The whole district was shaken when a calcium carbide factory near Toulouse, blew up. More than 100 workers were ...
Article : 109 wordsSerious effects may be seen in the near future as a result of the action of the Government in imposing an export duty on sheep skins. A retaliatory duty on scoured wool from Australia ...
Article : 128 wordsOn the grounds that Mr. Moloney insists that a revelation of the nature of the new trade treaty would handicap Australia, Mr. ...
Article : 61 wordsAn appointment to fill the remaining vacancy on the High Court will not be made until after the return to Australia of the Attorney-General (Mr. F. Brennan), whose personal wishes in the matter will be ascertained. ...
Article : 204 wordsAn extraordinary scene was withnessed in Parliament to-day when the Labour Opposition walked out of the chamber in a body. ...
Article : 124 wordsThe hope that a trade treaty which would prove of mutual advantage to Canada and Australia would result from the present visit to Cnada was ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Japanese Ambassador at Moscow was instructed to inform the Soviet that the closing of the bank at Korea was considered to be an ...
Article : 90 wordsAlthough the success of the conversion loan has gratified financial circles, surprise is expressed that now that the Commonwealth Government had safely ...
Article : 216 wordsTwo men were killed and two others injured in colliery accidents to-day. John McGuinness, 50, a shiftman, of Belmont, and Albert Berwick, 57, also ...
Article : 131 wordsFollowing a conference between French sheep skin exporters in Sydney, the French Consul-General (Mr. Rettement) has cabled to the French ...
Article : 44 wordsThe acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fenton) announced to-day that representations were being made to him regarding the export duty on ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. T. Glover, representing the industry called upon the acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fenton) and arranged with him to discuss again the ...
Article : 143 wordsThat South Australia, if able to deal with its problems as an independent (entity, would control its own revenue and her financial difficulties would be ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. Crofts, the secretary of the A.C.T.U., who withdrew from the Federal Basic Wage inquiry after an argument with the bench, interviewed ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) has been informed by the Departmental Entomologist (Mr. W. B. Gurney) that grasshopper swarms of ...
Article : 173 wordsAustralia House did not welcome the Christmas cable from Canberra announcing a reduction in salaries above £725 per annum. ...
Article : 42 wordsSenator Daly, the acting Attorney General this afternoon emphatically denied that he intended to contest the Parkes seat in the House of ...
Article : 88 wordsThe acting Treasurer (Mr. Lyons) said to-day it had been decided to ask the Prime Minister to convene a conference of ...
Article : 53 wordsA hairdressing saloon in Crown Street, Wooloomooloo was the scene of a daring hold-up this afternoon. The owner of the establishment, ...
Article : 191 wordsFollowing a fire in a cottage at Stanmore late last night the police discovered clothes saturated with kerosene and petrol in almost every room, while ...
Article : 120 wordsThe "Financial News"' describes the wheat advance of 3/- a bushel as preposterous. "The Commonwealth Bank ...
Article : 109 wordsAccording to lobbyists, important decisions were reached by a joint meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party and National Executive of ...
Article : 340 wordsRumours that the Matson liner Ventura en route from Sydney to San Francisco had foundered near Suva were circulated in Sydney ...
Article : 116 wordsUnion secretaries and organisers met at the Trades Hall to-day to receive the report from a deputation which waited on the Premier yesterday, ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Canberra public baths will be open to the public from the commencement of the Christmas period. Considerable work remains to be ...
Article : 53 wordsFollowing the disappearance of a small package containing £200 in notes and two registered overseas mail packets from Gunning Post Office ...
Article : 130 wordsThere are now 14 Italians missing from the liners Otranto and the Orford. Every effort is being made to ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Metropolitan Transport Trust to-night decided to prohibit the use of motor lorries and motor vans for the conveyance of passengers unless the ...
Article : 78 wordsIt took two men to hold a woman who endeavoured to throw herself over the gap at Watson's Bay to-night. A tram conductor whose suspicions ...
Article : 101 wordsIn answering a question in Parliament the Premier (Mr. Lang) said 247 persons had gold passes entitling them to free travel on the railways. One ...
Article : 58 wordsThe police arrested two Italians who arrived from Sydney by taxi last night and charged them at the local court with being prohibited immigrants. ...
Article : 58 wordsWhen a collision occurred as Auburn early this morning between a milk cart and horse and a milk motor truck. Walter Curley, 24, the ...
Article : 108 wordsIn the official list of attendances of nembers of the House of Representatives since November 21 last year it is stated that Mr. R. V. Keane was ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Chamber of Deputies passed a motion of confidence in the now Cabinet by 29[?] votes to 284. ...
Article : 31 wordsA reward of £10 per head has been offered for the capture of the 12 Italians missing from the Otranto and the Orford. ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Sat 20 Dec 1930, Page 1
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