Yesterday the select committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed to inquire into the question of daylight saving sat at Parliament-house, and began the hearing of ...
Article : 573 wordsMr. G. C. Morrison (public service commissioner) yesterday resumed the injury into the management of Pentridge prison. Robert York, overseer of works, gave ...
Article : 731 wordsThe hearing of the action taken by the Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation in respect to a dispute with Whybrow and Co. and other employers in Melbourne, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,320 wordsIn the House of Representatives yesterday the Speaker (Dr. Carty Salmon) took the chair at half-past 2 o'clock, and read the prayer. ...
Article : 3,469 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Sir John Quick) has fixed the following minimum wage rates for labourers employed by the Postal department, or contractors to the department, in ...
Article : 120 wordsA resolution was recently carried by both Houses of Parliament for the constitution of a wages board to fix rates of pay for persons employed in making moulders' ...
Article : 106 wordsRepresentatives of the Victorian Central Fruitgrowers' Association waited on the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) yesterday, and laid before him their views ...
Article : 883 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—A deputation, consisting of nearly the whole of the labour members of Parliament, a few other members of the Legislative Assembly, and ...
Article : 107 wordsThe leader of the Parliamentary labour party in New South Wales (Mr. J. M'Gowen) is organising a petition to the Parliament of the State, praying for the ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Trade Boards Bill, which provides a minimum wage in certain sweated industries, and establishes wages boards, passed its third reading in the House of Lords last ...
Article : 37 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Yesterday the inspector at Geraldton issued instructions to the cane-cutters at Goondi to resume work this morning. Several gangs commenced ...
Article : 59 wordsAbout two years ago a progress society was formed at Ringwood, for the purpose of effecting improvements in the township, and especially with a view to purchase a ...
Article : 570 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—Having federated with the Metropolitan Shop Assistants' Employees' Federation of Australia, the Metropolitan Assistants' Union of Perth ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Chief Justice was yesterday engaged in the Banco Court in the hearing of an action brought by Mortimer Stuckey, as administrator of the estate of his wife, the ...
Article : 934 wordsUnder the auspices of the Federal Labour party an entertainment entitled "Australia at Work" was given in the Brunswick Town-hall on Wednesday evening by the ...
Article : 137 wordsA report of the Committee of Public Accounts, dealing with the work accomplished since its appointment in February, 1909, was tabled in the Legislative Assembly ...
Article : 366 wordsSome members of the Doneaster Fruitgrowers' Association yesterday asked the Minister for Agriculture to provide for an extension of the local cool-stores. They ...
Article : 102 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Grocers', Tea, and Dairy Produce Employees' Union was held on Tuesday evening at the rooms, 23 Elizabeth-street. There was a large ...
Article : 137 wordsSir,—The approaching visit of the delegates to the seventh congress of the chambers of commerce of the Empire bids fair to be of considerable interest and advantage ...
Article : 340 wordsReplying to a question by Mr. Rogers in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, the Treasurer (Mr. Watt) said that he had obtained a report from the Secretary of ...
Article : 210 wordsAt the meeting of the Harbour Trust yesterday Commissioner Sinclair moved— "That the Melbourne Harbour Trust commissioners, in obtaining goods, machinery or ...
Article : 295 wordsSir,—It is rather remarkable that your correspondent "Onlooker" has just discovered that all elergymen who do not take the eastward position are guilty of perjury. ...
Article : 387 wordsThe monthly soirec lecture of L'Alliance Francaise was held last night at the Independent-hall, Collins-street, in the presence of an excellent audience, which included ...
Article : 202 wordsMr. T. W. Gaggin, the chairman of the Printers' Wages Board, which has been sitting for some time, has forwarded to the Minister for Labour (Mr. Murray) an ...
Article : 188 wordsBENDIGO, Wednesday.—The annual horse parade under the auspices of the Bendigo Agricultural Society [?] took place at the show-grounds on Wednesday. A Government veterinary officer was ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 23 Sep 1909, Page 4
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