CANBERRA, Aug. 24.—During the year 1933-34 Savings Bank deposits in Australia increased by £7,821,000, or 3.8 per cent. The present level of deposits has ...
Article : 662 wordsDeclaring that the Building Trades Apprentices' Board, of which he is chairman, had functioned effectively since it was established in 1925 Mr. W. Somerville. ...
Article : 979 wordsThe dispute on the waterfront at Fremantle in connexion with the rates of pay for handling cargo after 6 p.m. was unchanged yesterday. The lumpers are ...
Article : 655 wordsROME, Aug. 24.—"Nobody in Europe wants war, but war is in the air and there might be an outbreak at any moment." declared Signor Mussolini in an ...
Article : 181 wordsPHOENIX (Arizona), Aug. 24.—The British authorities today joined Japan, in taking cognisance of the campaign of the white farmers in the Salt River Valley ...
Article : 186 wordsLONDON, Aug. 24.—The joint committee of the Lancashire cotton trades organisations has issued a statement explaining the grounds on which it has based ...
Article : 727 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 24,—Although wild rumours are current regarding the strained relations between Soviet Russia and Manchukuo over the ownership and future ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 574 wordsLONDON, Aug. 23.—After adopting extensive amendments to the London Wheat Agreement, reached last year to control production and marketing in an attempt ...
Article : 311 wordsDamage estimated at about £750 was done by a fire which destroyed the office and storeroom of Monteath and Sons Pty., Ltd., pipe works in Hay-street. ...
Article : 338 wordsA small boy was killed and his elder brother badly injured when a wall of their home at a farm at Moore River. 25 miles from Gingin. collapsed on them ...
Article : 311 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—The United States farm administration announced to night a curtailment of 10 per cent in the basic wheat acreage in 1935 for farmers ...
Article : 152 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 24.—A conference of wheat officials today revealed that they had already achieved the object of the five year plan inaugurated in 1932, when ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Aug. 23.—Mr. Clark Howell, chairman of the Federal Aviation Commission set up by President Roosevelt, who has been visiting Continental centres to ...
Article : 165 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 24.—Following reports of the sighting of a sea monster By Innisfail and Townsville fishermen on August 13, a party from Bowen has had a ...
Article : 144 wordsCALCUTTA, Aug. 24.—The bitter opposition of the orthdox Hindus to any measure ameliorating the lot of the Untouchable classes found expression in the ...
Article : 178 wordsPARIS, Aug. 23.—Roubaix wool factories are only 40 per cent active. Exports have fallen by 75 per cent and woolcombing activity has been halved since 1933. ...
Article : 35 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 24.—Homer van Meter, assistant to John Dillinger, the notorious bandit who was killed by police recently in Chicago, and reputed to be as ...
Article : 146 wordsTHE HAGUE, Aug. 23,—It is proposed to transport idle textile mills from Holland to Java if water in Java is suitable. Samples of it are being tested. ...
Article : 38 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 24.—The Minister for Trade and Customs (Mr. White), referring today to the Lancashire deputation which waited on the High Commissioner ...
Article : 182 wordsMOSCOW, Aug. 24.—The text published of a strong protest by the Soviet Ambassador at Tokio to the Japanese Foreign Minister (Mr. Hirota). following ...
Article : 118 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 24.—The general feeling at Ingham is that the strike of canecutters is virtually over and that all the men will so back to cut cane on Monday ...
Article : 231 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Mr. Buring, of Sydney, who is in New York in connexion with the project to bottle Australian wines in bond in America, in an ...
Article : 131 wordsBERLIN, Aug 23.—The "Loyalty to the Saar" demonstration on Sunday, by which the German President and Chancellor (Herr Hitler) hopes to consolidate ...
Article : 124 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 24.—Strong exception to a remark which was reported to have been made by the secretary of the Trades Hall Council (Mr. A. E. Monk) at ...
Article : 213 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 24.—Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was done to stock in several business houses by a storm which swept over the city after 4 ...
Article : 77 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 24.—The Court of Marine Inquiry at Newcastle found this afternoon that the collision between the ferry steamer Bluebell and the coastal ...
Article : 96 wordsReferring yesterday to the marked falling off in the number of apprentices in industry, the secretary of the Employers' Federation of Western Australia (Mr. L. ...
Article : 556 wordsLONDON, Aug. 24.—The financial editor of the "Daily Telegraph" says: "The American Treasury's demand for returns of profits made by British investors on ...
Article : 142 wordsLONDON, Aug. 24.—Commenting on the New Zealand Budget, "The Times" states that Mr. Coates's good news will be received with the utmost pleasure in ...
Article : 106 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 24.—Owners of commercial goods or passenger vehicles coming under the provisions of the Transport Regulation Act who have applied to ...
Article : 97 wordsMONTREAL, Aug. 23.—The following message has been received from the base camp of the Byrd Antarctic expedition at Little America. "The sun showed itself ...
Article : 194 wordsLONDON, Aug. 23.—The Lancashire delegation which visited Germany a fortnight ago to discuss the question of outstanding debts in the cotton yarn industry ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON. Aug. 23.—Despite, the defence's submission that the case rested on purely circumstantial evidence, Mancini (the "dancing waiter") in the Brighton ...
Article : 117 wordsMUNICH, Aug. 23.—The application of the amnesty to political prisoners granted by the President and Chancellor (Herr Hitler) in almost completed. From ...
Article : 54 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 23.—The meeting at Florence between Signor Mussolini, Prime Minister of Italy, and Dr. Schuschnigg, the Austrian Chancellor, left the ...
Article : 56 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 24.—Two Gardner high speed Diesel engines which were landed by the Municipal Tramways Trust from an overseas steamer today will be ...
Article : 75 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 24.—Detectives who have been investigating the theft of goods valued at £1,500 from the warehouse of Cornell. Ltd., Pirie-street. Adelaide, on ...
Article : 155 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 24.—Consigned to the Reserve Bank from Auckland trading banks, 5½ tons of gold was taken by the Wellington limited express today. The ...
Article : 54 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 24.—A series of motions designed to alter the by-laws of the Australian Mutual Provident Society was defeated overwhelmingly at a special ...
Article : 213 wordsNEWPORT (Rhode Island), Aug. 23.— Yankee, of Boston, commanded by Mr. Charles Francis Adam, former United States Secretary of the Navy which is ...
Article : 67 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 24.—Miss Marjorie Finlay (25), of Findlay-avenue, Roseville, broke both her legs at Mt. Kosciusko when she tripped today while racing on ...
Article : 61 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Planes flown by two Chinese student pilots collided in the air over one of the most thickly populated residential areas of the city today. ...
Article : 94 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 24.—Mr. L. Burkard, president of the German-Australian Chamber of Commerce, said today that the chamber had been informed by official ...
Article : 121 wordsLONDON, Aug. 23.—Admirers of the notable trilogy, "The Fortunes of Richard Mabony," by Mrs. Henry Handel Richardson, the Australian writer, will welcome ...
Article : 58 wordsGENEVA, Aug. 23.—The world Jewish conference at its final meeting today unanimously adopted a resolution to convoke a congress in August 1935, to create a ...
Article : 98 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 24.—In the River Yarra early on July 23, the German motorship Rendsburg (6,200 tons) struck the wharf of the Commonwealth Oil Refineries ...
Article : 108 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 24.—Dr. A. C. Budge, of New South Wales, has been appointed resident medical officer at the Canberra Government Hospital of which ...
Article : 100 wordsWELLINGTON, Aug. 24.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Forbes) announces that the Government is inviting Sir Maurice Hankey. Secretary to the British Cabinet and ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, Aug. 23.—Mrs. Amy Mollison, the famous airwoman, who has joined the staff of the Hillman Airways Company. this becoming the first. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 25 Aug 1934, Page 17
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