A largely attended meeting of unemployed relief workers and Tintenbar Shire employees, held at Alstonville yesterday, decided to form a relief workers' association. It was decided ...
Article : 101 wordsThe cable ship, Recorder, which has been on a vain search for a fault in the supplementary cable across the Tasman Sea, reached Sydney yesterday, after experiencing bad ...
Article : 357 wordsWhen a motor car skidded in loose gravel and overturned twice near Kendall this morning Dorothy Davies, aged 6, was killed instantly, and her father, Phillip Davies, 40, of Marlee, ...
Article : 91 wordsNew Year Honours have been awarded to many notable men and women who have distinguished themselves in various spheres of activity. The Duke of Kent has the Royal Victorian Chain conferred upon him, and the Duke of Buccleuch, brother of the Duchess of Gloucester, becomes ...
Article : 133 wordsThe opening of the Naval Conference in the Locarno Room of the Foreign Office, London. Mr. Baldwin is presiding, and Mr. Bruce is on the left.—Photograph by Air Mail. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 48 wordsPercival G. Jones, a petty officer of H.M.A.S. Cerebus, was found lying beside a sports car with his neck broken, wen miles from Albury, on the Albury-Corowa road, late last night. ...
Article : 110 wordsFollowing a meeting with engineers from the Public Works Department, the Dubbo Council, at a special meeting, decided to abandon portion of the new water supply ...
Article : 155 wordsLord Hanworth, lately Master of the Rolls, and Lord Trenchard, who has just retired from the post of Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, become viscounts. ...
Article : 553 wordsWilliam Gunner, 26, Warringah-road, Mosman, was injured in an unusual accident at Mosman yesterday. He was standing on the footpath at the ...
Article : 488 wordsBefore Mr. R. G. Cookson, P.M., in the Dubbo Police Court, Maple George Usher, 21, was fined £10 for having sold a bicycle which had been lent to him, and with having ...
Article : 45 wordsThe building permits issued by the municipal council during 1935 were as follows: New buildings and shops, 67, value £47,037; garages and miscellaneous, three, value £215; ...
Article : 65 wordsA message from Reykjavik (Iceland) states that four children and two women were killed and 20 were injured in a fire at the village hall in Keflavik. A Christmas tree caught ...
Article : 62 wordsThe match between All India and Tarrant's Australian team, which was scheduled for four days, lasted less than two days, the Australians achieving a win by eight wickets, when ...
Article : 317 wordsThe correspondent of "The Times" in Berlin says that there is no open reaction in Germany to the decision of the High Commissioner for Jewish and other refugees from ...
Article : 236 wordsRoy Malcolm Soutar, who had given his age as 17 years, was charged at the Wagga Police Court with having, on December 28, at Mount Austin, near Wagga, feloniously ...
Article : 131 wordsThere was a record number of visitors to Katoomba during the 1935 Christmas season, being several thousands more than the previous record number. Many would-be visitors ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Commonwealth Government has retained Mr. Wilfrid Barton, son of the first Prime Minister, to appear with the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Menzies) in the dried ...
Article : 103 wordsDuring last night's carnival at Katoomba, pickpockets were active, no fewer than eight people reporting that they had been robbed, One woman's handbag, which contained £15, ...
Article : 56 wordsErnest Alwyn Roy Drady, 21, a well-known resident of Dubbo, collapsed and died under an anaesthetic during a minor operation in the district hospital yesterday. The funeral ...
Article : 51 wordsT. H. Morris, former Australian and Victorian diving champion, was injured when diving in the high tower handicap at the Warrandyte Swimming Club's competitions in the ...
Article : 133 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. William James Penhall, a native of the Orange district, aged 55 years. He was a member of the firm of Penhall Brothers, coachbuilders, of ...
Article : 83 wordsFor the first time in seven years the banks have received inquiries with respect to the financing of wheat holdings. This means that the hand-to-mouth policy of buying, which ...
Article : 101 wordsA number of new laws came into force to-day. The Counterfeit Currency Act gives effect to the 1929 international convention for the suppression of counterfeiting ...
Article : 621 wordsThree men were arrested by Gosford police at Shelly Beach, near The Entrance, at daybreak this morning. They were later charged at Gosford with stealing property, valued at ...
Article : 64 wordsA sedan car was stolen while its owner, Mr. C. A. Brown, a member of the forestry office staff, and several other men were fighting a grass fire at the Braemar State forest, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 281 wordsMr. D. G. Wyles, of Sydney, who arrived by Qantas air mail from Europe, has completed what is probably a record business trip by air. He left Sydney by air on November ...
Article : 238 wordsThe vernacular Press states that the British Foreign Secretary (Mr. Anthony Eden) replied sympathetically to the United Front's Note asking for an Anglo-Egyptian treaty on ...
Article : 382 wordsLong before midnight it seemed evident that America's metropolis intended to live up to the prediction that it was to bid a most boisterous and expensive farewell to the dying ...
Article : 119 wordsOwing largely to industrial expansion, there has been considerable building activity in Byron Bay in the last two years. For the last quarter of 1934 the value of buildings ...
Article : 52 wordsLord Hugh Montague Trenchard was born on February 3, 1873. He served in the South African War, and was commandant in the West African Frontier Force from 1908-13. ...
Article : 1,758 wordsMr. W. G. Muller, superintendent of the Gosford District Ambulance, reports that the service dealt with a record number of cases for the year. Accidents totalled 220, ...
Article : 97 wordsAt Coral Gables, two more world's records were made to-day. Seventeen-year-old Adolph Kiefer swam 100 metres over the long course in 1m [?] 5-6s. Miss Erna Kompa (New ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 251 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. George Charles Metcalfe, aged 66, who was well-known in the Manning River district. He arrived in the district about 45 years ago, and ...
Article : 67 wordsDon Bradman provided further evidence of his physical fitness and of his return to his former machine-like run-getting form by a great innings for 229 not out for South ...
Article : 258 wordsGood rains have fallen in north Queensland and in parts of the Central West. The rain at Ingham last night and to-day broke one of the most severe droughts since ...
Article : 135 wordsMessrs. Hall and Miller, fishing at Long Corner in the Snowy River, caught trout averaging 1¾lb. They found the fish moving freely. Mr. Miller, fishing in Digger's Creek, ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. Zane Grey, the American author and big-game fisherman, who arrived in Sydney by the liner Mariposa last Monday[?] left with his secretary for Bermagui yesterday ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 264 words"The Governments should do something to help the Canadian Australasian shipping line to survive the competition of the heavily-subsidised United States Matson line," ...
Article : 68 wordsA native, aged 15, who accidentally speared an aboriginal, aged 60, in the Wyndham district, is being pursued by the dead native's tribesmen, who are seeking revenge. This is ...
Article : 115 wordsFrank Read, 86, an old-age pens[?]on[?], [?] designed and constructed a novel boat, propelled by paddle wheels, driven by pedals, and rigged with sails, which he uses on the ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the Duke of York has been promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral of the Fleet. The Duke is also promoted to the rank of ...
Article : 53 wordsNew year honours included knighthoods for two prominent New Zealanders. Mr. George Shirtcliffe, of Wellington, becomes a K.B.E., and Mr. James Hutchison, ...
Article : 40 wordsThe streets in the neighbourhood of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital will present a gay scene on Saturday, when a procession of decorated vehicles of all types, headed by ...
Article : 84 wordsIt was stated at Kensington Palace yesterday that there was a further improvement in the condition of Princess Beatrice, the King's aunt, who has been suffering from a cold. ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Walter C, Hankinson, who acted as the United Kingdom representative in Australia during the absence of Mr. C. T. Crutc[?]ey, has teen awarded an O.B.E. ...
Article : 34 wordsADELAIDE (1084m).—Arr: Jan. 1, Armadale, from New York. Dep: Jan. 1, Mundal[?]a, for eastern States. ...
Article : 17 wordsProgrammes of suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement Columns. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 2 Jan 1936, Page 8
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