In a yuletide message issued yesterday the Lord Mayor (Cr. H. G. Smith) said he trusted that the seeds of progress sown in 1932 would grow and burst forth into ...
Article : 98 wordsWhen the modified Factories und Shops (Sundays) Bill was under discussion in the Legislative Council yesterday, several members expressed resentment at the ...
Article : 381 wordsHaving been passed in a modified form by the Legislative Assembly, the Milk Board Bill was introduced in the Legislative Council last ...
Article : 440 wordsThere was further discussion of the Landlords and Tenants Bill in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. This measure replaces the bill which was introduced in ...
Article : 796 wordsIn the numerical sense simply, many bills were passed by the State Parliament in the session which has just closed, but few of them of major importance. ...
Article : 1,085 wordsA gratifying feature of the public health administration of Victoria is the steady decline in the tuberculosis death rate. In its annual report, which was presented to ...
Article : 812 wordsIt is every man's right to spend his money as he thinks fit, or so every man believes. But a short bout with the Christmas shopping problem leads one to ...
Article : 246 wordsBROKEN HILL, Thursday.-- Central Reserve was a busy place to-day, nearly 1000 children of the unemployed being provided with Christmas cheer. Goods distributed ...
Article : 82 wordsResidents of the Old Colonists' Homes, Rushall-[?]rescent, North Fitzroy, each received £2 as a Christmas gift. ...
Article : 23 wordsMany inquiries are still being received by the Labor department concerning the requirements of the Factories and Shops Act as to the closing of shops, and ...
Article : 260 wordsSir,--In these days of depression and constant talk of "equality of sacrifice," "cutting of costs," "lower wages" interest reductions," &c., it comes as so[?] ...
Article : 194 wordsPrior to breaking up for the Christmas holidays, trades union officials assembled in the boardroom at the Trades Hall yesterday at the invitation of the president ...
Article : 328 wordsThe weather prospects for the immediate present are fine and warm to hot, with northerly winds. The Meteorologist, however, expects a cool, squally southerly ...
Article : 51 wordsAt a meeting last night convened by the Windsor branch of the Labor party the unemployed of Prahran decided to from an organisation in affiliation with ...
Article : 361 wordsHow a man assaulted a member of the congregation in a church and then gave a constable a black eye was described before Mr. Bond, P.M., in the City Court ...
Article : 224 wordsA fine sporting programme for the Christmas holidays will be ushered in to-day with the opening of the New South Wales v. Victoria match on the ...
Article : 230 wordsA resolution to be forwarded to the Government, urging that consideration be given to the appointment of a woman on the Milk Board was passed by the ...
Article : 123 wordsThe State Relief Committee's appeal for Christmas cheer for distressed families is nearing an end, and although the response has been very generous, the need ...
Article : 173 wordsSir,--As there may be credited to this association the extravagant criticism of the Milk Board Bill by the Retail Dairymen's Defence League, we would like the ...
Article : 343 wordsTo provide work for the unemployed of the district, Chelsea council has decided to borrow £4030. As part of a general scheme of foreshore improvement. ...
Article : 65 wordsCharges of having stolen ten boxes of butter valued at £30, the property of the Railway Commissioners, were preferred against John Edward Rowden and ...
Article : 176 wordsMordialloc's event of the year--its annual beach carnival, which will be continued until A.N.A. day--will be officially opened this evening, when at 7 p.m. Mr. ...
Article : 89 wordsBALLARAT, Thursday.--Following the decision of a meeting of the unemployed to wait on the acting mayor (Cr. J. Harrison) and the engineer (Mr. L. H. Finch) ...
Article : 277 wordsWith the enthusiasm which is a feature of concerts given by the Blind Orchestra and other performers from the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, the annual ...
Article : 124 wordsAn interesting table showing the growth of population in Victoria since 1850 is contained in the annual report of the Health Commission. The first census of ...
Article : 480 wordsEurope is combating the menace of tubercolosis by a method of prevention rather than cure, according to Dr. J. W. Browne, of Adelaide, who returned by ...
Article : 367 wordsIt was decided yesterday to run an additional train to Bendigo on Sunday, leaving Spencer-street at 8.30 a.m., to enable visitors to reach destinations some distance ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 148 wordsThe amendments made by the Legislative Council to the Transport Board Bill were considered by the Assembly yesterday. ...
Article : 375 wordsAccording to the result of the recent half-yearly check on the traffic using the three city bridges over the Yarra, there is a considderable reduction in the ...
Article : 256 wordsBENDIGO, Thursday.--Good progress is being made with the Christmas relief work schedule undertaken by Bendigo city council and the work is new [?]earing ...
Article : 111 wordsA monster Christmas party was given to 750 children by the mayor of Brighton, Cr. J. A. Kennedy, at the Wilson Recreation Hall, Brighton, last night. The children ...
Article : 68 wordsThe mayor of Mordialloc (Cr. Edwards) stated yesterday that a noted departure in community singing would be made on the evening of Boxing day. When all ...
Article : 85 wordsAbout 1200 children of unemployed were entertained by the mayor of South Melbourne (Cr. McKenzie) in the local town hall yesterday afternoon. Christmas ...
Article : 45 wordsDiscussion took place at the meeting of the Trades Hall Council last evening on the report of the sub-committee on the question of a shorter week, which ...
Article : 191 wordsDespite many protests the Tramways Board has maintained its obstinate refusal to provide travelling facilities on the Sunday mornings, Christmas day and ...
Article : 216 wordsSir,--My husband has been away on relief work for nine weeks, and I have received £3 32 fortnightly, on which amount I have paid 76 weekly rent, and ...
Article : 146 wordsOrganised by the Maidstone Unemployed Relief Committee in conjunction with Braybrook council and the Ladies' Benevolent Society, a Christmas party was held ...
Article : 61 wordsAnxiety is felt for the whereabouts of Rex de Hugard, 22 years, bank clerk, who has been missing from his boarding house at Caulfield since Monday. He is the ...
Article : 177 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--The tug St. Olaves, which was towing the vehicular terry Kaedumba to Melbourne when it foundered off Montague Island yesterday, ...
Article : 89 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--Pointing out to-day that the new moratorium law was now in force, the Minister of Justice (Mr. L. O. Martin) said that all hire-purchase ...
Article : 127 wordsPatients in the Homeopathic Hospital will be entertained to-morrow (Christians eve) by the following artists, who have generously volunteered their services:-- ...
Article : 75 wordsThe body of a man was [?] the foreshore at Point Cook, near the flying school, yesterday. The description i[?]: About 65 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches in ...
Article : 82 wordsGEELONG, Thursday.--A crowd of about 2000 people flocked into the people's market early this afternoon in connection with the distribution of 3000 toys and[?] ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 23 Dec 1932, Page 8
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