Giving evidence before the Wool Committee yesterday, Mr. John Oswald Forsyth merchant, of Sydney, said that if the Federal Government would make some arrangements to trade ...
Article : 913 wordsThe Industrial Commission yesterday, by unanimous judgment, declared the new living wage for adult male and female employees in New South Wales. The wage for adult male employees was declared at £3/10/ a week, and for adult female employees at £1/18/. ...
Article : 280 wordsAt the tin hare inquiry yesterday, the Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Halse Rogers) said that he proposed to give permission for a prosecution for perjury against a witness, Mr. ...
Article : 383 wordsThe programme arranged for the opening day of the Parliamentary sitting to be resumed on Wednesday was announced by the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) at the conclusion of a ...
Article : 270 wordsMr. Mollison has postponed his return flight across the Atlantic for some days, owing to an unfavourable weather forecast. Several speakers at a luncheon to-day, in ...
Article : 499 wordsThe Imperial Economic Committee's report on wine states that, largely as a result of the preferences granted in 1925 and 1927, onequarter of the wine drunk in the United ...
Article : 355 wordsMr. S. M. Bruce, who led the Australian delegation at the Ottawa Conference, was received by President Hoover at White House to-day. He said ...
Article : 665 wordsAlthough prospects for the conting year were obscure, signs of hope were not lacking, said Mr. H. G. Darling (the chairman of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co., Ltd.), at the ...
Article : 458 wordsPlaying at Santa Barbara (California), the Australian cricketers beat the Montecito Cricket Club of Santa Barbara at the Peabody Stadium yesterday. The local club had l8 ...
Article : 199 wordsThe declaration was made by the full Commission, comprising the President (Mr. Justice Browne), Mr. Justice Cantor, and Mr. Justice Webb. ...
Article : 3,083 wordsSatisfaction at the new wage was expressed by representatives of employers organisations. The president of the Chamber of ...
Article : 437 wordsThe reconstitution of the Sydney Harbour Trust, to give shipping and trading Interests a voice in the management, a writing down of tlie trust's capital, and a reduction in port ...
Article : 261 wordsIn the monoplane in which she recently crossed the Atlantic, Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam landed here at 10.28 a.m. to-day from Los Angeles, completing the first ...
Article : 229 wordsThe King warmly praised the efficiency of the Mediterranean fleet in a telegram to Admiral Sir Ernie Chatfield at the conclusion of the visit to the fleet of the Prince of Wales ...
Article : 207 wordsConditions in the Irish Free State to-day are described by the special correspondent of the "Morning Post," who is himself an Irishman. He says: "Nature has given a bountiful ...
Article : 350 wordsScores of people had narrow escapes, and passengers were badly shaken yesterday morning, when a tram was derailed in Castlereagh-street, between Park and Market streets, ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Acting Commonwealth Statistician (Professor L. F. Giblin) announced yesterday that the population of Australia on June 30, 1932 was 6,549,074, an increase of 48,539 ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Empress of Britain, bringing delegates from the Ottawa Conference, docked at Somhamption at midday amid a deafening chorus of welcome from the sirens of a ...
Article : 286 wordsColonel H. G. Watkins has received the following messnge from Lord Londonderry, Secretary of State for Air, on the death of his son (Mr. H. G. Watkins), in Greenland: "On ...
Article : 154 wordsThe declaration has caused indignation at the Trades Hall. Although expecting a reduction, union officials did not believe that the wage would be so heavily reduced. Plans ...
Article : 628 words"Wool prices have reached their lowest level and a slight increase may be expected owing to a general improvement in trade conditions," said Mr. Jacques Playoust, of Playoust Fils, ...
Article : 289 wordsSpeaking at a civic reception in his honour at the Soldiers' Memorial Hall last night, the Deputy Premier (Mr. Bruxner) declared that the Government would not abolish the State ...
Article : 201 wordsThe new Buckfast Abbey, Devonshire, built of Bath stone by a few monks during the last 25 years—with their own hands and without money—on the site of the ruins of the ...
Article : 107 wordsA conference of the council of the United Country Movement held in Sydney yesterday, decided unanimously to launch immediately a State-wide campaign to emphasise the ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes, M.P., who is touring Scotland, in an interview with a representative of the Australian Press Association in Edinbmgh said he regarded the work of the Ottawa ...
Article : 228 wordsThe salutary effect of the India Government's measures to cope with the Congress campaign of civil disobedience was demonstrated in a decrease during July of nearly ...
Article : 129 wordsThe death is announced from Chicago of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mccormick, daughter of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, sen. [Mrs. Mccormick was born in August, 1872, ...
Article : 114 wordsAlarmed by the expressed intention of several United Country party leaders to Join Issue with the Federal Government on several matters of policy, a meeting of the Griffith ...
Article : 224 wordsA 25ft whale was found stianded on a sandbank, 50 yards from the shoie at Mornington last night, and after a long struggle was beached by two fishermen, Mr. S. T. ...
Article : 118 wordsA block of land at the corner of Pittstreet and Liverpool-street v. as sold at auction yesterday for £171,000. The price represents £l526 a foot on the Pitt-street ...
Article : 182 wordsThe university of Manitoba's endowment trust fund, recently officially reported to amount to 1,600.000 dollars, now amounts to approximately 100,000 dollars through thefts ...
Article : 113 wordsCommenting on the visit to London of the New Zealand Minster for Finance (Mr. Downie Stewart) and the Secretary to the New Zealand Treasury (Mr. A. D. Park), the ...
Article : 135 wordsDuring the Gloucestershire match at Liverpool Ernest Tyldesley (Lancashiie) was asked whether he would be prepaied to go to Australa if invited. It is understood that he ...
Article : 102 wordsThreats thut the steamer Tarcoola may be declared "black" because of the employment of the crew on British instead of Australian articles are not taken seriously by the owners ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 27 Aug 1932, Page 13
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