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  2. UNEMPLOYMENT.

    On behalf of the Progressive Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, Mr G. W. Whippy, acting secretary of the union, and Mr. F. Ford, waited on the Minister of Public ...

    Article : 417 words
  3. COUNTRY NEWS.

    At the police court on Tuesday a Chinese named Ab Turn, 82 years old, who had been arrested by Constable Cahill, was charged with having been found in ...

    Article : 280 words
  4. ECHOES OF THE WAR.

    The publication of an order of the day issued by Lieutenant-General Sir H. S. Rawlinson to the Seventh Division of the British army under his command, together ...

    Article : 1,704 words
  5. EVERY WAR A CIVIL WAR.

    "From the standpoint of Christianity, there is no such thing as a foreign war. Every was is a civil war. If the phrase 'brotherhood of man' is anything except ...

    Article : 615 words
  6. BUILDERS' LABORERS.

    The distress existing amongst the unemployed members of the Builders Laborers' Union was brought under notice at the meeting of the union on Monday evening, ...

    Article : 160 words
  7. WOMEN'S POLITICAL ASSOCIATION.

    In response to a letter published in "The Age" yesterday, a considerable number of women out of employment called at the rooms of the Women's Political ...

    Article : 137 words
  8. CASTLEMAINE.

    An entertainment was given in the town hall on Monday night for the benefit of Mr. D. Roderick and family, who on Sunday morning, 17th inst., lost their ...

    Article : 100 words
  9. LIST OF WORKS AT OAKLEIGH.

    A special meeting of Oakleigh borough council was held last night, when a list of works to provide employment under the Lord Mayor's scheme was adopted at an ...

    Article : 61 words
  10. MUNICIPAL WORKS.

    Steps have been taken by the Government to ensure that, as far as possible, all its contributions for municipal works will be expended before the end of the financial ...

    Article : 147 words
  11. RELIEF WORKS AT NORTHCOTE.

    The question of whether the relief works which are being undertaken at Northcote, involving an expenditure of about £20,000, should be carried out by day labor or ...

    Article : 138 words
  12. ECHUCA.

    Dr. Ebsworth has been appointed by Echuca town council as officer of public health. In the local police court on Tuesday ...

    Article : 117 words
  13. A FIGHT WITH FISTS AND FEET.

    A brilliant passage in British arms was the taking of a small village called Passchendecls, in Flanders. This village was very strongly held by a German forces ...

    Article : 456 words
  14. COUNTRY WORK UNPOPULAR.

    So intense is the dislike of laborers to country work—on account of either fancied or real disabilities—that when the Labor Bureau had a call from the Public Works ...

    Article : 170 words
  15. WORKS AT BRIGHTON.

    Work that it was thought might give a fair amount of occupation for the unemployed, namely, the carrying out by Brighton and Caulfield councils of improvements ...

    Article : 402 words
  16. FROSTBITE IN THE TRENCHES

    The Australian troops are fortunate in being spared a winter campaign in the trenches in Europe. The hardships of a winter campaign are severe in any ...

    Article : 1,078 words
  17. UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF COMMITTEE.

    A meeting of the Unemployment Relief Committee, under the chairmanship of the Minister of Public Works (Mr. Hagelthora) wad held in the Public Works department ...

    Article : 167 words
  18. BLACK TRACKERS PRAISED.

    Last week Mr. L. Wilson, a local farmer, reported to the police that he had missed sheep from his place during the past few weeks, and on Saturday morning a sheep ...

    Article : 153 words
  19. BRITISH MANUFACTURERS AND THE WAR.

    In view of the contemplated capture of German trade by British manufacturers the methods adopted by some of the latter in their contracts with the British War ...

    Article : 313 words
  20. THE RIGHT TO WORK.

    The question of the right to work, with particular reference to the Commonwealth Government's decision to give preference to unionists, was the subject of a meeting ...

    Article : 1,056 words
  21. ELECTRIC LIGHT FOR LILLYDALE.

    The electric lighting scheme for Lillydale was advanced another stage at the meeting of Lillydale shire council yesterday, when applications were received from electrical ...

    Article : 75 words
  22. WORK AT BALLARAT.

    The mayor of the city (Cr. Pearse) has opened an unemployment bureau at the city hall, and all unemployed may register their names there. In the selecting of ...

    Article : 228 words
  23. NEW ROADS AND BRIDGE IN DEAKIN SHIRE.

    It is announced that the Main Roads Board, in conjunction with Deakin shire council, has decided to build a new bridge over the Goulburn River at Graham's ...

    Article : 107 words
  24. BULLET WOUNDS.

    A surgeon at the front, writing to the "British Medical Journal" some notes of his experiences, states that a rifle wound is felt as a severe blow, not as a sharp ...

    Article : 191 words
  25. PROPOSAL TO ERECT TENTS.

    A proposal, which emanated from officials of the Trades Hull, that a colony of tents should be provided in some convenient place within easy distance of the city ...

    Article : 179 words
  26. THE KAISER'S MOUSTACHES ?

    The following is the very latest Gurkha story, says the editor of London "Fruth":—"In the trenches there is much hilarity over the latest exploit of the ...

    Article : 194 words
  27. BERWICK SCHOOL REMODELLED.

    Mr. Tate, Director of Education, and Mr. Keast, M.L.A., visited Berwick yesterday in connection with the opening of the new State school, which has been ...

    Article : 75 words
  28. UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 words
  29. AN ANCIENT STATE SCHOOL.

    At Upper Benconsfield on Monday a deputation waited on Mr. Tate, Director of Education, and asked that a new school be elected to take the place of one that ...

    Article : 80 words
  30. WORK FOR THE UNEMPLOYED.

    Sir,—In these dull times, with work for the unemployed a vital and unanswered question, one need not look further for an extensive, feasible and remunerative ...

    Article : 286 words
  31. CROSSES AND CRUCIFIXES ESCAPE.

    An officer in the Kast Lancashire regiment has been much struck by the way in which religious emblems have escaped destruction from the shells. "An ...

    Article : 163 words
  32. DISCUSSION AT PORT MELBOURNE.

    A special meeting of Port Melbourne council was held last night, when Crs. T. Smith (mayor) and J. Morris submitted reports on their inquiries regarding the ...

    Article : 611 words
  33. BEFORE THE WAR.

    France just before the war was laughing over the reply of a young diplomat to a challenge given by an ex-governor of the annexed provinces, Alsace-Lorraine. ...

    Article : 208 words
  34. FIRES.

    BENDIGO.—At an early hour on Tuesday a four-roomed weatherboard house in Havilah-street, Ironbark, was destroyed by fire. The building was owned by Mrs. ...

    Article : 76 words
  35. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

    TRAFALGAR.—The price paid for better fat by Tragalgar Co-operative Butter Co. Ltd. for the fortnight ended 2nd January was 1/04. and for the fortnight ended 16th January, 1/1 per lb. ...

    Article : 35 words
  36. COUNTRY SANITATION.

    Following on innumerable complaints by residents of the principal towns in Berwick shire, the Board of Public Health sent an inspector to make investigations on ...

    Article : 273 words
  37. ENGLISH RESERVE.

    The cabled news that Australian cities celebrated the British naval victory off the Falkland Isles by popular patriotic demonstrations was used as a text for ...

    Article : 238 words
  38. ADVENTURE OF SALVATIONISTS IN GERMANY.

    An interesting letter from a Salvation Army officer working in Germany has been received by Mrs. Commissioner Hay, of the Salvation Army, Melbourne. The writer ...

    Article : 725 words
  39. PICTURE THEATRE PROSECUTIONS IN TASMANIA.

    Several picture theatre proprietors, including spencers Ltd. were charged before the police court this morning with having committed a breach of the Sunday ...

    Article : 120 words
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