Sir,—I am glad of the opportunity to reply to Miss P. L. Ellison's letter (11/2/41) and M. Holroyd's "timely" one (27/1/41). I do not know If French ...
Article : 170 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday. — In response to a request from the A.C.T.U emergency committee in Melbourne, the executive of the ...
Article : 357 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The most extraordinary mass demonstration seen in any city in Australia since the war began followed the march of the men of H.M.A.S. Sydney through the city streets to-day. Crowds estimated at more than ...
Article : 1,154 wordsIt is the proud boast of autocracy that it is efficient: it makes the trains run on time. Now the question of whether it is more efficient than democracy is being ...
Article : 767 wordsALDERMAN S. S. CRICK, SYDNE'YS LORD MAYOR, Yesterday unveiled a plaquo on H.M.A.S. Sydney given by Sydney citizens to commemorate the ship's gallant fight in which the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni was sunk. Captain Collins is on the left. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 65 wordsSir, — The Communist technique of defeat exposed by your snecial correspondent Is startlingly like that used in France, as described by W. H. ...
Article : 164 wordsGEELONG, Tuesday.—In breaking windows in a burning house to alarm her husband and rescue her four children Mrs. Rebecca Ganly was severely cut ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 215 wordsSir, — The drift to the city is caused, among other things, by high duties on manufactured goods such as agricultural machinery and tools; by too much ...
Article : 161 wordsThe situation in South Australia was considered at a meeting of the, emergency committee of the A.C.T.U. in Melbourne yesterday, when it discussed the ...
Article : 210 wordsWarrnambool citizens should learn this little code well for they may need it some day:- Prepare for Air Raid.—Alternate long ...
Article : 183 wordsSir — Since in war time over 20 per cent of normally idle production is harnessed, it does not follow that diverting 20 per cent, of energy to war production ...
Article : 81 wordsBEAUFORT.—The Ripon Shire Council has received a grant of £150 for work on Trawalla roads and a grant of £350 for repairs to bridge, Carngham ...
Article : 666 wordsWODONGA, Tuesday.—When a car in which she was travelling with three other persons left the road while going past a flock of sheep between Wodonga and ...
Article : 140 wordsSir, — In theory Mr. O. B. Heatley's suggestion (10/2/41) is sound, but in practice it doesn't work. My experience shows that a letter addressed to a ...
Article : 147 wordsAlthough last year the Wimmera experienced the worst drought since 1914, farmers were able to obtain an average wheat, yield an acre which was eight ...
Article : 190 wordsEntries in the Pyramid Hill wheat crop competition were restricted to four owing to severe drought conditions. The total rainfall for the year, 809 points, is more ...
Article : 218 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Additional refrigerated storage for butter, costing about £500,000, is to be provided immediately following decisions of a conference ...
Article : 197 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — Government control of marketing of Australian-grown tobacco leaf is now possible as a result of the failure of growers and ...
Article : 175 wordsSir,—Cr. A. A. Calwell charges real estate agents with being the "worst offenders in desecrating districts with unsightly and unhygienic buildings." Neither ...
Article : 108 wordsOn retiring after 30 years' service as kindergarten superintendent of the Dawson street Baptist Sunday school Miss A. Corbould was presented with an ...
Article : 289 wordsOn the expiration of 50 years in the employ of the firm, Mr. E. P. Maxted was entertained by members of the firm of Bell Bros., bakers, and fellow employees. ...
Article : 353 wordsSir, — Mr. J. M. Taylor has written in support of the proposal to divert municipal rates to war purposes. Actually a similar suggestion was made some time ...
Article : 142 wordsBENDIGO, Tuesday.—Harold Woodier, 19, farm labourer, was charged in the Bendigo Supreme Court to-day with having murdered his sister, Violet Woodier, ...
Article : 62 wordsOn his retun to Melbourne from Adelaide to-day, Mr. Anthony, Assistant Minister, will discuss with representatives of the apple and pear growers their ...
Article : 58 wordsToward the end of the lost war journalists ran out of invective to use against the Kaiser. So as the last annihilating insult they said he had no sense of ...
Article : 101 wordsPrimary producers will be heartened by the statement by Sir Earle Page, Commerce Minister, that immediate action is likely to be taken to provide more ...
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Advertising : 59 wordsSir,—Information has reached me that a clergyman is canvassing the city and suburbs soliciting funds to supply Braille literature and Bibles to blinded soldiers. ...
Article : 64 wordsAUCKLAND, Tuesday. — Referring to several New Zealand soldiers killed in action, Mr. Jones, Defence Minister, said the casualties had occurred in the South ...
Article : 36 wordsCharges of conspiracy against Frederick Henry Foord and Francis Normon King two A.I.F. sergeants, were dismissed by the jury at the Bendigo Supreme Court ...
Article : 311 wordsSir,—Miss Bale complains that the three art societies of which she is a member have not been invited to participate in this exhibition, whereas my ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 526 wordsAustralian producers have saved £755,000 as a result of contracts which they entered into with British dairy produce buyers before the outbreak of the ...
Article : 110 wordsSir,—Mr. Anthony rushes to defend the marketing scheme, but is beating the air. It is not control but the nature of the control that is in dispute. There is ...
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Advertising : 88 wordsWODONGA, Tuesday. — Residents of Bonegilla district have given prompt assistance to a widow who lost heavily recently when fire destroyed the ...
Article : 106 wordsCentral council of the State Country party decided yesterday to ascertain from the Minister for Lands the attitude of the Government to the claims of settlers in ...
Article : 141 wordsSir,—Has it occurred to anyone that there is a black cloud approaching, which might conceal a more comprehensive and devastating storm than we have allowed ...
Article : 144 wordsGEELONG, Tuesday.—Nelson Park results:—Bay Trial Stake.—Innis Lad (7/4), 1; Gran Micawber (12/1). 2: Volonte (6/4 fav.), 3. Barrabool Trial. —Bill the Basher (4/1), 1; Molly Cuddle (5/1). ...
Article : 88 wordsARARAT, Tuesday.—Mr. F. Peterson was returning to Ararat from the Horsham races with two racehorses when a collision occurred. The horse box was ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 12 Feb 1941, Page 5
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