CANBERRA, June 23.—Having declared that the proposal for the conversion of the internal public debts of the Commonwealth and the States contained in the ...
Article : 1,240 wordsFuller consideration of the United States proposal for suspension for a year or war debts and reparations payments has emphasised several points of difficulty. The chief concerns large unconditional payments due by ...
Article : 1,515 wordsCANBERRA, June 23.—Members of the Country Party are preparing for a campaign aimed at bringing about a general reduction in the tariff level in Australia ...
Article : 514 wordsST. JOHN (New Brunswick), June 22.— The West St. John waterfront was swept by fire to-day, and it is estimated that the damage amounts in £2,000,000. Practically ...
Article : 130 wordsMELBOURNE, June 23.—Having completed routine matters, the delegates to the Empire Wool. Conference lost little time to-day in settling down to the more ...
Article : 1,835 wordsBRISBANE, June 23.—To implement the Melbourne plan two Bills were introduced to-day at a special session of Parliament. When the Treasurer had moved ...
Article : 408 wordsThe very general use of softwoods in building construction was probably the main cause of the disastrous nature of the fire which swept the water front of ...
Article : 244 wordsLONDON, June 23.—In describing the Empire Wool Conference as one of the most interesting attempts yet made to promote economic co-opration within the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Premier (Sir James Mitchell) gave notice in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that at the next sitting he would move for leave to introduce a Bill for an ...
Article : 82 wordsCORK, June 22.—Sir Hubert Wilkins has not given up his projected North Polar voyage on account of the damage done to his submarine Nautilus in the ...
Article : 98 wordsPARIS, June 22.—Finance Ministry experts are examining the effect of the debts proposal on the Budget and considering suggestions for satisfaction of the ...
Article : 198 wordsSYDNEY, June 23.—"Looking broadly at the position in Australia to-day we may fairly say that the policy which is gradually winning acceptance by all except the ...
Article : 821 wordsThe Government suffered a minor reverse in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, when a division was taken on a motion moved by Mr. Sleeman (Lab.. ...
Article : 570 wordsLONDON, June 22.—In the House of Commons to-day Miss Margaret Bondfield, Minister for Labour, moved a resolution to authorise the Unemployment. Insurance ...
Article : 268 wordsCORK, June 23.—"The sustained worry of the voyage was the worst thins I have known," declared Sir Hubert Wilkins to-day. "It Was the most thrilling Atlantic ...
Article : 128 wordsBERLIN, June 22.—In his first statement since the American offer was made, the Chancellor (Dr. Bruening) declared that the plan would afford no relief for ...
Article : 110 wordsWELLINGTON, June 23.—A heavy and prolonged earthquake was experienced in Wairoa and Gisborne at 3 o'clock this morning. No damage was done ...
Article : 73 wordsBERLIN, June 22.—It is believed that difficult Franco-German negotiations are ahead, since, after the United States, France must sacrifice most, although her ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON, June 22.—The Secretary of State for India (Mr. Wedgwood Benn) answered in the negative when the House of Commons met to-day a question who ...
Article : 77 wordsADELAIDE, June 23.—The case in which Albert Augustine Edwards, a former Member of Parliament, was convicted of having committed an unnatural offence and ...
Article : 193 wordsROME, June 22.—Italy's acceptance of the United States war debts offer is subject to a reservation that the proposed Austro-German Customs Union is ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, June 22.—Questioned as to the measures contemplated to suppress the activities of the "Red Shirt Army." which is being ...
Article : 113 wordsBRUSSELS, June 22.—The newspaper "L" Etoile Belge" declares:—"Germany has shown considerable bad faith and even used blackmail. The Americans are a ...
Article : 84 wordsWELLINGTON, June 23.—While two brothers, Cedric and Arthur Turner, were climbing Avalanche Peak, near Arthur's Pass, yesterday. Cedric lost his grip and ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, June 23.—In a statement in the House of Commons to-day on the events of the past week in Burma, Mr. Wedgwood Benn Secretary for India said ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON, June 23.—At least three persons were killed and many were injured to-day by an explosion in the Royal Naval cordite factory at Holton Heath, which ...
Article : 77 wordsWASHINGTON, June 22.—President Hoover, who announced the United States war debts offer to the world, spent to-day receiving reports all apparently ...
Article : 272 wordsMELBOURNE, June 23.—Mr. D. Norman Trenery, general manager for Australia, and New-Zealand for the Atlas Assurance Co., with which is associated the ...
Article : 71 wordsMONTREAL, June 22.—The new Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain to-day completed the fastest Atlantic crossing from Cherbourg to Father Point (Quebec) ...
Article : 65 wordsST. JOHN (new Brunswick), June 22. —Miss Ruth Nichols, the well-known United States flyer, was seriously injured and her aeroplane was practically destroyed in ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, June 22.—In the House of Commons to-day, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Arthur Henderson). in referring to ...
Article : 61 wordsSAN SEBASTIAN (Spain), June 23.— Frontier guards are still watchful to prevent the flight of capital. To-day they intercepted two Trieste and found in their ...
Article : 55 wordsMELBOURNE, June 23.—Labour leaders at the Trades Hall declared to-day that a crisis would almost certainly arise between the Central Executive of the ...
Article : 108 wordsSYDNEY, June 23.—The will and two codicils of the late Sir Neville Howse, V.C., of Melbourne, have been lodged for probate. The cross value of the estate is ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 24 Jun 1931, Page 13
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