Nearly 20,000 National Register cards were issued at the Elizabeth street post-office by 6 p.m. yesterday. Officials consider that this was a fine response by the public on the first day of the census. ...
Article : 593 wordsCouncillors at Footscray last night expressed surprise and amusement upon learning that the owners of a strip of land 220ft. long and a foot widen would ...
Article : 225 wordsPower to enforce the widening of footpaths in "little" streets—Flinders lane. Little Collins street, and Little Bourke street—will be vested in the Melbourne ...
Article : 158 wordsFriends of Gordon Williams, whose delightful nonsense is a constant source of amusement to readers of "The Argus," will regret to learn that he was the ...
Article : 147 wordsSome fine dramatic canvases are being shown by Mr. Ernest Buckmaster in a one-man show at the Sedon Galleries, 107 Elizabeth street. It will be open from ...
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Advertising : 1,125 wordsBy the death of Mr. George Andrew Gray, of Swinton, Glenorchy, at the age of 64 years, the Stawell district has lost one of its best known station owners and ...
Article : 129 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Controversy about the use of vestments in the Church of England has been revived by the imminent publication of the proposed ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Mayor of Collingwood (Councillor A. B. Maynard) was called a "dictator of the worst type" by Councillor Kane at the council meeting last night when he ...
Article : 92 wordsThe death occurred at Moe on Saturday of Mr. Norman M. Chisholm, honorary secretary of the Moe branch of the Returned Soldiers' League. He was ...
Article : 97 wordsPlans for extending the boycott campaign of the National Register were discussed at a special meeting yesterday of the emergency committee of the ...
Article : 500 wordsIn the very large attendance at the funeral yesterday of Mr. George Jones there were many representatives of the United Ancient Order of Druids, of which ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. Wallace Anderson, the sculptor, has made fine progress with the bronze busts of Australian Prime Ministers which he has been commissioned to execute for the ...
Article : 110 wordsTenders for the first machinery for the £6.000,000 Kiewa hydro-electric scheme were called yesterday by the State Electricity Commission. ...
Article : 113 wordsMr. John (Jack) Keys, a leading Western district breeder of Ayrshire cattle and horses, died on Saturday, aged 62 years. When a youth Mr. Keys was a good ...
Article : 79 wordsSYDNEY. Monday. — The executive of the Furnishing Trades Union has recommended to members that they should fill in the register questionnaire. "My ...
Article : 82 wordsMr. George Augustus Osboldstone, who was a printer and well known in Masonic circles, died at his home in Malvern yesterday. He was aged 73 years, and ...
Article : 82 wordsMetal prices at 2 p.m. to-day compared with official closing quotations on Friday (in parentheses) as follow:— Copper, standard, £42/12/6 (£42 ...
Article : 39 wordsKALGOORLIE, Monday.—To help any worker penalised for not complying with the National Register Act a mass meeting of the mining division of the ...
Article : 213 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — Although framed merely to ensure strict compliance with the provisions of the National Register, the set of instructions issued ...
Article : 228 wordsRUTHERGLEN, Monday.—Mr. John Pearce. J.P., of Range View, Springhurst, died at Rutherglen to-day at the age of 80 years. He was the eldest son ...
Article : 198 wordsMore than 400 persons took part last night in a procession of witness, which was organised as part of the evangelistic campaign which is being held in the ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Essendon Council last night took no action on a letter from the Moonee Ponds branch of the Communist party, asking the council to pass a resolution ...
Article : 70 wordsPERTH, Monday. — Unusual methods were employed in Perth to-day by five men and a woman to protest against the National Register. ...
Article : 87 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—The threat of fascism and communism was emphasised by the Premier of Queensland (Mr. Forgan Smith) in a last-minute appeal to ...
Article : 101 wordsHOBART. Monday.—When the acting Chief Justice of Tasmania (Mr. J. D. Morris) appeared on the Supreme Court Bench to day for the first time he was ...
Article : 101 wordsHOBART, Monday.—Unions affiliated with the Hobart Trades Hall Council are being asked this week to hold special meetings to consider their policy on the ...
Article : 71 wordsEarly consignments of pigs for sale at the new pig and calf market at Brooklyn began to arrive yesterday in readiness for the opening sales to-morrow. The market ...
Article : 78 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — The railways board of reference refused to-day to make a recommendation to the Arbitration Court on an application for an ...
Article : 208 wordsWALHALLA, Monday.—Two persons were killed instantly when the Walhalla-Moe motor service bus left the road and crashed more ...
Article : 52 wordsJohn Wallace, an Australian author, made a mistake last night at a meeting of the Australian Literature Society. He defended Australian writers and ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 18 Jul 1939, Page 2
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