The Legislative Council yesterday decided to hear counsel (Mr. Flannery, K.C.) in support of the petition of the City Council that the Sydney Corporation (Commissioners) Bill ...
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Article : 272 wordsThe debate on the Budget was continued in the House of Representatives to-day. The House met at 11 o'clock this morning, instead of at the usual hour of 2.30 p.m., and ...
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Article : 546 wordsF. A. Giles, formerly of Adelaide started at 7.24 a.m. for Honolulu on the first stage of his attempt to fly to Australia and New Zealand. He was forced to return after be had flown ...
Article : 349 wordsGiving evidence at the Marine Court of Inquiry into the Greycliffe disaster yesterday, the master of the ferry steamer, Captain Barnes, said that when he saw the Tahiti on his port quarter aft he pulled the steering wheel over to starboard, but it did not take effect. ...
Article : 91 wordsWhen the inquiry was resumed Mr. Justice Campbell ordered on examination by a diver of the locking gear and the pin of the rudder on the main portion of the wrecked vessel. ...
Article : 2,793 wordsThe first series of London wool sales, at which the new clip was offered, was held today. The market was strong, and prices showed an advance ranging from 5 to 10 per ...
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Article : 489 wordsThe German seaplane D1230 left Horta (the Azores) for Newfoundland to-day, but came down shortly aftewards, and was towed back, Apparently it was overweighted. ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Under-Secretary for India (Earl Winterton) moved the second reading in the House of Commons to-day of the bill for the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into ...
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Article : 368 wordsRepresentatives of the Oversea Shipping Representatives, Association and the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association met in Melbourne to-day to consider the ...
Article : 216 wordsIn the Senate the Commonwealth Bank Savings Bank Bill passed all remaining stages. The motion for the third reading was opposed by the leader of the Opposition (Senator ...
Article : 160 wordsA telegram has been received by the Bunbury branch of the Waterside Workers' Union from the general secretary, directing that no overtime is to be worked on the jetty on ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Canadian National Dairy Council has decided to ask the Government to cancel the clause in the Australian trade treaty, which allows butter to enter Canada at a cent ...
Article : 58 wordsOwing to oversea competition, Lysaght's galvanised iron works will close down on December 23. Approximately 450 men will be thrown out of employment. ...
Article : 204 wordsIn a question in the House of Commons today Viscount Sandon (Con.) suggested, in regard to the Armistice Day service at the Cenotaph, that the Last Post should be sounded ...
Article : 148 wordsIt was reported yesterday that the Koranui had been delayed in loading at Newcastle, and that her departure from Sydney to-day for Launceston had to be postponed until [?] ...
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Article : 142 wordsMr. Ramsay MacDonald (Lab.) on Thursday will move in the House of Commons a motion deploring the Government's lack of preparation and the militant character of the British ...
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Article : 102 wordsThe council of the Big Brother movement has decided upon an intensive campaign by means of lectures in secondary schools, explaining the object of the movement. Though ...
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Article : 197 wordsThe wooden steamer Kobiloko, of 150 tons gross, bound from Sydney to the Solomon Islands, sprang a leak while steaming along the coast yesterday, and is now anchored off Port ...
Article : 378 wordsReferring to the decision not to procend with the full programme of cruiser construction this year a highly-placed official yesterday expressed his views to the Australian ...
Article : 103 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly Mr. Main asked the Premier if he could inform the House whether the fees paid to Mr. Flannery, K.C., for appearing at the Bar of the Legislative ...
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Article : 60 wordsFollowing the death of her mother. Mrs. Margaret Walte, Mrs. Margaret Delvinge, who had previously been committed for trial on a charge of attempted murder, has now been ...
Article : 185 wordsThe death is announced at the age of 84 years of Mrs Arthur Wilson. Mrs. Wilson was the wife of the Hull shipowner, and in 1891 was hostess at a house party at "Tranby ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Government has decided to prohibit night racing, includiug trotting, after January 1 next. The Chief Secretary (Mr. Bruntnell) said ...
Article : 79 wordsReferring to the subscriptions to his "cheap opera" scheme Sir Thomas Beecham to-day said:—"I have only received £20,000 out of £[?]00,000. The response from London and ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Lord Mayor stated yesterday that he was considering what further efforts could be made by the citizens to prevent the supersession of the City Council. ...
Article : 521 wordsThe salvaging plant of William Waugh, Ltd., which has been engaged in an attempt to beach the Greycliffe wreck left the scene of operations yesterday morning, to ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 24 Nov 1927, Page 11
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