Work on the southern approach roads to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the subways, and the parklets, in which shrubs and trees and grass plots will be prominent, is being ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 304 wordsMr. A. C. Stephen, deputy chairman, addressing the annual meeting of shareholders of the Australian Gas Light Co., Ltd., yesterday, said that, despite the fact that the report ...
Article : 803 wordsThe Coal Industry Bill was further criticised by members of the Opposition when the debate on the second reading was resumed in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. ...
Article : 1,145 wordsContinuing his address to the jury on behalf of defendant McCormack, at the resumption of the Mungana case to-day, Mr. Macrossan made further reference to the advances made ...
Article : 836 wordsMr. Bavin, leader of the State National party, speaking at Cronulla last night, said it was regrettable that scarcely one-tenth of the people who ordinarily voted Nationalist ...
Article : 387 wordsThe Railway Commissioners visited Byron Bay yesterday on their annual tour of inspection of the northern line as far as Brisbane. A deputation of townspeople waited ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Premier, at the outset, said that the Government Savings Bank was as sound as any other similar institution in Australia. Hostile propaganda had been employed to ...
Article : 2,332 wordsA draft agreement with Clarence River County Council for the bulk supply of electricity to Lismore from Nymboida has been signed on behalf of Lismore Municipal ...
Article : 65 wordsThe annual meeting of the Brentwood Hospital was attended by a record number of subscribers. The report stated that during the year there had been 523 admissions, and ...
Article : 72 wordsImlay Shire Council received a deputation of residents of Wyndham, Burragate, Towomba, Candelo, and Bega, which sought the proclamation of the Candelo-Wyndham road ...
Article : 127 wordsDelegates to the first Pacific international convention of the Christian Endeavour Union were busy yesterday. After a devotional and Bible study session, which commenced at 9.45 ...
Article : 751 wordsA series of Nationalist meetings is being arranged in country centres and throughout the metropolitan area. Arrangements for the campaign were discussed by country ...
Article : 148 wordsA woman, who had booked her passage to Vancouver by the Canadian-Australasian Royal mail liner Niagara, had an anxious ten minutes yesterday afternoon when she reached No. 5 ...
Article : 171 wordsThe death has occurred of Mrs. Janette Gowland, aged 98 years and 11 months. She was born in Scotland and came to Australia when a child. Her family at first settled near ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the police court Stanley Albert Petersen, of Casino, a young man, who was on a bond to be of good behaviour, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Blind Federal Council of Australia has forwarded a circular to all members of the Federal Parliament protesting against reductions in the pensions to the blind imposed by ...
Article : 275 wordsThe council of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labour party at a meeting to-night instructed its delegates to the Federal conference of the party to support the ...
Article : 75 wordsA suggestion by Dr. Earle Page that an historical records museum be established at Grafton was enthusiastically received by the Grafton Chamber of Commerce. Writing to ...
Article : 116 wordsThe chairman of the Commonwealth Bank Board (Sir Robert Gibson) yesterday stated that the Federal Arbitration Court lately made an award of a reduction of 10 per cent. ...
Article : 91 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Goulburn Hospital, the report stated that the debit balance at the end of last year was £252, and at the end of this year £413. Accounts owing ...
Article : 86 wordsPolice are investigating two cases of theft, which were so carefully planned that the men responsible ran little danger of detection Late on Wednesday night the Dairy ...
Article : 235 wordsThe failure of the Boyd's Bay bridge to materialise, after four years' agitation, either as a Main Roads Board work or as a toll structure, has induced the Tweed Heads Chamber ...
Article : 82 wordsA call-up will be mide to-day as follows:— Horses and drays: Those registered owners of horses and drays residing within the districts of Alexandria Botany Erskineville, Mascot, ...
Article : 56 wordsThe conference of physicists and astronomers continued their discussions at the University yesterday. Dr. J. S. Rodgers (Melbourne) dealt with the photographic ...
Article : 291 wordsThe production of short, bright Australian plays is a flourishing industry at the Community Playhouse, where three new one-act plays and one nearly new ...
Article : 569 wordsA meeting of depositors in the Government Savings Bank, held at the School of Arts, Marrickville, last night, entered a strong protest against any political interference with ...
Article : 175 wordsIn an address last night, the Minister for Defence (Mr. Chifley) said that every channel would be explored in an endeavour to keep the Small Arms Factory working. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 217 wordsMrs. Seaton, wife of Mr. D. U. Seaton, owner of Kingsfield station, Aberdeen, became suddenly ill early this morning and died shortly after admission to a hospital in Muswellbrook[?] ...
Article : 70 words"There are some who feel that we should keep out of politics. It is they who are responsible for the dirty muck in which our politics are found to-day," said the Rev. Canon ...
Article : 234 wordsThe "half-service" telephone system suggested by a "Herald" correspondent to meet the depressed times, is commended by "L.E.H." in a letter to the Editor. He also suggests ...
Article : 267 wordsGood progress is being made with me work of clearing away debris of Monday night's fire at Pelaw Main colliery. The buildings and plant destroyed were insured for £16,000, but ...
Article : 90 wordsAllegations of victimisation of trade unionists by employers were made in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day before Judge Drake-Brockman by Mr. A. G. Carter, the ...
Article : 142 wordsWhen the Greater Sydney Bill was further considered in committee, Mr. Farrar moved for the deletion of paragraphs (d) and (e) from clause 38, the effect of which was to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 226 wordsValentine Heher, formerly secretary of the Nepean District Hospital, pleaded not guilty at the Penrith Police Court to-day to a charge of having used insulting words to Robert ...
Article : 399 wordsCertificates of airworthiness for Avro Avian 'planes have been withdrawn by the Civil Aviation Department pending the examination of certain parts used in the ...
Article : 88 wordsReferring to-day to a statement made by Mr. V. C. Thompson, M.P., in a letter published in the "Herald" of August 19, to the effect that the Country party had not been ...
Article : 160 wordsDuring the last few days a small school of whales has been cruising off the coast just south of Sydney, and, according to observers, has been moving slowly northward. On ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Minister controlling unemployment (Mr. Scaddan) said to-day that unemployed single men at Blackboy and Hovea camps had refused to work because their cash allowance ...
Article : 192 wordsAfter a collision with a motor car at Murrumbeena to-night a motor cycle, ridden by Alan Wallace, 24, manager, of Elsternwick, burst into flames. The fire spread to the car[?] ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 wordsA party of men left Adelaide by train this morning for Alice Springs, in search of a "cave of gold," claimed to have been discovered by Mr. H. L. B. ("Das") Lasseter in ...
Article : 41 wordsMany of the infants of needy parents attending Gladesville Public School believe in fairies, for every day at a quaint little retreat near the school, which has been named Fairy Dell, ...
Article : 134 wordsWhen a prospector was working at a depth of 16 feet opposite the White Swan Hotel at Waanyarra, he found a nugget which weighed 58oz 2½dwt, and the assay value of ...
Article : 85 wordsThe newspapers are now fully staffed, and are continuing as usual, independently of the Printing Industry Employees' Union. The compulsory conference summoned by ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 21 Aug 1931, Page 10
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