The Loan Council decided to-day to ask the Commonwealth Bank Board to provide a sum of £4,000,000 to carry on the present loan works programme until June 30. The Bank Board spent several hours in conference this evening ...
Article : 560 wordsAt a meeting of employees of the Mt. Isa Mines to-day all hands decided to come out on strike, and the mine is now idle. ...
Article : 153 wordsPreparations are going ahead for the staging of the Queensland match against the English cricket team and the Test match on ...
Article : 132 wordsAn appeal for assistance in the way of reduced railway freights, land and property taxes, harbourage dues, and tariff was made by ...
Article : 359 wordsIt has been disclosed that the Blood Brotherhood that assassinated the Japanese Premier last February had planned many other ...
Article : 124 wordsBUENOS AIRES (Argentine), February 1. "More thousands of men have been killed in the undeclared war ...
Article : 99 wordsThe details of a plan for a worldwide lowering of tariff walls and the stabilisation of currencies, in exchange for war debts ...
Article : 610 wordsThe Secretary of State for Air (Lord Londonderry), who has been visiting the Royal Air Force units in Egypt, Palestine, and Iraq, returned ...
Article : 38 wordsGold is quoted to-day at £6/l/3½ per oz. fine, compared with £6/1/2½ yesterday. ...
Article : 20 wordsTen inches at Tully, 4in. at Innisfail, 7½in. at Macknade—these are only a few of the heavy falls that are being experienced in the North ...
Article : 228 wordsAn amendment of the law is being sought by life assurance offices in order that the stamp duty payable on certain policies ...
Article : 260 wordsThe City Coronel (Mr. Farrington) committed Eric Roland Craig (aged 25 years, salesman) for trial to-day, on a charge of having murdered Elizabeth ...
Article : 159 wordsIlton Barclay, one of the two prisoners who escaped from a prison van while they were being conveyed to the metropolitan gaol at Coburg ...
Article : 136 wordsAt the end of December the railway superannuation account had a credit balance of £349,914, compared with £237,233 at ...
Article : 162 wordsA new boom in Kaffir shares, reminiscent of that of 1895, has developed on the London Stock Exchange. ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Secretary of the League of Nations announces that a provisional agreement has been reached in the Anglo-Persian oil ...
Article : 89 wordsThe bell of the German raider Emden, which was stolen from the naval station at Garden Islard on August 10 last year, was found buried ...
Article : 224 wordsThe new Government will announce its policy in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday. The various parties are awaiting the ...
Article : 49 wordsA conference dealing with trade with France took place to-day between the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Stewart), the Assistant Minister for Customs ...
Article : 75 wordsAt Stuart Town to-day, John Stewart, 60, was killed instantly When he was struck by the buffer of the engine of the local passenger train. ...
Article : 50 wordsAt a meeting of wine exporters the chairman voiced the general uneasiness at the growing popularity of Empire wines in Great Britain. He deplored ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Latham) announced to-day that leave of absence for six months, from March 1 to September 30, had been granted ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Geo. Hinkler, brother of the mission avaiator, passed through to Tully by this afternoon's train on his return from Bundaberg. Mr. Hinkler ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Government has stabilised the exchange value of the kroner at 22½ to the pound sterling. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn amazing story of a daring escapade was told by William Scott Munday (18) on his return in custody by the Matson liner Monterey this ...
Article : 293 wordsGeneral Smuts's motion in favour of the formation of a National Government was defeated in the Legislative Assembly by 20 votes, while a motion ...
Article : 156 wordsRepresentatives of the Federal unions decided, at a conference at the Trades Hall to-day, to adopt the report of a committee which ...
Article : 122 wordsLower taxation, tariff revision, freedom of exchange from political control, and a Commonwealth minimum wage and maximum ...
Article : 342 wordsA suggestion that the Customs Act should be amended so as to counteract the effect of the increased exchange and primage ...
Article : 458 wordsRepresentatives of the Navy and the War Council, headed by Prince Fushimi, held a conference to-day to decide on the measures necessary ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Federation of British Industries has received many protests from members throughout the country against the increase in the New Zealand rate ...
Article : 120 wordsSearchers for the bodies of Larry Nuciforo and Luiggi Cirillo, two Italian miners, who were buried in a fall at the North Mt. Lyell mine at ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Queensland Butter Board advises that commencing from to-day the price of butter in Queensland will be reduced by one halfpenny per lb., ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 wordsThe total main Estimates for the fiscal year 1933-34, which were tabled in the House of Commons to-day by the Minister for Finance (Mr. Rhodes), ...
Article : 81 wordsThe militants received a rebuff at the poll for the election of officers of the Seamen's. Union. All the retiring officers were re-elected, in many cases ...
Article : 81 wordsThe death is announced of Herr Gustav Lilienthal, from heart failure, while he was working on a new type of glider. The deceased, who visited ...
Article : 206 wordsAt a meeting to-night the central executive of the Federal A.L.P. decided to hold the annual State conference on April 22 and subsequent days The ...
Article : 57 wordsIn a case in the Chancery Division to-day Mr. Justice Farwell decided that the holders on the English register of A and C preference stocks in ...
Article : 55 wordsWith the arrest of two men by detectives attached to the Criminal Investigation Branch yesterday a long list of suburban house and shop ...
Article : 87 wordsHearing a shot fired in a vault at the Commonwealth Bank, Collins Street, this morning, officials went there, and found Victor William ...
Article : 79 wordsThe ballot for the election of officers of the Labour Council resulted in a sweeping victory for nominees of the secretary, Mr. J. S. Garden, who ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 3 Feb 1933, Page 13
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