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Article : 379 wordsAccording to figures made available by the Commonwealth Statistician and Actuary (Mr. Wickens), there was a decrease of 1.7 per cent, in the price of food and groceries during ...
Article : 267 wordsThe annual report of the Sydney Harbour Trust issued yesterday stated that during the year ended June 30 last, the total number of vessels that entered Port Jackson was ...
Article : 508 wordsThe unusual question whether any other than three firms in England has the right to publish the authorised version of the Bible is expected shortly to occupy the High Court. ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Chief Justice (Sir Philip Street) received his commission as Lieutenant-Governor on October 1 last, but has not yet been swornin. ...
Article : 313 wordsThe resolution of the House of Representatives imposing an export duty of ½d a pound on sheepskins with wool led to an unexpected development in the High Court to-day. ...
Article : 416 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. MacDonald) has abandoned his usual Christmas visit to Lossiemouth, and will remain at Chequers to keep in touch with the ...
Article : 421 wordsA message from Milan states that Toti dal Monte and her husband, Signor Lomanto, have been guaranteed a large profit for a tour of Russia, China, Japan, Australia, and New ...
Article : 58 wordsComplaints have been made to the "Herald" that within the past few days a number, of electors, who state that they are prepared to make statutory declarations that they voted ...
Article : 236 wordsProfessor Einstein, noted scientist, has accepted the Rhodes Memorial Lectureship. His acceptance involves his residence at Oxford in the next summer term. ...
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Article : 633 wordsThe State Ministry will appeal to the High Court against the decision of the Supreme Court on the measure to abolish the Legislative Council. ...
Article : 216 wordsColoured lights under a leaden sky, heat and noise, chuckles and sighs, and a vast crush heading nowhere—such was Christmas Eve in Sydney. From Circular Quay to the ...
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Article : 328 wordsThe conference was resumed to-day between representatives of the Industrial Council and the Mine Managers' Association. The Industrial Council representatives having reported ...
Article : 328 wordsMr. W. A. Mackay, senior managing partner in Australia of Messrs. MacDonald, Hamilton, and Company, who returned ty the Tanda yesterday from a business tour to the East, ...
Article : 250 wordsPreference to members of the Waterside Workers' Federation is made compulsory by a regulation which has been issued under the Transport Workers' Act, and which has effect ...
Article : 143 wordsSir James Barrie is spending his Christmas in bed, ill. ...
Article : 19 words"I am sorry that it is so evident that our numbers have heavily decreased, but I hope we shall all still be here next Christmas," said the High Commissioner (Sir Granville Ryrie), ...
Article : 202 wordsThe condition of Europe Was the subject of free comment by passengers who arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Maloja. Mr. N. D. Loveridge, former president of ...
Article : 284 wordsJack Stevens, who address is at present unknown, had a narrow escape from death when a tram passed over him in the city yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 215 wordsEvidence which the police have collected suggests that Ernest Vale, whose body was found in the dam at Culcairn, might have been the victim of foul play. ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Assistant Minister for Labour (Mr. Ely) announced yesterday that he proposed to amend the law in an endeavour to reduce the numbor of accidents in the use of cranes and ...
Article : 226 wordsAn estate agent at Bronte was forced to sit still on Tuesday night while his offices were searched by a thief. Until the search was completed an armed man kept an automatic ...
Article : 224 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Sulphide Corporation, Mr. Vicary Gibbs, who presided, said that the disastrous fall in metal prices had defeated the expectations of the chairman ...
Article : 154 wordsWhilst conditions remained unpleasant there was improvement in the weather over New South Wales yesterday. Inland temperatures showed a falling off the highest ...
Article : 122 wordsFlight-Lieutenant Hill's plane was almost unnoticed when it approached Eagle Farm Aerodrome just before noon to-day, and it had descended to within ten or twenty feet of ...
Article : 111 wordsAfter a prolonged and heated debate list night, the Lithgow Council decided to effect economies in the electrical department. These include the dismissal of two men and the ...
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Article : 102 wordsThe Federal Reserve Board announced that the New York Federal Reserve rediscount rate has been reduced from 2½ per cent. to 2 per cent., to be effective from to-morrow. This ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. A. J. C. McGrath, of 19 Park-road Paddington, has returned from England after a search for documentary proof of the existence of the much-talke [?] of "Everingham ...
Article : 159 wordsMrs. Kathleen McGlnley, of East Maitland, to-day celebrated the 111th anniversary of her birth. She was born in Ardmore (Ireland) on December 24, 1819, her father being a small ...
Article : 209 wordsMiss R. E, Griffiths (Miss Melbourne) has been judged the most efficient woman flyer in the Goulburn Aero Club's £100 competition. Miss D. Branch, Marrickville, Sydney, was ...
Article : 53 wordsA terrific storm struck the town and district at noon to-day. Torrential rain fell for 40 minutes, accompanied by thunder, lightning, and fierce wind. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Miners' Federation announced tonight that, by a small majority, the districts had accepted the spread-over principle, enabling the federation to give the sanction ...
Article : 45 wordsCaptain Matthews proposes leaving the Mascot aerodrome on Saturday morning on the first stage of his preposed return flight from Sydney to London. He will proceed by easy ...
Article : 55 wordsAt daylight this morning, rangers will search the rugged country around Wattamolla, National Park, for Mrs. Stockley, an elderly woman, who became last yesterday. ...
Article : 97 wordsA motion to the effect that the citizens of Portland and district protested emphatically against the proposed 1/ in the £ wages tax was rejected by a margin of eight votes at a ...
Article : 127 wordsAnother important bank failure occurred to-day with the shutting of the Chelsea Bank and Trust Company, which is prominently identified with the moving picture industry in ...
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Article : 159 wordsBlack Jack Colliery was idle to day owing to a dispute among the miners. One of the men is said to have used a horse and when he failed to attend a meeting to explain his ...
Article : 75 wordsThough baths were built at considerable expense at Meadowbank to provide a safe swimming place for people living on the northern line, an astonishing number of ...
Article : 124 wordsAccording to official figures, approximately 1000 common law cases were set down for hearing during the year 1930. This is about the same as the total for the previous year. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe oldest man in the British Isles, Patrick Flood, 115 years, died at Enniscorthy (Ireland). He was born in the year of Waterloo, and was twice married. He had never ridden ...
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Article : 69 wordsJanuary 31 will be the polling day for the election of a member of the House of Representatives for Parkes electorate to succeed Mr. McTlernan. Nominations close on January [?] ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 25 Dec 1930, Page 7
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