Despite the denial within the last few days by officials of the Seamen's Union that job control was being practised by the union, two other instances have occurred in Melbourne, ...
Article : 363 wordsBut for the efficient working of the Westinghouse brake on a goods train travelling up the six-mile incline separating Dora Creek and Awaba stations nothing could have ...
Article : 471 wordsA request was made to the Minister for Railways (Mr. Flannery) yesterday by the secretary of the A.R.U. (Mr. Chapman) that an open inquiry into the railway disaster ...
Article : 122 wordsThough the two principals in the fight for the leadership of the Labour party sho[?]k hands at the end of the caucus meeting on Wednesday night, it was stated in ...
Article : 860 wordsThe Australians commenced their holiday match at Carlisle to-day in fine weather. The fixture has aroused considerable interest locally, and there was a good attendance. ...
Article : 803 wordsI landed at Rangoon to-day at 1.15 from Victoria Point, having flown 400 of the 600 miles in continuous rain. Our quick progress from Australia had a sudden check, ...
Article : 1,258 wordsA second naval expedition along the Yangtse, consisting of the gunboats Cricket and Bee, and a detachment of 70 bluejackets, left Hankow yesterday for Ichang to join the gunboats ...
Article : 281 wordsThe letter from the Irish Free State delegation formally informing the Empire delegations at the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva that the Free State was ...
Article : 738 wordsThe following statement in regard to the disaster was issued yesterday by Mr. Chapman:- "The recurring disasters in the New South ...
Article : 338 wordsThe appointment is annouuced of Mr. Miles Lampson, head of the Central European Department of the Foreign Office, to be British Minister at Pekin in succession to Sir R[?] ...
Article : 267 wordsThe union Steamship Company's steamer Kekorangu is delayed at Risdon by the crew. The vessel was expected to leave Risdon yes terday morning, with residues for Port Pirie, ...
Article : 125 wordsA serious train accident was narrowly averted early this morning on the Main Western line between Orange and Store Creek. The bridge, over which the line runs, and ...
Article : 258 wordsBetting shops will be legalised by a special amendment of the existing laws. It was ascertained from the Premier in caucus yesterday that the Government ...
Article : 83 wordsThe most harrowing part of his experience in the disaster, Judge Mocatta told a "Herald" reporter yesterday, was the torture of listening to other people die. ...
Article : 529 wordsThe Liberal party, under Mr. W. Mackenzie King has been returned with a clear majority over the Conservatives, whose representation has been reduced from 110 to 89. Latest ...
Article : 296 wordsAs the police car attached to the Clarence-street station was patrolling Sussex-street about 5.15 o'clock yesterday afternoon the officers aboard noticed two men carrying ...
Article : 200 words"We think, in view of the present state at the public finances, that the Public Service unions would do well not to press any claim except for the correction of anomalies if they ...
Article : 431 wordsA meeting of the union officials who supported the candidature of Mr. Lang for the Premiershlp was held at the Trades Hall yesterday for the purpose of considering the ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Orient steamer Orvieto, which left London for Australian ports on September 4, is aground in the canal, obstructing traffic. She will probably have to be lightened by ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Air Ministry announces that a 25-seater Vickers-Victoria troop-plane, equipped with two Napler-Lion engines, has left Cairo for Aden on a round trip of 4[?]00 miles. It will ...
Article : 62 wordsNews comes from Paris that the French Treasury has paid £2,000,000 to Britain as a first instalment in repayment of the French debt. ...
Article : 62 wordsTwo employees of the Australian Gas Light Company were severely burned about the face and arms by an explosion which occurred while they were attending to a gus main at ...
Article : 154 wordsThe dispute within the Labour party regarding the allegations that certain members of the Parliamentary Labour caucus were concerned in a bribery "plot" will be ...
Article : 158 wordsThe attempt of Mr. J. S. Garden, a former leader of the Communist party, to secure re-admision to the Australian Labour party has aroused strong opposition in certain ...
Article : 307 wordsEdith Mayne, of Torquay, who in August established a world's swimming record for half a mile, to-day swam a mile in 24m. beating Fanny Durack's world's record of 26m ...
Article : 154 wordsThe "Evening Standard" says:—It is rumoured in the City that a prominent English banker may be offered the governorship of the Commonwealth Bank. Nothing yet is known ...
Article : 105 wordsThe inquest on the bodies of the victims of the disaster, which was formally opened on Tuesday by the district coroner (Mr. G. B. White), will be resumed at Murrurundi ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Government party agreed last night to the introduction of a bill to amend the Liquor Act in certain respects. It rejected by a large majority a move by a section of the ...
Article : 116 wordsAs the Workman's Compensation (Broken Hill) Act, 1920, will expiro shortly, the Minister for Labour and Industry brought certain suggestions before a recent meeting of the ...
Article : 158 wordsLady Helen Graham, a daughter of the Duke of Montrose, will be the Duchess of York's lady-in-waiting on the Australian tour. Lady Helen is a well-known worker among the poor ...
Article : 289 wordsA second court martial has found Lieutenant Skyrme, commander of the submarine H39, which recently sank at Devonport, guilty of hazarding his ship, and directed that he ...
Article : 124 wordsMr. P. W. Tewksbury, chairman of directors of Yellow Cabs of Australia, Ltd., announces that a company, having a capital of £250,000, will shortly be launched in ...
Article : 240 wordsMr. Owen Vincent McGrath, who was killed, was employed at the Criterion Hotel, Moree. His wife resided in Sir. Thomas Mitchell-road, Bondi. Mr. McGrath was 45 years of age. ...
Article : 59 wordsFour men were gassed, one seriously, this morning when engaged in effecting a junction with a main in Princess-street, Oakleigh. They were:—George McWalters, aged 35, ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Secretary to the Railway Commissioners was notified to-day that Garnet Wilson, of 24 Rawson-street, Auburn, and Nicholas Zograph[?]s, of Gunnedah, had been discharged ...
Article : 44 wordsGeorge Edward Webb, who sustained shocking injuries when his business premises in Bayliss-street were afire, died last evening. It appears that R. Miller, a young man, ...
Article : 142 wordsThe recent political development were discussed at a meeting of the Labour Council last night. After a [?]ted debate the following ...
Article : 146 wordsThe following telegram was received by the Premier from Lord Salisbury, leader of the Empire Parliamentary delegation[?] on board the Aorangi, dated September 15: ...
Article : 115 wordsTwo hundred pilgrims from South Africa will attend the unvelling on October [?] of the Delville Wood war memorial in France to South African soldiers who fell in the war. The ...
Article : 98 wordsThe non-arrival of the trawler Awarua strengthens the belief that she was the vessel which signalled the Makura that she was short of coal. The To[?]a continues the ...
Article : 67 wordsSudden and heavy frost in the Midlands last night has ruined the apricot crop, which had promise of being very heavy. Many growers, who had been relying on the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 17 Sep 1926, Page 11
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