Pending the opening of the September series of sales on Thursday, September 1, there is little fresh to report. Since the close of the last series there has been a ...
Article : 2,161 wordsComplaint is made by the Benevolent Asylum of the inadequate allowance which is made by the State for the maintenance of inmates who are in receipt of old age pensions and of those sent to ...
Article : 211 wordsA great deal of misconception exists as to the purpose the Stock Exchange serves. Often it is denounced as existing merely to afford facilities for speculation in stocks ...
Article : 1,821 wordsThe attitude adopted by the Commonwealth butter grading officials in Brisbane towards the State department is criticised in exporting circles in Melbourne.What ...
Article : 1,923 wordsLate quotations of Australian shares on the London Stock Exchange are as follow:—North Broken Hill, b 27/10½, s 28/9: Gt. Boulder b 5/10. s 6/; Ivanhoe, b 16/6; Wa[?]hi Junction, b 8/1½. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Australian Metal Exchange reports London Metal Exchange (middle) quotations of August 29 as follow:- Per Ton. ...
Article : 108 wordsADELAID, Tuesday.—The Premier of South Australia (Mr. Barwell) was asked in the House of Assembly to-day whether it was a fact that the Hume Steel ...
Article : 227 wordsA missionary exhibition at the Masonic Hall was opened by Bishop Baker on Tuesday. The object of the exhibition is to foster interest in mission work in various parts of the world. ...
Article : 74 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Sales and quotations:—Bonds; 4½percent.,1925,£90/17/6,£9,do(£10)£9 0/9; 4½ per cent, 1927, £90/17/3;do (£10),£9 1/; 5 per cent., 1927. £90/5/ £90/6/3. £90/7/6; ...
Article : 382 wordsThe Geelong City Council, at its meeting on Tuesday, discussed an offer from the Commercial Bank to loan £33,000, required for ward works, at 5½ per cent, interest. It was decided to accept ...
Article : 138 wordsNews of the death of Mr. John Francis Huon Mitchell, a well-known pastoralist, of Khancoban, Upper Murray, was received in Albury on Tuesday, Mr. Mitchell contracted a chill recently, ...
Article : 249 wordsNEW LANGI continued to rise. There was opening purchase at 9/11, shares then cased a little, but had closing purchase at 10/, with buyers afterwards offering 9/10 in a fairly wide market. LANGI ...
Article : 211 wordsRecently the Brunswick City Council raised the wages of the labourers in its employ from 14/4 to 14/11 a day, and the salaries of all other employees not affected ...
Article : 134 wordsValues of NEW RED, WHITE, and BLUE declined to 11/10½.The spurs in the stopes over 1,6OOft. continue to produce fair quality stone. At the CENTRAL RED, WHITE, and BLUE the ...
Article : 357 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—For some weeks it has been an open secret in political circles that Mr. J. C., Peterson, Labour member for Normanby, has been growing more and ...
Article : 276 wordsImprovements are being effected to the verandahs of the Mildura Hospital, which, with the new wards, will almost double the accommodation. There are three vacancies on the teaching staff ...
Article : 1,113 wordsThe revenue collected at the Custom House on August 30 amounted to:—Revenue, £20.886/6/9; light dues £103/9/3; trust account, £350/8/1; pilotage, £896/17/; State, £359/8/6; wharfage, ...
Article : 34 wordsThe following were the stocks in bond at Melbourne on, August 27, 1921:—Brandy—525 hhds., 225 qrs., 13 oct., 1.562 cases. Rum—40 qrs, 74 cases. Geneva (Gin and Schnapps)—152 hhds., 79 qrs., 1,410 ...
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Advertising : 147 wordsBELGRAVE, Tuesday.—A sorter in the Melbourne General Post-office named Matthews, who has a week-end cottage at Selby, suffered terribly in the forest on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,129 wordsThe conflict between the Commonwealth and State butter grading officials in Brisbane may extend to the other exporting States. The Commonwealth department, ...
Article : 720 wordsThe managers report:- Block 10, Misima, Papua, 29th.—Main Drive,—No. 2 level N.driven 5ft,value 54/ a ton, width of lode 6ft: total distance, 395ft. South Main Drive. ...
Article : 129 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—In the Legislative Assembly to-day, in a speech on the Address in Reply, Mr. Godfrey Morgan, contrasting the pre-war conditions in the meat industry ...
Article : 204 wordsMayors and presidents of municipalities have been elected as follows, with the allowances stated:- ARARAT (Borough).—Councillor J. Moore (£60). ...
Article : 59 wordsThe election of mayor for the town of Coburg caused considerable discussion in the council, in view of the statements recently made by Councillor F. Keane (Labour) that he had been ...
Article : 472 wordsAccording to a cable message received yesterday the actual rates of exchange on London on August 29 compare with those of August 25 as follows: ...
Article : 115 wordsBefore Mr. Kelley, P.M., and a Bench of honorary magistrates at the St.Kilda Court on Tuesday Frederick Lindbo[?], aged 42 years, commission agent, was charged with having been found unlawfully on ...
Article : 101 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Eggs, hen, new-laid, 1/6; pullets, 1/3; Northern Rivers, 1/2 to 1/3; South Coast and railway, 1/3 to l/4; duck, new-laid l/5, case, 1/2 a dozen; flour £20/7/6 a ton net cash at ...
Article : 214 wordsPYRAMID HILL, Tuesday.—A porter named Andrew Rook was seriously inured while shunting at the cattle siding yesterday afternoon. To get trucks from the siding to the line a wire cable ...
Article : 117 wordsReturns arts required to be lodged before 31st August at the Federal and State Departments of Taxation. Returns prepared, books written up o[?] audited. Advice given by H. LESLIE HINZE, ...
Article : 71 wordsImprisonment for one hour was the sentence imposed on Eva Lumsden, [?] married woman, by Mr. E.Notley Moore, P.M., in the City Court yesterday. She appeared on summon[?] to show cause why she ...
Article : 60 wordsWith ths winter months come COUGHS and COLDS, BRONCHITIS, and INFLUENZA. Bonnington's Irish Moss gives instant relief. Get the Genuine. ...
Article : 30 wordsBarrow [?] Ltd., 12·20 King street Melbourne, report (Aug. 30):—"Butter—Supplies show a large increase; 99 grade 210/ per cent., with 1/6 per point additional according to grade; prime ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 31 Aug 1921, Page 17
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