Excellent rain has fallen in many parts of the State, and towns from the Western district to Gippsland reported last night that falls were continuing. The best news for anxious country people, however, is that ...
Article : 937 wordsA "reasonably fine day, with cool, southerly winds" is expected for the 1938 Melbourne Cup to-morrow. Thousands of visitors from other States and oversea are in Melbourne. Business circles regard it as the ...
Article : 1,271 wordsIn perfect formation as a symbolic cross six Avro-Ansons flew over the Australian Flying Corps memorial at Point Cooke ...
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Advertising : 342 wordsFour persons were killed and many were injured in road accidents at the week-end. When he was driving a motor-car ...
Article : 272 wordsWith impressive ceremony, the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) unveiled the Australian Hying Corps Memorial on the parade-ground at Point Cooke yesterday. Lower: His Excellency inspecting members of the original Australian Flying Corps. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 37 wordswomen and a youth were wounded last night when Gordon Hart, aged 19 years, railway clerk, fired four shots from an automatic ...
Article : 528 wordsNominations for tho City Council elections on November 7 close at the Town Hall at 4 p.m. to-day. Four candidates have announced their intention to ...
Article : 169 wordsFive persons were injured when a car driven by Robert Sharp, aged 41 years, of Kellett street, Northcote, got out of control and overturned in White Horse ...
Article : 198 wordsCURRIE.—In conjunction with the King Island Dairymen's Association the Department of Agriculture will hold a field day here on November 3. Addresses will be ...
Article : 205 wordsHEATHCOTE, Sunday. — The South Heathcote State school was destroyed by fire early this morning Only the brick walls are standing, and are on the point ...
Article : 53 wordsAfter he had been knocked down by a car at the corner of Dandenong and Murrumbeena roads, Murrumbeena, last night, George Marriott, aged 75 years, of ...
Article : 59 wordsA baby had an amazing escape from serious injury in Martin street, St. Kilda, on Saturday afternoon, when a perambulator was struck by a motor-cycle, and ...
Article : 84 wordsCOLAC, Sunday.—A shop and the contents in Murray street were destroyed by fire early this morning. The brigade prevented the fire from spreading to ...
Article : 123 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—H.M.A.S. Kookaburra was launched at Cockatoo Island Dockyard yesterday by Mrs. P. E. McNeil, wife of Engineer Rear-Admiral McNell, ...
Article : 189 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The Amalgamated Milk Vendors' Association has decided to ask the Minister for Health (Mr. Fitzslmons) what action the Government ...
Article : 95 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Shirley Benjamin, aged 7 years, of McIntyre street, Gordon, was killed when the door of a taxi-cab in which she was riding flew open to-day ...
Article : 58 wordsIn view of the extent to which the Australian Broadcasting Commission is able to influence public opinion, the Council for Civil Liberties is seeking to have ...
Article : 87 wordsCLUNES, Sunday. — Fire destroyed a seven-roomed house with the contents owned by Mr. Leonard Allen, of Station Flat. The articles destroyed included a ...
Article : 66 wordsWhen the motor-eycle which he was riding was struck by a motor-car at the intersection of Alexandia avenue and Church street, South Yarra, on Saturday ...
Article : 513 wordsShowers of rain did not deter thousands of men, women, and children fiom travelling to Port Melbourne yesterday afternoon to see the warships now in port for ...
Article : 73 wordsThe golden jubilee of the Victorian Rangers was held on Saturday night, when a large number of rangers attended, including 20 South African Rangers. The ...
Article : 135 wordsIt is difficult to imagine political or military leaders taking part in the classical ballet, but it is not unusual for a Japanese diplomat or general to take part in the ...
Article : 155 wordsOscar Frost, aged 45 years, of Bank street, Prahran, collapsed at his home on Saturday night. The ambulance was summoned and he was taken to the Alfred ...
Article : 39 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Thomas Albiston, who was the oldest surviving officer of the Salvation Army in the Commonwealth, died at his home at Coburg on Friday. ...
Article : 163 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — The accommodation in Christ Church, Lavender Bay, was not sufficient to hold the people who attended the funeral service yesterday of ...
Article : 150 wordsThe competition for the Kitson cup among Boy Scout Troops of the Northcote district was held on land adjoining the Sam Dennis Scout Hall (headquarters of ...
Article : 204 wordsOn Saturday night a reunion celebrating the anniversary of the departure of the 13th and 14th reinforcements of the Australian Flying Corps for England, was ...
Article : 154 wordsMr. F. A. A. Russell, K.C., of Sydney, died at Bowral (N.S.W.) yesterday. He was the eldest brother of Mr. E. R. Russell and Mr. Alan H. Russell, of Melbourne. ...
Article : 154 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Thousands of people risked injury yesterday by walking over a detonator which was lying on the footpath in George street, near ...
Article : 75 wordsEfforts will be made by the Rope and Cordage Union to have the proportion of juventle labour in the industry considerably reduced. Logs of claims have been ...
Article : 115 wordsApplications for the post of director of extension at the University of Melbourne will close to-day. It will carry a salary of £750 to £1,000 a year. As at present ...
Article : 96 wordsAs a result of the discontinuance of the publication of the "A" series of cost of living figures by the Commonwealth Statistician members of the ...
Article : 108 wordsThe funeral of Mr. A. W. Barnes, of Darebin street, Heidelberg, will leave his residence for the Heidelberg Cemetery at i pm to-day Mr. Barnes, who was aged ...
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Advertising : 56 wordsUnder an amended determination of the Fuel and Fodder Wages Board the working hours of all employees, including carters, in metropolitan fuel yards, retail ...
Article : 103 wordsInterstate and New Zealand delegates to the all-Australia Timber Congress and their wives were taken on a motor tour of the Acheron Way yesterday by the ...
Article : 76 wordsThieves smashed a public telephone in a cabinet in Exhibition street, city, yesterday morning, and stole the money container. The incident was witnessed, and ...
Article : 80 wordsForty-four men were arrested in a raid by the gaming police in Collins street, city, on Saturday night. The police burst into premises near the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 31 Oct 1938, Page 3
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