The year 1930 will take a prominent place in the black periods of the building industry. The volume of trade touched one of the lawest levels on record. ...
Article : 777 wordsThe restriction of all alien immigration until the country's economic position improves sufficiently to warrant the lifting of the ban, has been decided upon by the ...
Article : 725 wordsThe State Government has traced the whole of the former Rothbury employees who were transferred to the Government service when control of the colliery was handed back to ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Government of India in its weekly review says that reports received from the provincial Governments for the first half of December show in most provinces attempts ...
Article : 731 wordsA tidal wave, probably the result of a marine earthquake, swept the Western Islands, north of New, Guinea, on Christmas Eve, according to information which has just reached Sydney ...
Article : 274 wordsA most serious position is fast developing in regard to the storage of wheat. Trade in grain has practically ceased in New South Wales, and very few, if any, shipments are ...
Article : 688 wordsMany employers and some industrial leaders declared yesterday that the abolition of rationing in private employ would riot only operate disastrously against a large body of ...
Article : 343 wordsFaced with the alternative of fight or surrender the insurgents at Tharrawaddy yesterday gave battle to a detachment of the Fifteenth Punjabi Regiment near the village ...
Article : 136 wordsExpressing confidence that the details of the trade agreement would be worked out in the next few days, the Australian Minister for Markets (Mr. Parker Moloney) to-day ...
Article : 283 wordsDeciding that Don Bradman, the New South Wales test cricketer, had broken his agreement while in England with the Australian Eleven, the Australian Board of Control at ...
Article : 703 wordsWalter Helps Dall, aged 55, grazier, and his wife, Jemima. Dall, aged 53, were shot dead at Dallstone Station, Kumorina, 140 miles from Adelaide, between Tintinarra and ...
Article : 651 wordsMr. R. A. Marks, ex-president of the Chamber of Manufactures, said prohibition of rationing in private employment would undoubtedly have the effect emphasised by the ...
Article : 329 wordsBy removing part of the track near Peipiao Station, on the Pekin-Mukden railway, bandits derailed a train. The locomotive boiler exploded and the carriages caught fire. ...
Article : 115 wordsIndustrial leaders yesterday expressed the opinion that the shop assistants, if elven an opportunity, would decide in favour of rationing to avoid dismissal in the same way as the ...
Article : 381 wordsAn encouraging report on school medical service for 1923 by the chief officer (Sir George Newman) was issued to-day. In general, says the report, malnutrition ...
Article : 151 wordsFears are held in certain Labour circles that the result of the intrigue being carried out against the Prime Minister, Mr. Scullin, and other members of the Federal Cabinet, ...
Article : 461 wordsIn the Equity Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Long Innes, an application was made by Mr. W. A. Windeyer, of Messrs, W. A. Windeyer, Fawl, and Co., on behalf of Alfred ...
Article : 259 wordsMetropolitan fire brigades have been seriously inconvenienced during past months by the action of some irresponsible person, who has telephoned one false alarm a day, on the ...
Article : 265 wordsA new tariff schedule published this morning greatly increases import duties. Australian imports affected are:—Canned fruits (20 per cent, increase), milk (17 per ...
Article : 73 wordsDr. Robert Millikan, an eminent physicist, in addressing the American Association for the Advancement of Science, presented arguments, based on his recent researches in the cosmic ...
Article : 122 wordsWith the greatest secrecy, a police trap was set in Cowper-street, Randwick, last night, and after several hours of unremitting vigilance by a small squad of detectives, two ...
Article : 383 wordsA report from Riga says that when a Finnish steamer stranded during a severe storm in the Baltic, the crew of 48, giving up hope of rescue, looted a number of cases ...
Article : 85 wordsDuring the past six months in the State, there has been a considerable increase in the number of bankruptcies, and of persons who entered into deeds of arrangement with ...
Article : 473 wordsBecause of alleged association with the Communist party, Senator A. Rae may be called upon to appear belore an A.L.P. committee of inquiry to show cause why he should not be ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Commonwealth Government is issuing Treasury bills for £5,000,000, at five per cent, discount, repayable on June 30. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr, c. Leonard woolley, leader of me British Museum and Pennsylvania University Expedition, reports the discovery of tombs of Kings of Ur dating to 2300 B.C. ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. F. B. Clapp, chairman of directors of the Australian Electrical Manufacturing Co., which is the holding company for the factories of Metropolitan Vickers, Australian ...
Article : 330 wordsThe Advisory Council to the restoration of industry movement received the following letter under date December 25 from a landholder in the Central West:— ...
Article : 284 wordsMotoring correspondents in reporting the trial of the £100 "baby" cars from the Morris works for selling in the new year declare that the car can do 55 miles an hour, and has a ...
Article : 65 wordsComplaining to his wife that his week's wages, 32/ were too small, Ernest Gehrmann put on his best clothes, returned to the steel works where he was employed at ...
Article : 81 wordsA message from Lille states that a remarkable parallel of the Haines case, cabled from Sydney, occurred there. A young boxer. Duiardin, was knocked down in a fight. Later, ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. C. Yates, M.P., declared to-day that he intended to move in the Federal Labour caucus for legislation to create an emergency currency for the purpose of financing ...
Article : 157 wordsDr. Alekhine, the world's chess champion, fell asleep at his hotel at Esseg (Austria) with a lighted cigarette in his mouth. It set fire to his bed. He was rescued with only slight ...
Article : 142 wordsAsserting that the Australian tariff on cricket balls halves England's export of balls, the Employers' Amalgamated Society of Cricket Bull Makers, Tonbridge, which ...
Article : 100 wordsThe biggest mining development in the Gundagai district for 10 years has occurred at Long Tunnel mine. At the 480ft level the reef, which has been showing good gold all ...
Article : 108 words"Smiler "an aboriginal, was arrested at Daly River for the murder of an old aboriginal, known as Jacob, and his son. The aborigines bodies were found in a jungle. Their heads ...
Article : 55 wordsA prominent trade union official stated that under the extensive rationing adopted by employers, trade unions were losing heavily, ns members could not keep up their ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 31 Dec 1930, Page 9
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