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  2. ENEMY PROFIT FROM CONVOYS

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—Extraordinary success which has attended the British system of convoying merchant shipping has been of financial benefit to certain ...

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  3. U.S. Squadron CALLS AT OTHER PORTS

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—"We received a greater welcome than we would have thought possible," said Rear-Admiral Newton just before the ...

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  4. KING'S CALL TO PRAYER

    In response to the King's request, millions of people throughout the British Empire yesterday knelt in prayer for strength and guidance ...

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  5. THE R.S.L. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS

    paraded before Lord Gowrie and Sir Winston Dugan at the M.C.G. yesterday. About 3,000 men from all ports of the State took part. Lord Gowrie is shown inspecting the guard of honour drawn from the 3rd and 9th Reserve Garrison Battalions. Behind ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. COUNTRY NEWS

    ARARAT.—A fine of £25 was imposed on Oscar Griffen at the police court yesterday for operating as a bookmaker without a licence at the Ararat Highland ...

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  7. DAILY DIGEST

    I would like to close on a high note— so fine that it brings a lump to the throat. I refer to the kickback of the youngsters between 13 and 18 years of ...

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  8. NEW HOSPITAL AT FRANKSTON

    FRANKSTON, Sunday.—More than 500 people attended this afternoon the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the new £25,000 Frankston Community ...

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  9. ACCIDENT CASES REFUSED

    It took a Mordialloc ambulance driver nearly two hours last night to find accommodation in Melbourne's public hospitals for two accident cases ...

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  10. BRIBE ATTEMPT ALLEGED

    Bribes totalling £600, police allege, were offered to a detective and rejected, when a woman and two men were arrested in a shop in High st., Armadale, ...

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  11. SNOW FALLS IN HILLS

    First snow of the year whitened the higher points of the Victorian highlands on Saturday, when bleak, wintry winds lashed the State. Both yesterday and on ...

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  12. ORCHESTRA IN COUNTRY

    BENALLA, Sunday.—For the first time in its history, it is believed, the full Melbourne Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra gave on Sunday a performance ...

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  13. BRISBANE PREPARES

    BRISBANE, Sunday.—The first man of the American naval squadron to reach Brisbane was Lieut.-Commander A. C. Thorington, attached to the staff of ...

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  14. HEAVY POTATO YIELD

    Weather conditions in potato-growing districts this season have been exceedingly favourable. Gippsland, Ballarat, and the hill country near Melbourne have ...

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  15. MOBILE KITCHEN FOR ARMY

    LEONGATHA, Sunday. — A mobile kitchen unit was presented to representatives of the Army at Leongatha on Saturday by Cr. H. P. Williams, shire ...

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  16. DELHI COUNCIL ASSEMBLES

    With the arrival in Delhi of all official delegates except the New Zealand representative, the Eastern Group Supply Council has been formally established in ...

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  17. "LEVELLING" PANAMA CANAL

    Mr. Mansfield's suggestion in the United States House of Representatives that the Panama Canal should be converted into sea-level passage to lessen ...

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  18. BALLARAT ITEMS

    It is expected that when all returns are in from the street gala held on Friday for the Ballarat Hospital funds the net profit will be more than £1,600. ...

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  19. AGED 40, BUT WILL VOTE FOR FIRST TIME

    BRISBANE, Sunday. — Forty-year-old men and women who have lived in Barcoo electorate all their lives have never voted at a State election. Their member, ...

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  20. DEANNA DURBIN ESSAY

    Although announced for the first time on Friday morning, entries for the Deanna Durbin Essay Competition began pouring in to the manager of the State ...

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  21. LABOUR GOVERNMENT PROPOSED

    BALLARAT.—That Labour should take up the reins of Federal Government, was urged by Mr. Ward, M.H.R. for East Sydney, when speaking at the Ballarat ...

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  22. TWO ESCAPE FROM WRECKED YACHT

    When the eight-ton auxiliary yacht Ariel broke away from her moorings and went ashore at Sandringham in a heavy gale on Friday night, two men narrowly ...

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  23. MAILMAN'S ESCAPE

    MIRBOO NORTH Sunday.—When the car of Mr. E. Pincini, mail contractor, ran over an embankment it rolled over many times. Mr. Pincini was thrown ...

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  24. "MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM"

    The dates of the production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by the Tin Alley Players have now been fixed for April 26 to May 3. On April 28 and 30 ...

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  25. S.A. DISPUTES

    Judge Drake-Brockman, of the Arbitration Court, has deputed the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. Murray Stewart) to visit Adelaide this week to investigate the ...

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  26. GEELONG NEWS

    Great success has attended the operations of the War Funds Board in Geelong. Geelong is able to finance its patriotic organisations by a ...

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  27. 15 SHOTS 15 FOXES

    AVOCA, Sunday.—Mount Lonarch Gim Club established a record a few days ago, On Ben Moore 15 foxes fell to members' guns for the first 15 shots. Two other ...

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  28. FOUR HURT IN SMASH

    In a collision between two cars at the intersection of Toorak and Burke rds., Camberwell, yesterday, four persons were hurt, three seriously. ...

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  29. BLIND WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH

    BALLARAT, Sunday. — Miss Bridget Doherty, 66 who was blind, lost her life last night in a fire which occurred at Pootilla. She was asleep in a detached ...

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  30. MORE DESTROYERS FOR BRITAIN FAVOURED

    Americans, by two to one, approve the transfer of 40 additional destroyers to Britain, and also they do not care whether they are transferred simultaneously or a ...

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  31. WEATHER CHART AND FORECASTS

    {No abstract available} [ILLUSTRATED]

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,087 words
  32. CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS

    Imposing and voluminous is the notice paper and attachments for the meeting of the City Council on Wednesday afternoon. Some of the matters listed for ...

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  33. CAR STRIKES POLE

    Four persons were injured when a car struck a telegraph pole in Punt rd., near Dobson st., South Yarra, early yesterday. Alan Walton, of St. Vincent's place, ...

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  34. WOMAN'S FATAL FALL FROM EXPRESS

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — The body of a woman believed to be Mrs. J. P. Youngman, of Tennyson st., Essendon, was found on the side of the main southern ...

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  35. NEW SHOWS FROM 3UZ

    From a Victor Hugo classic to music of the Hawaiian Islands is the range covered in three premiere broadcasts from 3UZ to-night. ...

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  36. RADIO TRIBUTE TO EMPIRE

    The British-American Ambulance Corps will broadcast to America and the British Empire a special programme, entitled "Tribute to Valour," dedicated to the ...

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  37. USED CAR BOOM

    There has been a great demand for secondhand motor-cars, especially popular makes. Owners are actually asking 50 per cent. more than their cars originally ...

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  38. NAVAL COOK KILLED

    Cyril L. Pages, about 38, of Mary st., Lidcombe (N.S.W.), a leading cook in the Royal Australian Navy, was killed instantly when he was struck by a car ...

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  39. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS

    New naval appointments include Rear-Admiral Denis Boyd to command of the aircraft-carrier squadron. He commanded Illustrious when she repulsed German ...

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  40. CONCERT IN GARDENS

    Several thousand people yesterday took advantage of a delightful autumn afternoon to attend a concert in the Botanic Gardens "bowl." The concert, the high ...

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  41. MUSICAL SOCIETY

    The first concert in the 1941 season of the Musical Society of Victoria, in the Assembly Hall on Saturday night, was well attended. ...

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  42. QUEEN CARNIVAL

    "I am confident that £60,000 will be exceeded because of the generosity of the people," said Cr. Beaurepaire, Lord Mayor, on Saturday, referring to the ...

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  43. QUEENIE'S BIRTHDAY

    About 5,000 people, mostly children, attended Queenie's 47th birthday party in the Zoological Gardens on Saturday afternoon. Each child received a piece ...

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  44. PLANE CRASH IN EIRE

    An R.A.F. plane crashed at Kinlough, and was burnt out, the crew being killed. ...

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  45. FEATURED IN

    All the ingredients of successful revue are presented in "The Goldwyn Follies," revived this week. Delightful ballets (headed by the brilliant Vera Zorina in ...

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  46. NEW TALKIES

    "East of the River," at the Lyceum, joins "City For Conquest" in slumming it in New York to tell of two East Side boys who set out to conquer the city. ...

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  47. BIG CITY LIFE

    The tempo of a big city's noise and bustle is used as background to the ambitions of four New York tenement dwellers. Peggy wants to be a great ...

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  48. HOSPITAL GIFT

    Behind the receipt of an amount of £413 by Royal Melbourne Hospital lies the story of the desire of employees of the explosives factory at Maribyrnong to ...

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  49. PILLION RIDER KILLED

    BALLIANG, Sunday. — When the motor-cycle on which he was riding pillion struck a rut on the road. Thomas Murray, whose parents live at Ivanhoe, ...

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  50. Obituary SIR RICHARD HOLT

    The death has occurred at Liverpool, England, of Sir Richard Durning Holt, senior partner of Alfred Holt and Co., Liverpool, managing owners of the Ocean ...

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  51. £100 ROBBERY

    Hearing a door being closed at the back of his home early yesterday, Mr. James Henry Martin, who lives at the corner of Nimmo and Danks sts., Middle ...

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  52. HIGHETT LAND SALE

    There was a big attendance at the auction sale on Saturday afternoon of the Near Station Estate, Highett. The 28 home sites sold at from 25/ to 33/ ...

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  53. SHAVIAN COMEDY

    George Bernard Shaw's popular comedy of a modern Pygmalion who creates a Galatea from a gutter wench, but, having made her a great lady, is at loss to ...

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  54. REV. B. F. GILBERT

    GEELONG, Sunday. — The death occurred suddenly at Lorne yesterday of Rev. Baden Frank Gilbert, vicar of the Anglican church at Lorne. Mr. Gilbert ...

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  55. ROMANTIC ADVENTURE

    The red coats of the Mounties and the green of the mountain scenery make ideal subjects for the technicolour camera in "The North-West Mounted Police." How ...

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  56. INDEPENDENT THEATRES

    "Broadway Melody of 1940" (Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, and George Murphy) is showing at several Independent Suburban theatres this week. Supported by "Forty Little Mothers" ...

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  57. GIFTS TO WAR FUNDS

    The following amounts have been received by the Editor of "The Argus" for war funds:- RED CROSS.—Previously acknowledged, £14,383 14/10. Marfleet and Weight Pty. Ltd., £1/9/3; ...

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  58. MRS. F. C. LYON

    News has been received of the death in England of Mrs. F. C. Lyon, formerly of Melbourne. Mrs. Lyon was the second daughter of Mr. Justice Higinbotham, a ...

    Article : 132 words
  59. PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION

    {No abstract available} [ILLUSTRATED]

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  60. SUBURBAN THEATRES

    Anna Neagle stars in "Irene," with Ray Milland, at the Regal, Hartwell. In support is "You're Not So Tough" (the Dead End Kids). "Foreign Correspondent" (Joel McCrea and Laraine Day) ...

    Article : 86 words
  61. COMEDY AND THRILLS

    Esp[?]onage thrills are expertly blended with amusing comedy in "Night Train to Munich." Produced in the manner of "The Lady Vanishes," the same two ...

    Article : 79 words
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