Argument was continued yesterday before the Fall High Court in regard to the application by Huddart Parker Ltd., Melbourne Steamship Co., United SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Constant trouble is being caused on the waterfront by disputes between seamen in jobs and those idle. Drastic action by ship owners may ...
Article : 617 wordsAs the result of a conference between Federal and State Ministers and mining officials yesterday it is probable that the two Governments will combine to finance ...
Article : 582 wordsA decisive move towards a settlement of the dispute in the meat export trade was made yesterday at a conference between the representatives of the Victorian ...
Article : 603 wordsThe sharp advance in exchange rates on London precipitated by the action of the Bank of New South Wales, with consequent higher quotations by other banks, ...
Article : 436 wordsFollowing the announcement on Tuesday that the rationing of single railway employes would commence yesterday, it was learned that the Minister of ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Conservative attitude towards Indian claims to responsiblity with due safe-guards at the Federal centre was stated in the federal structure sub-committee ...
Article : 903 wordsOne of the Air Force planes engaged in the search for Captain Pittendrigh and Mr. Hamre, who have not been seen or heard of since they left Alice Aprings for ...
Article : 775 wordsIn connection with the demonstration of the unemployed to be held on Monday next it is requested that all bodies working in the interests of the unemployed ...
Article : 102 wordsResuming his summing up yesterday in the basic wage case before the Arbitration Court, Mr. C. Crofts, representing the unions, declared that the banking interests ...
Article : 927 wordsGEELONG, Wednesday.--Geelong Trades Hall Council, after a long discussion of the unemployment problem, adopted the following resolution: ...
Article : 184 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--The State Government decided to-day that all men engaged on relief works should be paid full award rates with a 44-hour week, and that ...
Article : 80 wordsAuthority was given by the Premier to the Treasury yesterday to pay all State increments that had fallen due this financial year. This decision is in accordance ...
Article : 176 wordsWELLINGTON, Wednesday.--Large numbers of men have been dismissed from the Napier-Gisborne railway works, which the Government has suspended. ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the City Court yesterday, before Mr. J. H. Freeman, P.M., seventeen men were charged with vagrancy. Evidence was given by railway officials, who said that ...
Article : 145 wordsAt a meeting of the Overseas Shipping Representatives' Association in Melbourne yesterday it was decided, in view of the increased exchange rates announced by ...
Article : 152 wordsRegulations have been drafted to bring into operation the reduction of public service salaries on 16th inst., which is the next "pay day." The reductions, which ...
Article : 131 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--A Gipsy Moth biplane fell 200 feet in flames in a field near the Griffith aerodrome to-day, seriously injuring Hugh Peach, the ...
Article : 206 wordsWYCHEPROOF, Wednesday.--Wycheproof traders and farmers met in conference recently and decided on the following resolutions: ...
Article : 506 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--The principal life insurance offices are refusing to transfer policies to the London register except where the policy holder is a ...
Article : 119 wordsDelay in commencing the extra production of briquettes at the extended factory built for the Electricity Commission at Yallourn has been caused by the late ...
Article : 261 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The conference of federated State school teachers today emphasised the desirability of extending the teaching of agricultural subjects in ...
Article : 415 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--Meteor Downs Station was to have started shearing to-day under the new award. Great excitement prevailed when at an early ...
Article : 154 wordsThe rate on postal orders to New Zealand has been advanced from 10½d. to 2 in the pound. ...
Article : 21 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.--Cabinet was interviewed to-day by Mr. F. Harrison on the question of establishing a musquash rat farm in Tasmania. Th proposition, ...
Article : 117 wordsTwenty aeroplanes will visit Phillip Island next Saturday in connection with the aerial pageant. Nine machines have entered for the aerial Derby. ...
Article : 97 wordsAt the production of Old Mother Hubbard on Friday night amateur entertainers are to be given an opportunity to display their talent, prizes being awarded ...
Article : 271 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--The State Government has been informed by the Railway Commissioners that the cost of introducing the 44-hour week into the service ...
Article : 91 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--The Corner held an inquiry to-day into the death of John Edward Thornton, 33 years, who was shot outside a hotel at Alexandria on ...
Article : 140 wordsAt the meeting of the public works committee of South Melbourne council last night a letter was read from the Robur Tea Co. thanking the council for ...
Article : 300 wordsSir,--Recently the chairman of the Water Commission announced the completion of the so-called repairs to the above weir, and that the work completed the ...
Article : 511 wordsTwo new wages boards to regulate the wages and conditions of gardeners and nurserymen have been created by the Minister of Labor, who yesterday ...
Article : 343 wordsSupposedly born in Australia, Gerald Vladimir Crichton, alias Upjohns, falsely self-described as a nephew of Sir George Crichton, was sentenced at ...
Article : 135 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday .--The Minister of Labor, Mr. Baddeley, informed a deputation from the Storemen and Packers' Union to.-day that the 44-Hour Week ...
Article : 40 wordsVictor John Byrne, 32 years, laborer, of Capel-street, North Melbourne, was charged in South Melbourne court yesterday with having assaulted a woman ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 311 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--The secretary of the New South Wales Cricket Association (Mr. Heydon) stated to-day that the officials were not yet in a position to ...
Article : 71 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--In the Central Court to-day George Thomas White, 40 years, dealer, was charged with having assaulted Henry Hodgkinson, teller of the ...
Article : 99 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.--Ministers had a conference this morning with Professor L. F. Giblin on the wheat position, Professor Giblin pointed out the ...
Article : 171 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The promises of the Wingfield Sausage Company, near Port Adelaide, were completely destroyed by fire this afternoon. The value ...
Article : 52 wordsThe South Wales miners and owners have agreed to meet Mr. Graham and Mr. Shinwell to consider the basis of discussion for a further meeting of the ...
Article : 115 wordsVera Jenner, of Coventry-street, South Melbourne, did not appear at the local court yesterday, when the bench heard a charge that on 18th December she sold ...
Article : 116 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--The inquiry by Mr. Gates, sitting as a royal commissioner, into the convictions of twenty-one Communists, who were sent to gaol for having ...
Article : 79 wordsComplaint was last night made to the police authorities at Russell-street by John Gibson, a milk, carter, of Cora Lynn, that while driving a motor truck along ...
Article : 79 wordsSanctuaries for native game in two large areas were proclaimed by the Executive Council yesterday. The proclamation will operate for the whole year in each case. ...
Article : 68 wordsA young woman reported to the St. Kilda-road police last night that while walking along Commercial-road, opposite the Alfred Hospital, two men snatched ...
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Article : 55 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--When a motor cycle, driven by Harold York, of Waratah, collided with Mrs. Gray, 70 years, of Islington, near her home to-night she ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 8 Jan 1931, Page 6
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