ARARAT. Thursday.—Provision of finance to enable the Department of Agriculture to engage in more research was stated by Dr. Clive Shields, M.L.A., at a ...
Article : 281 wordsBOORT, Thursday.—Giving evidence at Boort to-day before the Royal Commission on Water Supply, Mr. A. Mercer, chairman of the Boort District Water ...
Article : 313 wordsCOATS IN THE MOUNTAINS.—Goats are not very common in Victoria, except in some of the mountain country. This herd was photographed at Harrietville. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 23 wordsJames Gleeson, aged 70 years, labourer, whose 165th conviction was recorded in the city court on Thursday, was fined £2, in default imprisonment for 14 days, on ...
Article : 818 wordsBENDIGO, Thursday.—Replying at a reception given to him to-day by the mayor of Bendigo (Councillor J. A. Michelsen), the Minister for Education ...
Article : 229 wordsFeeling that revolutionary changes which have taken place in farming practice in the Mallee in the last five or six years call for another farmers' convention, leading farmers from the Ouyen, Walpeup, Timberoo, Yellumjip, Kattyoong, and Daalko districts ...
Article : 690 wordsThe Minister for Education (Dr. Harris) addressed the Bendigo Rotary Club on Thursday, and made a strong plea for the extension of technical education in ...
Article : 434 wordsWhen considering the future of the Eastern baths at the Geelong City Council on Thursday the beach improvement committee raised the question of new ...
Article : 961 wordsForms of application on which Victorian wheatgrowers may, under the Wheat Growers' Relief Act of 1936, claim relief are being distributed to post-offices ...
Article : 189 wordsOn the recommendation of the Minister for Works the following additional allocations have been made from the Rivers and Streams Fund towards the ...
Article : 351 wordsQuestions relating to the future Federal and State policies of the United Country party will be discussed at the first meeting on May 19 of the central council of ...
Article : 193 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—A group of stations in New South Wales controlled by S. Kidman and Co. will be offered for sale at auction in Broken Hill on ...
Article : 142 wordsAt a meeting of the Victorian Millowners' Association yesterday the price of bran and pollard was raised 5/ a ton. Bran is now quoted at £6/10/ and ...
Article : 162 wordsKILMORE, Thursday.—A stock of more than 200 tons of firewood, owned by Peter Lago, which had been placed in the railway yards at the sawmill of E. Pasquali, ...
Article : 118 wordsSWAN HILL (May 7).—Associated stock and s[?] tion agents yarded and sold at their fortnightly sale 217 cattle and 1,697 sheep. Fat cattle sold at late rates, and stores at recent low rates. Fat ...
Article : 224 wordsCOBDEN, Thursday.—Mrs. Elizabeth Dalztel, of Cubden, who celebrated her 91st birthday this week has lived in the district for more than 50 years. She ...
Article : 115 wordsBRISBANE! Thursday.—The blowfly pest in a new and more malignant form is again menacing sheep in western areas. The flies appeared almost simultaneously ...
Article : 97 wordsA special officer will be appointed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to investigate the problem of bulrushes in Irrigation channels. ...
Article : 140 wordsAn additional amount of £15,000 will be provided by the Government almost immediately for urgently needed repairs to State schools in many parts of the ...
Article : 129 wordsTenders accepted by the Country Roads Board for the week ended May 1 include the following:- Glencig.—Portlaud-Casterton: Sedman Bros., ...
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Advertising : 278 wordsHAY (N.S.W.), Thursday.—When it became known to-day that Perrow's motor passenger service between Hay and Melbourne would bo cancelled to-morrow ...
Article : 86 wordsORBOST, Thursday.—some interesting fossils have been revealed by roadmaking excavations at Jarrahmond. Sevebeen teeth resembling sharks' teeth have ...
Article : 58 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) stated yesterday that the Federal Government would consider asking the people by referendum to give ...
Article : 131 wordsA petition from Mininera East ratepayers requests the shire council to make a deviation on the back road leading to the Mininera East school to avoid two swamps which make ...
Article : 1,436 wordsSEA LAKE, Thursday.—Sea Lake autumn flower show awards were:—Pot Plants—Aspidistra: Mrs. M. McLennan. Chrysanthemum to Pot: Mrs. J. Wright. Pot Plant in Bloom: Mrs. M. McLennan. ...
Article : 731 wordsAPOLLO BAY.—At the hospital ball Miss Jean Hughes was adjudged belle of the ball.—A trophy shoot, seven shots at 300 yards was conducted by the rifle club. Mr. F. G. Leorke was ...
Article : 1,601 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Dunstan) announced yesterday that he had received plans and estimates for the building of a general courthouse at Geelong, and that within ...
Article : 61 wordsYALLOURN, Thursday.—Progressive awards in the first annual Elsteddfod are as follows:- Recitation, under 10: Barbara Walsh, 1: Wilma Orr, 2. Under 12: Giadys Nell, 1; Gerald Fogarty, ...
Article : 325 wordsOn a property about two miles from The Rock two eagles were caught in a crow trap. with a catch of 10 crows. Many of the crows had been torn about by the eagles, which. ...
Article : 338 wordsBENDIGO, Thursday.—Further awards in the Bendigo musical and clocutionary competitions are.- Recitation.—Boys, under 13 years—Jack Edwards ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 8 May 1936, Page 4
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