The return of the Commonwealth Bank as at Monday last shows that in the issue department the note issue has been kept at the reduced level shown in the returns ...
Article : 313 wordsTwo requests for tramway extensions in the metropolitan area were preferred to the Minister for Railways (Mr. J. C. Willcock) yesterday, when he was guided ...
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Advertising : 345 wordsKatanning.—Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. report (August 3):—We yarded 3,250 sheep at our usual monthly sale to-day. Unfortunately 766 sheep were found by the Stock Inspector to be ...
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Advertising : 97 wordsAccording to the Board of Trade, figures of South African wines imported to Great Britain for May, 1928, more than doubled the imports for May, 1927, ...
Article : 182 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—At to-day's sale of fat cows all qualities were represented. Prime pens, principally from Gippsland, sold at from £11 to £12/15, with odd beasts to £14/15/. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Mayor of Perth (Mr. J. T. Franklin, M.L.C.), chairman of the Citizens' Unemployment Relief Committee, stated yesterday that good work was being done ...
Article : 174 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—At the Homebush fat stock sales to-day about 30,960 sheep and about 3,120 cattle, including 271 from Queensland, were forward. Quotations were:— ...
Article : 143 wordsA marked change in the relation of exports and imports is disclosed in the return of oversea trade of Australia for the rear 1927-28. Excess of imports decreased ...
Article : 295 wordsThe Canadian Government is steadily pursuing its policy, of fostering the country's export trade. The Minister of Trade and Commerce recently informed ...
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Advertising : 36 wordsActing on the recommendation of the general manager (Mr. H. S. L. Lyne) the directors of South Australia Oil Wells N.L., have decided to abandon the No. ...
Article : 171 wordsA meeting of ratepayers of Bassendean was held in the Town Hall on Tuesday last, the chairman of the Road Board (Mr. J. Gallagher) presiding over a ...
Article : 142 wordsFollowing is a list of quotations on the Perth Stock Exchange yesterday:— Adelaide Steamship Company, b 23/3; Barnet Glass, b 25/; Dunlop Rubber, b 24/; Elder, ...
Article : 511 wordsSir,—In your issue of July 28, a Mr. Waclaw, of Sydney, referred to what, to described as "disgraceful scenes" by "brutes' 'among the migrants who arrived ...
Article : 284 wordsFollowing are the matches and grounds for to-morrow:— "A" Grade.—Guildford v. Westrals, at Robertson Park; Fremantle v. East Fremantle, at ...
Article : 230 wordsCALCUTTA, Wednesday.—At yesterday's sale, 29,883 packages were offered the chief districts represented being Assam (13,121) and Dooars (9,199). Average ...
Article : 111 wordsThe secretary of Guinea Gold Company has received the following cables from the field superintendent (Mr. E. Evoughton Jensen):— ...
Article : 81 wordsAccounts of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Co., Ltd., show an underwriting surplus of £42,212 for the year ended June 30, and with £25,954 to the credit ...
Article : 580 wordsMr. A. J. Mellor sharebroker has received the following telegrams from his Adelaide agents. "Barrier stocks have firmed on the ...
Article : 54 wordsKALGOORLIE, Thursday.—Great Boulder, 8,991 tons of ore yielded £28,322; expenditure, £26,277. Associated, 5,263 tons of ore yielded ...
Article : 68 wordsSeveral cases of motor vehicles having been stolen within the past few days were reported to the Criminal Investigation Department yesterday. Two motor cars were ...
Article : 155 wordsWe have received from Messrs. T. B. Browne, Limited, of 163 Queen Victoria-street, London, the 1928 copy (being the 42nd annual issue) of "The Advertiser's ...
Article : 145 wordsWHEAT.—At yesterday's metropolitan chaff and grain sale a truck load of f.a.q. ex Nambling, Gc8557, was sold at 5/3 per bushel. Merchants were offering 4/4½ on a 4d. freight ...
Article : 537 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Following are official metal quotations (middle prices) on August 8, as received by cable from the London Metal Exchange:— ...
Article : 92 wordsEight charges were made yesterday against Alfred William Brookman (27) labourer, who was already ic custody. He was charged with having stolen a bicycle ...
Article : 99 wordsSir,—Why this anxiety to get rid of our pretty and interesting birds? Why trap our rare specimens just for the glory of being considered an ornithologist, or shoot ...
Article : 336 wordsKALGOORLIE, Thursday.—The general manager of the Lake View and Star reports having cabled his directors in London as follows:—"The 2,770ft. level South ...
Article : 57 wordsBuying and selling quotations at yesterday's meeting of the Stock Exchange were:— Gold.—Associated Northern, b 2/, s 2/4; Boulder Perseverance, s 1/; Brown's Reward s ...
Article : 664 wordsDetective Larsen and Constable Padgett yesterday arrested George Ernest Watts (51), accountant, and charged him with having stolen a communion cup, valued ...
Article : 29 wordsLindsay Harold Vane (34), snake-charmer, was arrested in Fremantle yesterday by Detectives Nisbet ad Blight on a charge of having been in unlawful ...
Article : 44 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 9.—Representatives of the apple industry to-day waited on the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Cowan) and requested him to ask the West ...
Article : 171 wordsDetective-Sergeant McGinty and Detective Johnson yesterday arrested Henry Britain West (26), of James-street, Perth and charged him with having ...
Article : 35 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 9.—Sir Benjamin Morgan, chairman of the British Producers' Association, addressing the Constitutional Club to-day, said that as a result of ...
Article : 113 wordsMillaquin Sugar Co., Ltd., shows a net profit of £59,848 for the year ended June 30, an increase of £8,064 on the previous year. With £44,783 brought forward a ...
Article : 80 wordsSir,—The cremation of the remains of many prominent persons in England recently suggests that that form of the disposal of dead bodies is gaining in public ...
Article : 91 wordsPOULTRY.—Average quotations per pair based on Wednesday's market prices, are:—Cockerels, prime, 9/ to 12/; medium, 6/6 to 8/6; small, 4/6 to 6/; hens, prime, ...
Article : 231 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—Wheat cargoes are slow of sale on expectations of a record Canadian crop, and the market is 3d. to 1/ a quarter down. Parcels are ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 10 Aug 1928, Page 17
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