The announcement that tin hare racing was to come to Kempsey has aroused a storm of protest in certain sections of the community A petition has been signed by the parish[?]oners ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. W. J. Cleary, when opening the annual [?]utumn exhibition of the Railway and Tramway Dahlia Society on Saturday, said that it would be the last occasion on which he ...
Article : 364 wordsThe technical staff at the Cairo Museum, headed by Mr. Alfred Lucas, the distinguished chemist, who carried out all the original preservation work, are now busy unpacking the ...
Article : 930 wordsThe Criminal Court sat on a Saturday for the first time since the famous Auburn murder case in 1924 to complete the Murchison mystery trial, in which John Thomas Smith, alias ...
Article : 142 wordsIn the 12 years' history of the west's great race there has been nothing to equal the popularity of Phar Lap. In an exclusive statement to the Australian Press Association, Mr. D. J. ...
Article : 1,087 wordsVaucluse House, the scene of Saturday's pageant, viewed from the air. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 15 wordsIt was announced to-day that the Victorian Government had decided to apply to the High Court for leave to intervene in the action, New South Wales versus the ...
Article : 679 wordsAt the police court, before Mr. E. Harrison, P.M., Harry Lee, a Chinese, charged with having opium pipes and utensils in his possession, was fined £20, in default, 40 days' hard ...
Article : 91 words"That is the ma[?]mum sentence I can give you, but I don't think it it enough for a man like you," said Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., in Murwillumbah Police Court, when sentencing ...
Article : 91 wordsAlthough a considerable saving is expected from the amalgamation of the Commonwealth Departments of Home Affairs, Works, and Transport, no official estimate of the amount ...
Article : 181 wordsThe municipal council has sold its electricity generating plan[?] the price being £3750. The purchaser was Mr[?] [?]. R. Hammond. The council is obtaining i[?]s supply of electricity ...
Article : 47 wordsJohn Bartley told Mr. H. H. Farrington, P.M., during a bankruptcy examination that, though he was a hotel proprietor a few months ago, he was now working as a ...
Article : 61 wordsA meeting of the Newcastle-Kurri Kurri-Cessnock group of the State A.L.P. last night condemned the action of the State A.L.P. executive in refusing membership of the party ...
Article : 260 wordsSix hundred and thirty-two citizens have been the victims of a great illusion! They came from the length and breadth of Australia, some travelled thousands of miles, ...
Article : 601 wordsWilliam John Drew, 19, of Victor-street, Chatswood, was killed instantly late last night when his motor cycle crashed into the rear of a stationary motor lorry in Willoughby-road, ...
Article : 176 wordsSenator Hardy addressed a small meeting here last night. It was presided over by Mr. J. Esmond, president of the local branch of the Monaro-South Coast movement. Senator ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the annual meeting of the local branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association the president (Mr. J. A. Lawson), referring to settlement along the Moulamein railway, said ...
Article : 157 wordsJunee Showground is to be sold. The committee of the Junee P. A. and I. Association has decided not to hold a show this year. The trustees will call for tenders for the sale of ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Lithgow branch of the Unemployed Workers' Movement has decided to ask the Federal Government to make available vacant houses at Littleton settlement The houses ...
Article : 59 wordsA nugget weighing 6oz [?]dwt 12gr[?] was found by Mr. W. A. Ross at Dark Corner, near a spot where much gold was discovered in former years. It was located in a crevice of rock on ...
Article : 55 wordsTrain traffic through the city to Parramatta and Liverpool was disorganised last night, consequent upon the opening of the Harbour Bridge lines. For more than an hour after ...
Article : 156 wordsA plague of mice is approaching from the south-west. The pest has already invaded the houses, and reports from outlying centres indicate that they are travel[?]g over the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe first annual report of the Hospital Ladies Auxiliary showed that splendid work had been done by them for the Hospital. They had raised over £250 during the 12 months. ...
Article : 93 wordsSpeaking at the annual meeting of the Armidale branch of the Country party, Mr. D. H. Drummond, M.L.A., strongly criticised the Lang Government. He declared that, ...
Article : 186 wordsThe "Observer," in an editorial, says:—"Mr. Lang's move to get the new Commonwealth Acts set aside as unconstitutional heralds a big struggle. Mr. Lyons's position is very ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Port of Sydney will be closed between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., and between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. to-day and between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., on Wednesday, to enable the Garrison ...
Article : 127 wordsThe road on the way to Newnes, particularly at a spot known as the Gap, is declared to be in a particularly dangerous condition. At one point there is a sheer drop of hundreds of ...
Article : 54 wordsDamage estimated at £3000 was caused last night by a fire which destroyed a 12-roomed boarding house in Herries-street, Toowoomba. Nine boarders lost their belongings. A crowd ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Local Government Department has granted permission to Lithgow Municipal Council to refrain from levying gasworks loan rates this year in respect to loans of £1500 ...
Article : 109 wordsComing out of a nose-dive in an aeroplane at a speed of nearly 110 miles an hour, Campbell Copelin, aged 31 years, of Clarendon-street, Port Melbourne, an actor, who had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 285 wordsPhillip H. Davis, 22, hairdresser, of Watson-street, Neutral Bay, was riding a motor cycle and sidecar along Penshurst-street, Willoughby, about noon yesterday, when he collided with ...
Article : 253 wordsAs a result of a conference between representatives of the Chief Secretary's Department and local storekeepers, the value of dole orders has been slightly reduced. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. Horacs Borlan Lawrence, a well-known resident of Lithgow since 1916. The late Mr. Lawren[?] was reputed to be the proprietor of the first ...
Article : 47 wordsA statement by the New Health Society of New South Wales says the society views[?] with alarm the fact that the increased price of milk his already caused a d[?]inution in its ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. J. B. Scobie, who is being transferred to Woollongong as stipendiary magistrate, after a term in a similar position in the western district, was farewelled here by members of ...
Article : 73 wordsToll collection by the State Transport (Coordination) Board began at midnight on Saturday, and between that hour and 6 o'clock yesterday morning £287 had been collected, ...
Article : 368 wordsMark Potts, 39, a group settler, who was committed for sentence at Albany Quarter Sessions on Friday on two serious charges, was found dead in his cell at Denmark lock-up ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Royal Agricultural Society's 1932 show, which promises, among other attractions, the greatest aggregation of aristocratic live stock seen in the Commonwealth, will be opened ...
Article : 436 wordsAlfred Burns, alias James Ray Penningto[?] 32, at Bowral Police Court, was charged with false pretences. The evidence showed that Burns had purchased two watches from W.E. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe freighter Iron Monarch, which had left Newcastle earlier in the day for Whyalla[?] called at Sydney on Saturday afternoon to land two stowaways who had been discovered ...
Article : 57 wordsThe friends and supporters of Mr. P. E. Coleman propose to recognise his representation of the Reid electorate in the House of Representatives for nine years by giving him ...
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Advertising : 222 wordsWhile preparing a bull for the local show, Charles Mas[?]en, dairy farmer, was knocked down and gored by the animal. One arm was badly torn, and his stomach and ribs were ...
Article : 366 wordsThe size of this effigy of Captain Phillip, in Saturday's procession, may be estimated by the girl beside the figure. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsAir—Commodore Kingsford Smith, after returning from participating in the display of illuminations at the Harbour Bridge on Saturday night, suffered a mishap at Mascot ...
Article : 215 wordsIt is feared that the 13-foot motor-boat in which two fishermen left Beachport on Friday has capsized and sunk. No trace of the men or wreckage has been found. ...
Article : 56 wordsAn additional case of infantile paralysis has been reported from West Tamworth. The patient, a girl, is aged nine years. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 215 wordsOn Saturday morning Mr. William James Cass, 53, a Sydney woolbuyer, collapsed near the parking reserve on the Esplanade. A constable found him at [?].40 a.m., very ill, and ...
Article : 105 wordsOne of the most sensational races known to local sailing history took place in a southwesterly gale on the upper reaches of the harbour yesterday. It was the 10-footers' ...
Article : 162 wordsA message from Camooweal states that, the mail 'plane which was disabled at Brunette Downs on Friday[?] arrived at Camooweal yesterday morning. ...
Article : 111 wordsThe special financial session of the Tasmanian Parliament, which was, to have been opened on April 6, will be deferred until the end of April or early in May, as the Premiers' ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 21 Mar 1932, Page 16
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