Three cyclists and a motor-cyclist were killed at the week-end when their machines were involved in collisions with motor-cars. One of the victims was a scoutmaster. ...
Article : 346 wordsConfronted with several puzzling features in the mysterious theft of gold worth £4,000 from 115 mail bags on Thursday night. ...
Article : 357 wordsGROTESQUE FIGURES IN GASPROOF CLOTHING dashed through smoke clouds at Diamond Creek, yesterday when the Metropolitan Gas Company and Caulfield St. John Ambulance Brigade staged a most comprehensive anti-gas demonstration. (Right) A nurse and infant in their gas masks ready to play their part in the demonstration. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 48 wordsA message from Belgrade says that the Jugoslav members of the Permanent German- Jugoslav Economic Committee, have been ...
Article : 597 wordsIcing of the carburettors was responsible for the loss of the Imperial Airways fling-boat Cavalier, 170 miles off Cape May (New ...
Article : 307 wordsThree persons were injured when two cars collided in Waverley street Moonee Ponds, yesterday morning. At the Royl Melbourne Hospital, ...
Article : 73 wordsWhile a sick girl was being driven to the Royal Melbourne Hospital on Saturday evening the car in which she was travelling was involved in a collision with ...
Article : 147 wordsRoped to a fence, an intruder was handed over to the Hawthorn police on Saturday night by a Kew resident who had found the man in his house. ...
Article : 177 wordsAll available money was urgently needed for defence, and this was the principal reason why the full national insurance plan ...
Article : 283 wordsAustralia will be visited next year by a big delegation of United States business men and women —much larger than the ...
Article : 197 wordsThe King and the President of the French Republic (M. Lebrun) exchanged telegrams at the conclusion of the French State visit to England. ...
Article : 164 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Ronald George Deans, aged 10 years, of Hammond avenue. Croydon, was knocked down by a motor-car in Parramatta road, ...
Article : 161 wordsIn a new log of claims which is being drafted by the Manufacturing Grocers' Union for submission to the employers on the expiry of the present award, the ...
Article : 102 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—Kenneth Williams, aged 17 years, of Ipswich, was killed, and Robert Edward Kent, of Ipswich, was seriously injured when a motor-cycle they ...
Article : 45 wordsWhile they were competing in a cycling race at Oakleigh on Saturday afternoon two riders were injured. William Hopkins aged 24 years of High ...
Article : 59 wordsWest Coburg Citizens' Band, with 32 points, won a street march from Puckle street, Moonee Ponds, to the Essendon recreation reserve yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 115 wordsA pearl necklet and a sovereign, worth £26/10/, were stolen from the home of Mr. J. K. Longmuir, of Moreland road, West Brunswick, on Saturday night. The ...
Article : 44 wordsOUYEN, Sunday.—About 200 wheatgrowers at a meeting at Pinnaroo yesterday decided to support Western Australia in its request for a price of 4/ a bushel for ...
Article : 82 wordsJUNEE (N.S.W.), Sunday.—The Minister for Health (Mr. Richardson) last night met a deputation from the Junee Hospital reorganisation committee, which ...
Article : 83 wordsItaly has a new Parliament, called the Chamber of Fascios and Corporations. The nominee Senate continues to function as far as its clipped wings will allow ...
Article : 386 wordsPlans for subsidising British merchant shipping are expected to be announced in the House of Commons on Tuesday by the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. ...
Article : 110 wordsA blackened eye was the reward of Mr. Stanley R. Edwards for a courageous attempt to seize three intiuders in his house in Glass street Essendon on ...
Article : 107 wordsThe need for character and educational training was emphasised by Mr. Menzies, M.H.R., on Saturday, when he opened the second day of the Carey Baptist ...
Article : 139 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.— Archibald E. Kemp teller at the Bank of New South Wales at Miles, was shot yesterday when a revolver which he was carrying dropped ...
Article : 78 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Federal Parliamentary Country party praise for the new national insurance scheme is given in an official statement issued to-day. ...
Article : 136 wordsWearing his Boy Scout's shorts, Griska Goluboff, the celebrated boy violinist, took a day away from his violin in the bush yesterday. He spent a busy time ...
Article : 98 wordsHalf a million spectators in New York cheered a huge "Stop Hitler" parade yesterday, in which 200,000 members of labour unions, Czech societies, and others ...
Article : 84 wordsThieves who blew open the safe at the Fountain Inn Hotel, Crockford street, Port Melbourne, yesterday, escaped with £120 The sum included £39 belonging to the ...
Article : 109 wordsThe congregation at the Canterbury Salvation Army Hall yesterday passed a resolution protesting against the application for an hotel in close proximity to the ...
Article : 41 wordsIn our issue of March 22, under the heading "German Tender Rejected," when reporting the rejection by the Sydney County Council of certain tenders ...
Article : 86 wordsWhile skating at the St. Moritz Palais, Esplanade, St. Kilda, on Saturday night. Noiman Tregonning, aged 19 years, of Odessa street St. Kilda, slipped and ...
Article : 43 wordsAccording to a broadcast from Lisbon, the Republican authorities at Madrid deny that envoys have been sent to Burgos, but state that negotiations are ...
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Advertising : 415 wordsBROKEN HILL (N.S.W.) Sunday. — Splintered glass from a door fell into the beer which was being drunk by several men when a shot was fired ...
Article : 163 words'HOBART, Sunday.—Postponement of national health insurance until defence became of less urgency is favoured in a motion agreed to at a meeting of the ...
Article : 78 wordsA Moscow Press agency message states that the Anglo-Russian trade talks began on Saturday afternoon. The Secretary of the Oversea Trade ...
Article : 56 wordsMore than 10,000 adult refugees from Germany Austria and Czechoslovakia have entered Great Britain in one year. According to information given by the ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Board of Trade is arranging for the importation during April, May, and June of additional bacon, amounting to 208,650cwt., from certain supplying ...
Article : 62 wordsThe King and Queen will dine with the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) and Mrs. Chamberlain on Wednesday at No. 10 Downing Street. ...
Article : 50 wordsBALLARAT, Sunday.—Ballarat s 14th unexplained fire this year occuued last night, when a five-roomed weatherboard house in Talbot street south was party ...
Article : 85 words—(By Airmail) WEARING THC MAGNIFICENT JEWELLED TRIPLE CROWN that had been placed on his head in view of 500,000 people massed in the square below, Pope Pius XII. showed himself to the crowd ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 60 wordsDARWIN, Sunday.—Near the end of "the wet," when North Australian weather is at its hottest, Darwin has gone "dry." The town's beer supply ran out on ...
Article : 87 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.— Directors of Monier Industries Ltd. will ask shareholders to authorise the creation and issue of 20,000 7½ per cent, participating ...
Article : 85 wordsRather than be captured after having been wounded, Earl Durand, aged 26 years, shot himself at Powell (Wyoming) on Friday. ...
Article : 167 wordsMore than 60 women chemists yesterday watched a tear gas demonstration at Box Hill. The demonstration was arranged by ...
Article : 58 wordsAccidentally tipping a pot of boiling tea over himself at his home yesterday morning, Roy Sinclair, aged 14 years, of Port Melbourne, suffered burns to the ...
Article : 37 wordsPractical instruction in gas preventive measures was given to 200 men at Bittern camp on Saturday afternoon when Australia's first mobile gas chamber was ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 27 Mar 1939, Page 9
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