With the arrival at the Central Station of the Albany-Perth express at 11.20 a.m. on Saturday, the last locomotive had passed over the State railways, and traffic ...
Article : 952 wordsMr. Harry J. Bolend (Mr. E. De Valer[?] secretary) announces that Mr. De Valera has landed in Ireland. [A London cable message of December ...
Article : 466 wordsLong after thousands have forgotten the name of the winner of the big event, and the fine race by which that game outsider defeated all the cracks, Perth ...
Article : 6,604 wordsA meeting to express sympathy with the strikers was held yesterday afternoon at the Empire Theatre, Midland Junction. A resolution was carried declaring the ...
Article : 75 wordsA further statement concerning his interposition in the negotiations to prevent the strike of locomotive men was made to a large congregation at St. Andrew's ...
Article : 1,876 wordsSince the commencement of the strike the Minister for Railways (Mr. Scaddan) has been considering ways and means of minimising the inconveniences and hardships to ...
Article : 137 wordsA mass meeting of marine stewards will be held to-morrow morning in the Trades Hall. It was annoupced in union circles on Saturday that a large section of the ...
Article : 132 wordsThe resentment in the railway service at the dismissal of wage employees and the tendering of a month's notice to the salaried staff was referred to by the Commissioner ...
Article : 267 wordsThe success of the annual Highland gathering, under the auspices of the Caledonian Society, was marred by the railway strike, and at the last moment the locality ...
Article : 1,018 wordsThe military at Bantry (County Cork) arrested forty young men, mostly active members of the "republican" party. The police and military at Lostowel ...
Article : 47 words"They did it very decently," said the Commissioner on Saturday morning, referring to the manner in which the locomotive men had left their engines. "All the reports ...
Article : 90 wordsA remarkable scene was witnessed in Carrick-on-Shannon (Leitrim) on New Year's Eve. A local band, headed by a torchlight procession, halted in the square of ...
Article : 68 wordsIt is anticipated that the produce trade represented by hay and deaff will be quickly dislocated. Short supplies have been coming to hand recently and there is ...
Article : 92 wordsCommencing from to-morrow, Messrs. McIlwraith, and McEacharn have made arrangements to run the steamers Zephyr, Westralian, and Koori between Perth, ...
Article : 90 wordsIt has been reported from Baltimore that Cardinal Gibbons is sinking, and that the last sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church have been administered to him. ...
Article : 120 wordsThe representative of a leading firm of timber merchants expressed the opinion that the timber trade, like other industries must suffer through the strike. He ...
Article : 134 wordsRegular motor transport between the outer suburbs and the city is beginning to make its appearance. At frequent intervals to-day a char-a-banc will run between ...
Article : 94 wordsThe proposal to establish an export credit insurance scheme in connection with which the Government would bear a portion of the risk, enabling manufacturers to supply ...
Article : 231 wordsSome 1,200 people attended a meeting on the Perth Esplanade yesterday afternoon, when the union point of view was explained at length. The gathering was ...
Article : 375 wordsThe only lines controlled by the Railway Department upon which locomotives are still running are these connecting Port Hedland with Marble Bar and Hopetoun with ...
Article : 74 wordsThe damaging effect that the stoppage of the train service is likely to have upon the general trade and industry of the State and in particular on its ...
Article : 348 wordsUnion pickets are in evidence at every locomotive depot, and at other points on the railway lines. The secretary of the enginemen's union stated on Saturday that ...
Article : 44 wordsEight or nine pasengers who arrived from the Eastern States on Saturday continued their journey to Perth by motor car to-day. The taxi drivers are quoting £12 per ...
Article : 43 wordsThe manifesto of the moderate French Socialists to the workers says:—"We made every effort to avoid a split at the Socialist Congress in Tours but the majority ...
Article : 224 wordsThe average resident of Fremantle and the immediately surrounding districts has, by reason of the cessation of the train service, become practically isolated from Perth ...
Article : 377 wordsThe statements made by Mr. Panton on the Esplanade were brought under the notice of the Premier last night, and in reply Mr. Mitchell said:— ...
Article : 415 wordsThe British revenue for the quarter which ended on December 31 amounted to £269,504,000. The Customs revenue was £33,449,000; excise. £60,644,000: stamps. ...
Article : 63 wordsIt is satisfactory to have the assurance from persons who are in a position to speak with some show of authority that the food supplies of the community are not ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 3 Jan 1921, Page 5
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