There is a surplus of nearly £2,000,000 in the Customs revenue of the Commonwealth for the 11 months of the current financial year. In his Budget speech the ...
Article : 440 wordsThe plan to plant an avenue of trees on the Melbourne-Geelong road was advanced yesterday at a meeting of the general committee which is handling the project. ...
Article : 443 wordsThe new Australian, cruiser, H.M.A.S. Canberra, of 10,000 tons, sister ship to H.M.A.S. Australia, was launched at the shipyards of John Brown and Co. Ltd. on ...
Article : 1,050 wordsAt Epsom Downs this afternoon the greatest of the English classic races—the Derby Stakes—was run with the following result:— ...
Article : 302 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Premier (Mr. Lang) will not listen to overtures from Labour members of Parliament to avert a dissolution of Parliament. He made ...
Article : 791 wordsLord parmoor (Labour) initiated a debate in the House of Lords on the decision of the Cabinet to sever relations with Russia. He said that such a step ...
Article : 348 wordsWork on the steamers Nirvana and West Ivan, which ceased yesterday owing to a dispute between the Victorian Stevedoring Company and the stevedores employed by ...
Article : 483 wordsThis is an example of a private organisation adopting the principle of price-fixing without regard to the welfare of any other section of the community. I am ...
Article : 429 wordsWearing the decorations he had received in France, Belgium, and England in recognition of his non-stop flight from New York to Paris, Captain Charles Lindbergh, ...
Article : 641 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—An atttempt to impose outrageous conditions on the Newcastle agent of the White Steamship Company's steamer Corrimal was made at ...
Article : 879 wordsResults of telepathy experiment conducted from the studio of 3LO on the night of May 23 were announced yesterday by the Broadcasting Company of Australia ...
Article : 701 wordsThe Australian Board of Missions has suffered a severe loss through the death of the secretary of the Victorian branch (the Rev. George Edward Downton), which ...
Article : 401 wordsIn cool, sunny weather H.M.S. Renown anchored two miles from Port Louis, which is a picturesque town straggling along the shores of a pretty bay with a background ...
Article : 149 wordsMany wireless listeners in Australian had the interesting experience of hearing Queen Wilhelmina of Holland broadcasting an address intended for her subjects in the ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Secretary of State for the Dominions and Colonies (Mr. Amery) to-day reviewed the work of the Colonial Conference. After referring to the adoption of proposals for ...
Article : 322 wordsInterest in the financial result of the operations of the Tramways Board for the current financial year is increasing as the end of the year aproaches. There is ...
Article : 196 wordsProposals now under consideration by officers of the City Council provide for interesting measures to relieve the traffic congestion in Swanston street. Details were ...
Article : 631 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) announced last night that Cabinet had approved the appointment of Dr. A. E. V. Richardson, director of the Waite ...
Article : 325 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—The second arrest in connection with the atrocities against aborigines near the Forrest River Mission, in the East Kimberely division of the far ...
Article : 200 wordsWhen the discussion of the Trades Union Bill was resumed in committee in the House of Commons, Mr. G. Lansbury (Labour) moved an amendment to omit the ...
Article : 166 wordsOutside Cook's Tourist Bureau a Brisbane merchant, Mr. John Walker, who was seeing the sights of Paris, accepted an offer made by a compatriot named John ...
Article : 169 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—While playing in a polo tournament to-day Mr. Jack Ryrie, of Penally Station, Gulargambone, was thrown from his pony, as the result of ...
Article : 153 wordsIt is reported that the issue of a loan of £3,000,000 by the Government of Queensland is imminent. Interest in Queensland. ...
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Article : 96 words"If people to whom the department has sent demands for explanation of their failure to vote at the State election in May disregard the letters prosecutions will ...
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Article : 75 wordsThe War Ministry vote, in which no provision is made for the salary of the Sirdar, a fact which caused a crisis between Great Britain and the Egyptian Government, was ...
Article : 136 wordsThe British Parliamentary Labour party gave a luncheon in the House of Commons to the Premier of Queensland (Mr. McCormack). ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 2 Jun 1927, Page 11
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