The Prime Minister, Mr. Lloyd George, speaking in the House of Commons this afternoon, dealt with the country's trade and industrial position. He ...
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Article : 1,106 wordsThe British newspapers are trying to impress on the workers that the only way to end the reign of high prices and to bridge the gulf of industrial depression into which ...
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Article : 758 wordsGeneral Denekin, the anti-Bolshevist leader, has occupied Lemeshkino, across the Kamishin-Balashov railway, taking 700 prisoners, and has also occupied Kremenchug, ...
Article : 143 wordsMajor I. Isaacson (of Melbourne) has furnished Senator Pearce, Commonwealth Minister of Defence, with a report on the conveyance of German prisoners from ...
Article : 151 wordsSir,--In your issue of to-day I noticed a letter signed "Anti-Profiteer," in which the writer makes it plain that he is interested in combating the high prices we ...
Article : 93 wordsSir,--Your article in "The Age" of to-day, giving comparative prices of commodities, lets the profiteer off very lightly My last butcher's bill ...
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Article : 133 wordsIn Australian official circles in London the claim is made that the rapid demobilisation of the Australian forces is largely due to Senator Pearce's efforts to ...
Article : 65 wordsThat there is no immediate prospect of the drought, which is now being experienced in many parts of the Commonwealth, being broken, is the opinion of Mr. ...
Article : 258 wordsA ruling of the Speaker in the Legislative Assembly yesterday prevented Mr. Prendergast from discussing two questions--one relating to the resignation of ...
Article : 429 wordsMr. Thomas Millard, an American writer who was attached to the Chinese Peace delegation in Paris, in addressing the Foreign Relations Committee of the ...
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Article : 159 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York '"Times" states:--" According to official advices from Pekin, Great Britain and China have reached an agreement with ...
Article : 82 wordsHis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was accorded an enthusiastic reception on his arrival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from St. John, New Brunswick, and was ...
Article : 61 wordsHaving failed to move the adjournment of the House to discuss the increases in the price of kerosene and petrol, Mr. Prendergast took the opportunity to discuss ...
Article : 613 wordsCommenting on the leading article in "The Age" of yesterday, Mr. W. C. Hill, president of the Victorian Farmers' Union, said it constituted a most severe ...
Article : 407 wordsSYDNEY.--At the instance of the executive committee, it was decided at Tuesday night's meeting of the New South Wales Cricket Association to ...
Article : 234 wordsIn replying to the resolution passed on 14th, May last by the Legislative Council of Rhodesia, Lord Milner, Secretary of State for the Colonies, indicates that he ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. Joseph Folk, ex-Governor of Missouri and counsel for the Egyptian commission which is visiting the United States, has filed a brief for consideration by the ...
Article : 84 wordsSYDNEY.--The Sydney seamen on Tuesday held another mass meeting to consider the strike position, and after a long discussion carried the following ...
Article : 290 wordsA public meeting in Capetown passed a resolution urging the Government to legislate for the establishment of marine boards in Capetown and Durban. It was stated ...
Article : 47 wordsIn order to test the legality of the Government's import restrictions, which were merely established as war measures, Sir John Simon decided to import, without a ...
Article : 76 wordsWhy did Mr. Bowser leave the State Ministry? Mr. Bowser himself made a rather belated explanation on this point yesterday. This explanation was to ...
Article : 363 wordsRepresentative of over a hundred subbranches in Victoria of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League met in conference at the Austral Salon ...
Article : 288 wordsThe royal commission appointed by the State Government to inquire into profiteering, and consisting of Major-General Sir J. W. M'Cay (chairman), Brigadier-General ...
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Article : 83 wordsThe Government has resumed negotiations with representatives of the engine drivers, firemen and cleaners concerning the new standard rates of wages. ...
Article : 113 wordsSYDNEY.--Members of the National Sailors and Firemen's Union of Great Britain and Ireland, to the number of 150, met in the rooms of the Sydney Seamen's ...
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Article : 81 wordsMr. G H. Roberts, Food Minister, denies the report that he contemplates resigning office. The estate of the late Sir Montague ...
Article : 40 wordsThe executive of the Victoria Teachers' Union expresses gratification at the Cabinet's decision to raise the minimum of adult salaries. The measure of reliet ...
Article : 163 wordsCarrying passengers and cargo for Tasmania, the steamer Wainui is to leave No. 16 North Wharf to-day for Port Phillip quarantine station. She will be followed ...
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Article : 103 wordsMIRBOO NORTH.--At its last meeting Mirboo shire council agreed to support Sale borough in its endeavor to force the Government to take action to reduce the ...
Article : 39 wordsA serious explosion occurred in the Oakdale Coal Company's mines at Trinidad, Colorado, and 20 miners were killed. Only one man in the party was rescued. ...
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Advertising : 115 wordsPERTH.--In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday Mr. Troy (Labor) condemned the Nationalist party, which, he said, had winked at profiteering. The Prices Fixing ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 20 Aug 1919, Page 9
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