Interesting evidence concerning the construction of the ill-fated filter beds at Mount Hawthorn was given by two witnesses before the Legislative ...
Article : 1,482 wordsThe results of the operations of the Commonwealth railways for the year ended June 30, 1924, disclose heavy losses, but there is a distinct ...
Article : 866 wordsThe Arbitration Act Amendment. Bill was considered in Committee by the Legislative Assembly yesterday. Among a series of amendments ...
Article : 4,112 wordsA message from Mukden reports that Marshal Chang-Tso-Lin has declared that in the event of his bombing Peking the Presidential Palace will be his ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Anglo-German negotiations for a commercial agreement have broken down.—Reuter. [The executive committee of the ...
Article : 72 wordsIt was announced to-day that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald would meet the executive committee of the British Miners' Federation in No. 10 Dowining-street, and ...
Article : 59 wordsThe German Foreign Office is drawing up a memorandum in which Germany's wishes and conditions for entry to the League of Nations will be laid down. The ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Ku Klux Khan was characterised to-day as the last refuge of American patriotism worthy of the name by the "Imperial Wizard" (Mr. Hiram Evans). ...
Article : 149 wordsMr. A. B. Swales, of the engineering industry, has been elected President of the Congress of Trade Unions.—Reuter. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe negotiations which have been proceeding between British and German officials during the past three days with a view to the drafting of a commercial ...
Article : 189 wordsIt has been announced authoritatively that Marshal Chang-Tso-Lin and the Russian Soviet Government have reached an agreement, which recognises the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe executive committee of the Transport Workers' Union has decided not to extend the Convent Garden Strike, and it has instructed the strikers to resume ...
Article : 45 wordsRe-nominations in connection with the entire Democratic State "ticket" are promised at to-morrow's Convention. A pronouncement against the Ku Klux ...
Article : 51 wordsThe prolongation of the Assembly to next week has interfered with the plans of the Australian delegates. Mr. Charlton thinks that the Assembly should ...
Article : 102 wordsTo-day members of the Royal Colonial Institute entertained at a farewell luncheon Sir William R. Campion (the Governor-elect of Western Australia), ...
Article : 327 wordsAn unusual position has arisen in the coal mining industry owing to the attitude of many members of the Miners' Federation towards the direction given by ...
Article : 628 wordsTwenty-three Chinese who were refused admittance by the immigration authorities have been granted write of "habeas corpus" by Mr. J. Neterer, a ...
Article : 122 wordsIt has now been ascertained on good authority here that the breakdown in the conversations in Berlin concerning the proposed commercial treaty are not ...
Article : 118 wordsThe new general council of the Congress of Trade Unions held its first meeting in London to-day, and decided to appoint a special commission to visit Russia ...
Article : 90 wordsWhether the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment apply jointly or separately to the Philippines is a question which the Federal Courts will be ...
Article : 126 wordsA representative deputation of Lancashire cotton interests waited on the Prime Minister to-day in connection with the negotiations for an Anglo-German ...
Article : 103 wordsThe London "Daily Chronicle's" special correspondent states that 64 per cent. of Russian trade is now due to private enterprise, mainly in the villages. ...
Article : 219 wordsA message from Mobile (Alabama) says that the County Court has upheld the seizure by the state of the Italian steamer Vallescurra on the ground that ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Admiralty authorities announce that the officers and men of the Australian light cruiser Adelaide, which is accompanying the Special Service ...
Article : 172 wordsThe English team for Australia has arrived here. For the match to be played at Colombo, Hobbs, Hearne, Hendren, Woolly, Strudwick, and either Tate or ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Prime Minister of Egypt (Zaghloul Pasha) visited the Empire Exhibition to-day, but as he was fatigued, he confined his tour to the Australian ...
Article : 67 wordsDuring the collision in the harbour here Major Pedro Zanni (the Argentina aviator) lost his pocket book, which contained a number of banknotes and ...
Article : 87 wordsIn the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon Mr. Potter moved:—"Assuming it is a fact that the Federal Government are providing a sum of only ...
Article : 463 wordsThe local office of the Empire Exhibition has received through the Prime Minister the following cable from the High Commissioner for Australia:— ...
Article : 456 wordsA vast scheme of irrigation and cotton growing is about to be started in Iraq (Mesopotamia), under a concession granted to Assar, a Syrian financier. A ...
Article : 590 wordsComplete return have not been received from the meetings of coal miners held on Wednesday to consider the direction of the Central Council of the ...
Article : 302 wordsLord Thomson (the Secretary of State for the Air Service), acting on behalf of the British Air Council, has telegraphed congratulations to the American ...
Article : 33 wordsThe twentieth exhibition of the secondary industries of the State was opened in the Industrial Hall, Barrack-street, yesterday, by the Minister for Industries ...
Article : 477 wordsPlans for a trans-Pacific aeroplane flight from San Francisco to the Philippines. Australasia aha other Pacific countries, are announced by the ...
Article : 112 wordsDr. Cumpston (the Australian Director of Public Health) has sailed for England. He will return to America on October 25. ...
Article : 222 wordsIn connection with the recent cessation of work in the timber industry, the secretary of the Australian Timber Workers' Union (Mr. J. B. Holman, ...
Article : 77 wordsComplaints were made by clergymen at the annual conference of the Baptist Union of New South Wales now sitting in Sydney that the salaries were ...
Article : 187 wordsIn the course of a speech here Miss margaret Bandfield (Parliamentary Secretary for the British Department of Labour said:—The migration policy ...
Article : 86 wordsSubsequent to disclosures made in the Legislative Assembly last week by Mr. Greenwood regarding the intervention of the Chief Secretary (Mr. Tunnecliffe) in ...
Article : 162 wordsThe president of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce (Mr. J. R. Johnston) has forwarded the following cable message to the Prime Minister:—"In view of ...
Article : 94 wordsAfter a meeting of unemployed had been addressed outside the Trades Hall to-day the men carried several resolutions, among which were:—"That this ...
Article : 126 wordsWhile he was "en route" to his ranch in Alberta the Prince of Wales stopped here for three hours. He was welcomed formally by Civic and provincial officials. ...
Article : 97 wordsAt the inquest into the death of Archie Mouatt (9½), whose mutilated body was found at Springvale on August 25 by his mother, the Coroner committed ...
Article : 49 wordsThe weekly publication, "The Critic," has ceased to exist, and to-morrow a new publication. "The Land." will make its first appearance. It will be mainly ...
Article : 36 wordsBy notification in the "Commonwealth Gazette" of this week the Postmaster-General directs that the post office shall not receive postal matter addressed to ...
Article : 49 wordsThe union S.S. Co's vessel Waikouaita left Hobart to-day with one million super feet of hardwood for New Zealand. The cargo constitutes a record for timber ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 26 Sep 1924, Page 9
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