Packed houses greeted "Dad Rudd, M.P.," on the screen and Bert Bailey, the veteran actor, on the stage on Saturday at the matinee and the night ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 647 wordsMiss Mollie E. Jones. A.I.C.A., a State organiser of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and State President of the Young People's Branch. ...
Article : 136 wordsFlax is as vital as actual munitions for the operations of the Navy, Army and Air Force, but Britain is almost entirely dependent on foreign sources, ...
Article : 192 wordsThis year marks the jubilee of foreign missions in connection with Australian Churches of Christ. To make possible the desired advancement and ...
Article : 277 wordsUnder an amendment to the Infections Diseases Regulation children suffering from German measles are to be excluded from school for seven days ...
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Advertising : 72 wordsWith wheat sowing already delayed more than two months, and no rain yet in sight, the outlook in the southern Mallee is serious. So far this year 2½ ...
Article : 241 wordsA great anti-cyclonic held has been covering most of southern Australia for most of this month. While it remains, chances of much-needed rain are ...
Article : 101 wordsThe annual meeting of the Walpeup Sports Club will be held on Wednesday, July 10, at 1.30 p.m. A £70 programme will be presented, including ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 wordsTo-day a draft of 30 men will leave here for the A.I.F., and on Friday, another 35, of whom 20 are Horsham men. The men who left here on ...
Article : 133 wordsThe characteristic quality of blotting paper was discovered as the result of an accident or a piece of carelessness It appears that going on for about 100 ...
Article : 309 wordsTo-morrow night at the skating rink in Wilson street there will be a masked carnival, for which prizes will be offered. On Saturday night the season ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 107 wordsTickets for the Horsham Base Hospital concert to be held on Saturday night, are being freely disposed of and the reservations so far indicate that ...
Article : 158 wordsMushroom schools opened by opened by poorly qualified teachers to replace evacuated private schools, are springing up all over the country charging—and ...
Article : 156 wordsSeveral of the young patients at the Horsham Base Hospital who have been receiving after-care treatment for infantile paralysis ...
Article : 134 wordsAt a meeting of the committee and members of the Rupanyup and Marnoo A. and P. Society it was decided inadvisable to hold the 1940 show on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 wordsFive "tea cars"—Ford 10 cwt, vans, specially designed to serve hot refreshments to troops where no canteen is available—have been presented to the ...
Article : 200 wordsThere ended in America a few weeks ago a divorce suit which began 15 years ago. It was begun by the husband. Wiley Hutchcock, school teacher, of ...
Article : 114 wordsOn Thursday evening at the Horsham Public Library Hall, the Rev S. D. Yarrington is to give a lecture to women on the subject of "What ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 83 wordsA meeting of the Horsham committee appointed to conduct the sale of war savings certificates and also war loans held its first meeting at the Town ...
Article : 296 wordsA dance in aid of the Horsham Red Cross Society will be held in the Masonic Hall on Monday, July 22. There will be novelty dances and the Rhythm ...
Article : 43 words"The land is more important than what is grows" is a saying hard to reconcile with profitable farming. Looking back through the centuries, ...
Article : 258 wordsAt a win-the-war rally at Murtoa on Friday night a stirirng address was delivered by Mr. G. Holland. State president of the Returned Soldiers ...
Article : 309 wordsOn Friday, July 12, the proceeds of the hosiery bar at Messrs Cook & Sons shop will be donated the Red Cross Society. ...
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Family Notices : 123 wordsFrom a friend in Adelaide Mr. John Butler has heard an amusing story of how a resident decovered a diamond ring worth £25 by systematically ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Australian Woolgrowers' Council, which has concluded its annual meeting in Melbourne decided not to ask at present for an increase in the ...
Article : 155 wordsIn a letter to the Town Clerk of Horsham. Kathleen Harrison, president of the auxiliaries committee, writes:— On July 1,1940, we anticipate opening ...
Article : 175 wordsMany citizens have rallied to the appeal by the Town Council to gather all waste paper and take it to the council's yard, off Delville street. On ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Country Women's Association has adopted a resolution that a women's land army should be formed. Before the war, or even before the ...
Article : 255 wordsGraziers in the Maroona district who have been suffering losses in the lambing flocks by the depredations of foxes have adopted a novel and successful ...
Article : 69 wordsFor some time past the Stawell Borough Council has been working on a scheme of presentation of a suitable certificate to residents who have ...
Article : 74 wordsWhen the motor car in which he was travelling alone overturned on Sunday morning. Mr. Ray George Brand, 20 years ...
Article : 211 wordsMany Victorian clergymen are engaged in mission work in Africa, and their life is not without thrills, even when they are on holiday bent. Mrs. ...
Article : 285 wordsThe Nhill Hospital committee of management has received a great of £9000 from the Government for the building of a new community hospital. The ...
Article : 70 wordsOne thousand bags of flour milled from Mallee wheat are now lying at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It was manufactured by Messrs Jas ...
Article : 79 wordsA navy was born on the River Thames when a pennant was hoisted in a coastal motor torpedo boat alongside a pier at Chelsea, two miles above ...
Article : 250 wordsThere was a good attendance of members of the women's section of the United Country Party in the Methodist Hall on Friday and Mrs. J. E. Ampt ...
Article : 148 wordsThe neglect of Frederick Virgo, a Mount Gambier drover, to supply a kelpie dog with proper and sufficient food led to his appearance in the ...
Article : 102 words"Jonathan Swift," who conducts "Here. There and Everywhere" in the "Sun." has received the following letter from Margaret Carracher of Minimay: ...
Article : 48 wordsLast week Arthur William Rankin and Ronald Jack Spencer had quite a thrilling experience at Dimboola. They enlisted on May 8, and the same night ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. A. W. Curry, secretary to the Shire of Kowree, reports that the amount of rates collected to June 10 was £9976, which represents 89.3 per cent. ...
Article : 124 wordsThe control of power kerosene mentioned by the Minister for Supipy and Development (Sir Frederick Stewart related to the use of the fuel for ...
Article : 107 wordsReminiscent of the transport facilities of pioneering days a bullock team was observed in Wilson street one day last week with "heavy ...
Article : 100 wordsKowree shire residents, embracing Edenhope, Harrow, Goroke and Apsley, held win-the-war rallies when the following amounts were collected:— ...
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The Horsham Times (Vic. : 1882 - 1954), Tue 25 Jun 1940, Page 2
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