The special board appointed to determine the wages and conditions of the employes in the coopering trade has arrived at a determination, which will come into ...
Article : 292 wordsThe hearing of tho claim by the Federated Gas Employes' Union for an award fixing tho rates of pay and hours and conditions of work was continued before Mr. Justice Higgins ...
Article : 1,086 wordsThe conference of probation officers under the Indeterminate Sentences Act was resumed yesterday. The moving was devoted to visits to the Newsboys' ...
Article : 432 wordsThere is hardly a department in either the Federal or State arena which has not been approached by the unemployed during the past few weeks with a request for ...
Article : 228 wordsA large deputation of master printers waited on the Minister of Customs at the public offices yesterday to protest against the combine in connection with the ...
Article : 954 wordsA meeting of the Council of Public Education was held yesterday; Mr. F. Tate. Director of Education, presiding. The chairman, with the authority of the ...
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Article : 282 wordsThe Sydney Wharf Laborers' Union is to consider to-morrow night the proposal of a requisition that wages be increased to 2 per hour. In order that as many as possible ...
Article : 141 wordsHaving canvassed the principal Government departments in their search for work, the unemployed of Melbourne are turning to the municipal councils for practical ...
Article : 294 wordsThe ground of prosecution in some cases before the chief industrial magistrate today was the subject of some plain speaking from the bench. P. G. Halliday, of the ...
Article : 264 wordsMr. G. A Maxwell said that with all his experience of criminals he had not lost one whit of his faith in human nature. Often had he been astonished by the ...
Article : 651 wordsTowards the end of the week the Commonwealth Minister of Customs (Mr. Tudor) will confer with the New Zealand and Canadian Ministers of Customs ...
Article : 224 wordsIt was reported to Williamstown council last night that the Minister of Public Works had agreed to find work for the unemployed by improving the back beach at ...
Article : 107 wordsThe new determination of the Asphalters Wages Board came into force yesterday. The determination sets out the following rates of wages:—Men on mastic machine ...
Article : 233 wordsThe steamer Moonah, which went aground at Snake Island a few days ago. and appeared likely to become a total week, has been saved. ...
Article : 170 wordsThe twelfth annual Dahlia show of the Carnation, Dahlia and Sweet Pea Society of Victoria was held in the Athenteum Hall yesterday afternoon and evening. ...
Article : 604 wordsAt last night's meeting of Williamstown council it was decided to ask the Railway department to change the name of one of the local railway stations from "Beach" to ...
Article : 59 wordsThe wages board for builders' laborers is on the point of finishing its labors, and it is expected that the determination, which is the first of its kind, will be gazetted ...
Article : 134 wordsSir,—Your special article of last week, and also Mr. Webber's letter on the above subject in to-day's issue, furnish interesting reading, but the examples given of ...
Article : 622 wordsIn view of the probability of a dull winter, and of large numbers of men being unemployed, the Ivanhoe and Alphington Progress Society last night resolved to ...
Article : 80 wordsSome of the members of the United Laborers' Union employed on the construction of the new tramway line for tho Malvern Tramway Trust between Kew and ...
Article : 118 wordsTo-day a mutinous spirit pervaded the ranks of the Bathurst L Company, senior cadets, on the ordinance ground at Bathurst. it is alleged that the cadets, after ...
Article : 131 wordsA commencement has at last been made with the preliminary work in connection with the locomotive engineering shops to be erected at Ballarat North. A large ...
Article : 87 wordsIn the County Court to-day, before Judge Wasley, a case of interest to characters of steamers was heard. The plaintiffs were Mrs. Florence Addie Green and her ...
Article : 262 wordsMuch destitution exists at Gore owing to the recent flood losses, and a public subscription has been opened. Reports from the back country show that great ...
Article : 83 wordsEighteen men employed excavating a conduit at Darling Island cased work today because they considered that more wages should be paid to come of their ...
Article : 37 wordsThe council of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce to-day decided to urge upon the Railway Commissioners the necessity for duplicating the railway between Geelong ...
Article : 64 wordsIt was decided at last night's meeting of the Sixth Class Lady Teachers' Association to request that the salaries of female teachers of all classes be not less ...
Article : 211 wordsAt the last sittings of the Preston court, before Dr. Cole, P. M., and Mr. Barrow, J. P., Agnes Fahmell proceeded against her husband, August Fahmell, for desertion. Evidence was given that ...
Article : 241 wordsSir,—It seems that Mr. Murray is possessed of an incurable optimism. In his speech at the conference of probation officers, he said "no country in the world ...
Article : 146 wordsOn Friday morning the Albury express was an hour and a half late in leaving Wodonga. The New South Wales train was very much behind time, and the first ...
Article : 203 wordsWilliamstown council, at its meeting last night, received from Footscray council a request for support in a proposed deputation to the Chief Secretary to object to the V. R. C. proposal to charge ...
Article : 113 wordsFollowing closely upon tho robbery at Mr. C. H. Morris's factory in Perry- street, Collingwood, when £18 5 worth of boots was stolen, another robbery from the factory of Herbert Griffiths, boot ...
Article : 109 wordsIn response to the appeal far aid made by the mayor of prabran (Cr. Scout) in yesterday's issue on behalf of a destitute family, we have received the following:—Retort house, West Melbourne Gas ...
Article : 46 wordsHuman bones have been found on the Yaloak Vale Estate by a party of men engaged in digging out rabbits. Constable Stephen brought the remains to the police ...
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Advertising : 92 wordsBRISBANE,—The following were the ruling prices ill tho produce market auction shed on Tuesday morning:—Maize, 310 to:4; inferior, 3 to 38. Chaff, lucerne, 3 to 61; mixed, 49; ...
Article : 43 wordsReceived by Rev. J. R. Sharp:—D.O., 4; P. H. Nihill, £1 1; "Sympathy," £1; S. H., 20. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 2 Apr 1913, Page 11
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