A relief worker was killed by lightning and two other men were rendered unconscious during a thunderstorm which swept the Newcastle ...
Article : 1,059 wordsThe State Cabinet yesterday decided to proceed with the construction of the two new railways, viz.: Sutherland to Cronulla, and Sandy Hollow to Maryvale. ...
Article : 371 wordsC. Garofalo, a Spaniard, who is the holder of Irrigation Farm 1133, at Griffith, received terrible injuries on his farm on Thursday night when he was shot in the face. His wounds ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Stevens) informed Ministers at the Cabinet meeting yesterday that the estimated deficit of £1,750,000, agreed to by the Loan ...
Article : 228 wordsBritish officials are still unable to explain how the contents of the Maffey report on British interests in Abyssinia, which were published in the Rome newspaper "Giornale d'Italia," became known. ...
Article : 138 wordsBritain is preparing far-reaching plans to organise industry to supply the requirements of the defence services. It is intended that the or[?]anisation shall not ...
Article : 413 wordsMartial law has been declared in Murcia, Alicante, and Valencia, and minor disturbances continue throughout Spain, including places on the French frontier. ...
Article : 515 wordsAddresses expressing loyalty and devotion to the Throne and to the King were presented to the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, at State Government House yesterday. ...
Article : 262 wordsScores of union seamen applied for licences yesterday, and afterwards thronged the shipping offices in search of employment. The passenger steamer Zealandia was ...
Article : 123 wordsThe majority of British newspapers emphasise that the editor of "Giornale d'Italia" (Signor Gayda) has done Britain a good turn by the publication of the report, as it has ...
Article : 844 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) announced to-day that during the absence of the Attorney-General (Mr. Menzies) abroad, Senator T. C. Brennan would act as Attorney-General. Mr. ...
Article : 148 wordsIt is hoped that the Government will be able to announce the personnel for the administration of the co-ordinated defence services when the debate on the rearmament ...
Article : 623 wordsBy an overwhelming majority, members of the Newcastle branch of the Seamen's Union decided to-day to follow the lead set by the Sydney seamen and call the shipping strike ...
Article : 249 wordsMr. A. H. Tait, an alderman of the Brisbane City Council, who is visiting Sydney after a tour of the East, was deeply impressed with the efficiency of Japanese ...
Article : 250 wordsPermission to raise its banking credit in London has been granted to the French Government, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) told the House of ...
Article : 202 wordsIt is likely that, following the tragic crash of the Gannet 'plane near Cordeaux dam on Wednesday night, there will be a considerable body of opinion in favour of new regulations ...
Article : 412 wordsBrisbane seamen at a meeting to-day accepted the Sydney decision to return to work as automatically ending the strike here. The men expressed disgust at the manner ...
Article : 138 wordsReplying to statements that the Commonwealth Government feared it would lose control of the Singapore-Sydney section of the Empire air mail route under the revised British ...
Article : 203 wordsAn important development in the strike situation yesterday was the action of the iron workers' assistants employed by Waygood Otis, Ltd., liftmakers, of Alexandria, in ceasing ...
Article : 63 wordsThe cabled announcement yesterday of the publication in "Giornale d'Italia," of the contents of the Maffey report, a confidential document belonging to the British Government, ...
Article : 608 wordsA correspondent has directed attention to the frequent failure of the light in a public telephone cabinet near his home. The Superintendent of Telephones, to whom the matter ...
Article : 180 wordsAfter a discussion lasting three hours, during which the voices of speakers were drowned in angry uproar, a meeting of Port Adelaide seamen decided to follow the lead of ...
Article : 55 wordsWalter Lollo, a Townsville taxi-driver, was imprisoned in his car when it was swept away by floodwaters as he was attempting to cross the Ross River at Queen's Crossing. ...
Article : 436 wordsThe strikers at the works of General Motors Corporation to-day accepted the offer of an increase in wages of a penny an hour, pending consideration of wages and working conditions, ...
Article : 41 wordsHopes have been held that a representative of the Australian Government would visit New Zealand, to discuss with the Dominion Government important questions relating to ...
Article : 198 wordsAuthority has been given by the Government for preliminary work to be carried out for additions to the Public library building. This announcement was made by the Premier ...
Article : 115 wordsIn the Bankruptcy Court to-day Herbert Miller Haines, of Knoxville, admitted to Acting Judge Haslam that he had obtained by fraud £22,479 between 1926 and 1931, from his then ...
Article : 145 wordsProfessor C. H. Hyde, professor of international law at the Columbia University, in an article published to-day said that the United States Congress should immediately officially ...
Article : 140 wordsBy 234 votes to 12[?], the second reading of the Government's bill to continue the annual £2,000,000 subsidy for British tramp shipping was agreed to in the House of Commons. ...
Article : 353 wordsM. Herriot asserted in the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday that Russia had 1,300,000 men under arms, serving from two to five years, and another 3,500,000 men were trained ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Minister for Labour (Mr. Dunningham) announced last night that Cabinet had approved his proposal for increased benefits to workers suffering from silicosis. ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) said to-night that the Commonwealth was faced with the same difficulty as the New Zealand Government, in that its Parliament was just ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. F. A. Macquisten, K.C., member of the House of Commons for Argyle, who passed through Brisbane on the Marella, said that immigration to Australia from Great Britain ...
Article : 223 wordsThe modern electrical haulage equipment installed underground at Elrington Colliery has given rise to a dispute which has thrown the colliery idle. Hitherto attendants at the ...
Article : 152 wordsAfter arrangements had been made for Sir Oswald Mosley to address a meeting of University Fascists, the Oxford Council refused the use of the Town Hall. ...
Article : 185 wordsCaptain G. E. T. Eyston, already the holder of several world motor records, hopes to beat the record of 100 miles an hour for cars with heavy oil engines. He will make the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe District [?]ficer at Manus has informed the Administrator (Brigadier-General W. R. McNicoll) by radio that it is reported in Manus that some Japanese landed on Purdy ...
Article : 96 words"Assaults on the final few thousand feet of Mount Everest will be made by eight members of the party in pairs," said Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, leader of the expedition, when ...
Article : 123 wordsA sleeper weighing about two hundredweight was struck by an engine on the railway lines near Marrickville railway station last night. The crash when the steel projection guarding ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 22 Feb 1936, Page 17
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