A police funeral was given yesterday to sergeant Robert J. Mills, of Wellington, who died at the residence of his sister, Miss M. Mills, at West Maitland, at the week-end. Inspector ...
Article : 91 words"Perfect legislation can be ruined by bad administration, and good administration depends, more than anything else, on the personal factor," said the Governor (Sir Philip ...
Article : 725 wordsThere was a remarkable demonstration when Detective-sergeant Quinn proposed the toast of "friends of the C.I.B." at the 11th annual banquet of the Criminal Investigation ...
Article : 530 wordsA youth was killed and three persons were injured when a motor car swerved across Victoria-road, Drummoyne, and crashed against a telegraph pole. ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Rev. R. B. Reynolds was yesterday chosen as chairman-elect of the Congregational Union of New South Wales. Mr. Reynolds was chairman of the union 19 years ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 143 wordsThe Royal Horticultural Society's spring show was held in the basement of the Town Hall yesterday. It was opened by the Governor (Sir Philip Game), who congratulated ...
Article : 697 wordsThe chairman of the Congregational Union (the Rev. J. H. King), addressing the annual session last night, said it was possible that the ideal order of society would contain ...
Article : 1,113 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, the discussion of the Customs tariff was concluded. A resolution imposing excise duties was passed, with several amendments. ...
Article : 2,043 wordsAt the annual railway picnic of No. 5 Division at Albury Showground, at which the attendance exceeded 3000, Mr. J. J. Fitzgerald M. L. A., for Albury, defended the policy of the ...
Article : 107 wordsAt the tenth annual installation of officers of Masonic Lodge Oberon, No. 355, Bro. G. A. Batcheldor was installed Worshipful Master, the retiring official being Bro. B. H. Evans, ...
Article : 137 wordsA verdict of death from self-inflicted wounds was returned at the inquest concerning the death of Robert Dowling, an unemployed man, at his residence, McKellar's Paddock, ...
Article : 68 words"The lament of the Minister for Education (Mr. Davies) at the lack of school accommodation, and the lack of funds to provide it, makes one wonder what sort of problem he would be ...
Article : 175 wordsFollowing the arrest of two young men, the local police have recovered property. Including a motor car, to the value of £650. Both accused men, who have been receiving the ...
Article : 54 wordsThieves broke into the Moss Vale goods shed early this morning and broke open a case of ale, stealing 12 bottles. The police have a description of two suspects. ...
Article : 44 wordsAt Nyngan Police Court, Owen John O'shea was charged with the attempted murder of Mrs. Marjory Heckendorf and Miss Gladys Bloomfield, at Inverenet, Mullengudgery, on ...
Article : 49 wordsThe amending Committee of Public Accounts Bill, which proposes to reduce the membership of the Public Accounts committee from 10 to seven, was further considered on the motion ...
Article : 316 wordsSenator Sir George Pearce and Mr. Nairn, M.P., waited as a deputation on the Minister for Customs (Mr. Forde) to-day, and placed before him representations made by firms in ...
Article : 146 wordsAn inquest was opened to-day on Ross Dixon, 19, who was drowned in a dam at Thackaringa on Sunday. Joseph Thomas, station hand, gave ...
Article : 86 wordsThomas Hindmarsh, who said he was a farmer at Aberdeen (N.S.W.), made an allegation in the Central Police Court yesterday that two men had swindled him of £150 in ...
Article : 352 wordsMr. S. J. Morrison, owner of Lignum homestead, 25 miles south-west of Ivanhoe, has informed the Ivanhoe police that the building was destroyed by fire at a time when all the ...
Article : 50 wordsA statement by Bro. J. White that he was in sympathy with the Government when it announced a reduction in the subvention to friendly societies caused surprise at the annual ...
Article : 333 wordsMembers of the 1st Light Horse held their bi-annual reunion at Nock and KIrby's cafe on Monday night. Many of the original members of the unit were present, and war ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the police court, Dr. Gillespie said that as a test for drunkenness, he had asked the defendant in a case to say, "The Irish Constabulary succeeded in extinguishing the ...
Article : 100 wordsA call-up will be made to-day as follows:— Horses and Drays.—Those registered owners of horses and drays, residing within the districts of Alexandria, Botany, Erskineville, ...
Article : 82 wordsThe body that was found wedged among rocks at the north end of Cronulla beach on Monday was definitely identified as that of Dulcie Bryce yesterday morning. One of ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. L. J. Johnson, a leather merchant, of Brisbane, who returned to Sydney yesterday by the Ventura from the United States, expressed the view that Australia would recover ...
Article : 142 wordsThe body of Jack Stanley, a half-caste negro bullock-driver, employed on Eelah Estate, near Mindaribba, who had been missing for several days, was found in a gully by ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Randwick Council was asked last night by the Women's Christian Temperance Union not to give consent to mixed nude bathing. Alderman T. Wild said that he would ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Minister for Markets (Mr. Parker Moloney) said yesterday that the increased import duties were emergency measures which were not aimed at Japan or any particular ...
Article : 194 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 316 wordsBefore Judge Sheridan to-day, John Gaudry claimed sums totalling £114 from John Edgar Hope, for wages and holiday pay, and for the use of his car for bread delivery. ...
Article : 160 wordsAt the Armidale Quarter Sessions, William See Lun and Thomas Michael Welsh were found guilty of having maliciously set fire to a store at Guyra in April. Bridget See Lun, ...
Article : 119 wordsJohn William Meuleman, of Shipley-avenue, Homebush, was awarded £300 compensation by a jury in the District Court yesterday, notwithstanding that his claim was for £200. ...
Article : 178 wordsMr. Noel P. Hunt, managing director of Carrier, Australasia Ltd., of Sydney and Melbourne, returned to Sydney yesterday by the Ventura, from the United States, where he ...
Article : 136 wordsThe wisdom of dredges merely shifting silt around the river's course was questioned to-day by the Minister for Health (Mr. Ely), when he replied to a deputation from the ...
Article : 94 wordsAnother of the vagaries of the Customs "Department is Illustrated in the story of Walter Lindrum's billiard table, upon which the champion billiard player was compelled to ...
Article : 150 wordsBorodin's Second Quartet, played by Messrs. Mischa Dobrinski, A. Podinovsky, N. Beresniakoff, and A. Martelli, was one of the features of the concert, which the Dobrinski ...
Article : 349 wordsThe body of Clarence Joseph Young, 42, of Balmain, was recovered from George's River, near Picnic Point, yesterday morning, by a party of police and civilians. Young went ...
Article : 367 wordsThe exclusion of reporters of the "Morning Bulletin" and the "Evening News," Rockhampton, from sitting at the reporters' desk or taking notes in the Rockhampton Supreme ...
Article : 224 wordsAt a meeting of the Albury Hospital Board it was announced that the appointment of Mr. James Clarke as secretary had been challenged. The chairman (Mr. R. Sharp) said ...
Article : 129 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 258 wordsThe Chief Secretary of New South Wales (Mr. Gosling) made a statement to-day concerning the service at the Port Adelaide Seamen's Mission, at which the secretary closed ...
Article : 137 wordsAt a meeting of the council of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia to-night, delegates from all States except New South Wales supported the proposal to create two new ...
Article : 68 wordsThe efforts of the Clerks' Union to disband the Union Secretaries' Association have failed. About 28 unions have carried resolutions refusing to accept the recommendation of the ...
Article : 169 wordsWhen an 8-year-old boy, Joseph Foley, and his 5-year-old brother were on the river bink the younger boy slipped and fell into 7ft of water Foley jumped into the water and ...
Article : 299 wordsFollowing the shooting of Robert Graham, 35, an overseer at an out-camp on Liveringa Station, 80 miles south-east of Derby, early on Saturday morning, Nick Fallon, an old ...
Article : 84 words"As far as we are concerned, there is no bread war," said Mr. J. Israel, secretary of the Master Bakers' Association, yesterday. "We have figures from accredited Government ...
Article : 212 wordsMembers of the British Music Society gathered at the Forum Club last night to bid farewell to Mr. Gerald Patchell, who has resigned the conductorship of the Royal Sydney ...
Article : 183 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsMembers of the Sydney Publicity Club, at a luncheon yesterday, discussed a proposal to establish a Bureau of Advertising Facts. This bureau, it was suggested, should collect and ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) is expected to attend the conference of the Federal Labour party in Sydney on November 14. A number of Federal Ministers will be in ...
Article : 62 wordsJames Mason, night officer at the Bankstown railway station, was bailed up late last night by a man who was armed with a revolver. Mason was about to lock up for the ...
Article : 70 wordsPrank Speerin. of Rockhampton, claims that, by dancing continuously for 220 hours, he has established a world's record. His previous record was 172, hours 5 minutes. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Mervyn Wells is claiming from the proprietor of a boiling-down works £700 damages for the loss of the racehorse Loving Cup, which last June was shot in mistake for another ...
Article : 44 wordsAt the invitation of the Eastwood National Association, Mr. R. W. D. Weaver, M.L.A., will address a meeting in the School of Arts, Eastwood, to-morrow night. ...
Article : 28 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 21 Oct 1931, Page 12
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: