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  2. U.A.P. CANDIDATES

    There are numerous candidates for U.A.P. pre-selection throughout the State, and many sitting members are being opposed. There ...

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  3. A.L.P. PROCESSION

    Though Blacktown Council, at its meeting on Wednesday evening, granted permission for the holding of a Procession by the local A.L.P., ...

    Article : 520 words
  4. DISTURBANCE

    There was a stir at the meeting of St. Marys Council on Tuesday evening when a ratepayar, who had a grievance against the electricity ...

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  5. "LAW BREAKING"

    Councillors of Blacktown Shire have been outspoken in refusing to accede to departmental requests to make payment by cash instead of ...

    Article : 268 words
  6. Heard by the Way

    A CHINAMAN with a motor truck got a job carting material to a golf course. When the contract was finished he was asked to furnish his ...

    Article : 73 words
  7. Hen's Big Challenge

    A BLACK Orpington hen belonging to Mr E B. Barrow, of Rooty Hill (manager of Nepean Dairy Factory) has done a wonderful job. She laid ...

    Article : 60 words
  8. Court House Jubilee

    FIFTY years ago this month a new court house was opened in Penrith. District Court was held in it on 11th May, 1882, and Judge Dowling, on ...

    Article : 92 words
  9. Unemployed Help Hospital

    THE fine spirit of unemployed of the Forbes district earns commendation. Recently they organised a wood day for the hospital, and cut two years' ...

    Article : 56 words
  10. Old Coins

    MASTER Harry Shirlaw, of Doonmore Street, Penrith, brought to our office a number of coins he has collected. Some of them were dug up ...

    Article : 60 words
  11. Football Refereeing

    ALTHOUGH the most important personage on a football field is the referce, apparents it is possible to know too much about the game to ...

    Article : 90 words
  12. "Dog Boxes"

    THE Western Line was described by an alderman of Forbes Council as the "Cinderella line of the State." He put up a bitter protest against the ...

    Article : 66 words
  13. Escaped Bull and the Train

    THERE was a little excitement near St. Marys Station on Saturday night when a bullock escaped from the cattle yard, and, running on to the ...

    Article : 95 words
  14. For Plumpton

    At the meeting of Blacktown Shire Council on Wednesday evening, the President (Cr. J. G. Page) stated in his minute:— ...

    Article : 227 words
  15. Old Penrith

    THE old Penrith district, while it had a Single magistrate, possessed several Judges; always fair to all, it had its Long, its Short, and its Broad, ...

    Article : 133 words
  16. Past and Present at Football

    DENRITH boys figured prominently in a Rugby football match at Parramatta Oval last week, when the old boys of Parramatta High School ...

    Article : 70 words
  17. "Only a Benevolent Institute"

    AN agitation for a reduction of suburban railway fart's has been started by Canterbury Council, which is seeking assistance of other councils. ...

    Article : 121 words
  18. Methodist Foreign Missions

    During last week the annual deputation in connection with the Methodist Missionary Society visited the Penrith circuit. ...

    Article : 269 words
  19. The Angler's Bad Luck

    TRYING hard to catch fish is Mr W. H. Dukes, of Penrith, who, for the past couple of weeks, has been up at Woy Woy. He finds that some fish ...

    Article : 84 words
  20. National Game, "Housey"

    "KELLY'S eye," "clickety-click," "devil's number," "top of the house," worn shouted all over the camps and troopships in the days of war, and ...

    Article : 220 words
  21. Sarcastic Ratepayer

    THE sarcasm, gentle and otherwise, that is put into letters reconvert by councils from grumbling ratepayers is often comic. For instance, ...

    Article : 180 words
  22. The Hen at the Door

    NO miserable fowl yard is good enough for a Merrylands hen when she wishes to transact business. This hen knocks on the kitchen door ...

    Article : 92 words
  23. Nepean Rowing Club

    Nepean Rowing Club's coach has been kept busy the last few week-ends, great keenness being displayed by members, who have turned up for training in ...

    Article : 240 words
  24. "Tailor-Made Cigarettes"

    A LETTER from the Graziers' Association asking for support of a move to prohibit the use of wax matches in shires in certain months of the year ...

    Article : 79 words
  25. Rooty Hill

    A dance and bridge evening was held in the Rooty Hill School of Arts on Friday, 22nd April. The evening was organised by Mrs W. Cable, assisted by ...

    Article : 113 words
  26. The Pessimistic Schoolboy

    SPEAKING at the Empire Day celebrations at Penrith Intermediate High School on Wednesday, the Mayor of Penrith, Ald. Markham, said; ...

    Article : 318 words
  27. Adventure with a Bag

    A THIEF who was pretty smart, but not smart enough, paid his attentions the other day, in Sydney, to some property of Mr Eric Fulton, of ...

    Article : 151 words
  28. Early Morning Waits at Central

    IT'S no joke for the traveller off a distant country train waiting about Centrall Station in the early hours of the morning for the first tram ...

    Article : 267 words
  29. Advertising

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    Advertising : 89 words
  30. Advertising

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    Advertising : 82 words
  31. Land of Gosehen, near Penrith

    THIS item from the "Nepean Timess" of fifty years ago (5/5/'82) has a vein of humour, but we are not able to state the locality of the ...

    Article : 133 words
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