Again appealing to the people to face war production problems objectively, and to lose no time in putting in hand a coordinated, well-directed war effort, Cr. ...
Article : 263 wordsALL readers have been thrilled in their school days by Macaulay's immortal lay of Horatius, who guarded the approaches to a bridge over which the ...
Article : 1,372 wordsThe process of turning civilians into soldiers of the A.I.F. worked smoothly and efficiently at Royal Park recruit reception depot yesterday, when an official party ...
Article : 564 wordsSo much of the October-June quota of cigarettes was consumed between October and December that rationing by manufacturers has become necessary. ...
Article : 296 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—To reduce the drain on oversea exchange and to increase the consumption of Australian primary products, the people of the ...
Article : 295 wordsJapan had been mobilising her resources, both material and spiritual, in order to secure the maximum national effort, and relations between the Korean ...
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Family Notices : 1,886 wordsA strong plea to the Commonwealth Government not to pass over Victoria's proposals for development of large-scale shipbuilding at the Melbourne Harbour ...
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Advertising : 21 wordsNews just released of the resistance at Tobruk shows that in this essential theatre of war Australians are again giving proof ...
Article : 662 wordsThe days when school teacheis were considered to be academic, rather frightening, and very dull people sheltering behind thick-lensed spectacles, seem to be ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 329 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — The number of persons employed in Australian factories at the end of March was 655,000— 51.5 per cent, more than in the ...
Article : 132 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Sir Frederick Stewart, Minister for External Affairs, said to-night he was still hopeful that he would be able to announce within the ...
Article : 114 wordsFormation of a Volunteer Coastal Patrol in Victoria was begun yesterday, when a call was made for motor-boats and men to man them. ...
Article : 172 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Value of Australian imports will be down £A13,000,000 in the current financial year, compared with 1939-40, Mr. Carver, Acting ...
Article : 108 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Cable and wireless messages to Australian newspapers from Britain would no longer be subject to censorship in Australia if they ...
Article : 135 wordsBROKEN HILL, Thursday. — Crippled by a fall from his horse and suffering intense pain, an employee of Monnaminta Station spent two and a half days in the ...
Article : 187 wordsDaily we read of the devastation being wrought in Britain by bombing attacks from the air. "Total warfare" spares no one; the Nazis have shown a callous ...
Article : 248 wordsYesterday was St. Joan of Arc's Day. To celebrate the feast of the patron saint of France, members of the French colony gathered at her statue outside the Public ...
Article : 140 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) received Mr. Fadden, Acting Prime Minister, at Government House, Canberra, yesterday. ...
Article : 50 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — A warning that compulsion would be used against traders who would not co-operate in the price control system was given to-day by ...
Article : 85 wordsAttacking '"play boys" whom he described as "blasphemers dicing for gain at the foot of Christ's cross," Rev. P. W. Baldwin, of St. John's Church, Latrobe ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. P. F. G. Gordon, general manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia Limited, accompanied by Mrs. Gordon, returned to Melbourne by the Sydney ...
Article : 109 wordsFull co-opcration would be given by the trading banks to the Government in the work, of cashing child endowment orders, said Mr. G. D. Healy, chairman ...
Article : 92 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Only 58 allens were admitted to Australia in the first three months of this year, and they did not include any Germans or Italians, ...
Article : 80 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Many members of the A.I.F. are to be decorated for their services in the Greek campaign. Mr. Spender, Army Minister, said ...
Article : 70 wordsA women's land army and expansion of the employment section of the Labour Department to exercise closer control over seasonal workers are measures which ...
Article : 107 wordsChina's munition factories, shifted inland from the coastal regions, were producing all her needs of light arms, Mr. F. K. T. Loh (Chinese Government ...
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Article : 4 wordsLiving conditions of many University students, who have made their homes in disused stables and lofts of old homes in Parkville and Carlton, are to be ...
Article : 174 wordsNo difficulty had been experienced so far in obtaining female labour for munitions works, Mr. Holt, Minister for Labour, said yesterday. ...
Article : 135 wordsComplaints were made yesterday that some universal trainees in Balcombe and Mt. Martha military camps had been denied leave this week-end because a ...
Article : 144 wordsA misunderstanding about enlistments in the Volunteer Defence Corps had been satisfactorily cleaicd up, said BrigadierGeneral C. H. Foott, Victorian ...
Article : 103 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Hints of further curtailment of private building activities to divert more material and men to the war effort were given to-nignt by ...
Article : 96 wordsForty-eight drivers employed by the Red Top Taxi Service will resume work this morning. They have been unemployed since Tuesday, when the ...
Article : 55 wordsOrganised by joint committees of the Lord Mayor's Fund and the Flowergrowers' Association, Flower Day will be held in Melbourne to-day, and, it is ...
Article : 57 wordsToronto, Canadian capital, with a population of 648,000, did not report one case of diphtheria in the last year, according to information received ...
Article : 46 words"Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts."—P[?]alm cxxy.[?] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 9 May 1941, Page 4
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