Future fire-protection policy in the light of the disastrous fires of January was outlined before the Royal Commission yesterday by ...
Article : 601 wordsPleading for extension of the afternoon tea habit, the Lord Mayor (Councillor A. W. Coles) said that it would greatly improve our ...
Article : 507 wordsWhile Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Jerome, of Middle street, Ascotvale, were away on a visit to the country on Monday damage estimated at ...
Article : 312 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday. — Shortly before the liner Orama sailed for London to-day a special coroner's Court was held to hear the ...
Article : 344 wordsAdmitting that he had accidentally shot a cyclist on the Ballarat road, near Bacchus Marsh, on the morning of November 19, Clarence ...
Article : 432 wordsNEWLY APPOINTED AIR AMBASSADRESS of Australian National Airways, Miss Cynthia Parsons, of Adelaide, has donned overalls and is learning the intricacies of aircraft engines at Essendon. Miss Parsons's job will be to sell air travel to the women of Australia. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 40 wordsBENDIGO, Wednesday.—Unqualified opposition to the unification of political power in Australia was expressed to-day at the ...
Article : 1,181 wordsUntil the identification of the victim is established detectives can make little progress in solving the murder of the man who was ...
Article : 219 wordsWARRAGUL, Wednesday.— Heroic deeds performed when the bush fires Swept through Tanjil and Fumina on January 13 were highly praised by the deputy ...
Article : 406 wordsA learner who obtained his driver's licence on the following day was at the wheel of a car which struck and killed Rita Day, aged nine years, school girl, ...
Article : 231 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—More than ordinary interest will be taken in the by-election in the Oxley electorate of the House of Representatives which will be ...
Article : 286 wordsPercival James Pullen, of Drummond street, Carlton, carnival promoter, successfully appealed in General Sessions yesterday against a conviction and fine ...
Article : 62 wordsThe body of a man whose identity has not yet been established was found in the Yarra between the Punt road and Anderson street bridges yesterday ...
Article : 78 wordsBecause a compulsory conference between the Announcers' Association of Australia and the Australian Federation of Commercial Broadcasting Stations has ...
Article : 139 wordsLAUNCESTON (T.), Wednesday.—Remarkable disclosures were made when evidence was heard before the Royal Commission on Local Government to-day from ...
Article : 181 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Electric Light and Power Supply Corporation Ltd. of Balmain has let a contract for the supply of electrical equipment valued at about ...
Article : 85 wordsAs the estimated total of funds for fire sufferers is £240,000, a meeting of the Lord Mayor's 1939 Bush Fire Relief Committee decided yesterday to close the ...
Article : 256 wordsSince he left home at 8.40 a.m. on March 9 to attend the Cromwell street school, Victor Lowe, aged 11½ years, of Easey street, Collingwood, has been ...
Article : 76 wordsApplication has been made to the Victorian probate office for resealing of the will of Thomas Pope, of Lundcsdale, Asheldon road, Torquay, Devon, ...
Article : 471 wordsSeveral country candidates in the Roy Fox quest for undiscovered entertainment talent have replied to 3SR Shepparton in answer to a broadcast ...
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Article : 79 wordsA visit to Pentridge was recalled by the Governor (Lord Huntingfield) at a dinner given to him and Lady Huntingfield by the English Speaking Union at the Hotel ...
Article : 155 wordsSinging at the Assembly Hall last night, Miss Etta Bernard—who is paying a brief return visit to Australia under contract to the Australian Broadcasting Commission ...
Article : 154 wordsWho killed Lily Palmer? This is the question which faces the police at the opening of "Black Limelight," a mystery play by Gordon Sherry, which will open ...
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Article : 68 wordsPRACTICE COURT.—Before the chief Justice (Sir Frederick Mann).— At 10.30— Probate. Chamber business. BANCO COURT.—Before Mr. Justice Lowe. ...
Article : 204 wordsHerbert Albert Winning, aged 18 years, fibrous plaster worker, of Fyffe street, Thornbury, was killed almost instantly when his bicycle and a car collided a[?] ...
Article : 39 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The skeleton of a woman which was found on Monday in scrub near Kemp's Creek bridge was identified to-day as that of Miss Ivy Edith ...
Article : 100 wordsRonald Furlong, aged 14 years, of the Esplanade, Port Melbourne, died in the Royal Melbourne Hospital yesterday morning from injuries suffered when he ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Education Department has distributed among a few selected schools in Victoria 100 copies of a book entitled "Adam Lindsay Gordon: His Life and ...
Article : 126 wordsWhen "Safety Lane" ended yesterday the total number of cars which had passed through it in the three days in which it was open was 535, compared ...
Article : 98 wordsMILDURA, Wednesday.—Frank Dunne, aged 56 years, of Cardross, died in the Mildura Base Hospital this afternoon. He was admitted on Saturday morning ...
Article : 40 wordsTo be the one white woman among 90,000 Hindus who were performing a mystic religious rite was the culmination of a two years' world tour for Miss Pat ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 356 wordsPolice pictures of the dental plate of the victim of the murder at Dumosa, near Wycheproof. Detectives hope that the dentist who made the plate will recognise his work and assist in the identification of the man, whose body was found in a sack in a dam on March 24. The plate contained ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 122 wordsCharles John Forsey, aged 45 years, baker and pastrycook, of Johnston street, Collingwood, who was found with a bullet wound in the head, and an automatic ...
Article : 87 wordsZoo attendants discovered yesterday that an Egyptian goose had attacked Australian pelicans in the same enclosure, killing one and injuring the bill of ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 30 Mar 1939, Page 3
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