The Inspector of Fisheries (Mr. Lewis) and the Superintendent of Markets (Mr. M'Cay) met yesterday to dismiss the problem of the supply of cheap fish to the ...
Article : 134 wordsAn unusually large number of delegates associates and visitors attended the monthly meetings of the National Council of Women at the Austral Salon inst night. ...
Article : 2,055 wordsConsidering Victoria Barracks is now the only metropolitan recruiting depot, enlistments there yesterday were stack. Exclusive of men for the remount unit, the ...
Article : 209 wordsThe reports dealing with the meningitis outbreak, which were issued by the different hospitals last night, indicate a substantial improvement. Only one death was ...
Article : 109 wordsGeneral statements which have been current in mining circles of late, to the effect that Australian producers of metal products have been hampered in their ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 285 wordsInteresting details showing the causes of the return from the front of over 200 officers and men who reached Victoria about a fortnight ago by the Themistocles ...
Article : 1,706 wordsKitchener's cryptic message, "Teach the men to shoot," which the cables flashed round all quarters of the Empire when the need became felt for more and more men ...
Article : 1,008 wordsWe are officially informed by the State War Committee that returned soldiers to the number of 25 are waiting engagement at the soldiers' employment bureau, [?] ...
Article : 157 wordsMr. F. Lewis, acting chief inspector of fisheries, yesterday replied to criticisms which have been made of his recent report to the Government regarding the articles ...
Article : 530 wordsA case the first of meningitis was discovered at Royal Park camp on Wednesday, and despatched to Alfred Hospital. The outbreak of the complaint at Royal ...
Article : 121 wordsRecruiting figures for the three metropolitan depots to-day showed that 132 had volunteered, and 100 had been accepted as medically fit. ...
Article : 27 wordsAccording to latest advice received by the Defence department, the next transport, expected to reach Melbourne with wounded troops from Suez will arrive probably ...
Article : 110 wordsA concert in aid of Lady Stanley's Fund for Wounded Soldiers was held in the Melbourne Town Hall last night, under the auspices of the Victorian Scottish Union. ...
Article : 213 wordsThe granting of leave seems to be a sore point with soldiers at Geelong camp. On Tuesday a disturbance arose in the camp with regard to the matter, as was ...
Article : 461 wordsPrivate S. Heath, who recently arrived from Seymour camp, was admitted to Ballarat Hospital last night suffering from meningitis. A suspected case was also ...
Article : 74 wordsAnother case of meningitis was admitted to the local hospital last night, the patient being the two-year-old son of Mr. S. Fox, of Castlemaine. ...
Article : 29 wordsMajor Blezard, who was second in command of the 7th Battalion at Gallipoli and who was wounded on the first day of landing, returned to Echuca yesterday ...
Article : 102 wordsAccording to the story of two of his fellow boarders in King-street, city, George Ainley, who was admitted to Alfred Hospital on Tuesday evening suffering from ...
Article : 427 wordsThe complaint of Mr. W. L. Baillien, chairman of the Amalgamated Zinc (De Bavay's) that business was being held up the Federal authorities was brought ...
Article : 95 wordsThe vexed question of the cost of nurses' uniforms was referred to yesterday by Senator Pearce, Minister of Defence, who said that when the question ...
Article : 137 wordsCommenting yesterday on the suggestion of the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) that a conference might be held between the various patriotic organisations ...
Article : 229 wordsThompson's Foundry Pty. Ltd. has been in communication with the Federal Munitions Committee. The firm is prepared to make the shells at the price which it ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the Prize Court yesterday judgment was reserved in the case in which the Crown claimed condemnation of 6710 tons of zinc concentrates aboard the British ...
Article : 145 wordsProfessor Flynn has been appointed a royal commissioner to inquire into the methods of protecting, hatching, propagating, acclimatising and marketing coastal ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) yesterday acknowledged the receipt of two cheques for the endowment of cots at the military base hospital. The ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Commissioner of Public Works, Mr. Jackson, stated to-day that the munitions committee had received an offer from an Adelaide firm to supply 600 shell cases per ...
Article : 65 wordsAn unsuccessful attempt on the part of Mr. Cosgrave (Cycle Trades Union) and his supporters to obtain the suspension of the standing orders of the Trades Hall ...
Article : 226 wordsIn the Assembly yesterday, Mr. Wilson, leader of the Opposition, reviewed Mr. Scaddan's budget, He pointed out that the Government's State enterprises—ships, ...
Article : 507 wordsThere are still a number of defaulting recruits in Victoria—men who came forward during the rash of the recruiting campaign and the days which followed. ...
Article : 118 wordsExtraordinary departmental laxity has been disclosed by the experience of the parents of a soldier who enlisted over four months age and is now on route to Egypt. ...
Article : 289 wordsThe mayor of Prahran is making a special appeal to the citizens to-marrow on behalf of the Australian Wounded Soldiers' Fund, when specially prepared emblems will be sold throughout ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 133 wordsSir,—I am very pleased to see that you are directing public attention by your leading article this morning to the urgent need a[?]diate steps being taken to deal with ...
Article : 363 wordsArrangements for the establishment of dentists at military training camps are proceeding. Captain W. L. Aitken, officer in charge of the Dental Corps reserve in ...
Article : 153 wordsLast night the Minister of Defence paid a "short notice" visit to Albert Park camp, accompanied by Major Isaacson. Every. detail of the camp was minutely examined by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 124 wordsA few weeks ago there was a rain storm at Gunnodah, on the Namoi. When the Namoi has flowed about 250 miles to the north-west it joins the Barwon, and the ...
Article : 355 wordsSatisfactory road tests of the motor operating theatre recently presented to the Defence department by the Lawn Tennis Association of Victoria have just been ...
Article : 102 wordsComplaint was made at the meeting of the Ballarat Trade and Labor Council to-night that Mr. Read Murphy, P.M., and certain honorary justices, were taking up ...
Article : 195 wordsAs the result of a blasting accident at Willis Bros. quarries, Brooklyn, on Wednesday, Albert Longstaff, of William-street, Yarraville, received Injuries of to severe a character that he ...
Article : 341 wordsSoldiers in training at Albeit Park camp are keenly looking forward to the athletic sports meeting which will be conducted on the South Melbourne, cricket ground ...
Article : 97 wordsPersons packing billies and other packages with goods intended for despatch to the troops at the front me requested by the Defence department to refrain from ...
Article : 95 wordsSir,—In connection with the Lady Mayoress's Christmas gifts, I desire to intimate to our St. Kilda citizens that the requisite number of billies has been supplied, ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Federal Taxation Commissioner has explained, in reply to a question, that partnerships are taxable as if they represented one person, but if any of the ...
Article : 196 wordsAll was quiet in the camp to-day. It appears that the matter of Melbourne leave had been already settled by head quarters before the members of D. Co. made their ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 289 wordsMiss Gertrude Rennie, of the Quamby Club, has undertaken the organisation of Christmas gifts for the officers and men of the Australian navy serving abroad. All ...
Article : 101 wordsQuestioned as to whether he would ascertain whether circulars had been sent out to members of some of the large industrial organisations urging that, no more ...
Article : 77 wordsA long discussion took place at a meeting of the Ballarat Trades and labour hou[?] to-night regrading the proposal of the Country Employers' Association for the ...
Article : 84 wordsThe conference of teachers of the primary and agricultural schools of Victoria was continued to-day at the Government experimental farm. Werribee The ...
Article : 77 wordsAt a special meeting of the Traders' Association at the town hall last night, the following resolution was curried:— That this association protests against the present ...
Article : 95 wordsThe troops at Royal Park were entertained last night by the employes of Foy and Gi[?]son Pty. Ltd., when an extensive programme was given before a crowed audience. The Salvation Army ...
Article : 64 wordsWELLINGTON.—A casualty list received from Gallipoli on Thursday contained the names of 12 trilled in action, 13 died of wounds, 5 died of disease, 65 wounded and 31 missing. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Lady Mayoress's League has established a depot in the Town Hall, for receiving money and parcels for Christmas cheer for the navy. Parcels to individual sailers must be addressed [?] ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 24 Sep 1915, Page 8
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