CANBERRA, Friday.—After a debate which began at 12.30 a.m. and ended at 6.30 a.m. to-day the Senate passed the Wheatgrowers' Relief Bill. ...
Article : 205 wordsAn excellent reception has been accorded the issue of Treasury certificates carrying interest at 2¼ per cent, to discharge 727,000,000 dollars (about ...
Article : 377 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Early action by the Commonwealth Government to simplify its present system of taxation is strongly recommended by the Royal ...
Article : 2,146 wordsPresident de Valera was listened to with profound attention by a crowded Senate to-day when he made a long speech on the report of the Imperil Economic ...
Article : 553 wordsIt is understood that the cash applications for the Commonwealth conversion loan of £16,647,000, bearing interest at 3¾ per cent. for 15 years, have ...
Article : 138 wordsThe result of the architectural competition for designs for the MacRobeitson Girls High School at Albert Park were announced by the director of Education ...
Article : 402 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—After an unusually busy period, in which the House of Representatives sat continuously. with only brief respites for meals, from 11 a.m., ...
Article : 313 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—In consequence of the injury to the English player, F. J. Perry, the second lawn tennis Test match between Great Britain and Australia. ...
Article : 363 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Chamberlain) moved in the House of Commons to-day a money resolution on which the bill will be based to carry out ...
Article : 588 wordsDespite the master bakers' decision at a meeting on Wednesday to increase the price of bread, as a result of the flour tax, bread was obtainable in several suburbs ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 561 wordsTo enable the Assistant Minister for Customs (Mr. Guy) to leave for his home in Tasmania early this morning, a Royal Australian Air Force Wapiti 'plane was ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 214 wordsDetectives engaged in investigating the shooting of Jack Devine aged 34 years a show man of St. Kilda in Queen's avenue neal the Caulfield racecotuse, on ...
Article : 277 wordsWhat is considered to be a complete healing of the breach between Mr. Henry Ford and the Roosevelt Administration was revealed to-day in a speech which Mr. ...
Article : 82 wordsAlthough it was intended previously to charge the amount of the tax to bakers upon the delivery of the flour, flour millers have decided now that they will ...
Article : 49 wordsIn view of Duleepsinhji's statement, when he announced that he was retiring from cricket, that the Indian Board of Control felt that no Indian should be ...
Article : 181 wordsOn behalf of the State hospitals' division of the Hospital Employees' Federation, a letter was sent to the Premier (Sir Stanley Argyle) this week, ...
Article : 98 wordsThe most largely attended meeting that the council of the Chamber of Shipping has ever held adopted, with only three dissentients, the trampship owners' ...
Article : 273 wordsSir,—Every thoughtful person will regret to see Sir Henry Gullett go back on his avowed policy of protection, for the flour tax is actually another form of ...
Article : 211 wordsDr. John Rex Godsall, of Sydney, who complained of the adverse effect which police court publicity had had upon his practice, was fined £85, with £21 costs. ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Australian Press Association understands that the M.C.C. committee on Monday is unlikely to reopen the controversy on "bodyline" bowling, but probably will ...
Article : 76 wordsThe question of the "internationalisation" of civil and military aviation was raised in the House of Lords to-day by Lord Allen of Hurtwood, who urged the ...
Article : 535 wordsFour Canadian coastguardsmen were captured to-day by the crew of the ship Kromhout, who were suspected of rumrunning. The crew turned on the ...
Article : 116 wordsThree men, including a Government inspector, were killed and another was wounded in a fight with revolvers between a United states border patrol and liquor ...
Article : 93 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Captain Eden) said that no liquor marketing agreement had been ...
Article : 81 wordsAn episode was recalled at Calcutta to-day when Captain Freiherr Harsdorf von Endernuorf, commander of the German ciuiser Karlsruhe, was presented by ...
Article : 72 wordsForty convicts are reported to have been killed when jets of steam from the boilers were used to suppress a mutiny on the convict ship La Martiniere, which left ...
Article : 124 wordsIndia's right to retaliate against Dominions and colonies which have discriminated against her was asserted in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, when a ...
Article : 129 wordsThe fact that England and Wales are becoming steadily more sober is revealed by licensing statistics for 1932 that were issued to-day. They show that there ...
Article : 64 wordsA message from Moscow states that the manuscript of Sir Walter Scott's novel, "The Talisman," which had been lost since it was sold at auction for £1,000 ...
Article : 112 wordsDARWIN, Friday.—On arrival at Darwin the condensers on the Stuart, one of the five new destroyers for Australia, were found to be leaking and the ...
Article : 258 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—To complete the legislative programme the House of Representatives to-day passed 14 bills and resolutions and at 6 p.m. it adjourned to a ...
Article : 147 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Cocks (Lab.) inquired why candidates for the examination in modern history set by the Police College were required to give ...
Article : 144 wordsSir Park Goff (Con.) inquired in the House of Commons to-day whether, in view of the Governments decision to discountenance lotteries and sweepstakes, it ...
Article : 118 wordsThe price of gold to-day is £6/6/9 an ounce, compaied with £6/6/ yesterday. The price is equal to £7/16/5 an ounce ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Premier of Prussia (Herr Goering) has authorised the liberation before Christmas of 5,000 persons who have been interned in concentration camps. ...
Article : 44 wordsDollars are quoted at 5.12 to £1. ...
Article : 12 wordsSevere burns and shock were sustained by George Robertson, aged 78 years, a boarder at Ullswater guest house Royal parade, Parkville late last night. He was ...
Article : 102 wordsThe political correspondent of the Daily Express foreshadows the restoration in the next Budget of 5 per cent of the 10 per cent by which the salaries of ...
Article : 53 wordsSo far aircraft fitted with hulls have never been catapulted, but the firing of a Vickers amphibian 5 with a single Pegasus engine will shortly be carried out at the ...
Article : 65 wordsAfter having ceased work on Thursday because they objected to the piecework rates under the new textile award about 150 women weavers employed at the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Probate court has given judgement for President de Valera against John Fitzpatritk of Dublin, whose sister, aged 72 years died in 1932, and left President de ...
Article : 84 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Reports of disaffection among the crews of the destroyers at Darwin were discounted officially to-day. The Assistant Minister ...
Article : 84 wordsFollowing a consistory of cardinals Bernedette Soubirons, a peasant girl will be proclaimed a saint on the celebration of the Feast of the Immaculate ...
Article : 101 wordsStorm damage to the Great Ocean Road is not so extensive as it was feared at first and Mr. C. R. Herschell honorary managing director of the Great Ocean ...
Article : 79 wordsIt is announced that Finland will, as hitherto, pay the full amount of her war debt instalment of 229,620 dollars (about £45,924) that will become due to the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 9 Dec 1933, Page 25
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