BRISBANE, Thursday.--Following a declaration by Mr. W. H. Barnes, member for Wynnum, concerning the dignity of Parliament, extraordinary scenes occured ...
Article : 607 wordsThe Marquis of Cambridge, a brother of Queen Mary, who died suddenly in October, left estate valued at £44,334. Lady Somers presided at the monthly ...
Article : 807 wordsThe "Evening Standard" learns that a remarkable result has followed an experiment made with deadly germs by Sir William Simpson, director at the hospital for ...
Article : 179 wordsIn the Senate the Vice-President of the Executive Council, Senator Pearce, moved the suspension of standing orders to discuss a motion regarding the waterside ...
Article : 398 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.--In spite of the length of the Parliamentary debate on the waterside strike, and of the bitterness which was introduced into it at the ...
Article : 266 wordsFREMANTLE, Thursday.--In addition to the Blue Funnel line steamer Ulysses, the British-India steamer Nirpura was idle at Fremantle to-day, consequent on ...
Article : 455 wordsAs Commonwealth line vessels are immune from the trouble, they may be used to to carry the English mails from Australia. Inward mails will probably be ...
Article : 68 wordsSir Philip Sasson, Under-Secretary for the Air, stated in the House of Commons, in reply to a question, that of 750 aeroplanes possessed by the air force none ...
Article : 66 wordsWhen the ship owners' decision was announced yesterday, much speculation took place along the waterfront concerning their next move, should the situation ...
Article : 246 wordsA meeting of representative British owners and managers in London considered the Australian embroglio, and reached the conclusion that the action of ...
Article : 243 wordsSir,--For the enlightenment of the general public a few words in order to elucidate the position in regard to the two systems of "picking up" men are ...
Article : 571 wordsNew South Wales has placed £3,000,000 worth of three months' Treasury bills, at £4 76 her cent. [The State Government, our Sydney ...
Article : 189 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--In accordance with the decision of the associated interstate owners the crews of vessels whose sailings have been cancelled will be paid ...
Article : 565 wordsIt is expected that as a result of the ship owners' decision about 5000 workers will have been rendered idle in Melbourne to-day. The number includes 3500 ...
Article : 51 wordsPrior to coming to the decision to tie up all their ships, the inter-State and oversea ship owners and representatives met in conference in Melbourne yesterday ...
Article : 1,106 wordsThe gravity of the position is fully realised in industrial circles, but so far no move has been made by either the Australasian Council of Trade Unions or the ...
Article : 664 wordsThe subscription list of the Palestine Government loan of £4,475,000, bearing interest at 5 per cent., and offered at 100½ per cent., was opened this ...
Article : 153 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--The joint committee in Sydney of the oversea and Australian shipping interests issued the following statement to-night-- ...
Article : 366 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.--The effects of a long stoppage of shipping at Port Pirie will be very serious. The effect on the trade at that port may be gauged from ...
Article : 658 wordsNotwithstanding that the Commonwealth Government has placed with representatives of a foreign company the order for £100,000 worth of radium which ...
Article : 574 wordsThe damage done to Sir Alan Cobham's flying boat by the heavy seas at Malta will take several weeks to repair. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Postmaster-General's department in Melbourne yesterday received a cablegram from the Postmaster-General in London announcing that £500 worth of 10 bank ...
Article : 420 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--Evidence was continued in the Supreme Court to-day in the action in which Bertha Millicent Bush is suing Edward Beevor Steele for ...
Article : 170 wordsErnest August Uebergang formerly of Murtoa, but late of Tarrington, retired farmer, who died on 4th October, left by will dated 17th November, 1921. personal property valued at £3079. Testator ...
Article : 101 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--Mr. T. Walsh, general president of the Seamen's Union, to-day stated that as far as he knew the union had not been approached by the ...
Article : 112 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--Mr. W. H. Seale, secretary to the Sydney branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation, to-day said the next move rested with the ship ...
Article : 326 wordsAt the 55th annual meeting of the Prisoners' Aid Society of Victoria, held at Anzac House yesterday afternoon (Mr. Justice McArthur presiding), Mr. R. Ince, ...
Article : 314 wordsWAGGA, Thursday--A motor accident occurred at Wagga to-day, as a result of which Henry Wright, aged 20 years, is an inmate of Wagga District Hospital with ...
Article : 114 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--The trimmers of coal at Newcastle have declined, to work overtime, and operations on oversea steamers in that port have been suspended. ...
Article : 91 wordsIn the belief that the waterside workers would realise the folly of continuing to flout the award of the Arbitration Court, representatives of the shipping companies ...
Article : 234 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--The full effects of the no-overtime strike are now being experienced in Brisbane. Unless the strike is settled it is expected that ...
Article : 383 wordsAUCKLAND, Thursday.--The Auckland city council has announced that the Bank of New Zealand's London office has underwritten a loan of £450,00 at 5¼ per ...
Article : 54 wordsYARRA GLEN, Thursday.--A circus hand named L. J. Rule, aged 21 years, a native of Hindmarsh, Adelaide, was drowned here on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in the ...
Article : 179 wordsBy yesterday's Canadian mail the Ford Motor Company of Australia announces the arrival of the specifications of the new Ford car, which, s[?] Henry ...
Article : 145 wordsIn view of complications having arisen in the shipping industry through industrial troubles on the water front, wool sales in Melbourne and Geelong have been ...
Article : 463 wordsIn Preston police court yesterday John Coffey, 26 years, organ repairer of Malle-son-street, Richmond, was charged with having assaulted Arthur Marks, a lad ...
Article : 172 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--A meeting of the Waterside Workers' Federation to-night endorsed the tactics formulated by the managing committee in Melbourne, but ...
Article : 393 wordsIt was announced yesterday that the Royal Commission on the Constitution of the Commonwealth had completed its sittings in West Australia, and would ...
Article : 89 wordsThe immediate effect of the ship owners' decision in Melbourne has been the tying up of eighteen inter-State and sixteen oversea vessels, including the mail ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 2 Dec 1927, Page 10
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