Articles from page 15: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. MOUNT MORGAN MINE. To Close Down.

    Shareholders in the Mount Morgan Gold-mining Company, Ltd., yesterday decided that the company should wind up voluntarily. Work at the Mount Morgan mine will therefore cease, and the township of Mount Morgan—with a present population of 10,000 ...

    Article : 187 words
  3. CITY'S DEBT.

    The serious financial position of the City Council is shown in a report which the City Treasurer issued last night for consideration by the finance committee next week. ...

    Article : 281 words
  4. NEW BRITISH PROPOSALS. Naval Limitation.

    New proposals have been made by the British delegation to the Naval Limitation Conference: These had been drawn up by the British Government, in consultation with the delegates, to secure the object which President Coolidge had in view when he summoned ...

    Article : 1,043 words
  5. SOVIET RUSSIA.

    M. Stalin, in a fresh outburst at Moscow, accuses agents of the British Conservative party of organising M. Volkoff's murder at Warsaw, and rends Mr. George Landsbury ...

    Article : 402 words
  6. ROAD CONTRACT.

    The indignation of the Reform aldermen has been thoroughly aroused by what they describe as the City Council roads contract scandal. ...

    Article : 908 words
  7. CANEFIELDS. Innisfail Trouble.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) at a civic reception here to-day referred to the recent outbreaks of lawlessness at South Johnstone. In connection with the strike of sugarcane ...

    Article : 423 words
  8. DEBT BURDEN.

    Economy in both public and private affairs, in order to avoid the consequences of increasing national indebtedness, was urged by Mr. George J. Cohen, chairman of directors of ...

    Article : 264 words
  9. SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING.

    Shareholders of the Mount Morgan Company unanimously decided to-day that the company should wind-up voluntarily. Messrs. J. M. Niall and Kelso King were appointed ...

    Article : 1,319 words
  10. AMERICAN DECISION.

    The United States has decided to make no further fundamental compromise with Britain at Geneva in regard to cruiser tonnage. Reporting this decision and other matters, ...

    Article : 517 words
  11. EXTENSION OF TROUBLE.

    Advices from South Johnstone this morning report that the strike area remains very quiet indicating that the recent influx of police to the troubled area has had the ...

    Article : 318 words
  12. BRITAIN'S DEFENCES.

    A high authority of the Royal Air Force, reviewing the mimic battle to test the air defences of Britain, which ends to-night, pointed out that the defensive system ...

    Article : 130 words
  13. A ROMANTIC STORY.

    Until the end of last year Mount Morgan had yielded 5,058,081 fine ounces of gold and 119,280 tons of copper, of a total value of £30,116,549. Dividends paid to shareholders ...

    Article : 812 words
  14. ASIA'S COTTON TRADE.

    The amazing increase in the imports into India of Japanese cotton goods is causing grave concern in Indian textile circles. In two years the Japanese imports have ...

    Article : 122 words
  15. CHILD ENDOWMENT.

    A close inspection of the Child Endowment Act, and also of the regulations which were gazetted yesterday, disclose that extraordinary powers have been granted to the ...

    Article : 456 words
  16. CONFERENCE OF GROWERS.

    A conference of representatives of the various sugar districts of Queensland was held at Mackay to-day to consider the position of the South Johnstone farmers and what action ...

    Article : 128 words
  17. OVERSEA SPORT.

    The New Zealand cricket team began a match against the West of England to-day. Scores: New Zealand, six wickets for 230, innings declared closed (Dempster 58, Mills ...

    Article : 248 words
  18. MIGRATION.

    In the House of Commons to-day Lord Apsley asked whether it was true that William Mannfield (38), a butcher, of Southhampton, a desirable type of migrant, who had a wife and ...

    Article : 327 words
  19. FAMOUS AIRMAN.

    Captain F. L. Barnard, one of Britain's most famous air pilots, was Killed to-day when a machine in which he was flying crashed near Bristol. ...

    Article : 211 words
  20. ARBITRATION.

    Chief Judge Dethridge, in the Arbitration Court to-day, having expressed the opinion that there would not be complete harmony in industry until the Angel Gabriel became a ...

    Article : 646 words
  21. METAL TRADES.

    Further conferences were held to-day between representatives of the Trades Hall Industrial Disputes Committee and unions likely to become affected by an extension of the ...

    Article : 209 words
  22. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Army and Navy Stores won the Empire Marketing Board's 100-guinea silver cup for the best Empire window display. It consisted of Australian sultanas illustrating the com ...

    Article : 483 words
  23. 15 WRITS ISSUED.

    Edmond Sheffield Paul, managing director of Schweppes, Ltd., Sydney, Senator J. D. Millen, and Dr. E. M. Humphrey, of Macquarie-street, have each issued three writs out of the ...

    Article : 208 words
  24. HILL 60.

    In a letter to Mr. Calder a London business man who bought Hill 60, the scene of much fighting in the Great War, and offered it to the nation, the Secretary of State for ...

    Article : 202 words
  25. BRAVE BOY.

    List night Mr. and Mrs. Alex, Casperson, of Granville, a suburb of Maryborough, went to visit a neighbour 300 yards away, leaving their four children the oldest of when is ...

    Article : 268 words
  26. COMMONWEALTH BANK.

    Reports are current that the Commonwealth Bank is preparing to open an agency in New York, owing to the contraction of loan facilities [?] London. It is stated that the deputy ...

    Article : 188 words
  27. FORCED LANDING.

    When flying over Violet Town on his way from Richmond (N.S.W.)to Point Cook (Victoria) yesterday morning. Sergeant G. RiceOxley, of the Royal Australian Air Force, was ...

    Article : 140 words
  28. LIQUOR PRICES.

    Owing to legislation, such as the Child Endowment Act and the Workers' Compensation Act, introduced by the Laug Government Tamworth people will in future have to ...

    Article : 91 words
  29. TRADE UNION BILL.

    In the House of Commons to-day Mr. P. A. Harris (Lib.) asked what course would be followed if the amendments made by the House of Lords to the Trade Union and Trade ...

    Article : 104 words
  30. PRICE OF GAS.

    The Australian Gas Light Company has announced that from August 6, the price of gas by metal will be increased from 5/8 to 5/9 per 1000 cubic feet. Mr. Andrew Wilson, ...

    Article : 101 words
  31. 1931 EXHIBITION.

    The Manly and District Chamber of Commerce has convened a special meeting to be held in the Manly Town Hall on Wednesday evening, to put forward the claims of Manly ...

    Article : 52 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$