The Inter-state Commission sat yesterday in Melbourne to inquire into the question what should be the proper payment made by the Postal department to the ...
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Article : 1,859 wordsThe hearing of the case in which the Federated Gas Employes' Union is seeking higher remuneration nnd improved working conditions from the Metropolitan Gas Co., ...
Article : 462 wordsMr. F. J. Leary, as executor in the estate of the late Mrs. Cheetham, handed over to Geelong Hospital on Monday a cheque for £885, representing the value ...
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Article : 3 wordsAn application was made to Mr. Justice Higgins in the Arbitration Court yesterday to expedite the hearing of the variation of the builders' laborers' award. Mr. H. ...
Article : 312 wordsThe Campbell's Creek annual gathering in aid of the local charities won hold on Sunday. The fire brigade, friendly societies and Sunday school children. ...
Article : 215 wordsAVOCA.—A serious fire broke out on Sunday afternoon at Greenhill Creek, and destroyed a large quantity of grass, fencing and some sheep. Men were rapidly ...
Article : 212 wordsThe chief change in the chart since Saturday morning is the rapid eastward drift of the high pressure "centre" then off the south-west coast of Western Australia. ...
Article : 262 wordsThe Workmen's Co-operative Club held its annual general meeting on Sunday afternoon. The balance sheet for the period showed the club to be in a highly ...
Article : 123 wordsBy an amended determination of the electroplaters' board, which comes into force on 19th March, increases of wages have been granted, as follow:— ...
Article : 84 wordsKILMORE.—Members of Broadford shire council, who have been seeking for a conference with Pyalong shire for some months past, met prior to the ordinary meeting at Pyalong on Saturday, ...
Article : 182 wordsSYDNEY.—The two additional judges of the Court of Industrial Arbitration-Judges Rolin and Pickburn—were sworn in on Monday by Mr. Justice Haydon. The ...
Article : 74 wordsA mysterious case of shooting came under the notice of the surgical staff at Melbourne Hospital yesterday. Leslite Beavis, 17, clerk, of 26 gordon-avenue, St. Kilda, who attended the hospital with ...
Article : 134 wordsFor the space of over ten minutes yesterday morning there was a serious possibility that an outbreak of fire in the storeroom of Thofas Webb and Sons, near ...
Article : 442 wordsAn appeal from the determination of the quarrymen's wages board was before Mr. Justice Hodges, sitting in the Banco Court yesterday, as an Industrial Court of ...
Article : 414 wordsZEEHAN.—Mr. L. Powers, who has been appointed to take evidence on commission in connection with the appeal by the Lyell branch of the F.M.E.A. for variation of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 128 wordsTRAFALGAR.—At the 51st half yearly meeting of shareholders of the Trafalgar Co-operative Butter and Cheese Factory Co. Ltd., held on Monday afternoon, and presided over by Mr. H. Robinson, ...
Article : 165 wordsSuffering from concussion, a young man named William Sands, assistant biograph operator at the Palais de Dunse Picture Theatre, St. Kilda, was admitted to Alfred Hospital last night. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 9 wordsWhilst playing in a loft at his parents' residence, Napoleon-street, Collingwood, last evening, Norman Taylor, 11, fell to the ground, a distance of 20 feet, and was seriously injured. He ...
Article : 43 wordsAt the meeting of the State Executive Council yesterday approval was given of the constitution of the new saddlery board, as follows:—Messrs. W. P. Bice, C. T. Holmes, J. Paterson, H. T. ...
Article : 64 wordsDANDENONG.—At the Dandenong police court on Monday, J. T. Howard, an inspector under the Factories Act, proceeded against Thomas Graham, of Carrum, for failing to keep his factory ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsWOODEND.—Mr. Arthur Russell, of Woodend, who has been for some time engaged in tree felling for Mr. Worrlley, saw miller, oif Gilderoy, met his death in tragic circumstances on Friday ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 439 wordsAfter an absence of twelve months, during which he represented Australia and New Zealand at two general council meeting in Manchester of tne Amalgamated ...
Article : 251 wordsFRANKSTON.—A start will be made at Officer this week on a siphon, which is estimated to take three weeks to complete. Then the Cranbourne-Langwarrin section will be commenced. All ...
Article : 53 wordsSEYMOUR.—At Seymour police court on Monday, R. J. Clydesdale, of Seymour, and J. Cahill, Tallarook, were each fined £2 for offering for sale in the local yards sheep which were carrying tick. ...
Article : 85 wordsDuring a discussion in Prahran council last night on an alleged by-law relegating slow traffic to the extreme left of the rond, Cr. Ginn, who complained that the by-law BRISBANE.—A deputation from the northern sugar growers waited on the Minister of Agriculture on Monday, and presented a motion, agreed to by a ...
Article : 517 wordsBERRIGAN.—Ernest Stephen Stott, accompanied by Harold Douglas Page and W. Sharples, left Berrigan with a load of empty fruit cases for Cobram. The cases shifted, and Page and Sharples ...
Article : 75 wordsTERANG.—A plague of beetles occurred here on Saturday night. The beetles, which were small and dark brown in color, swarmed in thousands street and shop lights, and invaded ...
Article : 69 wordsTEMORA.—At Buddigower, near Wyalong, a man named M'Donald was struck dead by lightning on Friday evening. ...
Article : 21 wordsAVOCA.—A collision between motor cycles ridden by Mr. A. Kiduirdison, an organiser of the A.W.U., and Mr. John Roxburgh, of Lexton, occurred on Monday. They were riding in opposite ...
Article : 101 wordsSTAWELL.—At midday on Monday a fire broke out in an eight-roomed residence situated in Stawell West, owned and occupied by Mr. Charles Lock, bookmaker. Owing to the poor pressure of ...
Article : 81 wordsBROKEN HILL.—Work was resumed on Monday at the South and North mines and Amalgamated Zinc (de Bavay's) treatment plant, where operations had been ...
Article : 165 wordsSYDNEY.—Thomas Arthur Richmond, aged 4½ years, was playing with his sister at their parents' home at Canterbury on Monday afternoon. The children disappeared, and about half an hour ...
Article : 64 wordsJewellery valued at £55 was stolen from the residence of, Mrs. Florence Kellow, "Kynaston," Bambra-road, Caulfield, between 27th January and 13th February. ...
Article : 286 wordsCOROWA.—A young married man named Prank Bellini, until recently secretary to the Riverina Harvester Co., Corowa, was arrested in Sydney on Thursday on an allowed charge of embezzlement, ...
Article : 605 wordsWAGGA.—A sensational incident occurred in Best-street, at the residence of Mr. H. M'Garry. Mr. and Mrs. M'Garry had gone to bed about 2 a.m. Mrs. M'Garry ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 459 wordsRelatives and others desiring news of sick, wounded, returning of missing soldiers and invited to write to or call at the Red Cross Information [?] Colonial Mutual-chambers, 60 Market-street, ...
Article : 30 wordsThe February sittings of the Criminal Court were continued yesterday before Mr. Justice a'Beckett and juries of twelve. Mr. Wolnarski, K.C., prosecuted for the Crown. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 159 wordsThe ballot for the selection of two railway men's representatives en the new departmental classification board will close to-morrow, at 10 a.m. The counting of ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 20 Feb 1917, Page 6
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