Residents of several Melbourne suburbs have been terrorised by gunmen in the past week, men and women having been bailed up and robbed in a boarding house, a grocer robbed of £15 and taxi drivers held up in lanes. ...
Article : 654 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Tenders were called yesterday by the Commonwealth Works Department for the erection of two steel hangars at Darwin. ...
Article : 163 wordsStock Exchanges in both London and New York finished stronger last week, and business was of greater volume. Australian 'changes closed ...
Article : 371 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—Mr. Justice Henchman continued his summing up in the Criminal Court yesterday in the case in which Edward Claude Helton ...
Article : 78 wordsThe suggestion by the London "Daily Express" that colonies should be returned to Germany is not likely to find support in Ministerial circles. The Australian Government believes it unthinkable that the ...
Article : 326 wordsThe fact that no teeth were found in the ashes of the fire in which Gordon Robert M.'Kay (43), Sydney skin dealer, was burned to ...
Article : 167 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Walter John Turner (68), of Knowles street. Northcote, died from injuries received late yesterday, when he was knocked ...
Article : 59 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—A fourstoned brick office block at Victoria Barracks, St. Kilda Road, and extensions to Flinders Naval Depot are ...
Article : 130 wordsBird nesting is a "sissy" sport, the boys in Tully North Queensland, believe. George Brice and a friend, ...
Article : 85 words"There will be no night flying by mail planes while I am Postmaster-General," said Mr. Cameron at a civic reception ...
Article : 61 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—Thieves broke into a fruit and confectionery shop in Liverpool street, occupied by William Robert Jarvis, during the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe King hag appointed the Federal Treasurer (Mr. R. G. Casey) a Privy Councillor. This high honor was announced to-night by ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 230 wordsSupport for the request of dole workers to be allowed to earn up to the basic wage, including sustenance allowance, was voiced ...
Article : 603 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—The ketch Coomoonderry, 145 tons, which went aground on the night of February 26, got off the shallows half a mile from ...
Article : 58 wordsAn armed hold-up was carried out in the crowded bar of the Star Hotel, Botany road, Alexandria, yesterday, £44 being stolen. ...
Article : 98 wordsNotice of appeal against his conviction for double murder was lodged in the Supreme Court yesterday by George Green (38), of ...
Article : 219 wordsThere was anxiety in Melbourne to-night for the safety of the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Casey) and Mrs. Casey, when, on a flight from ...
Article : 308 wordsPERTH (W.A.), Sunday.—A seaman in the wheat freighter Riley, which reached Fremantle this morning from Shanghai, was proved to be ...
Article : 57 wordsA meeting of the Penguin Football Club was held at the Neptune Grand Hotel on Saturday night. Mr. A. Fielding presiding over a good attendance ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 495 wordsEasily the most interesting and spectacular exercise to have been carried out since members of the 22nd Light ...
Article : 782 wordsA man was killed and seven people were injured in it collision between a truck and car on the Yea-Molesworth road last night. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Government has banned the importation of edible frogs. Experts said they were prolific breeders, and might become a pest. ...
Article : 38 wordsAn inquest was held before the Coroner (Mr. W. A. Downie) at the Police Court yesterday morning touching the death of Athol David ...
Article : 322 wordsIt is reported in Christchurch that the 3600 tons of potatoes purchased by the Government last year and ...
Article : 189 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Seven persons were injured in a smash at Mentone early this morning, when a car and a motor truck came into a head-on ...
Article : 78 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—John Daniel Chalman (25), single, of East Brunswick, railway employe, was killed instantly when the motor cycle he was ...
Article : 41 wordsBuildings and timber stacks spread ever one acre at Goldie & Sons' timber mill were swept by fire early to-day. Damage is ...
Article : 53 wordsAUCKLAND, Sunday.—The chief object for which it was established— the planting and maintenance of huge pine forests—having been practically ...
Article : 117 wordsBALLARAT, Sunday.—Although Police and [?]an parties, with the aid of a black [?] have searched the country [?] Miners' Rest, no trace ...
Article : 83 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Melbourne defeated Sydney by 50 points to 44 in the second annual inter-city amateur swimming contest held since the war ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Mon 6 Mar 1939, Page 7
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