At a public meeting of the Council of the League of Nations in London to-day Lord Curzon, who presided, described the correspondence exchanged between Persia ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. W. A. Watt has informed the Australian Press Association that Mr. Hughes's statement is a gross misrepresentation of the position, and that he will take an early ...
Article : 51 wordsThe American Federation of Labour at its convention here rejected the proposal for a permanent voluntary arbitration board, and condemned the American Court ...
Article : 137 wordsMr. Basil L. Murray, the managing director of the Westralian Farmers, Ltd., In answer to inquiries last evening, said that the returns received from country districts ...
Article : 902 wordsBy 16 votes to 12 the full meeting of the City Council this afternoon ratified the agreement arrived at yesterday between the consultative committee of the council ...
Article : 203 wordsThe International Seamen's Conference was opened in Genoa to-day. about two hundred delegates being present. ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. C. E. Lane-Poole. Conservator of Forests for Western Australia, and Mr. H. R. Mackay, one of the Victorian Commissions of Forests, are en route to ...
Article : 981 wordsThe existing opportunities for the employment of apprentices in the carpentering trade and the attitude of contractors towards apprenticeship labour were ...
Article : 929 wordsThe Geraldton lumpers declined to unload the Kurnalpi, which arrived on Monday afternoon, until they were paid extra holiday rates for working the same vessel ...
Article : 185 wordsThe attention of the Prime Minister was directed to the cabled report that Mr. Watt, in London, described Mr. Hughes's statement about Mr. Watt's resignation as ...
Article : 73 wordsDisquieting news has reached India from the Caucasus. In addition to the Bolshevik invasion of Persia large numbers or Bolshevik cavalry have advanced from Baku ...
Article : 171 wordsIn his speech at Princeton Sir Auckland Geddes, the British Ambassador, in receiving an honorary degree from the University, said that the basic result of the war ...
Article : 82 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day in replying to Mr. Charles Palmer (Independent Wrekin, Shropshire), Mr. Bonar Law (the Leader of the House) said that ...
Article : 142 wordsThis morning the Lord Mayor (Cr. Aikman, M.L.C.) and the Town Clerk (Mr. Ellery) had a further conference with Mr. Chandler and Mr. Hannan, representing the ...
Article : 622 wordsThe fifth annual general meeting of members of the Perth Central Branch of the Red Cross Society was held at the Karrakatta Club rooms yesterday afternoon, the ...
Article : 846 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Walter Long (the First Lord of the Admiralty), in replying to Commander J. M. Kenworthy (Liberal, Central Hull), said ...
Article : 160 wordsAt a meeting of the Council of the League of Nations in London Dr. Nansen reported on the repatriation of prisoners of war, of whom, he said, there were ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Exchequer returns for the period extending from May 1 to June 12 are as follow:—Receipts, £272,472,130, and expenditure, £251,916,575. For the ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the House of Assembly this afternoon the Minister for Finance (Mr. H. Burton) in the course of a statement on the wheat shortage said that the Union Government ...
Article : 292 wordsThe Bishop of Jerusalem (Dr. Rennie Macinnes), presiding at the annual meeting of the Jerusalem and the East Mission, held at Westmister, criticised the ...
Article : 164 wordsA remarkable murder mystery has developed as the result of the exhumation of the body of Mrs. Mabel Greenwood, who died in June, 1919. She was the wife of ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Royal Commission on a locomotive contract in connection with the Tasmanian Government railways was resumed to-day, when evidence was heard bearing more ...
Article : 716 wordsAt its convention here the American Federation of Labour re-affirmed its demand for the recognition of the "Irish Republic." There was a demonstration over the vote. ...
Article : 37 wordsViscount Kato (formerly Minister for Foreign Affairs and Japanese Ambassador to Britain) said to-day in the course of an interview that Japan inserted an article in ...
Article : 62 wordsA White Paper which has been issued contains proposals for a new Constitution for Burma. Under these the title of "Viceroy of India" is altered to ...
Article : 131 wordsNotwithstanding the new completion put upon the industrial dispute by the decision of a majority of the City Council to adopt the basis of settlement, the Chamber of ...
Article : 121 wordsMr. E. G. Theodore (the Premier of Queensland) will meet representatives of various pas[?]ral compan[?] on Friday. Business men here anticipate that he will offer ...
Article : 53 words"The new Governor-General should have good reason to remember the Australians, laughingly said Mr. Hugh Trumble this afternoon. "We gave him a great day's ...
Article : 330 wordsA well-attended meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures was held last night at the chamber's rooms, Royal Bank Chambers, Mr. J. D. S. Morrison in the ...
Article : 449 wordsAt a largely-attended general meeting of the local branch of the Returned Soldiers League the shoddy appearance of the Gallipoli Star was adversely commented upon. ...
Article : 196 wordsThe New York "World" has received from Mr. Marcellus Parsons (the wellknown paper merchant of New York) a telegram to the effect that on the R.M.S. ...
Article : 153 wordsIn the House of Commons, in Committee, on the resolution authorising the payment of expenses in connection with the Agricultural Bill, Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen ...
Article : 141 wordsModern methods of roadmaking were discussed informally with the members of the Town Planning Association last evening at the Builders' Exchange by Mr. W. ...
Article : 430 wordsAt last night's meeting of the Chamber of Manufacturers the chairman (Mr. J. D. S. Morrison) submitted a motion in the following terms:—"That this Chamber ...
Article : 325 wordsIn answer to a question which was asked in the House of Commons to-day as to whether the Co-operative Wholesale Society, Ltd., Manchester was endeavouring ...
Article : 140 wordsThe annual report of the British Cotton Growing Association contains encouraging details of that body's activities, but emphasises the urgency of extending the ...
Article : 102 wordsReports received at the Weather Bureau yesterday morning showed that heavy rain had been recorded on the S.W. coast, and moderate registrations over W. coastal and ...
Article : 396 wordsA strong demand has been made on the Prime Minister by members of 10th Houses of the Federal Parliament for an immediate announcement regarding the ...
Article : 137 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening, in replying to Mr. T. H. Sitch (Labourite, Kingswinford). Sir William Mitchell-Thomson (Parliamentary Secretary of the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Hunt Cup. run at the Royal Ascot meeting to-day, resulted as follows:— Square Measure—Mr. R. Walker's b h, by Simon Square—Tit for Tat 1 ...
Article : 140 wordsIn the Kalgoorlie Circuit Court to-day Jack Panelkin was charged with having wounded Samuel Keenan at Boulder on April 4. It was alleged that the accused ...
Article : 83 wordsA by-election for the Louth division of Lincolnshire resulted as follows:—Wintringham (Independent Liberal), 9,859; Turnor (Coalition Union[?]), 7,354. Activities in ...
Article : 78 wordsThe management of the White Hope announed this evening that the crosscut at the 100ft. level of the No. 2 shaft had been extended about 18ft., and that for ...
Article : 108 wordsOn Wednesday night the combined council of all the Federal public service associations adopted a series of amendments to the new Public Service Bill to be ...
Article : 70 wordsLate last night Mr. Thomas Hill, manager for Millars' Trading Co. at Subiaco, was struck by a Subiaco-bound tramcar in Hay-street, near Olive-street, and killed. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 18 Jun 1920, Page 7
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