Sir,—Just a few lines of your valuable space to ventilate a grievance against the Railway Department. We are told at the railway station that they have to obey ...
Article : 306 wordsThere was a sensational accident at Riverstone, near Sydney, early on Saturday morning, when a train crashed into a lorry at a level ...
Article : 177 wordsThe slump on the Stock Exchanges in New York and elsewhere in the United States is now being felt in trade circles throughout the country, having caused a ...
Article : 152 wordsJust at noon on Saturday May Dell Tregear, the little daughter of Mr. W. Tregear, of Hill-street, Wynnum, threw some benzine from a ...
Article : 257 wordsAt the State arsenic mines at J[?]bbenbah there is an accumulation of 300 tons of arsenic ore, and owing to this surplus the mine has not been operating since ...
Article : 177 wordsA young girl drove a car to the top of Mount Eden and then parked it at the side of the road. After a short absence she started the car with the ...
Article : 92 wordsPower from the Mullumbimby hydroelectric scheme was officially switched on this afternoon. The Mayoress (Mrs. Selwood) turned the wheel that released the ...
Article : 335 wordsMr. Bell, who recently visited South Australia and West Australia, in connection with the Australian Meat Council, returned to Sydney on Friday. He said ...
Article : 204 wordsMr. Kaymond, the proprietor of the "Imperial Food Journal," has brought an action in the High Court, claiming damages against the New Zealand ...
Article : 148 wordsInvitations were recently issued by the Prime Minister (Mr. Biucel to the Trades and Labour Councils of Australia to submit names to the Federal Minister for ...
Article : 249 wordsFour men, Albert,Bollinger, Sidney Bollinger, Frederick Bollinger, and William Goudge, residing at Gunningbland, were admitted to the Forbes District Hospital ...
Article : 86 wordsSir,—Attention is drawn to this in the "Queensland Producer" of last week, which states that "only those growers who for the past 12 months have ...
Article : 199 wordsThat Melbourne is threatened, with a serious shortage of vegetables amounting almost to a famine is the opinion of Mr. A. Knight, managing director of the ...
Article : 197 wordsThe House of Commons, by 184 votes to 132, to-day refused the second reading of the Prevention of Unemployment Bill, introduced by Mr. Lee Smith (Labour), ...
Article : 116 wordsSir,—I agree wholeheartedly with "Mother's" complaint in this morning's paper. None of the cemeteries of Brisbane are "things of beauty and a joy forever," ...
Article : 510 wordsA deputation representing the R.S.S.I.L.A. waited on the Home Secretary (Mr. J. Stopford) on Thursday last with a view to securing some mitigation ...
Article : 111 wordsTribitsch Lincoln has arrived here, and is proceeding to Hamburg. [Tribitseh Lincoln, when member of the House of Commons for Darlington, ...
Article : 117 wordsThe reading items in the Navy Estimates for 1926, which amount to £58,100,000, or £2,400,000 less than the current year, are as follows:— Salaries and wages, ...
Article : 84 wordsSir,—Why is it that our river banks are so unkept and made so disreputable? The bank adjoining Victoria Bridge, between it and the Morgue, is in a shocking, ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Air Ministry, in recognition of Louis Brennan's achievements on behalf of the State, has offered him an extension by six months of the period of his service. ...
Article : 79 wordsNathan Roy, the son of an Australian merchant, fell from a window of his hotel. Death was instantaneous. Owing to the heat Boy, during the night, opened a ...
Article : 72 wordsAs a motor, cyclist was travelling along Vulture-street, West End, at 12.42 o'clock on Saturday, his machine suddenly burst into flames. The South Brisbane Fire ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Diet is investigating alleged scandals reguding the military administration, dealing with Baron Giichi Tanaka's War Ministership, and involving large sums. ...
Article : 55 wordsPresident Coolidge has issued a proclamation raising the duty on butter from 8 cents (4d.) to 12 cents (6d.) per lb. The rise is based oil the difference between the ...
Article : 56 wordsSir,—This is the second deputation on the matter of reasonable pay to jurymen within the past few days. You were good enough to insert a letter by me in ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 8 Mar 1926, Page 9
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