29 Sep 1927
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Newspaper
Albany Despatch
Location
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 29, 1927
Page
1
Reports from Ma vensthorpe and surrounding areas describe widespread rainfall easing farm worries. Crops improve across Boalarting and Hopetoun, with 113 points at Wagin and 16 points at Salmon Farm. harvest prospects rise as moisture returns and yields appear promising.
Mount Barker business notices highlight local merchants and services from P H Young’s leading house to hardware clothing and news agency. The Park Hotel hosts Mrs C Reddin offering hospitality, with listings for boot makers, builders, auctioneers, lighting, and motorcar agents.
Death comes after long illness. Mrs. Ethel Constance Hardie wife of A E Hardie formerly of West Carragin and Claremont. the Hardie family had long resided in the town and district. News of her death reached Narrogin on Monday morning causing sorrow among intimate friends.
Philip Guedalla is recognized as a leading exponent of the essay art. His Men of Letters offers candid, pithy brief critiques with humor. Other volumes by the same author, uniform with the half crown edition, join Hodder and Stoughton’s People’s Library.
Mesare Hodder and Stoughton publish pocket friendly volumes by David Grayson praised for companionship and quiet cheer. Works include Adventures in Understanding Creat Possessions Hemp Field and Adventures in Friendship, noted for high thoughts on everyday life and nature’s uplifting influence.
The Koon Commission on Wireless reports on Postmaster General control of broadcasting with Australian input. It urges reduced royalties, potential Commonwealth ownership of Amalgamated Wireless shares, and a national pooled license revenue system to balance services across states. relay stations for country listeners are recommended. The government will study the report.
The first business in the Canberra Parliament will be the Budget presented by Treasurer Dr Pare. It marks Dr Joe Page's fifth consecutive Budget and the start of Federation. This year delays aim to keep the record intact, with the Budget due on the first day of Parliament.
An interstate and Federal Conference convened by the Times Page Government seeks to discuss proposals for developing fishing and allied industries along Australia coastlines and placing them on an economic footing. The gathering covers coast development, trawling, and related sectors with Senator McLachlan noting the Commonwealth’s function to investigate and research for state benefit.
The Royal Commission on constitutional alteration sat in Canberra on Wednesday. It received reasons arguing Australia has outgrown a constitution drafted over a third of a century ago. Submissions cited modern inventions such as cinema wireless and aviation and noted conflicts between Commonwealth and State Courts over labor disputes and the scope of forestry and extraterritorial powers.
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