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The article cites references from the parliamentary papers from of state of Victoria, Australia and aspects of labor history such as social conditions for working-class migrants, working conditions, and unemployment.

This article presents abstracts of papers presented at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Australian Section of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) held in Melbourne, Australia from August 20-22, 1964, including "Autoradiographic Studies of Collagen Synthesis in Bone," "Periosteal Repair Following Experimental Surgery," and "The Rarefaction of Bone: With Particular Reference to Endosteal Bone Margin Changes."

The paper examines the theoretical link between the social differentiation of population groups in modern industrial society and the residential differentiation of such groups and suggests alternative methods of analyzing urban residential differentiation by outlining the results of a study of social areas in Melbourne, Victoria. The paper is primarily concerned with a limited model of urban society and is restricted culturally and temporally to the modern industrial city which emerged as a consequence of the industrial revolution. One criticism of social area analysis has been that, while its underlying theory is mainly concerned with understanding social differentiation in modern industrial society, the main empirical concern among social area analysts has been with a problem of a different, although related order, the residential differentiation of socially differentiated groups. The first section of the paper discusses the general processes through which the three constructs of social rank, urbanization and segregation come to have a spatial referent. The second section of the paper reports an empirical test of the Shevky-Bell schema using 1961 census data for Melbourne. A two-staged component analysis is used to test for the existence of the three hypothesized dimensions of residential differentiation. A more efficient method of classification is used to derive a typology of residential areas using two component scores for each area.

The article focuses on the accounting education in Australia. Upto the year 1954, only the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, had a well established curriculum of accountancy. A full-time student normally takes four subjects a year. The honors course is a four-year one in which the compulsory subjects are covered in the first two years, after which the student enters the final division, comprising special honors lectures and seminars, with examination at the end of the fourth year of his studies. During this last year he is also required to submit a thesis on a subject within a specialized field of his own choice. The first of these courses is regarded as an introduction to accounting method, with students required to maintain a small set of double-entry records. It covers the theory of accounting and interpretation of transactions, ledger, journal and its subdivisions, trial balance, control accounts and subsidiary ledgers, preparation of reports, balance day adjustments, unsystematized records, non-trading enterprises, partnerships, joint stock companies, closing accounts of vendor, funds statement, departmental accounts, branch accounts, consignments, joint ventures, columnar accounting, analyzed journals and auditing.

The data in this paper are drawn from interviews with a probability sample of 2652 once-married women under the age of 60 currently living with their husbands in 1971 in metropolitan Melbourne. Although drawing from other material from the 2½ hr interviews the discussion concentrates upon the family size ideals of these wives. In addition to the customary measures of ideal family size, new measures of the upper and lower limits of acceptable family size are described, together with the reactions of the whole sample to a wide range of specified family sizes and the reasons for accepting or rejecting them. It is shown that the eventual achievement of zero population growth will almost certainly depend upon the two-child family becoming the norm for the great majority of couples, since childless or one-child marriages are desired by only 2% of couples. Currently, however, 20% of wives consider two-child families to be undesirably small. The marked religious, country of origin and educational differentials in acceptance of the two-child family are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents a paper discussing the activities of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) following intervention by the Federal Executive of the ALP in 1970, which was given at the Australian Political Studies Association 16th Annual Conference held in July of 1974. It seeks to examine the institutionalization of a new constitution for the Victorian branch of the ALP among different factions of the group. The difficulty federal ALP officers had running the Victorian branch after failing to gain possession of its offices and records is detailed.

The article presents a letter from B.R. Bennie, general secretary of the Society of Dyers and Colourists of Australia and New Zealand in Melbourne, Victoria, to the members of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC). Bennie, on behalf of his association, states that it would be mutually beneficial to both the associations if intending AATCC visitors to Australia and New Zealand, would contact him prior to their departure as it would be helpful in establishing useful contacts in both countries, to the benefit of members of both the associations.

A taxonomically anomalous population of eucalypts at Mallacoota, Victoria, is mapped and studied in detail. Measurements of adult and seedling morphology show the population to be intermediate between Eucalyptus globulus and E. cypellocarpa. However, on leaf terpenoid data the population is indistinguishable from E. cypellocarpa. The very restricted distribution of the population, and the high variability of its adult morphology suggest that it arose by hybridization between the two species named above. As the nearest stand of E. globulus is 6.4 km away, the population may represent a phantom hybrid stand. It is inferred from distribution data that E. globulus stands may have been present in the area before submergence by rising sea levels. If any pure E. globulus trees remained, a preponderance of E. cypellocarpa pollen may have prevented the continued production of more preponderant E. globulus progeny. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses predation by the fox, Vulpes Vulpes L. on colonies of the short-tailed shearwater, Puffinus Tenuirostris in Cape Woolamai, Phillip Island and Bension Island, Corner Inlet in Victoria. Effect of predation on breeding of Shearwater; Method used for calculation of predation rates; Statistics on estimated predation of young and adult shearwaters.

This article explores a number of related elements of the evolution of water projects in northern Victoria, as of March 1964. The author traces the impact of American influences on the local scene, having regard to two vital features of its history. First, the comparatively early start made by Victoria in the promotion of large-scale water conservation and in irrigation schemes with a high and increasing level of state participation, secondly, the factors that have helped to condition state policies relating to the location of projects and the systems of water supply and land settlement encouraged by them.

The article discusses the economic growth of New South Wales and Victoria. It focuses on the implementation of tariffs in these regions for the protection of domestic industries. While Victoria had adopted the protective system earlier, New South Wales strictly sticks to a tariff for revenue only. The growth of population has been more rapid in New South Wales than in Victoria. It discusses the tariff systems in both the areas and concludes that a protective tariff will not work in all cases and may be beneficial for only some industries.

This article focuses on the economic aspects of late Victorian naval administration. Throughout the nineteenth century defense was one of the two largest items in government expenditure and, apart from transfer payments, it was the largest item. Indeed, at least from 1885 it was the largest item on any reckoning. Expenditure on the Army and Ordnance regularly exceeded that on the Navy, but in the late nineteenth century it was the Navy that was causing much the largest increases, and from 1896 onwards expenditure on the Navy was always more than half the total defense expenditure. The size of the labour-force involved is a reminder of another important way in which naval administration had economic consequences. The deployment and equipping of so many men were matters offering scope for very wide variations in efficiency. The business problems were all the more immediate because the Admiralty chose to be directly responsible for the production of so many of the things needed by the Navy.

The article presents an update on weed science as of September 1973. The Weed Science Society of South Australia has nearly eighty members and offers secretarial service to visitors interested in weed science. Membership at the Weed Science Society of Victoria reached 115 in January. The Yugoslav Weed Control Committee has published the scientific periodical "Fragmenta Herbologica Yugoslavia."

Presents an index of building activity for metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria from 1896 to 1939. Indicator of economic fluctuations; Reliability of value indices; Relation between cartel and Victorian brick production.