The first of seven special trains conveying 1,600 Light Horsemen and their mounts for a 12-day camp at Broadmeadows will reach Broadmeadows station ...
Article : 313 wordsHostility to the creation of a standing army is expressed in recommendations submitted yesterday by the interstate executive of the ...
Article : 658 wordsBecause it found no real demand among residents for an hotel at Gardiner, the Licensing Court, in a reserved decision yesterday, ...
Article : 376 wordsJudge Stretton, the Royal Commissioner inquiring into bush fires, expressed the earnest hope, after having taken evidence at ...
Article : 696 wordsDenominational schools breed snobbery, class-consciousness, and national disunity, according to a statement by the Rev. W. ...
Article : 629 wordsMembers of the University Council decided yesterday to refer to the Professorial Board a request from the Returned Soldiers' League that bursaries for the ...
Article : 209 wordsSir,—It is difficult to understand the enthusiasm in Ministerial and official circles for the proposal to spend £4,000,000 on the production of motor spirit from ...
Article : 182 wordsAll the prizes presented at the annual opening ceremony of the Congregational College of Victoria last night were won by one student—Mr. R. A. Bottoms. ...
Article : 216 wordsSir,—When the suggestion was made recently that the technological section at the National Gallery be extended, the answer was that the space indicated was ...
Article : 146 wordsWERRIMULL, Monday.—Attempting to swim the river about 3½ miles up from Kuinfn Station to reach a rowing boat, Emanuel Martin, aged 22 years, of Quorn ...
Article : 45 wordsUnder regulations approved yesterday by the Governor in Council, the additional subject of advanced materia medica will be set in the final pharmaceutical ...
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Advertising : 723 wordsBERWICK, Monday.—An enthusiastic meeting of the citizens' welfare committee of the Berwick troop of the 13th Light Horse was held in the Soldiers' ...
Article : 82 wordsSir,—Twelve years ago I sacrificed £500 endeavouring to educate Australia, by my publication "Are You Fit?", to the danger of becoming a physically unfit nation. ...
Article : 127 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—"No militia-me[?] will be asked to enter camp without being supplied with uniform and equipment," said the Minister for External ...
Article : 47 wordsWhen he appeared for sentence yesterday on charges of sheep stealing, a young grazier, who was said by his counsel to have become "a changed man" after he ...
Article : 147 wordsSir,—If this matter does not become shelved also, our Federal Government will soon issue us with a national registration questionnaire. Were this ...
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Advertising : 298 wordsWilliam Thomas Christian, of Napoleon street, Collingwood, and Edward Dennis, of Alma street, Fitroy, cafe proprietor, were acquitted in General Sessions ...
Article : 61 wordsThe following changes were made at the second reading of stations of the Methodist Church last night:— MELBOURNE NORTH DISTRICT. — Central ...
Article : 238 wordsSir,—If the national insurance scheme had been abandoned and Mr. Menzies had resigned he would have had the public solidly behind him. We have ...
Article : 118 wordsThe third number of "1939 'The Argus' Law Reports" will be published to-day. It contains the judgment of the Full High Court in Vaughan v. The King ...
Article : 110 wordsWith the addition of 2,122 recruits last week, Australia's militia forces now number 65,505—only 4,494 short of the objective of 70,000 men. ...
Article : 111 wordsThe total of "The Argus" Bush Fire Relief Fund is now £71,794/6/1. Money is still needed for the rehabilitation of the victims of the fires. More than ...
Article : 118 wordsSir,—The report of the Methodist Conference relating to the Port Melbourne church makes-sad reading. Oxford Group has failed to achieve success; pictures have ...
Article : 98 wordsThe following transfers of victuallers' and other licences have been approved by the Licensing Court:— COUNTRY. — Transfers. — Carriers Arms ...
Article : 235 words"Dozens of Christians have gone to concentration camps for refusing to confess Adolf Hitler as saviour," stated Dr. R. T. Sussex, the new vice-master of Queen's ...
Article : 200 wordsPlans are being considered for co-operation by the Defence Department with the Youth Employment Movement in placing youths who have finished their ...
Article : 85 wordsContributions to the Lord Moyor's Bush Fire Appeal Fund yesterday brought the total to £188,776. Through the Shire of Chariton £137/13/ was received, ...
Article : 53 wordsSir,—If "Ex-Public Servant" had worked in the Taxation Department and most other departments that are known to me, he would have found very little ...
Article : 261 wordsBecause of the steady expansion of the Royal Australian Navy and the fact that senior medical officers will retire in the next few years, medical officers are ...
Article : 74 wordsBecause of the indisposition of the leader of the Opposition (Sir Stanley Argyle), an inspection by members of the United Australia Parliamentary party of damage ...
Article : 49 wordsHIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA. — Before the Full Court.—In No. 1 Court.—At 10.30—Ryan v. Bright and another (part heard). Not Before 2.30—Grey (executor of the will of ...
Article : 171 wordsSir,—The Brotherhood of St. Laurence Hostel, in Brunswick street, Fitzroy, has now been open for nearly two years. Its purpose is to provide decent ...
Article : 354 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Canberra and Yass anglers deplore what they believe to be lack of cooperation between the Water Supply ...
Article : 109 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — A proposal that the Christian Anti-smoking League be recognised as a valuable agency within the Church for instructing the young ...
Article : 250 wordsDavid Anderson, of Hamilton, retired farmer, who died on October 24, 1938, left by will dated October 8, 1936, real estate of a gross value of £3,039 and personal property of a ...
Article : 174 wordsSir,—A statement attributed to the Attorney-General (Mr. H. S. Balley) to the effect that he would introduce a bill to abolish the eight-year liquor polls was ...
Article : 224 wordsWhile auditions have been arranged for city entrants in Mr. Roy Fox's talent quest no plan has yet been completed for interviewing country candidates. Mr. Fox said ...
Article : 104 wordsFrank Beck, of Gamon street, Footscray, suffered a fractured base of the skull and a fractured shoulder when he was thrown from his motor-cycle in Buckley ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 7 Mar 1939, Page 2
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