CANBERRA, Tuesday.—By a majority of four votes over Mr. Hughes, Mr. Menzies was to-day elected leader of the United Australia party in succession to the late Mr. Lyons. Mr. Menzies will probably become Prime Minister to-morrow evening. ...
Article : 2,347 wordsA settlement of an action, in which a mother claimed £1,000 damages for the death of her son, was announced before the jury was empanelled in the First ...
Article : 221 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Members of the United Australia party and of the Country party at the party meetings to-day expressed profound regret at the ...
Article : 180 wordsWith the reported "sinking" of the Strathnaver by an armed enemy raider off Cape Otway last night, the war manœuvres took a new ...
Article : 617 wordsMrs. Doris Scott, formerly Miss Doris Lynn, a well-known British stage and radio artist, who came to Australia four years ago, told ...
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Advertising : 342 wordsAt 26 years of age. Chief-Officer J. F. Holm, of the freighter Port Tauranga, claims that he is the youngest New Zealander at sea holding a master mariner'[?] ...
Article : 127 wordsRecommendations that amenities be provided for unemployed men who go to Red Cliffs seeking work as fruitpickers will be submitted ...
Article : 258 wordsWhen Dame Enid Lyons reached the Mercy Hospital Melbourne, yesterday, she was ordered perfect rest and quiet, and the prescription will be followed ...
Article : 64 wordsEdward Charles Staff, aged 39 years, of Market street, Fitzroy, butcher, was found guilty by a jury in the Criminal Court yesterday on a charge of having forged ...
Article : 162 wordsDame Enid Lyons has accepted from Cin[?]d Productions Pty. Ltd. a copy of the newsrcel showing the nation's tribute to its late Prime Minister. Specially ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. C. McLean, P.M., has been appointed chairman of the Bench of Melbourne magistrates in succession to Mr. J. W. K. Freeman, P.M., who retired recently. Mr. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) attended a Requiem Mass at Westminster Cathedral yesterday for the late Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons). ...
Article : 44 wordsFive thousand six hundred school children in the City of Essendon will be entertained by the Mayor of Essendon (Councillor R. J. Gilbertson) at a picnic ...
Article : 170 wordsAn estate of a gross value of £4,519 has been left to the Central Methodist Mission, Lonsdale street, by Mrs. Catherine Gray, of Boothby street, Northcote, ...
Article : 218 wordsHOBART, Tuesday.—Mr. W. Morrow, secretary of the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Railways Union, may be a candidate for the Wilmot seat in the ...
Article : 40 wordsChief Judge Beeby, in an award which he made in the Arbitration Court yesterday, awarded general butchers serving in shops a marginal increase of 5/6 a ...
Article : 310 wordsFrom the engineer's viewpoint, the only adequate and proper defence of Australia was on the sea, said the retiring chairman of the Institution of Engineers (Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 85 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—To-day aircraft from the Richmond station, Canberra, and Mallacoota Inlet scoured the coast of New South Wales searching for the ...
Article : 229 wordsAlthough five State Trades and Labour Councils hove adopted the policy of the recent Trade Union Congress on War and Defence, it is regarded as most unlikely ...
Article : 352 wordsTwo young men who had pleaded guilty in General Sessions yesterday to a charge of larceny were released by Judge Wasley on bonds of £10 to be of good behaviour ...
Article : 101 wordsThe first batch of the 50 Lockheed-Hudson military aeroplanes ordered by the Commonwealth Government from the United States is due for delivery in ...
Article : 189 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The jury returned a verdict for the defendant company in the action brought in the Supreme Court by Mr. A. B. Piddington, K.C., to recover ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Tuesday.—"I have always felt that the best way in which we can help the British Commonwealth of Nations is to help ourselves, and if we ...
Article : 160 wordsPERTH, Tuesday. — In the Criminal Court to-day William Leonard Bicknell was sentenced to five years imprisonment with hard labour, and William Goolab ...
Article : 148 wordsBoys of the junior school contributed yesterday to the festival of music and drama at Scotch College, when they presented a programme of music in Mackie ...
Article : 91 wordsA series of lectures on military tactics will begin at the United Service Institute to-night and will be continued every alternate Wednesday. Members of the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe third grand seml-final of the summet old-time dancing championship at Leggett's ballroom, Prahran. last night resulted:— NO. 1 L. Dark and Miss L. MacKensle. l; No 5. W. ...
Article : 45 wordsTo-day.—Mr. W. Macmaho[?] Ball. lecturer at the Melbourne University, who has recently returned from Germany, will be the speaker at the monthly dinner of the Caulfield ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 19 Apr 1939, Page 2
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