About 50,000 men in the 10 new age groups—19 and from 25 to 33 inclusive— will be required to enrol in Victoria for home defence service. Enrolments begin ...
Article : 150 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The percentage of recorded unemployment among members of reporting trade unions for the quarter ended December was 6.2, the ...
Article : 211 wordsMonday, Australia Day, is the last public holiday before Easter. Unsettled weather to-day and perhaps to-morrow, the Weather ...
Article : 239 wordsHeavy falls of rain occurred in western and northern areas of Victoria and the Mallee in the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday. The falls ...
Article : 266 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Evidence that a young man, who had been employed in Brisbane as a censor of letters in German, and later in ...
Article : 419 wordsFormation of an Australian Women's Auxiliary for service oversea, to assist in establishing and maintaining hostels for Australian ...
Article : 347 wordsAfter consideration of the migration position the council of the Big Brother Movement decided yesterday that, in view of the uncertain future, the movement ...
Article : 218 wordsAn Australian journalist who had been acting abroad as a special war correspondent with the A.I.F. was attacked yesterday by Major Eugene ...
Article : 1,089 wordsAll sorts of ruses were adopted by some volunteers for the A.I.F. to mislead doctors who examined them in medical tests, Army authorities said yesterday. ...
Article : 168 wordsThe State Government was always anxious to reduce taxation, but it had to maintain social services, the Premier said yesterday. ...
Article : 104 wordsThousands of guns, tanks, anti-aircraft defences, and other equipment will be needed for Australia's new mechanised division. All this equipment will be ...
Article : 199 wordsThe fire that destroyed most of the Trocadero Palais, just over Princes Bridge, has given Melbourne an opportunity, according to the Lord Mayor, to improve ...
Article : 181 wordssoonal conditions have extended well into the southern parts of Australia. These conditions have brought good rains to most of the drought-stricken areas. ...
Article : 211 wordsReaders have lost much of their taste for political magazines since the outbreak of war, according to the annual report of the Melbourne Athenæum. ...
Article : 154 wordsA cigarette butt, it is believed, may have caused the fire which destroyed most of the Trocadero Palais, formerly known as the Green Mill building, Princes ...
Article : 79 wordsThe J.C.W, pantomime, "The Sleeping Beauty," concludes its successful run at His Majesty's on Friday evening, January 31. On Saturday it will be succeeded ...
Article : 458 words"Anyone susceptible to claustrophobia cannot be deemed suitable for work in an asbestos suit." Without irony, the writer of an article ...
Article : 225 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.— There is little likelihood that the Federal Government will accede to the request made on Thursday by Mr. James, M. H. R., that the ...
Article : 120 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—It did not appear from inquiries made by the Commonwealth Government that the warning issued to British subjects to leave Japan ...
Article : 85 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Criticising a statement made by Mr. Menzies that the Government's chief aim would be to have merchant ships built by private ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Workers' Sports Federation, which is building a youth hostel at Mt. Dandenong, will have a large working party at the hostel during the week-end. The ...
Article : 52 wordsThousands of coloured lights along the upper esplanade and over lawns and streets; scores of wood and canvas stalls; Cavell st. converted into a circus and ...
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Advertising : 538 wordsWhether a bounty on wooden ships built in Australia is necessary will be the subject of an inquiry by the Tariff Board on Tuesday. Questions which will be ...
Article : 91 wordsMany ministers and members of the Salvation Army attended the funeral yesterday of Adjutant Alfred Wood, of Gordon cres., Black Rock, retired ...
Article : 137 wordsSpeeches by Mr. Fadden, Acting Prime Minister, and Mr. Beasley, Non-Communist Labour party leader, will be heard to-night in a relay from Sydney of the ...
Article : 338 wordsThe following medical appointments have been made to the Children's Hospital:—Resident registrar, Mr. A. J. M. Dobson; assistant resident registrar, Dr. ...
Article : 111 wordsPERTH, Friday.— The metropolitan A.L.P. council last night expelled the Young Labour League, which was formed about 10 years ago. The league ...
Article : 68 wordsWorkers at the Government fuse shop, Gordon st., Footscray, took a concert party to entertain soldiers at Darley A.I.F. camp on Thursday night. They ...
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Advertising : 183 wordsThe Fathers' Association will hold its annual conference on March 4 at Anzac House, commencing at 10 a.m. Among the visitors at the luncheon to follow ...
Article : 52 wordsMore than 200 former and present members of St. Paul's Cathedral choir are expected to attend a reunion at Glamis Cafe on Wednesday. The reunion has ...
Article : 44 wordsBENDIGO, Friday.—Following heavy rain, a serious washaway occurred on the Sea Lake railway line between Barrakee and Buckrabanyule. A considerable ...
Article : 119 wordsIn Tiny Snell's "Radio Gaieties" tonight from 3UZ at 8.15, one person in the audience will be asked to name a suburb; another to nominate a Christian ...
Article : 200 wordsLetter mails close at Elizabeth st. P. O. as under: G.P.O., Spencer st., 20 minutes later; unless marked which indicates same time at both offices. ...
Article : 341 wordsFour motions for discussion by the conference of country branches of the A.L.P., which will be held in the Trades Hall to-day, call for dissolution of the ...
Article : 123 wordsBRISBANE, Friday. — Two—thirds of Queensland has been drenched in the last 24 hours, and the other third, embracing the Carpentaria region, received fairly ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. W. F. Gates, formerly chief inspector of schools, has been elected president of the Melbourne Athenaeum. Mr. Gates, who joined the Education ...
Article : 71 wordsPublic feeling has been aroused by recent cases of extreme cruelty to animals, said Mrs. L. E. Lort Smith yesterday, in announcing that Mr. H. E. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe following contributions were received by the Editor of "The Argus" yesterday for the appeal by the Children's Aid Society for £3,000: ...
Article : 62 wordsSatisfaction with the response to 7,000 letters sent last week to secretaries of Victorian war savings groups was expressed by Mr. C. R. Ban[?]eld, ...
Article : 49 wordsPOSTAGE RATES (For To-day's Issue of "The Argus").—Australasia and New Zealand 2d.; United Kingdom (overland), 3d.; (all-sea route), 2d.; other British Possessions, 3d.; U.S.A. and ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 25 Jan 1941, Page 2
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