By wireless, the Postmaster-General (Mr. Gibson) yesterday opened the annual Wireless Exhibition of the Wireless Institute in Wirth's Olympia. His address was broadcast from 3LO studio, and amplified throughout Olympia by loud speakers. Mr. Gibson is on the right, speaking into the micronhonos, with the president of the institute (Mr. H. Kingsley Love). ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 57 wordsBetween St. Kilda and Middle Park railway stations yesterday, of Canterbury road, tests were made before members of the St. Kilda Council with five road rollers, four of which were imported. The council is about to purchase a new roller for road construction. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 52 wordsVotes received yesterday were again very heavy, causing each of the leading items to have an accession of about 4,000 points, the eight most popular features having now ...
Article : 687 wordsThe Full Court of Victoria consisting of the Chief Justice (Sir William Irvine), Mr. Justice Cussen, and Mr. Justite Mann, reserved judgment yesterday on a rule nisi ...
Article : 751 wordsAnother interesting capture for the menagerie of "Boobook," Mr. Donald Macdonald s ' Nature Notes" contributor at Ballarat North, is this fine specimen of the greater flying squirrel, which, in the bush, volplanes from a tree-top to the lowar branches of a neighbouring tree ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 58 wordsOff the south-cast coast of New South Wales fishing for grey nurse sharks is an exciting sport, with a 10in. hook, oildrum for float and bullock's offal for bait. The sharks illustrated were each about 10ft. long. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 wordsAmong the passengers who returned to Melbourne by the P. and O. liner Mooltan yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Bailliou. Mr. Ballliceu is a member of the War Memorial executive, a member of the executive of the Lord Mayor's Metropolitan Hospitals Fund, and a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 64 wordsMrs. C. R. Smee's blue Persian, Roy o' Danbury, a son of the imported Magog o' Mendip, was awarded the championship at the grand open championship show of the Cat Club of Victoria, hold in the Protestant Hall yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 42 wordsFor the first time an all-England team of British Association ("Soccer") footballers is visiting Australia, and keen interest was taken yesterday in the first name against a Victorian team on the Melbourne Cricket-ground. An English forward (white jersey) in a spirited tussle in front of the Victorians' goal beat his opponent for a shot at goal, but Robison, the Victorian goalkeeper, turned the ball round the post. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 73 wordsAlthough the sum involved in an appeal by the West Australian commissioner of stamps from a judgment of the Full Court of his State is small, the High Court ...
Article : 232 wordsWalter Henry Rloomfleld, meat salesman, of Kelvin groce, Armadale, was charged at the St. Kilda Court on Wednesday with having unlawfully assaulted Marjorie Walsh in St. Kilda on ...
Article : 201 wordsIn connection with the Footscray Empire Day sports, a meeting of the combined schools of the district was held yesterday in competition for the shield presented by the Footscray Council. In the senior high Jump, C. Gration, of the Hyde street school (No. 1912), you with a clearance of 4ft. [?] ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 59 wordsAt the annual inter-collegiate University sports yesterday J. R T. Macmillan (Ormond College) put the shot 36ft. 8in., breaking the previous Inter-collegiate record of 35ft. 9in, established by L. E. Le Souef (Trinity), in 1921. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 40 wordsA decision by Mr. Wade, P.M., that the regulations governing the issue of licences for the manufacture of wireless equipment is ultra vires is being contested by the ...
Article : 297 wordsThe adjourned hearing of changes of having showed a chimney to cmit a dense smoke on March 18 and 19, which had been made against Hoadley's Pty. Ltd., was held at the South ...
Article : 181 wordsBefore Mr. D. Grant, P. M., at the St. Kilda Court on Wednesday, Eleanor Mary. Bignell, married, of Mozart street, St. Kilda, was charged with having sold liquor without having been ...
Article : 181 wordsA man who described himself as a Christade[?]hian asked Mr. Justice Macfa[?]an in the Criminal Court yesterday to excuse him from acting on the jury. He ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 21 May 1925, Page 9
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