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Advertising : 200 wordsNo official statement of the details of actual A.I.F. casualties at Bardia has yet reached Army authorities in Australia Although certain figures of killed and ...
Article : 425 wordsThe proposal made to the Commonwealth Government for assembling commercial ships at centralised slipways from materials made in large quantities ...
Article : 428 wordsIn the first 10 days of the western desert offensive, British and Allied forces advanced about 160 miles, crossing the Libyan frontier. Then ...
Article : 523 wordsSir,—Mr. Fadden threatens us with dire consequences if we dare to discontinue buying war savings certificates. He confiscates the margin we used to have over ...
Article : 276 wordsGEELONG, Tuesday. — No time would be lost in preparing a scheme to check crosion on Geelong's western foreshore north of Rippleside, said the Premier, ...
Article : 359 wordsTrenchant criticism of economic conditions in Australia, which were described as "more destructive in their influence than Hitler," and of ...
Article : 571 wordsSir.—I have waited in vain for some advocate of correct pronunciation to direct attention to what I consider is the most common fault of all. I refer to vowel ...
Article : 85 wordsSir. — From newspaper announcements it appears that the petrol rationing plan has failed to effect the anticipated reduction of 33½ per cent, in consumption. ...
Article : 196 wordsSand-drift control is one of the great problems of Mallee farming. Drift is present more or less every year, but during a drought year it is capable of changing ...
Article : 476 wordsCongratulations on the part played by the A.I.F. in the Bardia victory are reaching the Commonwealth Government from many sources inside and outside the ...
Article : 269 wordsOne really certain way of annoying a radio announcer these days is to ask him to comment on attacks made about pronunciation of words in broadcasts. It ...
Article : 309 wordsSir,—Even if Hitler remembers "The Boy and the Nuts" he is too obstinate to let enough nuts go; and, unless he does, the neck of the jar will never let his ...
Article : 100 wordsSir,—In reply to Dr. Jacob Jona's statement in "The Argus" of Monday that Poland has for centuries been an antiJewish State, how did it come to pass ...
Article : 107 wordsHOBART, Tuesday.—Opposition to the argument that education should be a Commonwealth rather than a State responsibity was expressed to-day by Mr. ...
Article : 79 wordsOfficials of taxi-cab companies operating in Melbourne denied yesterday a contention of members of the licensed vehicles committee of the Melbourne City ...
Article : 183 wordsAdmission of the desirability of raising the school leaving age to 15 years; acknowledgment that the cost was well within the compass of the State's ...
Article : 298 wordsSir,— In supporting Mr. Gully's letter, I would go further. With wages, conditions, and pay surely the best in the world I would name as treachery the ...
Article : 105 words"Silly propaganda" was the description applied by the Prime Minister yesterday to the comment by the Berlin Radio on Monday afternoon, that when the day ...
Article : 272 wordsOld and new ideas are presented in a modern manner in "Out of the Bag" from 3AR at 8 to-night, featuring Jim Davidson and his A.B C. Dance Band. News ...
Article : 363 wordsOnly six students at Melbourne University this year have offered themselves for employment on farms during the vacation. It was unlikely that there would ...
Article : 139 wordsSir,—In view of the part that the A.I.F. are now taking in the action in Libya, the publication of the following extract from a letter from one of the ...
Article : 131 wordsThirty members of the Church of England Boys' Society, Sydney, arrived in Melbourne yesterday, and will be engaged for the next six days in sightseeing in ...
Article : 137 wordsSir,—Lieut.-Commander Tota Isimarl, in his book "Australia Must Fight Japan" says that-Darwin is a more important naval base than Sydney. ...
Article : 159 wordsSentence of death recently passed on William John Patrick Normoyle, 28. soldier, of Caulfield, for an offence against a nine-year-old girl at Chelsea, ...
Article : 53 wordsMajor Morgan Herbert Maffy, whose funeral took place at Brighton yesterday was born at Birmingham, England, 78 years ago. He served in the Boer War, ...
Article : 84 wordsIn contrast to Monday, when few flags were flown, nearly every mast in Melbourne displayed a flag yesterday to celebrate the Australian victory at Bardia. ...
Article : 64 wordsPOSTAGE RATES (For To-day'S Issue oF " The Argus").—Australasia and New Zealand. 1d.; United Kingdom (overland). 2d.; (all-[?] route), Id.; other British Po[?]. 2d.; U.S.A. and ...
Article : 76 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.— Two more cases of infantile paralysis — a boy, 12, land a girl, 7 — and a fatal case of cerebro-spinal meningitis, all in Brisbane ...
Article : 80 wordsRushed in an ambulance nearly 100 miles to Melbourne, Stanley Chasemore 27, of Canterbury rd., Surrey Hills, was admitted yesterday to St. vincent's ...
Article : 61 wordsMore than 30,000 prisoners have been taken at Bardia, according to a message received at Army Headquarters from General Sir Archibald Wavell, C.-in-C. ...
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Advertising : 56 wordsSir,—what good is expected from blackout regulations on our coastal runs? I take it they were framed on English lines; but under present conditions the ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Federal Ministry proposes to set up a Parliamentary committee to investigate the whole incidence of the new scheme of sales tax recently approved by ...
Article : 87 wordsWhile acknowledging that State railway traffic was heavier and more difficult because of extra special trains and the greater number of people travelling than ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Italian Stefant agency replied last night to the broadcast from Cairo by Mr. Spender, Australian Minister for the Army, on Saturday, in which, after ...
Article : 128 wordsDiscussing suggestions that Australian war correspondents in the Middle East were denied facilities given to British and American correspondents, Mr. Menzies ...
Article : 82 wordsLetter mails close at Eliz. st. P.O. as under: G.P.O., Spencer st., 20 minutes later, unless marked which Indicates same time at both offices:— AUSTRALIA ENGLAND AIRMAIL.—Via Egypt. ...
Article : 218 wordsSir,—May I suggest that our own Sunderland flyjng-boats, which have proved so useful in other parts of the world, be transferred to the Pacific to ...
Article : 50 wordsThe advantages of swill-feeding pigs, especially in war time, ore outlined in an illustrated article in "The Australasian," now on sale. ...
Article : 24 wordsSir,—It makes me sad and indignant to read of the numerous cases of cruelty to animals mentioned periodically in the newspapers. We are so fond of calling ...
Article : 70 wordsMore than 2,000 passengers had been carried by Australian National Airways planes, on their interstate network, each week, before and during the Christmas ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 8 Jan 1941, Page 2
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