At a meeting of the executive committee for the State Centenary celebrations, held yesterday afternoon, the publicity group reported that the Newspaper Proprietors' ...
Article : 513 wordsCAIRO, March 2.—The native newspapers endorse a report that Cabinet's unanimous decision is that the draft treaty proposal is unacceptable. ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, March 1.—"The truth is that by degrees, this House is disappearing through inanition. It isn't that we are short of capable men. By accident, we ...
Article : 193 wordsCAPETOWN, March 1.—A casual inquiry to-day in Parliament, regarding the expenditure of £2,500 elicited a statement from the Minister of Mines (Mr. F. W. ...
Article : 241 wordsCANBERRA, March 2.—After the first two weeks of the resumed session of tho Federal Parliament had been spent in debating a censure motion moved against ...
Article : 1,337 wordsBRISBANE, March 2.—The Mayor (Mr. Jolly) stated to-day that Mr. Bert Hinkler would land on the Ascot racecourse at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday. There would be ...
Article : 61 wordsFew details were available last night concerning a shooting affair at South Fremantle, which resulted in a woman being taken to the Fremantle Hospital suffering ...
Article : 229 wordsLONDON, March 2.—An interesting development in the growing rivalry between motor road transport and the railways is contained in the statement that plans have ...
Article : 266 wordsMELBOURNE, March 2.—Plans for the reception of Mr. Hinkler in Melbourne were decided on at a meeting of the official reception committee to-day. The ...
Article : 158 wordsPARIS, March 1.—Newspaper comment on the Egyptian situation is generally neutral. The "Gaulois" says:—"Egypt, which in faithful to French culture, has all our ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, March 1.—To-day in the House of Commons Col. J. C. Wedgwood (Labour) inquired whether the Civil Service Board of Inquiry into the recent ...
Article : 138 wordsLONDON, March 2.—Important changes in the Army were announced by the Secretary for War (Sir L. Worthington-Evans) in his memorandum accompanying the ...
Article : 415 wordsLONDON, March 1.—In the House of Commons to-day the Nurse Cavell film led to a series of questions concerning film censorship. ...
Article : 223 wordsCANBERRA, March 2.—Commenting to-day on a suggestion in an editorial in "The Times," London, that Australia should undertake the responsibility of ...
Article : 89 wordsWASHINGTON, March 1.—The Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives to-day authorised an appropriation of 14,800,000 dollars for the ...
Article : 130 wordsLONDON, March 2.—Remove Australian transport from the mischievous interference of politicians and give able and patriotic Australians a free hand to administer ...
Article : 138 wordsADELAIDE, March 2.—France leads Australia by two rubbers to one. In the third test match with Australia Brugnon beat Crawford. Borotra and Brugnon beat ...
Article : 657 wordsCANBERRA, March 2.—After an interview to-day between the Prime Minister and the Director of Civil Aviation (Colonel Brinsmead) it was learned that the report ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, March 2.—The annual return of the fleets of the British Empire and foreign countries discloses that the speed of the cruisers that are being built for the ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, March 2.—In discussing Mr. Bert Hinkler's flight to Australia in the course of a lecture at the University of Leeds (the Director of Civil Aviation ...
Article : 72 wordsGENEVA, March 1.—Twenty-six nations including the United States, have signed the convention for the abolition of export and import restrictions which it is ...
Article : 176 wordsApropos of the suggestion made by Sir James Mitchell, chairman of the Centenary Historical Committee, that inquiries should be made, respecting sites and places ...
Article : 461 wordsLONDON, March 2.—An Australian Commonwealth loan of £8,000,000 at 5 per cent, has been underwritten. The price of issue is £98. The loan is ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, March 1.—The Secretary of State for the Air (Sir Samuel Hoare) has sent the following message to Group Captain Cave-Browne-Cave, the officer ...
Article : 132 wordsLONDON, March 1.—Mrs. Hinkler has arranged to sail for Australia by the R.M.S. Orama, which will leave Toulon on March 9. ...
Article : 27 wordsBERLIN, March 1.—An astonishing mining accident occurred in Westphalia, which resulted in the death of 12 men and serious injury to 35 others. ...
Article : 102 wordsSYDNEY, March 2.—While working in a sewer beneath Crescent-street, Rozelle, this afternoon two workmen were overcome by gas. They were in grave' danger of being ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON, March 1.—The Nice correspondent of the British United Press states that an Australian sheep farmer named William Downie, while holidaying on the ...
Article : 98 wordsBASRA, March 1.—A force of 7,000 Wahhabis is preparing to march on the Shaibah, which, is an air station for Imperial Airways, ten miles from Basra. ...
Article : 91 wordsMELBOURNE, March 2.—Excitement was caused at the Prince's Pier to-night when the forward hawsers of the White Star liner Ceramic snapped during a squall ...
Article : 295 wordsLONDON, March 1.—The Commonwealth High Commissioner (Sir Granville Ryrie) cabled the Prime Minister (Mr. S. M. Bruce) this afternoon a precis of the ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, March 1.—In a lecture on "Dominion and Colonial Defence," Major Gordon Macready, Assistant Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, ...
Article : 62 wordsSYDNEY, March 2.—George Allen (49), a labourer, of High-street, Willoughby, was tampering to-day with a bomb that his son found in the street years ago, when ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, March 1.—The Basra correspondent of "The Times" says it is estimated that Royal Air Force bombs and rifles have killed 800 Akhwan tribesmen ...
Article : 167 wordsLONDON, March 1.—The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Austen Chamberlain) in answer to a question in the House of Commons to-day said that ...
Article : 130 wordsLONDON, March 1.—A touching and unexpected incident occurred at the close of a command variety performance at the Coliseum. ...
Article : 92 words"If the name of the State is to be changed in the centenary year," said Archbishop Chine yesterday, "I should favour Westralia as a suitable title. It is short ...
Article : 109 wordsSYDNEY, March 2.—Workmen engaged in placing some' large concrete pipes in position in Rickery-street, St. Peter's, near Cook's River, were hoisting one of the ...
Article : 90 wordsMELBOURNE, March 2.—Full of hope for a successful trip abroad the three members of the team to represent Australia in the Davis Cup contests left ...
Article : 202 wordsLONDON, March 1.—The Riga correspondent of "The Times" says that it has been officially announced in Moscow that a great agrarian "reform" has been ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, March 2.—The telephone rates between London and America have been reduced from £15 to £9 for three minutes. ...
Article : 28 wordsSir,—Can you please tell us bow we should pronounce the word "Centenary"? Is it Cen-tenary accenting "Cen" ...
Article : 63 wordsSYDNEY, March 2.—The man whose lead body was found on the railway line near Dulwich Hill on Wednesday night was identified last night by his wife as ...
Article : 84 wordsCALCUTTA, March 2.—The conference of the all-Indian political parties in session at Delhi, has agreed that Swaraj, or Home Rule constitution to be framed, should ...
Article : 44 wordsMELBOURNE, March 2.—Accompanied by vivid lightning and a few resounding crashes of thunder a storm broke over the metropolitan area to-night. In places ...
Article : 197 wordsThe committee of the National War Memorial of Victoria has decided to call for tenders for the work of erecting a "Shrine of Remembrance" at a site near ...
Article : 314 wordsCALCUTTA, March 2.—Three Frenchmen, who are motoring to French Indo-China, and have arrived at Calcutta, report the discovery of a hitherto uncharted ...
Article : 59 wordsGENEVA, March 1.—In the absence of a sitting of the Arbitration and Security Committee to-day, the newspaper correspondents spent the time interviewing ...
Article : 113 wordsMELBOURNE, March 2.—Diving into four feet of water from a pier sit St. Kilda this afternoon, Robert Smith (19), of Swan-slreet, Burnley, broke his neck. He ...
Article : 36 wordsPARIS, March 1.—The alarming reports concerning Rene Lacoste's health have been denied. It was reported that his heart was affected. Lacoste himself states ...
Article : 56 wordsLeslie John Hislop (25), hairdresser, was arrested by Detective G. Smith, yesterday, on a charge of having, between December 31 and January 28 last, stolen ...
Article : 38 wordsA man named Taylor, living in Francis-street. Perth, was found lying unconscious in Wellington-street last night. At the Perth Hospital, where he was taken in the ...
Article : 68 wordsKALGOORLIE, March 2.—Upon receipt of a report that a motor car belonging to Mrs. Alixe Bates, of Mt. Lawley had been stolen, a party of police motored out ...
Article : 80 wordsLONDON, March 1.—The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says that, in pursuance of a Court order, compelling Zoubkoff, the ex-Kaiser's brother-in-law to ...
Article : 114 wordsHOBART, March 2.—After having broken into a house in Augusta-road, Hobart, yesterday evening, a man was grappled. With by a detective, who had been ...
Article : 107 wordsGeorge Smith (26), shearer, of Ferguson-street, Midland Junction, was riding a bullock in the rodeo arena at White City last night when the animal threw him over ...
Article : 72 wordsPARIS, March 1.—A big Paris jeweller has offered a reward of 10,000 francs for the arrest of the murderer of Gaston. Truphene, the young commercial traveller. ...
Article : 89 wordsHOBART, March 2.—An inquest was held to-day on the death of Mary Ursula Headlam (27). who died on February 21 from the effects of a corrosive poison. She ...
Article : 64 wordsKALGOORLIE, March 1.—A message has been received from Norseman stating that the man whose swag was picked up on the track from Balladonia to ...
Article : 63 wordsMary Cook (60), was arrested by Detective-Sergeant McGinty and Detective Flanagan yesterday and charged with being in the unlawful possession of 25 ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 3 Mar 1928, Page 17
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