The opening session of the Peace-in-lndustry Conference, the mo most monentous of its kind over hold in Australia, was attended by 37 detegates, representing employers and employees. The photograph shows the conference in session at the Town Hall. The employers' delegates are on the left and those of the employees on the right. In the chair is Sir Wallace Bruce, who has on his right Sir Hugo Hirst and on his left Sir Arthur Ducklmm, members of the British Economic Delegation. On Sir Hugo Hirst's right is Mr. James MacDougall, convener of the conference. Mr. H. C, Gibson (president of the Trades Hall Council) is standing in the right foreground. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 114 wordsAmended wireless telegraphy regulations to cover the activities of amateurs have been drafted by the Postal department, and details were announced by the ...
Article : 479 wordsMore bitter cxchanRcs occurred in the Legislative Assembly yesterday morning when Sir William McPherson (Premier) sought leave to give notice that on Tuesday ...
Article : 342 wordsAnother party of Boy Scouts from Great Britain, brought out by the Boy Scouts' Association of Victoria, arrived by the steamer Hobson's Bay yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 28 wordsTwo of the most outstanding figures at the Industrial Peace Conference caught by the camera they stood on the portico of the Town Hall discussing the work of the conference just before it began. On the left is Sir Wallace Bruce, chairman of the conference, and on the right is Mr. W. J. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 74 wordsMr. J. Chiristoy, vice-presidient of the Sydney Fancy Pigeon Club, photographed on the steamer Hobson's Bay yesterday with a collection of 106 pigeons from Great Britain and Holland, which he has brought out for exhibition purposes. The bird in his hand won a cup at the Scottish ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 62 wordsThe State Electricity commission announced yesterday that satisfactory progress is being made with the placing of the contracts for the briquetting factory ...
Article : 379 wordsThe accompanying resolutions were passed at a meeting of the social service department of the Methodist Church, held yesterday: ...
Article : 218 wordsThe feat of riding round Australia "solo" on a motor-cycle will soon have been accomplished by Jeff Munro, who, having started northward from Sydney, reached Melbourne yesterday from Adelaide. He is shown above at the Post office on arrival. Bolow is a photograph taken of him in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 67 wordsMr. T. M. Burke, of Melbourne, is the purchaser of Richmond Park, Adelaide, which has been well known to sportsmen as Mr. L. F. Aldridge's racing stable ...
Article : 98 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.— An aeroplane, known as Wackett's Warrigal, which was designed by Wing Commander Wackett, and built under his supervision at the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 629 wordsTwo of the flower sellers behind a great bank of blooms at the Christmas Fair in aid of the Homoeopathic Hospital at the Town Hall. The fair will bo open again to-day and to-morrow. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 38 wordsAn incident In the first Test match at Brisbane. A. P. F. Chapman, the English captain, just fails to catch Grimmett in the slips. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 27 wordsMr. Justice Mann had before him in the First Chil Court yesterday what he described as a "most unforunate action." [?]erman Anders, of Hexham, in the Hamden ...
Article : 239 wordsTwo men had narrow escapes when the stone wall of a briquette store, containing hundreds of tons of briquettes, collapsed at North Brunswick. The briquettes, which had been heaped up almost to the roof of the building, poured out into Albion street, blocking the traffic. The photograph shows the briquettes and portions of the collapsed wall. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 60 wordsWomen riders being judged In the "Ladies' Equestrienne Turnout" at the 57th show of the Dandenong Agricultural and Pastoral Society, held yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 wordsSir,— This morning I went to His [?]esty's Theatre to book seats for to[?] performance. I arrived at 8 a.m., finding a dozen small boys at the head ...
Article : 180 wordsSir,—"Tax Fairly" seems to take it for granted that petrol is used only by motorists. This spiirit is used for a large number of stationary engines. A tax on petrol is ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 7 Dec 1928, Page 5
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