"It is becoming increasingly noticeable in the Press of the Eastern States that the work of the Town and Country Union and those members of Parliament who ...
Article : 607 wordsCriticism of the refusal by the Customs Department to extend the British preferential tariff rates to hats manufactured in England of Australian wool was made ...
Article : 363 wordsIncreased activity in mining and the search for oil in the mandated territory of New Guinea, now administered by the Federal Government under mandate from ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,290 wordsCrashing into the rear of a bogey tram at the intersection of Albany-road and McMillan-street, Victoria Park, about 1.30 p.m. yesterday, a motor truck was badly ...
Article : 244 wordsThe new Gladstone dock system at Liverpool, covering 56 acres, being slowly flooded, with 3,500,000 tons of water from the River Mersey. This marked its culmination of the construction of a £7,500,000 scheme, and it is claimed that the new docks will be the finest and best equipped system in the world. The quay system of the Mersey will be extended by about three miles with the opening of the dock, and the largest vessel in the world and any future ships of even greater size, [?] be accommodated. The graving dock, which is 1,000 feet long and holds 200,000 tons of water, can be used as a wet or a dry dock, andean be pumped dry in 2½ hours ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 319 wordsAfter 39 years' existence, the Eiffel Tower of Paris-the highest structure in the world-is to be demolished on the grounds of safety. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsThe main building of the Perth Observatory, which is to be closed on January 20. The State Government's intentions in regard to building and site have not been disclosed. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 66 wordsKnocked down by a motor car in Albany-road, Victoria Park, yesterday, Bert Littlejohn (4) was taken by the St. John Ambulance to the Children's ...
Article : 44 wordsWorking on a wall in a house at the corner of Beaufort-street and Walcott-street yesterday, John Quinn, a plasterer, fell to the ground and sustained a fractured ...
Article : 59 wordsFanned by a strong breeze, a bush fire, which broke in some vacant. land in the vicinity of Lawler and Angelo streets, South Perth, early yesterday afternoon, ...
Article : 177 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 11.—AT Newcastle to-day, while bathing off Stockton Beach, Jack Sullivan (10) was caught in the undertow, and drowned. ...
Article : 26 wordsSubsequent to a burglary at a petrol store owned by Wholesalers'. Ltd., in Railway-parade, West Perth, on Tuesday night, when entry to the building was gained by ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. R. W. Dalton, H.M. Senior Trade Commissioner in Australia, in his report for the year ended June 30 last says:- "A good deal has been heard as to the ...
Article : 409 wordsThefts of three motor cars were reported to the police last night. One of the cars was subsequently recovered, having been left in the place of another which ...
Article : 136 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 11.-The Ministry to-day decided to offer to the Federal "Ministry the Centennial Park site on which to hold the proposed British Empire ...
Article : 96 wordsThe telescope house of the Perth Observatory. The equatorial telescope has an 1-inch visual lens and a 13-inch photographic lens. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 43 wordsLeft to Right: Messrs. G. L. Patterson (Vic.) J. Crawford (N.S.W.). J. B. Hawkes (Vic.) ranked fourth, but the remaining selections have been postponed. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 273 wordsAdditional accommodation is being provided for the clerical staff at the central Railway Station. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsA motor cycle thief was captured by police after an exciting chase in a motor car at East-Perth yesterday. Early in the afternoon the police were ...
Article : 213 wordsTwo submarines, the Otway and the Oxley, ordered for the Australian Navy in 1925, were recently delivered and commissioned. They are fitted with exceptionally powerful wireless, and have a surface displacement of 1,400 tons and a submerged displacement of 1,835 tons. This picture shows the Otway lying off Chatham. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 116 wordsThe latest London portrait of David Low, the world famous Australian caricaturist, whose work is a feature of London journalism. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 44 wordsInspector Purdue, chief of the Criminal Investigation Department, said yesterday that persons or firms, purchasing or selling at their places of business, secondhand ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 12 Jan 1928, Page 10
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