The Postal Communion sat at the Federal Parliament-house yesterday forenoonn, when Mr. Wilks, M.H.R., presided. The other commissioners present were Senator De ...
Article : 365 wordsA deputation from the Interstate Conference of the Federated Licensed Victuallers' Association yesterday interviewed the Postmaster General (Sir John Quick) with ...
Article : 1,772 wordsAt the Interstate Conference held in Melbourne last August, it was decidid that each State should establish tribunals—uniform, so far as possible—for regulating the ...
Article : 334 wordsThe hearing of the libel action in which the Mutual Life and Citizens' Insurance Company is seeking to recover £20,000 as damages from the National Mutual Life ...
Article : 1,749 wordsAn unusual application was made to Mr. Justice Cussen, in the Second Civil Court yesterday. An order nisi directed against Miss Margaret Stewart, manager of the ...
Article : 1,221 wordsThe great aim of the modern dentist is conservation and not distruction. He does not believe in the use of the forceps except under rare circumstances. Thus the most ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 3,021 wordsWELLINGTON, Thursday.—Regarding the cabled reports of the Federal Licensed Victuallers' Association and the alleged flow of liquor into "dry" districts the chairman ...
Article : 70 wordsSir,—Mr. J.G. Barrett, like many others of his party is nothing if not carnestly impetuous. Had he been otherwise he would not have, in vidgar parlance, "fallen in" as ...
Article : 285 wordsA revised schedule of rates of wages to be paid in connection with Government contracts was issued recently by the Public Works department. With few exceptions ...
Article : 232 wordsAt the meeting of the Trades-hall Council last night a report on the proposals agreed to at the Premiers, Conference for vesting in the Commonwealth by the States certain ...
Article : 676 wordsPERTH, Thursday.—The National Fruitgrowers' Conference resolved, at the request of the State Government, to provide that the cases for fruit, other than apples, should ...
Article : 263 wordsThe number of unemployed registered in London is 20,000. They belong chiefly to the building, cigar-making, and brewing trades. ...
Article : 47 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The award of the Trolly and Draymen's Wages Board fixes the hours of work at 60 in the summer, and 58 in the winter. Drivers of one horse are ...
Article : 77 wordsSYDNEY, Thurday.—The award of the Butchering (wholesale) Carters' Wages Board provides for 61 hours' work weekly. One-horse drivers are to receive not less ...
Article : 46 wordsReferring last evening to a complaint voiced by Mr. Page, M.H.R., as to the pay of certain non commissioned officers of the military instructional staff, the Minister for ...
Article : 280 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The investigation of the interstate boot-trade dispute, as far as New South Whales is concerned, was concluded in the Federal Arbitration Court ...
Article : 157 wordsA complicated partnership dispute which has occupied the attention of the Chief Justice in the Banco Court intermittently since September 24 was concluded ...
Article : 656 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham)has received protests from the Ministries of Tasmania, Queensland, and South Australia, against the action of New South ...
Article : 75 wordsBROKEN HILL, Thursday.—The Minister for Mines (Mr. Wood) has replied to the local labour body that complained of the socalled "speeding-up" of employees on the ...
Article : 50 wordsIn pursuance of a suggestion made by the Premier (Mr. Murray) to a deputation representative of the friendly societies, which waited on him on July 21, a ...
Article : 548 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The domestic troubles of a member of Parliament were disclosed at the Glebe Police Court to-day, when George Arthur Burgess, who ...
Article : 232 wordsBROKEN HILL, Thursday.—A letter was received by the combined unions last night from the Tobacco Twisters' Union of South Australia, appealing to unionists to ...
Article : 81 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—Mr. Quin, Government horticultural instructor, in his report on potato blight, states:— "If the State does not arm itself with necessary ...
Article : 307 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The Amalgamated Society and the Progressive Society of Carpenters and Joiners have drawn up a schedule of wages and working conditions for ...
Article : 73 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—A shearer employed at Euglo Station, in the Condobolin district, refused to join the union, and considerable, friction has resulted in ...
Article : 57 wordsPERTH, Thursday.—A sensational attempt was made early this morning to rob the post-office at Hopetoun. The intr[?]der fired almost point-blank at the postmaster ...
Article : 204 wordsThe quarterly meeting of the independent Order of REchabites was held at the Temperance-hall yesterday evening, Brother Eli Williams (Coburg), D.C.R., presiding, supported by Brothers E. A. ...
Article : 307 wordsWELLINGTON, Thursday.—The Labour Conference has pased a resolution in favour of affiliation with the Australian trades councils, with a view of consolidating ...
Article : 32 wordsThe annual dinner of the Christian Brothirs' "Old Boys" Association was held at the Vienna Cafe yesterday evening. The chair was occupied by Mr. R. T. Rush, ...
Article : 209 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—At to-night's meeting of the Sydney Labour Council a letter was read from the Rev. George Keith, moderator of the Presbyterian General ...
Article : 82 wordsBROKEN HILL, Thursday.—The combined unions have decided to write, sympathising with the South Clifton miners, and stating that financial assistan e will be ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 29 Oct 1909, Page 9
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