Detailed comments on the 23 points of national policy proposed by Cr. Coles, M.P., in a letter to Mr. Fadden, Acting Prime Minister, ...
Article : 351 wordswas inspected yesterday by members of the State Emergency Council. The unit consists of a breakdown van and a fire-fighting waggon. From Left: Mr. G. G. Jobbins, Mr. H. H. Bell, chairman Tramways Board; Sir John Harris, Minister for Health; ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 475 wordsAppreciation was expressed by Mr. W. Y. Tsao, Chinese ViceConsul, yesterday, of the statement of Sir Frederick Stewart, Minister ...
Article : 625 wordsEnlistments in the A.I.F. have trebled since the intensive recruiting campaign began last week. Both in the metropolitan area and in the country excellent ...
Article : 264 wordsWhen he opened the Victorian section of the Commonwealth Government's £35,000,000 war loan appeal before a lunch-hour crowd of thousands in Collins ...
Article : 496 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Three retailers, one of whom said, "We are afraid to squeal to the companies gave evidence before the board of inquiry into cash ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 327 wordsThe best indication of the seriousness with which the Nazis took the Balkan threat was the name of the man who was in charge of operations there: ...
Article : 597 wordsNo date has yet been fixed for the promised early session of the Federal Parliament to discuss the Greek campaign and war developments in the Middle East. ...
Article : 121 wordsAt the request of Southern Command the lower hall of the Town Hall would again be made available as a recruiting depot, Cr. F. Beaurepaire, Lord Mayor, ...
Article : 159 wordsA statement by Cr. Coles, M.P., in Essendon Town Hall last night, that if the remainder of the Empire would do the same as the people of Britain were ...
Article : 460 wordsThese words, scrawled on scraps of paper beside a drawing of a haloed head, have been found in a number of robbed factories in North and West Melbourne ...
Article : 246 wordsThe public gave good support yesterday to the new £35,000,000 war and works loan. The number of applications received was officially described as very ...
Article : 218 wordsThe leader of a deputation from the Local Option Alliance to the Congregational Union conference, yesterday, said that Germany, Italy, Russia, and France ...
Article : 251 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Horace Stanton Crouch, foreman at the bakery of R. J. White and Co., told the Army Bread Board Commission to-day that bread ...
Article : 150 wordsCr. Coles, M.P. was apparently entirely ignorant of the sacrifices being made by the motor industry, Mr. H. W. Harrison, secretary of the Chamber of ...
Article : 105 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—All goods sold by Robert Reid and Co. Ltd., Melbourne, warehousemen, have been declared goods under the National Security ...
Article : 297 wordsThe second master from Wesley College to be reported missing since the outbreak of war, Captain H. J. Kroger, was, before he enlisted in 1939, a leading ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 330 wordsThe finance committee of the Metropolitan Board of Works decided yesterday to recommend to the board meeting next Tuesday that £50,000, portion of its ...
Article : 61 wordsAn assurance that the Federal Government had not called a conference to deal with absorption of women in industry generally was given yesterday by Mr. ...
Article : 138 wordsSince the declaration of war the world has been kept more or less on tenterhooks by the repeated claims of Germany to possess a secret weapon. Germany, of ...
Article : 105 wordsTraffic at peak periods on the Box Hill and Caulfield lines was rapidly approaching present capacity, but the need for extensions on other lines was not ...
Article : 94 wordsRUTHERGLEN, Wednesday.—At a war saving rally, held here to-night, presided over by Cr. S. P. Diffey, shire president, £6,000 was subscribed. As the ...
Article : 45 wordsA decision to boycott all hotels, wine saloons, and catering establishments controlled by the management of Hotel Alexander was made at a meeting of the ...
Article : 150 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—More than £90,000 was received or promised at the opening rally of the W.A. campaign for Commonwealth loan subscriptions last ...
Article : 48 wordsWhen asUed whether the War Cabinet had further discussed censorship action against a section of the Sydney Press because of its crticism of the war effort ...
Article : 119 wordsCaulfield is a generous subscriber to the Australian Comforts Fund and Red Cross. The Lord Mayor said yesterday that Caulfield had one of the best ...
Article : 53 wordsAn extension of effective areas from which trainees may be drawn for universal service was announced yesterday by Mr. Spender, Army Minister. ...
Article : 294 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Whether Torres Strait pilots who pilot ships between Point Danger on the N.S.W. border, and Tucker Point buoy, near ...
Article : 139 wordsLarge numbers of one of America's most modern fighters—the Brewster Buffalo—have arrived at Singapore and are already being used by the R.A.F. ...
Article : 64 wordsBROKEN HILL, Wednesday.—When playing near the back gate of his home in Argent st. this afternoon, Ronald Lively, 3, was run over by a train ...
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Advertising : 82 wordsLarge quantities of military stores of all kinds are said to have been found in a house at Fairfield yesterday afternoon. When loaded into a large military ...
Article : 124 wordsTo help in the work of tracing Ausstralian soldiers missing after the campaign in Greece, 10 more Red Cross searchers were being appointed. trebling ...
Article : 135 wordsPhotographs and brief personal notes of members of the services who have been reported as casualties, or who have gained distinction, will be published in "The ...
Article : 39 wordsThe meeting of the War Cabinet in Melbourne yesterday was delayed about two hours because of the late arrival of the airways plane from Sydney, in which ...
Article : 61 wordsTo put before the public the need for rapid and adequate A.R.P. organisation and urge that the Commonwealth Government accept full responsibility for ...
Article : 105 wordsAt a time when the question of convoys is so much in the news the new Ministry of Information film, "Mastery of the Sea." should prove of wide ...
Article : 113 wordsA new stage in the training of air crews for service oversea was reached this week when the Empire Air Scheme began its second year of operation. ...
Article : 97 wordsWELLINGTON, Wednesday.—After hearing a statement by Mr. Fraser, Prime Minister, on the circumstances leading to the Government's decision to despatch ...
Article : 48 wordsTest pieces for the choral contests at this year's South Street competitions will be:—Grand Champion Choral Contest— Chorus, "The Ship," Guy Booth; part ...
Article : 149 wordsExcavation of the first section of the new Appleton Dock was two-thirds completed under difficult labour conditions, Mr. A. D. Mackenzie, Harbour Trust ...
Article : 107 wordsLieut.—Colonel Charles Ashmore Mitchell, V.D., who died on April 24 at Caulfield. was born in 1862 at Drumreask, Co. Monaghan, Ireland. He came to ...
Article : 140 wordsWAGGA.—The Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association's fodder competitions resulted:—Graziers' Section.—T. V. and R. L. Brunskill, Forest ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 1 May 1941, Page 5
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