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  2. OBITUARY.

    Mr. Ernest Lindsay Thompson, who died suddenly at Manly on Sunday night, in his 65th year, was a prominent city architect. He was a city alderman for 27 years. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 188 words
  3. FOUNDER OF ROTARY

    Mr. Paul P. Harris, founder of Rotary, will arrive in Sydney on March 14 to at[?]nd the sessions or the Australian conference of Rotary clubs. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 247 words
  4. MIGRATION.

    The Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. F. T. McPhee), in a report on migration in 1934, issued yesterday stated that the migration figures during recent years show a marked ...

    Article : 229 words
  5. PAYMASTER SHOT.

    Witnesses at the Central Police Court yesterday related incidents which, it was alleged, occurred in Barrack-street, city, last June, when a paymaster of the Public Works ...

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  6. MURDER OF GIRL.

    The deputy coroner (Mr. L. N. Parker) found at Kempsey to-day that Davis Geddes Taylor murdered Joyee Irene Eggins by shooting her at Austral Eden. Lower Macleay on ...

    Article : 456 words
  7. A.W.U. CONVENTION.

    A proposal was submitted to the annual convention of the Australian Workers' Union yesterday by Mr. R. King, M.L.C. (secretary of the N.S.W. Labour Council) that the A.W.U., ...

    Article : 413 words
  8. MR. WEAVER.

    The Minister for Health (Mr. Weaver) yesterday challenged the members of the British Medical Association to make his dispute with the medical profession an election issue in his ...

    Article : 492 words
  9. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Mrs. J. C. Maslin, of Gunningrah Station, has given £300 to the Bombala Exhibition Society for the construction of a supper-room, and Mr. A. W. Garnock of Bukalong Station, ...

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  10. TOMKI SHIRE RATING.

    At a meeting of Tomki Shire, it was stated that the rate of /2 in the pound was the lowest of any North Coast shire, Ratepayers in the area excised from Casino municipality ...

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  11. SEWERAGE EXTENSION.

    Casino Council has been advised that the Government has made available £5500 for the completion of the sewerage system. This will bring the total cost of the work ...

    Article : 65 words
  12. SAFEBLOWERS AT WALLENDBEEN.

    Thieves entered Sacketts store at Wallendbeen last night. They blew open the safe and escaped with several pounds in a[?]r and some private papers. The store was broken ...

    Article : 40 words
  13. EMPIRE GAMES.

    It is considered unlikely that the Federal Government will agree to the proposal that the Commonwealth should grant£10,000 to ensure that the Empire Games will be held ...

    Article : 192 words
  14. SUNDAY TRAIN SERVICE.

    The increase in the Sunday passenger traffic has influenced the Railway Department to replace the rail motor service between Dubbo and Orange with a steam train, which it is ...

    Article : 60 words
  15. HURT IN CYCLE ACCIDENT.

    Dazzled by the lights of an approaching car Fred Langworthy, 18, crashed into a guide post when riding his motor cycle along the Narromine-road on Saturday night. He. was treated ...

    Article : 56 words
  16. FOUND DEAD IN STREET.

    Four hours after he had left his home at South Lismore last night to buy tobacco for his son, Walter Rushworth, 77, was found dead in the street. Mr. Rushworth came to ...

    Article : 96 words
  17. MR. E. A. RYRIE.

    Advice has been received of the death in London on January 30, of Mr. Edwin A. Ryrie, a member of a well-known family of New South Wales pastoralists, and a cousin of ...

    Article : 110 words
  18. CITY COUNCIL.

    Correspondence between the Lord Mayor (Alderman Parker) and the Premier (Mr. Stevens) regarding the City Council's request for direct representation on the proposed ...

    Article : 469 words
  19. WOOL TRADE.

    A new Sydney company met yesterday to hear an expert's report on the prospects of developing a market for Australian wool in China. The company—the China Woollen ...

    Article : 582 words
  20. MINISTER CRITICISED.

    Mr. Weaver was criticised at last night's meeting of the board of directors of the Hornsby District Hospital. One speaker charged him with prejudice and inconsistency ...

    Article : 149 words
  21. MR. LANG.

    "The elections will be all over and there will be a new State Government in force, a Labour Government, at Easter time," said the leader of the Opposition (Mr. J. T. Lang), in ...

    Article : 363 words
  22. TWO STOWAWAYS

    Two stowaways who were discovered on the Japanese freighter Mansel Maru after she sailed from Adelaide at the week-end will be landed in Sydney to-morrow. As the ...

    Article : 80 words
  23. DEATH FROM HEART DISEASE.

    The deputy coroner (Mr. A. C. Joubert) conducted an inquiry, at Lismore into the death of Jack Matth[?]w Desmond Forster, 38, at Whian Whian, on January 21. Forster ...

    Article : 59 words
  24. MR. ALEXANDER KING.

    The funeral of Mr. Alexander King who was prominent in Australian shipping circles for a number of years, took place yesterday. Mr. King came to Australia from Glasgow ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 312 words
  25. COLLIERY STOPPAGE.

    There was a stoppage at the Vale of Clwydd colliery to-day owing to a dispute following a complaint that an inexperienced man had been employed on the coal. A conference ...

    Article : 54 words
  26. CASUALTIES.

    Stanley Johnston 32, of Harwood-avenue, Willoughby, was painting the roof of a tannery in High-street, Chatswood, yesterday, when the rope supporting him broke, and he ...

    Article : 108 words
  27. BABY'S NARROW ESCAPE.

    When Josephine Benn, [?] ran into a moving car in the main stieet on Saturday night, she wns thrown clear, and was after wards taken to the ambulance, suffeilng only from ...

    Article : 49 words
  28. VICTORIAN LABOUR.

    In a joint statement to-day, the president (Mr. Holland, M.L.A.) and the secretary (Mr. McNamara, M.L.C.) of the Victorian Labour party replied to statements concerning the ...

    Article : 199 words
  29. DAVIS CUP.

    At a meeting of a special committee of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia to-day it was decided to send a cable message to Mr. S. R. Youdale, the association's representative in ...

    Article : 146 words
  30. CHILD STRUCK BY CAR.

    Jean Lennon, [?], a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lennon, of Surfers' Paradise, was knocked down by a motor car on Pacific Highway. She suffered a compound fracture of ...

    Article : 67 words
  31. MOTOR CYCLE COLLIDES WITH COW.

    When a motor cycle, ridden by L. McNamara, of South Grafton, collided with a cow which doubled back across the road, he was thrown to the road, and suffered an injury to his ...

    Article : 55 words
  32. THE CALL-UP

    A cell-up for employment is announced for to-day. Details appear on page 16, column 5. ...

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  33. HAY AND SHED DESTROYED.

    Fire broke out in a hayshed, the property of F. J. Morris, at Hopgrove Gum Flat. Seventy tons of hay, valued at £ [?]40, and a shed, valued at £120, were destroyed. The shed was ...

    Article : 60 words
  34. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 211 words
  35. MAN'S LEG AMPUTATED.

    When Patrick Fox had his right leg severed by a revolving circular beef splitting saw at Tancred's meatworks last Thursday, his left leg was also severely injured. It has since ...

    Article : 52 words
  36. TIMBER YARD FIRE.

    A fire, accompanied by a series of explosions, which sent the flames leaping high into the air, broke out in the timber yard of Macpherson and Lawrie, Middle Brighton, soon ...

    Article : 172 words
  37. MALARIA IN CEYLON.

    There were 7038 deaths from malaria in the north-western province in January, the normal death rate being 700. Eighty per cent, of the deaths were of children. ...

    Article : 96 words
  38. "HERITAGE"

    The Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) and the Director of Education (Mr. Ross Thomas) viewed the Australian film, "Heritage," at the Fox Films Theatrette last ...

    Article : 164 words
  39. KURRAJONG'S KOALA.

    Alexander Bruce and Joseph Farlow, both of Kurrajong, were each fined 10/, with 8/ costs, by Mr. A. H. Hardwick, S.M., at Richmond Police Court on a charge of having taken ...

    Article : 98 words
  40. ALLEGED SHOOTING.

    Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P. M. committed John Edward Elliott for trial from the Glen Innes Police Couit yesterday. on a charge of shooting at Ei[?]rn Bede Newsome on February 1 ...

    Article : 169 words
  41. DARBALARA ESTATE SALE.

    The sale is reported of blocks of the famous Riverina property, the Darbalara Estate, on account of the executors of the late Sir Adrian Knox. Darbalara was formerly owned ...

    Article : 88 words
  42. OLYMPIC GAMES VENUE.

    There is keen competition for the venue of the Olympic Games of 1940. The matter will be settled at a meeting at Oslo on February 25. Italy, Japan, and Finland are all pressing ...

    Article : 90 words
  43. MR. E. G. MARKS.

    The funeral of Mr. E. George Marks, chief law reporter for "The Sun," which took place at the Waverley Cemetery yesterday afternoon, was largely attended by journalists and ...

    Article : 840 words
  44. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 242 words
  45. FIRE DESTROYS HOME.

    A new weatherboard cottage, near E[?]ge Park, Burradoo, owned by Mr. Thomas More and occupied by Mr. A. Walker, was destroyed by fire last night while the family were ...

    Article : 61 words
  46. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.

    An application will be heard by the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. M. Henwood) on February 20 for an award for country commercial travellers. ...

    Article : 181 words
  47. AUTOGIROS.

    The certificates of airworthiness of autoghos in Australia have been cancelled because of the fracture of a spar of one rotor blade of a direct-control machine which was ...

    Article : 179 words
  48. VALUELESS CHEQUES.

    John Francis Knight Kellett, who was arrested on Bathurst Island by Constable Koop, of the Northern Territory Mounted Police, last Saturdav, to-day pleaded guilty ...

    Article : 174 words
  49. STEREOSCOPIC FILM.

    M. Louis Lumiere, aged 81 years, who 42 years ago invented one of the early moving picture cameras, has now devised a stereoscopic film. It includes a camera with two ...

    Article : 86 words
  50. AORANGI PASSENGERS.

    Eleven more of the passengeis from the Aorangi will be released from quarantine this morning. They will be conveyed by launch to No. 5 wharf, Darling Harbour, shortly aftei 10 ...

    Article : 61 words
  51. ATTEMPTS TO SAVE YOUTH.

    Evidence of attempts to save Thomas Francis McNamara, 19, a farm labourer, from drowning, was given at the inquest held by the Maitland district co[?]ner. McNamara ...

    Article : 141 words
  52. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The price of gold to-day was £7/2/1 an ounce fine compared with £7/2/ on Saturday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. ...

    Article : 286 words
  53. MAN IN TREE.

    Residents at Westmead were nonplussed yesterday afternoon by the actions of a man, who was seen climbing fences, but who always escaped when chased. ...

    Article : 106 words
  54. DEATH OF NONAGENARIAN.

    Mrs. Maria Henkel of Grafton, died on Saturday night, aged 94. She was born in Germany, and came to Australia with her late husband in the salling ship San Francisco the ...

    Article : 86 words
  55. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 256 words
  56. NO SETTLEMENT.

    The strike of employees at the canning works of James Barnes, Ltd., at Botany-road, Waterloo, is still unsettled. The dispute was discussed at a compulsory ...

    Article : 90 words
  57. POISON TRAGEDY.

    The inquest into the deaths of Mrs. Irene Gladys Taylor, 34, and her sons, Lloyd Dudley, 12, Noel Edward, 10, and Nell John, was concluded to-day. The district coroner (Mr. ...

    Article : 53 words
  58. SYDNEY'S POPULATION.

    A report issued yesterday by the Government Statistician (Mr. T. Waites) showed that the population of the metropolitan area on September 30, 1934, was 1,243,835. ...

    Article : 93 words
  59. INJURED MAN CARRIED TWO MILES.

    Leslie McNamara, 22, overseer of L[?] Toobeah, while mustering horses, crashed into a tree and was knocked unconscious. His brother-in-law, Mr. King, by a ...

    Article : 115 words
  60. MENTAL PATIENTS.

    Five inmates of the Auckland Mental Hospital, all young men, escaped from a working party this morning. Three of the men went towards the harbour, ...

    Article : 90 words
  61. COLLEGE REUNION.

    Old boys of the George Watson College, Edinburgh, assembled at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron's clubhouse. Kirribilli, last night for the annual dinner. Mr. Andrew Reld, ...

    Article : 70 words
  62. TRANSPORT INSTITUTE.

    At a meeting of the recently-formed branch of the British Institute of Transport, a draft constitution was approved, and the following officers were elected:—Chairman, the ...

    Article : 125 words
  63. THE CHINESE CALENDAR.

    Under the old lunar calendar used in china for centuries yesterday would have marked the beginning of a new year. In 1911 the Republican Government adopted the Gregorian ...

    Article : 72 words
  64. DON BRADMAN.

    Don Bradman, who came from Adelaide to attend the wedding at Croydon on Saturday of his wife's sister, visited the city yesterday and renewed many acquaintances. ...

    Article : 61 words
  65. APPRENTICES' TRAM FARES.

    A plea for a reduction in tram fares for working girls and boys is made by a correspondent in a letter to the Editor. The correspondent suggests that weekly concession tickets, ...

    Article : 51 words
  66. SYDNEY EISTEDDFOD.

    The Lord Mayor of Sydney (Alderman A. L. Parker) will preside at a public meeting in the vestibule of the Town Hall at 11.30 a.m. to-day, to inaugurate organisation for the ...

    Article : 38 words
  67. SUBURBAN PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertising Columns. ...

    Article : 19 words
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