A threatened "stonewall" by the Parliamentary United Country party on certain clauses in the Transport (Regulation) Bill relating to two-ton trucks caused an ...
Article : 1,310 wordsMOE, Tuesday.—The police have been unable to apprehend a man who by his attacks on residents of Coalville and the Two Mile, near Moe, on Friday afternoon, ...
Article : 505 wordsLeopold Harris who is undergoing a sentence of 14 years' penal servitude for his complicity in huge fire insurance frauds, told an astounding story of ...
Article : 453 words"The Navy could no longer guarantee the safety of food and oil supplies in the event of war, as the cruisers available are pitifully inadequate in numbers and ...
Article : 264 wordsCHILTERN, Tuesday.—When a motortruck and trailer belonging to O. Gilpin Ltd., of Melbourne, was being driven across a small culvert on the Hume ...
Article : 205 wordsArrangements have been made by the State Ministry to obtain the services of Mr. R. Lee, of Dunedin, New Zealand, to make an expert review of the position of ...
Article : 341 wordsAccording to the President of the Reichsbank (Dr. Schacht) Germany's declining exports and the dumping of currency prevent her from maintaining her ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 221 wordsIn view of the decision to withhold from shipment 20 per cent, of butter graded for export in the Commonwealth, negotiations have been proceeding between the ...
Article : 131 wordsMeetings of the Australian Dairy Produce Export Board, the Australian Dairy Council, and the Australian Stabilisation committee will be held in Sydney next ...
Article : 106 wordsMrs. Alice Durie, of Alexander street, Cessnock, died at the Cessnock Hospital yesterday from burns believed to have been received as the result of her ...
Article : 120 wordsA renewal of violence in Cuba to-day resulted in the killing of a daughter of Senor Portfirio Franca, a former banker, who was a member of the committee which ...
Article : 84 wordsOpening the Northern Ireland Parliament this afternoon, the Governor (the Duke of Abercorn) said that the number of unemployed that had been registered ...
Article : 93 wordsThe city editor of the "Daily Telegraph" says that Dr. Schacht's decision amounts to unwarrantable default. The "Financial Times" says that Dr. ...
Article : 284 wordsThe Commonwealth loan 0f£16,647,000 has closed. It is understood that the percentage of conversions is highly satisfacfactory. Consequently cash applicants ...
Article : 246 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—In the opinion of the secretary of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia (Mr. Harley Malcolm), who is also a member of both ...
Article : 205 wordsIt is understood that a well-known Californian wine firm has contracted for a supply of Australian wine for the purpose of blending with domestic wine. Australian ...
Article : 195 wordsFor the purpose of providing all the food that Germany needs, the Ministry for Labour has prepared a "back to the land" campaign under which the existing ...
Article : 112 wordsSir Alan Anderson, chairman of the Orient Steam Navigation Co., in his address to shareholders at the annual meeting to-day, said that the year's operating ...
Article : 502 wordsThe United States Government increased the price of gold to-day by five cents an ounce. The price is now 34.06 dollars an ounce. The dollar closed at ...
Article : 101 wordsForeign bond dealers have strongly protested to the committee of the Stock Exchange against Germany's default, severely criticising the German policy of using ...
Article : 58 wordsAfter having had an interview with the Tramways Board, at which complaints were made of the rosters drawn up for the Christmas holidays, the executiic of ...
Article : 99 wordsAn amazing story of collusion in the original appointment of receiving for the Insull group of companies in 1932 was told in the Federal Court to-day. It ...
Article : 223 wordsHOBART, Tuesday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons), who has returned to his home at Devonport, said that the result of the conversion loan was ...
Article : 54 wordsThe encouraging disclosure made in the League of Nations' statistics for October that imports of 60 countries were 8.3 per cent higher and the exports 16.3 per cent. ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Minister for Finance (M.Bonnet) prefaced his attempt to pass the Budget this week by declaring that France would not abandon the gold standard. He ...
Article : 72 wordsInquiries made in Berlin by the Australian Press Association indicate that the diver named Costello, from Sydney, New South Wales, who is said to have taken ...
Article : 311 wordsJust as rather Christmas was about to arrive at a paity in the A.B.C. Cafe in Flinders lane, near Queen street, last evening the party was interrupted by a ...
Article : 123 wordsResentment was expressed at a meeting of the executive of the Tramway Employees' Association on Monday night at the report that policemen were still being ...
Article : 120 wordsA message from Rockville (Maryland) states that what is believed to be the first case of its kind was opened there to-day, when the State began an attempt to ...
Article : 126 wordsSpeaking at Stoke to-day the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir John Simon) expressed the belief that it would be possible by Christmas to say that in ...
Article : 97 wordsWhen he lost his grip on a rope on which he was swinging under the Maribyrnong railway bridge, William Munro, aged 12 years, of Gower street, ...
Article : 217 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Consul-General for Belgium in Australia and New Zealand (Mr. H. Segaert) has been advised by the Consul in Wellington (Mr. A. ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Government is experiencing great difficulty in finding three "supermen" to serve on the commission that will bring order out of chaos and bankruptey in ...
Article : 93 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Captain Anthony Eden) said that so far as he was aware it was ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Dean of Liverpool (the Very Rev. F. W. Dwelly), after having seen Epstein's bronze, the "Madonna and the Child," which is being exhibited at the ...
Article : 115 wordsSurprise was caused in Parliament to-day by the announcement that Sidky Pasha, who resigned as Prime Minister in September, had withdrawn his ...
Article : 67 wordsA sudden reversal of policy by the Ministry in the Legislative Assembly in deciding not to accept certain amendments to the Transport Bill by the ...
Article : 216 wordsThe High Commissioner for Australia (Mr.Bruce) was interviewed to-day regarding suggestions by members of the Australian Board of Control that he ...
Article : 168 wordsThe aviation correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that the estimates of the Royal Air Force for 1934 provide for four new squadrons, consisting of ...
Article : 101 wordsSYDNEY,Tuesday.—Robert Valentine Rowles,aged 48 years,of Randle street, Newtown, was drowned in Botany Bay to-day when he threw out the anchor, ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says that as a further" step in his programme for reducing farm surpluses the Secretary for Agriculture ...
Article : 170 wordsA message from Lhasa states that the Dalai Lama of Tibet, the ruler of the country, has died, aged 60 years. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. Justice Johnson has granted leave for the United Ireland party's legal advisers to apply to the High Court for a writ of habeas corpus with respect to the ...
Article : 151 wordsIn response to its appeal for cheer to aid distressed families in having a brighter Christmas, the State Relief Committee has had generous support to date. More ...
Article : 170 wordsThe price of gold to-day is £6/6/9 an ounce, the same as yesterday The price is equal to £7/16/5 an ounce for fine gold in Australian currency, ...
Article : 54 wordsWith the approach of an area of low pressure from the Great Australian Bight Victoria is in danger of a return of rainy and thundery weather. Yesterday the ...
Article : 98 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—A Christmas card has been received by the Queensland Cricket Association from the Marylebone Cricket Club, conveying greetings. It ...
Article : 54 wordsThe steamer Exarch ran ashore at midnight on Saturday, near Cape Plakoti, Cyprus. A wireless message announced the accident, but nothing further was ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 20 Dec 1933, Page 7
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