The State Arbitration Court still maintains that an order under the Financial Emergency Act cannot be made to apply as a common rule to an entire industry, but ...
Article : 1,983 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 14.—Fanned by a strong south-westerly wind and fed with long grass parched by weeks of sunshine, a bush fire with a front of more than 50 miles ...
Article : 174 wordsCALCUTTA, Dec. 14.—Bengal witnessed a terrible revival of terrorist activity this morning, when Charles Geoffrey Buckland Stevens, District Magistrate and ...
Article : 208 wordsSYDNEY, Dec 14.—Speaking at Balmain to-night in support of Mr. Rosevear, the Lang Plan candidate who is opposing Mr. Theodore in Dalley, the Premier ...
Article : 608 wordsBERLIN, Dec. 13.—Because of the prospect of profitable smuggling offered by successive increases in customs duties, running contraband into Germany across the ...
Article : 229 wordsThe "seventy-ninety" habit in temperature has seized Perth. The minimum temperature on Sunday night was again over 70 degrees and the maximum yesterday was ...
Article : 621 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 14.—With appalling brutality and callousness, two thieves attacked an old couple in their home at Paddington about 11 o'clock this morning. They ...
Article : 338 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—Over 40 lives were lost yesterday in one of the worst storms the Mediterranean has experienced in years. The Italian naval salvage ship ...
Article : 129 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 14.—A message from Rockhampton states that farmers at the Theodore settlement have experienced the first big flood since the commencement of ...
Article : 380 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—The "Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent asserts that if America does not relieve the war debt burden on Britain, the British ...
Article : 174 wordsLONDON, Dec. 13.—The financial editor of "The Times" says that British export trade figures were more favourable in November than they have been for some ...
Article : 220 wordsRelief under the Financial Emergency Act was granted yesterday by the State Arbitration Court in respect of the following employers:—D. and W. Murray, ...
Article : 147 wordsOSLO, Dec 13.—Walter Denis Savage, the first officer of the steamer Venus, which foundered off the coast of Norway after an engagement with coastguards, has ...
Article : 151 wordsWhen the occupants of a house in Walcott-street, Mt. Lawley, returned home about 9.30 p.m. on Sunday, after an absence of two hours, they found that the ...
Article : 124 wordsA lot has been said from time to time in Australia of the very high wage standard of the United States and of the determination of the Labour Federation to ...
Article : 386 wordsThe Divisional Meteorologist (Mr. E. B. Curlewis) reported yesterday that an excessively close night, with a minimum temperature of 71.1deg., had been ...
Article : 217 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 14.—Instructions have been issued to the Chief Electoral Officers in each State to suspend counting from December 24 until after New Year's ...
Article : 149 wordsLONDON, Dec. 13.—Interviewed in her home in the heart of dockland to-day, Mrs. Savage, the wife of the first officer of the Venus, said she had been unable ...
Article : 186 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—The "Daily Express" press states that representatives of the Lancashire cotton industry had an interview during the week-end with the ...
Article : 91 wordsA young man and a young woman were arrested at Mt. Helena last night by Detectives Findlay and Pilmer and Constable Shaddick on charges arising out of the ...
Article : 214 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 14.—An armed man committed a daring robbery in the main street of the city to-night by holding up the treasurer of Hoyts Regent Theatre in ...
Article : 102 wordsPARIS, Dec. 13.—Trees felled and the garden uprooted puzzled a wealthy woman, the owner of a summer villa at Villerville, when she went to inquire about ...
Article : 144 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 14.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) returned to Melbourne to-day by the Sydney express, having covered more than 2,000 miles in ...
Article : 273 wordsCommenting upon the report from New South Wales that a private contractor had undertaken to build an Eastern Suburbs railway in Sydney for the Lang ...
Article : 282 wordsSince the beginning of this month there have been 147 funerals at Karrakatta, giving a daily average of over 10, compared with a normal average of under 6. ...
Article : 221 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 14.—The captain (H. B. Cameron) closed the South Africans' second innings this morning before play was resumed in the match against a New ...
Article : 247 wordsKALGOORLIE, Dec. 14.—Charged with having kept premises as common betting houses, Walter Derby, tobacconist, of Hannan-street, Kalgoorlie, and William ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Dec. 13.—The correspondent of the "Daily Herald," at Doorn, states that the ex-Kaiser is desperately afraid of losing £200,000 interest on his ...
Article : 99 wordsPARIS, Dec. 14.—The suspension through financial difficulty of work on the giant Cunarder being built on the Clyde may be followed by a similar stoppage ...
Article : 111 wordsStonemasons and monumental masons, who ceased work last Thursday night following wage cuts imposed by the Master Builders and Contractors' Association, ...
Article : 368 wordsSOUTHERN CROSS, Dec. 14.—After a week of temperatures of over 100 degrees, thunder and a sharp shower of rain were experienced at Southern Cross this ...
Article : 36 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 14.—A disaster was nearly caused by high, wind to-day when the R.M.S. Ormonde berthed at Station Pier. Port Melbourne, after her voyage ...
Article : 191 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 14.—An organised attempt to break up the meeting of Mr. Lyons at Port Adelaide at midday failed. The Town Hall was crowded half an hour ...
Article : 245 wordsLONDON, Dec. 13.—George Tomlin, eldest eon of Lord Tomlin, who had been learning flying for four months, was killed while piloting a light aeroplane over the ...
Article : 101 wordsNORTHAM, Dec. 14.—At the monthly meeting of the committee of the Northam Agricultural Society on Saturday, the chief subject of discussion was the ...
Article : 112 wordsLONDON, Dec. 13.—Air Commodore Kingsford Smith, who is flying the monoplane Southern Star, with the Australian Christmas mail to England, arrived at ...
Article : 42 wordsESPERANCE, Dec. 14.—Mr. G. Sassella (48), a farmer, of Circle Valley, was critically injured to-day when attempting to drive a straying bull off his property. ...
Article : 112 wordsThe date of the by-election to fill the Metropolitan Province vacancy in the Legislative Council created by the death of Mr. Arthur Lovekin is still uncertain, ...
Article : 212 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 14.—Charged with having on or about November 9 sent a letter containing a threat to kill Mr. Henry Isaac Cohen, M.L.C., Saxon Fisher ...
Article : 101 wordsWELLINGTON, Dec. 14.—Exports from New Zealand for the 11 months ended on November 30 totalled £31,814,844, compared with £41,971,188 in the corresponding ...
Article : 40 wordsBUNBURY, Dec. 14.—In the Bunbury Police Court this morning John Joseph Cotter, licensee of the Gordons Hotel, pleaded guilty to a charge of having kept ...
Article : 107 wordsMOSCOW, Dec. 13.—Workers at a Len ingrade factory are devoting their spare time to the construction of a statue of Lenin, surmounted by a beacon, to be ...
Article : 60 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 14.—Enthusiasm as great as that when he addressed the memorable meeting in Adelaide after the break with the Labour Party greeted Mr. Lyons ...
Article : 287 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 14.—In two days a Queensland doctor has flown 970 miles by aeroplane on two trips to remote parts of the State. On the first trip he left ...
Article : 77 wordsAfter having been in Perth for four days, Mr. G. A. Butler, who holds the record for the flight from England to Australia of nine days one hour 42 minutes, ...
Article : 95 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Mr. Winston Churchill, M.P., the British statesman, who is on a visit to the United States of America, was knocked down by a motor ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Dec. 13.—Squadron-Leader Bert Hinkler, the Australian airman, whose recent solo flight in a light 'plane across the South Atlantic won high praise, ...
Article : 53 wordsLONDON, Dec. 13.—Miss Wilma Berkeley, an Australian actress, was a conspicuous success as Marguerite in "Faust" at the Old Vic last night and received seven ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 15 Dec 1931, Page 13
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