The War Precautions Regulations passed by the Commonwealth Government to deal with the coal crisis were issued yesterday. As already indicated, they are of a most ...
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Article : 227 wordsArrangements have been practically completed in connection with the Anzac Remembrance Parade, to be hold at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to-morrow, at ...
Article : 422 wordsThe Governor-General presented military decorations to 100 returned soldiers at the Domain camp yesterday. The ceremony was an impressive one. Unfortunately in ...
Article : 297 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, delivered his budget speech in the House of Commons today, and announced, the Government's ...
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Article : 74 wordsSYDNEY.—The Federal decision to commandeer coal has placed the New South Wales Railway Commissioners in an awkward situation. By a coincidence the ...
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Article : 83 wordsBRISBANE.—The Acting Premier, Mr. Theodore, stated on Wednesday that the arrangements for the reception of the officers and men of the Australian fleet were ...
Article : 79 wordsNEWCASTLE.—The quantity of coal at grass which the Commonwealth proposes to commandeer is in this district about 710,000 tons, and of that 260,000 tons, ...
Article : 69 wordsThe royal commission set up to report on the Victorian fishers continued its investigations yesterday. Mr. Prendergast, M.L.A., presided. ...
Article : 299 wordsSir David Hennessy has been asked by electors of Melbourne province to allow himself to be nominated for the seat, which Sir John Davies (President of the ...
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Article : 380 wordsSeveral internal machines have been found in the mails addressed to prominent people throughout the United States, chiefly opponents of I.W.W. propaganda. ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Philip Snowden, presiding at the conference of the Independent Labor party at Huddersfield to-day, said the increase in membership for the year was 11,000. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe main provisions of the agreement arrived at by the coal mine owners and employes at the recent conference in Melbourne were that the minimum wage for ...
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Article : 295 wordsReferring yesterday to a leading article in "The Age" regarding the neglect of Victorian block coal resources, the Minister of Mines stated that the department had ...
Article : 176 wordsSYDNEY.—The commission inquiring into the incidence of the Commonwealth land tax on Crown leasehold lands held its first sitting on Thursday. The ...
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Article : 43 wordsReferring to the shipping position, the controller said the commandeering of coal by the Commonwealth should certainly bring about an appreciable increase in the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 2 May 1919, Page 7
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