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Article : 179 wordsECHUCA, Sunday.--Constable W. Gale, of Echuca. performed a magnificent piece of work on Friday night, when, with the aid of electric torches and a ...
Article : 244 wordsAt 11 p.m. on Saturday a telephone message was received at police head quarters that "a mob of drunks was careering round in Carlton in an old ...
Article : 222 wordsWhen the 2.36 p.m. down train from Frankston to Marnington on Saturday reached the Hastings-road level crossing between Frankston and Baxter, it ran ...
Article : 220 wordsShortly after midnight on Saturday First Constable Paul, of Mentone, was informed that an elderly man was lying unconscious in Point Nepean-road, near ...
Article : 135 wordsStiff southerly winds during the week end caused two mishaps to small craft in the Bay. The presence of life-saving patrols on both occasions prevented ...
Article : 364 wordsA combined meeting of railway shunters and signalmen was held in Unity Hall yesterday in connection with the movement to obtain a 40-hour working ...
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Article : 132 wordsSpeaking at the blessing of the newly enlarged Catholic church at Werribee yesterday, Archbishop Mannix said he was against' the policy of assisted ...
Article : 248 wordsFour persons were injured, one of them critically, when the motor car in which they were travelling swerved to avoid some object at the intersection of ...
Article : 125 wordsAt 4.10 p.m. on Saturday a motor truck, registered in the ownership of James J. Thorns, Young-street, Footscray, and driven by Lionel L. McLean, of ...
Article : 123 wordsMelbourne bade farewell to Centaurus, the mammoth flying boat of Imperial Airways, which has been in port for three days on her mission of goodwill to ...
Article : 232 wordsMYRTLEFORD, Sunday.--At the annual meeting of the Myrtleford branch of the United Country party, held last night, the following resolution was unanimously ...
Article : 144 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--There were several fatalities in Sydney during the week end. While swimming in the Elkington ...
Article : 129 wordsWilliam Hunter, plumber, Hardy-street, South Yarra, reported to the police on Saturday night that his bicycle, which he had left standing in Albion-street, ...
Article : 93 wordsExamining a sedan car which had been left in Byrne-street, South Melbourne, since early on Saturday, police last night found the ignition key in the ...
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Article : 140 wordsMILDURA, Sunday.--A resolution congratulating the central council on its consistent efforts to maintain the independence of the United Country party ...
Article : 69 wordsFRANKSTON, Sunday.--When a motor car driven by R. Timms, a commercial traveller, skidded on Point Nepean-road, between Carrum and ...
Article : 136 wordsAriah Kerstein, bag manufacturer, Rathdown-street, North Carlton, was knocked down by a motor car at the intersection of Lee and Drummond ...
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Article : 83 wordsHaving suffered internal injuries when he was crushed between railway trucks while assisting with shunting at the Brunswick siding on December 31. ...
Article : 40 wordsWhen cruising along Fitzroy-street, St. Kilda, about 11 p.m. yesterday the police patrol saw a motor car which had been reported stolen from South ...
Article : 122 wordsTwenty-one additional cases of infantile paralysis and a further death were reported during the week end. The death was that of a boy, 15 years, of ...
Article : 160 wordsVIOLET TOWN, Sunday.--Harold Alfred Williams, 51 years, traveller for Paterson, Laing and Bruce, of Melbourne, was badly injured when a motor ...
Article : 102 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--Lilah Hilyard, 55 years, an inmate of a convalescent home at Vaucluse, fell over a 200-foot cliff near the Gap late to-day and was ...
Article : 53 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--A daring robbery was perpetrated at the premises of the J. M. Grant Bakeries Ltd., in Surry Hills, on Saturday night. Three armed ...
Article : 116 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--A plane in which Harold C. Durant was starting off for North Cronulla beach on Saturday went into a spin at 250 feet, and crashed ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. E. Bedford, Waterloo-street, Camberwell, has reported to the police that about 5 a.m. yesterday a guest, Mr. Frank Reynolds, awoke and saw a masked man ...
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Article : 72 wordsMore than 3000 persons visited Essendon Aerodrome yesterday afternoon and took a keen interest in the flights that were made. One of the big Douglas ...
Article : 74 wordsWELLINGTON, Sunday.--The barking of a dog and taint cries for help awakened two men living near the home of a middle-aged woman at Albany. ...
Article : 75 wordsVisitors to the Children's Hospital, Hampton, yesterday, where the after-care paralysis cases are being treated by Sister Kenny, expressed delight with the ...
Article : 90 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--Vincenzo Dagostino, 35 years, baker, died in hospital on Saturday, at Ingham, from injuries received when a bomb exploded near his ...
Article : 178 wordsLionel Rothwell, 57 years, Somerset-street, Pascoe Vale, was riding a bicycle near his home on Saturday night, when the machine struck some obstacle on the ...
Article : 56 wordsDARWIN, Sunday.--The five R.A.F. flying boats arrived at 12.45 p.m. and flew over the town. When above the harbor they separated, and swung round, ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 17 Jan 1938, Page 12
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