Torrential rain which has fallen over the southern wheat belt has come at an inopportune time, in the opinion of farmers. Not only have some of fhe heaviest crops ...
Article : 512 wordsThe Lord Mayor for 1931 will be elected at a special meeting to be held to-day. The Citizens' Reform candidate will be Alderman Jackson. With a Citizens' Reform ...
Article : 203 wordsThe State Government yesterday decided to await developments in the move to abolish the Legislative Council, and not to prepare definite plans for future action. It is expected ...
Article : 413 wordsTwo young men entered a mixed shop at the corner of King and Newcomen streets, Newcastle, shortly before 9 o'clock this evening, and threatened the owner (Mr. B. Crook) ...
Article : 330 wordsWhen the basic wage inquiry was opened in Sydney yesterday before the Federal Arbitration Court, Chief Judge Dethridge intimated that past balance-sheets of companies would ...
Article : 1,126 wordsAt the annual prize-giving of Scots College, at the Presbyterian Assembly Hall, last night the principal (Mr. J. Bee, M.A., B.Sc.) uttered an ...
Article : 470 wordsThree more deaths have been added to the toll of the disastrous fog which enveloped the Meuse Valley (Belgium). The fog has now vanished. ...
Article : 384 wordsGreat excitement marked the close of the trial at Moscow of the eight professors charged with having conspired with persons abroad to bring ...
Article : 175 wordsAddressing a meeting in the Soldiers' Memorial Hall, Manly, last night, the deputy leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Gullett) said that there would be a Federal deficit ...
Article : 479 wordsA message from Paris says that the Italian salvage ship Artiglio, which was employed in searching for sunken wreckage, blew up off Lorlent (France). ...
Article : 65 wordsThere has seldom been such a large number of members present at the weekly luncheon of the Constitution Association as attended yesterday, to hear the Federal Acting ...
Article : 723 wordsOne of the most sensational incidents that has occurred in the noted Cathedral of St. John the Divine was precipitated to-day by ex-Judge Lindsey, of Colorado, the celebrated ...
Article : 169 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade (Mr. William Graham) expressed the opinion last night that the opening months of the new year would see a slow reduction of ...
Article : 114 wordsThe members of the Master Butchers' Association decided at a general meeting last night to send a deputation to the Premier (Mr. Lang) to ask him to facilitate payment of ...
Article : 287 wordsAlthough the meat employees' strike lasted only a month, it resulted in a loss of £33,000 in wages to men directly and indirectly involved in the stoppage. ...
Article : 131 wordsHeavy rain continued to fall throughout Victoria to-day, and reports from many centres indicated extensive damage to wheat crops and property. Stock has been lost, and, in some ...
Article : 519 wordsThe report of Oxford University's Exploration Club's expedition for investigation of the flora and fauna of tropical forests of British Guiana states that the party secured more ...
Article : 78 wordsWhen M. Louis Romichivilli, an ex-Minister of the Soviet Republic of Georgia, was walking to a political meeting in the Place d'Italie, a Russian workman, named Tehanoukvadze, ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Italian Minister for Air (General Italo Balbo), in a telegram to the British Secretary of State for Air (Lord Amulree), giving details of the accident to the 'plane in which ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Mr. Lyons) yesterday confirmed the report that the sum of £70,000, representing the balance of the Postal Department's share of licence fees ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. Archdale Parkhill. M.P.. addressing the same meeting, said that the present Federal Government was the weakest and most incapable that had ever occupied the Government ...
Article : 455 wordsThieves broke into the booking office at Kandos railway station some time on Saturday night by smashing a pane of glass. Four mail bags were rifled, and some of the ...
Article : 67 wordsFollowing the decision of the Public Prosecutor in Vienna to suspend proceedings against the millionaire aviator, Charles Levine, who was arrested on a counterfeiting charge, ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. Forbes) and Mrs. Forbes spent last night at Ypres, and heard the "Last Post" sounded at Menin Gate. They visited Messines and ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin), during his stay in Rome, will probably take up with Signor Mussolini the question of Italian emigration to Australia. ...
Article : 367 wordsSix of the State's test match cricketers are now en route to Adelaide for the first match between Australia and the West Indies, which will begin on Friday, Consequently the ...
Article : 505 wordsThe Salvation Army's youngest recruit is Marion Ruth, who is three months old, and the eleventh grandchild of General Higgins. She joined up to the accompaniment of hymns ...
Article : 85 wordsAt the request of the Lord Mayor, representatives of business oiganisations and leading citizens met at the Town Hall yesterday, and decided to support the Commonwealth loan by ...
Article : 285 wordsChief Judge Dethridge, in the Arbitration Court yesterday, made a spirited attack on the method of fixing the Australian basic wage. With Mr. Justice Beeby and Mr. Justice ...
Article : 323 wordsThe council of the Independent Labour party, of which Mr. J. Maxton, M.P., is chairman, has disagreed with the manifesto issued by the secretary of the Miners' Federation ...
Article : 162 wordsAdvice has been received by the Acting Minister for Markets (Mr. Forde) from the High Commissioner's Office, London, that sacks containing flour imported into Palestine from ...
Article : 99 wordsThe following names have been given to cruisers and destroyers of the 1930 new construction programme:- Cruisers.—Leader class: Neptune, Reunion, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe motive for the murderous attack upon William Thompson, 30, of Wanga-street, Campsie, on Saturday night, remains a mystery, and there is no clue to the identity of the ...
Article : 232 wordsThe police alleged, in a prosecution at the Redfern Police Court yesterday, that one organisation engaged in sweep promoting handled 23,000 tickets weekly. ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Department of Commerce has announced that the value of United States foreign trade for the first 10 months of 1930 declined by over 2,000,000,000 dollars on both ...
Article : 171 wordsEngineers report the discovery in an hither-to unexplored region of Formosa of widely extensive and rich petroleum strata, which, they state, outrival America's fields. ...
Article : 34 wordsSafe-breakers entered the Tooronga branch of the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank during the week-end, and after boring three holes in the steel door of the strongroom. ...
Article : 129 wordsNo reply has yet been received from Signor Mussolini, to whom the Italian migrants who have been refused permission to land from the Royal mail steamer Orford appealed on ...
Article : 117 wordsAn American millionaire, Mr. Gibson Falme-stock, was attacked by members of the crew of his yacht, Shenandoah III., in Singapore Harbour after he had intervened in a ...
Article : 78 wordsThe State Cabinet decided yesterday that Saturday, December 27, should be declared a public holiday. Christmas Day falls on a Thursday. The ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 9 Dec 1930, Page 9
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