SYDNEY, Aug. 9.—Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, who was appointed a Royal Commission to investigate the activities of a group of 17 investment companies, mostly ...
Article : 2,156 wordsLONDON, Aug. 9.—The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that official figures show that between the autumn of 1929 and June, 1934, German ...
Article : 136 wordsHOBART, Aug. 9.—"The two countries that have made the greatest progress since the depression have been Australia and Great Britain, and that progress in ...
Article : 610 wordsDARWIN, Aug. 9.—Mr. C. J. Melrose, the 20-year-old Glenelg (Adelaide) aviator who made a record flight between Adelaide And Melbourne on the first stage of his ...
Article : 240 wordsLONDON, Aug. 9.—The "Financial Times," referring to the concern felt in Lancashire over the increase in the Australian tariff on cotton goods, quotes a ...
Article : 116 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 9.—The ferry steamer Bluebell, plying between Newcastle and Stockton, sank a minute after it came into collision with the steamer Waraneen (107 ...
Article : 344 words"Overcrowding at the Perth Hospital has become intolerable, and something must be done to remedy it," said the chairman of the Perth Hospital Board ...
Article : 792 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—"Foreign trade agreements negotiated under the tariff bargaining powers which Congress delegated to President Roosevelt last ...
Article : 209 wordsLONDON, Aug. 9.—The "Daily Telegraph" states that it is understood that an exchange agreement has been reached between the British and German ...
Article : 63 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 9.—By a proclamation issued today, the Federal Ministry has provided an increased measure of real preference for motor cars and typewriters ...
Article : 188 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 8.—Ten thousand Baptists, who attended the Baptist World Congress today applauded speakers who denounced war as unchristian. ...
Article : 134 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 9.—The Farmers and Settlers' Association Conference, without discussion, today reaffirmed its desire for a home consumption price for wheat ...
Article : 451 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald), who Las been on a health holiday in Canada, left this morning for Newfoundland, where he ...
Article : 86 wordsCALCUTTA, Aug. 9.—The discovery of a skeleton, believed to be that of a prehistoric giant ape, and measuring 31½ft. in length, is reported from Jubbulpore. ...
Article : 159 wordsHALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Aug. 8.—The aeroplane Trail of the Caribou, in which Captains Leonard Reid and Ayling took off from Wasaga Beach on the shores of ...
Article : 214 wordsCALCUTTA, Aug. 9.—Despite strenuous efforts by the Moslem members of the Central Legislature to prevent it, over 10,000 persons, including hundreds of women and ...
Article : 158 wordsOTTAWA, Aug. 8.—Before sailing from Sydney (Nova Scotia) today for Newfoundland on H.M.S. Dragon, the British Prime Minister (Mr. MacDonald) ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—An interesting discussion on air mail risks during the crossing of the Timor Sea has prompted a Qantas technical expert to analyse the ...
Article : 116 wordsVIENNA, Aug. 8.—A crowd of 100,000 which gathered in the capital today before the old Imperial Palace, in honour of the late Dr. Dollfuss, listened to tributes paid ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 125 wordsLITTLE AMERICA, Aug. 8.—Like the first, the second attempt to reach by tractor the advance base where Rear-Admiral Byrd, leader of the American ...
Article : 98 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 9.—The Premier (Mr. Butler) said today that Cabinet was considering, as New South Wales had done, the appointment of a Royal Commission to ...
Article : 103 wordsWINNIPEG, Aug. 8.—The rise in wheat prices is estimated to have added about £3,200,000 sterling (at par) to the value of Government's holdings through the ...
Article : 57 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 9.—Herr Hitler, following the precedent on the inauguration of Presidents, has proclaimed an amnesty for many men and women serving sentences ...
Article : 93 wordsWARSAW, Aug. 9.—An entire wedding party of 21 persons was drowned an hour after the ceremony today when a railway omnibus in which the party was ...
Article : 48 wordsPARIS, Aug. 8.—Half an hour before the liner Rex sailed for America today. Mr. Douglas Fairbanks changed his mind about returning to America on the vessel ...
Article : 134 wordsLONDON, Aug. 9.—Wheat business at Liverpool yesterday was again large though less than on Tuesday, when trading totalled 1,500,000 quarters. ...
Article : 23 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 9.—Four inspectors appointed under the Companies Special Investigation Act, passed last night, called at the Auckland offices of the companies ...
Article : 132 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—It has been clearly proved that there is a strange animal or creature inhabiting Loch Ness. During a month's search, which ended last night, ...
Article : 179 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—The City Editor of "The Times" stated today that although wheat prices had risen upwards of £2/10/ a ton in three months, freight rates ...
Article : 144 wordsWELLINGTON, Aug. 9.—Having unanimously agreed to return to Greymouth and man their ships, the 70 seamen from Union Line vessels who were sentenced to 14 ...
Article : 89 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 8.—At Columbia (Missouri) tonight Dr. Walter Williams, president of the University of Missouri and dean of its School of Journalism, ...
Article : 126 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 9.—Mr. Hogan (Independent Labour) during the debate on the Address-in-Reply in the Legislative Assembly today, made a bitter attack on ...
Article : 181 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—The British Broadcasting Corporation announces that the experiment with the 24-hour system of timing, which began in April, will end on ...
Article : 55 wordsPARIS, Aug. 8.—Mademoiselle Boucher, flying a Candron plane at Marseilles, maintained an average speed of 256 miles an hour over a course of 1,000 kilometres. ...
Article : 36 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 8.—Mr. T. 0. M. Sopwith's yacht Endeavour, British challenger for the America's Cup, arrived at Bristol (Rhode Island), at 8 a.m. today. ...
Article : 72 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 8.—Herr von Papen declares that he accepted the Austrian Ambassadorship in order to aid in relieving European tension. "President von ...
Article : 72 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 9.—When a motor truck he was driving burst into flames today, Eric Kerr had to leap for his life. His coat was on fire when he jumped. ...
Article : 117 wordsPARIS, Aug. 8.—Amid intense excitement, in which a Polish miner knifed the wife of another, wounding her slightly, 135 of the Poles responsible for the strange ...
Article : 87 wordsAMSTERDAM, Aug. 8.—The Royal Dutch Air Lines announced that the Douglas plane which they intend to use in the speed section of the Centenary air ...
Article : 79 wordsMUNICH, Aug. 8.—The first announcement of the death of Dr. Gustav vou Kahr, ex-Premier of Bavaria and suppressor of Adolph Hitler's first putsch, in 1923, who ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—Exceptionally heavy fire losses in Great Britain aud Ireland last month were to a large extent attributable to the dry weather and water ...
Article : 70 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 9.—Work commenced today on a bore which is being put down at Dalby by Australian Roma Oil, Ltd., and the D[?]lby Town Council, in a ...
Article : 122 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 9.—The cereal and pasture outlook in South Australia, within the recognised agricultural districts, has shown a marked improvement since ...
Article : 166 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 9.—The Executive Council today approved of the appointment of three members to form the Royal Commission which will inquire into the ...
Article : 69 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 9.—Brisbane's Royal National Show of 1934 can now definitely be stated to have established new records, as the official figures for Wednesday's ...
Article : 136 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 9.—Peter Joseph Gallagher (44), a miner, was fatally injured by a fall of coal in the Excelsior colliery, Thirroul, yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 53 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 9.—The Burns. Philp passenger liner Montoro, which went ashore at Fortification Point, a rocky part of the New Guinea coast, was refloated ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—A guide and timetable of the entire air services in Europe and beyond, covering departure and arrival times, fares and other information, will ...
Article : 63 wordsThe King was aboard his yacht Britannia when it took part in a race today over a 54 miles' course around the Isle of Wight—the longest race of the Cowes ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—The "Board of Trade Journal" states that the average of wholesale prices in July showed a decrease of 0.1 per cent as compared with that in ...
Article : 46 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 9.—Much concern is being occasioned in the Ingham district by the outbreak of an illness which has attained definite epidemic proportions. ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Aug. 9.—Mrs. D. York Syme, wife of the Melbourne shipowner, performed the launching ceremony at Leith today of the 1,600-too modern collier ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 10 Aug 1934, Page 19
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