In spite of protracted discussions yesterday in a last minute effort to prevent a general stoppage of the State railway system the parties failed to agree. As Perth people went home from work late yesterday ...
Article : 1,087 wordsCOLLIE, Nov. 6.—Coal production will cease at Collie tomorrow afternoon if the rail dispute is not then ended. This was stated today ...
Article : 390 wordsEssential services such as hospitals, sewerage pumps and large refrigeration plants where food stuffs are already in cold storage ...
Article : 659 wordsWestern Australia awakens this morning in the grip of a transport strike of unpredictable duration and consequences, though there is ...
Article : 978 wordsAdmiral Viscount Mountbatten succeeded Field Marshal Lord Milne as grand president of the British Empire Service League ...
Article : 252 wordsCurrent food coupons are as follows: Tea (black and red) V13- 24 (V13-16 valid until November 17; V17-24 valid until December ...
Article : 696 wordsMost of last night's sitting of the Legislative Assembly was devoted to the second reading debate on the Bookmakers Bill. Two Labour ...
Article : 978 wordsReporting to a meeting of the State executive of the Returned Servicemen's League in Perth last night, the chairman of the league's ...
Article : 403 wordsDirect loss in factory wages, fuel, power and light, and revenue, to the railways and tramways will be in the vicinity of £44,000 a day as ...
Article : 631 wordsWhile the proprietors have been able to make arrangements for deliveries of "The West Australian" to certain ...
Article : 104 words"It is a bit early yet to say; we know only as much as you or any body else, but the public may rest assured that this department will ...
Article : 328 wordsA ferry service operated by the Prince Launch Service will commence between Fremantle and Perth this morning as a result of the ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Acting Deputy Director of Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. A. W. Stewart) said yesterday that arrangements had been made for the ...
Article : 145 wordsBRISBANE, Nov. 6.—A settlement has been reached in the dispute which has caused a hold-up of two British ships, the Fort ...
Article : 121 wordsBecause of the necessity to conserve coal, the Midland Railway Company of W.A. Ltd., instituted restricted services as from midnight ...
Article : 182 wordsLONDON, Nov. 6.—Labour gained 50 seats and lost 34 at yesterday's Scottish municipal elections. The new state of parties is: Labour, 60; ...
Article : 35 wordsThe main effect of the strike on sporting fixtures will be that for the first time for many months the racing and trotting meetings will be ...
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Advertising : 313 wordsThe chairman of the State Transport Board (Mr. W. H. Howard) announced last night that it had been decided, in the ...
Article : 365 wordsA considerable increase in aero- plane bookings for passengers and freight has been one of the effects of the threatened railway strike. ...
Article : 171 wordsComplications which may arise through the railway strike in regard to the conducting of university examinations were yesterday ...
Article : 172 wordsThere is probably no section of the community which will suffer greater inconvenience and hard ship as a result of the threatened ...
Article : 467 wordsCANBERRA, Nov. 6.—Heavy demands on petrol supplies through transport hold-ups and the general uncertainty regarding immediate ...
Article : 134 wordsBy its decision to open the league's ranks to all volunteers of six months' service and honourably discharged, irrespective of where ...
Article : 126 wordsAfter tonight those cinemas and theatres which are not equipped with emergency light plants will close. At present those which will ...
Article : 66 wordsThere was a greatly increased volume of traffic over the whole of the metropolitan telephone system yesterday. This was officially ...
Article : 97 wordsSYDNEY, Nov. 6.—A measure to authorise a referendum to decide whether the Legislative Council, the State's Upper House, should be ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 7 Nov 1946, Page 6
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