A conference of Ministers of the States and the Commonwealth was held in Sydney to-day to consider the question of the eradication of ...
Article : 390 words"On consideration of the figures you will see that, had it not been for the increased taxation, and the additional provision which it has ...
Article : 1,238 wordsThe Acting Minister for Trade and Customs (Mr. F. M, Forde) expressed pleasure to-day at the prospect of further consideration ...
Article : 341 wordsAbout £100 worth of damage was caused by a fire which broke out in a grocery shop at Brookes-street, Valley, shortly before 1 o'clock this ...
Article : 92 wordsFrom the fact that there were two long sessions of the Anglo-Egyptian Conference to-day, it may be taken for granted that the thorniest patches ...
Article : 243 wordsThe campaign for the violation of the salt laws received a setback last night when 300 police raided the Congress Party's offices ...
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Advertising : 444 wordsThe fact that to-morrow's Legislative Assembly elections will be the first under the new Redistribution of Seats Act tends to make a forecast ...
Article : 372 wordsThe Judicial Committee or the Privy Council, haying heard an appeal from the decision of the Supreme Court of the Irish Free State, the Lord ...
Article : 137 wordsThe "Daily Express," in an editorial, says that a suicidal catastrophe, involving 1000 firms and the livelihood of 200,000 work people in the wool ...
Article : 109 wordsProtests against the heavy vehicles tax were brought before the meeting of the North-western Suburbs Progress Council, held last evening in the ...
Article : 261 wordsClaiming that a 48-hour week should operate in the retail butchers' shops in New South Wales and Queensland, the Master Butchers' Meat and Allied ...
Article : 112 wordsSenator Marconi to-day conducted a two-way conversation from his yacht, Electra, with Genoa, using a one kilowatt, with the Wireless Co.'s officials ...
Article : 34 wordsMajor Cran, the airman who was a member of Scott's 1910 expedition, is planning an attempt to reach the South Pole by motor cycle, accompanied by ...
Article : 83 wordsIn continuation of his research work aboard the Electra, Senatore Marconi has spoken direct with Buenos Aires, and direct with Montreal. At present ...
Article : 112 wordsSir William M'Pherson (the ex-Premier of Victoria), after a tour of Europe, expressed the opinion that German manufacturers are leading the ...
Article : 220 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Alderman W. A. Jolly, C.M.G.) yesterday appealed for gifts of clothing for persons unemployed or in necessitous circumstances. ...
Article : 152 wordsKnud Andersen, the Danish "author, whose home is the Atlantic Ocean, arrived here to-day m his 60 foot ketch Monsunen, with his wife and three ...
Article : 129 wordsThe "Daily Express" says it understands that a dratt Anglo-Russian trade treaty had been negotiated by Mr. Arthur Henderson (British Secretary ...
Article : 53 wordsIn the annual report of the Comptroller of Prisons, presented to Parliament to-day, it was stated that for the year 1928-29 there were 7623 ...
Article : 92 wordsAdvice has been received by the Shell Co. that Messrs. F. Bardsley, R. Annabel, and K. Wedgewood, who are flying around Australia in Gipsy Moth ...
Article : 58 wordsEarly last cvsning, Mrs. F. L. Maher was In her home, accompanied by her Utile daughter, Inez, when a fire, which is believed to have been caused ...
Article : 115 wordsThe order to quit their leases issued by the mines management will affect 196 householders and campers, who will not be shown any leniency, with ...
Article : 74 wordsCabinet decided to-day to recommend chui-chi Ariyoshl for Imperial nomination to the House of Peers in recognition of his untllrng and ...
Article : 65 wordsMembers of the Parliamentary Labour Party assembled to hear the Cabinet's reply to their ultimatum. They received the suggestion that the ...
Article : 246 wordsThe Coroner at Barraba (N.S.W.), to-day'held an inquest into the death of Thomas O'Brien, who was found dead on March 24. The verdict was ...
Article : 65 wordsThe miners' executive has unanimously rejected the coal owners' proposals for a spreadover of hours 'on a weekly or fortnightly basis, instead of ...
Article : 68 wordsFlying Officers Piper and Kay, the New Zealanders, who flew from England left to-day for the Dominion. There were many admirers at the boat ...
Article : 40 wordsParents in South Melbourne have Been unable to send their children to school owing to lack of money to buy clothes for them. A large number of ...
Article : 124 wordsIn order to meet Sir Douglas Mawson, the leader of the British, Australian, and New Zealand Antarctic Expedition, Captain J. K. Davis, ...
Article : 135 wordsSerious dissension has occurred in the New South Wales section of the Australian Labour Party. The senior vice-president, who was deposed last ...
Article : 127 wordsTwo powerfully-built footpads attacked William Wilson, an employee of Kilners, Ltd., to-day at Stanmore, and tried to rob him of a valise ...
Article : 94 wordsThe appointment of a commission of business men in the various units of the Empire, to Inquire into Empire resources, markets, and factors entering ...
Article : 82 wordsAlthough no news has been received for a few days from Messrs. D. Smith and W. Spiers, who left Sydney on a flight to England, the Shell Company ...
Article : 54 wordsAs it is tnought that the bandits who robbed the Mudgee mall train near Glenbrook, New South Wales, on Tuesday night, might have come overland ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. Michael de Graaff, a dairy farmer of Spring Gardens, was found shot dead at the door of a workshop on the farm early this morning. Foxes ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Senate, without a word of debate, approved a 38,000,000 dolla[?] (£7,200,000) direct appropriation for prohibition enforcement next year. ...
Article : 43 wordsWhile endeavouring to stop a motor cyclist from crossing the line as an electric train from Lyttelton was approaching Christchurch Arthur ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Duchess of Bediord has arrived here via Lebourget, thus completing the first stage of the flight from London to Capetown and back. ...
Article : 37 wordsParliament has abolished capital nunishment. Theoretically decapitation has been the law, but it has been in abeyance for nearly 40 years. ...
Article : 31 wordsHeavv rain has interfered with the search by the police for the men who robbed the Mudgee mail train on Tuesday night. No clues of much value have ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 12 Apr 1930, Page 19
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