Frederick Robbins, a resident of this district for many years, has died at the age of 81 years. During the terrific bushfires that swept over this district 31 years ago, Mr. ...
Article : 75 wordsA recent article in the "Herald" on intelligence tests was interesting, but misleading. The author concluded that "these ridiculous tests" stifle initiative and represent "merely ...
Article : 852 wordsThe agenda paper for the Easter conference of the Lang Labour party, to open at the Trades Hall on April 10, contains many proposals which, if adopted, will make the ...
Article : 192 wordsThe building illustrated below has been so constructed of reinforced concrete that the ground floor with an area of about 6000 square feet, is entirely uninterrupted by any visible ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 257 wordsA penning of 24, 604 sheep and lambs faced buyers at the Flemington stock sales yesterday. The number forwarded was 2300 fewer than the number drawn for. Owners ...
Article : 4,667 wordsThe council of the National Rifle Association decided yesterday that the 800 yards and 900 yatds targets should be reduced from 36 inches to 33 inches. ...
Article : 298 wordsThere was a slight easing off in contracts let during the past week. Against this is the announcement of tenders opening for a number of important jobs in the ...
Article : 902 wordsAt the Barraba Court of Petty Sessions "before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M. Hubert J. Kelaher was charged with using a place for the purpose of betting. A fine of £20 was ...
Article : 57 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Casino Caledonian Society it was stated that after a lapse of several years an effort would be made to hold a Highland gathering towards the end ...
Article : 58 wordsHenry Arthur Honey, 19, was charged at the Police Court with forging a cheque for £6/8 Evidence was given that Honey had taken a signed cheque from a book owned by Michael ...
Article : 120 wordsThe death occurred suddenly yesterday morning, at his residence, Rickard-road, Bankstown, of Mr. Henry Emmett Harden, aged 49, town clerk of the municipality of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 169 wordsThe absence of a sand pump dredge inside the entrance has been responsible for much sand shoaling in the ferry channel and in the waters leading to the upper parts of the ...
Article : 115 wordsAt the last meeting of the Bowral Council the Public Works Department was criticised for its failure to complete the agreement for the supply of cheaper electric current from ...
Article : 203 wordsAt the Gosford Police Court to-day, Arthur Hazleton Townend was committed for trial in Sydney on two charges of stealing. It was stated that Townend stole a motor car, the ...
Article : 81 wordsNumerous visitors and former residents of the town have arrived for the 70th anniversary celebrations, which began to-day with a procession headed by the mounted police, and ...
Article : 47 wordsAt a well-attended meeting at Kempsey was decided to form the Kempsey Aero Club and to affiliate with the Aero Club of New South Wales, which body, it was stated, had ...
Article : 55 wordsTo make working conditions easier and to eliminate fatigue among workers at the new Ford works at Lidcombe, a number of laboursaving devices have been installed. Among ...
Article : 171 wordsHazardous and somewhat difficult work is being carried out by more than 100 ' men in reballasting and relaying the railway track through the series of tunnels which mark the ...
Article : 172 wordsAt the police court, Norman Douglas Johnston was fined £5 on a charge of stealing a diamond ring, valued at £6, the property of Miss J. Knighton. He was also fined ...
Article : 77 wordsMessrs. R. Gordon and son sold two farms at Jibbi by auction at Lismore on account of the estate of the late Frederick Leadbeatter. Both properties ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. William McCorquodale, founder of the firm of McCorquodale Brothers, flourmill proprietors, of Parramatta and Sussex-street, Sydney, died suddenly on the Rosny golf links, ...
Article : 94 wordsA long discussion took place at the conference of the Electricity Supply Engineers' Association, in Science House, Sydney, on the best means of eradicating white ant in ...
Article : 253 wordsThe district coroner (Mr. H. Hawkins) returned a verdict of accidental death at the inquest at Lismore on Robert John's Mcpherson, nine years, who died from injuries ...
Article : 70 wordsFollowing the recent appointment of a Government official to a judicial office, the Council of the Bar of New South Wales has declared the practice "particularly ...
Article : 159 wordsThe funeral of Mr.A.H.Phillips,late managing director of M.Moss and Co.,Ltd., took place in the Jewish section of the Rookwood Cemetery on Sunday morning. Rabbi E. M. ...
Article : 449 wordsManilla police visited the home of Mr. THOS, H. Simmons this morning, and found Mr. Simmons, a well-known grazier, unconscious, with a bullet wound in his head. There ...
Article : 68 wordsSo far as the commercial community was concerned, the Preference to Soldiers Act had been a dead letter for some time, said Mr. N. Cowper, for Imperial Theatres, Ltd., in the ...
Article : 151 wordsMr. J. E. Gall, a well-known Moree grazer, has been admitted to hospital suffering from injuries to the head, received when his horse fell. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe danger of the spread of water [?] from Myall Creek and North Arm of the Tweed River to other portions of the main river was emphasised in two communications received ...
Article : 71 wordsA modern shopping centre is being established at Killara, as shown in the illustration appended. The general construction is ferroconcrete with reinforced brickwork. The shop ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 193 wordsAttention was directed by Councillor R.W. Boyd, at a meeting of Tweed Shire Council to complaints received of an offensive lagoon at Cudgen Headland. Cats and dogs in ...
Article : 116 wordsThree midgets, two of whom have appeared with considerable success in the films, arrived on the Monterey yesterday, to make appearances before Sydney audiences. ...
Article : 111 wordsContracts have been signed for the following Jobs by the Public Works Department:—Bidura depot, Glebe Renewal of water service—T. H. Harvey and Sons, 171 Church-street, Parramatta ...
Article : 450 wordsAllegations that a motorist had driven on after he had knocked down a woman, and that he had been driving while under the influence of liquor, were made yesterday at ...
Article : 354 wordsA private sitting of the Royal Commission on banking and monetary policy was held in the Commonwealth Bank building yesterday under the chairmanship of his Honor, ...
Article : 114 wordsPresbyterians in Mullumbimby yesterday celebrated the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the church in the district, with special services. The Rev. Charles Hardie ...
Article : 54 wordsA witness who told the Workers' Compensation Commission at Newcastle to-day that he "lost his block" during an episode about which he Was being examined, did not run ...
Article : 94 wordsBelieved to have fallen while walking in his sleep. John Hawke, of the staff of the Commercial Bank of Australasia, was found in a room in Tattersail's Hotel, suffering from ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Acting Minister for Commerce (Mr, Thorby) stated yesterday that the recent conference on wool freights and shipping conditions had authorised him to carry on ...
Article : 93 wordsWhile returning from a fishing reef to Point Danger, a motor boat, owned by N. Wilkin, of Point Danger, and manned by Robert Corawa and H. Lewis, capsized in the surf ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. George A, Langille, who arrived in Sydney by the Monterey yesterday, will supervise the assembling and testing of the first Douglas transport aeroplane, which is due to arrive ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. Otto Camphin has announced that details had been completed for the erection of two modern theatres at Katoomba, one seating 1250, the other a one-floor "intimate" house, ...
Article : 83 wordsFollowing a collision at the [?] tween a motor cycle, on which they were riding, and a car driven by Mr.W. Miskelly, two youths, L. Hartley and P.Mullaney, were ...
Article : 56 wordsPhillip Sullivan, 10, of Bondi-road, Bondi, was badly cut about the hand yesterday when the ferry steamer Baragoola, on which he was travelling, rolled in a heavy swell. and he ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Associated Tobacco Horticultural Club held its 56th exhibition at Raleigh Park on Friday, and staged many beautiful dahlias, roses, Zinnias, carnations, and other early ...
Article : 171 wordsA son of Mr. Ernest Partridge, [?] Port Stephens-road, fell into a fire and was severely burnt. The child died in hospital to-day. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe activities in the building trade in the far western suburbs is definitely on the up-grade, and propects for the year appear even brighter than last year, which was regarded in many quarters ...
Article : 197 wordsForty firemen, directed. by the Chief Fire Officer (Mr. Richardson), spent nearly an hour and a half yesterday subduing a stubborn fire which broke out in 10 tons of straw, ...
Article : 135 wordsInquiries in the local school have disclosed the fact that nearly 100 boys in Lithgow, between the ages of 11 and 16 years, have not been to Sydney, or seen the sea. This ...
Article : 104 wordsThe annual meeting of the Illawarra-Banks town Federation of Junior Tree Lovers will be held in the Assembly Room in the Education Building at 8 o'clock to-night. The Director ...
Article : 29 wordsWith a bullet wound in his forehead, the body of James Julian Daly (34) was found this morning in a bedroom at the Grand View Hotel, Dalby. He had arrived from Yeulba ...
Article : 71 wordsThe steamer Volsella, which ran aground a reef outside the channel at Port Hedland of March 15. cleared the reef this morning, and sailed for Broome, where she is due on ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 24 Mar 1936, Page 8
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