The death has occurred of David Thomas Jenkins, a prominent turf personality of the west, aged 50 years. Mr. Jenkins in his youth was apprenticed to the veteran Bathurst ...
Article : 107 wordsThe contents of this coal lorry were strewn across the lines when the vehicle came into collision with a tram in Botany-road, Botany, yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 31 wordsFigures showing the growth of municipal electricity supply undertakings in New South Wales and a statement of his views on matters of policy were features of an address by the ...
Article : 771 wordsSpeaking at the annual meeting of the metropolitan division of the United Country party last night, the Minister for Transport and leader of the State Country party (Mr ...
Article : 233 wordsWhen the Riverina Welfare Farm Home inquiry was resumed to-day, Thomas McVeigh, a disciplinary officer at the home, said the system aimed at having the boys practically ...
Article : 718 wordsAt first glance, 128 oil paintings and watercolours does not seem an excessively large number for an exhibition. But the collection of British art which Mrs. E. Murray ...
Article : 1,293 wordsIn reply to a letter from the Bellinger River Chamber of Commerce on the suitability of the north coast districts for the growth of the tung oil tree, the Curator of the ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. A. H. Fleming, an employee on Laura station, was chopping wood when a chip flew up and struck one of his eyes. It is feared that the sight of the eye will be permanently ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Minister for Local Government has informed the Forbes Municipal Council that he will permit it to exceed its borrowing limit, by £6000 to buy an additional power unit for ...
Article : 113 wordsThe State lottery was attacked by speakers at the social questions demonstration of the Methodist Conference at the Lyceum last night. ...
Article : 195 wordsEvidence before the Film Inquiry is likely to be concluded this week. It is probable that an adjournment will then be granted to permit counsel to analyse the mass of evidence, and ...
Article : 394 wordsA reminder that Australia would lose about £1,000,000 a year if Great Britain withdrew the tariff preference for Australian sugar, was given by a witness in evidence before the ...
Article : 317 wordsArising out of discussion at the recent conference of Commonwealth and State Ministers on constitutional revision, the Commonwealth Government is to give consideration to ...
Article : 434 wordsThe Hartley Fruitgrowers' Federation has decided not to make an entry in the apple section of the forthcoming Royal Show. Most of the fruit is hail-marked, which prevents ...
Article : 35 wordsA net fisherman, C. Pateman, was badly scalded about the lower part of the body on Saturday when a can of boiling water fell from a stove on the motor launch on which ...
Article : 61 wordsThe possibility of forming a baby health centre at Molong was discussed by the Country Women's Association, and it was decided that at present it is impossible to establish a clinic ...
Article : 68 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Commonwealth Council of the British and Foreign Bible Society, which was commenced in Canberra to-day, Mr. R. Sullivan, B.A., LL.B., of Sydney, ...
Article : 267 wordsAt a family reunion at Bungalora, between 60 and 70 relatives and a few intimate friends and neighbours assembled to celebrate the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. ...
Article : 63 wordsMrs. Rubena Quick, 44, was sitting talking to Mr. Percy Williams at the latter's house. A neighbour came to the house for some apples. Mr. Williams went to the orchard, ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. H. Trickett exhibited 12 peaches of the "J. H. Hale" variety at the Uralla Show. Eight of the peaches weighed 1¼lb each and the remaining four 1lb 2oz each. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Minister for Local Government (Mr. Spooner) has intervened in the deadlock in the Waverley Council over the election of a Mayor. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 87 wordsMr. James Graham, 58, died suddenly on Saturday morning while working in the dairy on his farm at Talarm, seven miles from Macksville. He leaves a grown-up family, including ...
Article : 39 wordsAn Indian, Karingan, was sentenced to death to-day by the Chief Justice, for the murder of the woman Dhanraji, who was decapitated with a cane knife. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe by-election for the Narromine Municipal Council re[?]ted:—A. J. Baker, 268 votes; H. Thrall, 110. Mr. Thrall was the candidate of the Ratepayers' Association. The poll ...
Article : 41 wordsTwo constables from Nowra, assisted by a number of unemployed men and an Alsatian dog, left for Yalwal early yesterday morning to search for C. J. Coombes, 65 years, a ...
Article : 141 wordsA fire which, it is suspected, was deliberately caused, destroyed Mr. William James Bedford's seven-roomed weatherboard home in Prince-street. Mr. Bedford returned this morning from ...
Article : 210 words"Good Government is hardly to be expected from an idle, ignorant, and unprincipled ruler," said Mr. W. M. Hughes, M.P., addressing a meeting of the Combined Churches ...
Article : 421 wordsThe Rural Bank has bought land at 35 Prince-street, in the block between Victoria and Fitzroy streets. It is understood the bank will start building. Branches of the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Full Court of the High Court to-day granted the central executive of the Victorian Labour party special leave to appeal against the judgment of Mr. Justice Gavan Duffy, ...
Article : 196 wordsAUCKLAND (1281m).—Arr: March 5, Aorangi, R.M.M.S., from Sydney. ...
Article : 16 wordsDuring an altercation in Molesworth-street, Lismore, last night, a man is alleged to have grasped another by the legs and swung him through a plateglass window of the Australian ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 258 wordsMrs. Rebecca West, [?] a widow, was drowned in the Tumut River, near Jones Bridge, yesterday afternoon. A party was picknicking on the river bank, and Mrs. West, ...
Article : 108 wordsBut for the aid of nearly 600 fire-fighters, it is practically certain that many fine homes and the Stawell Girls' School on Mount Lofty-road, would have been destroyed by ...
Article : 136 wordsThree motor cars were involved in a collision on Catherine Hill this afternoon. Two passengers were injured, one being Miss Moya Dyring, of 383 Glenferrie-road, Melbourne, ...
Article : 46 wordsStatistics which were issued to-day show that deaths in Australia from cancer rose from 74 per 100,000 persons to 1911 to 105 per 100,000 persons in 1932, and that while ...
Article : 133 wordsThe body of Larry Bowler, 23, an artist, who had been missing for some time, was found under bushes off the Mudgee-road, three-quarters of a mile from Cullen Bullen, this ...
Article : 156 wordsThe need for expert marketing and more publicity of Australian jams in England is disclosed in a private letter received from England by a Sydney resident. ...
Article : 207 wordsSpeaking at a meeting of the Ballina and District Chamber of Commerce, Mr. P. E. Tighe said it was a matter for surprise that after spending nearly £500,000 on the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe latest issue of the Official Year Book of the Commonwealth, dealing with the year 1932 and previous years, has been received from the Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 226 wordsWhile looking for a fowl's nest this afternoon at her home at Balaclava, near Mittagong. Mrs. M. Fairhall was bitten on the left wrist by a snake. The ambulance took her ...
Article : 47 wordsAt the quarter sessions, Judge Neild was welcomed to the district by Mr. H. Cox on behalf of the legal profession, and by Inspector Davies on behalf of the police. ...
Article : 118 wordsA small exhibition of paintings which was placed on view at Pak[?]e's Club yesterday consisting, as it does, of work by Sydney painters who have felt the influence of modern ...
Article : 345 wordsThe Minister for Justice (Mr. Martin) was praised by the Rev. D. C. Hughes, Methodist chaplain to the Long Bay Penitentiary, in an address to the Methodist Men's Brotherhood ...
Article : 125 wordsThe employment of 100 Sydney men on the Cawongla road construction has roused a protest among local unemployed, who maintain they have been unjustly treated. An ...
Article : 138 wordsA large steam launch, which was disabled twice yesterday afternoon by engine failures outside the Heads, was for some time in a precarious position. She eventually returned to ...
Article : 152 wordsA youth whose neck was broken, travelled 60 miles in an ambulance to the Royal North Shore Hospital, where, it is reported, he is making satistactory progress. ...
Article : 104 wordsMrs. Henry Richard Landolt, formerly Miss Doris Chong, a member of a well-known Chinese family of Sydney, returned by the Changte yesterday from a visit to China, ...
Article : 119 wordsTheatre Royal: "The Dubarry," 8. Tivoli; Jim Gerald, 2.30, 8. Civic Theatre: "Waltzing Matilde," "Meet Mv Sister," 11, 2, 5, 8. ...
Article : 175 wordsFrom April 1 the Perth-Adelaide air mail service will be continued without subsidy. Negotiations for the continuation of the service on a new basis have been completed, and ...
Article : 56 wordsWilliam John Griffiths, 47, of Thornton, who was arrested on Saturday night on a charge of assault, died in Maitland Hospital yesterday from the effects of poison. He was bailed ...
Article : 53 wordsThe delegate board of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association discussed the position which has arisen at Hebburn No. 2 and Seaham No. 2 collieries through weighmen at ...
Article : 95 wordsA vigorous search is being made for Gordon Frederick Hunt, 27, who escaped from Bellingen lock-up between 10 p.m. yesterday and 6 a.m. to-day. The prisoner escaped through ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Department of the Interior was advised to-day that Gordon Keith Freeman, superintendent of the mission station for half-castes at Alice Springs, Central Australia, has been ...
Article : 77 wordsFrancis Edward Neil, 27, of Hillcrest-avenue, Gladesville, was fatally injured when his motor cycle collided with a tramcar which was going along Commercial-road, Rozelle, near Glebe ...
Article : 64 wordsWhile conducting blasting operations at Flagstone, near Emmaville, Vincent Coughlin, 23, of Torington, was killed. The young man had set a charge, and stood behind a tree to ...
Article : 55 wordsArrangements have been made for [?] Charles Kingsford Smith to carry mail on his return flight in the Southern Cross to Australia on March 28. ...
Article : 35 wordsProgrammes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement Columns. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 6 Mar 1934, Page 12
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