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  2. BRITISH COAL CRISIS.

    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 ...

    Article : 360 words
  3. INDUSTRIAL.

    At the inquiry to-day before Mr. Justice Higgins into the effect of the 44-hour standard working week his Honour, during an address by Mr. Holloway ...

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  4. GENERAL BIRDWOOD.

    Mr. Andrew Fisher (High Commissioner for Australia) presided to-day at the luncheon which was given by members of the Australian and New Zealand Luncheon ...

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  5. AMERICA.

    The 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 words
  6. THE SOLDIERS' PARLIAMENT.

    Addresses by distinguished visitors, who included the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) the Minister for Railways (Mr. J. Scaddan), the Leader of the Country ...

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  7. IRELAND.

    Viscount Grey's proposal for an Irish settlement is receiving strong support. For example, the London "Times" declares that nothing short of some such ...

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  8. HEALTH PROBLEMS.

    The 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 words
  9. PUBLIC WORKS EMPLOYEES.

    The 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 ...

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  10. ORDER TAILORING DISPUTE.

    A 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 words
  11. FIRE IN GALVESTON.

    A 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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  12. BRISBANE SHIPPING TROUBLE.

    The grave position confronting the dairymen of Queensland in consequence of the dispute between the waterside workers and the shipping companies which prevented the ...

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  13. PRICE-CUTTING.

    The 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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  14. VARIOUS DISPUTES.

    The acting-secretary of the A.L.P. (Mr. H. Millington) said yesterday that the disputes committee had received a reply from the master bakers' in regard to the wages ...

    Article : 135 words
  15. TRADE IN FAR EAST.

    The 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 words
  16. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN FRUIT.

    The 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 words
  17. MISSING AIRMEN.

    Air, 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 words
  18. CENSUS STATISTICS.

    The 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 ...

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  19. BRITISH CABLE NEWS.

    Whereas 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 words
  20. FEDERAL CAPITAL.

    In 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 words
  21. GENERAL MACREADY.

    General 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 words
  22. SHEARING BY NON-UNIONISTS.

    Mr. 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 words
  23. AN ECCENTRIC ENGINEER.

    Elaborate 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 words
  24. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    In 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 words
  25. POSITION OF POLICE.

    Addressing 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 words
  26. COST OF QUARANTINE.

    The 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 words
  27. FURTHER CRIMES.

    A 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 words
  28. COMMONWEALTH NOTES.

    A 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 words
  29. COAL MINERS' WAGES.

    A 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 words
  30. BRUSSELS CONFERENCE.

    A 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 words
  31. JAPAN AND AMERICA.

    The 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 words
  32. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

    The 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 words
  33. QUEENSLAND FINANCES.

    The 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 words
  34. O.B.U. AND A.W.U.

    The quarries and works of Dunstan and Son, Ltd., Burnside, which supply numbers of municipalities, the Tramways Trust, builders and others with stone ...

    Article : 58 words
  35. COLLIE SHOP ASSISTANTS.

    The 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 ...

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  36. AVIATION.

    Reports 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 words
  37. HENDERSON NAVAL BASE.

    As 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 words
  38. THE BLOWFLY PEST.

    Experiments 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 words
  39. FREMANTLE TRAMWAY CLERKS.

    The 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 words
  40. IN THE HANDS OF THE BLACKS.

    The 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 words
  41. TROUBLE ON A JAPANESE STEAMER.

    The 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 words
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    In 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
  43. AN A.W.U. MATTER.

    "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 ...

    Article : 132 words
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