The Minister in charge of the Royal tour (Mr. Marr) yesterday conferred with Mr. Hughes, honorary Minister and member of the Victorian reception ...
Article : 160 wordsIt was announced yesterday on behalf of the major oil companies that the prices of petrol will be raised a penny a gallon from to-day, making prices— ...
Article : 412 wordsThe keenness of Imperial Airways' bid for the Australian route is indicated by the full details issued to-day of the De Havilland 86 express mail plane, with ...
Article : 308 wordsThose who had not probed the secret of the 13-inch torpedo, whose amazing mechanism is explained at the Defence Week exhibition, spent considerable time ...
Article : 369 wordsThe Federation of British Industries, in a memorandum, urges the Government to take additional powers to impose, as needed, immediate counter ...
Article : 146 wordsMr. Maxwell, in opening the defence, said he proposed to take the unusual course of calling first evidence as to the character and reputation of the man who ...
Article : 2,602 wordsIn answer to widespread protests against the cancellation of the United Slates air-mail contracts, the Postmaster-General (Mr. Farley) published a ...
Article : 207 wordsUnusual interest surrounded the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Victorian Golf Association at Scott's Hotel, last night, in view of the ...
Article : 313 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. C. H. Hay, State director of arrangements in connection with the forthcoming Royal visit, stated to-day that although the ...
Article : 82 wordsLord Privy Seal, Mr. Eden, will visit Paris, Rome and Berlin to explain the point of view of the British Government and to learn, by direct contact, what is ...
Article : 157 wordsAt the invitation of the Lord Mayor representatives of nineteen religious denominations met at the Town Hall yesterday to discuss the proposal for a ...
Article : 751 wordsIt was exceedingly unfortunate that the Centenary organiser (Brigadier-General C. H. Jess) was not present at the meeting on Wednesday of the Centenary ...
Article : 1,401 wordsIn reply to a question in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Eden said the British Government was informed some time ago by the Australian Government ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. Bernard Shaw, in a preface to his latest volume of plays, including On the Rocks, explains why he never dramatised the Trial of Jesus. ...
Article : 281 wordsRecovery in the marriage rate, an increase in the birth rate—the first since 1920—a normal death rate and the lowest recorded death rate were features of ...
Article : 499 wordsA Canadian missionary, Rev. Emile Charles, was killed at Cheng-Chiatun, on the Supingkai-Taonan railway, Manchukuo, on Tuesday night. Two robbers ...
Article : 92 wordsAs an additional Centenary attraction the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria will conduct a billiard tournament for trophies valued at £100. The ...
Article : 142 wordsIntroducing variety into the Defence week programme, State schools' children contributed music, song and dance in the Exhibition Hall yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 512 wordsThe development of British trade with the Empire, reflected in the latest trade returns, the "Morning Post" thinks, was not altogether satisfactory in 1933, the ...
Article : 136 wordsLEETON, Thursday.—The Yanco Welfare Farm inquiry was continued to-day. Frank Johanson, trainee at the farm, deposed that he was the last boy who ...
Article : 837 wordsCaptain Schmidt, leader of the relief expedition, wirelesses that the Soviet ice breaker Chehuskin, after a stormy voyage, sank in the Okhotsk Sea, ...
Article : 104 wordsMYRTLEFORD, Thursday. — The North-Eastern district tobacco growers' field day to-day at W. McGuffie's farm, situated ideally on the Buffalo River, ...
Article : 484 wordsThe Board of Trade returns for January showed increases over those of the previous months and over January, 1933, in both imports and exports. ...
Article : 72 wordsOrganised Labor has petitioned the British Columbia Legislature for a six-hour working day and a five-day week to spread employment, with a minimum ...
Article : 395 wordsIt is hoped that Larwood in 1934 will be fit to bowl as well as ever, says the annual report of the Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. Looking back over ...
Article : 112 wordsSir James Parr, High Commission for New Zealand, to-day inspected the Sultan Star's shipment of 1300 quarters of New Zealand chilled beef displayed at ...
Article : 113 wordsEfforts to reach an amicable settlement of the dispute between the Tramways Board and the Tramway Employes' Association regarding the recent dismissal of ...
Article : 367 wordsThe hearing was continued to-day of an action by Benjamin Shahoua against his wife, nee Joan Norton, of Sydney, claiming specific performance of an ...
Article : 435 wordsThe Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, in opening the new premises of the London branch of the All Peoples' Association, said the objects of the ...
Article : 151 wordsOne of the most interesting exhibits in the commercial section of the Defence week exhibition is the Curtis pilot machine, exhibited at the Vacuum Oil ...
Article : 150 wordsIt was announced yesterday by the secretary of the Centenary air race committee (Mr. E. V. E. Neill) that the first progress report from the Royal Aero ...
Article : 413 wordsFatal injuries were received by Frederick Howarth, 56 years, of Woodlawn-street, Richmond, yesterday when the bicycle he was riding came into ...
Article : 74 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The public debt of the Commonwealth at 31st December last was £1,213,296,358 44, on which the annual interest bill amounts ...
Article : 148 wordsMr. Baldwin, in a speech at Preston, said Britain was almost the last country standing for freedom of speech and conscience. Whatever happened they would ...
Article : 69 wordsWhile riding a bicycle near his home in Tennyson-street, Kew, about 6 p.m. yesterday, John Boyd, ten years, collided head-on with another boy cyclist. Boyd ...
Article : 58 wordsFailing from a bicycle in Elizabeth-street, outside the post office, yesterday afternoon, Ernest Ratcliffe, 15 years, of Harvey-street, Malvern, sustained ...
Article : 36 wordsWELLINGTON, Thursday.—The research ship Discovery left Dunedin for the Antarctic to-day with Dr. Pataka aboard, and also urgent supplies for ...
Article : 73 wordsThe price of gold in London to-day was £6 175 per fine ounce, the quotation being unaltered from Wednesday. America continued to purchase the whole ...
Article : 53 wordsChildren attending the Roman Catholic schools conducted by the nuns and brothers will give a marching and gymnastic demonstration at the St. Patrick's ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 16 Feb 1934, Page 10
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