Based on an assessment of the value of human life, an economic loss to the community of £500,000 resulted from the 344 fatal accidents which occurred in 1929. ...
Article : 753 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Arrangements have been made by the Federal Ministry for the Commonnwealth Bank to make credits available to savings banks, rural ...
Article : 402 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—In spite of a protest by the prosecuting officer two honorary justices to-day maintained then right to sit on the bench at the West Maitland ...
Article : 381 wordsIn preparation for the opening of the session of the State Parliament on April 2, members of the Nationalist party will hold a presessional meeting this afternoon. ...
Article : 482 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Stonehaven gave a reception at Government House yesterday evening. ...
Article : 19 wordsOne of the most remarkable of the services of inter[?]ssion against religious persecution in Russia which were held throughout the country to-day took place in the parish ...
Article : 498 wordsWhen the French Prime Minister (M. Taidieu) returned to London to-night from his visit to Chequers, where he had attended a meeting between the British and French ...
Article : 696 wordsAn anxious week is before the Cabinet in the House of Commons. The committee stage of the Coalmines Bill will end on Thursday, which will be a critical day. ...
Article : 260 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Councillor H. D. Luxton) was last night elected president of the Old Melburnians, in siccession to Mr. R. W. E. Wilmot. The Lord Mayor ...
Article : 1,090 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Conrad Donald in Thurn, director of Komposill, Universal Limited, who revealed the Zinovieff letter on the eve of the general ...
Article : 217 wordsFollowing upon the remarkable broadcast of Rear-Admiral Byrd's speech from Dunedin, New Zealand, last Tuesday, Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd. ...
Article : 201 wordsOverwhelmed by a breaker while standing on a rock waiting to be photographed near the beach at San Remo on Sunday afternoon, James Paterson, aged 25 years, of ...
Article : 300 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—An outbreak of fire in the engine-room of the oil-burning steamer Hobson's Bay this evening has delayed the vessel's departure for London. ...
Article : 266 wordsThe body of General Primo de Rivera, the former Spanish "Dictator," whose sudden death occurred yesterday, has been embalmed in accordance with Spanish ...
Article : 341 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A storm is brewing in the Labour party following the proclamation of new ordinances governing miners' rights on the New Guinea ...
Article : 337 wordsBy meeting yesterday to protest against the retrospective clauses of the Land Tax Assessment Bill representatives of the graziers' associations hope to direct public ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Shell company has been informed that Mr. David Smith and Mr. M. W. Shiers, Sydney airmen, who will leave Windham on a flight to England on March ...
Article : 369 wordsAs the offer to redeem immediately Commonwealth 6 per cent. securities maturing on December 15, in cases in which holders did not desire to convert either now or on ...
Article : 299 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—A proposal made at a meeting of the Federal Capital Commission to-day by the elected representative (Dr. Alcorn) to the effect that the ...
Article : 198 wordsA six-a-side tennis tournament, London versus Paris, comprising twelve singles and nine doubles, resulted in favour of Paris by 12 matches to 9, but Austin succeeded ...
Article : 113 wordsAccording to the latest advices received by the Postal department, the damage to letter mail on the Comorin is not as heavy as might have been expected. The ...
Article : 217 wordsThe installation of Lord Somers as Most Worshipful Grand Master of the United Grand Masonic Lodge of Victoria will take place in the Town Hall at half-past 7 ...
Article : 258 wordsThe "Financial News," in a leading article on Australian exchange, expreses the opinion that the Australian authorities are very wisely doing all in their power to ...
Article : 87 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—To assist the wool industry in its present depression the Government to-day decided to reduce railways freight on wool by 10 per cent. from ...
Article : 136 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—The Hotel Acton, which is to be converted into offices for the Commonwealth Patents and Statisticians' departments, was closed to-day. ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Minister for Health (Mr. Beckett) announced yesterday that when estimates for the coming financial year were being considered he would recommend that the ...
Article : 111 wordsPERTH, Monday.—In brilliant sunshine, and before about 2,000 persons, the Australian Davis Cup team played several exhibition matches in Perth to-day while ...
Article : 88 wordsIncreasing and protracted unemployment is necessitating the giving of considerable relief by the municipalities until the State unemployed insurance poan comes into ...
Article : 62 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Although the House of Representatives will meet this week on three days only, it is the intention of the Ministry to ask members to meet on ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Registered Clubs' Association of Victoria, on behalf of similar associations in all the States, has written to the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Theodore) asking that the ...
Article : 102 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—It is probable that the New South Wales Ministry will introduce legislation before the close of the present session of Parliament to provide ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Mr. Lyons), the Minister for Defence (Mr. Green), and the Minister for Markets and Transport (Mr. Parker Moloney) left Melbourne ...
Article : 63 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.—Diving from a yacht at Outer Harbour, on Sunday afternoon, a daughter of Mr. P. J. Flannagan, of Wakefield street, Kent Town, burst a ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Victorian Flower-growers' Association and the committee of the Lord Mayor's Fund have decided that Flower Day will be held on Wednesday, May 7. Mr. Glangille ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 18 Mar 1930, Page 7
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