The question whether the proceeds of betting should be included in income tax returns was argued yesterday before the Royal Commission which is inquiring into the ...
Article : 510 wordsUnder the system of preferential voting for the Senate, proposed in the bill to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act, 1918, which was read a first time in the Senate to-day, the ...
Article : 350 wordsThe Employers' Federation has asked the State Government to communicate with the other States and the Federal authorities, with a, view of convening a conference of ...
Article : 404 wordsTheo Royal Commission, which is inquiring into the Goorgeson Wheat contract, the administration of the State Wheat Office, and the investments and financial position of Mr. W. ...
Article : 3,147 wordsThe bill to amend the Constitution by giving the Commonwealth power to nationalise monopolies was made a measure of urgency as soon as the House met this morning, and ...
Article : 645 wordsMr. Hughes showed flashes of his old fighting form this morning when replying to interjections. When he was speaking on the Constitution Bill in the House of Representatives. ...
Article : 452 wordsThe question has been raised whether the Government should pay the railway men's wages for the week's work prior to the strike. It is stated that the Government has decided ...
Article : 126 wordsMr. J. H. Thomas (general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen) announced to-night that to-day's conference had broken down. No settlement had been reached. ...
Article : 621 wordsThe Ottawa correspondent of the New York Times" says the Prime Minister (Sir Robert Borden) has announced that a revision of the tariff will be made, in which the revenue and ...
Article : 101 wordsA Madrid message reports floods in Eastern Spain. The rice crops have been ruined. Trains are unable to run. Many persons have been drowned. Twelve feet of water in a ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Chamber of Deputies ratified the Peace Treaty by an overwhelming majority. SIGNIFICANT VOTE IN U.S. SENATE. ...
Article : 138 wordsIn the course of a farewell spoech at Auckland, Admiral Viscount Jellicoe said such a dominion as New Zealand was worth living for. It also was worth fighting for. In the ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. James), who has charge of the Government proposals concerning the living wage, explained yesterday' that it was not certain ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Police Court was crowded when evidence was commenced in the charge against P. F. C. Holzberger, a well-known Brisbane solicitor, that he received stolen military ...
Article : 401 wordsThe housing position in Newcastle is very acute. Houses are extremely scarce, and in consequence rents are high. Many now industries which have opened and are opening ...
Article : 284 wordsAdmiral Knapp, commanding the American forces in the Adriatic, has reported that only American intervention at Trau prevented bloodshed between the Italians and Jugo Slavs. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe trouble between the seamen and the New South Wales coastal steamship owners remains unsettled. It was announced yesterday that the general secretary of the union ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. Justice Cussen, sitting as a Royal Commission, opened an inquiry to-day into the allegations made in the Legislative Assembly recently by Mr. Hogan, Caucus Labour ...
Article : 535 wordsAt the annual convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union yesterday a resolution was carried expressing the opinion that in view of the difficulty presented by the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Omaha correspondent of the "New York Times" reports that another negro assaulted a white woman. The newspapers suppressed the fact in order to prevent the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe question of intervention with regard to the present high prices of potatoes, and an application to have boots and shoes declared necessary commodities, were amongst ...
Article : 659 wordsMears. Burns, Philp, and Co., Ltd, report having received a further wireless message from their representative at Ocean Island. It states that the Tambo lies in an exposed ...
Article : 165 wordsIt was stated by Senator Russell in the Senate to-day, in reply to a question, that in October, 1916, on the eve of the conscription campaign, the Gango arrived with 214 ...
Article : 242 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 2. A despatch from Mexico city reports that floods in the northern part of Chiapas have wiped out Chllan. Thousands of people are ...
Article : 202 wordsA despatch from Peking says that attempts to resume the conference between delegates from north and south China are likely to prove unsuccessful. The southern delegates ...
Article : 107 wordsNow that such keen public interest is being shown in aviation, and the possibility of several machines making flights from England to Australia, the necessity of an Air Navigation ...
Article : 545 wordsIn order to expedite the fixing of dates for the challenge tie of the Davis Cup the following cablegramt has been Bent to the Lawn Tennis Association (England) by the Lawn ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Bethlehem Steel Corporation has issued a statement announcing that all the plants are running virtually to their full capacity. ...
Article : 97 wordsInterest is still being manifested in trades union circles in the proposed application of the Whitley system to the railway and tramway workshops. ...
Article : 391 wordsThere is little likelihood of the Australian Navy and Army Air Force being established in the immediate future. Although official information is being withheld, it is ...
Article : 150 wordsThe President of the Necessary Commodities Commission (Judge Rolln) referred yesterday to, the general shortage of foodstuffs which had in recent cases been brought under ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. Mark Sheldon, Australian Trade Commissioner, who has arrived on route to the United States, said he hoped the development of trade between the United States and ...
Article : 147 wordsThe annual report of the Commissioner of Railways for the year ended June 30 shows that out of 5612 miles open to traffic in Queensland only one section of 100 miles, ...
Article : 134 wordsVarious aspects of the influence of the cinema upon children were discussed in a paper read at the Workers Education Association's conference last night by Mr. ...
Article : 221 wordsAn interesting racing trophy will be on exhibition in the official stand at Randwick today, in the shape of a trophy provided for the first races held on Hyde Park in May, ...
Article : 189 wordsThe King and Queen of the Belgians arrived on board the George Washington. The [?] was beflagged, and the vice-president extended greetings on behalf of President ...
Article : 99 wordsThe House, of Representatives to-day decided, in the face of requests by the Opposition for the reason for this," to Bit on Tuesday next. The reason, of course, is the ...
Article : 98 wordsOn Wednesday night two of the numerous constables who have been patrolling park lands around Adelaide in search of the horsekiller, arrested a man who was leading a ...
Article : 75 wordsShunters in the Melbourne railway yards who remained away from work last Sunday on a point of dispute regarding Sunday pay, have resolved by 182 votes to 18 that they will ...
Article : 65 wordsAs the result of their recent visit to Messrs. Anthony Hordern and Sons' Art Gallery, the trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales have purchased two paintings ...
Article : 60 wordsPresident Wilson's condition is worse, and a nerve specialist has been called to attend ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 4 Oct 1919, Page 13
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