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Advertising : 18 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—The secretary of the Queensland Employers' Federation (Mr. P. Self) said to-day the majority of big establishments who were paying employees on and before Friday this week will not have received the Federal Court's judgment in time to base this week's pay on the new rates. Mr. Self ...
Article : 512 wordsLONDON, December 17.—Troops sailing in the Eastern Prince for the Far East demonstrated before the liner left Glasgow, says the 'Daily Telegraph.' Four hundred embarking troops participated in a sit-down strike on the quay. The National Anthem was booed by soldiers aboard the ship, and seven soldiers ...
Article : 156 wordsWHITE SANDS (Mexico) reports that the U.S. Army, successfully launched another German V2 rocket on Tuesday, but refused to comment on its simultaneous experiment in ...
Article : 230 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Found guilty in the Criminal Court to-day of having charged a woman £20 in excess of the fixed maximum price for a three-piece lounge suite, John Meerkin (40), a city furniture retailer, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labor and also fined £100. ...
Article : 253 wordsIPSWICH, Wednesday. — Owing to the rise in the basic wage 2000 railway workmen will have to pay 2d more for ...
Article : 140 wordsLONDON, December 17.— Men of the First Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment stationed near ...
Article : 42 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Reported legal difficulties affecting the settlement of the foundry dispute in Melbourne appeared to have arisen from ignorance or misinterpretation of the provisions recently made for ...
Article : 295 wordsMONTO, Wednesday.—A mass meeting of dairymen in the Monto district carried a motion deploring ...
Article : 147 wordsWASHINGTON, December 18.—Mr. William Jackson, president of the United States Chamber of ...
Article : 93 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A complete gas black- out in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia now seems certain. The companies may be able to carry on for a short period with the limited supplies ...
Article : 480 wordsWASHINGTON, December 17.—Australia as an example that compulsory arbitration does not eliminate strikes was ...
Article : 203 wordsWASHINGTON, December 17.—Mr. Harold E. Stassen, former Governor of Minnesota, has formally announced his candidacy ...
Article : 55 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday,—"It is about time the Commonwealth Government realised its responsibilities to the dairying industry," said Mr. Fadden, commenting to-day on the decision to hand over the increases ...
Article : 311 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Private industry might be asked by the Commonwealth Government to absorb the major portion of the extra cost of production resulting from the interim basic wage increase of 7- a ...
Article : 459 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—In the Central Criminal Court a jury to-day convicted William Joseph Cable (31), police ...
Article : 143 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.— Consideration now is being given in Commonwealth quarters to the lowering of ...
Article : 222 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—What was originally thought to be a case of suicide has developed into one of the most baffling ...
Article : 208 wordsROME, December 17.—Hundreds of thousands of workers in Naples Province began a general strike to-day, protesting against the ...
Article : 67 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Customs Minister (Senator Courtice) said to-night discussions were proceeding and no decision ...
Article : 87 wordsMANILA, December 17.— Anthony Brooke, the claimant to the Sarawak throne, said the British had ...
Article : 44 wordsOTTAWA, December 18.—Five men, comprising four German war prisoners, who killed a fellow captive because he was anti-Nazi ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, December 17.—The Victoria Cross has been posthumously awarded to Temporary Lieutenant Thomas Wilkinson, RNR, for valor at Singapore in February, 1942, when he commanded His Majesty's ...
Article : 308 wordsLONDON, December 17.—"Britain had the right to expect that the Royal Navy's effort in the common cause during the war should not be decried," said the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr, Dugdale) in the House of Commons commenting on criticism published in 'Red Fleet.' ...
Article : 488 wordsTOKIO, December 17.—The Japanese marked the fall of Hong Kong by killing hospital patients and raping British ...
Article : 148 wordsPERTH, Wednesday. — Considerable damage was inflicted in the north-west town of Derby, about 1200 miles north-west of ...
Article : 146 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—An overtime claim for 1087 hours served on the Federal Parliamentary Joint Committee by Mr. ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, December 18,—Reuter's Teheran representative says Imperial Headquarters announce that with the occupation of the ...
Article : 70 wordsLondon, December 17.—It is learned that Persia has protested to Russia on the alleged admission by Russian guards of Persian rebel ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON. December 17.—Mr. Dalton in the House of Commons said that world gold production since 1939 is estimated at ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Thu 19 Dec 1946, Page 1
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