Justifying the action of the Federal Parliament in increasing the salary of members by £75 a year a statement issued yesterday by the publicity branch ...
Article : 346 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Federal Ministry gave an assurance to-day that wheatgrowers would be assisted this year unless there was a marked recovery of ...
Article : 956 wordsThe price of gold was quoted at 32.12 dollars, or 1.07 dollars above the price in London when the pound sterling was quoted at 4.75½ dollars at the opening of ...
Article : 491 wordsThe fate of Mr. Noel Panter, the Munich correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph." who has been arrested now rests with the legal authorities at ...
Article : 350 wordsAs the shipbuilding market is Great Britain is favourable at present to the purchase of new tonnage, it is likely that orders will shortly be placed in British ...
Article : 586 wordsThe magnificent new harbour at Halfa, the first to be constructed in Palestine since Herod bulit Port Cœsarea in honour of his Imperial patron. was formally ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 601 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Serious charges against the administration of North Australia against a man who was formerly an official of the Roper River ...
Article : 836 wordsBetty Edith Jones, aged eight years, and her sister, Eileen, aged five years, of Florston road, Boronia, were drowned in a dam 200 yards from their home last evening. ...
Article : 233 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Henry Cosgrave, a tramway employee, of North Terrace, Hackney, while fishing at Port Elliot to-day, was swept off the rocks by ...
Article : 74 wordsCANBERRA Wednesday.—Returns to the end of October, issued to-day, showed that Customs revenue for the first four months of this financial year was greater ...
Article : 236 wordsWhen Parliament reassembles on Tuesday the first subject of importance to be debated will be disarmament. The Foreign Secretary (Sir John Simon) will be the ...
Article : 414 wordsA hundred newly-maried men have been engaged by a cigarette factory to replace girls who have just become their wives. The owners of the factory have offered ...
Article : 48 wordsA 14th century church at Breaslau has been reopened with the spire surmounted by a swastika, the emblem of the Nazis, instead of a cross. ...
Article : 36 wordsAn extraordinary dispute has arisen between Great Britain and Canada with respect to discussions between the British Government and the Soviet regarding the ...
Article : 264 wordsThe New York City Council was saved from acute financial embarrassment and inability to meet the city payrolls to-day when bankers placed 25,000,000 dollars ...
Article : 100 wordsLloyd's shipping report says that there is an indication that the bottom of the shipbuilding slump has already been reached. The world tonnage of ships ...
Article : 94 wordsMany anonymous contributions have been made to the Lord Mayor's Fund during the appeal for the hospitals and charities. Among cheques received ...
Article : 151 wordsGeorges Sarret and Catherine and Philomene Schmidt, who were charged at Alx-en-Provence with having murdered Chambon, a former priest, and two ...
Article : 148 wordsThe governors of five mid-Western States and representatives of four others signed to-night a petition to President. Roosevelt urging that a code be ...
Article : 56 wordsAlthough he has been paralysed in one leg for 2½ years, Mervyn Bennison. aged 13 years, of Manning road, East Malvern, has always wanted to ride a bicycle. His ...
Article : 133 wordsMemories of his pioneer flight to Australia with his brother, Sir Ross Smith, and his companions, in 1919, compared with the luxurious air-travel nowadays. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 189 wordsA French aeroplane that was caught in a fog while it was on the way from Switzerland to Le Bourget, tore off the tops of trees in a forest, for 500 yards before ...
Article : 140 words"We are faced with Japanese competition on all sides," declared Sir Henry Page Croft, Conservative member of the House of Commons, at a meeting ...
Article : 139 wordsSir,—It would appear that "Charity" is either not aware of the terms of the charter given to the executive and council of the Lord Mayor's Fund in the ...
Article : 401 wordsThe newspapers give prominence to the suggestion of the Japanese Minister for War ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 87 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith said to-day that after the London to Melbourne Centenary air race he would renounce all long-distance ...
Article : 112 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Government statistician's estimate of the areas sown or expected to be sown to wheat during the current season is 4,837,000 ...
Article : 101 wordsGoing as a peacemaker among Australian aborigines with unpleasant reputations is no new experience for the leader of the expedition to Arnhem Land (the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 434 wordsDe Verneuilh, a French air "ace,:" who accompanied the French Minister for Air (M. Cot) to Russia recently, was, with his mechanic and a wireles soperator, ...
Article : 56 wordsOfficial circles disagree with the suggestion made by the naval correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" that Japan would favour the abolition of ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Senate committee's investigation of the affairs of the Chase National Bank disclosed to-day that Mr. Albert Wiggin a former president of the bank. began the ...
Article : 206 wordsA startling story about a foreign sirship of the Graf Zeppelin type spying over France is told by a senior military officer in the Petlt Journal." He says that on ...
Article : 86 wordsAs 50 poultry experts from different parts of Canada cheered loudly as if they were at a football match, a White Leghorn hen, owned by Mr. M. B. Rutledge, ...
Article : 74 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Several members of the Federal Parliament consider that as the Ministry has decided to grant £3,000 to Sir Charles ...
Article : 51 wordsBuyers of wheat cargoes are reticent owing to "bearish" reports about visible supplies of wheat in the United States and Canada, and owing to the uncertainty ...
Article : 136 wordsCANBERRA Wednesday.—The member for the Northern Territory (Mr. Nelson), on a motion for the adjournment of the House of Representatives to-day, ...
Article : 251 wordsThe second death arising fiom the fatal collision between 17 amateur cyclists who were racing in opposite directions on Epping road Thomastown. on Saturday ...
Article : 71 wordsThe organ of the Federation of British Industries in a forecast of trade in the last quarter of 1933. says that in spite of many unfavourable factors that are ...
Article : 152 wordsThe gold that was stolen by four men yesterday from a delivery van that was standing in Gray's Inn road in charge of a youth weighed lcwt. It was valued at ...
Article : 149 wordsThe "Daily Herald" says that anxiety has been aroused in official circles about Malta In consequence of a telegram stating that the "police and military are ...
Article : 72 wordsST. ARNAUD Wednesday— When Jean White, aged 12 years disappeared when swimming in a creek on Saturday Jeffrey Parry went to the rescue, He ...
Article : 144 wordsWheat futures are quoted:—December delivery, 85? cents (3/7) a bushel; May, 88¼ cents (3/8?; July, 85? cents (3/6½). The cash price of No. 2 hard winter wheat ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Free State Senate has passed the three constitutional bills which are intended to pave the way to the establishment of a republic. ...
Article : 95 wordsCANBERRA. Wednesday.—Requests made to the Minister for the Interior (Mr. Perkins) by western Australian members of the Federal Parliament for ...
Article : 139 wordsThe "Daily Herald" says that a new Clerva autogiro underwent remarkable tests at the Hanworth aerodrome at its top speed, which is now higher than that ...
Article : 107 wordsThe accounts of Dalgety and Co. Ltd. disclose a net profit of £85,438 A final dividend of 2 6 a share has been declared making 5 per cent for the year. A sum ...
Article : 73 wordsThe newspaper "Midi' says that at present the world's 10 leading lawn tennis players are ranked in accprdame with their performances during the last 12 ...
Article : 56 wordsThe price of gold to-day is £6 11/9, compared with £6 10 7 yesterday. The price is equal to about £8 2 8 an ounce for fine gold in Australian ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 2 Nov 1933, Page 9
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