MELBOURNE, Feb. 24.—On behalf of the trading banks of Australia, which met in conference in Melbourne this week at the invitation of the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 558 wordsLONDON, Feb. 24.—The fate of the Trade Disputes Bill (which is the major measure in the Government programme) continues to hang on a thread. The ...
Article : 243 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 24.—The future of the export duty on sheepskins will be decided almost immediately after the Federal Parliament reassembles next week. ...
Article : 86 wordsAt a protracted meeting of the Perth Chamber of Commerce last night the question of wages was discussed at some length and ultimately the following ...
Article : 788 wordsPARIS, Feb. 23.—The European wheat conference, which is an outcome of M. Briand's scheme for a European Federation, met in camera here to-day to ...
Article : 296 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 24.—The body of Dame Nellie Melts lay embalmed throughout to-day at the private hospital where yesterday she died, to the sorrow and regret ...
Article : 364 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 24.—Federal Labour members representing New South Wales constituencies who do not favour Mr. Lane's proposals met to-day in an informal ...
Article : 110 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 24.—When informed yesterday of the death of Dame Nellie Melba. the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) said:—"It is with very deep regret that I ...
Article : 76 wordsCANBERRA, Feb. 24.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) has received the following telegram from the Secretary of State for the Dominions (Mr. Thomas): ...
Article : 56 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 24.—Convened by the president of the Graziers' Association of Victoria (Mr. G. D. .Kelly), a of sheep breeders, graziers stock agents. ...
Article : 294 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 24.—Old residents of Bathurst recall that the late Dame Nellie Melba Rave a concert there in the early eighties. There was an audience of six ...
Article : 44 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 24.—The president of the Federal executive of the Australian Labour Party (Mr. J. J. Kenneally, M.L.A.) passed through Melbourne to-day ...
Article : 101 wordsOn the arrival in Perth of a train from Meekatharra yesterday morning it was stated that a man had disappeared during the journey, after having locked himself ...
Article : 333 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 24.—Rumours that the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Lang) had decided to forsake State politics aud contest a Federal seat at the first election ...
Article : 83 wordsInvited yesterday to reply to statements that the Government was making a profit of 5/ per ton on superphosphate, supplied to farmers under the Agricultural Bank ...
Article : 173 wordsLONDON, Feb. 23.—In an article on the wheat conference at Paris "The Times" points out that by oversea countries will be expected to agree limitation of the ...
Article : 112 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 24.—The Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Latham) sent a telegram to- the Postmnster-General (Mr. Green) yesterday, asking that "in ...
Article : 167 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 24.—The Premier (Mr. Hogan) announced to-day that the State Ministry had arranged for a special train to convey the remains of Dame ...
Article : 329 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 24.—"Short" of financial repudiation, it would be difficult to conceive a more serious blow at Australia's future welfare than arbitrary ...
Article : 351 wordsLONDON, Feb. 24.—The mysterious death of Francis Ellis (19) a freshman of the Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, whose trussed body was found in his ...
Article : 257 wordsDiscussing yesterday the position of deliveries of superphosphate this season, the Acting Premier (Mr. C. G. Latham) said that his latest reports from the Railway ...
Article : 145 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 24.—C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd., have received a cable message stating that Mr. Neville Stack will attempt, a record flight from England to ...
Article : 90 wordsSYDNEY, Feb, 24.—"The repudiation seek not only to place Australia outside the British Commonwealth of Nations by a speakin quibble about the ...
Article : 212 wordsThe following message was scut to the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) by Senator Lynch by lettergram yesterday:— "Kindly advice me if your Government ...
Article : 165 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 24.—The Premier of Western Australia (Sir James Mitchell) made the following statement to-day:—"When the Premiers' Conference resumes ...
Article : 455 wordsAUCKLAND, Feb. 24.—Mr. F. C. Chichester, who flew from England to Australia a little over 12 months ago, to-day denied a report that he intended to fly ...
Article : 75 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 24.—In a unanimous judgment, the Full Court of the Federal Arbitration Court today dismissed the application of the Federal ...
Article : 732 wordsLONDON, Feb. 23.—To the late Dame Nellie Melba, whose illness was very closely followed by the newspapers, the British Press has paid magnificent tribute, and ...
Article : 570 wordsLONDON, Feb. 24.—Replying to questions in the House of Commons to-day regarding the, Red Sea slave trade the Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office (Mr. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe first Viastra monoplane in Perth, which was flown for the first time on Sunday last, will be flown again to-day, on Friday, and in the week-end. To-day and ...
Article : 213 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 24.—The position on the waterfront was unchanged to-day, none of the newly-licensed members of the Waterside Workers' Federation gaining ...
Article : 72 wordsLIMA (Peru), Feb. 23.—Senor Luis Cerro, the Provisional President of Peru, to-day withdrew his nomination for the presidential election. This development ...
Article : 98 wordsSir,—The want of superphosphate is the burning question of the moment and while the Acting Premier's statement on the supply reads well it will not stand ...
Article : 349 wordsADELAIDE, Feb. 24.—Excellent batting by Waite during the last part of South Australia's second innings and magnificent bowling by Tobin at the Opening ...
Article : 482 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 24.—Mr. Justice Davidson and a jury of four continued the hearing to-day of the action in which Hereward Leighton Kesteven, ...
Article : 206 wordsMr. Matthew Henry York (about 45), married, of 2 Vine-street, North Perth, was run down and killed by a passenger train between the Kerr-street railway ...
Article : 343 wordsLONDON, Feb. 23.—In the House of Commons to-night, it was announced that the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Arthur Henderson) and the First Lord of the ...
Article : 148 wordsLONDON, Feb. 23.—The speech of the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Lang) delivered as a statement of the Labour policy in the East Sydney ...
Article : 284 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 24.—The case in which Annie Burgess, married, was charged with having wilfully murdered her illegitimate infant son. George at Dalby on October ...
Article : 173 wordsLONDON, Feb. 24.—It was announced in the House of Commons to-day that the Government had decided to appoint a Royal Commission to visit Malta, to ...
Article : 81 wordsWELLINGTON, Feb. 24.—According to official estimates, it should cost £280,000 to reinstate the Napier borough services. The rebuilding of chimneys, it is ...
Article : 142 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 23.—The "Herald-Tribune." in a leading article to-day states:—"It is startling to realise that Melba, the great artist, was the last of ...
Article : 194 wordsDARWIN, Feb. 24.—For some days Darwin and its environs have been overhung with a haze, probably volcanic dust. The sunlight is very dim and the sun at ...
Article : 67 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 24.—The police search for Joseph MeFarlane (38). rabbit trapper, who is aliened to have shot Constable Hutchinson in the leg at ...
Article : 112 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 24.—An attempt to escape from the Bendigo Gaol was made to-day by Alan Thomas (26), a prisoner on remand. He scaled a drain pipe from ...
Article : 72 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 24.—The federal Ministry has decided after many months to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. Atlee Hunt from the position ...
Article : 199 wordsLONDON, Feb. 23.—The New Zealand earthquake relief fund now amounts to £36,995. Today's donations included:—The Corporation of London. £1,050: Lord ...
Article : 32 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 24.—Complaints of irregularity in the finances of a recent carnival for the unemployed at Richmond have been referred by the Richmond ...
Article : 72 wordsKALGOORLIE, Feb. 24.—Heavy rain has fallen in Kalgoorlie during the past 24 hours. Following two oppressive days, over an inch fell in an hour about 4 o'clock this ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 25 Feb 1931, Page 7
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