In the Senate to-day, The Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) informed Senator Gathrie (N.) that the Naval Forces were distributed in ...
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Article : 371 wordsThe Council of the League of Nations has decided that the Budget shall be based on the gold franc as a monetary unit. ...
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Article : 78 wordsMr. O'Connor (chairman of the Agitation Committee of the Federal Public Servants) endeavoured to interview Mr. Hughes on the railway station platform, ...
Article : 218 wordsAt a meeting of the Council of the Taxpayers' Association of Queensland yesterday the following motion was passed:- "The council of this association ...
Article : 423 wordsIn the House of Representatives. The Assistant Minister for Defence (General Ryrie) informed Mr. Jackson (N.) that the regulations rendered any ...
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Article : 60 wordsThe Prime Minister (General Smuts) met the central executive of the Unionist Party this afternoon, and discussed the steps necessary to be taken to give effect ...
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Article : 241 wordsSir,—With the visit of the English cricketers, popular interest in the fine game will naturally be quickened, and it seems an opportune time to make a ...
Article : 245 wordsWhen the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) reached the Central Railway Station this evening, to board the express train for Melbourne, he was greeted with hooting ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) to-day addressed the Nationalists' conference. After referring to the importance of a constructive policy, he spoke of the ...
Article : 842 wordsThe State Industrial Court heard an application to-day for the variation of the award applying to cardboard box making employees. The advocates for the workers ...
Article : 211 wordsThe wholesale scouring of Ireland continues, and 129 arrests have been made during the weak. Liberty Hall, Dublin, was raided to-day. The search lasted for ...
Article : 321 wordsIt is currently reported that Lord Carmichael, who has served as Governor of Victoria (Australia), Madras, and Bengal, has been appointed Viceroy of ...
Article : 134 wordsTroble was experienced at the Redbank colliery on Tuesday evening, and since then no work has been done at the pit. The men, it is stated, complained of a ...
Article : 206 wordsComplaints have been made about the molesting and accosting of women in the streets of Adelaide, and the police have decided to check the practices. The first ...
Article : 220 wordsSir,—A Commission has been at work to ascertain the so-called basic wage, and we have now been enlightened as to the result of its investigations. How ...
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Article : 138 wordsThe debate on the no confidence motion was resumed in the Legislative Assembly to-day. Mr. J. W. Billson moved a further addition to the ...
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Article : 72 wordsIn an address at the annual meeting of the Employers' Federation of New South Wales to-day, the retiring president (Alderman Brooks, M.L.C.) said that they ...
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Article : 359 wordsThe Irish Office has published the Sinn Fein documents which were captured. They reveal diabolical schemes to wreck the electric power stations and the ...
Article : 520 wordsThe steamer Bahia Castillo will sail for Australia, via Panama, on December 4, with 500 A.I.F. officers and men, with their wives and fiancees. The vessel will ...
Article : 50 wordsThe severe hailstorm which passed over the town and district yesterday did considerable damage to the wheat crops. This morning several farmers close to the ...
Article : 185 wordsA deputation of discharged Australians invaded Australia House, and demanded that they be given advances of £25 each upon their gratuity bonds. They ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Minister for Works and Railways (Mr. Groom) has appointed Mr. Frederick W. Whyte, of New York, as a member of a Commission to report upon the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Food Controller (Mr. M'Curdy), in the Course of a speech, stated that the world's price for wheat could be regarded as giving a better indication of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsOpossums are totally protected in South Australia, but early in the year complaints were made that they were becoming a nuisance to fruit growers and ...
Article : 111 wordsAlice Flynn, 2 years of age, fell down a well in the back yard at the residence of Mrs. Stallan yesterday afternoon, and was drowned. The child's mother, who ...
Article : 75 wordsIn view of a possible shortage of water during the summer months the Metropolitan Water Board has issued to the public a notification to the effect that from ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 26 Nov 1920, Page 7
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