CANBERRA, May 1.—Figures released by the Commonwealth Treasury to-day show that Customs revenue for the ten months of the financial year up to the end ...
Article : 267 wordsMOSCOW, April 30.—Latest estimates hare brought the death roll in the Transcaucasian earthquake to 536 names. Scores of villages were wiped out and the ...
Article : 99 wordsCANBERRA, May 1.—Over-riding Government protests, the Senate agreed to-day to a motion moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Sir George Pearce) that ...
Article : 823 wordsCANBERRA, May 1.—An assertion that the present tariff imposed most severe and grinding taxation upon the community generally was made by Mr. Parkhill ...
Article : 487 wordsSYDNEY, May 1.—Bank notes to the value of £10,000 consigned by the Commonwealth Bank in Sydney to its branch at Canberra, were stolen during transit ...
Article : 515 wordsTOKIO, May 1.—In view of rumours that there was a Communist plot in connection with May Day to interfere with the electric lighting and power supply ...
Article : 195 wordsSYDNEY, May 1.—At the meeting of the State Parliamentary Labour Caucus to-day, the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Lang) announced that the Cabinet ...
Article : 509 wordsWELLINGTON, May 1.—The email coastal steamer Progress broke its tail-shaft in Cook Strait, near Wellington Heads, last night, when a southerly gale ...
Article : 538 wordsBUCHAREST, May 1.—Effecting a dramatic coup, King Carol dissolved the Roumanian Parliament yesterday at its first meeting following the appointment of the ...
Article : 207 wordsSYDNEY, May 1.—The presence of hundreds of plainclothes and uniformed police along the route prevented unseemly conduct during a May Day procession through ...
Article : 162 wordsBRISBANE, May 1.—The State revenue returns for April and the ten months ended on April 30, which were issued to-day, show that the revenue for ten ...
Article : 149 wordsLONDON, April 30.—Although the grand opera season began on Monday night and, throughout this week, has been attracting fashionable audiences to ...
Article : 202 wordsMELBOURNE, May 1.—Although May Day is not officially celebrated by the Trades Hall until to-morrow, the Melbourne Communists to-day held a separate ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON, May 1.—The by-election at Ashton-under-Lyne, which was formerly held by a Labour member, resulted in a return of a Conservative. This was the ...
Article : 264 wordsCANBERRA, May 1.—After quoting a report from the Melbourne "Argus" in which it was stated that the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Theodore) had announced at ...
Article : 387 wordsSINGAPORE, May 1.—The Southern Cross, piloted by Air Commodore Kingsford Smith, which is carrying the first Australian air mail for Britain to Akyab ...
Article : 58 wordsHOBART, May 1.—Although a comparative statement of the consolidated revenue of the State for the ten months ended on April 30, 1930, and the ...
Article : 253 wordsCANBERRA, May 1.—Public servants glumly pictured a payless Friday when it became known this morning that £10,000 had disappeared from the mail bags which ...
Article : 243 wordsADELAIDE, May 1.—At Port Adelaide to-day a May Day procession of demonstrators was broken up by the police, who arrested eight men.—T. C. McGillick (28), ...
Article : 136 wordsLONDON, May 11.—Captain Neville Stack, with Mr. J. R. Chaplin, made another attempt this morning to carry out his intended flight to Australia, but, 20 ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, April 30.—In the House of Commons to-night the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Snowden) moved that permission be given for the Finance Bill to ...
Article : 152 wordsBRISBANE, May 1.—A demonstration by Communists who had contemplated a march to the Treasury buildings from the Trades Hall this afternoon was effectively ...
Article : 95 wordsMELBOURNE, May 1.—After having been delayed in leaving Tasmania owing to bad weather, and having been further impeded by heavy winds when crossing ...
Article : 82 wordsTEROWIE, May 1.—"There is ground for hoping for fruitful results from the latest meetings of the Loan Council, because at long last it was unanimously ...
Article : 750 wordsCANBERRA, May 1.—It was stated in the lobbies to-day that when the chairman of the Commonwealth Bank Board (Sir Robert Gibson)—providing he accepts the ...
Article : 215 wordsCANBERRA, May 1.—In the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Bayley (Nat., Qld.) asked the Postmaster-General (Mr. Green) whether he had any statement to ...
Article : 86 wordsRIO DE JANEIRO, April 30.—Half of the 400 employees of the Naval laboratory at Nichtheroy are reported to have been killed or injured in an explosion ...
Article : 80 wordsExpectations of a disturbance in the shopping centre of Perth yesterday, on the occasion of May Day, did not materialise. There were thousands of people, ...
Article : 665 wordsLONDON, May 1.—There as some surprise that the land valuation resolution was passed without division in the House last night. The political correspondent ...
Article : 73 wordsLONDON, April 30.—Sir John Fortescue, the author of the standard work, "A History of the British Army, 1899-1929," and other military works, has a ...
Article : 230 wordsLONDON, April, 30.—His Majesty the King was able to enjoy a walk in the grounds at Windsor Castle to-day for the first time since his illness. Accompanied ...
Article : 104 wordsSYDNEY, May 1.—The numbers of the bank notes stolen from the Canberra train were:—One thousand £5 notes, numbered Q over 20 followed by the numerals ...
Article : 88 wordsSHANGHAI, May 1.—On the eve of the first People's Convention, which has been called for May 5 at Nanking, serious political disturbances which are ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, April 30.—The Prime Minister (Mr. MacDonald), accompanied by the Lord Chancellor (Lord Sankey) and other Minister received a deputation from the ...
Article : 144 wordsCINCINNATI (U.S.A.), April 30.—A lion cub, which, with several other wild animals, was being used for lecture and exhibition purposes at Whittier School, ...
Article : 180 wordsLISBON, May 1.—A telegram from the Minister for Marine, who is in charge of the punitive expedition, against the rebels in Madeira, is reminiscent of the official ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON, April 30.—The naval correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" describing the gradual conversion of the British Navy from steam to internal ...
Article : 111 wordsBERLIN, April 30.—Although the death penalty has been in abeyance for some time in Germany, the authorities have refused to reprieve Eric Tetzner, who was ...
Article : 162 wordsCALCUTTA, May 1.—The golden dome of the famous Shwe Dagon pagoda at Rangoon, which was destroyed in last year's earthquake, has been replaced. The new ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, April 30.—Sir R. Eccles Snowden (a former Agent-General for Tasmania) gave a lunch to Sir James O'Grady (the late Governor of Tasmania) ...
Article : 110 wordsCALCUTTA, April 30.—The authorities are still apprehensive of trouble at Chittagong in Bengal. All arras and ammunition have been removed from licensed ...
Article : 50 wordsCALCUTTA, May 1.—Mr. M. K. Gandhi (the Indian Congress leader), who appeared in a talking picture filmed by an American agency yesterday, declared that he did ...
Article : 111 wordsLONDON, April 30.—In the House or Commons to-day, the Secretary of State for the Dominions (Mr. J. H. Thomas) informed Mr. Somerville (Cons.) that he ...
Article : 128 wordsOTTAWA, April 30.—The Prime Minister of Canada (Mr. Bennett) announced to-day that the Government was preparing plans for a new long-term conversion issue ...
Article : 67 wordsThe secretary of the West Australian Shearers' and Shed Workers' Union (Mr. A. Clackson) stated yesterday that he had been notified that an appeal had been ...
Article : 88 wordsBERGEN (Norway), May 1.—Captain Ahrenberg the well-known Swedish pilot, left in Junkers amphibian 'plane to-day to participate in the search for the ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, April 30.—The mission despatched by the Federation of British Industries to Canada to study conditions with a view to stimulating trade relations ...
Article : 105 wordsPARIS, April 30.—In addition to breaking records for 48 hours and 64 hours' motoring in their class on the Montlhery course, the Englishmen, Messrs. Eyston. ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, April 30.—Sir Malcolm Campbell (the British racing motorist) and Lord Wakefield were present at a luncheon in London to-day in honour of Mr. Kaye ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 2 May 1931, Page 15
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