Next Wednesday the debate on the tariff will commence in the House of Representatives. It is expected that the reports of the Tariff Commission and other ...
Article : 361 wordsSir,—The proposed increase of duties will bear very hard on the farmers, country labourers, and miners; the only folk benefited seem to be the manufacturers ...
Article : 278 wordsSir.—Possessing, as we do, a technical knowledge of the cork trade, it may be assumed that if there were anything in the proposal to encourage the cork-cutting ...
Article : 331 wordsSir,—My groeer has raised his prices already. Matches are ½d. per packet more this week and in a very short time they will be 4d. I well remember the time when ...
Article : 226 wordsThe accompanying map shows the wide stretch of country extending from the Ballarat-Geelong railway on the east to the Ararat-Hamilton railway on the west which ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 231 wordsSir,—What a great game of bluff is being played by the press and Mr. Manager, in reference to the prices charged on goods by retailers since the alteratio of the tariff. ...
Article : 179 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — During the hearing of a suit for judicial separation, begun in the Divorce Court to-day, by Jane Sleath against Richard Sleath, formerly a member ...
Article : 171 wordsThe manager of Thomas Murray and Co. Proprietary, hosiery manufacturers, of Richmond is hope[?]l that the new tariff, if [?]ed. will enable him to give employment ...
Article : 703 wordsSir,—You mention the hard words flung at the grocer by the housewife for putting up prices on existing stocks. Suppose, Sir. that duties had been taken off lines ...
Article : 188 wordsSir,—It is more with sorrow than anger that I write concerning the new tariff. I have already had my experience of it, having to pay duty of over 3 a pound weight ...
Article : 321 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Professionalism in sport was referred to by Dr. Kent Hughes, manager of the Victorian team of boxers, at a welcome tendered to the visitors ...
Article : 214 wordsSir.—I desire to draw the attention of your readers—to whichever political party they may belong—to the wholly unnecessary and inequitable tax imposed on imported ...
Article : 851 wordsALBURY, Friday.—At a representative meeting of Albury storekeepers and tobacconists to-night the tariff duties with regard to tobacco were discussed. It was stated ...
Article : 230 wordsThe "Daily Mail" has been making inquiries as to the probable effects of Australia's new tariff on British exports, and has found that the export to Australia of ...
Article : 242 wordsSir.—As large manufacturers of food products, including M'Kenzie's essence of cocoa and "Excelsior" essence of coffee and chicory. we would be glad if you would ...
Article : 83 wordsSir,—We would like to draw attention to the absurd duty imposed on chamois leather under the new "tariff," viz., 30 per cent. ad valorem, which is an advance of 15 per ...
Article : 183 wordsAs a result of the efforts of the mayor of Brunswick (Councillor D. Phillips) in bringing the claims of the Women's Hospital under the notice of the delegates of the ...
Article : 118 wordsSir.—The following utterance by Benjamin Franklin seems peculiarly appropriate to the present fiscal folly:—"We assemble parliaments and councils to have ...
Article : 169 wordsBRISBANE, Friday. — At the annual council meeting of the United Farmers Association of Queensland to-day. the following resolutions were adopted:— ...
Article : 138 wordsSir,—Protection is the settled policy of the Commonwealth, and we have been trying to manufacture the "sanitary all wool underclothing" for nearly 25 years, but with ...
Article : 397 wordsSir,—It has been repeatedly asserted that the country is prosperous. We become accustomed to regard this to mean that living is easier, goods and household commodities ...
Article : 190 wordsHOBART, Friday.—A largely attended meeting, convened by the Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Association was held in the Town-hall to-night as a protest ...
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Advertising : 205 wordsThe committee of the Authorised Newsagents' Association of Victoria met yesterday afternoon to consider the Tariff Bill. The committee decided that a ...
Article : 113 wordsST[?]ARNAUD, Thursday.—At the Agricultural Society's meeting to-day Mr. J. C. Smith said some action should be taken regarding the tariff proposals. There were ...
Article : 162 wordsSir,—We would like to correct some statements made by a representative of the coach-making trade in your columns of 15th inst. in reference to the tariff affecting the ...
Article : 290 wordsSir,—I have read "Australian Publisher's" letter in "The Argus" of the 15th inst., and must refute some of the untrue statements contamed therein. "Australian ...
Article : 612 wordsKORUMBURRA, Friday.—The proposed d[?]on white pine imported from New Zealand, which is used for butter-boxes, and the large increases in the duty on other ...
Article : 173 wordsWAGGA, Friday.—In this district even those who favour an increase in the tariff against articles which cannot be profitably produced in the country are disgusted with ...
Article : 215 wordsSir,—I beg to give you a few reasons why the protectionist members of the Tariff Commission have not recommended an increased duty on dried fruits. ...
Article : 485 wordsThe Sydney wool-selling brokers have in[?]ed the Farmers' and Settlers' Assoicia[?] Pastoralists' Union, the Pastures and S[?]ck Protection Board, the Stock agents, ...
Article : 297 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—This afternoon a deputation representing thee Stock Exchange of Adelaide and the mining industry of South Australia waited upon Senator Sir ...
Article : 708 wordsSir,—"Australian Publisher" has perhaps, as much right to claim a share of the plunder which this new tariff will make available as those engaged in some ...
Article : 448 words"I have a boy two years old, weighing 40lb. and in perfect health, who has been raised on Grape Nuts and milk. "This is an ideal foodm and evidently ...
Article : 238 wordsSeveral deputations waited on the Ministerier Customs (Mr. Austin Chapman) yesterday to complain of the harshness of the new tariff. The first deputation was from ...
Article : 312 wordsSir,—In reply to your remarks in this morning's issue in reference to a letter from the Hawkesbury River Condensed Milk Co. on this subject, the following is ...
Article : 434 wordsIf your voice be weak from over-exertion or other cause, obtain at once a bottle of "HONNINGTON'S IRISH MO[?]." The first do[?] gives [?].—[Advt.] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 17 Aug 1907, Page 21
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