It was reported to the Health department yesterday that a probable case of infantile paralysis had been discovered in the country within a distance of 50 ...
Article : 466 wordsAt yesterday's silting or the Wonthaggi Royal Commission further consideration was given to the proposed rules as to working conditions at the MARYBOROUGH, Wednesday. -- Speaking at the mayoral dinner. Mr. Street, M.P., said he accepted the settled policy of Australia for protection, but he CANBERRA, Wednesday. -- The Federal Cabinet has considered the proposal for the strengthening of the naval and military forces at Darwin, but no CANBERRA, Wednesday. -- The necessity of adequate defence plans to enable the Commonwealth to produce all forms of armaments to enable Australia ...
Article : 1,140 wordsAn Australian, Wing-Commander A. H. Flower, has been appointed to command, the Royal Air Force station at Ramich, in Palestine. ...
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Article : 398 wordsAn arm injury, which will probably prevent him from playing for two or three weeks, was suffered by A. la Fontaine, the Melbourne Football Club ...
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Article : 174 wordsLabor will contest all wards in the Collingwood council, but as yet no opposing candidate has been put forward for the two seats at present occupied by ...
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Article : 124 wordsAs a result of a mysterious explosion which occurred in the fireplace of the general waitingroom at the Ararat railway station, two women and two school ...
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Article : 111 wordsIn Footscray local branches of the Australian Labor party intend to nominate Labor candidates in all of the four wards. Two retiring councillors, Cr. Turner ...
Article : 93 wordsThe lowest tuberculosis death rate yet recorded was disclosed in the year's report of the Ministry of Health. Lower maternal mortality and steady progress in ...
Article : 115 wordsThe president of St. John's College, Oxford (Dr. Cyril Norwood), in an address on Physical Education, advocated the establishment in every university of ...
Article : 169 wordsSandringham council has agreed to contribute the cost of continuing the joint Government and municipal campaign against infantile paralysis until ...
Article : 150 wordsTwo Labor men, Crs. J. Bertie and G. A. Rogers, retire in Port Melbourne, as well as the mayor (Cr. Woodruff). So far opponents for retiring councillors ...
Article : 53 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. -- A tentative agreement has been reached between the Australian and New Zealand cricket authorities, whereby the New Zealand ...
Article : 225 wordsDuring an intensive search for arms throughout the night the police seized a lorry containing arms and ammunition. A man named Francis McKenna has ...
Article : 137 wordsCr. A. K. Wallace, a former member of the Legislative Assembly, will be opposed in Beaconsfield ward. South Melbourne, by Dr. H. T. Chapman. The ...
Article : 44 wordsAt Williamstown, where the councillors are divided into two groups that do not work harmoniously together, it is expected that two or more of the four ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre committee has acquired Cromwell Gardens, in South Kensington, opposite the Victoria and Albert Museum. for a national theatre. The price was £75,000. and an appeal for funds is being made. ...
Article : 47 wordsIt is feared that fourteen persons -- eleven passengers and the crew of three -- perished yesterday when an air liner bound from Chill to Cristobal (Panama) ...
Article : 85 wordsFurther comment on the danger to health of the Elster Creek in Ormond district was made at a meeting of the metropolitan council of the Municipal ...
Article : 374 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Sir A. G. Wales), in commenting yesterday on alleged voting irregularities at City Council elections, said that where two or more booths were ...
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Article : 88 wordsDr. Chlam Weigmann (chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine), opening the world Zionist congress, challenged some conclusions of the British ...
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Article : 72 wordsSued by a customer whose face he cut while shaving, a native barber pleaded that he had told so humorous a story that the customer rocked with laughter, ...
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Article : 77 wordsThe engagement of Patricia, Countess of Jersey, and Mr. Robert Filmer Wilson, a stockbroker, is announced by the "Daily Telegraph." ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Australian Broadcasting Commission has decided that its special school children's sessions from 3AR will be broadcast from 9 a.m. to 9.30 a.m., and from 2 to 3 p.m. each day. This will supplement the usual sessions from 3LO ...
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Article : 58 wordsBulusu Sambamurthy, the new Speaker of the Madras Assembly, took his seat in the House clad only in a loin cloth, with a cotton strip across the shoulders. ...
Article : 46 wordsWhile at his employment at a steel works at Footscray yesterday. William Walsh, 23 years, of Millswyn-street, South Yarra, fell 4 feet and injured his ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 5 Aug 1937, Page 12
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