The High Court today declared invalid the South Australia Act under which the Commissioner of sought to collect a tax of threepence a [?]allon from vendors and consumers of imported motor spirit. By a six to one majority the court held that the tax operated as a ...
Article : 284 wordsHis Excellency Sir Tom Bridges presided at a meeting of Executive Council this morning. Lady Bridges opened a floral fete in ...
Article : 957 wordsWhen representatives of the ship-owners and the Waterside Workers' Federation met again at the compulsory conference this afternoon, it ...
Article : 254 wordsIn their burning weatherboard house at Tenterfield at mid-night last night a police constable, his wife, and three children were burned to death. The policeman returned home from duty at 11 o'clock last ...
Article : 299 wordsDeclaring that evidence had been given which could not be accepted as "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." Dr. W. ...
Article : 233 wordsMr. Norman H. Taylor (president of the National Roads Association) stated that the decision meant that the State would be forced to accept the terms laid ...
Article : 235 wordsThe excitement of putting out a fire was too much for Mr. Henry Culshaw, 75 years of age, of Blacket street, Goodwood, this morning. He dropped dead. ...
Article : 135 wordsThrough the action of "The News" cricketers will be saved delay and inconvenienced in connection with the Sheffield Shield match between Victoria and South ...
Article : 163 wordsWith 24 children of their own and four adopted ones a Yorkshire coalminer and his wife claim to have the largest family in the district. Their ...
Article : 182 wordsDue to engine trouble at Lubeck (on the Victorian side of the border) the Adelaide express was one hour and eight minutes late reaching Melbourne today. ...
Article : 32 wordsAll cooperages in the metropolitan area will be declared black at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. This decision was made at a meeting of ...
Article : 179 wordsGarb now in vogue at Victorian beaches and (right) the same girl attired in the nect-to-knee regulation costume which will shortly be insisted on by several seaside councils in the eastern States. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 38 wordsBefore Mr. W. Hall, S.M., in the Adelaide Traffic Court today Canon Herbert G. Jose, of Palmer place, North Adelaide, was fined £1 15/ for ...
Article : 89 wordsWhether the South Australian Cricket Association will send a team to tour New Zealand early next year will be discussed at a special committee meeting of the ...
Article : 282 wordsMr. R. H. Chapman (Chief Engineer of South Australian Railways) returned to Adelaide this morning after a world tour occupying, nearly 11 months. He was ...
Article : 168 wordsDissatisfaction exists in the wine and spirit section of the Federated Liquor Trade Employees' Union concerning the recent Federal award. ...
Article : 115 wordsContinued fine weather is expected, with rising temperatures. Up to 3 o'clock today the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 155 wordsPeter Henry Hickey, motor driver, aged 30, who was charged in the Criminal Court with having carnally known a girl aged 15, was found guilty of ...
Article : 106 wordsThere were no unemployed demonstrations today. Messrs. E. J. O'Malley and Ferguson were deputed at a meeting of the unemployed this morning to wait on ...
Article : 106 wordsTwenty-five members of the Builders Laborers' Union and two carpenters employed at the Port Road Bridge near the Police Barracks ceased work today because ...
Article : 60 words"It is a wonderful organisation for preparing soldiers for dominion farm life," said Mr. H. W. Gepp chairman of the Migration and Development Commission) ...
Article : 167 wordsMessrs. J. Pallitti and E. Varissetta, two foreigners, bored into a hole in which a charge had misfired in the bottom of a winze on the 1,300 ft. level of the British ...
Article : 59 wordsShould young men be protected against certain young women? The matter has been mentioned several times in the Criminal Court recently, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 53 wordsThis afternoon Barker Brothers offered for sale by auction at South Plympton seven racehorses, the property of the late Mr. A. D. McDonald. There was a ...
Article : 102 wordsConsideration was given by the Assembly today to amendments made by the Legislative Council to the Motor Omnibus Bill. ...
Article : 74 wordsThomas Fraser, tailor, Port Adelaide (for whom Mr. H. J. Alderman appeared, was found guilty in the Criminal Court today of having indecently assaulted a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsThe Probate Court has refused to accept the eggshell will made by James Barnes, who, left £3,300, on the ground that it could not be accepted seriously. ...
Article : 65 wordsWhile playing with other boys at Ethelton School this morning George Davey, eight years of age, of John street, Davington, fell and broke his left arm near the ...
Article : 59 wordsA landslide due to heavy floods destroyed 20 houses at Roquebilliere. Other homes were inundated. Twenty people were drowned. ...
Article : 27 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that King Ferdinand of Roumania is seriously ill. An operation is contemplated when the Queen returns. ...
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