for defence against aircraft, recruits for the Royal Australian Navy must know how to handle, strip, and assemble a Lewis gun. [?] receiving [?] Melbourne noval depot from Chief Gunner's Mate F. Whitehead. These recruits joined the Navy only a short time ago, and the Navy still needs volunteers. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 66 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Total defence and war expenditure by the Commonwealth for the first eight months of the financial year is ...
Article : 178 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Because the Commonwealth Arbitration Court refused to-day to make three large steel companies respondents to a ...
Article : 350 wordsAppealing to Australians to realise their responsibilities in war time, Mr. Fadden, Acting Prime Minister, said yesterday that it was ...
Article : 578 wordsA facsimile of the text of the remarkable orders issued to the population of Brest in occupied France are here reproduced as they appeared in the "Depeche ...
Article : 699 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—State Cabinet decided to-day to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into aspects of the Abbco bread case, ...
Article : 410 wordsAmendments to military finance regulations, designed to secure further decentralisation and a speeding up of Army administrative action, were announced ...
Article : 105 wordsof Foy and Gibson Pty. Ltd., Smith street, Collingwood, an ambulance was handed over yesterday to the Army Medical Corps. In the centre of the group are Messrs. L. Hill (secretary of Foy's), L. J. Rooke (manager), C. Smibert and A. T. Howlett (representing the Red ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 61 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Recall of Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Blamey was suggested by a Labour member of the Federal Parliament at the Labour Caucus ...
Article : 248 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin, First Naval Member, has resigned because of ill-health This was announced to-day by Mr. Hughes, Navy ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 145 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. R. E. M. Camelon, formerly Professor of Commerce at the Yokohama Commercial College and at St. Paul's University Tokio, said in an ...
Article : 283 wordsLittle opposition to the Commonwealth plan of child endowment was expected when the matter was brought forward in the House of Representatives, Mr. Holt, ...
Article : 99 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—An increase in prices of rubber tyres and tubes for motor vehicles was announced to-day by Professor Copland Commonwealth Prices ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—"The frontiers of Australia are not delineated by the threemile limit; they are everywhere where the British race resides," said Mr. Faddn, ...
Article : 147 wordsIn one of Melbourne's biggest, industrial plants addresses were delivered yesterday to employees urging them to continue their contributions to war savings ...
Article : 89 wordsAustralian Red Cross Society headquarters had not yet dealt with the question of Lady Blamey being appointed to any temporary or permanent position it was ...
Article : 78 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—In the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day Mr. J. D. McNamara, Federal secretary of the Australasian Society of Engineers, asked ...
Article : 262 wordsAllegations that St Kilda Council would cause hardship to caterers and owners of dance halls and coffee lounges by amending a by-law dealing with ...
Article : 200 wordsBy contributing to St. Vincents Hospital appeal for £100,000 Victorians can materially help in maintaining the healthy army of war workers on the home front ...
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Advertising : 83 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Franklin Christian Richards, 64, medical practitioner, and Frank Henry Knowles 42, barman, at the Central Police Court to-day, were ...
Article : 179 wordsAdvice has been received by the parents of Private John Elkington Butler that he has been killed in action. Private Butler's parents ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 86 wordsInformation that their youngest son, Sergeant Ray E. Scott, has died as the result of injuries received on active service, has been received by his parents, ...
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Advertising : 141 wordsFiremen from city stations made a good save lost night when a fire broke out at the rear of the workroom of John Jackson and Co. Pty. Ltd., leather goods ...
Article : 77 wordsTo help supplement Victoria's own coal production Government aid may be given to a private briquetting plant at Gelliondale, in Gippsland The State War ...
Article : 136 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 ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Charles R. Kirkby, well-known amateur golfer and racing enthusiast died at his home Dandenong rd., Caulfield on Saturday night. ...
Article : 156 wordsHOBART, Monday.—The Zinc Workers' Union at another stop-work meeting today issued a challenge to the Electrolytic Zinp Co. Members of the union, in ...
Article : 121 wordsIf a preacher could not strike oil in 20 minutes it would be better if he stopped boring, said Dr. E. A. Swan at the 1941 inauguration of the ...
Article : 165 wordsBROKEN HILL, Monday.—From obscure corners of hotel cellars a few dozen bottles of neglected brands of beer were resurrected during the week-end, ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Patrick Rankin Scott died suddenly at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. William Segrave, Staniland grove, Elsternwick. After a university course at ...
Article : 69 wordsThere was a large attendance at the funeral yesterday of Rev. Solomon Mark Solomon, former chaplain-colonel of the Australian Militia Forces, who died on ...
Article : 110 wordsTo enable the supplier to concentrate his full manufacturing resources on an item required by defence authorities, manufacture of the Australian made ...
Article : 87 wordsJohn Flint, 7, of Morton grove, Chelsea, suffered a compound fracture of the leg when struck by a car in Pt. Nepean rd. as he was returning from school ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 11 Mar 1941, Page 5
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