It is officially announced that the fourth contingent of Australian troops has arrived in England. The men were in excellent spirits after ...
Article : 720 wordsHow many men in Victoria can remember the days when they had to sit in their school classrooms and knit? Probably a good many, because Mr. ...
Article : 286 wordsRed Shield House, new hostel for soldiers on leave will be ready in three weeks Provided and equipped by the Australian Comforts Fund, the hostel will ...
Article : 389 wordsReaders cf "The Argus" subscribed £982/15/6 for the Roper River Mission Appeal, and the Church Missionary Society has acknowledged receipt of a ...
Article : 55 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Further details of the Government's petrol rationing scheme probably will be announced this week. ...
Article : 125 wordsEven if operators equip their vehicles with producer gas plants to overcome difficulties created by petrol rationing drastic reduction in the number of ...
Article : 416 wordsIf all road hauliers who now run parallel to railways were entirely eliminated, Victorian railways could easily cope with the increased traffic, Mr. N.C. Harris, ...
Article : 63 wordsWARRACKNABEAL, Monday.— Concern at the effect petrol rationing would have on power farming was expressed at a well-attended meeting of primary ...
Article : 124 wordsAn effective, private contribution to the Transport Regulation Board's programme for the organisation of the dairying industry to meet petrol rationing has been ...
Article : 132 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Stricter control of remittances oversea by money order will be enforced by the Government. Regulations will be issued soon to limit ...
Article : 128 wordsDespite repeated requests by the Aushalten Railways Union, neither the Railways Commissioners nor the Ministry for Transport have yet notified raliway ...
Article : 154 wordsMessages of congratulation were sent to Captain J. A. Collins, of H.M.A.S. Sydney, yesterday by the Governor-General and the Prime Minister. ...
Article : 121 wordsto meet any emergency was considered yesterday by this conference of Victoria Barracks. From Left.—Lieut.—Colonel F. E. Wells, deputy quartermaster-general; Major-General E.K. Smart, quartermaster-general; Lieut.—Colonel N.G. Harris, Chief Commissioner of Railways, Mr. A. B. Corbett, Director-General of Civil Aviation; Mr. A. A. Shoebridge, Administrator of Road Transport, N.S.W., Mr. E. Simms, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 111 words"An extremely quiet, gentlemanly little fellow, with no interest in more violent forms of life." That was how Rev. P. A. Rahill, of St. Kevin's College, Toorak, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 269 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Minute details will be studied at Washington before permanent legation buildings are erected at Canberra for Mr. Clarence E. Gauss, U.S. ...
Article : 214 wordsSeeking 170 volunteers for home defence training, the 24/29th Battalion invites men aged between 25 and 45 to apply to drill halls at Ringwood, Surrey ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Remo, an Italian motor-ship, which was seized at Fremantle the day Italy declared war, is now in Melbourne discharging cargo consigned to Victorian ...
Article : 29 wordsof look out below when one of the Royal Australian Air Force's new Fairey Battle bombers went into action yesterday. With Squadron-Leader Lerew at the controls the machine came through a grue[?]ling test flight with flying colours. For 45 minutes the bomber banked, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 66 wordsPublic service hours will be altered, and secondary school hours probably will be changed, as the first instalment of the "staggering" of metropolitan, traffic to ...
Article : 421 wordsKYNETTON, Monday.— When an R.A.A.F. training plane made a forced landing on the property of Cr. P. A. McNiff, at Redesdale, to-day, the ...
Article : 165 wordsDARWIN, Monday. — The luxurious new hotel which was recently opened here has been the scene of several regrettable incidents, which seem to be a poor reward ...
Article : 165 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Socks, stockings, and resin were to-day brought under the averaging principle of price control by Professor Copland, ...
Article : 58 wordsMany wheatgrowers were in a desperate position and were drifting from the land, the Premier said yesterday when he renewed his ...
Article : 377 wordsWAGGA (N.S.W.), Monday. — When a motor-car crashed into a culvert on the Lockhart road Athol William Borlace, 22, suffered injury to the spine and severe ...
Article : 59 wordsSeveral Commonwealth military competitions would be discontinued for the duration of the war, Brigadier Street, Army Minister, said yesterday. ...
Article : 111 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — No action has been taken to raise the £20,000,000 war loan approved by Parliament in June. ...
Article : 101 wordsJudgment was reserved by the Workers' Compensation Board yesterday on a claim for £300 by Edith Marie Lording, 21, salesgirl, now unemployed, of High st., ...
Article : 433 wordsSuspension of recruiting for the A.I.F. (see Page 1) will allow the Government to concentrate on raising the home defence force to ...
Article : 516 wordsAppointed by the Commonwealth and State Governments, the Transport for Emergency Committee held its first meeting in Melbourne yesterday to devise a ...
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Advertising : 116 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — The conspiracy to defraud case, the hearing of which began on October 3 last year, ended in the Central Police ...
Article : 529 wordsOnly three names are on the 12th Victorian casualty list, issued yesterday They are:—Overseas—VX8923 Pte. B. M. Cameron, infantry, seriously ill. ...
Article : 43 wordsRepudiating an alleged confession that he broke into the Methodist Babies' Home offices to seek information obout a boarded-out child, Joseph Michael ...
Article : 127 wordsLabour is greatly inspired. The nation is greatly led. Mr. Churchill. with risinp emergency, grows in stature as in calmness of command. His chief colleagues ...
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