 1 Jan 1941, Page 13
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