SYDNEY, Sunday.—Extraordinary success which has attended the British system of convoying merchant shipping has been of financial benefit to certain ...
Article : 257 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—"We received a greater welcome than we would have thought possible," said Rear-Admiral Newton just before the ...
Article : 270 wordsIn response to the King's request, millions of people throughout the British Empire yesterday knelt in prayer for strength and guidance ...
Article : 444 wordsparaded 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]
Article : 57 wordsARARAT.—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 ...
Article : 608 wordsI 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 ...
Article : 550 wordsFRANKSTON, Sunday.—More than 500 people attended this afternoon the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the new £25,000 Frankston Community ...
Article : 302 wordsIt took a Mordialloc ambulance driver nearly two hours last night to find accommodation in Melbourne's public hospitals for two accident cases ...
Article : 181 wordsBribes 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, ...
Article : 282 wordsFirst 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 ...
Article : 213 wordsBENALLA, Sunday.—For the first time in its history, it is believed, the full Melbourne Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra gave on Sunday a performance ...
Article : 184 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—The first man of the American naval squadron to reach Brisbane was Lieut.-Commander A. C. Thorington, attached to the staff of ...
Article : 113 wordsWeather conditions in potato-growing districts this season have been exceedingly favourable. Gippsland, Ballarat, and the hill country near Melbourne have ...
Article : 216 wordsLEONGATHA, Sunday. — A mobile kitchen unit was presented to representatives of the Army at Leongatha on Saturday by Cr. H. P. Williams, shire ...
Article : 185 wordsWith the arrival in Delhi of all official delegates except the New Zealand representative, the Eastern Group Supply Council has been formally established in ...
Article : 215 wordsMr. Mansfield's suggestion in the United States House of Representatives that the Panama Canal should be converted into sea-level passage to lessen ...
Article : 190 wordsIt 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. ...
Article : 175 wordsBRISBANE, 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, ...
Article : 82 wordsAlthough announced for the first time on Friday morning, entries for the Deanna Durbin Essay Competition began pouring in to the manager of the State ...
Article : 246 wordsBALLARAT.—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 ...
Article : 84 wordsWhen 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 ...
Article : 78 wordsMIRBOO NORTH Sunday.—When the car of Mr. E. Pincini, mail contractor, ran over an embankment it rolled over many times. Mr. Pincini was thrown ...
Article : 59 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 110 wordsJudge Drake-Brockman, of the Arbitration Court, has deputed the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. Murray Stewart) to visit Adelaide this week to investigate the ...
Article : 86 wordsGreat success has attended the operations of the War Funds Board in Geelong. Geelong is able to finance its patriotic organisations by a ...
Article : 72 wordsAVOCA, 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 ...
Article : 42 wordsIn a collision between two cars at the intersection of Toorak and Burke rds., Camberwell, yesterday, four persons were hurt, three seriously. ...
Article : 81 wordsBALLARAT, 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 ...
Article : 63 wordsAmericans, 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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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,087 wordsImposing and voluminous is the notice paper and attachments for the meeting of the City Council on Wednesday afternoon. Some of the matters listed for ...
Article : 149 wordsFour 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, ...
Article : 80 wordsSYDNEY, 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 ...
Article : 132 wordsFrom a Victor Hugo classic to music of the Hawaiian Islands is the range covered in three premiere broadcasts from 3UZ to-night. ...
Article : 139 wordsThe British-American Ambulance Corps will broadcast to America and the British Empire a special programme, entitled "Tribute to Valour," dedicated to the ...
Article : 87 wordsThere has been a great demand for secondhand motor-cars, especially popular makes. Owners are actually asking 50 per cent. more than their cars originally ...
Article : 103 wordsCyril 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 ...
Article : 49 wordsNew naval appointments include Rear-Admiral Denis Boyd to command of the aircraft-carrier squadron. He commanded Illustrious when she repulsed German ...
Article : 61 wordsSeveral thousand people yesterday took advantage of a delightful autumn afternoon to attend a concert in the Botanic Gardens "bowl." The concert, the high ...
Article : 122 wordsThe first concert in the 1941 season of the Musical Society of Victoria, in the Assembly Hall on Saturday night, was well attended. ...
Article : 84 words"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 ...
Article : 41 wordsAbout 5,000 people, mostly children, attended Queenie's 47th birthday party in the Zoological Gardens on Saturday afternoon. Each child received a piece ...
Article : 128 wordsAn R.A.F. plane crashed at Kinlough, and was burnt out, the crew being killed. ...
Article : 25 wordsAll the ingredients of successful revue are presented in "The Goldwyn Follies," revived this week. Delightful ballets (headed by the brilliant Vera Zorina in ...
Article : 102 words"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. ...
Article : 190 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 160 wordsBehind 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 ...
Article : 110 wordsBALLIANG, Sunday. — When the motor-cycle on which he was riding pillion struck a rut on the road. Thomas Murray, whose parents live at Ivanhoe, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe death has occurred at Liverpool, England, of Sir Richard Durning Holt, senior partner of Alfred Holt and Co., Liverpool, managing owners of the Ocean ...
Article : 74 wordsHearing 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 ...
Article : 66 wordsThere 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/ ...
Article : 137 wordsGeorge 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 ...
Article : 120 wordsGEELONG, Sunday. — The death occurred suddenly at Lorne yesterday of Rev. Baden Frank Gilbert, vicar of the Anglican church at Lorne. Mr. Gilbert ...
Article : 71 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 98 words"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" ...
Article : 203 wordsThe 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; ...
Article : 65 wordsNews 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 ...
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Article : 7 wordsAnna 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 wordsEsp[?]onage thrills are expertly blended with amusing comedy in "Night Train to Munich." Produced in the manner of "The Lady Vanishes," the same two ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 24 Mar 1941, Page 5
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