The expected supplementary tariff schedule was tabled in the House of Representatives this afternoon at 5 o'clock. It comprised about 30 items ...
Article : 1,515 wordsA heated scene developed in the Senate this afternoon out of the allegation made by Senator Reid last week that Mr. Theodore had received a monetary consideration from ...
Article : 417 wordsIn consequence of the serious financial stringency, the State Government has found it necessary to curtail its works programme Practically no new works will be started ...
Article : 414 wordsAt the hearing of four new charges against Clarence Hatry and his co-defendants of having obtained £1,350,000 by false pretences in connection with Iron Industries, Ltd., ...
Article : 381 wordsA renewal of southerly gales caused by a very deep depression approaching from the Atlantic is, according to weather forecasts, likely to be severe on ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Rothbury mine is to be reopened on Wednesday, when coalhewing will commence. Arrangements have been completed for free labour to go into camp at the commencement of next week. ...
Article : 48 wordsDetails of the Government's plans for dealing with unemployment were issued this afternoon in a White Paper. They show the total estimated expenditure on schemes ...
Article : 398 wordsThe Minister for Mines (Mr. Weaver) announced yesterday that sufficient skilled labour had already been engaged to operate the Rothbury mine. Should the former Rothbury ...
Article : 212 wordsNewcastle district colliery mechanics, at an aggregate meeting to-night, unanimously decided to ratify the coal agreement terms. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe question of the allocation of funds raised among the Victorian unions for the relief of the coal miners in New South Wales, was considered at a meeting of the ...
Article : 149 wordsThe "Morning Post," which has taken the initiative in the Christian protest against Russian persecution, has evoked a remarkable response from leaders of religious thought ...
Article : 132 wordsReplying to Mr. O'Hearn in the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Premier (Mr. Bavin) said that in no circumstances would the Government consider deferring action in the ...
Article : 148 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Latham) referred to the fact that the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin), after the recent coal ...
Article : 111 wordsFurther details of the disaster caused by the derailment of a passenger train near Namur, Belgium, show that the carriages were crowded, and many passengers were ...
Article : 120 wordsLabour pre-selection ballots for the forthcoming State elections will be held in 28 metropolitan electorates during the weekend. ...
Article : 172 wordsSir Alan Cobham has arrived at Dijon from Croydon, completing the first stage of an aerial survey from London to South Africa, which he is making on behalf of Imperial ...
Article : 178 wordsForty thousand spectators watched the inter-'varsity Rugby match at Twickenham to-day, when Oxford defeated Cambridge by nine points to nil. ...
Article : 151 wordsOne girl was suffocated by the fumes in a burning building before the flames reached her, and another leapt to safety just in time, when the Filmerait Studios, at the corner of ...
Article : 453 wordsThe general secretary of the Australian Labour party (Mr. S. Bird), commenting last night on the demand of the Kurri miners for the refund of the £1000 invested by the ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Australian Rugby League team defeated Glamorgan by 39 points to 9. ...
Article : 18 wordsThough strict secrecy is being observed about happenings at the meeting of miners' lodges, which began at Newcastle Trades Hall to-day, it would appear that the conference ...
Article : 293 wordsA report from Rome says that the beatification of 136 English martyrs will be carried out on December 15. They include 85 executed in Queen Elizabeth's reign. The Duke of ...
Article : 461 wordsIn the House of Representatives this morning, Mr. Green (N.S.W.) asked the Assistant Minister for Industry (Mr. Beasley) whether, in his capacity as liaison officer for the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Duke of Gloucester inspected the research ship Discovery II., which will leave for the Falkland Islands on December 14 for a three years' investigation. The object of her ...
Article : 187 wordsIn the House of Commons the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Graham), in answer to a question, said that he was aware that the Australian duty on steel traps had ...
Article : 213 wordsAmplification works which will greatly increase the supply of water to the northern suburbs were described by the chief engineer (Mr. Haskins) at a meeting of the Water ...
Article : 386 wordsAs a result of the continuation of the New South Wales strike, Australia is again in the market for steam coal, and is endeavouring to obtain tonnage on the basis of 25/ per ton ...
Article : 61 wordsSydney, with a registration of 96.9 degrees, was beaten yesterday by Bourke for the State's maximum temperature, and then only by a fraction of a degree. The temperature ...
Article : 182 wordsUnion Theatres, Ltd., and Hoyt's Theatres, Ltd., have agreed upon a general consolidation of the interests of the two companies. The agreement will rule for a period of years. ...
Article : 225 wordsAt least nine persons, including five men and four women, were killed when a series of seven explosions of unknown origin wrecked and burned the Pathe Sound Film Studio. ...
Article : 150 wordsA message from Paris states that the Rapporteur on Army Estimates told the French Chamber of Deputies that, although Germany had benevolently ratified the convention ...
Article : 130 wordsThe actions of a masked man, who visited a farmhouse in an isolated spot near Hunterville, were responsible for considerable apprehension in the district. ...
Article : 148 wordsThere was a disastrous fire at Bostobrick, 11 miles from Dorrigo, last night, when Earp, Woodcock, Beveridge, and Co.'s sawmill and a huge quantity of sawn timber were ...
Article : 193 wordsThe following telegram has been received by the Brisbane Rugby League from the New South Wales League concerning the decision of the New South Wales League to confer with ...
Article : 172 wordsThe American Embassy and Consulate-General in London have been so deluged with requests from American citizens seeking a portion of mythical fortunes in England that ...
Article : 137 wordsDoctors were unable to state the cause of the sudden death yesterday of Hugh Clarke, 60, a grocer, of Birrell-street, Waverley. A post-mortem examination of the body has been ...
Article : 133 wordsAs a result of the success achieved by the Government-subsidised freight service from British Columbia to Australia, the Minister for Trade and Commerce (Mr. Malcolm) ...
Article : 159 wordsWithin a few hours of the opening of the new Victorian State Parliament to-day the Nationalist Ministry was attacked by the Labour party, and on a motion for the ...
Article : 169 wordsThe skiff Gloaming was the scene of one of the most regrettable incidents in Western Australian yacht racing for many years on Saturday. According to an official ...
Article : 111 wordsExtensive damage followed a severe hurricane yesterday afternoon. The Church of England and a cottage in Blenheim-street, owned by Mr. George Holland, were ...
Article : 91 wordsA hurricane, with its centre north of Suva, is apparently travelling south-east. At Suva, the barometer reading is 29.15, and at Taveuni, which is apparently receiving the brunt of ...
Article : 147 wordsA message from Berlins says that a farm labourer, George Nestroy, has been arrested for alleged complicity in the Dusseldord murderes. It is stated that he was in the ...
Article : 118 wordsAddressing the Bradford Textile Society on the production of an ideal textile fabric. Dr. S G. Barker referred to the possibility of obtaining a finer wool fibre by means of chemical ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Australian delegation to the recent Pan-Pacific Secretariat conference at Vladivostok are reported to be at variance concerning the nature of their report to the ...
Article : 98 wordsThe bodies of Colin Ross, 4, and Walter Ross, 3, sons of Mr. A. Ross, of Chiltern, were found in a water-hole to-day. The children had been playing about their home ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the Hobart Criminal Court to-day, Agnes Mary Hall, an elderly married woman, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for forgery of a will, purporting to be that of her ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 12 Dec 1929, Page 11
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