In reply to a question from Senator Pulsford (N.S.W.) yesterday, the Minister of Customs (Sir Robert Best) said he regretted that the arrangements for a further ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 82 wordsMr. Kirk, the New Zealand expert, returned from the north-eastern district this morning. He reports that no sign of Irish blight is in that district. He expects to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 wordsSir,--I forward an extract from the last issue of the "British Trade Review," as of possible interest:--"The Irish Department of Agriculture and Technical instruction ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 wordsThe hearing of the case in the Federal Arbitration Court between the Australian Boot Trade. Employes' Federation and the employers in the industry has been fixed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 196 wordsAt South Melbourne court yesterday Charles Brown, grocer, Clarendon-street, sought to attach the sum of £11 15, the moneys of J. H. M'Hern, which were ...
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Article : 438 wordsA representative deputation, consisting of delegates from the Co-operative Butter Factories' Association of Victoria, and the Western District, Victorian and Gippsland ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 266 wordsTerrible scenes have been witnessed at Monterey, in Mexico, where the great floods caused the loss of 2000 lives and immense destruction of property. ...
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Article : 41 wordsThe Argentine Herd Book requires that the pedigree of all imported Shorthorns shall trace in an unbroken succession of named dams and registered sires to a named ...
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Article : 102 wordsSir,--The sub-leader in "The Age" on the evils of unemployment is a valuable contribution to a great social question. For the law of existence is work for all. ...
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Advertising : 21 wordsIn the horticultural columns of the current of "The Leader" various subjects of seasonable interest to orchardists are discussed. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 4 Sep 1909, Page 14
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