MELBOURNE, Aug. 21.—With the addition of promises of conversion and business, transacted today throughout the Commonwealth, the total amount of ...
Article : 248 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 21.—In the Mungana action to-day counsel's addresses were concluded and his Honour the Chief Justice (Sir James Blair) directed the jury, ...
Article : 2,168 wordsThough it is early yet, and far too dangerous to prophesy regarding the 1931-32 harvest, no harm can come from the issuing of a timely warning that in much ...
Article : 1,379 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 20.—Professor Moltschanoff, of Leningrad, has developed a photograph taken from the Graf Zeppelin when over the southern region Novara ...
Article : 170 wordsIn a three-roomed weather-board house at Carlisle during Thursday night a married man murdered his wife and five children and afterwards killed himself. The ...
Article : 1,650 wordsLONDON, Aug. 21.—The Prime Minister (Mr. MacDonald) and the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Snowden) attended a series of conferences yesterday at which ...
Article : 1,434 wordsWELLINGTON, Aug. 21.—On the motion of the Leader of Opposition (Mr. Coates), the House of Representative to-day agreed that because of the serious ...
Article : 301 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—The India Office announces that the Government has decided to convene a Burma Round Table Conference and invite representatives of ...
Article : 321 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—The true traditions of "the silent service" were observed today when Petty-Officer Willis and 28 other survivors of the submarine ...
Article : 579 wordsSince the loan campaign started in this State, 2,475 persons have converted holdings to the value of £11,028,481. The conversions yesterday totalled £515,075. ...
Article : 28 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 21.—On Wednesday night a violent storm swept over southern Korea. It is reported that 260 fishermen were drowned, and last night 300 were still ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Aug. 2O.—Sir Edward Elgar's "Nursery Suite," dedicated to Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, had its first performance at a promenade ...
Article : 128 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 21.—The menace of floods has increased owing to water along the lower Murray having been banked up by winds. ...
Article : 192 wordsHAVANA, Aug. 2O.—Eye-witnesses of the serious fighting between the Government forces and the rebels during the past three days at Gibava state that heavy ...
Article : 75 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 12.—The committee of the recently-formed association of depositors of the Government Savings Bank of New South Wales will ask the Legislative ...
Article : 147 wordsA deputation from the Young Women's Christian Association waited on the Minister, for Unemployment (Mr. J. Scaddan) on Thursday to request Government ...
Article : 250 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 2O.—The latest report of the Wickersham Commission appointed by President Hoover shortly after he took office to investigate law ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—The proprietors of the "Daily Sketch" have been fined £125, and those of the "Daily Express" £100 for having flown aeroplanes at less than ...
Article : 131 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—The Federal Farm Board, through the Department of State, has notified the Chinese Government that it will negotiate for the sale of ...
Article : 76 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 21.—Myrtle Agnes Wachtel (26), and her two brothers, Alexander Edward Wachtel (35) and Rudolph Bernard Wachtel (33), are in the Mannum ...
Article : 289 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 21.—On a charge of having shot at Constable James Ulrick with intent to murder him, Kenneth Aubrey Fallow (27), wicker worker, and Robert ...
Article : 208 wordsCALCUTTA, Aug. 21.—The Viceroy (Lord Willingdon) and the Home member (Sir James Crerar) left Calcutta for Simla suddenly yesterday. The reason is ...
Article : 76 wordsWhen a deputation of Harvey residents waited on the Minister for Unemployment (Mr. J. Scaddan) on Thursday Mr. R. McLarty, M.L.A., said that about 120 men, ...
Article : 178 wordsPARIS, Aug. 20.—M. Andre Poncet has been appointed French Ambassador to Germany in succession to M. de Margerie, who has retired. ...
Article : 31 wordsA meeting of the Leederville United Unemployment Relief Committee was held in the New Oxford Theatre on August 17. It was reported that the ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Aug. 21.—Mr. Dennis. K. Foster, of Cloutsham Farm, Exmoor, a well-known rider to hounds and formerly a sheep farmer in Australia, was drowned ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—The Minister for Air (Lord Amubree) has received from the King a message of sympathy following the death of Lieutenant G. L. Brinton in ...
Article : 117 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 21.—Among the debris of a house that was destroyed by fire at Tremont, near Fern Tree Gully, on Wednesday evening were found the ...
Article : 159 wordsWith the object of augmenting the local relief funds, next Saturday will be observed as Unemployment Day at Armadale, and all classes of the community are ...
Article : 221 wordsLONDON, Aug. 21.—Charles Mayhew, a bookmaker, of King's Cross-road; and his two brothers, one of whom is in Australia and the other in Canada, celebrated ...
Article : 53 wordsDonald Cummings (40), of Boulder- street Victoria Park, fractured his left leg when he fell from a motor truck on the Albany-road. Victoria Park, last ...
Article : 74 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 21.—The Acting Commonwealth Statistician (Professor L. F. Giblin) is expected to attend a conference of representatives of union ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Aup. 20.—The King's yacht, Britannia narrowly escaped destruction in a violent gale off Portland today. She dragged her anchors towards the ...
Article : 51 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 21.—Patrick Amos (40) was admitted to hospital late to-night suffering from the effects of razor slashing. His nose and lip were severed and his ...
Article : 57 wordsStanley C. Endersby (16), of 292 William- st., who was employed by G. and R. Wills and Co., died in the Perth Hospital early yesterday moraine from the internal ...
Article : 72 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 21.—Mr. H. F. Broadbent, who recently flew from Brisbane to Adelaide in one day, will leave Mascot at midnight on Sunday in an attempt ...
Article : 94 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—Lieut. Commander Norwood Morgan, the Australian naval officer who was killed in a motor smash on August 15, was buried with naval ...
Article : 79 wordsOn the Perth-Fremantle-road, near the Leighton railway station last night, a collision took place between a bicycle ridden by William Ward (50) of ...
Article : 86 wordsWAGIN, Aug. 20.—Mr. Edgar H. Hill, ex-Mayor of Wagin, is a candidate for the forthcoming election to fill the vacancy in the South-East Province of the ...
Article : 81 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 31.—The Council of the Bar of New South Wales has decided that Barristers' fees should be reduced to the standard prevailing in 1920 before the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 22 Aug 1931, Page 13
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