Two stacks of hay on the property of Mr. H. Stonestreet, of Greghamstown, caught alight from a fire which had been lit to make tea. The stacks were completely destroyed, ...
Article : 44 wordsNew South Wales yesterday won the Sheffield Shield match against Queensland at the Sydney Cricket Ground by an innings and 84 runs. Queensland, in the second innings, ...
Article : 584 wordsThere are conflicting views in North Australia of the policy that should be adopted in dealing with the natives, who number 19,000; but there is unanimity of opinion that a settled policy should speedily be promulgated. There is no doubt that useful employment can be found for the aboriginal. ...
Article : 92 wordsA remarkable tribute was paid to the memory of Sir Robert Gibson, chairman of the board of the Commonwealth Bank, who died on Monday, at the funeral to-day. It was ...
Article : 986 wordsFrom left: W. G. Gates, L. K. Conard, L. W. Weeks, Captain W. H. Weeks, R. T. Conrad, L. Clarke, and (front) Jimmie, the West Indian cook, on arrival in Sydney yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 38 wordsThe amalgamation of Coraki Municipality with Woodburn Shire was completed yesterday. At the first meeting of the provisional council there was a full attendance of ...
Article : 88 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. Frederick Turley, for 30 years resident of the town, at the age of 79. Mr. Turley was for a short period manager of the Eskbank ironworks, ...
Article : 62 wordsWhat is to be the future of the 19,000 odd aborigines of the Northern Territory? An amphibian aeroplane patrol working from Darwin along the northern shores of Arnhem ...
Article : 1,120 wordsMr. H. W. Flett, the district coroner, conducted an inquiry into the death of Kelvin Lester Hamlet, 20, whose body was found on the raliway line a few miles from Wingham ...
Article : 87 wordsThe board of directors of the Berrima District Hospital has accepted the tender of Messrs. A. Stephens and Son of £17,234, for the erection of a new hospital building. Fresh ...
Article : 45 words"It seems a dreadful thing," said the Chief Justice (Sir James Blair), when Walter Charles Clifford, of Kartoum-street, Brisbane, a carter, applied for a sequestration order ...
Article : 248 wordsThe transfer to Canberra of the central staff of the Department of Commerce, now located in Melbourne, is being considered by the Federal Ministry, and it is likely that it ...
Article : 338 wordsFurther increases in prices of tea in the near future are considered almost certain by tea merchants. One merchant said to-day that the ...
Article : 326 wordsAlthough Bowral bakers temporarily increased the price of bread to 6d for a 2lb loaf after the flour tax came into operation, they have now reduced the price to the previous ...
Article : 42 wordsAt the Lithgow Police Court, Charles Thompson, 23, was charged with obtaining food relief by pretending that his wife and children were dependent on him for support, ...
Article : 63 wordsReports from South Bowenfels, near Lithgow, show that caterpillars have again made their appearance on farms there. Farmers have cut the oat and barley crops in an ...
Article : 73 wordsAt a special meeting, the directors of the Coonabarabran District Hospital decided to accept the Public Works Department's offer of £3750, half-grant and half-loan for 15 years at ...
Article : 79 wordsThere were fewer marriages and births and a greater number of deaths in the Sydney metropolitan area last year compared with 1932. Infant mortality, however, was the ...
Article : 194 wordsThe State selectors—Messrs. E. A. Dwyer, R. C. M. Boyce, and A. F. Kippax—yesterday announced that the following team had been chosen to play in the Sheffield Shield match ...
Article : 201 wordsThomas Davidson, 45, a drover, was exercising a horse on Brewarrina racecourse on Saturday in preparation for the New Year's Day races, when his mount fell on him. He ...
Article : 68 wordsDetective Lee, of the Ryde police, has been investigating reports that houses in Epping have been robbed lately. A householder telephoned yesterday that he had lost some clothes ...
Article : 65 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. Duffin Barr, of Montrose. Hume-avenue. For about a quarter of a century he was a prominent business man here. He has left a widow and ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Chinese junk Fon Po II., manned by Captain Eric de Bisschop and Mr. J. J. F. Tattibouet, two French scientists, who are making a cruise of the world, collecting data ...
Article : 338 wordsThe price of gold to-day was £6/7/6 an ounce fine, compared with £6/7/ yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day ...
Article : 637 wordsAs the result of the conferring of New Year honours by the King, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister (Mr. R. B. Bennett), who thereby disregarded the resolution passed ...
Article : 104 wordsA call-up for employment is announced for to-day. Details appear on page 14, column 5. ...
Article : 19 wordsGreater activity was shown in the building trade at South Grafton last year, the total value of new buildings and additions being £10,147, the highest annual figure since 1920. ...
Article : 134 wordsThe High Commissioner for Australia (Mr. S. M. Bruce) circulated to the London newspapers an appreciation of Sir Robert Gibson's public services, adding: "Australia has ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 324 wordsVictoria, with only one match to play, has scored 19 points in the Sheffield Shield competition, and New South Wales, with two matches to play, has scored 11 points. Only ...
Article : 220 wordsCaptain Williams is master of the new Islands motor vessel Malaita, which arrived in Sydney yesterday from London on her malden voyage. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 29 wordsEstimates in the office of the Forestry Department show that between 750,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 superficial feet of pine logs yet remain in Crown forests, apart from private ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. W. Jemmett, who manages Mr. George Thompson's mountain property, Jounama, had a narrow escape during a storm. He was getting through a wire fence when it was ...
Article : 58 wordsThe first portion of the French Government's new loan of £125,000,000 will be issued to-day in the form of five, 10, and 15 year Treasury bonds at a lower rate of interest ...
Article : 109 wordsR. A. Vanne Millbank, and T. E. York, who are on a walking tour around Australla, reached Casino yesterday afternoon, having made a detour from Tenterfield in ...
Article : 66 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. J. George Dunn, at the age of 69. Born at Franklin Harbour, South Australia, Mr. Dunn lived almost the whole of his life in Wentworth. For ...
Article : 55 wordsA man who has been unemployed for four years and who has eight children, found a bag containing £70 on a footpath at Lidcombe He returned it to its owner. ...
Article : 120 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. Arthur Edward Pearce Brome Weigall, the well-known Egyptologist and author. [Mr. Weigall, who was 53 years of age, was ...
Article : 101 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. W. Giles 68, managing director of William Giles, Ltd., and one of the best known provincial newspaper men in the State. He ...
Article : 106 wordsThe performance of Bradman, Kippax, and other New South Wales batsmen in scoring 200 runs against Queensland in the period before lunch at the Sydney Cricket ground on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 190 wordsMAN STRUCK BY TRAM. Joseph Sesta, 23, a fruiterer of Bondi-road Bondi had his right foot amputated last night, when he was knocked down by a tram in ...
Article : 356 wordsPayment of compensation to migrant land settlers in Victoria whose complaints were upheld by the Royal Commission on Migrant Settlement, will probably begin within a few ...
Article : 153 wordsThe death has occuired at Jackadgery of John Lollback, aged 92, one of the pioneers of the district. Born in Germany, he came to Australia with his parents when aged 10. ...
Article : 128 wordsThe King has approved the appointment of Sir Gervais Rentoul, M.P., and Mr. Geoffrey Keith Rose, Recorder of Ludlow since 1932, as metropolitan police magistrates, to fill the ...
Article : 135 wordsThe identity of the second victim of the drowning tragedy in the Brisbane River on Saturday night has not [?]n established. On Tuesday afternoon the water police recovered ...
Article : 157 wordsWool totalling 51,261 bales, was exported from Queensland during December last, compared with 41,901 bales in the same month of the previous year. Of this quantity 15,270 ...
Article : 58 wordsTheatre Royal: "The Student Prince," 8. Criterion Theatre: "Dick Whittington," 2; "Tout Paris—Second Edition," 8. Tivoli: Jim Gerald, 2.30, 8. ...
Article : 150 wordsThe 138 children who are attending the Far West Children's Health Scheme's camp at Manly, attended a belated Christmas treat last night, when all received presents from a ...
Article : 131 wordsGrasping a bloodstained razor in one hand, and holding his throat with the other. Thomas Patterson, 34, of Selwyn-stieet, Lithgow, staggered from his bedroom this evening and fell ...
Article : 85 wordsThe body of Charles Thomas Trelevan was found floating in Newcastle Harbour this morning. Before the police could bring it ashore it was badly mauled by a shark. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Bear of Oakland, Rear-Admiral Byrd's supply ship, arrived unexpectedly at Napier to-day. She was expected at Wellington last week-end, but she encountered a violent gale, ...
Article : 75 wordsThe skeleton of an unknown man, from which the skull was missing, was found to-day in thick scrub country about 20 miles from Killarney, by the three man who were on a ...
Article : 89 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 4 Jan 1934, Page 10
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