Many representatives of organisations of employees in the Commonwealth Public Service were in attendance at the sitting of the Arbitration Court to-day, when Mr. Justice ...
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Article : 1,775 wordsFurther particulars of the Mornington railway smash show that when the accident happened the train had run two miles on a sharp decline. The trucks left the rails ...
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Article : 288 wordsIn the Imperial Challenge Shields rifle shooting competition, 823 teams entered in the senior division, and 469 in the junior. Australia has won 52 prizes, Great Britain 37, South ...
Article : 235 wordsThe unveiling of the Australian tablet in Amiens Cathedral was a touching and pathetic ceremony. The white marble [?]able[?] had been decorated with sprigs of wattle, ...
Article : 783 wordsA message from Port of Spain (Trinidad) states that the local Government has announced a revision of the Customs tariffs under the arrangement with Canada. All foodstuffs ...
Article : 57 wordsA lightning-strike of electricians in Berlin deprived the city of practically the whole of its electric light, and stopped the trams. It is reported that the strikers will, provide ...
Article : 60 wordsA Tokio message states that the Cabinet has decided to withdraw Japanese troops from the Chentao district, on the Manchuria-Korean border, despite the activities of ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. J. H. Thomas, M.P. (general secretary National Union of Railwaymen), speaking in Hull, said that a majority of the railwaymen's delegates had favoured a strike to assist the ...
Article : 98 wordsThe New York "Times" states that Mr. C. B. Cochran has announced that the Carpentier-Dempsey fight will probably be held in the vicinity of New York in a specially ...
Article : 51 wordsThe State Treasurer (Mr. Lang) intends to deliver his postponed Budget Speech in the Legislative Assembly to-night. No surprises are expected, inasmuch as ...
Article : 355 wordsIt is explained that Lord Knutsford's statement about the London Hospital closing at the New Year, owing to financial difficulties, must not be taken literally. It may be ...
Article : 69 wordsA Moscow wireless message states that the United States rejected France's proposal to join in the blockade of Soviet Russia on the Black Sea coast. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe select committee of the Legislative Council on the agricultural industry took further evidence at Parliament House yesterday. George Washington Walker, managing ...
Article : 316 wordsA Warsaw message states that Poland has refuse to join Roumania's south-eastern entente, because Poland does not trust the Czechs. ...
Article : 69 wordsIt is generally expected that Parliament will meet on November 16. It is probable that the debate on the Address in Reply will be adjourned after the mover and seconder ...
Article : 123 wordsAn influential deputation of representatives of commercial bodies, which was introduced to-day to the Minister for Works and Railways, Mr. Groom, by Senator Fairbairn, ...
Article : 475 wordsIn the course of a report issued on behalf of the A.W.U. yesterday it was stated that the Federal Arbitration Act, as it stood, was of not much use to the workers in rural ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Storey) has signalised his return from his holiday in Melbourne by again attacking the critics of the Government in unmeasured terms. ...
Article : 698 wordsLondonderry was the storm centre in Ireland during the week-end. Five police were wounded, and rival mobs were busy. An unofficial Irish conference, representing ...
Article : 179 wordsThe textile workers employed at the Botany works of the Colonial Combing, Spinning, and W[?]aving Company, Limited, threaten a strike. They are members of the Textile Workers' ...
Article : 136 wordsYachtsmen will be interested to lern that his Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Forster, has arranged to purchase the wellknown Sydney racing yacht Yeulba, of which ...
Article : 178 wordsAbout 1000 people assembled on the Domain on Saturday afternoon in consequence of an announcement that a monster demonstration in commemoration of the Russian revolution of ...
Article : 269 wordsThe city solicitor, who was asked to report on the legality of the proposal of the City Council to establish a model lodging-house, submitted his opinion to the meeting of the ...
Article : 276 wordsSix years ago to-day H.M.A.S. Sydney outfought the raiding German cruiser Emden, and chased her—a flaming, battered wreck—on to the surf-swept coral reefs of North Keeling ...
Article : 419 wordsAs the result of a small fire in the Oakey Park colliery between Saturday afternoon and early on Sunday morning 28 valuable horses used in the working of the colliery were ...
Article : 220 wordsAccording to advices just received by m[?] the Rev. Nicholas Lawless, P.P., Faugha[?]t, addressed the following letter to the promoters of a meeting held in Dundalk in aid of ...
Article : 366 wordsThe combined unions of employees of the Commonwealth Public Service have launched a campaign with the object of enforcing the Federal Government immediately to bring into ...
Article : 253 wordsSir,—Recently you published "An Appeal" from a retired postmaster whose pension was £132 per annum after 27 years' service. Kindly allow me to state my own case briefly. ...
Article : 337 wordsThere is not a great deal of union labour employed in this district, but the opinion is generally and freely expressed that the demands of the A.W.U. are outrageous. If ...
Article : 158 wordsMr. Clyde Meynell one of the managing directors of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., referring to-day to statements by Mr. Walter Baker, president of the Actors' Federation, made the ...
Article : 204 wordsA consignment of munition-making machinery has arrived at the small arms factory, being part of that purchased by the Defence authorities from the British Government. It ...
Article : 50 wordsTwo men and a boy were drowned at Port Kembla yesterday whilst fishing. Nobody saw the accident. The names of the deceased are James Warner, farmer, Towrodgi; his ...
Article : 53 wordsA man named Jones has informed the police that early yesterday that, as he was proceeding through North Park lands, on the western side of Morphett-street Bridge, he saw ...
Article : 55 wordsWELLINGTON (1229m.—Arr: Nov. 8, Mahin, s, from Newcastle. AUCKLAND (1281m).—Arr: Nov. 8, Walton Hall, s, from New York. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 9 Nov 1920, Page 9
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