Sir,—I would like to contradict a statement made by a bank manager that salaries are not lower than what they were twenty years ago. I have been in one of the largest ...
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Article : 843 wordsPeople who are in the habit of trying to save a penny by enclosing written communications in newspapers and parcels will very likely find for the future that their ...
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Article : 767 wordsThomas Fowler, who is a wool-classer at present out of work, was reclining against a window-sill in Latrobe-street yesterday afternoon, when he was accosted by a ...
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Article : 176 wordsSome additional new members of the Federal Parliament have marked off the seats which they intend to occupy in the two Houses. Senator Guthrie, of South ...
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Article : 249 wordsMr. Kingston, late Minister of Customs, arrived from Sydney by the steamer Ventura to-day. He is on a holiday trip to New Zealand. He was met on the wharf ...
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Article : 198 wordsSir,—"Householder" and "Make Both Ends Meet" show extraordinary ignorance of trade book-keeping when they allude to the difference in price of what an article is ...
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Article : 326 wordsThe annual returns of the work done in the insolvency Court, compiled by Mr. L. Hambleton, show that while there was a slight increase in the number of persons ...
Article : 587 wordsThe man George Bremner, who on Thursday of last week called at Governmenthouse and peremptorily demanded to see the Gavernor-General, in order to obtain a ...
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Article : 89 wordsSir,—Being out of town, and unable to reply to "Householder" of the 13th, I ask your favour to explain, in justice to myself as a buyer, and to the firm that supplied ...
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Article : 269 wordsWYCHEPROOF, Thursday.—In connection with the traffic on the Sea Lake line by a travelling stationmaster, with women-in-charge at the several stations, Councillor J. Bridge voiced the ...
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Article : 215 wordsSir,—A great many years of my life has been spent in different country parts in the state. I have killed a great many snakes of every ...
Article : 233 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The dispute in the wool trade between Dalgety annd Co. Limited and the Woolbuyers' Association was settled to-day. That firm agreed in the interests of their constituents to ...
Article : 183 wordsAt half-past 9 last night, two men who were passing the hide and skin stores of Mr. Thomas Blades, at the corner of Mark-street and Boundary-road, North ...
Article : 319 wordsSir,—"Once a Clerk" states that he attributes having become a member of the firm to the fact that he, when a clerk, was, by being always a little in advance of his work, ...
Article : 220 wordsThe MELBOURNE WOOLBROUGHS' ASSOCIATION (Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. Limited, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Limited. ...
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Article : 421 wordsSir,—In the report on the French paper at the recent matriculation examination the following paragraph occurs:—"In accordance with the notice given some six months ...
Article : 183 wordsSir,—On behalf of a client I lodged an application to bring land under the Transfer of Land Act in the early part of September, 1903. It was a very simple case, but up to ...
Article : 95 wordsAt the City Court yesterday a man named Irwin White was charged, before Messrs. Panton, P.M., Cherry, Lanceshire, and Captain Garside, J.P'.s with having been ...
Article : 138 wordsAt the Collingwood Court on Friday, before Messrs. Kimberley, Hanslow, and Tait, J.P.'s, a young man named William Francis Menalack was presented on two charges of forgery and uttering. ...
Article : 319 wordsSir,—At the request of a number of unemployed clerks and others who have approached the Victoria Clerk's Union in the matter, my executive has undertaken to ...
Article : 175 wordsTwo men named James Causland and Thomas Carroll were charged at the South Melbourne Court yesterday with behaving in an offecsive manner. The evidences of Constables Mooney and [?] ...
Article : 180 wordsA girl named [?]ene Wilson, about nine years of age, on alighting from a train at the Burnley station yesterday, informed a porter that whilst travelling in the train she was interfered with by ...
Article : 96 wordsSir,—In reading "The Argus" of yesterday I saw a paraghraph in which the committee of the Albert-park reserve had under consideration the desirability of building a ...
Article : 138 wordsSir,—Your article on "The Fruitgrowers' Woes" is highly instructive to growers, and should be a means of stimulating the Government into assisting rural producers, ...
Article : 122 wordsSir,—We believe that the clerks who complain of receiving low pay have only themselves to blame. We know something of the requirements of employers, and we know ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 16 Jan 1904, Page 17
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