The Royal Commission on the Basic Wage took further evidence yesterday on the question of housing. George Vesper, valuer and rate collector ...
Article : 1,279 wordsAn early settlement of the coastal shipping strike is confidently predicted. It is said to be not unlikely that the vessels, some of which have been laid up for five ...
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Article : 645 wordsThe cyclonic centre in north west Queensland if moving in a south easterly direction. This is quite ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 263 wordsFollowing on the retirement of several officers from the police force the following naive been promoted to the ranks specified:-- Inspector T. Bowden, Sub -Inspector J. ...
Article : 777 wordsMeetings preliminary to the conference between representatives of the two interests to be held to-day were held yesterday-- by representatives of the growers at the ...
Article : 731 wordsDissatisfaction exists among the clerks employed in the Spencer street goods sheds regarding the conditions of work. They complain that the staff at present employed ...
Article : 237 wordsIn the city court on Tuesday John Smyth, licensee of Park Hotel, Alfredton, was fined £5 on a charge of having had his bar door unlocked during ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 181 wordsBusiness at the corporation sale yards has increased so much of late that the city council's market committee on Tuesday recommended the council to add ...
Article : 198 wordsALBURY.-- The boom in rabbit skin prices has produced remarkably .energetic competition to slaughter the pest, and on every farm and station where rabbits are ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsThe present intolerable position with respect to the irregular and infrequent oversea mail service and the lack of an indication of an early official attempt to ...
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Article : 110 wordsBRISBANE.-- Speaking ion the railway estimates in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday the Minister of Railways (Mr, Fihelly) explained that the estimated ...
Article : 287 wordsThe death occurred yesterday evening of Mr. James J. Morris, of the well known city firm of Morris and Meeks, hardware merchants, Collins street, Melbourne. On ...
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Article : 143 wordsZEEHAN.-- Mount Lyell Co,'s mines are still suffering from a shortage of labor, but the output is satisfactory for the number employed. The various producing ends of ...
Article : 127 wordsWith 79 Victorian and 10 Tasmanian soldiers on board, the Lucie Woermann disembarked at Port Melbourne yesterday. In spite of definite instructions from the ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. A. Robinson, M.L.C., the Attorney General, who is to leave Melbourne to-day on a seven months' trip to England and America, will carry out a number of ...
Article : 243 wordsDARWIN.-- The body of Thomas Close, recently manager of the State liquor store, who had been missing from his home at Two and a Half Miles, was ...
Article : 122 wordsAlthough the troopship Shropshire, with Victorian soldiers on hoard, was exacted to arrive in Melbourne to-day, the military authorities now notify that the vessel will ...
Article : 43 wordsWith one exception the persons injured in the motor car accident near Lillydale on Monday are rapidly recovering from the shock and injuries sustained. Two-- Miss ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Colonial Office informs Mr. J. D. Connolly, Agent General for Western Australia, that Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania, succeeds Sir William ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 57 wordsSir,-- The fine profit shown by the Postal department is in no small measure due to a policy of sweating post masters in country districts to an extent which threatens to ...
Article : 183 wordsSir,-- The public will rend with astonishment the published announcement of the Premier that the Cabinet had withheld consent to the proposal of the Tramway Board ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 31 wordsPERTH.-- The strike of stereotypers on the "Western Australian" continues. The Typographical Union at the Trades Hall on Monday night resolved that the ...
Article : 165 wordsSir,-- In your report of the meeting of the R.S.S.I.L.A. it is stated that members of the Cheltenham branch were recently "cadging cigarettes" from every visiting ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 294 wordsAn interesting discussion on the responsibility of industry to provide a living wage for those only casually engaged took place at yesterdays sitting of the Railways ...
Article : 467 wordsSir,-- We have read with interest in "The Age" of 20th January your article on War Service Homes, and it would appear to us that the method of distributing the work ...
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Article : 106 wordsPERTH.-- The city council on Monday evening rejected a motion to reconsider the appointment of Mr. V. Galbraith as city engineer, with a view to appointing a ...
Article : 73 wordsPERTH.-- The heat wave continued on Tuesday, the temperature being.102.2 ...
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Advertising : 71 wordsThe lemming branch of the Public Library will be closed from Monday, With January, to Saturday, 91st January January both dates inclusive, for the purposes of stock taking. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 21 Jan 1920, Page 10
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