Yesterday ship owners decided to make a call for free labour to work ships rendered idle by the refusal of lumpers in several Australian ports to work under the Beeby award. In the House of Representatives the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) gave notice of a Bill, to be introduced to-day, to provide, ...
Article : 219 wordsLONDON, Sept. 18.—The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" says that the Chancellor (Herr Muller) summarising for newspaper representatives the results of ...
Article : 184 wordsA warning to producers to be satisfied with a fair price for their wool, as wood-wool might otherwise be substituted, was given by Sir Benjamin Morgan, chairman ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 801 wordsLONDON; Sept. 19.—Senor De la Ciervas to-day, made a flight across the English Channel in an autogyro, a new type of aeroplane which he has invented. He ...
Article : 351 wordsWith her rudder stripped off, her stern Post carried away and her propeller bent the Swedish steamer Lygnern (4,896 tons), which stranded on a sandbank in Gage ...
Article : 872 wordsGENEVA, Sept. 18.—"There is , no doubt," the special correspondent of the Australian Press Association says "that the fact that there was a whisper abroad ...
Article : 569 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 18.—The statement that as many as 250 persons have teen killed and 1,000 injured in Florida is believed to be well founded. The damage to ...
Article : 208 wordsBERLIN, Sept. 18.—In an interview given to the "Berliner Tageblatt," M. Briand tries to pour oil on troubled waters. He says it is incomprehensible ...
Article : 168 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 18.—Palm Beach has been utterly wrecked and trees and houses have been swept and crushed into splinters in all directions. Practically no ...
Article : 108 wordsMELBOURNE, Sept. 19.— Shipowners decided in Melbourne today to advertise in all ports immediately for labour to keep shipping moving under the terms of the ...
Article : 566 wordsThe s.s. Lygnern, which is disabled, lying outside Fremantle Harbour. This photograph of her hull shows that the stern post and rudder are missing. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 73 wordsFRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Sept. 18.—The new giant Zeppelin LZ127 made a trial flight over Lake Constance at a height of three hundred feet, using petrol. It was ...
Article : 60 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 18.—The Governor of Florida (Mr. J. W. Martin) to-day appealed for the immediate release of aid from the United States Department of ...
Article : 69 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 19.—In the Senate to-day, on behalf of the Acting Minister for Defence (Mr. Marr), Sir, George Pearce told Senator Lynch (Nat. W.A.) ...
Article : 85 wordsWASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—As the result of the excitement caused by an unfounded radio report that the hurricane would hit the capital, the National ...
Article : 94 wordsThe contract for a lighting scheme in connection with the air service ,by W.A. Airways, Ltd., between Perth and Adelaide, has been secured by Messrs. H. C. ...
Article : 567 wordsWASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—President Coolidge's plea for the alleviation of the Suffering at Porto Rico (West Indies) has already received a warm response in the ...
Article : 79 wordsADELAIDE, Sept. 19.—At 5 p.m. to—day the local executive committee of the Steamship Owners Federation met and decided to advertise for free labour ...
Article : 448 wordsLONDON, Sept. 19.—The King has sent messages of sympathy to the Governors of the Leeward Islands, Bahamas and Jamaica, at the loss of life and ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Sept. 19.—The Admiralty announces that, in consequences of the hurricane in the West Indies, the cruiser Durban has been ordered to proceed to ...
Article : 93 wordsADELAIDE, Sept. 19.—The Baptist Union to-day passed a resolution of loyalty to the Throne, and called the attention of the State Governor to the fact ...
Article : 109 wordsLONDON, Sept. 19:—The Prime Minister (Mr. S. Baldwin), whose health has greatly benefited by his holiday at Aix-les-Bains, will be back in London on Sunday ...
Article : 105 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 19.—Upon advice that the engagement by ship-owners of voluntary labour to handle ships' cargoes was intended, the Federal Ministry ...
Article : 431 wordsLONDON, Sept. 18.—Speaking in the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva in the debate on the report of the Fifth Committee regarding the white ...
Article : 282 wordsLONDON, Sept. 19.—It is stated that for the purpose of the compilation of a new voters' register, which will include women of 21 years of age, to whom the ...
Article : 121 wordsCAPETOWN, Sept. 18.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Hertzog), has telegraphed to the Right Hon. V. S. Sastri, expressing "heartfelt apologies for the unwarrantable ...
Article : 115 wordsMELBOURNE, Sept. 19.—No mention has been made by the shipowners of an attempt to reorganise the interstate shipping services, but it is believed that the ...
Article : 215 wordsEDDYVILLE (U.S.A.), Sept. 18.—An official investigation has been begun into the death of Walk Miller, manager for the Australian boxer Billy Grime, following an ...
Article : 99 wordsCAPETOWN, Sept. 18.—Speaking at Capetown last night, General Smuts contrasted Australia's attitude towards the Empire Marketing Board with the Union ...
Article : 139 wordsSYDNEY, Sept. 19.—The Tivoli Theatre, Sydney, has been sold by the descendants of the late Mr. Harry Richards for £90,000, the purchasers being the Richards ...
Article : 122 wordsCHICAGO, Sept. 18.—Failing to bargain with the authorities for immunity from prosecution, gangsters released from a motor car Willie Ranieri, the 10-years-old ...
Article : 59 wordsGENEVA, Sept. 18.—In the first real test of strength with respect to the Labour Office budget Mr. Thomas, who maintained an unyielding attitude throughout, gained ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, Sept. 19.—A conference of representatives of the world's lead producers has surveyed the position of world stocks and found them inconsiderable. It ...
Article : 87 wordsSYDNEY, Sept. 19.—Shipowners announced to-day that free labour will be called for immediately at ports where the wharf labourers are on strike. Volunteers ...
Article : 503 wordsMELBOURNE, Sept. 19.—More than 1,400 members of the Port Philip Stevedores' Association attended a special meeting in the Port Melbourne Town Hall ...
Article : 209 wordsLONDON, Sept. 19.—James Deason, a New Zealand farmer visiting England, complained to the police that confidence tricksters robbed him of £4,500. ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Sept. 18.—The longest and most expensive trans-Atlantic telephone call since the service was inaugurated was made by Mr. F. B. Odlum, the director of ...
Article : 64 wordsHONOLULU, Sept. 19.—A white man called at a school and obtained the release from the teacher of the 8-years-old son of Frederick Jamieson, president of ...
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