Pilot-Officer Donald Ashton-Shorter, of No. 3 Richmond Flight, was killed while giving a display of aerobatics at Ross River Aerodrome this ...
Article : 577 wordsThe raising of the basic wage, at least to the 1929 level, and preferably to a level two or three shillings higher, was advocated before the Arbitration Court ...
Article : 423 wordsThe collier Minmi, which is lying in three pieces on the rocks at Cape Banks, where she ran aground on Thursday night, will be offered for ...
Article : 1,199 wordsThe Minister in Charge of Territories (Sir George Pearce) said to-day that the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) had been asked to transmit to the King ...
Article : 387 wordsA mysterious explosion badly damaged the bows of the British destroyer Hunter five miles from Almeria (Spain). ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 480 wordsThe Imperial Conference of 1937, which will probably be one of the most important in the history of the Empire, was opened this morning at St. James's Palace. There were 120 delegates from every part of the Empire. ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Lyons), in the course of his speech at the opening of the Imperial Conference, said that the dominions, under ...
Article : 1,857 wordsThe conference was opened in the beautiful St. Anne's drawing-room at the Palace, with its old masters hung on crimson-curtained walls, and flooded ...
Article : 468 wordsMiss Leonore Violet Gowlland, a well-known resident of Darling Point, was accidentally poisoned by exhaust fumes while working on her motor car in the ...
Article : 309 wordsThe Minister in charge of the Coronation celebrations (Mr. Dunningham) said last night that the Coronation celebrations in Sydney would end to-night with the orchestral and ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) said last night that the Education Department issued 500,000 copies of the Coronation souvenir so that every child in the State ...
Article : 192 wordsPilot-Officer Ashton-Shorter was attached to the Richmond base. He was the son of Dr. H. L. Ashton Shorter, of Deewhy. ...
Article : 183 wordsMr. Baldwin briefly referred to the loss the Empire had suffered by the death of King George V. "No quarter century has witnessed ...
Article : 549 wordsThe South Seas Development Company has organised a subsidiary, company, the Oceanic Pearl Company, to fish for pearl shell in the South Seas. ...
Article : 85 wordsBread will be delivered on Wednesday next in the metropolitan area, despite the protest of the mass meeting of breadcarters, members of the New South Wales branch of the ...
Article : 196 wordsHundreds of children from surrounding districts invaded the Camperdown Park children's playground for the distribution of the City Council's ...
Article : 208 wordsWhen the King greeted Dame Enid Lyons at Buckingham Palace yesterday, he said, "I thought you would like to have this to wear to-night." ...
Article : 277 wordsMr. Savage (N.Z.) affirmed New Zealand's warm attachment to Britain. He said he attributed no particular importance to the theoretical basis of ...
Article : 491 wordsEngineers in waterfront shops, who took part in a half-day strike on Thursday, returned to work yesterday. It is understood that representatives of ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Lyons's plea for a regional understanding in the Pacific, and Mr. Mackenzie King's appeal for an abatement of policies of economic nationalism and economic ...
Article : 380 wordsThree Melbourne men, who plan to sail round the Australian coastline, will leave Sydney on Monday in the 33-feet auxiliary yacht Woolindra. The vessel is of 8½ tons, ...
Article : 233 wordsThe State secretary of the Australian Railways' Union (Mr. Lloyd Ross) alleges that there is considerable discomfort amongst employees at the Darling Harbour railway yards. ...
Article : 89 wordsBy advertisement in to-day's "Herald" the owners, J. and A. Brown and Abermain and Seaham Collieries, Ltd., offer the Minmi, as she now lies on the rocks at Cape Banks, for ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Federal Steam Navigation Company's new moto freighter E[?]ex (11,062 tons), which reached London to-day on its first voyage from Australia, was severely damaged on the port ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Acting-Minister for Defence (Mr. Thorby) said yesterday that he was making inquiries into charges said to have been made by Lady Kingsford Smith in Honolulu. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 15 May 1937, Page 17
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