One of the speakers—a woman—at a deputation to the Minister of Justice (Mr. Martin) declared that if the murderer Hickey was hanged "we will rise ...
Article : 829 wordsThe Royal Commission on starting-price betting prosecutions began the first case from the country yesterday. It involved allegations by Arthur Curtis, of ...
Article : 1,110 wordsSpeaking at a general meeting of the Seamen's Union yesterday, the general secretary of the Seamen's Union, Mr. J. Keenan, claimed that there were 200 Communists holding ...
Article : 385 wordsGiving evidence yesterday at the Royal Commision inquiry on Banking and Money, Albert C. Willis, retired bank manager (formerly of the London ...
Article : 1,498 wordsMr. Turner began as the junior of a staff of five in the original State Children Relief Board. Since then wards of the department have increased from 1400 to more than 15,000. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 156 wordsA motor lorry, loaded with about six tons of sand, came into collision with a motor bus in South-parade, Bankstown, yesterday. The motor bus then struck a stationary lorry, ...
Article : 229 wordsWhen the appeal of James v the Commonwealth (the dried fruits case) was resumed to-day, Sir Stafford Cripps, K.C., for Tasmania and Western Australia, argued that ...
Article : 622 wordsThe City Coroner (Mr. Tingate, P.M.) returned an open finding after an inquest to-day into the death of Jean Eileen Hall, 17, laundry employee, of Dorcas-street, South ...
Article : 144 wordsGeorge Pinnock, or George Purcell, 36, garage proprietor, appeared at the Central Police Court yesterday, by provisional warrant charging him with having escaped from lawful ...
Article : 116 wordsCharles Frederick Drew, 25, of Magneystreet, Woollahra, was injured yesterday in the bar of a hotel at Waverley, when a boy fell through a skylight on to Drew's head. ...
Article : 137 wordsMR. HOWARD CARR. Mr. Carr, a well-known composer, conductor and orchestrator, has been appointed music editor by the Australian Broadcasting ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 129 wordsStockings valued at £58 were stolen during the week-end from premises in George-street, city, occupied by Woolworths, Ltd. The thieves gained entrance to the shop ...
Article : 45 wordsEileen Crowther, 38, was taken to Sydney Hospital early this morning suffering from wounds, which had evidently been inflicted with a razor or similar sharp instrument. ...
Article : 126 wordsA call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details appear on page 18, column 4. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 232 wordsDr. Barnard, of Canberra, upon whom the degree of Doctor of Science of the Sydney University was conferred on Saturday, was educated at Woodford Academy. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 203 wordsThe principal prizes in the 3391h State lottery were drawn at the Australian Hall yesterday. First prize was won by the "Birthday Present" syndicate, care of Mrs. T. Smith, ...
Article : 87 wordsMiss Grace Stafford and her StudioTheatre Group struck a blow for the classical drama when, last night, at the Australian Hall, they presented "The Eumenides" of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 247 wordsGold was quoted to-day at £7/0/6 an ounce fine, compared with £7/0/5½ on Saturday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day ...
Article : 219 wordsAt a public meeting at Bankstown Mem rial Park last night, Mr. R. Gorman, M.L.A., said there were worse crimes than murder to which no death penalty was attached. ...
Article : 88 wordsLast month the Redcliffe Town Council decided that the Mayor was expected to pay for aldermen's lunches out of his Mayoral allowance of £133 per annum. Just before the ...
Article : 215 wordsThe City Council decided to-day that the Lord Mayor should represent the city at the coronation of King Edward next year, and that if necessary he should be granted an ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Vost-Janssen String Quartet, which, in association with Margaret Chalmers, pianist, gave the first of a series of four concerts at the Forum Club last night, played the ...
Article : 174 wordsPolice are concerned by the theft during the week-end of a large quantity of gelignite and a number of detonators. Ten packets of gelignite, in blocks, and one ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 284 wordsDoubt has arisen about the dam of Thalwyn, twice winner of the Moreton Handicap. He is registered as being by Syce Knight from Rose Alwynton, and it has been stated that the latter raced at Kedron. ...
Article : 246 wordsCounting of votes in Legislative Council elections was continued to-day. Mr. E. M. Heenan (Labour) unseated Mr. R. H. Moore (Nationalist) for North-East Province, the ...
Article : 49 wordsClimbers who ascended Mount Ruapehu, in the centre of the North Island, to-day found evidence that there had been a considerable eruption of the crater lake. A large quantity ...
Article : 133 wordsA recent interstate conference of the Railway Professional Officers' Association decided to apply to the Federal Arbitration Court for a new award covering affiliated States, with ...
Article : 105 wordsConstable John Thomas Shennan, 34, a member of the Murwillumbah police force, was found with a bullet wound in his head this morning in the lumber room beneath a ...
Article : 73 wordsFrederick Joseph Reddacliffe, 49, was found drowned in the main arm of the Brunswick River this morning. He owned a small farm five miles from Mullumbimby. After ...
Article : 91 wordsAt 1.30 a.m. yesterday a fire broke out in the main street of East Orange, and destroyed Somerville's weatherboard fruit shop, and damaging a boot shop next door, ...
Article : 51 wordsThe death has occurred of the Right Rev. Isaac Richards, formerly Anglican Bishop of Dunedin. He was aged 76. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 12 May 1936, Page 12
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