Spirited argument, which lasted from 10.30 o'clock in the morning to 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon, characterised the application for the deregistration of the Seamen's Union, which was heard before ...
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Article : 502 words"I am prepared to do my term in gaol for not paying the pineapple levy," said Mr. M. F. Ruskin, speaking at a meeting of the Metropolitan ...
Article : 939 wordsThere are several questions which ratepayers should ask themselves before casting their votes in the Greater Brisbane Election. (1) WHY ARE NOT THE RATE NOTICES ...
Article : 394 words"Britain is too complacent in her attitude towards, and in her relations with, the Dominions," declared Mr. Neville Chamberlain in an address at ...
Article : 266 wordsCouncillor F. A. Stimpson, assisted by Councillor J. Soden and Mr. P. T. G. Shaw, addressed a representative meeting of electors of Sunny bank on Monday ...
Article : 249 wordsA meeting for women, under the auspices of the Q.W.E.L., was held in the Foresters' Hall, Paddington, yesterday afternoon, and addresses were delivered ...
Article : 238 wordsOfficials were at the picking station yesterday morning to sign on crews for the Cooma and Canberra, but although a few seamen were present they were ...
Article : 65 wordsPoints in the United Party's Greater Brisbane policy were touched upon last evening by Mr. W. J. Foster, the endorsed United Party and Q.W.E.L. ...
Article : 101 wordsSpeaking at Wickham-terrace on Tuesday night, Mr. W. J. Smout (Nationalist candidate for Paddington) stressed the necessity for a civic survey and modern ...
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Article : 265 wordsStatements were made available yesterday by the Commonwealth Treasury indieating the receipts and expenditure of the Commonwealth for the first half-year, ...
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Article : 150 wordsAlderman W. A. Jolly (Mayoral candidate) and Mr. L. H. Tooth (candidate for the Ithaca Ward) yesterday afternoon addressed a public meeting held in ...
Article : 246 wordsDr. Sharp (Archbishop of Brisbane) formally inducted Canon Gradwell as restor of Southport, at St. Peter's Church to-night, in the presence of a large ...
Article : 737 wordsThe present wet season is one of the best for many years. For about a fortnight no day passed without heavy falls of rain in this district and the ...
Article : 284 wordsAlderman E. Lanham (United Party Candidate) addressed a meeting in the Enoggera School of Arts last night, Councillor T. Pratt (chairman of the Enoggera ...
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Article : 93 wordsSir,—Mr. Theodore's cheap snee[?] at the expiring Municipality of Brisbane are worthy of that pompous and over-rated politician. Nobody will say that the ...
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Article : 370 wordsMr. Campbell general secretary of the Farmers and Settlers' Association says that the position of the wheat market is most satisfactory to those growers who ...
Article : 141 wordsPassengers from the mail train were successfully rowed across the Burdekin River at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. A train from Bowen contained about 50 ...
Article : 149 words"First of all Greater Brisbane in any opinion, is the opening move in a rearrangement of State and Federal boundaries where community of interest will ...
Article : 384 wordsOwing to the interruption of the railway traffic on the Northern line through the submergence of the Burdekin River bridge by flood waters the Railway ...
Article : 128 wordsThe sudden death yesterday on board the steamer Koopa of Mrs. Mary Elkington, wife of Dr. J. S. C. Elkington, Director of Federal Public Health, will ...
Article : 469 wordsIt was resolved at the A.W.U. convention that action should be taken to bring about a restriction in the flow of alien migrants to Australia. ...
Article : 288 wordsThe following telegrams were received from the general manager at Townsville yesterday:— "9.30 a.m. Haughton River now 7ft. 6in. ...
Article : 295 wordsHeavy rain has fallen in the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday in the Carpentaria Division, except the Far Western portion, and the State Meteorologist advises that ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Billinudgel branch of the P.P.U. has submitted a motion to the Tweed District Council of the Union, with a view to Parliament being urged to amend ...
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Article : 109 wordsInterviewed with regard to the protest from Greece against the recent expulsion of the Greek Patriarch from Turkish territory, the Commissioner for Foreign ...
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Article : 202 wordsLONDON, February 3. A Queensland loan of £11,728,000, to cover maturing loans, has been underwritten. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 4 Feb 1925, Page 7
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