Negotiations for ending the seamen's strike were continued yesterday. Members of the Industrial Disputes Committee, accompanied by representatives of the ...
Article : 465 wordsIt is the intention of the Federal Government to appoint a royal commission to inquire into the causes of industrial unrest in the Commonwealth. An ...
Article : 326 wordsMr. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia entertained at luncheon at Durban to-day. In a speech he eulogised the splendid services of the Australian ...
Article : 252 wordsOn his visit to Australia General Sir William Birdwood will be accompanied by his wife and daughter. Senator Pearce and family and Mr W. G. MacBeath will also ...
Article : 346 wordsThe Prime Minister, in the House of Commons to-day, moved the vote of thanks of Parliament to the forces for their services in the war ...
Article : 766 wordsThe Hungarian Cabinet under M. Beidel has resigned, after holding office for a week. The Entente mission has appointed the Archduke Joseph, a distant ...
Article : 422 wordsADELAIDE.--The Prices Regulation Commission on Thursday fixed the price of raw refined sugar in retail parcels or not less than 6 lb., at 3½d. per lb., within ...
Article : 39 wordsAUCKLAND.--The waterside workers at Napier, alleging that certain business firms are boarding butter and bacon, decided not to work any cargo of this ...
Article : 77 wordsPlenty of railway trucks--according to the Railway department--are available for the firewood traffic. But the fuel scarcity continues unabated, and the firewood saw ...
Article : 315 wordsSir,--I observe that the British Government has purchased 1,000,000 tons of Australian wheal for milling purposes at 56 per bushel. I received a quotation to-day ...
Article : 250 wordsThe intention of the Prime Minister, as expressed in his Durban speech, to fight the Bolsheviks and the profiteers to the bitter end was the subject of a question ...
Article : 214 wordsReplying in the House of Representatives on Thursday to a question asked by Mr. Lynch (N.S.W.), the Acting Prime Minister said he was not ...
Article : 112 wordsThe sitting of the Senate yesterday was almost entirely devoted to an animated discussion on the subject of profiteering. Unfortunately, the subject was approached ...
Article : 1,201 wordsThe memoirs of Admiral Tirpitz, formerly German Secretary for the Navy, have been published. Admiral Tirpitz says he was not consulted before Germany entered ...
Article : 163 wordsSir,--It is time that some of our members of Parliament get acquainted with facts before they talk about "no justification for the exorbitant retail price of ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Full Court, consisting of Justices Cussen, Schutt and Mann, yesterday gave judgment on an appeal by Walter Middleton and Francis W. Hawkin, against the ...
Article : 251 wordsA suggestion that the control of the butter pool had been arranged so as to create shortages which would enhance the price of butter was referred to in the House of ...
Article : 294 wordsVigorous protests against the high price of hides, leather and footwear were made in the House of Representatives yesterday, when Mr. Tudor (V.) moved the ...
Article : 1,260 wordsThe Archduke Joseph was born in 1872, and is a distant cousin of the ex-Emperor Charles. He is a doctor of law, also doctor of technical sciences of the University ...
Article : 192 wordsBRISBANE.--In order if possible to relieve the serious position in North Queensland as the result of the shipping deadlock, a special meeting of the Seamen's ...
Article : 190 wordsA communique issued by General Maynard reports a successful land, sea and air raid on Lake Onega, resulting in the capture of Port Talviuski. Two enemy armed ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Government to-day announced that it intended to introduce a bill to establish tribunals to deal with profiteering. The introduction of the bill came as a ...
Article : 467 wordsA prominent member of the House of Commons, who holds office in the Government, has been interviewed regarding the Speaker's devolution committee. He says: ...
Article : 188 wordsAttention is drawn to an advertisement in another column notifying that dyers and dry cleaners, or businesses commonly known as such, are not entitled, under the ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Austrian reply to the Peace terms has been received in Paris. It expresses willingness to sign, but asks for modifications, especially that the Tyrol shall not ...
Article : 40 wordsBRISBANE.--In the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, Mr. Macartney, leader of the Opposition, resumed the debate on the Address in ...
Article : 267 wordsSYDNEY.--Mr. R. J. Anderson, deputy chairman of the Commonwealth Leather Industries Board, on Friday said that the buying of bides by America would shortly ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Italian Government has issued a decree which prohibits the importation of a great number of manufactured and unmanufactured goods, including apparel, ...
Article : 65 wordsKing George, in a letter to Mr. Lloyd George, states:-- "The honors and rewards for the navy, army and air have now been ...
Article : 108 wordsADELAIDE.--Further restrictions in the use of electric light are looming on the horizon. The Coal Board is unable to secure definite ...
Article : 163 wordsOne would have thought that the profiteer, no matter how soulless his attitude towards the general public, would have had some consideration for the men who ...
Article : 503 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Express" at Buda Pest states that the Roumanians are behaving as if they were occupying the town. They are demanding ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 240 wordsMr. Hughes and party sailed this morning on the steamer Friedrichsruhe for Australia. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Trades Hall relief committee is awaiting a reply from the Federal Government to the request for monetary assistance for the unemployed through the ...
Article : 139 wordsNo decision has been reached yet regarding the types of the 100 aeroplanes which the British Government is giving to Australia It is understood the delay is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 315 wordsThough the Labor party is to move a reduction of the total grants to the war leaders from £580,000 to £200,000, the grants meet with general approval. ...
Article : 114 wordsSYDNEY.--The co-operative scheme organised by the officials of Sydney Seamen's Union, whereby it is hoped to secure funds and food by converting members into ...
Article : 223 wordsA despatch from Halifax states that the British steamer War Witch rammed and sank the schooner Gallia off St. Pierre. Twenty of the crew are believed to have ...
Article : 41 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Sir Donald Maclean, leader of the Liberal party, moved the rejection of a bill to increase the salaries of five Ministers from ...
Article : 143 wordsA feature of the scheme in connection with the organising for the forthcoming Peace loan will be visits by aeroplanes and aviators to provincial and country ...
Article : 126 wordsThe majority of the Australian troops from Palestine have been repatriated. The last units will embark at the end of August. About 10 per cent. decided to ...
Article : 48 wordsSwitzerland has decided to adhere to the League of Nations. ...
Article : 16 wordsMr. Water Long informed the House of Commons to-day that no attempt would be made to salve the majority of the German ships at Scapa Flow. The Admiralty ...
Article : 57 wordsWANGARATTA.--The questions of the high cost of living and profiteering came before the shire council. Cr. Handley said many people were ...
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Advertising : 112 wordsShortly after the need for alleviation of distress owing to the strike became apparent, the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria issued a letter to ...
Article : 325 wordsViscount Uchieda, Japanese Foreign Minister, emphasises the point that Japan has no intention of claiming rights affecting China's territorial sovereignty in ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Bonar Law said the Allies had not altered their decision that the ex-Kaiser'a trial should take place in London, but no ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 9 Aug 1919, Page 13
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