In consequence of the introduction of the 44-hour working week, and the resultant increased cost of handling and distribution the Dairy Produce Selling Agents' ...
Article : 160 wordsInvestment business showed no weakening on the Stock Exchange yesterday, and the volume of business was well maintained. All Commonwealth loans were firm, the tax-free ...
Article : 310 wordsThe annual wool sales were held to-day, when 16,375 bales were offered by Webster and Sons, Ltd., and Roberts and Co., Ltd., The sales passed off more suceessfully than anticipated. Good clearances were ...
Article : 111 wordsCurpathis Tin reports that for the last week worked in 1925 ore mined was 54.2 tons, crushed 66.1 tons, and recovered 2.81 tons of conceatrates, when the mine was closed down. Since resumption, for the fortnight, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsPrices are for distributing lots, except where otherwise stated. Ax[?] Gre[?]: Australian, pale, [?] tins 8/6 per [?], 2[?] tins [?]2/[?] per cwt, [?] tins 47/6 per cwt; dark, ...
Article : 340 wordsTo-day's sales included:—Mount Isa, 20/9. MELBOURNE, Wednesday. To-day's sales included:- Silver-Lead: Mt. Isa, 21/; B.H.P., 25/7½, six weeks ...
Article : 86 wordsA somewhat firmer tendency in rates for local bacon, resultant upon the continued shortage of prime lean meat, was announced by city dairy produce houses yesterday. ...
Article : 1,393 wordsA further fall in base metal prices had a depressing effect on the mining share market yesterday. Turnover was small, and several issues receded. Copper varied, Lyell's fell ...
Article : 621 wordsClearings of the Sydney banks for the week ended January 18 amounted to £17,032,672, compared with £16,676,049 for the corresponding week last year. Clearances from ...
Article : 136 wordsTo-day's sales included:—City Electric, ord., p.[?]., 30/; E. G. Eager, pref., 23/; Elec. Zinc, pref., 37/; Milaquin Sugar, 25/; Nestle's, pref., 24/., Perkins Co., 20/6; Western [?]t. Bank, 54/. ...
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Advertising : 365 wordsA crists has arison at the Lithgow Municipal Gaswork regarding the working of the 44-hour week. The men, despite the apparent success of the recent coference, and ...
Article : 140 wordsGold was quoted in London on Tuesday, our correspondent cables, at 84/10½ per ounce fine, a fall of ½d on the day. ...
Article : 28 wordsPreparation for war is said to be an insurance against war. The insurance premium paid is high in 1[?]24 world armaments cost over £514,600,000. This is according to ...
Article : 208 wordsThe British General Insurance Company, Limited, has been registered with a nominal capital of £250,000, the subscribers being E. A. Cordell, E. C. McMullen, H. L. Litrin, W. A. ...
Article : 184 wordsWheat, growers' lots 5/11 to 6/0½, parcels nominal; flour, bakers' lots £14/5/ to £14/10/; bran, £7/10/ to £8/5/; pollard, £8/5/ to £8/14; barley, [?]/6; oats, 2/9; chaff, £5, on tracks at Mile End, bags included; ...
Article : 396 wordsThe State championship carnival under the control of the New South Wales Amateur Swimming Assocaiation was concluded at the Domain, Baths last night, Notwithstanding ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 449 wordsOn the Stock Exchange to-day quotations of Australian company stocks were:- Australian Mercantile Land and Finance, 4 per cent., £72/17/6; City Sydney, 6 per cent. ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Fenton (Vic.) asked that a statement be made of the agreement with Dr. Smalpage regarding his tuberculosis treatment, and if the ...
Article : 129 wordsParticulars of the Commonwealth note issue as at December 28 are forwarded by the issue department of the Commonwealth Bank. The usual Christmas-New Year expansion in the ...
Article : 318 wordsQuotations of shares of Australian mining companies to-day included:—B.H. Proprietary, 26/8; B.H. North £6/10/3; B.H. South, 84/4½; Hampden Cloncurry, 8/2¼; Mount Elliott, 8/9; Briseis Tin, 5/9: Mount Lyell, ...
Article : 81 wordsDuring the past week there has been a good demand among manufacturers for raw materials. Previously some hesitancy was apparent in buying on account of the ...
Article : 371 wordsWool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 9511 bales, and the sales, including private transactions, ...
Article : 1,595 wordsThe report of the Australian Mines and Metals Association, to be presented at the annual meeting, to be held in Melbourne next Tuesday, is largely devoted to the recording of industrial disputes, relating ...
Article : 536 wordsAs a result of the abatement of the heavy rains, the water covering the Babinda line has rapidly subsided, and the mial train for Cairns, which was held up at Innisfail ...
Article : 90 wordsDuring a heavy windstorm at East Moree yesterday a chimney collapsed and Mrs. Amy Anne Freeman, wife of Mr. E. J. Freeman, who was in the back yard of her residence, ...
Article : 154 wordsThe abstract of average liabilities and assets of the undermentioned bank in its Australian business for the quarter ended December 31, 1925, prepared in accordance ...
Article : 190 wordsThe extension of the disturbance operating over north Queensland into New South Wales into on Tuesday was responsible for light to heavy rains with thunderstorms in coastal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 wordsCabled advice has just been received from New Zealand of the completion of the wing dam to divert the water from the site of No. 10 pier, and that work on the foundation of this pier will be commenced ...
Article : 97 wordsGathering blackberries in a gully nedr Willoughby yesterday aftornoon, Miss Nellie Bathgate, aged 32 years, of Sydney-street, Manly, felt something strike her sharply on the log. ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. H. W. Gepp, general manager of the Electrolytic Zinc company, and party, on Monday inspected the Hercules and Mount Read mines, and the sections adjoining recently acquired by the Electorlytic Zinc ...
Article : 247 wordsMost of the catchment are for the metropolitan district was not affected by Tuesday night's heavy rain. Following were the registrations:—Broughton's Pass, 16; ...
Article : 52 wordsAt an extraordinary meeting yesterday shareholders of the Producers and Citizens' Co-operative Assurance Company of Australia, Ltd., passed, subject to confirmation, ...
Article : 121 wordsIn sympathy with the improved tone of the London market, local shippers yesterday advanced their limit for wheat by /2 per bushel to the basis of 5/4 for bulk wheat and 5/6 ...
Article : 183 wordsFurther heavy rain has fallon in Queensland. Falls were fairly general in the coastal districts north of Townsville during the 21 hours ended 9 a.m. this morning, and some of ...
Article : 129 wordsThe following investment sales were recorded, and appear in listed order, morning sales first, then noon sales, preceded by the letter (n), and afternoon sales denoted by ...
Article : 459 wordsUnder the will of the late Mr. James Gart rell, formerly governing director of F. G. Wood, Son, and Co., Adelaide, whose death occurred last month, £3300 has been bequeathed ...
Article : 87 wordsA progress report has been received from the mine superintendent of Mount Isa Mines, Ltd., for the period ended January 13 as follows:—Simpson Area: Davidson shaft, Black Star lode, 200ft level. Main cast ...
Article : 373 wordsAfter the fourth ordinary meeting of the Lincoln Mills (Australia), Ltd., yesterday, our Melbourne correspondent telegraphs, the chairman, Mr. G. Kettlewell, outlined a ...
Article : 461 wordsDocuments giving details of the proposed extension of the Port Augusta-Oodnadatta railway to Alice Springs, were laid on the table of the House of Representatives to-day by the ...
Article : 114 wordsThough Townsville, with three meatworks. is recognised as an important factor in the frozen meat trade of Australia, few people outside those in the industry realise what the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Sydney Wool Selling Brokers report:- Rabbitskins.—[?]h forward. The market opened /1 to /2 per lb dearer for practically all descriptions, but as sales progressed prices improved considerably, ...
Article : 121 wordsCargo wheat firmed to the extent of /6 on higher American closings and reduced Plate offerings, also on account of better Continental inquiry, but the demand was ...
Article : 115 wordsSir,—It may interest your readers to hear that vegetable wool is not quite so new a product as poople think, and no doubt experimenting has been going on for many years. ...
Article : 149 wordsThere was a good attendance of buyers at the Abattoira saleyards yesterday, when about 1570 calves, comprising all descriptions, and including a line of S.B. calves, were foward. Bobbies, however, again ...
Article : 96 wordsCrossing Chaurch-street, Parramatta, to take his seat in a Sydney-bound motor 'bus, Thomas A. Fayburn, lately resident in Vista-street, Saas Souel, was knocked down by a motor ...
Article : 83 wordsThe fifth annual report of the New White Crystal Company No Liability, covering the period ended December 18, is largely a record of the sale of forfeited shares. The capital is now £18,355, in 53,075 ...
Article : 164 wordsAt to-day's wool sales prices for some of the clips were:—Mount Cornish, highest /23½, average /22; Yathong, /22½, /21[?]; Oriental, /46, /44½; Burraburra, /21, /20½; Nivedowns, ...
Article : 201 wordsAt the fortnightly stock sales 8000 fat and store sheep and 100 pigs of medium quality were penned. Fat sheep were slightly easier. Merino wethers sold 17/ to 22/3, comeback wethers 17/ to 31/9, comeback ewes ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 21 Jan 1926, Page 13
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