BESIDES poor military preparedness an[?]. betrayal by leading politician nothing contributed more to the collaps of France than the Frenchman's com ...
Article : 1,202 wordsSeveral members of the Legislative Assembly challenged the Government's policy on the provision of air-raid shelters yesterday. ...
Article : 219 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — "Relations between the Vichy Government and Germany are going through a renewed period of difficulty," Sir Frederick Stewart, ...
Article : 244 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Gross profit margins had been reduced in many cases, Mr. Harrison, Minister for Trade and Customs, said to-day ...
Article : 301 wordsAlthough neither the Federal Government nor the State Governments have yet shown their hands regarding the establishment of ...
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Family Notices : 1,809 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie), at Government House, Canberra, yesterday morning received the Address in Reply from the Senate, which ...
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Family Notices : 263 wordsMr. Hamilton Sleigh, Vice-Consul for Finland, and Mr. W. H. Downing, Acting Consul for Jugoslavia, were guests at the Rotary Club's luncheon yesterday. ...
Article : 284 words"It is imperatively necessary that people should realise that we may be on the very verge of an emergency. They should take more seriously the idea of ...
Article : 305 wordsWhen members of the Legislative Council resumed debate on the Local Government (Building Regulations) Bill yesterday they were confronted with 60 ...
Article : 217 wordsCANBERRA. Wednesday. — Although Mr. Johnson, newly elected Labour member for Kalgoorlie, arrived in Canberra to-day. he was not sworn in as a member ...
Article : 300 wordsThe compromise on the Budget adopted unanimously by the Advisory War Council and favoured by the Government parties, though ...
Article : 479 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—An assurance that the Government was carefully examining the shipping position was given in the House of Representatives ...
Article : 344 wordsThe acute shortage of applicants when a vacancy for a pilot occurs in the port of Melbourne was causing anxiety. Captain J. E. Walker, secretary, and Captain ...
Article : 243 words"Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: Thou hast given commandment to save me, for Thou art my Rock and my Fortress." — Psalm ...
Article : 33 wordsCANBERRA. Wednesday. — The cost of supplying each airman with his uniform and kit was between £ 16 and £ 17, Mr. McEwen, Air Minister, said to-day in ...
Article : 149 wordsArmy officers in Melbourne believe that one of the greatest jobs of military organisation in history has been almost completed in Great Britain—the transfer of ...
Article : 242 wordsNine-year-old Adrian Graham Waugh, of Mt. Martha, last night went into camp with the Victorian Scottish, and became the regiment's official mascot. ...
Article : 167 wordsRenewed industrial difficulties at the Deer Park munitions factory may result from a report that aircraft trainees were being employed there on plumbers' work. ...
Article : 136 wordsNo bread deliveries on Sundays or on public holidays other than on the day after Good Friday or on Easter Tuesday is the main provision of a bill which ...
Article : 71 wordsReal and personal estate in Victoria valued at £78,816 was left by Mr. James Valentine Fairbairn, Minister for Air, who was killed in the Canberra air disaster ...
Article : 104 wordsA feature of the latest applications in the £28,000,000 loan is the large number of small investors in all States who have offered their money free of interest. ...
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Article : 8 wordsAcademic, Church, and business interests were represented at a meeting held yesterday at Collins House to protest against the proposed 5 per cent. sales ...
Article : 250 wordsSpeaking from the model cruiser yesterday, Mr. Hollway, M.L.A., leader of the Opposition, said that it had been suggested that Australia could obtain all the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria intends to continue to collect, classify, and market tooth-paste tubes, aluminium foil, lead, and other base ...
Article : 61 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Discussior[?] in Washington between the British Ambassador and the Australian Minister and the United States authorities have ...
Article : 95 wordsStrawberries, which are picked in Tasmania early in the morning, are now carried through Essendon by air to Sydney, and are disposed of to customers ...
Article : 59 wordsUrgent need for a new casualty department at St. Vincent's Hospital was emphasised last night by speakers at a meeting at the hospital. Preliminary ...
Article : 136 wordsA Legislative Council amendment to the Pawnbrokers Bill, accepted yesterday by the Legislative Assembly, permits pawnbrokers to dispose privately of ...
Article : 52 wordsAmalgamated Wireless is undertaking a new Australian industry in the manufacture of aircraft instruments. The company has effected an agreement with ...
Article : 89 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — The 10th elementary flying training school unde[?] the Empire Air Scheme will be ready in May. The school, which is at Temora ...
Article : 79 wordsLeaving Alexandra avenue at 12.55 p.m., 1,000 officers and men of the A.I.F. will march over Princes Bridge and along Swanston, Bourke, Queen. Collins, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 5 Dec 1940, Page 4
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