Reduction of the petrol ration of private motorists when the new system becomes operative on April 1 will be achieved by the issue of fewer tickets, and ...
Article : 472 wordsAustralia would maintain a firm front in the Pacific, Mr. Curtin, Federal Labour leader, said last night in each of two broadcasts. ...
Article : 403 wordsCriticism of the arbitration system and the method employed to determine cost of living figures was made by speakers at the Trades Hall Council meeting last ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 239 wordsMr. Lind, Acting Premier, yester day refuted the charge of Mr. Hollway, State Opposition leader, that the Government was ...
Article : 598 wordsGermany's civil administration of Norway has been one of utter confusion, with "order, counter-order, and disorder" the pattern of Nazi attempts to run the ...
Article : 621 wordsThe Army is to act on the old slogan: "An apple a day—" Every man in camp throughout the Commonweath is to be supplied with at ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 242 wordsBritish prisoners of war in Germany and the occupied countries are well cared for, and have ample food, but complain of lack of news from home, according to ...
Article : 270 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday. — Vigorously denying that he had been guilty of contempt of Court, Mr. E. B. Maher, State Opposition leader, said in the Industrial ...
Article : 274 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The Apple and Pear Board will provide free apples and pears to charitable institutions provided the institutions are prepared to pay the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Royal Bank of Canada in its December bulletin, forecasts an active year for Canadian livestock industries in supplying Britain's huge demands for ...
Article : 178 wordsMr. Menzies, in an interview with the British and oversea Press at Australia House, commenting on a cabled report of the statement by Mr. Beasley ...
Article : 174 wordsA correspondent's pertinent comment is worthy of the attention of the Apple and Pear Board. He states that no encouragement is given manufacturers to ...
Article : 224 wordsPERTH, Thursday. — A plane of the Australian Aerial Medical Services has located apparently safe, a railway gang at Shaw River, 59 miles from Port ...
Article : 98 wordsA claim that he had worn a uniform which was the exact replica of a naval uniform only because he needed it in his act as "Popeye the Sailorman" at the ...
Article : 144 wordsIn gazeteers of the future don't be surprised if you find the entry, "Canberra, former capital of Australia, administration now carried on at Melbourne, ...
Article : 462 wordsInstructors of bomb disposal squads at the Town Hall last night discussed an agenda outlining steps by which the A.R.P. organisation will be formed in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsFormation of a Women's Volunteer Corps has been undertaken by a number of young women who until recently were hostesses of the Army Leave Club. ...
Article : 179 wordsSitting as a Fair Rents Board at Footscray yesterday, Mr. D. M. Addison, P.M., reduced rents by 6/6 a week in one case and by 5/ a week in two others. The ...
Article : 131 wordsTo assist in compiling radio newsreels and other programmes for the Empire short-wave service, Mr. George I. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 109 wordsMiss Winifred Harle, an Englishwoman, who had been sentenced to death by the Germans in France last year, is now living in a comfortable cell in ...
Article : 172 wordsSouthern Command Army headquarters are to be moved from Victoria Barracks to the new M.U.I.O.O.F. Building, now nearlng completion, opposite ...
Article : 115 wordsAll branches of the amusement industry will be represented in the special drive for war funds this year. Mr. Gil Walsh, secretary of the Cinematograph ...
Article : 128 wordsPERTH, Thursday. — On the ground that they are associated with a "bogus" organisation styled the Budget Protest Committee, Fremantle district council of ...
Article : 78 wordsDesigns for the Australian manufacture of crash helmets for members of the Armoured Division, and for shoulder-padded capes for machine-gunners, are ...
Article : 121 wordsLarge contracts were let yesterday by the Public Works Department in extensions of the Government's mental hospital building programme. ...
Article : 81 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Lieut.-Colonel G. F. Murphy is to be appointed Director of the Volunteer Defence Corps, with headquarters in Melbourne. At the ...
Article : 55 wordsOn a charge of having failed to report for medical examination and enlistment, Clarence Ernest Lindsay, 24, of Hopetoun St., Elsternwick, was fined £5 at St. Kilda ...
Article : 119 wordsBROKEN HILL, Thursday. — After a 300-mile flight, Dr. Woods, a "flying doctor." returned to Broken Hill to-night. He left on Tuesday and has since ...
Article : 64 wordsThird largest registered friendly society in Victoria, the Independent Order of Rechabites, which will hold its annual meeting in Ballarat next week, reports ...
Article : 94 wordsGood progress was reported at a meeting of the full committee of the Poultry Industry Spitfire Appeal. Several well-known breeders have each ...
Article : 91 wordsThe death occurred at Geelong of Captain Thomas Ireland, who since his retirement from active service with the Blue Funnel Line of Steamers had lived ...
Article : 127 wordsPhotographs and short personal details of members of the A.I.F. who have been reported as casualties will be published in "The Argus" if they are sent to the ...
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Advertising : 246 wordsAlthough some ministers declared that the telegram method of giving news of casualties was the best first intimation, a resolution was carried at Methodist ...
Article : 191 wordsOne hundred and thirty British volunteers are still stranded in Finland, said Mr. Butler, Under-Secretary for the Foreign Office, in the House of ...
Article : 53 wordsCr. C. A. Beever, Mayor of footscray, who lives in Geelong rd., Footseray, won one of the sections of a garden competition conducted by Footscray and Yarraville district horicultural societies. ...
Article : 22 wordsRetired bankers or business men who would like to assist in the military call-up are invited to communicate with Mr. M. J. Pettlgrove, Voluntary Service ...
Article : 39 wordsFifteen policemen have been acquitted of charges of alleged public violence during the riots on February 8. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe death occurred in Melbourne on Wednesday night of Mr. Frank Virgona, of Geelong. He went to Geelong about 45 years ago, and was one of the founders ...
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Advertising : 100 wordsDr. Lawrence Marks, well-known Elwood dentist, died at his home on Tuesday, aged 60. Dr. Marks was born in West Melbourne, and was educated at ...
Article : 117 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday. — Dean Jose, diocesan administrator announced last night that he had been advised by the Bishop of Newcastle, Rev, Francis de Witt ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. William F. F. Stennett, of Carre street, Elsternwick, died at his home on Wednesday after a long period of ill-health. He was formerly manager of ...
Article : 106 wordsResults of the Broadway Park greyhound meeting last night were:—Anniversary Cup—First Heat: Secret Charm (5/2 fav.). 1: Wolverton (10/1), 2: Jock Mags (10/11. 3. Anniversary Cup—Second ...
Article : 219 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Canon Edward Howard Lea died at his home at Strathfield to-day, aged 71. He had been in the Church of England ministry for 48 ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 7 Mar 1941, Page 5
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