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  2. PERSONAL

    On a brief holiday visit last week to Mrs. W. A. J. Mitchell, of Gardenia street, Horsham, were her sister, Mrs. S. Dagger, of Glenrowan; her niece ...

    Article : 434 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 78 words
  4. NEWS AND NOTES

    Weather conditions for the week-end were fine to cool. The official forecast is: Fine and cloudy at times in the south; cool to moderate temperatures. ...

    Article : 25 words
  5. GREEKS' SMASHING ATTACKS

    A communique states that there were no raids on Athens. on Friday night. "Our troops," adds the message, "are operating in a mountainous region nearly 6000 feet high and have occupied enemy positions of great strategic importance, ...

    Article : 254 words
  6. DISTRICT COMFORTS FUND BRANCHES NEEDED.

    At the annual meeting held last week the president (Mrs. R. J. Wilmoth) urged district people to co-operate in their respective districts and form a ...

    Article : 210 words
  7. Y.M.C.A. HELPING THE TROOPS.

    With the third division of militia troops going into training the Y.M.C.A. has reopened all centres temporarily closed wherever the men will ...

    Article : 264 words
  8. RESTRICTIONS ON MOTOR VEHICLES LIFTED.

    Advice has been received from the Country Roads Board that the restriction which was operating on the Dimboola, Horsham-Hamilton, ...

    Article : 158 words
  9. C.R.B. ALLOCATIONS FOR ROAD.

    The following allocations have been made by the Country Roads Board for the remainder of the current financial year of Federal-aid funds for the ...

    Article : 87 words
  10. HOSPITAL BAZAAR ATTRACTIONS.

    Whilst grown-ups will all know the fun and advantages of a bazaar such as will be conducted by the Horsham Hospital Carnival Committee in the ...

    Article : 100 words
  11. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 words
  12. POWER ALCOHOL FROM WHEAT.

    Reporting to the Chamber of Agriculture Council, Mr. W. McRobert, who represented the council at a recent conference held by the Power ...

    Article : 164 words
  13. HORSHAM THEATRE.

    On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights, the special feature is "There Goes My Heart." The merry romantic adventure of a madcap ...

    Article : 204 words
  14. DROUGHT'S EFFECT ON WHEAT YIELD.

    Drought and other factors have reduced the Australian wheat crop from 210,000,000 bushels last year to an estimated 83,000,000 bushels or less this ...

    Article : 237 words
  15. BRITISH CAPTURED AGORDAT

    The British General Headquarters state that with Agordat in their hands the next step in the Eritreau campaign will be the capture of Barentu, which ...

    Article : 341 words
  16. ESCAPING ELECTRICITY CAUSED HORSE TO COLLAPSE.

    During Saturday morning a drover named Mr. John Boram, incharge of a large flock of sheep near Bacchus Marsh, had a most miraculous escape ...

    Article : 142 words
  17. GERMAN AIRMEN REFUSE TO BATTLE

    Well over 100 Spitfires and Hurricanes carried out offensive patrols over the northern French coast today. Three squadrons of Hurricanes escorted a ...

    Article : 303 words
  18. MELBOURNE PRODUCE MARKET.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 words
  19. RE-FORMED BAND AT ARARAT.

    The first practice of the re-formed Ararat band was held in the band room on Thursday evening. There was an excellent muster of bandsmen, ...

    Article : 71 words
  20. HORSHAM MARKET REPORT.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 words
  21. BABIES CAN SWIM?

    According to a doctor who is head of the Babies' Hospital in New York, the old tradition that a human baby will swim when finding itself in water ...

    Article : 151 words
  22. SOCIAL

    The engagement is announced of Isabella Christina Ann (Isa), only child of Mrs. B. Peterson, 31 Clayton street, Ballarat East, and the late Mr. ...

    Article : 50 words
  23. Family Notices

    {No abstract available}

    Family Notices : 45 words
  24. AUSTRALIA'S POPULATION NOW SEVEN MILLION.

    The Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics stated that the population of Australia at the end of September last was 7,050.084, comprising ...

    Article : 80 words
  25. R.A.A.F. RECRUITING.

    A drive for recruits for the Air Force will be made in Horsham on Friday. Air crew and ground staff are urgently required. Flying Officer ...

    Article : 106 words
  26. VARIETY WHEAT TRIALS

    Several new wheats are now in their final stages of resting in the general experiment plots conducted by the Department of Agriculture at the Dookie ...

    Article : 489 words
  27. FALL OF SANDSTONE KILLED YOUTH.

    On Saturday afternoon, Alan Molony, 17 years, night telephone officer at the Beulah Post Office, was killed in a fall of sandstone in the quarry ...

    Article : 100 words
  28. The Horsham Times

    The dry period experienced over several summers in the Wimmera have brought to mind the need of up-to-date swimming baths for Horsham. In the ...

    Article : 383 words
  29. WHEAT STABILISATION AND CLAIMS.

    Because floods have prevented wheat growers in various districts from completing applications for registration of wheat farms and licences to grow ...

    Article : 85 words
  30. CHINESE ARMY RECEIVED FIELD TELEPHONES FROM BRITAIN.

    Five thousand field telephones, built by Britain for the Chinese army, weigh only nine pounds each—3½ pounds less than that of any foreign competitive ...

    Article : 131 words
  31. WHEAT GROWERS' MEETING.

    A meeting of the Horsham branch of the Victorian Wheat and Wool Growers' Association will be held at the Hotel Locarno on Friday, February ...

    Article : 59 words
  32. HONEY TRUCK OVERTURNED.

    Near the seven-mile post on the Western Highway, near Trawalla, a motor truck loaded with honey was capsized and the contents strewn ...

    Article : 56 words
  33. CHILD FOUND DEAD IN SHEEP DIP.

    Gwenda Wilson, who was barely two years old, was playing in a sand bed near a cowshed about 10 yards from the house with her sisters Norma Edith ...

    Article : 74 words
  34. GIRL ON HOUSEBREAKING CHARGE.

    At the Horsham Court of Petty Sessions on Friday, Evelyn Learmonth, an 18-year-old girl, was charged with house-breaking at Minyip. Mr. E. Omant, ...

    Article : 47 words
  35. POSTAGE STAMP PAPER FROM BRITAIN.

    Australia is one of 744 countries to which Britain is sending supplies of gummed paper for postage stamps in war time. In the last 12 months the ...

    Article : 191 words
  36. Stubborn Resistance Offered

    The Italians are now offering a stubborn resistance in the mountains a few miles to the west of Derna. The present, resistance may merely be a ...

    Article : 68 words
  37. WHEAT HANDLING SCHEME.

    The Grain Elevators Board states that the total cost of the bulk handling scheme is estimated at £2.500.000. which means that a further sum of ...

    Article : 324 words
  38. HORSHAM'S RAINFALL FOR YEAR

    During January there were three days of phenomenal rain and 459 points were registered. For the same period last year 73 points fell on five days. ...

    Article : 50 words
  39. A HINT TO MOTORISTS.

    If a tyre has to be replaced or other work done on the right hand side of the road, motorists are advised by the R.A.C.V. to pull well oft the made ...

    Article : 108 words
  40. AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER IN CAIRO

    The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, to-day announced that the Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, had arrived safely in Cairo by flying ...

    Article : 62 words
  41. NATIMUK LAKE ROSE SEVEN FEET.

    As the result of the recent heavy rainfall at Natimuk Lake, the indicator on the last pile of the jetty now shows a depth of more than five ...

    Article : 97 words
  42. ALLEGED SALE OF PETROL RATION TICKETS

    Reports that several thousand petrol ration tickets of the new type issued for the first time last Tuesday led to a prompt action by detectives to-day ...

    Article : 143 words
  43. DUSTY WINDSCREENS.

    The keeping of the windscreen clean gives the driver of a car a better chance of avoiding accidents, states the R.A.G.V. Sometimes after a long drive ...

    Article : 84 words
  44. A FALSE FIRE ALARM.

    A call was received at the Horsham Fire Station about 7.30 p.m. on Friday from Green Park, but when the firemen arrived at the spot from ...

    Article : 36 words
  45. NO DROUGHT IN HIS HEAD.

    At a meeting of the Kara kara-Borung District Council of the U.C.P. at Minyip, a delegate was illustrating the ignorance of city men in regard to ...

    Article : 125 words
  46. CAR SKIDDED, OCCUPANTS INJURED.

    A utility truck owned and driven by Mr. C. Hannel, of Murtoa, skidded in loose gravel and overturned on the Marnoo-Donald road eight miles from ...

    Article : 81 words
  47. TURKEY KILLED HAWK.

    Noticing a brown hawk attacking a brood of young turkeys. Mr. Norman McCallum an employee of Mr. Simon Black at Branxholme, hurried inside ...

    Article : 82 words
  48. INFANT BOY DROWNED IN BATHS.

    Robert Edward Coates, "the two- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. 0. Coates, of Minyip, was drowned in the Minyip swimming pool on, Saturday ...

    Article : 65 words
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