A further speech was delivered by the Prime Minister in the House of Representatives last night on the questions to be discussed at the Imperial and Economic ...
Article : 3,557 wordsThough the rains have abated in the modern parts of the State the position consequent on the swollen rivers as a result of the recent heavy downfalls is ...
Article : 402 wordsThe great number of settlers who have taken up, or are in process of taking up, blocks in the dried fruit area, and the consequent likelihood of heavily increased ...
Article : 832 wordsAlthough the Federal Treasurer has estimated a decline of over £3,000.000 in the Customs revenue for 1923-24, as compared with receipts for the year closed on 30th ...
Article : 423 wordsThe report of the Secretary of Labor for the year ended 31st December last, which was presented to the Legislative Assembly yesterday, set out that there was an in ...
Article : 702 wordsIn the interests of justice and Australia's reputation for fair dealing in the administration of the mandated territories, the case of Mr. Carl Frost, a pre-war ...
Article : 543 wordsADELAIDE.--Prior to 5th May only 12 points of rain was registered at Adelaide for this year. Since then rain fell on an average of five days a week; 15.46 inches ...
Article : 47 wordsALBURY.--The continued rain has caused a further rise in the Murray here its height on Wednesday being 10 feet 9 inches, an increase of 10 inches since ...
Article : 109 wordsWELLINGTON.--The snow and frost in Otago have exacted a Heavy toll of sheep, and poultry in the high country. One sheep owner, who lost £10.000 worth of ...
Article : 80 wordsHORSHAM.--The Wimmera is backing up here; but the main body of water from Mount Cole has not yet arrived. The river is rising steadily, and the flood will ...
Article : 46 wordsNegotiations for a reciprocal trade treaty between the Commonwealth and Canada have been definitely uspeuded until the Prime Minister has an opportunity of ...
Article : 284 wordsGLENORCHY.--Great anxiety prevails here in consequence of the Wimmern having overflowed its banks. The flood waters are spreading over miles of country, and ...
Article : 274 wordsThe Senate yesterday carried to the third-reading state, without amendment. the National Debt Sinking Fund Bill received from the House of Representatives. ...
Article : 231 wordsThe chairman of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission (Mr. Cattanach) stated yesterday that it appeared that the danger from floodso was passing. The main ...
Article : 101 wordsThere has been much criticism in mining circles of the way in which the Government grants in aid of mining are distributed to mining companies, syndicates and ...
Article : 509 wordsARARAT.--The floods have caused severe damage in Ararat shire. No fewer than five bridges are reported to have been destroyed or badly damaged. ...
Article : 156 wordsECHUCA.--The Campaspe River at Echuca is now in high flood. Early on Wednesday morning the stream overflowed its banks and spread rapidly. So far only ...
Article : 293 wordsA letter was read at the meeting of the public works committee of South Melbourne council on Wednesday evening from the Metropolitan Gas Co. stating ...
Article : 228 wordsThe works estimates were considered in the House of Representatives last night and passed. The total amount involved was £631,521, the principal items in which ...
Article : 375 wordsSir,--The instructive articles which recently appeared in "The Age" in regard to the manner in which grocery prices are regulated and kept at high level have ...
Article : 743 wordsROCHESTER.--The Campaspe subsided on Wednesday morning. Some water remains on the plains north of Rochester, at Restdown, Strathallan and Cornelia Creek ...
Article : 188 wordsMembers of both Houses of the Stall Parliament, representatives of public bodies and heads of State departments attended the "welcome" dinner tendered to the ...
Article : 616 wordsComplaints having been made by several tenants of the City Council's markets regarding the poor lighting, of their premises by the system of gas, the markets ...
Article : 204 wordsMORWELL.--The incessant rain which fell on Tuesday caused a record flood, and damage representing thousands of pounds has been done. The water rose very ...
Article : 249 wordsAVOCA.--Heavy rain set in again on "Wednesday, and as the Avoca River is still high another flood was expected. On Wednesday evening, however, the weather ...
Article : 64 wordsAt the meeting of the committee of the Queen's Memorial Infections Diseases Hospital--an institution which is maintained by the municipalities--the chairman, Mr. ...
Article : 253 wordsGEELONG.--The Barwon at South Geelong continued to rise throughout Tuesday and until midday on Wednesday, when it was 6 feet above normal level. The flood ...
Article : 293 wordsA large number of artists, most of whom are strangers to Australia, reached Melbourne on R.M.S. Orvieto from London yesterday. Amongst them were two ...
Article : 344 wordsThe demand of the sporting section of the Victorian public for the totalisator was advanced a further stage yesterday, when Mr. Morley obtained leave in the ...
Article : 197 wordsThe advisability of buying out the Metropolitan Gas Company was considered on Tuesday by the finance committee of Melbourne City Council. It was eventually ...
Article : 90 wordsReports received at the Weather Bureau show that during the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. 1st August a decrease of 8 feet 6 inches occurred in the London at Laanecoorie, and ...
Article : 226 wordsThe general impression created by the proceedings at the last Labor conference in Sydney that the Labor and Communist parties had become affiliated was ...
Article : 168 wordsThe train from Mildura was able to get through on Tuesday night, and reached Melbourne at 11.26 p.m., an hour and a half late. A special train was run from ...
Article : 162 wordsSYDNEY.--A message from Maitland states that nearly all the collieries resumed working on Wednesday. Fresh trouble arose, however, at ...
Article : 213 wordsA two-horse lorry was being driven in a southerly direction along Nicholsonstreet Carlton about 6.15 p.m. yesterday, when near the junction of Carlton-street ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Electricity Commission has ex-[?] its intention of providing electricity for country districts with the least possible decay, and in furtherance of this ...
Article : 127 wordsYALLOURN.--Very heavy rain fell throughout this district on Tuesday, and in consequence the Morewell River is in flood--the biggest witnessed for several ...
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Advertising : 175 wordsALBURY.--Although remarkably heavy rain has been registered in portions of the southern Riverina during the past few days the Upper Murray has not been ...
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Advertising : 119 wordsA man was knocked down by a motor car at the corner of Clarendon-street and Coventry-street, South Melbourne, at.6.50 p.m. on Sunday. Anyone who witnessed ...
Article : 44 wordsTRARALGON.--The heavy rain on Thursday caused a flood in Traralgon Creek. The Latrobe again overflowed, and a large aren of the morass land is now ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 2 Aug 1923, Page 10
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