Guyra Shire Council has decided to str[?] the following rates for 1932:—/2 in the £ general rate, /3½ in the £ lighting rate (reduction of /0¼, within the lighting area), and ...
Article : 50 wordsIn the Legislative Council last night Mr. Concannon appealed to members to facilitate the passage of the Insurance Deposits Bill. The passage of the bill, he declared, had ...
Article : 460 wordsHeavy tropical thunderstorms occurred over a wide area of the State yesterday, and in some instances substantial falls of rain were received. Mr. Mares, the State ...
Article : 351 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) announced in the House of Commons that arrangements had been completed to meet more than half of Britain's ...
Article : 632 wordsObjecting to dual bridge taxation and accepting a toll as inevitable, local governing representatives of the North Shore, at a conference last night, decided to urge the repeal ...
Article : 808 wordsAfter the rush of the first day the 1932 Electrical and Radio Exhibition at the Town Hall yesterday settled down to normal business. The secretary (Mr. Andrew F. O. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,035 wordsThe Legislative Council gave further consideration yesterday to the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Bill. A protracted debate took place on clause ...
Article : 1,065 wordsA fire broke out in haystacks owned by Mr. Archie Meyer, at Giant's Creek, near Denman. The hayshed was burned to the ground and the contents, including hay, machinery, ...
Article : 68 wordsMurrey Yabsley, a well-known grazier and cricketer, was admitted to Coraki Hospital yesterday, suffering from injuries to his back, While he was supervising work at a floodgate, ...
Article : 67 wordsThe B.G.E.C. is displaying a complete range of its Australian-made "Magnet" electric labour-saving devices—cookers, stoves, floor polishers, hair dryers, and heating devices of ...
Article : 763 wordsWhile bathing in the McLaughlan River, Mavis Thistleton, 12, narrowly escaped drowning when she was carried by the current into deep water. She was rescued by Misses Alice ...
Article : 38 wordsLouis Twyford, 11, was thrown from his horse, and had an arm broken, while riding to school this morning. ...
Article : 25 wordsTwo young men, Frank Flanagan and Alfred Hughes, had remarkable escapes from serious injury, when a new car, in which they were travelling, near Murwillumbah, turned over ...
Article : 125 wordsOwing to the difficulty of conducting business in New South Wales, because of hampering legislation, the Sydney Felt Co., which is associated with Federal Felters Pty., Ltd., a ...
Article : 113 wordsWhile Mr. E. Allabin was splitting a log, one of the wedges flew out, fracturing his nose. He received treatment at Moruya Hospital. ...
Article : 29 wordsEric Cole, 9, of McDonald-street, Erskineville, suffered concussion of the brain when he fell from a tramcar near the corner of Forbes and Wilson streets, Newtown, ...
Article : 381 wordsThe municipal health officer (Mr. D. Lewis) recently reported that campers had sunk a well at their camp. Mr. Lewis condemned the well, owing to its proximity to the sanitary ...
Article : 102 wordsThe new wireless station at the Richmond aerodrome is practically completed, and preparations are being made to connect it up with the electricity supply from Hawkesbury ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Public Works Department has replied to the Murwillumbah branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, which asked that, as a means of minimising the flood danger in ...
Article : 129 wordsThe League of Nations announces from Geneva that its International Committee regarding intellectual co-operation, of which Professor Gilbert Murray, the distinguished ...
Article : 73 wordsThe coroner (Mr. B. Morgan) held an inquiry into the death of Robert Platt, 39, who was killed fighting bushfires on Breakfast Creek property on Sunday night last. A ...
Article : 71 wordsMembers of the New Guard were baulked by police action on Wednesday night, when they attempted to hold a meeting in the Kuring-gai Hall. When the police went to a ...
Article : 116 wordsHarry Taylor, of Sydney, motor tyre manufacturer, has been ordered to pay his sister-in-law, Mrs. Ione Marjorie Taylor, of Vancouver, 1500 dollars damages for a defamatory ...
Article : 72 wordsA fire destroyed an eight-room house and a shearing shed, and their contents, at Mr. F. McMurray's property at Cheescman's Creek. The damage is estimated at £1000, which is ...
Article : 92 wordsInformative evidence regarding the quality of scents made in Australia and the price of essential oils was given by a witness before the Tariff Board to-day. The board ...
Article : 402 wordsA vigorous defence of the New Guard was made by a delegate when the annual Graziers' Association Conference carried a vote of thanks to all those who assisted in fighting the ...
Article : 143 wordsAt a meeting of Liverpool Council, the Mayor (Alderman Bratchell) condemned the present system of identification of dole recipients. He said that a person had to be identified by ...
Article : 102 wordsThe breach between the English and German Freemasons, which has lasted since the World War, has now been closed. The Duke of Connaught, Grand Master of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 224 wordsEven in the closing days of its construction, the Harbour Bridge is not free from industrial disputes, for this week another case was added to the long list of stoppages and threatened ...
Article : 131 wordsMilitary manoeuvres were carried out yesterday with the medium artillery at Glenfield. Encamped amongst thickly timbered country, the guns are [?]amouflaged with ...
Article : 65 wordsA message from Paris says that a terrific explosion startled villagers near Montpellier, who found a chasm in the road and parts of a motor ear scattered through the vineyards ...
Article : 75 wordsSir James Lithgow president of the Federation of British Industries and Sir Arthur Balfour, chairman of the British council of the Australian Association of British ...
Article : 174 wordsFire destroyed a five-roomel cottage in Boundary-street, occupied by Mr. Malcolm and owned by Mr. Blackshaw. The house and furniture were insured. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Graziers' Conference last night carried a hearty vote of confidence in Dr. Earle Page as the leader of the Country party. It decided also that at the next State election, the ...
Article : 212 wordsAt the annual meeting of the New South Wiles Traders Protective Association members were urged to make efforts to have after hour trading and coupon schemes abolished ...
Article : 105 wordsThe United Australia party convence at Parkes constituted an electoral convence for Ashburnham. Delegates from Parkes Forbes, Peak Hill, and several smaller cent[?]s,, were ...
Article : 64 wordsA young mechanic, named George Hamilton, was seriously injured in an explosion of petrol fumes at a garage to-day. Hamilton was in a car pit draining petrol ...
Article : 135 wordsA message from San Diego states that the training of Phar Lap for the Agua Cal[?]ente Handicap has been resumed and the horse shows no signs of lameness or other injuries ...
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Advertising : 195 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. Chas Dunbar, who was born here 82 years ago. His parents came to the district in 1820, his father building the first church in Scone in that ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Governor-General, who was entertained at a public banquet last night, congratulated the Agricultural Society on its magnificent show. He said that Mudgee ...
Article : 118 wordsThroughout Wednesday night and all day yesterday Detective-sergeant Keable and Detectives Oliver, Sharp, and Truman visited place after place in the western suburbs and ...
Article : 143 wordsIt was revealed in official quarters to-night that the question of restricting the area of land used for the production of fruit of all kinds in Australia, with a view to checking ...
Article : 92 wordsThe action of the Chief Secretary's Department in placing the food relief supply contract with one local firm for the second month in succession has caused perturbation ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald), who is recuperating at Newquay, Cornwall, has been visited by the oculist (Mr. Duke Elder) who performed the operation on ...
Article : 246 wordsThe municipal council is desirous of striking a water rate of /5 In the £, with £2/10/ as a tenement minimum and £1 as a vacant allotment minimum, because the ratepayers ...
Article : 113 wordsAt last night's session of the Graziers' Conference, Sir Giaham Waddell outlined opinions and correspondence in connection with Sir John Higgins' scheme of wool ...
Article : 110 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. Alexander MacKenzie, a well-known resident of Orange, aged 61 years. He was a native of London, and came to Australia 45 years ago, shortly ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. T. J. Anderson fell from the Brisbane mail train near Bootooloo Station, five miles from Bowen, early this morning. Mr. Anderson sustained injuries to the ankle and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 wordsThe right of Senator P. F. Mooney, who was elected by the New South Wales Parliament to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Duncan (N.S.W.), to take his seat in ...
Article : 112 words"The taste of the navy has changed very little in the last 30 years except that tea has replaced rum in the affection of the men," said Mr. W. E. Clayton. O.B.E., retired ...
Article : 126 wordsFavourable seas continued to assist the salvors, who are transferring the cargo from the wrecked steamer Northern Firth to the steamer Jap at Brush Island, South Coast. Since the ...
Article : 100 wordsEstate agents in Ryde and Eastwood districts report a remarkable influx of residents during the past couple of months. The new residents, generally speaking, have mostly come ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Western Australian Federation of Parents and Citizens' Associations has written to the New South Wales Federation expressing it "warmest thanks for the splendid ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Mitchell Library authorities have decided that Melba's manuscript letters shall not be made available to the public for the reason that they contain references to living ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 4 Mar 1932, Page 10
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