That no stocks of Australian produce be carried by grocers until Australia's new duties on cotton goods have been withdrawn is the ...
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Article : 501 wordsThe Australian cricketers are able to sit back and smile at the progress of the strife over Voce, which now appears to be an almost purely ...
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Article : 546 wordsThe Douglas Credit scheme is not new, for Major Douglas expounded his theories soon after the close of the war. It remained for the world depression, however, to bring the ideas of Major Douglas into prominence, and its adherents claimed ...
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Article : 901 wordsAssertions that the nationalisation of banking meant throwing away a system that was recognised throughout the world, and that unless the people had ...
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Article : 89 wordsThe Premier (Mr. A. G. Ogilvie, K.C.) has requested the Commissioner of the Hydro-Electric Department (Mr. W. E. Maclean) to furnish a report on a ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 18 Aug 1934, Page 9
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