WITH less than 48 hours before expiration of the Government's ultimatum to the wharf laborers, the Executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions to-day had an inconclusive debate on what assistance, if any, should be given to the wharf ...
Article : 207 wordsAfter an emotional reply to an appeal for the reprieve of Alfred Spicer (65) from the death sentence, the Minister for Justice ...
Article : 142 wordsDamage estimated at £110,000 was caused early to-day by a fire which destroyed a four-storey block of buildings in Colombo street ...
Article : 156 wordsResuming their innings against Surrey at the Oval to-day, the Australians carried their score to 528. Hassett scored steadily, livening up as he approached the century, which he failed by two runs to obtain. The rising ball occasionally disturbed Waite ...
Article : 665 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) to-day told a deputation from the A.C.T.U. that the Commonwealth ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 230 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—After an hour's deliberation, a jury in General Sessions to-day found Frank Charles Kobert-Howitt (30), of no occupation ...
Article : 88 wordsNelson Erskine Stride (about 30 years), laborer, of 29 Frederick Street, employed by Timms Bridge Construction Pty. Ltd, on the ...
Article : 215 wordsPolice are trying to detormina whether Mrs. Freda Parkinson (40), who died in the Sydney Hospital early to-day after having ...
Article : 152 wordsThe statement made by the Acting Premier (Mr. E. Dwyer Gray), at a meeting of waterside workers at the Trades Hall on Sunday, was ...
Article : 259 wordsBRISBANE, Monday. — John Lofgren (46), a native of Finland, was charged at the Mackay Police Court to-day with having murdered Peter ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Foreign Offlco spokesman (Mr Kawai), in an exclusive interview with Australian Associated Press, said: "For the sake of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 222 wordsThe discovery of a "gnamma" (rock) hole containing water in the desert about two miles from their disabled truck has saved the ...
Article : 173 wordsA snake was found by two children in a lonely settlement on Mahia Peninsula, Hawkes Bay, and later killed ...
Article : 54 wordsHOBART, Monday.—After visiting the south-western coast of Tasmania, the Warreen, recently commissioned by the Commonwealth for fisheries ...
Article : 109 wordsMore than 150 men and women watched by police waited in vain to see Count von Luckner leave the Australian Broadcasting ...
Article : 110 wordsAssurances of support from other workers' organisations wore given by the president of the Launceston Trades Hall Council (Mr. J. J. ...
Article : 273 wordsThe Federal Labor caucus has vetoed, its lenders on the question of national insurance. For this reason, the second ...
Article : 472 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday. — A second lawsuit over the division of the £240 honus paid by Tattersall's Tasmanian Consultation to a syndicate of five ...
Article : 256 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday — Less than a minute after he had driven from his garage in a motor truck to-day. Edward Little (50), blacksmith, was killed by ...
Article : 104 wordsIn the first round of the amateur golf championship at Troon H. W. Hattersley (Now South Wales), beat Alec Hill, two up. ...
Article : 329 wordsThe race to score a thousand runs in May, which, according to "Wisden's Almanack," includes the last day in ...
Article : 69 wordsHow a woman motorist chased a drunken driver, forcing him to stop in the gutter, was described in the Glenelg Police Court to-day, when ...
Article : 91 wordsWARRACKNABEAL (Vic), Monday.—Norman Gowers, farmer, of Warracknabeal, was killed in a motor smash, on the Dimboola road, about 12 ...
Article : 84 wordsThe extent to which Bradman is England's bogey man is further shown by the fact that cricket writers continue to eulogise his excellence, Howard ...
Article : 248 wordsHOBAET, Monday.—The Minister for Forests (Mr. R. Cosgrove) stated to-day that in a dospatcb. the Agent-General (Mr, C. E. W. James) advised ...
Article : 92 wordsAlthough the moorings had been carefully laid according to the plan, and everything was in readiness for an early start to-day with ...
Article : 223 wordsBRISBANE, Monday. — When a masked intruder broke into her home at Yepoon, Mrs. Jessie Agnes Young, who lives there alone, nearly got her man. ...
Article : 98 wordsHOBART, Monday. — Already keen interest is being evinced in the tercentenary of Tasmania, to be celebrated in 1942, says the Acting Premier ...
Article : 158 wordsDelegatos attending the Labor women's inter-State executive at the Trades Hall to-day docidod to resist any attempt to introduce ...
Article : 126 wordsKALGOORLIE (W.A.). Monday— In biting frost at 5 a.m. to-day, one of 500 searchers who had been scouring the bush near here all night for a lost ...
Article : 97 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—Rosie Turnoff, a full-blooded aboriginal of the Presbyterian Aboriginal Mission Station on Mornington Island, in the Gulf of ...
Article : 94 wordsHOBART, Monday. — The Acting Premier (Mr. E. Dwyor-Gray) and the Attorney-General (Mr. E. J Ogilvie), tasmanian representatives on the Fed ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Tue 24 May 1938, Page 7
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