The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly has issued a writ for the return of a member to fill the Polwarth seat, left vacant by the resignation of Mr. J. G. ...
Article : 55 wordsThough the Federal price fixing authority does not contemplate increasing the retail price of milk, which is 5½d. a quart, an effort is to be made to bring the producers ...
Article : 421 wordsIn the Arbitration Court yesterday Mr. Justice Powers delivered his proposed award in the plaint of the Federated Carters and Drivers' Union against ...
Article : 1,180 wordsThe Director-General of Recruiting left Melbourne yesterday for New South Wales. He intends to speak at a meeting in Sydney to-day. His visit to New ...
Article : 75 wordsNotwithstanding the fact that many roads in the Bright district were badly damaged and several bridges were washed away by the recent heavy rainfall, the road ...
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Article : 3 wordsFavorable reports continue to be received regarding the attitude of the unions towards the ship-building proposals of the Federal Government. Several of the unions ...
Article : 493 wordsBALLARAT.—The Political Labor Council has received nominations for selection as follows in the Labor interest in connection with the next State Parliamentary ...
Article : 104 wordsThe offer to enlist for active service made by two married men (as announced in yesterday's issue), provided they were each given £10 to liquidate some of their ...
Article : 108 wordsNominations of candidates for the seat for the East Yarra province of the Legislative Council, left vacant by the death of Mr. R. Beckett, closed yesterday. There ...
Article : 70 wordsIn spite of the generally unfavorable aspect of the chart as regards rain, some falls occurred even within the areas of highest pressure. One of these falls covered ...
Article : 149 wordsIn the city court on Tuesday William Reece, licensee of the Bunch of Grapes Hotel, was fined £5 on a charge of having the bar door open during prohibited hours. ...
Article : 109 wordsOwing mainly to a greatly decreased number of enlistments in New South Wales, the enrolments recorded in the Commonwealth last week fell 66 below the ...
Article : 198 wordsThe preparation of the Victorian Wheat Storage Bill, to carry out the scheme of storage agreed on by the Federal and State Ministers, has been entrusted to the1 ...
Article : 278 wordsCr. P. J. Russell, mayor of Hawthorn, who is contesting the East Yarra province seat in the Legislative Council, addressed a meeting in the Hawthorn town ...
Article : 409 wordsGeelong city council on Tuesday refused the application of Geelong Harbor Trust for permission to slaughter at the Corio Quay. The local butchers objected because ...
Article : 106 wordsSulphate of ammonia has been proclaimed a necessary commodity for the purposes of the War Precautions (Prices) Regulations. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 16 wordsBRISBANE.—The Premier addressed a meeting of sugar growers at Mackay on Monday night. Mr. Ryan said the people had already begun to learn from the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 wordsSYDNEY.—The Prime Minister had a long interview on Tuesday with Mr. King Salter, the general manager of the Cockatoo naval dock yard, in connection with the ...
Article : 105 wordsRev. E. Taylor, who is leaving Australia to take up mission work in Madagascar, for the London Missionary Society, was on Monday night farewelled by the members ...
Article : 44 wordsAt the Melbourne Town Hall recruiting depot yesterday 21 volunteers from the metropolitan area and 7 from country portions of the State were examined. The ...
Article : 61 wordsThe mayor of Ballarat city (C. W. D. Hill) has been nominated by Echuca borough council for the vacancy on the Country Fire Brigades Board caused by ...
Article : 86 wordsAn appeal is made to all women throughout the State to join the above league, which is officially recognised by the State Recruiting Committee. The only ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 22 wordsAUCKLAND.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Massey, and Sir Joseph Ward were accorded an enthusiastic civic reception at the town hall on their return from England. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 wordsSYDNEY.—Mr. Grahame (Minister of Agriculture) stated on Tuesday that the payment of 6d. per bushel on 1915-16 wheat certificates would be made by the banks ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 368 wordsSHEPPARTON.—Mr. Cattanach, chairman of the Water Commission, and Dr. Cameron, Director of Agriculture, accompanied by Messrs. Dowrick and Carmody (chief Inspector of orchards), held ...
Article : 87 wordsSYDNEY.—In his address to the annual conference of dairy factory managers on Tuesday Mr. Stanley, the president, said that the price-fixing commissioner had ...
Article : 129 wordsSYDNEY.—The New South Wales Cabinet on Tuesday discussed the question of supplementing the pensions of wounded soldiers. In his policy speech at Gundagai ...
Article : 153 wordsMOOROOPNA.—Since the recent flooding of Mooroopna the residents have taken prompt measures to safeguard the town from a repetition of the disaster. A considerable sum has been ...
Article : 155 wordsPERTH.—The political situation is much mixed Mr. Lefroy, who has undertaken to form a National Government, expects that a meeting of Nationalist members of the ...
Article : 158 wordsAs the result of observations made by the police Detectives Napthine, Lee, Mulfahey, Olholm and Clapham visited a house in Drummond-street, Carlton, yesterday, ...
Article : 478 wordsWELLINGTON.—Inquiries do not confirm the statement made at the Sydney Butter Conference that New Zealand butter is being offered for export to Australia ...
Article : 162 wordsKYNETON.—At Metcalf shire council on Tuesday Cr. Pritchard said that some valuable timber along the main road at Harcourt was being destroyed wholesale, and that the practice was ...
Article : 101 wordsSYDNEY.—The Prime Minister on Tuesday received a deputation representing members of the Metal Exchange. The interview was held in private, and Mr. ...
Article : 96 wordsCOROWA.—Privates Spencer and Seymour, who were recently invalided home, were welcomed at a social evening by the district branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association. ...
Article : 194 wordsSYDNEY.—Before Judge Docker, at the Darlinghurst Sessions on Tuesday, Wm. Henry Thomas, 27, ship's steward, pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsMr. Justice Powers, in the Arbitration Court, yesterday, announced his final award in the plaint brought by the Commonwealth General Division Telephone Officers' ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 449 wordsBENDIGO.—The inquest concerning the death of Leonard Alderson Edwards, a young married man, who died in the hospital from wounds caused by the explosion ...
Article : 397 wordsSYDNEY.—On the grounds of economy, the Government has decided to suspend operations at the State coal mine at Lithgow, and to give the employes a fortnight's ...
Article : 52 wordsKORUMBURRA.—Mr. Frederick Wheeler, J.P., a local chemist, dropped dead in his pharmacy whilst polishing the counter on Tuesday morning. He was talking to another man, when he fell and ...
Article : 68 wordsA deputation representing the Corack East Railway League waited on the Minister of Railways yesterday to ask that the question of granting railway communication to Corack East be ...
Article : 186 wordsRates received by Camberwell council to 18th June totalled £20,188, leaving a balance unpaid of £1741. Arrears of rates amounting to £51 were also settled, a ...
Article : 340 wordsA deputation consisting of representatives of Stawell borough council, and accompanied by Mr. Toutcher, M.L.A., and Mr. Brown, M.L.C., yesterday waited on ...
Article : 291 wordsSYDNEY.—A special conference was commenced at Bulli on Tuesday by Judge Edmunds relative to a dispute between the Colliery Mechanics' Union and the ...
Article : 263 wordsWANGARATTA.—A child named Thomas Beach, a grandson of Mr. William Beach, of Edi, was accidentally drowned on Tuesday. He opened the door of a cellar, in which there was 5 feet of ...
Article : 67 wordsPERTH.—A soldier named W. G. Ferry, whose home is at Footscray, V., was found dead early on Tuesday morning in a railway carriage at Fremantle. Ferry and a companion visited ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 227 wordsThere was another large audience at last night's Cherniavsky concert in the Auditorium. The programme commenced with Schubert's fine Trio in Ballat (op. 99) for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 175 wordsSYDNEY.—The State Government has offered "Granbrook," the former residence of the State Governor, to the Federal Government for use as a residence for the ...
Article : 69 wordsROCHESTER.—While sitting by the fire on Monitor evening, the little daughter of Mr. Jas. Aitken, of Rochester East, was severely burnt through her flannelette dress catching fire. She ...
Article : 100 wordsMelbourne Philharmonic Society will give a choral and orchestral concert in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening next, under the conductorship of Mr. Alherto Zelman. Miss Jessie Masson ...
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Advertising : 27 wordsMr. R. Barnes has been appointed a representative of employes on the Fuel and Fodder Wages Board, in place of Mr. W. G. Kemp, removed owing to his absence from the State. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 27 Jun 1917, Page 8
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