When the hearing was resumed this morning of the claim by the Amalgamated Engineering Union for a 44-hour week in every State of the Commonwealth ...
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Article : 263 wordsRemarkably eulogistic references to the Australian Prime Minister (Mr. S. M. Bruce) appear in the majority of the newspapers on the eve of his arrival ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Empire Parliamentary delegates and State and Federal members arrived at Canberra by two special trains early this morning. Later in the morning they ...
Article : 1,877 wordsThere has been a recrudescence of lynching in the South over the week-end, four negroes having been taken from gaols and killed by masked marauders ...
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Article : 90 wordsHeart-breaking scenes were witnessed at the entrance to the mines. Native women clad in blankets, with children on their bucks, stood for hours ...
Article : 101 wordsSpeaking in reply to a welcome home tendered to her by members of the W.A. Alliance ami affiliated organisations last night. Miss Ada Bromham, who recently ...
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Article : 117 wordsCanada took no grievance to the Imperial Conference, the Premier (Mr. Mackenzie King) stated on Saturday night before sailing for England, Canada ...
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Article : 579 wordsThis afternoon the delegates visited the Royal Military College at Duntroon, where they were received by the Commandant (Col. Heritage). The trainees ...
Article : 83 wordsThe local manager for the British Imperial Oil Co., Ltd. (Mr. R; Allingham) stated yesterday that as from Saturday last the price of petrol to the trade had ...
Article : 91 wordsPupblic inquiries, which will last throughout the week, were commenced by the Tariff Board to-day. The board dealt further with the ...
Article : 473 wordsTo-day will see trains again running over the Fremantle railway bridge, which was partially washed away during the floods in July. The Chief Engineer of ...
Article : 264 wordsIn the presence to-day of the Secretary of State for the Dominions (Mr. L. S. Amery), numerous celebrated persons, including former South African ...
Article : 224 wordsBernard George Taylor, city manager for the Clyde Engineering Co., said in answer, to Mr. Myhill, Who appears for the Metal Trade Employers' Association. ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Chancellor (Dr. Marx), speaking at a mass meeting at Essen yesterday referred to the European steel agreement. He pointed out that Germany could not ...
Article : 111 wordsThe band of man is ever seeking to improve upon the various modes of transport, and the latest craft introduced by the Port of London Authority for ...
Article : 495 wordsErnest Edward Judd, of Sydney, was to-day unsuccessful in an appeal to the High Court against his conviction for having failed to vote at the last Federal ...
Article : 664 wordsThe Paris "Matin" states that informed German circles contradict the report of the ex-Kaiser's contemplated return to Germany. They say that the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Delville Wood memorial is the most imposing war monument yet erected on the British battlefields in France. A spacious, rectangular grass plot, which ...
Article : 126 wordsFines amounting to £750, together with costs of £62, were imposed upon Suzanne Et Cle. milliners, of Collins-street, Melbourne, in the City Court to-day, on ...
Article : 297 wordsTaking advantage of the rising of the Federal Parliament to make a visit to Western Australia, the Comptroller-General of Customs, Major R. McK. ...
Article : 258 wordsThe Communal elections, in which all men and women over the age of 21 years vote, have resulted in a decline of the Socialist Party's strength in favour ...
Article : 68 wordsIt is announced that a conference between representatives of the Indian Union and the Government on the Indian question will be held in Capetown on ...
Article : 98 wordsQuestions referred to the Full Court of the High Court by the Chief Justice (Sir Adrian Knox), relative to a claim for war time profits taxation against a ...
Article : 263 wordsThe "Financial Times," in a leader upon Australian finance, emphasises the general absence of adequate sinking funds, adding that the Commonwealth and ...
Article : 148 wordsLa Belle Otero, the famous Spanish dancer, when lecturing in Paris, attempted to justify her recent memoirs in which she narrated world-wide courtships ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. H. W. Wood, president of the Alberta Wheat Pool, addressed a meeting at Wyalkatchem on Saturday night. Mr. Bath, who occupied the chair, said that ...
Article : 287 wordsThe negotiations for the settlement of the faction trouble within the Australian Labour Party have been broken off and a bitter fight at the special conference ...
Article : 216 wordsAll the members of the State branch of the plainclothes police, with the exception of the sergeant-instructor, assistant police prosecutor, and the Coroner's ...
Article : 203 wordsThe Albert Hall was packed last night when Sir Alan Cobham thrilled his audience with a two-hour lecture. Sir Alan traced the flight by means of a huge ...
Article : 42 wordsIt was reported to-day in the Adelaide Police Court in regard to a woman motorist who ran down and killed a female pedestrain in the city on October 2, that ...
Article : 144 wordsAllegations were made to-day that the returning officer for the election of Federal officials of the Seamen's Union had disallowed the votes of about 500 ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Labour Conference at Margate defeated a heated attempt to reopen the question of the affiliation of the Communist Party, on a card vote, by 2,706,000 ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 12 Oct 1926, Page 7
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