CANBERRA, Thursday.—Reactions to the Federal Budget in the lobbies to-day forecast a storm among Country party members before the Budget proposals are passed. While the party recognises the need for increased taxation the ...
Article : 925 wordsThe champion Clydesdale mare and the best Clydesdale in the Show. Mr. S. E. Jorgensen's Box Vale Flash Princess. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 22 wordsA profit of £53,829 on all its operations for the last financial year was announced yesterday by the State Electricity Commission. The ...
Article : 587 wordsThe Rev. J. H. Laity, formerly of the Serpentine Anglican Church was inducted by Archdeacon Herring to the charge of the parochial district of Newstead. The ...
Article : 304 words—(Edwin G. Adamson.) Miss Joan Purtell, aged l8 years, of 29 The Grove, Moreland, last night won the fifth heat of Mack's Deanna Durbin ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 95 wordsOnce again the ban on the sale of Board of Works beef cattle was debated in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, once again ...
Article : 865 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The Federal Opposition has decided to attempt to have disallowed regulations made by the Defence Department some weeks ago to ...
Article : 268 wordsLooking no more than her 19 years, Mme. Irina Baronova, leading ballerina or the Covent Garden Russian Ballet Company, arrived in Melbourne by the ...
Article : 290 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday. — Under strong and general competition wool prices were firm for most descriptions at the concluding auctions of the second sale of the ...
Article : 310 wordsOwing to the heavy entries received this year particularly in the musical section, the South Street Society has found it necessary to engage an extra adjudicator. ...
Article : 125 wordsIn order to avoid the curtailment of the community service tendered by the Bendigo Young Women's Christian Association, on appeal is being launched for ...
Article : 158 wordsTwo additional through trains to Kew would be provided shortly, the president of the Kew Train Service Restoration Association (Mr. L. H. Hagon) announced ...
Article : 130 wordsAs a tribute to the memory of the Rev. C. G. Bright Parker, late chaplain to His Majesty's Royal Melbourne Regiment, the Last Post was sounded at the conclusion ...
Article : 182 wordsThe chief president of the United Country party (Mr. H. L. Simpson) said yesterday that the Federal Budget would come as a great shock to primary producers ...
Article : 507 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Estimates prepared by the Federal Treasury indicate that the Government is almost certain to benefit from the operation in the ...
Article : 226 wordsWANGARATTA, Thursday.—At the meeting of the Victorian Broom Growers' Association this afternoon there was considerable discussion among delegates ...
Article : 130 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — The average price for wool during the first three days' sales in Sydney this week was £12/11/2 a bale, and 9.6d. per lb. ...
Article : 253 wordsPercy Jones, conductor of the Geelong City Band, has composed a march to bo known as the Geelong Centenary Festival March, which has been accepted by the ...
Article : 146 wordsA discovery made only this year, that radio-active derivatives of chemical elements could be detected and traced through the human body, was described by the ...
Article : 147 wordsLETHBRIDGE Thursday. — Voting at the extraordinary election for the Steiglitz Riding seat in the Bannockburn Shire Council resulted:—W. G. Spiller, 87; R. W. ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Roland Edwards, who is coming to Australia as associate producer of Clare Booth's sensational play "The Women," will arrive in Sydney on Monday. After ...
Article : 128 wordsJohn Alfred Hutt, who was found guilty of perjury in General Sessions on Tuesday, was yesterday sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour ...
Article : 102 wordsThe secretary of the Retail Tobacco Sellers' Association of Victoria (Mr. v. g. Price) said yesterday that naturally all sections of the tobacco industry were very ...
Article : 386 wordsBetween Japan and Great Britain there would be no war, irrespective of temporary estrangements that might be foreshadowed by the agents of ...
Article : 157 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—A suggestion that certain undesirable types of American literature had been banned by the Customs Department because British ...
Article : 129 wordsThe increase in the war risk insurances on Australian wool coming to Europe by way of the Mediterranean has had the immediate effect of hardening the price ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. L. R. D. Stahle, honorary general secretary and treasurer of the Liberal Country party, said yesterday that under no conditions would he be a candidate for ...
Article : 64 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Alleged deceit by a girl and her mother to obtain compensation was referred to bofore the Workers' Compensation Commission to-day ...
Article : 213 wordsAn out-peddock of 72 acres at Yarpturk sold by auction on account of the estate of the late G. B. Nicol was bought by the lessee, Mr. D. Gleeson, at [?]21/10/ an acre, ...
Article : 93 wordsSALE, Thursday.—Mr. Donald Manson, farmer and grazier, of Maffra, has decided to stand in the United Australia party interests at the by-election for the ...
Article : 38 wordsOn the motion for the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. Kent Hughes (U.A.P., Kew) said that he had heard that an advisory architect had ...
Article : 140 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — The Royal Netherlands Indies Airways to-day announced a change in the summer schedule of its Lockheed aircraft flying between ...
Article : 81 wordsBET BET (Shire). — Councillor J. H. Benjamin; £70. BIRCHIP (Shire). — Councillor A. E. Carne; £50 (dry). ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Commonwealth Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee Ltd. announced yesterday that at its meeting held in Sydney last week it was decided to raise the ...
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Advertising : 92 wordsBidding at the sales of wool to-day continued active. A moderate selection was submitted and the bulk was sold to the British trade and the Continent at ...
Article : 99 wordsCommenting on the Australian Budget, "The Times" says:—"It reflects on a smaller scale the main features of the recent Budgets of B-itain. In Australia, ...
Article : 122 wordsA building contract for over £50,000 has been let to Hansen and Yuncken Pty. Ltd. for the erection of a six-storied hospital on the north side of Moreland ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 236 wordsYARRAWONGA, Thursday. — Firewood is now available at one penny a ton in Yarrawonga, and any person may take as much as he likes at this price. ...
Article : 99 wordsExports of wool from South Africa in August were 2,097,000lb. of greasy, including 1,054,000lb. to France and 318,000lb, to Great Britain Shipments or scoured ...
Article : 45 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The appointment of a special committee of the Federal Parliament to investigate expenditure proposed by the Government in ...
Article : 113 wordsAuthority for the preparation of plans and specifications for new fire stations at Brighton and Port Melbourne was given by the Metropolitan Fire Brigades ...
Article : 99 wordsCANBERRA. Thursday. — After a slight recovery in July there was another retrogression in the average price-level of commodities exported during August. ...
Article : 107 wordsWANGARATTA, Thursday. — At the meeting of the Wangaratta Base Hospital committee last night a letter was received from the Public Health Commission ...
Article : 79 wordsMILDURA, Thursday.—An Inquest into the death of William Henry Higgs, of Billabong, who died on September 17, was held by the deputy coroner (Mr. J. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe fund which has been opened in Broadmeadows to save the pine trees in the churchyard of St. Paul's Church of England, Broadmeadows, now amounts to ...
Article : 85 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society, held recently, Miss Kate Baker wns presented with a life membership certificate ...
Article : 71 wordsCharged with having on September [?] broken into the Adelaide National Art Gallery and stolen a gold cup and gold coins, valued at £154, Walter R. ...
Article : 71 wordsOUYEN, Thursday. — When carrying a lamp Mrs. Craigen, wife of Mr. W. Craigen of Gypsum, stumbled. The lamp fell and burst into flames which spread ...
Article : 62 wordsMILLEWA, Thursday. — The severe wind and duststorms which swept the district last week severely damaged crops, which were already backward. ...
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