Industrial notes on Australian factory efforts and timber tech
The report outlines Harnet Glows Rubber Co starting tyre balls in Melbourne with most plant built in Australia. German experts plan coal brignetting in Morwell while training Australian staff. German firms offer to hire rail locomotives to Australian railways to avoid capital costs. Queensland and Commonwealth discuss a guaranteed price for Australian cotton. Coal price fears threaten output and factory closures. Also described are Lake Champlain wreck tourism boats and the Bureau of Commerce and Industry expansion to attract British investment. Mention of kuppo timber as light, strong for aviation use, and a Melbourne sewing machine project revived by Mr. Wilson though initially unpopular.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conference of Associated Chambers of Manufacturers
Australia
Lake Champlais
Bermuda
Old Butteaux
Armeld’s Bay
Oller Creek
Vermont
Westport
Bureau of Commerce and Industry
Commonwealth Board of Trade
Commonwealth Public Works Committee
Melbourne
J. A. Gilruth
Northern Territory
Thormycroft
London
Sydney Artista Ball Faces Reported Scandal at City Dance
A report to the Byrdney municipality flounce committee accuses attendees at the Artiste Ball of scandal. Aldermen blame whisky influence and drugged women, while the Lord Mayor decries deplorable conduct. The Night Hall was set alight three times, prompting calls to ban whisky at future dances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byrdney
Wos
Walker
Potterry lecture urges distinct Australian ceramics at East Sydney
Mr Leonard Grimwade of the Staffordshire Pottery world tour spoke to East Sydney Technical College students on the ceramic arts. He warned against cheapening the craft and urged originality using Australian flora and fauna, avoiding English models and using local legends like the Sentimental Bloke and Henry Lawson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Sydney Technical College
Leonard Grimwade
Staffordshire Potteries
British Museum
Melbourne
James Barrett
Egypt
Tel-el-Mana
Nile
Grimwade
Japan
Britain
Alyse
Shakespeare
Dickens
Doreen
Henry Lawson
Katoomba Art Union Draw at Town Hall
The Shovel Art Union draw occurred at Katoomba Town Hall on Thursday September Tth. Prizes were awarded numbers 205784 56117 901680 with £100 prizes noted. The Montana Metropolitan prize events followed on September 16th and 17th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katoomba
Nos
Metropoli Sea
Evolution and the soul journey across human history
A speaker explains evolution as a universal law visible in nature and human development. The essayal traces evolution from seed to oak, child to adult, and social progress, then links Darwin to a broader precept of reincarnation guiding human inequality and moral growth across civilizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Anon
Rhine
Rhous
Darwin
Pluto
Emerson
Phillips River excursion confirms land quality and extension plans
A party led by Mr. R. Donn toured land east of the Newdegate belt to verify engineer Morrow’s survey claims. They reported substantial first class land near the Phillips River and urged road and rail development, including an Albany push to extend the Ongerup railhead toward Gardener River, while noting labor and clearing challenges at Newdegate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Local Roads Board
Interland
Morrow
Newdegate
R. Donn
Moon
Madden
Great Lake
Newdeyote
First Clas
Soul
Hamersley
Phillips
Albany
Ongerup
Torether
Gardener
Jarrampungup
Woutherm
Henry Lawson’s Will Distributes Personal Relics
The last will of Henry Lawson, drawn in 1900 and left to Mrs. Byers, lists items distributed to friends and institutions. A walking stick given to J. J. Tyrrell will go to the Mitchell Library, and the poet’s pipe and pipe-related items are assigned to others, including MLA T. D. Mitchell and Roderic Quinn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Lawson
Jos Noonan
Lawson
Roderic Quinn
Also Mentioned on This Page
Industrial Notes
Harnet Glows Rubber Company
Agetralis
Garman
Morwell
Vinturia
Far Kast
Queensland
Theodore
Australi
T. Wilson
Wilson
Caulfield Hospital
Sydney
Artista
Drew Robinson & CO
Kent
Whybrow
Ince
MuMérous Designs
McKay
Ladies Grace Kid of
Patent
Ting
Romance of Pottery
Thousand Art Union
Wileon
W.A
T. B Carter
Ork Street
Post Office
Mouchemore
York Street
Royal Exchange Assurance
Standard Bakery
York
E. W
Renton -Qrerromt
McDonald Fruiterer & Confectioner
Premier Tea Rooms
W. Hyde
Great Southern
Honisett & Co., Butchers
BB. Mouchemore
WERT
St. Georges Terrace
Perth
Bowman
Albeny
Orate Wrerato
Commercial Union Asssurance Company, Ltd
TIOCH
Western Australia
Commercial Union
T. EL Qariss
Brench
Memes, Gungal
Hm, Wiley
Vincent
Albany Pore Milk Supply
W. EB Barker
Freemasons’ Fiotel
Stirling Terrace
Sudan
Brunning
Hotham
Robert Bell
Phillips River
National Library of Australia
Nla.gov
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