The efforts of local councils to induce the Railway Commissioners to grant concession fares for district people travelling to Sydney ...
Article : 243 wordsBlue Mountains Shire Council, at its meeting on Wednesday, decided to support a proposal submitted by Mr Edwin Salter, of Lawson, that ...
Article : 742 wordsLast week's issue of the "Nepean Times" celebrating the Jubilee of the paper had a splendid reception. There was a big demand for ...
Article : 725 wordsRaymond Arnold (19), who escaped from Emu Plaint Prison Farm on Sunday morning, was recaptured at Blacktown on Monday ...
Article : 176 wordsMR. W. FREAME found a William and Ann shilling, minted in the 17th Century. He also possesses the memoirs of a Quaker in Ireland, written ...
Article : 60 wordsMOTORISTS who regularly use the Mulgoa Road complain of straying stock on that highway. They state that the animals are turned out on the ...
Article : 38 wordsTHE progressive spirit in some of the people of Woodford is moving in the direction of having a swimming pool supplied for this centre by next ...
Article : 49 wordsIN thanking Blue Mountains Shire Council for the erection of much-needed light at Blaxland, a ratepayer, in a letter read at the meeting of ...
Article : 52 wordsA COMPLAINT against card playing in Memory Park rotunda on Sundays was made by Ald. Cameron at the meeting of Penrith Council on ...
Article : 44 words"BOX-ON" writes:—A new club has been formed at St. Marys, to be known as the "Boo-hoo Club." Last Saturday in the match between St. ...
Article : 90 wordsROAD repairs were under discussion at the meeting of St. Marys Council on Tuesday evening, and remarks by other aldermen led Ald. Christie to ...
Article : 52 wordsPENRITH Council decided on Tuesday evening to inform Council's electric light consumers at Emu that after this quarter the charge to them for electric ...
Article : 69 wordsON arrival at Penrith last Friday, Eric Malpas, a young man, told of his experiences in travelling across Australia on a push bicycle, making ...
Article : 97 wordsA YOUNG man paid a visit to Lithgod and cashed a cheque with a business firm for £60, receiving jewelly to the value of about £30. The ...
Article : 111 wordsA meeting of the committee of the Nepean-Hawkesbury Ambulance was held at the Ambulance Station, Penrith, on Thursday, 3rd inst. There ...
Article : 474 words"MULGA" writes:—While I cannot recall a real old type swagman wearing socks on the track, I remember that the general practice was ...
Article : 79 wordsA very successful effort to augment the funds for the renovation of the nurses' quarters at the Nepean District Hospital was the social evening held at ...
Article : 142 wordsBLUE Mountains Shire Council is pushing its project for the establishment of a broadcasting station on the Mountains, by means of which the ...
Article : 93 wordsMANY old coins dating from 1770, tokens, and military buttons, have been dug up around Westmead; also legirous. In the early days convicts ...
Article : 105 wordsREPEATED interruptions from the audience at the meeting of St. Marys Council on Tuesday evening caused the Mayor, Ald Kennelly, much ...
Article : 104 wordsTHE editor of a country paper being temporarily obliterated, or over"inked," the office boy took a hand in filling the paper. He reported a ...
Article : 119 wordsWHEN the Sydney Harbour Bridge (Administration) Bill was being considered by the Legislative Assembly in Committee, amendments dealing ...
Article : 159 wordsA BUTCHER in a country town recently hailed his solicitor neighbor. "A dog has just stolen a leg of mutton from my shop. What can I do about ...
Article : 119 wordsRev. Father Thomas Barlow, who was parish priest of Penrith for 16 years, has retired and gone to reside at Kincumber, on the Northern Line. The ...
Article : 289 wordsTHE other day a stately limousine drew up abruptly in a Melbourne street. The driver, a lady, felt a slight bump when a baby car, with a ...
Article : 124 wordsTHAT the electrical engineer of Blacktown Shire be allowed to address ratepayers of Rooty Hill and explain what was involved in the ...
Article : 129 wordsVERY few people are aware of the fact that Liverpool possesses a monument to Captain Cook, erected in 1833—almost a century ago. It is a ...
Article : 259 wordsCOMING to the Penrith district with her sons, from the City, a mother has been endeavoring to make a living. Writing to the Smith Family ...
Article : 260 wordsTHAT the size of the main supplying water to Nepean Dairy Factory be increased was a request that was before Penrith Council on Tuesday ...
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Nepean Times (Penrith, NSW : 1882 - 1962), Sat 12 Mar 1932, Page 1
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