There was a complete cessation of work in most ports in Australia yesterday, members of the Watersiders' Federation refusing to accept work under the terms of the new Federal award. Melbourne and Mackay worn two ports where men offered and ...
Article : 348 wordsDuring the European Grand Prix race on the Monza track, a Talbot ear, travelling at 125 miles an hour, grazed another car, overturned and was precipitated among the spectators. Nineteen persons were killed, including the Talbot's driver, ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Southern Cross left at 5.30 p.m. on its Tasman flight. ...
Article : 23 wordsPerhaps never in the history of Sydney has anything so picturesque been seen as the remarkable manifestation of faith and devotion ...
Article : 272 wordsDischarging operations were at a standstill in Tasmanian ports. Three vessels are held up at Hobart. One of the chief grievances against ...
Article : 46 wordsMessages are coming in weakly from the Southern Cross. The last stated that 500 miles had been covered and that all was going well. ...
Article : 33 wordsDuring the past week Mourilyan Mill (Australian Sugar Coy.) crushed [?]800 tons of cane for an average c.c.s. of 15.4. Supplies of cane are quite ...
Article : 127 wordsIntense interest is being displayed in the Southern Cross flight. As soon as the news was received that the machine had started the ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Monza disaster was the worst in the history of motoring. Eightythousand people were present. Materassi, one of the best known ...
Article : 285 wordsThe Weather Bureau, Brisbane, issued the following statement to-day with regard to weather conditions over the Tasman Sea: "The Antartic ...
Article : 100 wordsAs was stated during the proceedings of the Arbitration Court before Mr. W. J. Dunstan on August 30 last, the award made by Judge Beeby would differ ...
Article : 961 wordsThirteen members of the crew of the Fiona, who refused duty were each fined £10 with costs at the Central Police Court to-day. ...
Article : 135 wordsCardmal Cerret[?] was the do[?]nant figure at the celebration of the solemn High Pontifical Mass which lookplace at Saint Patrick's College, Manly, ...
Article : 1,549 wordsOversea and Interstate Shipowners to-day refused to arrange a conference with the Watersiders' Federation while the basis of discussion was that ...
Article : 294 wordsSix convicts were kilted, another fatally wounded and eight men were injured in a pitched battle in the State penitentiary when ...
Article : 46 wordsPontifical High Mass was celebrated in the Cathedral this morning, but owing to the celebrations at Manlyfew visiting prelates attended. The ...
Article : 365 wordsWork in the port proceeded to-day as usual and there is no indication of trouble so far. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe seventeenth general assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia opens in Brisbane on Wednesday night and will be the second to be held in ...
Article : 71 wordsWork in the port was at a complete standstill to-day. About 1500 men, almost the entire membership of the Brisbane branch of the Watersiders' ...
Article : 378 wordsBritain's shipbuilding revival is the subject of an article in "The Statist." It is pointed ont that, in the actual volume of work, Britain's ...
Article : 139 wordsNo difficulty was experienced to-day in obtaining gangs for the steamer Ormiston, Limerick, Maranoa, and Warspray. In each case no mention ...
Article : 355 wordsNumerous inquiries are being made at the Government Intelligence Bureau in Sydney relative to train facilities to enable oversea visitors to ...
Article : 80 wordsAt the All Ports Conference of the Watersiders' Federation to-day, a motion was unanimously carried for the formation of a combined union of ...
Article : 119 wordsThe exodus from the city after the Eucharistic Congress started to-day. Special trains were run to all districts and everyone was packed. ...
Article : 80 wordsNo trouble was experienced in the morning in the engagement of labour in Sydney and all vessels were worked. In the afternoon, however, a different ...
Article : 41 wordsA large number of wharf labourers assembled near the usual picking up place this morning, but none offered for work under the new Federal award. ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Tue 11 Sep 1928, Page 5
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