Oscar Nilsson, 11 years, was shooting sparrows with a pea rifle, when the barrel becam caught in a briar bush. He tried to extricate the rifle and it exploded the bullet entering ...
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Article : 153 wordsBy an overwhelming majority, the American Legion, which is meeting at Detroit, to-day decided to ask Congress to submit the repeal or modification of the prohibition laws ...
Article : 180 wordsThe crowd watching the coming and going of political leaders in Downing-street prior to the recent formation of the Coalition Government in London. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 584 wordsWhen the House of Representatives met to-day Item 176 F 2 of the tariff dealing with refrigerators and refrigerator parts was debated The duties vary on different types ...
Article : 1,146 wordsA well-attended meeting of Nationalist supporters was held at Gerringong, and a branch was formed, with a committee which includes eight women. Mr. O. G. Sharpe was elected ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 124 wordsInterviewed to-day by Press representatives, Mr. J. Kearns, a retired rubber manufacturer, formerly connected with the Dunlop Company in Melbourne, dealt with the slump in rubber ...
Article : 122 wordsAt a meeting ot the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company the announcement by the chairman (Mr Walter Runciman) of Lord Kylsant's retirement was greeted with ...
Article : 96 wordsThe death occurred recently of Mr. Erskine C. P. Parker, aged 84. He was a son of the late Mr. Edward Spedding Parker, solicitor of the Hampstead, England, and arrived in Australia ...
Article : 125 wordsGordon Henry Cantrell, the 16-year-old boy who was suspected of having fatally shot his brother on their father's farm about 15 miles from Orange recently, has been declared ...
Article : 100 wordsA message from Rome states that the Italian Press has been directing attention to the possibility of increasing home wool production To-day, a wool expert, writing in the ...
Article : 135 wordsMr. Val Doultrees, registrar of the Toc H. movement in New South Wales, addressed [?] meeting of returned soldiers. It was decided that a local group should be formed on three ...
Article : 73 wordsThe spirit which moved Old Newlngtonians at their annual dinner, at which the retired headmaster, Dr. C. J. Prescott, was the guest ol honour, was epitomised in a verse inscribed ...
Article : 350 wordsA largely-attended ceremony in the Great Hall of the University of Sydney yesterday marked a graceful gesture of courtesy and friendship towards that seat of learning by ...
Article : 492 wordsMr. P. F. Loughlln writes:— "As the person responsible for the resumption of the Pymble forest, let me express my regret that the Government has been ...
Article : 457 wordsAn X-ray photograph taken at Lithgow Hospital disclosed that the spine of J. Preston, who was injured in a motor cycle accident a few weeks ago, was fractured in five places, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Unemployed Occupiers and Fanners' Relief Act (known as the Moratorium Act), which provides temporary relief to unemployed lessees, mortgagors, and purchasers of dwelling ...
Article : 55 wordsFor the past two nights railway and private property, streets and footpaths have been whitewashed with notices to Join the Unemployed Workers' Movement to combat the New ...
Article : 119 wordsA report from Bucharest states that the Mayor of the town of Balat slza and the Chief Inspector of Police were arrested on a charge of robbing and burning the bodies of six ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Australian National Travel Association had adopted a:five-year plan" to further tourist traffic in Australia said Mr Charles Lloyd Jones in an address to the Legacy ...
Article : 193 wordsEstimates presented to the Tobacco investigation Committee appointed by the Federal Government show that about 30,000 acres will be planted with tobacco in the current season. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Rev. Alexander Frazer, of Aberde[?] Scotland, has completed a mission in the Hoskins Memorial Church. On Wednesday [?] met members of the Bathurst presbytery [?] ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Moslem unrest in Kashmir is spreading beyond the capital, Srinagar. A serious incident occurred at Anantuag, 30 miles from Srinagar, where a mob attacked a small ...
Article : 82 wordsAt a special meeting of Wollondilly Shin Council, at which Councillor G. J. Spearing was elected president, tributes were paid to the late Brigadier-General G. M. Macarth[?] ...
Article : 63 wordsAdvocating closer attention to Eastern markets, Mr. H. R. Mcwilliam, in a broad-cast address last night, said that Australia's prohibitive tariffs had engendered hostility ...
Article : 81 wordsCharles James simpson, 53, of Coledale, [?] had been missing from home since Monday returned this morning. A search party [?] scoured the bush every day without success. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 364 wordsLord Forster a former Governor-General of Australia who is suffering from bronchial pneumonia, is reported to be progressing ROUND-TABLE CONFERENCE. ...
Article : 627 wordsMr. William Sandford, a pioneer of the steel industry in Australia, will celebrate the 90th anniversary of his birthday to-day. Despite his great age, Mr Sandford, who ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 531 wordsRetorting will be begun at the shale oil works at Newnes on Monday. A number of casual labourers who have been employed [?] preparatey work will be discharged when [?] ...
Article : 68 wordsUnder the Financial Emergency Act, which provides for the reduction of wages by 20 or 22½ per cent. in certain circumstances, eight timber mill companies sought reductions of ...
Article : 122 wordsSpeaking at a meeting of unemployed, the president of the Dorrigo branch of the Australian Labour party (Mr. Alf. Morrison) said that if work was not found for some of the ...
Article : 403 wordsAt the Lithgow Police Court to-day Lawrence Wrightson and David Anderson Cunningham were each charged with have received a food relief order by false pretence ...
Article : 57 wordsAt a meeting attended by about 25 persons interested in the Monaro-South Coast movement at Cooma, Mr. F. F. Mitchell, president of the Cooma group, reported that the ...
Article : 117 wordsAt a meeting of the Lithgow branch of the Railway Officers' Association a motion [?] carried protesting against the proposal that employees of the State mine should be ...
Article : 96 wordsAbout midnight on August 9, 1930, Thomas Freeman, a stock inspector in the employ of the New South Wales Government, was standing on St Kilda-road near Henley-street ...
Article : 140 wordsThe following additional awards were announced at the Lismore musical festival:— Piano duet, 14yrs and under Eva Hansen and Brenda Yabsley. Vocal duct, girls or boys, 16yrs ...
Article : 337 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. A. J. Jones, a former Minister for Mines, stated that cheques between Goddard (who was concerned in the Mungana case) and himself ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 218 wordsThe Chief Justice (Sir James Blair) to-day approved of a plan for the voluntary liquidation of the Federal Deposit Fink, Ltd. The Chief Justice also ordered that an ...
Article : 372 wordsThe Rev. T. P. Willason returned to Adelaide to-day after racing to Geelong against time to purchase a 50-ton steamer for use in his fishing venture to help Port Adelaide ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Mr. Green) has arranged for an interview on Monday morning in Melbourne with Professor Bernard Heinze, of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, ...
Article : 99 wordsAt the Wagga Eisteddfod the following further awards were made:— Piano, sight reading, Mona James, violin sight-reading, Miss H. Schultz; champion piano solo, [?] ...
Article : 276 wordsThe position in the Wentworth (Federal) electorate where Mr. W M Marks is the sitting member, was discussed by over 50 delegates of the Wentworth Electoral ...
Article : 217 wordsOn October 7, when the notices issued to about 80 miners, shiftmen, and others become effective. Zig-zag colliery will close down. The cessation is only temporary, but the tear ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 178 wordsIt was stated in a report of the meeting of creditors of the Rapson Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. (in liquidation), which was held here yesterday, that the liquidator felt confident ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Moore) said to-day that he would not regard a decision in Queensland to budget for a deficit ol £1,8[?]0,000 as contrary to the Premiers' Plan, more especially ...
Article : 77 wordsAlthough a total eclipse of the moon will occur early to morrow morning only portion of the phenomenon will be visible. The moon will set four minutes before the middle of ...
Article : 99 wordsOn Monday evening next at the Allora Cafe. Pitt-street Dr. Earle Page M.P., will give an address on "Federation v Unification." The talk has been arranged by the Anzac ...
Article : 54 wordsSeveral hundred tons of chaff stored at the mills of Schutt and Barrie Pty., Ltd., Geelong-road, Footscray, were destroyed by fire this evening. The cause of the fire is unknown. ...
Article : 36 wordsOn Monday next, Mr. Roger C. Tredwell retiring American Consul-General, will be the guest of the Millions Club at luncheon. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 26 Sep 1931, Page 14
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