The most severe earthquake since Tuesday occurred in the Hawkes Bay area at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Napier, Hastings, and other places were again heavily shaken, ...
Article : 414 wordsThe Treasurer of the Commonwealth (Mr. Theodore) yesterday placed before the conference of Federal and State Ministers suggestions for the solution of Australia's problems. Mr. Theodore stated that if the problems of exchange, credit supplies, ...
Article : 269 wordsThree persons were killed at Rolleston, near Springsure, yesterday afternoon, when an aeroplane crashed from a height of about 60ft. ...
Article : 207 wordsA loan of £6,000,000 is to be raised by the Commonwealth and the States for the assistance of the wheatgrowers. Yesterday afternoon the conference of ...
Article : 1,381 wordsA statement that at May 1 last year there were 662,200 prisoners in Russian timber camps is contained in an affidavit of an ex-official of the O.G.P.U. ...
Article : 337 wordsCaptain Malcolm Campbell at Daytona Beach to-day established a world's speed record of 94.031 miles an hour for motor cars with a piston displacement of less than 45 cubic ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Stock Exchange again relapsed into dulness, partly owing to a temporary stringency of the money market and also to forced selling to meet income tax demands and a ...
Article : 761 wordsThe Prince of Wales and Prince George arrived at Cristobal, Panama, yesterday. The Princes motored to Frances Field on the Atlantic side of the canal zone and flew to Paitillo ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Dominion Air Lines aeroplane, which was flying with mails and passengers from Gisborne to Hastings, crashed at Wairoa this afternoon while dropping mall. The pilot, ...
Article : 53 wordsThe chairman of the Federal Farm Board (Mr. Legge) said to-day that he viewed the Russian officlal statement concerning grain exports as an indication that the Soviet was ...
Article : 232 wordsA camera, which the patient swallows, and which photographs the interior of the body, was demonstrated successfully at St. Mary's Hospital. It is the invention of two young ...
Article : 159 wordsWhen the conference assembled yesterday morning, it was addressed by the Pri[?]e Minister (Mr. Scullin). He said that it was not the function of any one Government to ...
Article : 658 wordsTragedy hovered for a time over the Bronte surf carnival on Saturday, when a number of competitors in the Junior surf race were carried out to sea by the undertow. ...
Article : 795 wordsMiss Kate Williams, who was fatally injured in the Napier Pro-Cathedral during the earthquake, was the first white child born at Poverty Bay. Her father, Bishop Williams, ...
Article : 53 wordsMatters are rapidly becoming more normal in the earthquake area, but people are still sleeping out. Most of the houses, though damaged, are habitable, and repairs have been ...
Article : 235 wordsMr. T. J. Mardy-Jones, a Labour M.P., and his wife pleaded guilty at Marylebone Police Court this morning to a charge of having improperly used Government vouchers in ...
Article : 143 wordsNewspapers on Saturday and Sunday published gloomy cables from Australian correspondents. Comment mostly is withheld, pending definite news of decisions of the financial ...
Article : 183 wordsRome police state that bombs found in the room of Michele Schirru, who, after a desperate fight with police, was arrested outside the Foreign Office, were charged with ...
Article : 109 wordsIt is understood that agreement has been reached between the British Government and Dr. Welzmann, president of the Jewish Agency, covering points contained in the recent White ...
Article : 71 wordsCaptain Sharpe, deputy harbourmaster at Napier, states that during the shake the harbour bottom rose four or five feet, but since then has gradually sank again. Although of ...
Article : 98 wordsDuring a thick fog two convicts, John Gaskin, 31, who was serving a sentence of five years for forgery, and John Mullins, 29, who was serving a sentence of three years for ...
Article : 82 wordsThe impending appointment of a Governor-General of Canada has raised an interesting discussion on the effects of the Australian precedent. It is admitted in Dominion Office ...
Article : 135 wordsIt is rumoured that the Secretary for the Colonies (Lord Passfield) shortly may resign, and that his successor possibly will be Lord Noel Buxton. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe factors contributing to the recent New Zealand earthquake were described by Father O'Leary, director of the Riverview Observatory, In an address broadcast from Station 2UE ...
Article : 165 wordsPolitical street fights in Berlin are increasing in violence. Discussion Is rapidly disappearing in favour of revolvers, knives, and truncheons. Since January 1, nine persons have ...
Article : 74 wordsIn a manifesto issued on landing at Bombay yesterday, the Indian delegates who attended the Round Table Conference declared their belief thnt dominion status was now no ...
Article : 62 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Charles Melville MacNaghten, a former A.D.C. to a Governor of New South Wales, died at Montreal. He has been in Ill-health for some time. ...
Article : 119 wordsMr, Theodore said that if by merely reducing Government expenditure the position could be rectified, and they could distribute over the whole of the community the burden ...
Article : 3,322 wordsFandlt Motllal Nehru, an ex-president of Congress, died at Lucknow this morning, at the agc of 70. Nehru was released from prison on September 8 on the recommendation of the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe most deplorable thing for many years was the sending back of the dominion delegates empty-handed from the Imperial Conference, sold Lord Stonehaven, at a Conservative ...
Article : 89 wordsThe High Commissioner for New Zealand (Sir Thomas Wilford) has been notified from Sandringham that the King intends to send £500 and the Queen £250 to New Zealand ...
Article : 170 wordsThe following bulletin was issued from Kensington Palace this evening:— "Princess Beatrice continues to make slow but definite progress Since rapid change is not now to be ...
Article : 273 wordsThree Royal Air Force Rangoon flying-boats left Felixstowe on the first stage of a 3500-mile flight to Bira, in Iraq, where they will relieve three Southampton flying-boats ...
Article : 62 wordsAn exhibition of Australian pictures was opened at Roerlch Museum. The collection will be shown at 14 museums in the United States. ...
Article : 87 wordsThree lives were lost off a lonely stretch of coastline at Terawhiti, near Wellington, early this morning, when a fishing launch capsized in a choppy sea. The victims were: J. ...
Article : 114 wordsA message from Rio de Janeiro states that the entire squadron of Italian seaplanes which recently completed a flight from Italy to Brasil have been sold to the Brazilian ...
Article : 77 wordsRiding a bicycle in Lakemba-street, Bankstown, about 11 o'clock last night, Joseph Raffaele, an Italian, of Burwood-road, Belmore, collided with a motor car driven by a woman, ...
Article : 62 wordsSurprised while engaged in military drill at a farmstead near Cappawhlte, Tipperary, 20 Irishmen fied. They were pursued by detectives, who at daybreak secured four and ...
Article : 85 wordsTwo men, one of whom was armed and masked, balled up and robbed Charles Cook, a milkman, of all he had in his pockets, in Paddington, shortly after 3 o'clcok on ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 9 Feb 1931, Page 9
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