Mr. Donald Mackinnon (the Australian Special Commissioner in America) has returned from a special trip to the Texas cotton fields, where he witnessed a ...
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Article : 45 wordsWhen the Minister for Trade and Customs (Mr. Pratten) was considering the question of altering the basis of British preference. the Australian ...
Article : 391 wordsA constant stream of railway, motor, tram and 'bus traffic poured a crowd on to the Claremont Show Grounds yesterday which was estimated at little short of the record of 45,000 in 1913. The offical figures will not be available until to-day. ...
Article : 874 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day (Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Customs:—(1) Whether it is the intention of the Government to remove ...
Article : 640 wordsIn the course of his speech at the Conference of the Labour Party to-day Mr. Ramsay MacDonald said that the work of the Labour Delegation in the ...
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Article : 176 wordsIn the House of Lords to-day there was a large muster of members for the debate on the Irish Bill. Viscount Grey delivered the pricipal ...
Article : 145 wordsMr. C. H. Jones (Advertising Manager of the Melbourne "Argus"), who is on a trip round the world, addressed the Advertising Club here to-day. He stressed ...
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Article : 162 wordsOwing to the statement circulated that there was likely to be a dislocation, of railway traffic during Cup week, particular importance was attached to a special ...
Article : 163 wordsThe text of an agreement between "the Union of Soviet Republics and the autonomous three Eastern Provinces of the Republic of China" has been ...
Article : 140 wordsProfessor Timothy Smiddy (the Minister for the Irish Free State) presented his credentials yesterday to President Coolidge. He announced that the ...
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Article : 216 wordsAt the Labour Conference to-day Mr. J. R. Campbell (the editor of the "Workers' Weekly") attacked the Labour Government with regard to its ...
Article : 123 wordsWhen the Labour leaders arrived at the conference the organ in the hall struck up "England, Arise!" This, apparently, did not suit the livelier ...
Article : 265 wordsAccording to Mr. Leonard Williams, a Sydney chemist, who returned by the Sierra from a holiday trip abroad, America is passing through a parlous period ...
Article : 210 wordsThe new directorate of the Commonwealth Bank will meet for the first time in Melbourne to-morrow. All the members will be present ...
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Article : 123 wordsBefore Mr. A. E. Burt, R.M., A. J. Harris was charged, to-day with stealing eighteen hoggets, the property of Smith and Sons, farmers, of Wedgecarrup. Mr. ...
Article : 163 wordsAnticipations of liveliness at the Labour Conference to-day on the subject of Ministers' alleged snobbery were not realised when Mr. Will Thorne ...
Article : 131 wordsClaiming the repayment of £73 3s. paid for the passage of an immigrant family from Glasgow to Melbourne, Margaret Orr. of South Camberwell to-day ...
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Article : 22 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Gunn) was a passenger on the express to Melbourne this afternoon. He is going there in connection with railway matters. ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Russo-Japanese Conference, which has been dragging on for months, threatens to break down entirely on the question of Northern Sakhalin. The conditions ...
Article : 72 wordsZaghloul Pasha's demands in his recent negotiations with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald have been summarised in a White Paper which was issued to-night. They ...
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Article : 105 wordsThe Queensland loan for £4,000,000 has been over-subscribed. [The rate of interest is 5 per cent, and the price of issue £97 10s. per ...
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Article : 156 wordsAt the morgue to-day an inquiry was held into the death of Ida Fetridge Fry. a married woman, of Werribee. The Coroner decided that death was due to shock. ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day the Prime Minister, replying to Mr. Foster, said that the Commonwealth Government had sent a communication to ...
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Article : 319 wordsFor the first time for ten years a comprehensive survey of the railway improvements needed in the Dominion has been made. The Minister for Railways ...
Article : 82 wordsArising out of the seizure by detectives at the Randwick Racecourse on Holiday of forged £20 bank notes, three men and a woman appeared at the Central Police ...
Article : 191 wordsIt was decided by the Cabinet to-day to appoint a Royal Commission to investigate civic administration in the City of Sydney, on condition that Mr. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe rejection of the Marriage Amendment ("Ne Temere") Bill by the Legislative Council was considered by Cabinet to-day. and it was derided to introduce ...
Article : 83 wordsThe president's tea, attended by over 70 persons, was one of the special social features of the show. Among the quests were the Premier and Mrs. ...
Article : 76 wordsSpeaking at a meeting in England, the former Prime Minister of Great Britian (Mr. Lloyd George) recounted a conversation which he said he had with ...
Article : 135 wordsThe trotting races were a feature of he Show. They were well conducted by he officials of the Western Australian Trotting Association. There were three ...
Article : 464 wordsAn astounding treason case is developing as a result of inquiries made by a Procureur of the Republic into the "dossier" of Charles Plouin, an ...
Article : 166 wordsTwo Fautuas, or district chiefs from Western Samoa, will visit New Zealand next month, and will be the guests of the Government. They will be accompanied ...
Article : 55 wordsThough not in a position at a late hour last night to supply an official estimate of yesterday's attendance, the secretary of the society (Mr. W. J. ...
Article : 154 wordsIn reply to a letter from the Premier (Sir George Fuller) Mr. W. F. Cropley to-day expressed his willingness to give evidence before a Royal Commission ...
Article : 129 wordsThere is a deadlock between the House of Representatives and the Legislative Council regarding the date of expiry of the moratorium period. The Council ...
Article : 88 wordsThe application of wireless for setting in motion machinery at a considerable distance was demonstrated on September 3 at Wembley, when a rotary connector ...
Article : 373 wordsThe Oxford University Institute of Agricultural Engineers has invented a system of drying crops which, it is believed, will revolutionise British ...
Article : 243 wordsThe Opposition parties, comprising the Nationalists and the Country members, net at the House of Assembly this morning and considered the position regarding ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Gaming Amendment Bill proposing to increase the number of totalisator permits roused a long and heated discussion in the House of Representatives. ...
Article : 90 wordsRioting between Hindus and Mussulmans broke out here last night, when three persons were killed an twenty injured. The trouble arose when a Hindu ...
Article : 82 wordsThe lighthouse ship Kyogle left to-night for Arnheim Bay to make wireless connection with the Huddersfield. The Kyogle carries a wireless plant, and is ...
Article : 62 wordsComplete uncertainly prevails as to the procedure and the outcome of to-night's momentous debate, which Sir Robert S. Horne will open by ...
Article : 147 wordsParticulars of the number of people who travelled on the suburban railway system yesterday, together with the comparative figures for the corresponding day ...
Article : 101 wordsWilliam Digby, who was arrested at Port Lincoln on Saturday on a charge of larceny, and escaped on Sunday from confinement, and who was re-arrested on ...
Article : 107 wordsA Bill to amend the Public Service Act was introduced in Parliament to-day. It removes the £300 embargo placed upon officers of the public service. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe succession of the Military Directorate by a Moderate Socialist Government under General Primo De Rivera is a possible development of the present ...
Article : 62 wordsJudges.—Berkshires, any other pure breeds, Yorkshires and Tamworths: Mr. T. H. Wilding, Baconers and Porkers: Mr. W. Watson, M. H. R. ...
Article : 816 wordsThe ring events claimed a good deal of attention, and they were well carried out. thanks to the supervision of the ringmaster, Mr. S. J. Chipper, Mr. ...
Article : 738 wordsAt the inquest into the death of George Oswald Uglow, who was killed on September 21. when a motor car, containing a party of men. overturned on ...
Article : 57 wordsAt the opening of the Parliament of Northern Ireland to-day Sir James Craig (The Prime Minister of Ulster) said that the present British Government had ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 9 Oct 1924, Page 9
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