Miss B. Shaw, of the University of London, who judged the verse-speaking for juveniles up to 12 years at the Sydney Eisteddfod, commented yesterday on many faults among the ...
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Article : 223 wordsAcoording to the financial report submitted to Dubbo Municipal Council last night a surplus of £10,000 is likely this year. Already estimates have been exceeded by £6000. ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. Samuel Hordern was elected unopposed to the council of the Royal Agricultural Society at yesterday's annual meeting. Thus the Hordern family is now represented on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 465 wordsThe Governor (Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven), who, with Lady Hore-Ruthven, fulfilled a long, list of engagements in the Newcastle district to-day, heard several expressions of ...
Article : 760 wordsThe District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark), after inquiring yesterday into the fire at the Hornsby District Hospital on August 11, found that it was caused by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 219 wordsA hundred and eighty schoolgirls arrived in Grafton to-day on the first of two schoolgirls' "cruise" trains from Sydney to the Queensland border during the spring vacation. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe South Grafton Council has decided to ask the Grafton City Council to make a grant of £100 towards the completion of an aerodrome on South Grafton common. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Mr. Parkhill) yesterday explained the Government's reasons for curtailing the amount of free ammunition made available to rifle clubs. He ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 wordsWilliam Edward Cook, 45, single, was found dead yesterday afternoon, lying across a bed in a shed on his property in Atkinson-street, Mudgee. There was a bullet wound near the ...
Article : 60 wordsA car containing people who were going to Brisbane to attend a wedding left the road at Cedar Point, 15 miles from Casino, and crashed into a stump. ...
Article : 132 wordsThe City Council finance committee and representatives of growers and agents, at a conference yesterday, showed a wide divergence of opinion on the proposal to expend more ...
Article : 460 wordsTh death of Sir Reginald Macleod breaks the line of male chieftains of the clan extending over 700 years. The chieftainship may devolve upon Mrs. ...
Article : 184 wordsA motion picture, telling the story of pioneering work on the North Coast, is to be filmed in Murwillumbah and the Tweed district within the next few months. Mr. ...
Article : 83 wordsAt a meeting of the Linnean Society of New South Wales last night, Dr. C. Anderson, of the Australian Museum, produced for the first time a splendid fossil specimen of an ...
Article : 372 wordsAfter Alderman H. Fenton and Mr. F. J. Cahill, the president and the secretary of the newly-formed New South Wales Tourist Development Association, addressed a special ...
Article : 148 wordsAt the Taree Police Court, Charles Lillington was fined £5 on a charge of having behaved in a riotous manner at a dance hall at Tinonee. The police stated that the ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. A. D. Olle, in an address to the Sydney Technical College Chemical Society, last night, said that many remedial drugs still included in the pharmacopoeia were known and ...
Article : 168 wordsAt a conference in Moree last night it was decided to proceed immediately with the campaign for the general immunisation of children in the north-west against diphtheria. ...
Article : 54 wordsA call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details appear on page 16, column 5. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe dry weather has resulted in a scarcity of water for domestic purposes. Many tanks are empty. Several people have been compelled to draw supplies from other sources. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Reid Government, which is resigning, ha3 suspended payments on Alberta Government Bank savings certificates as the result of a rush by depositors to withdraw their ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 297 wordsWhile attending the seventh annual group conference of the Country Women's Association yesterday, Mrs. E. G. Clark, a delegate from Casino, collapsed and died at the ...
Article : 68 wordsA public meeting of protest against the Commonwealth censorship of books was held in St. James' Hall last night under the auspices of the Book Censorship Abolition ...
Article : 177 wordsA train rail fell from a truck on to the feet of two railway fettlers, Duncan Phillips, of Croft-street, Annandale, and J. Alder, of Beaumont-street, Pyrmont. Alder suffered a ...
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Article : 161 wordsWith the 14th round still incomplete, the position of the teams in the international chess tournament, which is being decided here, was:—Poland, 45 points; Sweden, 44; ...
Article : 92 wordsAt the Lithgow Police Court, William Reuben Field was fined £5, with costs, on a charge of driving in a manner dangerous to the public, and an order was made for the ...
Article : 116 wordsMrs. Sophie McGuinness, 63, of Booth-street. Annandale, is in a critical condition in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, as a result of injuries received in a street accident on ...
Article : 415 words"I asked a number of educated people where Tasmania was and they placed it in the West Indies," stated the Premier (Mr. Ogilvie), in a report to the State Cabinet on the lack of ...
Article : 107 wordsPolice have been making intensive investigations into a robbery which occurred on August 7 in Kirketon-road, Darlinghurst. It was reported that about £600, the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe price of gold to-day was £6/19/11½ an ounce fine, compared with £6/19/9½ yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 264 wordsAt the Police Court, Bernard Roy McDonald, 27, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for the theft of a suitcase containing wearing apparel and papers. It was stated that ...
Article : 114 wordsThe promptness with which firemen answered a call prevented a serious fire in a block of buildings in George-street, near the Regent Theatre, last night. The damage done ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Government categorically denies the report published in the London "Daily Herald" that, accompanying Japan's reply to Britain's memorandum about the proposed ...
Article : 82 wordsThe works committee of the Mosman Council reported to the last meeting of the council that it had inspected Clifton Gardens and was pleased with the manner in which the ...
Article : 402 wordsFire which broke out in the Mt. Mitchell afforestation reserve laid waste in a few hours the work of several years. About 125 acres were burnt out, and it is ...
Article : 84 wordsCharles Ling, while riding down the G[?] Hill, between Bowral and Mittagong, was thrown heavily from his bicycle, and suffered an injury to the skull, injuries to the ...
Article : 55 wordsIt is estimated that 40 fishermen were drowned as a result of the violent gale on the south-eastern coast of Newfoundland at the week-end. ...
Article : 59 wordsA new motor car, driven by Mrs. W. [?] Baker, and a motor lorry, driven by James Joseph Salmon, of Wybong, came into collision at a street intersection. The car was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 309 wordsMr. J. O. Meeks, of Harrison Ramsay Pty., Ltd., has accepted the position of honorary treasurer of the Citizens' Reform Association in succession to Mr. W. P. Dunlop, who held ...
Article : 101 wordsMany travellers from surrounding districts have been visiting the Wyangala Dam since the impounding of water. The large expanse of water is an impressive sight when viewed ...
Article : 65 wordsOfficers of the Defence Department, giving evidence before the Federal Public Service Arbitrator (Mr. J. C. Westhoven) to-day in support of their claims for higher salaries, ...
Article : 143 wordsIn a letter to the Editor of the "Herald," Mr. K. McNairn protests against the action of the managements of many large city firms in forcing their employees, under penalty of ...
Article : 103 wordsAnxiety has arisen among fruitgrowers [?] business people at the condition of roads in the irrigation area. They are claimed to be in a state which threatens settlers with ...
Article : 86 wordsCanon K. E. S. Hammond, addressing members of the Australian Youth Movement on Tuesday night, said that every week this year he had found positions for 15 boys, and his list ...
Article : 137 wordsNoisy motor cycles were strongly criticised to-day by the City Coroner (Mr. D. Grant, P.M.) at an inquest into the death of Thomas William Scott, 17, apprentice jockey, of ...
Article : 137 wordsBefore Mr. Justice Martin in the Supreme Court at Warrnambool yesterday, Rupert Charles McInnes, jockey, was charged with having wounded John Alexander Gibson, ...
Article : 68 wordsThe A.W.U. "plebiscite purge" proved [?] fiasco. Only about 26 people heeded the order to appear before the southern district committee. They were merely told that they ...
Article : 119 wordsOwing to business reasons, Hey will not make a decision to accept the invitation to tour New Zealand with the Australian Rugby League team until next week. He is the ...
Article : 103 wordsAt the first meeting of the Advisory Council of Norfolk Island to-day, Mr. Charles Chase Ray Nobbs was elected president, and Mr. William McLachlan deputy president, for the ...
Article : 40 wordsRepairs to the clock tower of the General Post Office have been completed, and the tower will be open for public inspection on and from September 4 on Wednesday ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Mosman Council has decided to complete arrangements tor a loan of £50,000 for public works throughout the municipality. ...
Article : 24 wordsProgrammes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement columns. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 29 Aug 1935, Page 10
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