A Movement which is regarded by its Organisers as the most determined step which has been taken yet towards the repeal of the Volstead Act was begun ...
Article : 134 wordsThe tariff controversy has been revived by the publication of an announcement from the Board of Trade indicating that the Government, instead of introducing ...
Article : 283 wordsDalgety and Co., Ltd., state, that only about half of their catalogue had been offered at the wool sales at the Wool Exchange whon they reported on Tuesday ...
Article : 1,007 wordsThe Socialist leader M. Leon Blum made sensational speech to-day in the chamber of Deputies. He said that his party was opposed to the continuance of ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Loan Council, which is composed of the Treasurers of the various States and the Commonwealth, met to-day under the presidency of the Prime ...
Article : 212 wordsA disorderly scene of an unprecedented nature occurred in the Lower House this, afternoon, being accompanied by a refusal to obey the Chair on the part of a ...
Article : 168 wordsStatements were made available yesterday by the Commonwealth Treasury indicating the receipts and expenditure of the Commonwealth for the first ...
Article : 586 wordsThe general council of the Associated Chambers of Agriculture has passed a motion expressing the opinion that the Imperial Government should inquire ...
Article : 97 wordsThe recovery of the sterling rate or exchange will reopen the London market to Canadian financing, and probably that Dominion will try to obtain more of its ...
Article : 105 wordsUpon the resumption of the debate on the foreign Estimates the Chamber of Deputies voted by 317 to 246 in favour of provision being mode for a special ...
Article : 66 wordsA resolution to pat it on record that the Federal House of Representatives is in favour of America's adherence to the World Court was approved to-day by the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe steamship Korea Maru (11,810 tons), while being docked at Yokohama yesterday afternoon, crashed against the wall of the quay, tearing off 12ft. of her ...
Article : 98 wordsFor the first time since the war the United States itself one of the world's great granaries, is beginning to feel the pinch of the high prices of wheat. The ...
Article : 201 words"Very serious trouble" in the railway world is anticipated by Mr. C. T. Cramp Industrial General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen) as a result ...
Article : 137 wordsThere was a dramatic scene to-day at the inquiry by the Royal Commission into the Cartage Contract for the Electricity Department of the Sydney City ...
Article : 511 wordsThe Food Commission heard to-day evidence from representatives of the retail meat trade, including Mr. Colling (president) and other officials of the ...
Article : 179 wordsSir Ernest Wild (the Recorder of London), in charting the Grand Jury in the Old Bailer (London) referred to the pending trial of William C. Hobbs in ...
Article : 305 wordsIn connection with the dispute between Greece and Turkey over the expulsion of the Greek Patriarch from constantinople it has been learned that the ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Secretary of State (Mr. C. E. Hughes), informed the senate to-day that the Paris Agreement for the payment of America's claims against ...
Article : 340 wordsAn aggregate meeting, of coal-miners was held to-day in the Mechanics' Institute. The president of the Coal Miners' U nion (Mr. J. S. Jackson) ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Diplomatic Correspondent of the London. "Daily Telegraph' refers as follows to the dispute between Greece and Turkey:-Apparently. the day has gone ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Financial Correspondent of the London, "Morning Post" says:—The Market with regard to the new Queensland issue is favourable, and any strained ...
Article : 115 wordsAfter a Visit to Madame Tussaud's Exhibition this morning, the Y.A.L. tourists formed up at Australia House, and, headed by the band of the Scots Guards, ...
Article : 287 wordsThe Consolidated Revenue collections for the seven months ended January 31 of this year totalled £1,530,203, or £169,627 more than was received for the ...
Article : 165 wordsThe acting Premier Mr. Gillies), commenting on the underwriting of the Queensland conversion loan in London said that he received from the ...
Article : 158 wordsFor the purpose of winning over the peasants, whose hostility is a serious obstacle in the path of Bolshevism, the Soviet Government has granted ...
Article : 78 wordsWing-Commander Williams, of the Australian Air Force, who is returning to Australia, says that the promoters of the scheme for an air service between ...
Article : 131 wordsTwenty-five persons have been killed and 111 injured by a fire in Baku (Transcaucasia). Flames from petroleum gas shot up to a height of more than 100 ...
Article : 68 wordsThe fourth annual general meeting of the Western Australian branch of the Overseas League was held last sight in Albany Boll's tearooms. Hay-street. Mr. ...
Article : 426 wordsThe Lancashire Country Cricket Club has decided to exercise the option of covering the pitch on the Lancashire grounds after 11, o'clock on the day ...
Article : 60 words"Referring to Mr. L. B. Bolton's reply to my remarks in connection with the appointments to the Fremantle" Hospital Board," said the Minister controlling ...
Article : 542 wordsMr. Hugh Dalton M. A. in giving evidence before Lord Colwyn's Committee on the National: Debt, said a levey on capital was the satisfactory ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. Chas. H. Wickens) has issued Part VII. of the Census of 1921, which contains detailed tables relating to the education of ...
Article : 536 wordsA remarkable report of mysterious shooting at Geelong has been received by the police. According to the report, William Slade Vincent a textile worker ...
Article : 154 wordsThe following have been selected to represent Victoria against England in the match commencing on Friday:— E. R. May (captain), C. B. Willis. A. E. V. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe New Zealand revenue for the nine months ended December 81 amounted to £18,484,330, an increase ot £273,906 compared with the corresponding period ...
Article : 95 wordsA deputation representing the printing and paper-making industries urged to—day, the Postmaster-General (Sir W. Mitchell Thomson) to restore penny ...
Article : 231 wordsMuch interest is being taken in the match between former Australian Eleven players and a team composed of former soldiers, which nill be played on the ...
Article : 102 wordsThe overseas trade or New zealand during 1924 aggregated £101,140,314, being the largest volume yet recorded with the exception of the import boom year ...
Article : 92 wordsRain of a general nature fell in the tropical coast divisions and was very heavy in several places between Cairns and St. Lawrence during the 24 hours ...
Article : 97 wordsIt has been reported from Bechuanaland that there has been found buried some fifty feet in a limestone cliff, a fossil skull of a creature which was ...
Article : 135 wordsA settlement has been reached in the Sykes will case. The Judge, by consent, pronounced against the will of 1921, subject to certain payments, the parties ...
Article : 347 wordsTrade statistics for the last year indicate that the balance is again swinging in Australia's favour. Imports of Australian goods in 1924 amounted to ...
Article : 71 wordsJames Barry, who it was stated was carrying on the occupation of a bookmaker on what is known as "the Outer" at the Albion Park racecourse was to-day ...
Article : 88 wordsThe two lads, Crossley and Heggarly were committed for trial in Wolver-hampton to-day on a charge of having murdered Constable Albert Willits. ...
Article : 265 wordsBritish scientists are interested in the reports from South Africa to the effect that a skull, which is believed to be the oldest in the world, and the missing link ...
Article : 139 wordsAt a meeting to-day the Federal Executive Council approved of regulations for the conduct of the election of representative on the Dairy Produce Export ...
Article : 245 wordsThe bodies of John Thomas Lilburne and his wife, Louisa, of invercargill, were found in the harbour at Anderson's Bay, Dunedin. A letter written by Mrs. ...
Article : 66 wordsAt present 26 men are employed and 14 more will be engaged by the end of the week on the South Brisbane-Kyogle standard gauge railway. Afterwards 10 ...
Article : 52 wordsThe committee appointed to inquire into the treatment of mental defectives and sexual offenders recommends that a Eugenics Board should be appointed, ...
Article : 122 wordsWhen the occupants of the house were in other rooms, a thief entered the home of Mr. Vernon S. Ransford, the Victorian cricketer, at Glyudon-avenue. ...
Article : 54 wordsA Townsville message states that at 6 o'clock this morning the Burdekin River was 11ft. 6in. over the rails of the Inkerman Bridge, and continues to ...
Article : 117 wordsAn examination in insolvency was begun before Judge Moule to-day into the affairs of Samuel Howell, an investor, of Qucen-street, Melbourne. His debts ...
Article : 69 wordsThe subscription fund of the London "Times" for the preservation of St. Paul's Catherdral (London) amounts to £220,594, of which £3,487 received ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Fitzroy by-election held to-day to fill the vacancy in the Legislative Assembly caused by the death of Mr. J. W. Billson, resulted in Mr. M. M. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 5 Feb 1925, Page 9
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