DEMAND FOR WAGE INCREASE: Pictures taken yesterday at a public meeting at the Princess Theatre in favor of wage increases. Top.--L to R.: John Williamson (an apprentice), Miss G. Elliott (Clerks' Union organiser), Messrs. T. Scott (speaking, secretary Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association) H. Sherman (secretary Meat Worker's Union), B. Flanagan (Iron ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 21 wordsMORE COAL FOR MELBOURNE: With the use of grabs, no time was lost in starting to unload the River Murchison, which arrived on Saturday with 8000 tons of coal for the Metropolitan Gas Company. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 843 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--A sixty-mile-an-hour gale and blinding rain squalls, which swept Sydney to-day, unroofed buildings and started fires. Two brick walls from a building being dismantled in Redfern were blown down, and hundreds of tons of bricks and mortar blocked nearby streets. ...
Article : 604 wordsState Cabinet and coal supply control authorities face another anxious week in the maintenance,of gas supplies and industry. Week-end arrivals of coal and further cargoes due to-day and from to-morrow from New South Wales are expected to justify another "reprieve" from the ever-present threat of gas rationing. ...
Article : 568 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.-- Two Netherlands East Indies servicemen, and a 20-year-old single girl were drowned in Moreton Bay ...
Article : 401 wordsBrisbane, Sunday.--Five people managed to keep their heads above water for 1½ hour in Moreton Bay this afternoon after ...
Article : 415 wordsWeather Bureau officials stated yesterday that the depression which brought welcome rains to the Mallee and Wimmera on ...
Article : 128 wordsStartling development of the British seamen's dispute on Saturday was the arrest of 13 members of the crew of the Ocean ...
Article : 348 wordsA further discovery of black coal in the Mirboo district of Gippsland was reported on Saturday. ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Minister for Immigration (Mr. Calwell) on Saturday expressed gratitude to the chairman of the Victorian ...
Article : 190 wordsEarly on Saturday morning Mrs Vincent Forssmn, 41-years, Nicholson-street, North Carlton, was found lying dead across the foot ...
Article : 165 wordsDamage estimated at several thousand pounds was caused by a fire which occurred at the factory of Egg Fillers and Containers ...
Article : 141 wordsAn elderly woman who had not been identified at midnight was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital yesterday evening suffering ...
Article : 45 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--Jack Thompson, one of Australia's leading Jockeys, and well known to race enthusiasts in ...
Article : 89 wordsMrs. Constance Drake-Brockman. wife of Mr. Justice Drake-Brockman, of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, died at St. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 20 May 1946, Page 3
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