Rates on the Sydney wheat market advanced yesterday for the third time this month by moving up all round by l¼d a bushel. ...
Article : 209 wordsA survey of Canada's effort in the first thiee months of the war leads to the conclusion that for a considerable time yet to come Canada's genius must ...
Article : 385 wordsThe Council of the League of Nations yesterday expelled Russia from the League. Only seven nations voted. Four abstained from voting, ...
Article : 563 wordsA meeting of the combined mining unions yesterday agreed to allow miners engaged on repair work during the Christmas holidays to remain ...
Article : 285 wordsFinal preparations were made yesterday for the opening this afternoon [?] he Sutherland-Cronulla electric railway by the Governor, Lord Wakehurst. A public ceremony at Sutherland will mark the occasion. Left: The control-board for the electric signals. Under this system, claimed to be the most modern in the world, the signalman operates electric keys and buttons instead of the old type of brake arm. Right: Checking over the signal equipment along the line. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 88 wordsWhat is claimed to be a State record for delivery of wheat to silos in one day was made here, when 13,359 bags, containing 40,017 bushels of high-grade wheat, weighing up to ...
Article : 118 wordsOn the second-last stage of a journey round Austialla Mr. Charles Barrett, the Victorian naturalist and author, and his wife, reached Adelaide to-day. They will spend some time ...
Article : 117 words"New industrial enterprises specially established for the production of war materials and operating alongside converted factories in the Midlands are ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Bengal Legislative Council passed a resolution pledging wholeheaited support to Britain, coupled with a plea that the Constitution of ...
Article : 338 wordsA family of sea rovers from the Channel Island of Guernsey arrived in Sydney Harbour yesterday in an old weather-beaten yawl, Re[?]e d'Arvor ...
Article : 424 wordsDr. Ley, leader of the German Labour Front, in articles in the Berlin organ of the Labour Front, "Der Angriff," compares the English and German ...
Article : 298 wordsThe final State wheat haivest forecast issued to-day by the Government Statistician, Mr. A W. Bowden, is for a crop of 35,000,000 bushels, off 2,800,000 acres, at an average of 12.50 ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield, replying in the House of Lords to Lord Strabolgi (Lab.), who ...
Article : 226 wordsThe war did not justify granting annual leave to workers in jobbing and repair establishments, but employees in mass pioduction plants should receive ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 wordsThe Russian economic delegation, which has been in Germany for some time, has left for Moscow, according to the Rotterdam correspondent of ...
Article : 163 words"Three remarkable coincidences occurred when I visited the Fighter Command on Wednesday last." said the Minister for Air, Mr. Fairbairn, in an ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Belgian steamer Rosa (1,146 tons) struck a mine and sank off the northeast coast of England. One seaman was killed. ...
Article : 250 wordsCaptain Richard Gordon Dibbs, 31; single, of the 2/2nd Battalion, Second A.I.F., was found dead in a hut at the Ingleburn camp yesterday afternoon with a bullet wound in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 278 wordsTurkey is spiritedly making an effort to organise her Air Force, largely with British assistance. Poland's speedy devastation under ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, in a speech at a luncheon yesterday, said. "The war will not be won only by armaments, nor will it be won ...
Article : 242 wordsDespite heavy war expenditure, the commonwealth Government intends to spend £981,000 on ordinary developmental works in Canberra this year. An additional £578,000 ...
Article : 100 wordsFor the first time since the I.R.A. began the recent series of outrages in Britain Irish terroists have been sentenced to death. Five persons were charged at Birmingham ...
Article : 270 wordsAn order calling on Frank Vincent McGuinness, editor of "Truth," Melbourne to show cause why he should not be dealt with for an alleged offence against the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Paris Radio states that three German oil-tankers—the Werdenfels (6,318 tons), the Lindenfels (8,457 tons), and the Wagens (5,000 tons), which is ...
Article : 122 wordsChristmas parcels, at the rate of 25,000 daily, are keeping 1 70 men busy in continuous shifts at ihe Railways parcels office, where the staff expects noon to handle 50,000 daily. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 37 wordsMr. Harold Brown, chairman of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, in a speech at the company's annual meeting yesterday pleaded for fuller co-operation ...
Article : 153 wordsTown Hall: "The Messiah," 8. Theatre Royal: "Under Your Flat," 2, 8. Minerva Theatre: "Gaslight," [?].15. Tivoli Theatre: The Mills Brothers, 2.30, 8. ...
Article : 357 wordsThe British steamer Stanwood (4,158 tons) sank in Falmouth Harbour while attempts were being made to put out a fire in the cargo. All of the members of the crew were ...
Article : 56 wordsLarge schools of sharks were seen yesterday by pilots flying along the coast. It was estimated that there were 40 in one school sighted between Swansea and ...
Article : 85 wordsLord Derby welcomed on behalf of the King 200 fishermen from Newfoundland on their arrival at Liverpool to [?]oin the Navy. They will serve in mine-sweepers. ...
Article : 62 wordsA detachment of Polish airmen, who have been in training to become the first of several Polish squadrons to be incorporated in the British Air Force, will don Royal Air Force ...
Article : 149 wordsReuter's correspondent on the German frontier says that the trial of George Elser may be dropped, because of insufficiency of evidence. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe King celebrated his 44th birthday last night by taking a party composed of members of the Royal family to see moving pictures After the main film was screened the Royal ...
Article : 60 wordsA number of men in the Second A.I.F. have given most of their civilian wardrobe to Christmas poor relief depots. Archdeacon Hammond said last night that ...
Article : 153 wordsThe price of gold to-day was unchanged Tin was quoted at £259 a ton [?]d rubber at 1/ a lb. Mining shares were quiet. Quotations: South ...
Article : 89 wordsFrance's first wartime civil budget passed the first reading in record time. The amount allocated for expenditure on civil works. £438,000,000 sterling is unprecedented. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, has received the following message from the King acknowledging congratulations tendered to his Manesty on his 44th birthday yesterday:— ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 16 Dec 1939, Page 18
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