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Article : 890 wordsAbout 2,500 people attended the second annual show of the Fremantle Agricultural and Horticultural Society on the Fremantle Oval on Saturday ...
Article : 1,918 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Fremantle Municipal Council was held last night. The Mayor (Mr. J. Cooke) presided. ...
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Article : 58 wordsScattered thunderstorms were recorded in the Kimberley yesterday morning; otherwise conditions were generally fine, except for a little cloud in the ...
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Article : 471 wordsThe Australian Mines and Metals Association reports that London Metal Exchange averages for the month of February are as follow:—Copper, standard, ...
Article : 119 wordsTo-day's Stock Exchange sales of Commonwealth bonds were:—4½ per cent., 1925, £97 17s. 6d; 4½ per cent., 1927, £96 17s. 6d.: 5 per cent., 1927, ...
Article : 43 wordsWyndham, 89 points; Turkey Creak, 45; and "Fitzroy, 20. ...
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Article : 88 wordsLast night another large audience witnessed the screening of "The Ne'er-do-well," an adaptation of Rex Beach's well-known novel. The principal part of ...
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Article : 33 wordsBefore the transaction of the general business by the Fremantle Municipal Council at its meeting last night, Cr. Grigg stated that he had been disgusted ...
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Article : 48 wordsWool sales were held at the Sydney Wool Exchange to-day, when the quantity catalogued totalled 9,505 bales, and the sales, including private transactions, ...
Article : 73 wordsObscene Language.—Michael O'Donoghue was fined £3, in default 14 days imprisonment, on a charge of having used obscene language in Grosvenor-road. ...
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Article : 424 wordsThe high standard of entertainment set by the Sunshine Players is well maintained this week at the Theatre Royal. The programme comprises singing, ...
Article : 164 wordsThe property known, as Knapp's Chambers in Barrack-street, on land 24ft. by a depth of 80ft. to right-of-way, two-storey offices, was sold last week to the ...
Article : 115 wordsAdelaide, Monday.—On the Stock Exchange to-day Commonwealth loans were slow at around recent rates. Buyers of the shorter-dated 4½ per cents. were ...
Article : 687 wordsThe Minister for Trade and Customs (Mr. A. Chapman) has decided that section 8 of the Customs Tariff (Industries Preservation) Act 1921-22 shall apply ...
Article : 109 wordsThe current programme at the Shaftesbury Theatre was repeated to en enthusiastic audience last night. An entire vaudeville entertainment is ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Department of Trade and Customs, Melbourne, has published the following approved decisions relating to the Customs Tariff, 1921-23:— ...
Article : 96 wordsAn account of a husband's callousness towards his wife, when he left her destitute, was given in the Divorce Court yesterday. Kathleen May Bence applied ...
Article : 346 wordsA Case Dismissed.—Addie Jackson was required to answer a charge of having been an idle and disorderly person, having in sufficient or no visible means of support. ...
Article : 772 wordsLovers of Shakespearean drama should be glad to learn that a return visit to Western Australia is announced by the Allan Wilkie Shakespearean Company. ...
Article : 155 wordsDuring the Methodise Conference held in the Wesley Church Perth, yesterday, the Rev. A. J. Barclay appealed for reading matter for the group settlers. ...
Article : 276 wordsIn forwarding to the Director-General of Health (Dr. Cumpston) a resolution of the Broome branch of the Kimberley Progress Association, urging the ...
Article : 199 wordsCriticism of what he termed the excessive port charges imposed upon shipping entering the Fremantle Harbour was made last night by Cr. Grigg at the ...
Article : 272 wordsAt the metropolitan auction sales yesterday one truck of f.a.q. wheat was offered and passed in at 4s. 6½d. a bushel. Second grades were worth from 4s. to 4s. 4d.; and ...
Article : 48 wordsDalgety and Co., report (March 3):— Chaff: 41 fresh trucks and 8 carry-overs were yarded at the metropolitan auction sales this morning. Two or three trucks of ...
Article : 228 wordsA pianoforte recital by Miss Gwendolin Bray, who will leave shortly for England to continue her studies, is announced for Wednesday evening. March ...
Article : 39 wordsA picture night will be held this evening in aid of the Fremantle District Cricket Club. The chief attraction will be Kenneth Harlan in "The Barricade" ...
Article : 70 wordsReferring yesterday to the report in Saturday's "West Australian" regarding indignation having been expressed in Southern Cross over the closing of the ...
Article : 386 wordsDuring the last session of the Federal Parliament Mr. A. E. Green, M.H.R., brought up the matter of the danger to mariners on the Nor'-West and ...
Article : 231 wordsAt yesterday's auctions heavy supplies of poor grade apples were offered, and small grade culls were hard to quit. Prime sorts were short and sold well. Prime peaches ...
Article : 242 wordsA national concert (in connection with the St. Patrick's Day celebrations) will be held in His Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday. March 18 at 8 p.m. The ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Attorney-General stated to-day that official approval had been given to drastic regulation to govern the granting of permission to conduct art unions, ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Perth Licensing Court held its quarterly sittings yesterday. Messrs. W. L. Owen (chairman) and J. L. Johnston were on the Bench. ...
Article : 291 wordsLast night the final week of Coo-ee City was commenced. An attractive vaudeville programme included new illusions by Levante, the magician and items by the ...
Article : 110 wordsThe wheat market was quiet to-day; the nominal value of growers' dots on trucks at Port Adelaide was 4s. 4d. to 4s. 4½d.: millers' parcels 4s. 6d. to 4s. 6½d. on trucks ...
Article : 196 wordsThe s.s. Zephyr will leave Perth at 10 a.m. on Wednesday for Rottnest, and at 8 o'clock each evening for river trips. The combined committees of the Perth ...
Article : 45 wordsOn Sunday afternoon 14 policemen surrounded a gully in the mountains at Oakey park, near Lithgow, and made a raid on a two-up school. The police ...
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Article : 119 wordsThe action in which G. R. W. McDonald, M.L.C., of Sydney, sued Arthur Geave, publisher, of Auckland, claiming £1,500 damages arising out of ...
Article : 57 wordsCriminal Court.—At 10.30 in No. 2 Court before Mr. Justice Draper. In Chambers.—At 10.30, before, Mr. Justice Northmore. ...
Article : 26 wordsAt the Homebush stock sales to-day about 3,230 cattle, including 280 from Queensland and 9,671 sheep, were yarded. The [?]ight sheep supply proved insufficient for ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 4 Mar 1924, Page 8
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