The State Government has decided to take a poll of the wheatgrowers on the question of the establishment of a compulsory wheat pool. ...
Article : 204 wordsThe State Cabinet decided yesterday to appoint a Royal Commission of inquiry into the western land leases. The Government's decision was approved at a special meeting ...
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Article : 289 wordsAlthough the Whitsuntide holidays opened with bad weather, ideal conditions obtained today over London and most of England. At seaside resorts bathing was in full swing. ...
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Article : 207 wordsThe last wish of an enthusiastic Leeds woman racegoer, Mrs. Hullah, was carried out at Wetherby racecourse, when her relatives assembled near the water-jump and scattered ...
Article : 91 wordsThe appointment of inspectors to investigate the system of dole relief formed the subject of a question in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. ...
Article : 419 wordsThe English Masonic Grand Lodge has declined to give refuge to Italian Freemasons suppressed by Signor Mussolini, who are seeking harbourage in England. ...
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Article : 332 wordsSir Harold Wernher, a director of the AngloSpanish Construction Company and Electrolux, Ltd., and a son of the late Sir Julius Wernher, who left him £10,000,000, has purchased ...
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Article : 134 wordsIt was stated before the Acting Chief Industrial Magistrate (Mr. A. R. Perry, S.M.) yesterday that a bakery sold loaves to a carter at 2/9 a dozen (/2¾ a loaf). ...
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Article : 93 wordsThe few members of the Federal Labour party who returned to Canberra to-day were of the opinion that if Mr. Scullin and Mr. Theodore, at the Premiers' Conference, ...
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Article : 86 wordsThe Rev. S. G. Drummond, organiser of relief work in the far western districts, who recently returned to Sydney after a motor trip of the areas in question, said yesterday that ...
Article : 204 wordsAlmost on the eve of striking his flag and ending his active career in the Navy, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, addressing a conference of head teachers at Portsmouth, said ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Full Bench of the Arbitration Court to-day refused an application by employers for an extension of working hours of shop assistants to 48 per week. The hours of ...
Article : 66 wordsAfter taking part in the English winter sports, Mr. J. Brown, a Sydney ice-skater, is returning to New South Wales on the mailboat Orsova, which reached Fremantle to-day. ...
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Article : 85 wordsForty thousand spectators saw the Australian motor cyclist, Vic Huxley, win the first round of the world's speedway championship from the Englishman, Colin Watson, at the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Hercules 'plane, which is carrying Australian mail for England, left Calcutta for Allahabad this morning. [By special arrangement Reuter's world ...
Article : 63 wordsA report from Wyndham states that Mr. C W. A. Scott, who is flying from Australia to England, left there for Sourabaya at 5 a.m. to-day, and was followed immediately by the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 27 May 1931, Page 11
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