Unsettled weather, with further showers, is forecast for the west and south-west coastal areas and agricultural districts today. ...
Article : 754 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 17.—An exchange rate lifted to 60 per cent through the Commonwealth Government's buying London funds for debt redemption ...
Article : 196 wordsAlthough the Budget for 1936-37 would, it is stated, be ready for introduction in the Legislative Assembly tomorrow if the opportunity presented itself, there would ...
Article : 1,057 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—At the annual meeting of the Standard Portland Cement Co., Ltd., today, the chairman (Mr. P. R. Higgins) criticised the contention of ...
Article : 378 wordsLady Mitchell will perform the opening ceremony of the State conference of the Country Women's Association at the Assembly Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. R. Levinson, of Levinson and Sons, will leave today by the Orford on a holiday trip to Melbourne. Mr. A. M. Pooley, managing editor of ...
Article : 553 wordsThe Washington Treaty of 1921 limited the size and number of battleships and fixed their ratios as between the five greatest naval Powers, and ...
Article : 1,028 wordsAn appeal to business men and others to do their utmost to increase the tourist traffic to this State was made last night by Mr. R. Goyne Miller during his ...
Article : 544 wordsSINGAPORE, Aug. 17.—The Australian Minister for Commerce (Dr. Earle Page) left for Australia this morning by a Royal Air Force Singapore III flying boat. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe initiative in approaching the trustees of the fund raised by the jubilee motherhood appeal to ask that portion of the fund be allocated to the work of the ...
Article : 363 wordsRATES OF POSTAGE.—Letters, within the Commonwealth and to places in the British Empire, 2d. per ounce; U.S.A., Java and all other places, first ounce, [?]d.; each succeeding ...
Article : 85 wordsPERTH-ADELAIDE.—Outward mails for the Eastern States close at Fremantle at 11 p.m. on Monday, and at the G.P.O, Perth, at 8 am. on Tuesday, arriving at Adelaide on Wednesday ...
Article : 509 wordsAmong the passengers aboard the liner Carthage, which reached Fremantle yesterday from the Eastern States, bound for London, were the ...
Article : 281 wordsThe announcement that grasshoppers have again made their appearance in large numbers in the north-eastern wheat districts will cause more concern ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 242 wordsThe council of the National Party, at a meeting last week, carried a motion that this council deplores the delay of the committee appointed to formulate ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Perth City Council, at a meeting yesterday, decided to co-operate in furthering the appeal launched by the Institution of Surveyors to erect a memorial ...
Article : 329 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia, intends to remain in England for some time, and is now house-hunting in London, because the ...
Article : 123 wordsUNITED KINGDOM, EUROPE, EGYPT, ADEN, ASIA, MALTA and INDIA.—Or[?]ova, August 24; letters, 2 p.m. (late fee, 8 p.m.); newspapers and packets and registered article, 1 p.m.; ...
Article : 275 wordsMachinery weighing about 600 tons reached Fremantle yesterday by the motorship Karamea from Great Britain for the East Perth power house. Soon ...
Article : 123 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 17.—In opening the 29th annual conference of the Queensland Country Press Association today the Premier (Mr. Forgan Smith) said that ...
Article : 133 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—Out of 23 members of the State Parliamentary United Australia Party, including five Ministers, who attended a party meeting today to ...
Article : 187 words(Every request for information must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.) ...
Article : 156 wordsCongratulations to the Government on having finished the last financial year with a surplus were expressed last night by Mr. R. Goyne Miller. during the ...
Article : 125 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 17.—The meetings of the Premiers' Conference, the Federal Cabinet and the Federal Agricultural Council next week in Adelaide will ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 17.—The Minister for Finance (Mr. Nash), when visiting Auckland at the week-end, was met privately by representatives of various ...
Article : 143 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 17.—A public examination will be held in December in each State to select 108 youths and men for positions in the clerical division of the ...
Article : 175 wordsIN CHAMBERS.—At 10.30 a.m., before the Chief Justice. NIS1 PRIUS.-At 10.30 am., before Mr. Justice Draper: J. B. Dale and another v. W. F. ...
Article : 52 wordsOwing to an alteration in the railway time-table, letter mails for the following places will close at the G.P.O., Perth, on Thursday next, at 5.15 p m. instead of at 6.45 p.m.:—Ballidn. ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—Commenting on the British trade returns for July, which showed that imports totalled £68,731.000 and exports £40,085,000, "The Times" ...
Article : 89 wordsThe East-West mail plane which left Adelaide on Sunday, arrived at Maylands at 1 p.m. yesterday. The north-bound plane of the North-West ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsOf the five outstanding makers of the Russian Bolshevist Revolution, Lenin died in 1924, Trotsky has been in exile since 1927, Zinoviev and Kamenev are ...
Article : 730 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—The Australian Broadcasting Commission, at a meeting in Sydney today, considered a report of the chairman (Mr. W. J. Cleary) ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—It is understood. says the "Morning Post," that Australia Canada and South Africa have all prepared designs for issues of King Edward ...
Article : 62 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 17.—Lady Goode, widow of Sir Charles Henry Goode, died at her home, Lefevre-terrace, North Adelaide, last night, aged 84 years. For ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—Mrs. Stevens. the wife of the Premier of New South Wales, will embark on the Duchess of Bedford for Montreal tomorrow, and Mr. Stevens ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 18 Aug 1936, Page 14
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