Following a quarrel in the backyard of his home at McIntosh-street, Mascot, last night, Robert Edward Harris and John Foley were both wounded by shotgun pellets. ...
Article : 136 wordsA nine-year-old boy musician, Philip Hargreaves, of Burnside, a suburb of Adelaide, has gained a scholarship for the most outstanding musician in grades 1 and 2 of the ...
Article : 187 wordsThe opening of the George-street entrance of the head office of the Bank of New South Wales has enabled the general public to realise how much this imposing edifice has ...
Article : 880 wordsMr. Ernest Hayden Jones, who died at Orange, was a member of a Granville family, whose people first settled at Granville about 80 years ago. Mr. Jones was connected with ...
Article : 59 wordsAt the Customs House yesterday, there was a large gathering of officers to bid an official farewell to Mr. G. G. Hill, supervisor of bonded warehouses, who commences extended leave of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 112 wordsThe approach of Christmas, with the benign spirit always associated with that festive period of the year, brings once again its manifold appeals to the community to remember those ...
Article : 1,576 wordsWhen the Legislative Assembly met yesterday a message was read from the Upper House stating that the Savings Bank Amalgamation Bill had been passed. ...
Article : 729 wordsThe secretary of the Joint Committee for Tariff Revision writes:— "The statements by Mr. H. G. Bennett on behalf of the Chamber of Manufactures in ...
Article : 566 wordsMr. William Alexander Hogg, of Messrs. Hogg Bros., lime merchants, of Sussex-street, died on Tuesday afternoon, aged 73 years. He and his brother, who died a few months ago, ...
Article : 87 wordsMembers of the committee of management of the Water Board Employees' Union are divided on the question of allegiance to the Lang plan. ...
Article : 396 wordsMr. George Wride died at his residence at Gordon-road, Gordon, recently, aged 64 years, Mr. Wride in 1900 founded the Country Press Association, of which he became the first ...
Article : 111 wordsDelegates of shareholders of co-operative dairy companies met to-day to consider proposals that have followed allegations that factory managers had received secret commission. ...
Article : 191 wordsThe death has occurred of Mrs. Annie Lucas, wife of Mr. Walter H. Lucas, island inspector for Burns, Philp, and Company for many years, and later chairman of the ...
Article : 37 wordsGiving evidence before the standing committee on banking yesterday, Mr. Edward Jewell, builder, and formerly a bank manager in Queensland, said it was interesting to note ...
Article : 237 wordsSenior-Sergeant Archibald Campbell died at his home, Stonefield, Cooma. He was the elder son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Donald Campbell, pioneers of Warialda, where he was ...
Article : 90 words"The view of graziers on excnange has always been that the rate should be left to the law of supply and demand," stated the president of the Graziers' Association of ...
Article : 251 wordsMr. W. S. Harkness, who died at his residence, Lilianfels, Carlotta-road, Double Bay, on Thursday, aged 69 years, had been in business at Bondi Junction as a real estate agent ...
Article : 121 wordsJack Cooper, 18, of Cross-street, Guildford, was badly injured when a motor cycle which he was riding collided with a motor car in Church-street, Parramatta, last night. The ...
Article : 298 wordsMrs. Louisa Rayment died at Oswestry Apsley-street, Penshurst, last week, at the age of 91. The widow of the late Mr. John Rayment, she came to Sydney from England with her ...
Article : 113 wordsThe first session of the fourteenth Parliament of Western Australia is expected to finish to-night. The Legislative Council rejected by one vote ...
Article : 121 wordsIt is expected that the 14 women members of the domestic staff of the Lithgow Hospital, who have been Idle since Tuesday, owing to a dispute concerning the dismissal of four ...
Article : 227 wordsIn the Hughenden Police Court to-day James Andrew Mansfield appeared on remand charged with the wilful murder of Ralph Linton at Maiden Springs, Chudleigh Park, on ...
Article : 154 wordsMr. Walter Jackson, retired farmer and grazier, son of the late Mr. Thomas Jackson, of Bogan Gate, died at his residence in Highgate-road, Lindfield, recently. In 1907 he ...
Article : 92 wordsIn the Legislative Council Mr. F. S. Boyce protested against the action of the Government in bringing members to the House without any business being transacted. Shortly ...
Article : 357 wordsMr. John M. Edmunds, B.A., headmaster of the Cleveland-street Intermediate High School, will retire from the Public Service this month after 47 years' teaching work in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 81 wordsDetectives who have been investigating alleged discrepancies in the dividends of the doubles tote at Tailem Bend to-day arrested a man on a charge of conspiracy. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe remains of the late Mr. John Hill, who for more than 40 years was prominent in public life in the Cronulla district, were interred in the Church of England portion of ...
Article : 233 wordsThe caveat lodged by Marion Halse, widow, against the granting of probate of the will of William Edwin Halse, fishmonger, of Ballarat, came before Mr. Justice McArthur. ...
Article : 136 wordsThe remarkable progress of the Film Society of Australia was shown in the report which the hon. secretary (Miss Beatrice Tildesley) presented at the annual meeting of the society, ...
Article : 254 wordsA claim for the recovery or money alleged to be due as a wager on a horse race was made in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when Harold Joseph Gough proceeded against J. ...
Article : 186 wordsTwo remarkable assault cases were investigated by detectives last night. The first occurred at Ultimo, Cecil Werry, of Napoleonstreet, Sans Souci, reporting that he had been ...
Article : 179 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. H. E. Kerry, bandmaster of the Merewether Municipal Band of the Newcastle district school bands. Mr. Kerry was for many years bandmaster ...
Article : 114 wordsWhilst there is every possibility of further heavy rain on the catchment areas of northern and central inland rivers, the danger of serious floods is now not so imminent. Fine ...
Article : 303 wordsAlbert Jace Cuneo, 29 years, an Albury solicitor, was arrested on a charge of having, at Albury between April, 1931, and August, 1931, collected about £500 upon terms ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Inquest was concluded at Morawa yesterday concerning the death of Linton Leigh Lethlean, 39, farmer, of Kadji, who as fatally shot by his partner, Richard Graham ...
Article : 124 wordsPending the counting of absentee and seamen's votes, there are ten seats still doubtful, including that of the Speaker (Sir Charles Statham). It is stated that if Sir Charles ...
Article : 88 wordsThe steamer Ulmarra, which grounded on Yamba Crossing on Wednesday morning while passing out of the Clarence River, was brought under her own steam to Maclean early this ...
Article : 151 wordsA civic reception will be tendered to Mr. Norman Smith and Mr. Don Harkness, on Tuesday, on their arrival from Sydney, to prepare for the land speed record attempt. ...
Article : 80 wordsArgument took place before the Full Court of the Arbitration Court to-day, when B number of unions applied for a revocation of the order reducing their wages by 10 per cent, ...
Article : 331 wordsA special meeting of shareholders of the Casino Co-operative Dairy Society has been called to consider an alleged shortage in the society's funds, and action taken by the ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. D. P. Wilson returned to Sydney by the Nieuw Holland yesterday, from survey work in Borneo, where he had several narrow escapes from wild animals in the jungles. ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Railway and Tramway Institutes annual eisteddfod commenced at the Institute Hall yesterday, attracting a large number of entrants Results:— ...
Article : 180 wordsWith the object of securing absolute unity among the bodies interested in road transport, a conference was held on Thursday between the Commercial Transport Federation of ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Newcastle Trades Hall Council decided last evening that the Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr Baddeley) was no longer "black." The debate on the motion to remove the ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Hogan) said to-day he understood that legal opinion had been given that it was only necessary for the Federal Parliament to approve the Debt Conversion ...
Article : 46 wordsA message from Broome gives details of the remarkable salvage of the 50-feet pearling lugger Roebuck, at King's Sound, near Derby. Forced by a strong falling tide on to a ...
Article : 150 wordsAddressing the local government and highways branch of the Institute of Eneineers last night, Mr. John D. Tipper, president and founder of the Rangers' League, appealed to ...
Article : 75 words"The use of wheat oil extracted from the wheat germ will supplant the Voronoff gland treatment," declares a well-known Christchurch doctor, who claims to have discovered ...
Article : 68 wordsThe train from the Mountains which generally arrives in Sydney at 8.43 a.m. arrived about 50 minutes late yesterday morning, owing to an accident to a goods train between ...
Article : 77 wordsTwo Newcastle boys aged less than 15 years who disappeared from their homes a few weeks ago have now been traced to Thursday Island. They had stowed away aboard the steamer ...
Article : 57 wordsAs a result of the Royal Commission's report on the management of the Hobart Public Hospital, the chairman and seven members of the board of management have resigned. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 5 Dec 1931, Page 17
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