The Central News Agency (London) says that it is probable that the executive committee of the Miners' Federation will postpone the issue of the strike notices for ...
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Article : 202 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher (High Commissioner for Australia) presided to-day at the luncheon which was given by members of the Australian and New Zealand Luncheon ...
Article : 766 wordsThe American Federation of Labour in a statement in its official organ has declared its independence of the "radical" and revolutionary Labour movements in ...
Article : 90 wordsAddresses by distinguished visitors, who included the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) the Minister for Railways (Mr. J. Scaddan), the Leader of the Country ...
Article : 1,728 wordsViscount Grey's proposal for an Irish settlement is receiving strong support. For example, the London "Times" declares that nothing short of some such ...
Article : 753 wordsThe more formal business having been disposed of on the previous day, the delegates to the Certificated Health Inspectors' Congress devoted yesterday morning to ...
Article : 587 wordsThe A.L.P. Metropolitan Council had before it on Thursday evening a letter from the Premier with reference to the increase of wages of employees under the Minister ...
Article : 88 wordsA mass meeting of the Clothing Trades Union was held at the Melrose Theatre last evening, when the members of the compulsory conference with the employers in the ...
Article : 154 wordsA message from Galveston (Texas) reports that the water-front there is on fire Two piers have been destroyed, and the British steamers Hornby Castle and Gloria ...
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Article : 817 wordsThe Federal Reserve Board (which controls the currency) says that price-cutting has taken such a hold of wholesale dealers that substantial benefits to consumers will be ...
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Article : 135 wordsThe American Shipping Board and a prominent American firm are conferring with leading British shipowners trading in the Far East with the view of arranging ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Department of Agriculture, for a considerable time past, has been in correspondence with the Agent-General's Office regarding the marketing of Western ...
Article : 365 wordsAir, sea, and land parties continued the search for the missing airmen to-day without success. Special attention was paid to the district on the east coast, between ...
Article : 339 wordsThe Census Bureau says that the population of the United States is not growing as rapidly as was anticipated. The increase in the population during 1910-20 was ...
Article : 97 wordsWhereas the six months which ended on June 30 of last year showed a large exce of expenditure over revenue, the corresponding returns for the six months which ...
Article : 449 wordsIn the Senate to-day Senator Russell moved the second reading of the Bill to provide for new works to be constructed out of loan money, amounting to ...
Article : 205 wordsGeneral Sir Nevill Mecready (commander of the military forces in Ireland) was summoned to London to-day to consult with the Cabinet regarding the situation in Ireland ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. S. H. Johnson, secretary of the Primary Producers' Association, had some comments to make upon the statement appearing yesterday in the "West Australian" ...
Article : 320 wordsElaborate directions for his burial are contained in the will of the late Isaac Tipping of Castlemaine, engineer. In his will, which has been lodged for probate, ...
Article : 231 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Laird Smith, in reply to Mr. Chapman said it was not intended to close the Naval College at Jervis Bay, but it ...
Article : 510 wordsAddressing members of the Royal Irish Constabulary in Phoenix Park, Dublin, to-day, Sir Hamar Greenwood (the Chief Secretary for Ireland) said that the British ...
Article : 119 wordsThe third interim report of the Select Committee on Sea Carriage was presented to the Federal Parliament to-day by Mr. Foster on behalf of the chairman, Mr. ...
Article : 417 wordsA number of Sinn Feiners fired at a police patrol at the town of O'Brien's Bridge (Clare), killing 2 constables. Another patrol was ambushed at ...
Article : 67 wordsA return issued by the Federal Treasury shows that on September 29 there were Commonwealth notes in circulation amounting to £53,620,082 and the amount ...
Article : 51 wordsA further award was issued by the Coal Tribunal to-day covering all classes of adult labour in the coal mining industry. The chairman announced that those employees ...
Article : 102 wordsA representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association interviewed to-day Sir James Allen (High Commissioner for New Zealand) who has returne ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the United Press Association of America reports that the Foreign Office of Japan has announced that Japan is considering the question of ...
Article : 410 wordsThe report of the Zoological Gardens Committee for the year ended June 30, 1920, was presented to Parliament, yesterday. After referring to the loss sustained ...
Article : 415 wordsThe Treasurer's comparative statement for the quarter ended September 30, discloses that the excess of expenditure over revenue was £65,590, despite a considerable ...
Article : 112 wordsThe quarries and works of Dunstan and Son, Ltd., Burnside, which supply numbers of municipalities, the Tramways Trust, builders and others with stone ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Collie Shop Assistants' Union has made a demand for a 25 per cent. increase in wages and a reduction of the working hours to 48 per week. A conference ...
Article : 47 wordsReports received from Berlin say that the Zeppelin Company has agreed with an American syndicate to transfer to the United States the construction of dirigibles ...
Article : 59 wordsAs a result of representations made by Mr. Burchell, M.H.R., the Federal Government has made available funds to enable dredging to be continued at the Handerson ...
Article : 80 wordsExperiments aimed at the blowfly pest have been carried on for some time past by a special blowfly committee of the Federal Institute of Science and Industry at ...
Article : 170 wordsThe secretary of the Australian Clerical Association (Mr. W. H. Kitson) said yesterday that a conference had taken place that morning between representatives of the ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Navy Office announces that Warrant Officer J. H. Davies is missing from H.M.A.S. Geranium, and that slight hopes of his recovery now exist. On the ...
Article : 137 wordsThe agents for the Japanese steamer Yachigo Maru, which was delayed consequent upon the refusal of lumpers to handle a foreign vessel competing in the ...
Article : 57 wordsIn his last fortnightly report to the Subiaco Municipal Council the Town Clerk (Mr. Chris, Luth) said that the increased railway freights would materially increase ...
Article : 109 words"Some [?] were reformed." said Mr. A. Watts, secretary of the A.W.U., "by the officer in charge at the naval base that a general increase of one shilling per ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 2 Oct 1920, Page 9
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