The conference which has been sitting in Sydney since Wednesday, for the purpose of achieving unity of action between the anti-extremist forces, held another meeting ...
Article : 268 wordsTorrential rains have caused serious floods in the Hunter River Valley. At West Maitland last night the position was very serious. Homes and farms were flooded in the ...
Article : 212 wordsIn State Parliamentary Opposition circles the feeling is that Mr. Lang will find it impossible to carry on much longer in view of the financial position, especially since the ...
Article : 688 wordsThe secretary for Home Affairs (Mr. Clyncs) stated in the House of Commons, in reply to questons, that King Alfonso came to Britain under similar conditions to those always ...
Article : 340 wordsThe Air Ministry announces that Air Vice-Marshal Felton Vesey Holt, C.M.G., D.S.O., Air Officer commanding the fighting air defence of Great Britain, ...
Article : 278 wordsThe Governor-General (Sir Isaac Isaacs) has received the following message from his Majesty the King:— "The Queen and I join to-day with our people in Australia and New Zealand in commemorating the heroism and sacrifice of those ...
Article : 129 wordsForty people were injured when a train crashed into the rear of another train standing at Killara railway station shortly before 12 o'clock yesterday morning. Most ...
Article : 725 wordsAustralia seems to be now in as tight a corner as the Anzacs were on May 18, 1915, when Enver, after the heaviest bombardment yet seen on the Peninsula, hurled all his best regiments against them. But they held together, stood the shock of their losses without ...
Article : 112 wordsThe flood position is still grave, and much anxiety is being felt this evening. This lies not so much in the Hunter River, which has risen to just over 30ft, as in what is known ...
Article : 547 wordsThe meeting of the Federal Loan Council was resumed to-day. There was a full attendance of State representatives, except those from New South Wales. After the meeting, ...
Article : 645 wordsAir-Commodore Kingsford Smith arrived at Koepang in the Southern Cross at about noon to-day from Darwin. Many people were at the aerodrome to welcome him. ...
Article : 524 wordsDiver C. P. Lambert, of Sydney, who recently returned from Noumea, where he assisted in salvaging the cargo of the British motor-ship Enton, states that about £20,000 of benzine ...
Article : 405 wordsRising curiosity in political circles as to the well-kept secrets of the Budget statement, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Philip Snowden) will make on Monday, was ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Prince of Wales and Prince George have decided to complete the last stage of their journey home from South America by air. They will embark with members of their suite ...
Article : 175 wordsThere is considerable doubt, says a Berlin message, whether the Dusseldorf murderer, Peter Kuerten, will be guillotined. Controversy has been renewed in an intensified form on the ...
Article : 123 wordsA report from Prague says that the Czechoslovakian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Dr. Eduard Benes) has practically rejected the Austro-German Customs Union, and has ...
Article : 147 wordsThe drastic economies that the Reform aldermen propose to introduce into the City Council service will be presented to the council in a minute from the Lord Mayor ...
Article : 383 wordsAfter the visit of the British team at the end of last season the weight of expert opinion was that the laws under which their matches were played induced better, cleaner, faster, ...
Article : 728 wordsJudge Curlewis, in the District Court yesterday, suggested that a duplicate meter should be provided at the subscriber's home to check the telephone exchange account. ...
Article : 547 wordsThe House of Lords has continued wholesale alteration to the Government's Agricultural Land Utilisation Bill, introducing safeguards against extravagance, particularly ...
Article : 81 wordsSerious flooding of the riverside township of Hexham, between Newcastle and Maitland, seems probable before the night is out. An inspection late this afternoon showed that ...
Article : 761 wordsAllegations of incompetence against police officials and of general police inertia were made at an official inquiry into the recent Cawnpore communal riots, where, according ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Director of Postal Services (Mr. H. P. Brown) announced to-day thet arrangements had been made between the Postmaster-General's Department and Australian National ...
Article : 89 wordsBritish International Pictures has appointed Mr. Ralph Smart, of Sydney, who is 22 years of age, to direct a new feature film. He is probably the youngest film director in ...
Article : 63 wordsDespite desperate efforts to rescue her, Ivy Charlotte Bell, 21, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Bell, of Mago, was burnt to death in a fire which destroyed her brother's ...
Article : 249 wordsA motor bus full of workmen struck a train at a level crossing at Promelles in France. Fourteen of them were killed and 20 were injured. The driver of the bus was not ...
Article : 50 words"Fresh public interest in the petition to the Governor (Sir Phillp Game) against the repudiation policy of the State Government," says a statement issued on behalf of the ...
Article : 247 wordsIn his first determination since he assumed office as successor to Mr. Atlee Hunt, the Commonwealth Public Service Arbitrator (Mr. J. C. Westhoven) to-day dealt with the ...
Article : 292 wordsConstantinople messages state that the Earl of Athlone, late Governor-General of South Africa, has arrived at Angora and will to-morrow pay an official visit to the President.— ...
Article : 326 wordsThe former Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Robert Horne, in a speech to the Chamber of Commerce, said that although an optimist by nature, he could see nothing out ...
Article : 105 wordsThe liner Rajputana has arrived from Shanghai with 114 passengers and crew of, the Chinese steamer Hwah Yang, which foundered during a fog on a rocky island off ...
Article : 117 wordsThe chairman of directors of the Vacuum Oil Co Pty., Ltd. (Mr. H. C. Cornforth) said to-day that there was no foundation for the statement that on October 16 the companys ...
Article : 120 wordsBy a majority of five votes the House of Representatives carried a clause in the Finonce Bill providing for a reduction in the National Provident Fund maternity bonus ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 25 Apr 1931, Page 11
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