Old legends and fairy-tales tell us of battles with giants and dragons; modern medical science tells us of battles with microbes too small to be seen even with ...
Article : 1,316 wordsA deputation of warehousemen waited upon the Tariff Board to-day with a request that the dumping duties on hosiery asked for by a certain section of ...
Article : 405 wordsAn area of l,700 acres, near Kalamunda, as a prospecting area for coal, is being applied for by Robert A. M. Boyce, of Subiaco. Some of the ground ...
Article : 35 wordsDeferred stock of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company are quoted at £295 (buyer) and £305 (seller). ...
Article : 30 wordsRegarding the announcement that the Federal Government had decided to continue as a temporary measure the payment of the meat subsidy despite the ...
Article : 316 words"Thirty-three years ago I set out with two others to reach Claremont from Perth, and struck across country. Haystreet then terminated in a heavy sand ...
Article : 340 wordsMr. H. S. Humphrey, State president of the R.S.L. writes:— "On Wednesday last there was advertised in the 'West Australian' what was ...
Article : 692 wordsMr. F. O. Licht, the Magdeburg sugar expert, states that the past month's production of beet sugar in Europe amounts to 11,101 tons, and he estimates that the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Australian Metal Exchange reports the London Metal Exchange (middle) quotations for December 7 as fol-lows:—Copper, standard, spot, £62 13s. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Sulphide Corporation, Ltd., will pay final dividends of 5 per cent. on preference and ordinary Shares for the year ended June 30. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe South-Western Oil and Shale Company is seeking exemption for six months on its oil prospecting area, No. 4H, in the South-West, on the ground ...
Article : 98 wordsCotton.—The Liverpool quotation for good middling American, January delivery, is 20.21d. per lb., compared with 21.67d. (December delivery) on ...
Article : 115 wordsYork.—Dalgety and Co. report (December 4):—We offered 728 sheep at our usual monthly market to-day. The quality of the yarding was good; and competition for all ...
Article : 456 wordsThe engagement is announced of Myra, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Crockford, of North Perth, to Roy, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Field, also of North ...
Article : 58 wordsThe refusal of the authorities at Cockatoo Island to pay wages to their employees for the Christmas holidays is claimed by Mr. W. G. Mahony. M.H.R., ...
Article : 470 wordsTo-day's quotations for frozen and chilled meat are as follow:— Sheep.—Australian: First grade, 6¼d. per lb.; second, 6¼d.; ewes, 5 7-8d. ...
Article : 112 wordsIt is some time since the ratepayers of Midland Junction have had a special invitation to be present at a swearing-in ceremony. On Monday evening last about ...
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Advertising : 1,051 wordsRemarkable success has attended the biological research carried on by Dr. W. J. Paradise, of H.M.A.S. Geranium, during the vessel's survey operations in ...
Article : 562 wordsDalgety and Co., Ltd., have received the following telegram from their Ade-laide office, dated December 7:—"At wool sale to-day keen competition between ...
Article : 69 wordsDalgety and Co., Ltd., report that supplies of wheat are coming forward more freely, and that at the auction sales in the railway yards on Saturday f.a.q. samples were passed ...
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Advertising : 35 wordsAdelaide, Saturday.—Commonwealth loans were fairly steady, but trading was light. The 5 per cents. maturing in 1927 had moderate attention at 2s. ...
Article : 520 wordsMr. O. L. Haines writes under date, December 8:— "I am requested by the president of te R.S.P.C.A. to supply you with the ...
Article : 358 wordsDalgety and Company, Limited, report that at the metropolitan chaff and grain auction sales held in the Perth railway yards on Saturday there was a fair yarding on 25 ...
Article : 139 wordsDetectives and members of the plainclothes police have been kept busy during the week-end. As a result of their energy a number of alleged wrongdoers ...
Article : 384 wordsAt the metropolitan sales in the Perth railway yards on Saturday prime samples of potatoes, were sold at from £9 5s., to £9 10s. per ton. ...
Article : 31 wordsAbout seventy people who were present at a motor launch picnic at Fairylands, Lane Cove River, yesterday afternoon, were attacked by ptomaine ...
Article : 287 wordsThe following are the prices realised at the Municipal Open Markets, Wellington-street, on Saturday last:— Vegatables.—Potatoes, 1s. 6d. stone, Onions ...
Article : 296 wordsLondon, Friday.—The Stock Exchange is inactive, with a general marking down of prices. The weakness is particularly apparent in industrial stocks. Sales and closing ...
Article : 64 wordsThe s.s. Ballarat arrived at Fremantle on Saturday from the United Kingdom. The voyage was a record one from many aspects. In the first place the 1,200 ...
Article : 506 wordsSir,—Would you kindly allow me space to administer a mild rebuke to "Returned Anzac" who writes in your issue of even dite. Myself an Anzac. I played an ...
Article : 285 wordsElder, Smith and Co. report (December 7):—We yarded 86 horses and sold 60 at our usual weekly market to-day. No dairy cattle were offered. The horses yarded included ...
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Advertising : 362 wordsObscene Language.—Terence Purdue was fined £1 for having used obscene language in Oxford-street on December 7. ...
Article : 30 wordsJabez Ernest Lees, aged 53 years, estate agent. William Robert Robinson, aged 60 years, agent, and Herold Edward Bartlett, aged 45, years, carrier, ...
Article : 285 wordsPublican Fined.—The Magistrate delivered his deferred decision in the case in which Frederick Wilson was charged with having, on October 29, being the holder of a ...
Article : 308 wordsThe Associated Brokers' report having held their weekly skin, hide and tallow sales at their auction rooms, Fremantle, on Friday the 7th inst. ...
Article : 835 wordsA Wonthaggi telegram states that while a number of young men were bathing last evening at a place known as the Near Beach, five of them got into ...
Article : 150 wordsA deputation from the National Research Council, consisting of Sir Edgeworth David, Sir David Masson and Professor Baldwin Spencer, waited on ...
Article : 207 wordsWhile proceeding along the main north road from Wollambi on Saturday a motor car containing P. Frankel, of Messrs. P. Frankel and Co., Brisbane, and his wife, ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 10 Dec 1923, Page 11
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