Resentment at the proposal of the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Bavin) to prevent the overlapping of State and Federal awards, and to endeavour to withdraw State ...
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Article : 2,398 wordsAlderman H. F. Venables, on declining again to actept the Mayoral chair after five years' service in that capacity, was entertained at a social gathering by his fellow-aldermen ...
Article : 65 wordsA conference of the Mining Managers' Association and delegates from the Barrier Industrial Council and the unions concerned, was held this afternoon to discuss a new ...
Article : 488 wordsBeautiful weather prevailed for the fourth day of the Sheffield Shield match between Victoria and Queensland on the Melbourne ground to-day. Queensland, with the score ...
Article : 818 wordsAddressing members of the Master Builders' Association last night, the president (Mr. A. Howie) said that the new Customs tariff on timber was nothing short of a scandal. It ...
Article : 172 wordsA proposal that the Federal Government should take over the administration of education in Australia was keenly debated at the Teachers' Conference yesterday. Mr. J. ...
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Article : 39 wordsA case in which a complaint was made by G. E. Austin against Neville B. Grace for leaving open rabbitproof gates on the Wombeyan Caves-road was heard at the ...
Article : 160 wordsA jury to-day awarded £300 damages and costs in the case in which Stanley Norman Wright sued Sir Thomas Coombe, a director of Union Theatres, Limited, for £10,000, for ...
Article : 115 wordsThe recent increases in the duties on timber were trenchantly criticised by Sir David Gordon, chairman of directors, at the half-yearly meeting to-day of Reid Bros., Limited. ...
Article : 251 wordsCouncillor A. Mc[?]rthur has served continuously on the Carrathool Shire since its inception 21 years ago, and Councillor George Horton, has given the same length of servies ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Butler) stated this evening that he had received a minute from the Railways Commissioner (Mr. W. A. Webb), advising that the award recently given by Sir ...
Article : 204 wordsGeorge Bruce, a student at the district school, had his left hand badly mutilated through the explosion of chemicals with which he was experimenting on his own account in ...
Article : 36 wordsThe proposal by Judge Beeby to make inquiries regarding the introduction of a system of payment by results for the work on the waterfront appears to be favoured by ...
Article : 141 wordsMr. R. J. Hamilton was gathering firewood on his motor lorry at Granbalong, when he saw a brown snake busily engaged devouring a young rabbit. Mr. Hamilton shot the rep[?], ...
Article : 62 wordsAt the Goulburn Police Court, Edward Cooper, lessee of premises belonging to the Goulburn Mechanics' Institute, was charged with having had the management of a room ...
Article : 94 wordsIt is understood that the works of George A. Bond and Co., Ltd., after the Christmas and New Year closing down, will be reopened almost on a full seale early in January, the ...
Article : 159 wordsLatest returns of railway revenue in Victoria, which were completed to-day, show that the revenue up to December 14 was £5,664,592, a decrease of £208,784 compared ...
Article : 65 wordsWith the object of making an emphatic protest against the Federal Government's decision in regard to Hobart shipping services, southern members of the Mainland ...
Article : 353 wordsThe district coroner held an inquiry concerning the death of Warren Hunter Ball, of Bowman's Creek. The evidence showed that deceased, who was 19 years of ago, ...
Article : 78 wordsA visit was paid to the Australian Manufacturers' Exhibition yesterday morning by the Premier of Queensland (Mr. W. McCormack), who is on his way home from the ...
Article : 217 wordsOpening a bazaar at the New Court Congregational Church, Tollington Park, N., London, Mrs. Stanley Baldwin said: "It will be found, all through life, that if people only ...
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Article : 55 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. Morris Joseph Hennossy, aged 84 years. He was born at Boomley Station, near Cobborah, then the property of his father, and entered ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. E. E. Bean, former secretary of the Victorian Cricket Association, who has returned from a trip to England, said the English team that would visit Australia next ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Minister for Justice (Mr. Lee) was accommodated with a seat on the Magisterial Bench at the Central Police Court yesterday. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe estimated population of the Commonwealth on September 30 last was 6,198,986, the total increase for the year being 122,554, made up of 66,403 males and 66,151 females. ...
Article : 156 wordsDamage to the permanent way was caused by heavy rains that fell on Monday night between Coonabarabran and Gwabegar. The washaways were not of a serious nature, but, ...
Article : 50 wordsA meeting of the metal trades group of the Labour Council will be held at the Trades Hall to-night, to consider the proposed formation of one big union in the metal trades ...
Article : 241 wordsA fire broke out in Mrs. J. Flynn's ladies' wear store in the main street yesterday morning. The fire was checked by the fire brigade, but not before a large quantity of the ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Bavin) is at present an inmate of St. Luke's Hospital, Darlinghurst. The operation to his car yesterday proved successful. He expects to he sufficiently ...
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Article : 191 wordsPrior to the meeting of the Executive Council yesterday morning, Mr. Stevens (Assistant Treasurer) presented to the Governor (Sir Dudley de Chair), as a momento of his recent ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Melbourne City Engineer, Mr. H. E. Morton, has resigned to join the Sydney Civic Commission. He will leave Melbourne at the end of ...
Article : 209 wordsAustasius George Raphael, a soldier settler, was found lying dead in his orchard this morning with a terrible wound in the head. A shotgun was lying beside his body. Raphael ...
Article : 123 wordsMatron Morgan, of Mullumbimby Hospital, has died after an illness lasting five months. She was held in great affection throughout the district. The funeral yesterday was largely ...
Article : 46 wordsIn answer to a question in the House of Commons to-day, the Postmaster-General Sir William Mitchell-Thomson) stated that the Government had invited the dominion ...
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Advertising : 244 wordsLatest official information concerning current for lighting and power from Burrinjuck is that it will be available next month. Posts for transmission line have been erected to ...
Article : 106 wordsDr. L. Haden Guest, formerly member of the Parliamentary Labour party in England, who is touring the Empire seeking knowledge of dominion affairs, has arrived in Melbourne ...
Article : 97 wordsA split in the Victorian branch of the Australian Railways Union is threatened by constant criticism, and attempts to embarrass the State Ministry by a section of the more ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 wordsThe Premier of Victoria (Mr. Hogan) waited upon the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) and asked him what the position would be if the State Parliament did not ratify the ...
Article : 124 wordsA Christmas fair orgnnised by the Moree Soldiers' Club in aid of the district hospital was held in the Memorial Hall, and proved a great success. The attendance ...
Article : 81 wordsBetween January 13, 1926, and December 15, 1927, the House of Representatives sat on 143 days. Two members—Messrs. Scullin (Vic.) and ...
Article : 138 wordsDelays extending up to 15 minutes-occurred on the main suburban lines about 5.15 yesterday afternoon, as the result of failure of signals between Ashfield and Illawarra Junction. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe deaths occurred during the week-end of two old residents of the Albion Park district. Mrs. Margaret Condon, widow of the late James Condon, died, at the age of 84 years. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 155 wordsBy 19 votes to 12 the Legislative Council to-night rejected the bill introduced by the Labour Ministry to legalise the totalisator in Victoria. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe death has occurred of Colonel John Henry Alexander Lee, formerly of Australia, at the age of 74 years. The late Colonel Lee was for many years ...
Article : 134 wordsLeeds University has carried its appeal for £500,000 well over £400,000—the last big donation being one of £100,000 for the library. This is the largest individual gift that the ...
Article : 119 wordsGerald Graham Chenn[?]ry, formerly manager of the Bank of Victoria at Chelsea, was committed to prison for 21 days to-day by Judge Moule, in the Insolvency Courty, on a ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Government has decided to appoint a successor to the late Dr. Lee Brown, as visiting surgeon to the Long Bay Gaol. Dr. Brown, it will be remembered, was ...
Article : 69 wordsDreadnought boys and other migrants who arrived by the steamer Ballarat were welcomed by the New Settlers' League at Trinity Hall, Miller's Point, yesterday morning. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Seagull amphibian, piloted by Flight-Commander Wackett, alighted on Hamilton Reach in the Brisbane River this afternoon, on its return from New Guinea to Melbourne. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 21 Dec 1927, Page 14
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