The floods on the North Coast are abating, but there is a possibility now that the South Const districts will be affected. "The prospects of floodings on the South ...
Article : 179 wordsDespite the fact that the Miners' Federation rejected the State Ministry's proposals for the rehabilitation of the coal industry, the Cabinet decided yesterday to make ...
Article : 137 wordsA call for free labour was issued in Sydney yesterday on behalf of employers in the timber trade. The move was not unexpected by Trades Hall officials, who said that they were ...
Article : 171 wordsThe House of Representatives was equally divided this afternoon when a vote was taken on a motion moved by Mr. Coleman, Labour member for Reid (N.S.W.) which, if agreed to, would have been, in effect, a vote of censure on the Government. ...
Article : 165 wordsTwo prisoners—Patrick Duncan and Walter Duggin Jones—while being escorted from Cessnock to Sydney, escaped last evening at Central Raliway Station. ...
Article : 309 wordsThe High Council of the Salvation Army is sitting again at Sunbury to-day, instead of at London, as previously announced. It is understood that both sides will have ...
Article : 337 wordsPortions of the Thames estuary are covered with ice, and ships are arriving in the Thames with their rigging completely covered with ice, sometimes inches ...
Article : 719 wordsThe chairman of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association (Mr. C. M. McDonald) was asked yesterday whether his organisation proposed to take any action in regard to ...
Article : 280 words"The employers have had many communications from timber workers to-day, as a consequence of our advertisements inviting applications for work, but no further action ...
Article : 206 wordsFear that the country bordering the Hawkesbury River was to be inundated by a big flood has now abated, owing to the cessation of rain on the watershed. ...
Article : 299 wordsIt was after questions had been answered in the House of Representatives that Mr. Coleman moved that four determinations made under the Arbitration (Public Service) Act, ...
Article : 834 wordsThe coastal steamer Casino, 425 tons, while approaching the Warrnambool port on Tuesday night, struck a submerged object and ripped a hole in her plates. The vessel was ...
Article : 297 wordsIt is officially staled that the King had "a very good day." This is the first time the phrase has been used during his long illness, and is regarded as an encouraging sign of the ...
Article : 159 words"We are of the opinion that there is likely to be a break in the employers' front before very long," said Mr. J. Kavanagh, organiser for the N.S.W. Labour Council, yesterday, in ...
Article : 348 wordsThe miners were advised yesterday by the president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. D. Rees) that if 14 days' notice was issued they should continue working until their council ...
Article : 311 wordsStock losses near Wauchope and in the Upper Hastings during the recent floods were comparatively light, but serious losses occurred in the Wilson and Maria Rivers and ...
Article : 353 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr. F. W. PethickLawrence (Lab.) inquired whether, prior to the increase in the bank rate representations were made to the Treasury to inerease the fiduciary ...
Article : 221 wordsResidents of the border townships had an exciting experience last night during a thunderstorm. One particularly vivid flash of lightning played some queer pranks in a ...
Article : 168 wordsDespite the rain, the crowd outside St. Peter's yesterday waited for hours for the Pope to appear on the balcony. The square was a mass of bunting and tapestries. The ...
Article : 136 wordsThe A.W.U., in a manifesto issued yesterday, commented upon the action of last week's conference in Melbourne, which carried a resolution urging all unions now before the ...
Article : 261 wordsThe chairman of directors of the Blenheim OH Company has issued a statement, in which he says that when the bore was uncapped on February 4, for the purpose of measurement, ...
Article : 159 wordsMr. Berry, president of the Western Canada Dairy Convention, now in session here, said that the drop in the production of butter was caused by the loss of three cents protection ...
Article : 88 wordsThe trouble at the Balmain mine, which was precipitated by the introduction of a card system, to which exception was taken by some of the surfacemen, has been ...
Article : 98 wordsThe flood waters have receded from the lowlying farm lands around Taree, and many families have returned to their properties. A heavy layer of silt and mud has been left ...
Article : 166 wordsBritish oversea trade started the new year with a big spurt. The figures for January, given in the Board of Trade returns, are higher both for imports and exports than for ...
Article : 160 wordsIn an interesting judgment the Court of Appeal disapproved of Mrs. Grady's bequest of £200 000 to found a sanctuary for wild birds and animals. Her next-of-kin contended ...
Article : 147 wordsThe City Commissioners have received information from the officer of the Mines Department in charge of the coal-boring operations nt Bunnerong, to the effect that a seam ...
Article : 136 wordsEdison Rossiter, aged 30 years, was drowned in Neutral Bay yesterday afternoon. Several men made brave attempts to rescue him, but when Rossiters was brought to the shore ...
Article : 195 wordsDamage estimated at many thousands of pounds was caused by a fire which practically destroyed a large furniture factory in Trafalgar-street, Annandale, last night. ...
Article : 164 wordsAccording to the Commonwealth Geologist (Dr.,W. G. Woolnough) there seems to be a reasonable chance that Australia may yet enter the ranks of oil producing countries. ...
Article : 1,220 wordsTrouble developed at South Wharf to-day, between timber strikers and the drivers for timber companies. In one case stones were thrown at a driver of a lorry which was ...
Article : 105 wordsThroughout the shire there have been many washaways at both sides of culverts and bridges. At Nambucca Heads much of the flood current was diverted from the main ...
Article : 126 wordsThe influenza epidemic in Great Britain is becoming intensified. The weekly death-roll since January 1 has been: 99, 122, 179, 821, 652. ...
Article : 44 wordsThomas David Shinnick, 33 years of age, a tram conductor, residing in Hardle-street, Mascot, met with a remarkable accident yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 73 wordsCommenting on the mention of 10,000 ton cruisers in the recent statement on building intention by the First Lord of the Admiralty, the naval correspondent of the "Daily ...
Article : 212 wordsNo further steps were taken by the timber merchants to bring the dispute to a climax. The central strike committee will not meet again until to-morrow. Some of the suburban ...
Article : 193 wordsIn consequence of suggestions of foul play, the coroner has decided to hold an inquest concerning the death of Mahomet Ameen, 65, an Afghan camel-driver, who died under his ...
Article : 72 wordsA message from Valentine (Texas) states that the boys of the Young Australia League visited Juarez, Mexico, and were tendered a luncheon by lending business men. The ...
Article : 136 wordsWhile patrolling near Neutral Bay wharf yesterday morning about 3.30 o'clock. Constables Smith and Tonkis noticed a man, acting in a suspicious manner on the wharf. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe parlous situation of the Macleay River district as a result of the flood was revealed at a special meeting of the municipal council last night to consider relief ...
Article : 309 wordsA benzine tank on a launch manned by four men at Mercury Bay was being filled when an explosion and fire occurred, blowing overboard one occupant, who, with the other ...
Article : 101 wordsThe driver of a taxi-cab, and two passengers in the vehicle, had remarkable escapes from injury last evening, when the cab skidded and somersaulted three times on the wet roadway ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 14 Feb 1929, Page 11
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