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Article : 984 wordsA special meeting of the emergency committee of the Australasian Council of Trade Unions will be held at the Trades Hall on Monday morning to consider ...
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Article : 1,574 words"The Navigation Act, workers' and seamen's compensation, payment of full wages for sick and injured seamen, indulgences of annual holidays, time off, overtime, ...
Article : 811 wordsSeveral hundred British built motor vehicles formed a procession through the city streets yesterday to the British Trade exhibition. Every type of motor-vehicle, ...
Article : 621 wordsIn order to introduce Miss Frances Dillon to Melbourne theatregoers, Mr. E. J. Carroll has arranged with Mr. Perey Hutchison to present a comedy entitled "The ...
Article : 146 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—To protest against the importation of foreign musicians while members of the Australian Musicians' Union are unemployed, ...
Article : 256 wordsIn view of the approaching Easter conference of the Victorian Labour party, considerable activity is being displayed by the Communists, both in the unions and ...
Article : 295 wordsAfter having been closed for interior reconstruction and decoration the Victory Picture Theatre, at the occerner of Carlisle and Barkly streets, St. ...
Article : 152 wordsSir,—In answer to the Rev. T. W. Davis, the first English stamps, the one penny black and twopenny blue, were printed by Messrs. Perkins, Bacon, and Co., not Bacon ...
Article : 86 wordsAdded interest should attach to the programme at Hoyt's De Luxe Theatre for many months through the exhibitionof a remarkable series of films depicting the lives and hibits of practically ...
Article : 180 wordsWODONGA, Friday.—While Mr. James Sheather, aged 55 years, grazier, was leading one of his horses around the enclosure at the Corryong races yesterday he ...
Article : 182 wordsPERTH, Friday.—In the Criminal Court today, Samuel Boyd Gravenall, journalist, was found guilty of having on December 6, 1926, contracted a doubt of £125 with Thomas. James Hardwick ...
Article : 173 wordsSir,—Having read Sir William Brunton's letter, on Match 13, I should like to say a few words in praise of the Big Biother movement I left England in September, ...
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Article : 87 wordsThe next picture to be shown at the Capitol Theatre will be "Camille," adapted from the novel of Alexandre Dumas. junior, which will begin an extended season on Saturday, March 31. Gilbert ...
Article : 95 wordsThe annual meetings of shareholders of Huddart, Parker Limited was held yesterday. Moving the adoption of the annual report and balance-sheet, the chairman of directors (Mr. ...
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Article : 41 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—A railway-man's but at Pukeraus Bay was burnt. The only occupant, a porter named Archibald James Amundsen, single, aged 26 years, was fatally injured. The fire was ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 17 Mar 1928, Page 34
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