The feature of yesterday's proceedings of the Fair, Profits Commission, comprising Sir James M'Cay (chairman) and Messrs. S. Hutchinson and C. Gray, was an ...
Article : 823 wordsAs was anticipated, the necessity for an increase in the price, of sugar was announced in the House of Representative yesterday by the Prime Minister in the ...
Article : 1,786 wordsA mesage received from Stuttgart states that the Ebert Government, has refused to recognise Dr. Kapp's Cabinet and has declared Stuttgart to be its capital. ...
Article : 39 wordsAt the invitation of the Lord Mayor (Cr. Aikman), a meeting of citizens was held in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon to discuss the question of decorating the ...
Article : 324 wordsSALE.--The morning and afternoon sessions of the A.N.A. Conference on Wednesday were largely devoted to the discussion of a number of questions arising out ...
Article : 717 wordsThe debate on the subject of high prices was resumed in the House of Commons today. Sir Donald Maclean moved that the civil ...
Article : 466 wordsYear after year the farce of debating the Address in Reply to the Governor- Generals Speech is repeated in the House of Representation. Rarely, it ever, has ...
Article : 691 wordsSir,--Poor old "Heidelberg" is trying very hard to bolster up a weak case, but, although she calls the rest of us incapable and extravagant, we shall still take her ...
Article : 174 wordsA bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives authorising the War Finance Corporation to advance loans to the extent of £200,000,000 to Germany not ...
Article : 198 wordsWhile it is not possible to state definitely what the retail price of sugar will be as a result of the new agreement, it seems quite likely that householders will ...
Article : 296 wordsSir,--I am a resident of Heidelberg, married, with one child to keep, and I fail to see how your correspondent, "Heidelberg," manages to keep a family ...
Article : 98 wordsSir,--I have just returned from Yorkshire, England, where the wearing of clogs is almost universal, and it was always a painful sight to watch the children ...
Article : 129 wordsBENDIGO.--West-Bendigo branch of the A.L.P. has passed, a motion to the effect that its members should take no active part in the celebrations on the occasion ...
Article : 168 wordsThe House of Representatives Naval Committee has approved of a bill appropriating £85,058,000 for the navy in 1921, and providing for construction which will ...
Article : 63 wordsSir,--I notice that "Heidelberg" has some scoffers this morning. Personally, I think her housekeeping account the most reasonable one I have yet read. It is ...
Article : 119 wordsSenator Millen, on behalf of the Minister of Trade and Customs, replying to Senator Earle (T.) in the Senate yesterday, stated that the Minister had been correctly ...
Article : 76 wordsIt is pointed out that the Senate's action in ratifying the Ledge substitute reservation upon Article 10 indicates that at least two-thirds of the members of the Senate ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Federal Treasurer, Mr. Watt, accompanied by Mr. J. R. Coffins, Secretary to the Treasury, left by the afternoon express yesterday for Adelaide, en route ...
Article : 673 wordsIn explanation of the action of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company in ceasing to accept orders for sugar last Saturday, it was stated yesterday that sufficient work ...
Article : 82 wordsSir,--I read with interest "Heibelberg's" letter in "The Age" of yesterday re keeping her family on £2 per week. Does she run a sort of "Garden of Kden" establishment, ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Pekin correspondent of the New York "Times" says:--"A peculiar situation in Chinese politics has developed. Recently the Premier, Chin Yung-peng. ...
Article : 151 wordsSYDNEY.--Mr. E. B. Swain, of Mackay, Q., invited the congress of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, sitting in Sydney on Wednesday, to affirm the ...
Article : 238 wordsIn the House of Lords to-day the second rending of a bill to facilitate the enforcement in the United Kingdom of maintenance orders made in the Dominions, ...
Article : 173 wordsSir,--I for one can truthfully endorse "Mother of Six" in "The Age" this morning, that she cannot keep house for eight on £5 per week. I have the same number ...
Article : 178 wordsContrary to expectations the War Gratuity Bill was not brought down in the House of Representatives yesterday, but it will probably be introduced this week-- ...
Article : 414 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Lawson) advises the public and harassed traders generally to "accept philosophically" the shortage of trucks. He promises no early redress. On ...
Article : 667 wordsSALE.--The proposed Federal Convention and its constitution were discussed by the A.N.A. conference on Wednesday. Mr. G. A. Moir, Albert Park, the new ...
Article : 355 wordsA White Paper has been issued which indicates that legislation will be passed authorising the Board of Trade to grant credits up to £26,000,000 in connection ...
Article : 72 wordsThe sub-committee which has been inquiring into profiteering in the electric lamp industry reports that it has discovered the existence of a trade combination, ...
Article : 206 wordsMr. M'Pherson, the State Treasurer, is not yet convinced that the importation of expert advisers from abroad as a means of establishing the sugar industry is ...
Article : 256 wordsAn attempt has been made to capture the Housewives Association in the interest of a political organisation. It has failed, but the necessity for a clear statement of ...
Article : 238 wordsAnother six days' bicycle race, for a purse of £1500, was concluded to-night. It was. won by A. T. Goullet (Victoria) and Magin. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe first of the series of vocal recitals arranged by the University Conservatorium was given last evening in the Melba Hall by Madame Agnes Janson. It had the ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Commonwealth Prices Commissioner issued an order,yesterday fixing the prices of butter as follows:--Wholesale, No 1 grade, 2194; No. 2 do., 2148; No 3 do ...
Article : 43 wordsADELAIDE.--A ballot to ascertain the views of the South Australian Tramway Employes' Association regarding the one big union resulted in a majority of 190 in ...
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Advertising : 342 wordsA novel, if somewhat belated, proposal as to the manner in which the gratuity to the soldiers should be paid was made in the House of Representatives yesterday ...
Article : 354 wordsFinality has been reached concerning the allocation of barrow sites for the sale of fruit in the city streets as the outcome of the adoption by the market committee ...
Article : 276 wordsInstructions were issued requiring all firms or companies who have stocks of jam exceeding 100 1b, in weight to furnish a return of such stock to the Prices ...
Article : 57 wordsHIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA.--(Before the Full Court, in the Third Civil Court, at 10.80.)-- Attorney-General for the Commonwealth and another v. Baldwin (trustee of Drew, insolvent) for ...
Article : 290 wordsBRISBANE.--In the Central Summons Court on Tuesday the Health department prosecuted Spot Cash Stores Limited, Wickham-street, Valley, for having on 28th ...
Article : 181 wordsPERTH.--The Prices Regulation Commission has raised the price of packet teas 2d. and 3d. on account of increased importations cost, the increase not to apply to ...
Article : 75 wordsTimothy Murphy of late of Kyneton-road, Health-cote, farmer, who died on 15th February, by his will of 11th July, 1919, left £1972 real estate and £587 personalty to his widow, children and ...
Article : 223 wordsSir,--My watch stopped suddenly, and I took it to a well-known city firm. It was left for an hour while the workshop's, foreman examined it, the written verdict ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 18 Mar 1920, Page 7
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