Although the Waterside Workers' Federation agreed on Monday to withdraw the overtime strike on the wharves, as far as interstate and coastal vessels were ...
Article : 731 wordsFor the first time in the history of Victoria a Country party Premier (Mr. Allan) led a Ministry into the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon. After it ...
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Article : 363 wordsAlthough he is still very ill, the chief commissioner of police (Mr. Nicholson) gave evidence for one hour yesterday before thc Royal commission that is inquiring into ...
Article : 1,692 wordsThe Duke of Devonshire presided at a dinner given by the British Empire League to the Empire Exhibition commissioners. There was a distinguished gathering, ...
Article : 372 wordsMembers of the Federal Joint Committee of Public Accounts opened an inquiry yesterday into the oil resources of the Commonwealth, and into the operations of ...
Article : 903 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Members of the Waterside Workers' Federation working on the Union Company's cargo steamer Whangape at the company's Margaret ...
Article : 155 wordsCOWRA (N.S.W.), Tuesday. — In a speech here today the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) announced that the Empire Exhibition would be continued next ...
Article : 515 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The decision of the management committee of the Waterside Workers' Federation to resume overtime work upon vessels employing union ...
Article : 183 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Simultaneously with the decision of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to summon a compulsory conference to deal with the disputes ...
Article : 111 wordsThe High Commissioner for Australia (Sir Joseph Cook), in an address to the Chamber of Commerce at Richmond, referred to the question of preference for ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Opium-smoking Conference, which ended in a deadlock, was confined to members of the League of Nations directly concerned with the question. The conference ...
Article : 170 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday. —The steamer Wyreema was due to leave for southern ports at 5 o'clock to-day, but just before thal time the firemen on the vessel ...
Article : 144 wordsArising out of the decision of the Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin) to investigate the high cost of living, some of the newspapers are directing attention to the dearness of ...
Article : 130 wordsTwo important aerial expeditions for the purpose of surveying new routes are pending. The director of Civil Aviation (Major-General Sir William Brancker), will ...
Article : 101 wordsNEWCASTLE (N.S.W.), Tuesday.—The overtime strike as it affected interstate vessels was declared "off" at Newcastle today. The ban on overseas vessels, however, ...
Article : 32 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday. — Watersides at Napier accepted work on lighters to-day, but again refused to man barges. The maller was referred to the ...
Article : 86 wordsIt is expected by officers of the Tramways Board that the first of the motor-'buses being constructed for the board for use as an auxiliary to the existing tramway ...
Article : 204 wordsThe Premier (Zaghlul Pasba), had an audience with King Fuod for two hours, and afterwards announced in the Chamber of Deputies that he had withdrawn his ...
Article : 133 wordsAlthough the strike against overseas ships is still in force at other ports, in Melbourne all steamers are working, as the Port Phillip Stevedores' Association has ...
Article : 774 wordsA new type of aeroplane, which was being tested at Hawkinge Aerodrome (Kent), collided with a fence when flying at 90 miles an hour. Then it struck some ...
Article : 53 wordsThe task of furnishing a reliable estimate of the wheat returns in Victoria for the 1924-25 season is rendered more difficult than usual this year for several reasons. ...
Article : 596 wordsDr. Sun Yat-sen, who arrived to-day from Canton on his way to Tientsin to attend a conference with General Chang T[?]o-lin and General Feng Yu-bsian on the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe "Daily Express" understands that the Cabinet committee will accept the Foreign Office view of the Zinovieff letter as genuine, and that no apology will be ...
Article : 94 wordsSome interest has been aroused at Dromana by the reported discovery of gold. About a week ago three Italians—I. Mazotis, E. Papas, and I, Vafos—arrived ...
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Article : 264 wordsOne of the most remarkable strikes in recent years occurred to-day, when 80 organisers and officials of the Transport and General Workers' Union failed to appear ...
Article : 88 wordsMrs. Thurston has obtained a decree nisi against Temple Thurston, the novelist and dramatist. Petitioner said that her husban had been previously divorced when she ...
Article : 116 wordslt is officially stated that the Spanish troops in Morocco withdrew in good order from Sheshuan towars Dar Akoba, despite great difficulties. The communique adds ...
Article : 90 wordsAs was expected, the new State Ministry did not have any business to submit to the House when it met the Legislative Assembly yesterday. The Premier (Mr. ...
Article : 1,508 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Replying to a question in the Legislative Assembly to-night the Chief Secretary (Mr. Oakes) said that an agent of the Russian Soviet Government ...
Article : 132 wordsThe annual sale of property lost on trams in the metropolis will be held at the Hawthorn Tramways Depot on November 26. The catalogue of the sale contains 392 lots, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 19 Nov 1924, Page 19
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