Mr. Vowles resumed the debate on the second reading of the Unemployed Workers Bill in the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternon. He asked why there ...
Article : 818 wordsMr. Theodore's proposals for dealing with the unemployment problem, as outlined in the Unemployed Workers Bill, furnished materjal for a spirited debate ...
Article : 665 wordsWork proceeded smoothly on the water front to-day under the temporary arrangements arrived at by Senator Millen in con[?]ence with the Industr[?] ...
Article : 262 wordsAt a series of meetings of the Caueus Party yesterday the manbers, by exhaustive ballot, made their selection of a member of the Land Court the choice ...
Article : 440 wordsThe Pope, in a letter to the French Bishops, discussing the growing tendency towards democracy among various nations as a result of the war, deprecates industrial ...
Article : 90 wordsAn incident, said to be unprecedented in the history of the House, occurred in the Legislative Assembly vesterday afternoon. It was known that the Caucus ...
Article : 977 wordsSenator Pearce (Australian Minister for Defence) takes exception to the figures recently quoted in the Australian Senate purporting to deal wth demobilisation ...
Article : 162 wordsA report from Paris states that the Supreme Council has decided to again waite the Government of Roiumania against persistence in its present ...
Article : 67 wordsCopies of congratulatory messages received from South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia were deposited in a cavity of the corner stone of the new ...
Article : 141 wordsIt is expected that the Peace Conference, in order not to delay the presentation of the treaty to Bulgaria, will defer the solution of the problem regarding ...
Article : 49 wordsShortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon ahother batch of returning soldiers, comprising 6 officers, 164 other ranks, and 2 wives of soldiers, who disembarked from ...
Article : 318 wordsA message from Paris states that the Supreme Council has ordered Germany to delete from the Constitution of the co[?]try the provision allowing of the ...
Article : 311 wordsThe round-table conference, which is considering the seamen's claims, sat for two and a half hours to-day, and adjourned at 1 o'clock until to-morrow morning. ...
Article : 193 wordsA forest fire in the Riviera encompasses 12 villages and threatens Grasse and Antibes. People have quitted tte hotels at the seaside resorts and are taking. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe letter by Admiral Lord Fisher which has appeared in the "Times," in which Lord Fisher declared that half the British Navy was obsolete, and should ...
Article : 315 wordsAccording to statements made in Sydney to-day, the cold storage space in all the Australian States is practically exhausted. The beef and mutton at present ...
Article : 530 wordsNo settlement has yet been reached with the Babinda cane cutters. The parties eoncerned witl the strike have held several con[?]s, but failed to ...
Article : 124 wordsReplying to the attack recently made by Lord Rothermere in the House of Lords on Mr. Bonar Law, in connection with the wat cxpenditire, the Prime ...
Article : 106 wordsThe modifications made in the treaty with Germany as regards the coal stipulations provide that France shall receive 10,000,000 tons during the next half-year, ...
Article : 77 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-night the State Treasurer (Mr. Fitzpatrick) delivered his Budget Speech. He stated that the influenza epidemic last year bad ...
Article : 424 wordsThe French Legation emphatically denies the allegation from Washington that Britain, France, and Japan have concluded a secret agreement prejudicial to ...
Article : 30 wordsThe A.M.A. held a meeting on Tuesday Afternoon at which proposals for again picketing the [?]nes were made. Nothing official has been made known, though it ...
Article : 187 wordsThe native newspapers in the city are daily becoming more arrogant in their tone, and the situation has again become alarming. British troops have been ...
Article : 58 wordsA reassuring Esthonian official statement says that the front from west of Pskov to the Gulf of Finland is now intact and well fortified. The Bolshevik ...
Article : 243 wordsThe British authorities in Syria are arresting Emir Said, a French protege, in a village under French jurisdiction. He fanned into flame the smouldring ...
Article : 124 wordsA very representative and largely-attended meeting of employers, presided over by Alderman J. F. Maxwell, was held in the Queensland Employers' ...
Article : 331 wordsThe Miners' Executive will recommend the Trade Union Congress, to be held to-morrow, to reject the Government scheme for dealing with mines. It will not ...
Article : 373 wordsAt the Williamstown shipyards yesterday 40 boilermakers and 70 assistants ceased work for the afternoon on account of dissatisfaction over the payment ...
Article : 65 wordsMiss Dorothy Lawrence is publishing a book descrjptive of her war experiences. She states that when in Paris in 1915 she obtained a sapper's uniform, ...
Article : 104 wordsA significant sidelight on political happenings is afforded by the following extract from a repot of the Trades Hall Council, held on August 22:—"The ...
Article : 300 wordsMr. Williams, secretary of the Fremantle National Workers' Association, has appealed to the federation on account of the victimisation and starvation ...
Article : 79 wordsMajor Coates has become a member of the Refortn Government. ...
Article : 16 wordsA report from Paris states that Mr. Herbert Hoover, the U.S.A. Food Controller, who is on a mission to Europe, said that the high cost of living was ...
Article : 132 wordsMrs. Larkin, wife of the manager of the Commonwealth Steamship Line, has laid the keel of the first Commonwealth steamer to be built at Barrow-in-Furness. ...
Article : 135 wordsA long debate on the closer organisation of industry took place at the last meeting of the Trades Hall Council on a motion affirming the desirability of ...
Article : 131 wordsCurtis and Curtis's freezing works at Barraoa were destroyed by fire to-day. There were 3000 boxes of frozen rabbits in store. The damage is estimated at ...
Article : 33 wordsSpeaking in the House of Representatives to-day Mr. W. F. Massey said he estimated that New Zealand's share of the war indemnity should not be less ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Board of Trade at to-day's inquiry considered the child labour problems and the question of the size of families. A number of witnesses vigorously denounced ...
Article : 151 wordsOut of 26 selections to represent the Army in the inter-service championships in 11 events, New Zealand is supplying four men and Australia five. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Ministry of Munitions is selling at scheduled prices, as souvenirs, tanks, howitzer, 18-pounder, and other guns, gun carriages and limbers, all guaranteed to ...
Article : 46 wordsNo contraband was found on the steamer Hampshire Coast, which was arrested at sea and taken to Cork. Four other suspected vessels have now been ...
Article : 38 wordsThe following motion in respect to the Unemployed Workers Bill was unanimously passed by the members of the Employers' Association of Central ...
Article : 248 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press Association at Tokio announces that the Imperial railway authorities have resolved to construct a [?] [?] Shimonose ...
Article : 143 wordsThe strike of dockers and draymen at Marseilles continues, and carg[?]es of wheat at the port remain undischarged. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 133 wordsWhat action should be taken to reduce the present high cost of leather? was the question discussed by a [?]ting representative of manufacturers and ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Air Ministry announces that a British flying boat has made a return Hight to Scandinavia, arid that it covered 2450 knots in 41 hours. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Grand Lodge of Freemasons decided to-day to adopt the proposal of the Duke of Connaught to appeal for funds to the brotherhood throughout the world, ...
Article : 63 wordsM. Judet, a former editor of the "Eclair' newspaper, who is charged with having communicated with the enemy during the war, having left Paris to live ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the British destroyer Vittoria has been sunk in the Baltic Sea, the vessel having been torpedoed on August 30. Eight of the ...
Article : 37 wordsSir George Buchanan, who was formerly British Ambassador at Petrograd, has been appointed Ambassador to Italy. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 4 Sep 1919, Page 7
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