In the legislative Assembly yesterday the Treasurer moved the second reading of the Municipal Endowment Bill, providing for an aggregate allocation of £50,000 ...
Article : 705 wordsReplying yesterday to the criticism of the State Treasurer regarding the financial position of the Melbourne Hospital, the chairman of the hospital finance ...
Article : 327 wordsFurther consideration was given to the Local Government Bill in committee in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. On clause 18, providing for the municipal ...
Article : 715 wordsMr L. A. Blackman has been appointed secretary to the South-street society in succession to the late Mr. W. D. Hill, to whom he had been assistant for 15 years. ...
Article : 113 wordsALBURY.--The correspondence, now passing between the Ministers of Railways in New South Wales and Victoria regarding the construction of railway lines on ...
Article : 209 wordsDisclosures of the manner in which loyal and willing attempts by the building trade unions to extricate the War Service Homes administrators from their ...
Article : 1,505 wordsSir Philip Gibbs, in reviewing the situation in Russia, said that Government supplies were restricted mainly to the use of Soviet workers. Even to them it was a ...
Article : 357 wordsOne of the questions which are engaging the attention of Bendigo city [?] at present is whether certain parts of the city should be lighted with gas or ...
Article : 712 wordsReplying to questions asked in the House of Representatives yesterday, the Assistant Minister (Mr. Rodgers) stated that inquiries were being made from the ...
Article : 199 wordsHOBART.--Mr. J. H. Moate, managing director of the Adelaide Oil Exploration Co., ha sashed the Minister of Mines for permission to search for oil and oil ...
Article : 58 wordsIn the High Court on Thursday Mr. Justice Starke gave reserved judgment on a demurrer by the Federal Government against a claim in which ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Premier stated on Thursday that [?]s a result of investigations made into books at the Government Tourist Bureau it had been found that an officer of that ...
Article : 53 wordsThe State Treasurer returned to the attack last night by declaring that Mr. Baillieu, in his remarks, seemed to cloud the position. The question was whether ...
Article : 241 wordsA lively discussion took place in the House of Assembly on Thursday over the failure on the part of the Railway department to rent a cottage to a woman who ...
Article : 93 wordsAmended regulations relating to the export of dairy products were issued by the Minister of Trade and Customs yesterday. These regulations, which are prescribed ...
Article : 336 wordsStrenuous efforts are still being made to locate the balance of the missing gold from the Sonoma. Mr. Matheson, head of the detective force, made the following ...
Article : 306 wordsWELLINGTON.--The men in several Otago collieries who are dissatisfied with the recent award, ceased work on Thursday. The Kaitangata miners, who form ...
Article : 118 wordsIn the High Court on Thursday, argument was continued in the suit on behalf of the fellmongers of the Commonwealth and T. A. Field, of Sydney, against the ...
Article : 98 wordsThe State Government has dropped the proposal to permit the sale of liquor with meals up to 8 p.m. The Amending Liquor Bill to be introduced by Mr. M'Kell ...
Article : 84 wordsOn Thursday a deputation of Southern farmers urged upon the Prime Minister the desirability of issuing a meat export licence to Armours. ...
Article : 223 wordsSir,--I yield to no one in my admiration for the Treasurer, and in my appreciation for all he has done for the State, the stable financial position of which ...
Article : 651 wordsThe Minister of Health, Mr. M'Girr, informed a deputation on Thursday that he would introduce a bill next session to prevent unqualified men from posing as eye ...
Article : 48 wordsSYDNEY.--The city council elections were held on Thursday. There were 52 nominations for 26 seats in thirteen wards, but only in ten wards was an election ...
Article : 245 wordsLITHGOW.--There is no truth in the rumor circulated in Sydney on Wednesday that the local iron works, are to be closed down. Mr. C. Hoskins states that the ...
Article : 88 wordsSYDNEY.--The local manager of the Oceanic Steamship Company received a cable message on Thursday from San Francisco as follows:--"Recovered three ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Crowe, exports superintendent, stated that in the dairy cow test at Koroit show last Saturday, 26th November, the returns from 26 cows were made available. ...
Article : 372 wordsThe St. George Hotel, in Pakington-street Geelong West, put up for auction on Thursday realised £7000 the purchaser being the Volum Brewing Co. ...
Article : 157 wordsIt is understood that the Dutch Government has lodged a claim against the New South Wales Government for compensation in connection with the failure to fulfil the ...
Article : 125 wordsWELLINGTON.--A curious shooting affray, arising out of a youthful marriage, is reported from Milton. On Tuesday Ashley Perry, sixteen ...
Article : 113 wordsSYDNEY.--In the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday the Premier, in reply to Mr. Hoskins, said that as regarded the use of Australian steel for the constimelion ...
Article : 149 wordsThe famous Jodhpur Lancers, which were the last Indian troops to leave France, were reviewed this afternoon by the Prince of Wales on the parade ground. ...
Article : 115 wordsCr. H. H. Smith, a candidate for the Melbourne province seat in the Legislative Council, vacated by Mr. J. M'W'hae on his appointment as Agent-General ...
Article : 501 wordsThe article in "The Age" on Thursday, dealing with Warmambool's harbor requirements, was much appreciated. Additional significance is given to the article ...
Article : 213 wordsThe needs of the Ho[?]pathic Hospital have already been fully emphasised in these columns. The hospital, in the heart of an industrial area, deals not merely in ...
Article : 311 wordsBRISBANE.--Representatives of the metropolitan local authorities met the Premier and the Home Secretary on Thursday to discuss the question of the control ...
Article : 85 wordsIn terms of the bequest of the late Mr. Richard Wynne, the trustees of the National Art Gallery have awarded the prize for this year to Mr. E. Gruner's landscape ...
Article : 173 wordsThe hearing was continued to-day of the action brought by Mr. J. H. Thomas, M. P., general secretary of the National Union of Railway Men, against Labor Press Limited ...
Article : 171 wordsThe crushing of the State's large sugar cane crop is proceeding satisfactorily, and it will he completed in many mills before Christmas. ...
Article : 28 wordsAccording to reports received by Ok Minister con trolling the wheat scheme (Mr. Oma[?]) considerable damage has been caused by caterpillars in the Western ...
Article : 86 wordsAt Richmond court yesterday Louisa Daly, proprietress of a dairy in Kent- street, was fined £3, with £3 56 costs, for having sold milk on 27th September ...
Article : 226 wordsADELAIDE.--Official reports concerning Renmark Hotel, which a temperance advocate recently described as a "pig trough," show that the place is well conducted. The ...
Article : 56 wordsThieves on Wednesday night made several attempts to enter the clothing stall of Mr. C. W. Matthews, Victoria Market, which some time ago was broken into. ...
Article : 241 wordsADELAIDE.--In the House of Assembly on Thursday bills were passed increasing the salaries of Minister of the Crown and of members of Parliament. Hitherto six ...
Article : 71 wordsOn 24th November news was received that a large body of Wazirs was leaving Afghanistan with the intention of raiding British Baluchistan. Three columns were ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 2 Dec 1921, Page 8
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