When asked yesterday if he yet had any announcement to make on the sweep question, the Minister for Police (Mr. J. Scaddan) said that he had never contemplated ...
Article : 771 wordsThe annual conference of the National Party of Western Australia was concluded yesterday. Mr. J. Cornell, M.L.C. occupied the chair. Among the motions was ...
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Advertising : 444 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 26.—Many meetings were held in East Sydney to-night in preparation for the Federal by-election. The principal speakers were the Leader of the ...
Article : 326 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 26.—Dame Nellie Melba was burned to-day in the cemetery of the little town of Lilydale, not far from Coombe Cottage, to which from all her ...
Article : 1,236 wordsMONTREAL, Feb. 25.—Russia is anxious to exchange coal for Canadian agricultural machinery, and has made a definite offer, according to a statement published in the ...
Article : 310 wordsOne man was killed and two others were seriously injured when two motor cycles collided head-on at Lower Chittering, about 42 miles from Perth, at 7.30 o'clock ...
Article : 315 wordsALBANY, Feb. 26.—The Minister for Trading Concerns Local Government, and Country Water Supplies (Mr. C. F. Baxter) was the only passenger to disembark ...
Article : 361 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 26.—The nomination of candidates for the East Sydney Federal by-election closed to-day. The candidates are:— ...
Article : 97 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 26.—The Deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Gullett), in an East Sydney by-election speech to-night, said that history was repeating ...
Article : 242 wordsSix charges of having stolen clothing, jewellery and other articles, of a total value of £66/2/6, from rooms in various city boarding houses and hotels, were ...
Article : 208 wordsThe conducting of art unions by the State was discussed at yesterday's adjourned meeting of the annual conference of the National Party, Mr. J. C. Henson ...
Article : 509 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 26.—The Full Court of the Arbitration Court continued the hearing to-day of a number of applications for reductions of 10 per cent, in the wages ...
Article : 382 wordsMERREDIN, Feb. 26.—Just before seven o'clock last night Edwin John Meldrum (32), railway employee, was fatally shot at his home. During the afternoon ...
Article : 275 wordsThe Fremantle police have been informed that Edward Woods (36), of 26 Herbert-street, North Fremantle, has been missing from his home since Monday. He ...
Article : 110 wordsAt a recent meeting of the Fremantle District Council of the Australian Labour Party it was decided to form an advisory committee in order to assist efforts made ...
Article : 374 wordsA boy who ran away from the Seaforth Boys' Home on January 11 with another boy, was found on Wednesday at Wagin. The police state that he was in possession ...
Article : 168 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 26.—At the Quarter Sessions to-day before Mr. Justice Armstrong reference was made to an alleged plan to use machine guns to hold up city banks. ...
Article : 293 wordsHOBART, Feb. 26.—Three boys resident in Hobart—Ronald Young (14) Arthur Bernard Crisp (16) and Roy Wheatley (14)—rowed out into the Hobart Harbour ...
Article : 167 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 26.—The fate of James Thompson, who left Koolburra Station, near Laura, in July last, is now known. The police have learned that he ...
Article : 53 wordsTo-day.—7.30; Town Hall chimes, 7.38; Weather forecast, 7.34; Siding price of wheat, 7.38; Music, 8.0; Time signal, cable, 8.5; Music, 8.21; Weather synopsis and forecast, 8.22; Mails ...
Article : 400 words"In Wednesday's issue of The West Australian, the Rev. G. Tulloch says that my reply to his recent letter on the sweep question is illogical," said the Minister ...
Article : 688 wordsThe Wokalup railway station (89 miles from Perth on the Bunbury line) caught fire early yesterday morning. The platform for about 20 feet from the northern ...
Article : 94 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 26.—St. Andrew's Cathedral was filled to the doors and many had to stand to-day, when a memorial service for the late Dame Nellie Melba ...
Article : 85 wordsSamuel Beattye, of Bulimba-road, Claremont, was admitted to the Perth Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a fracture of the base of the skull, and ...
Article : 96 wordsADELAIDE, Feb. 26.—All danger of the fire which broke out between Blackwood Gully and Prospect Hill doing any further damage hag been averted by a cool chance ...
Article : 102 wordsLONDON, Feb. 25.—Sir Malcolm Campbell says he expects to take his racing car, the Bluebird (with which he lowered the world land speed record at Daytona Beach, ...
Article : 63 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 20.—Among more than 200 items on the business paper of the annual conference of the Victorian Labour Party to be held in Melbourne at ...
Article : 96 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 26.—Fired from a shotgun by the driven of a motor car to-night, a shot narrowly missed a woman and two children in Schild-street. ...
Article : 44 wordsAs a result of a collision between a push bicycle ridden by Strathmore Rowe (12) of William-street, West Subiaco, and a motor cycle ridden by George Parkinson. ...
Article : 82 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 20.—In the Police Court to-day, Robert Archer (24), motor driver, and Wilhemina Archer (23), housewife, on remand, were charged with ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 25.—The collier Belbowrie left Nowra yesterday and went aground near the breakwater at Crook-haven Heads. There is no estimate of the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 27 Feb 1931, Page 16
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