Miss Weekes has had the distinction of being the first woman to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Science of Sydney University. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 wordsMr. Calvin Coolidge, ex-President of the United States, writing in the latest issue of the "Cosmopolitan Magazine," puts an end to all suggestions and rumours that he might ...
Article : 246 wordsMr. James Channell, of Yarra, celebrated [?] 90th birthday, and is still hale and hearty. [?] has lived 60 years in the Goulburn district. [?] was born in Somersetshire, and, with [?] ...
Article : 82 wordsAlthough in the earlier stages of the Legislative Assembly election campaign there was little evidence of public interest, the new tariff schedule and the proposed referendum, in ...
Article : 412 wordsPleasure was expressed to-day by the Acting Minister for Customs (Mr. Forde) at the prospect of closer trade relations between Australia and Canada, as the result of a visit ...
Article : 228 wordsAt the conclusion of the inquest to-day on Thomas O'Brien, who was found dead at Barraba, on March 24, the Coroner found that O'Brien died from suffocation following ...
Article : 326 wordsWhen the Legislative Assembly met yesterday the debate on the railway and tramway estimates was resumed. Mr. Tully said that the annual interest bill ...
Article : 872 wordsA large crowd of well-wishers farewelled Walter Lindrum and Clark McConachy, the billiard players, at Victoria Station. They are en route to join the Maloja at Marseilles, ...
Article : 343 wordsA surplus of £1283 on works in the Mulwaree Shire was shown during 1929, according to the auditor's report. This increased the accumulated available funds to £3939. The ...
Article : 69 wordsWhen Stanley Wilson Brown, 25, pleaded guilty to chaiges of having trespassed on an enclosure at Wagga lockup, and with having used insulting words to a constable, the police ...
Article : 100 wordsAs the sequel to the death of a young man at Brisbane Hospital recently, following an affray at a house at Breakfast Creek on March 21, Margaret Vines, 36, housewife, in ...
Article : 154 wordsA report from Rome [?] that in continuation of his research work abroad the yacht Elettra, the Marchese Marconl has spoker direct to Buenos Ayres and Montreal. He is ...
Article : 250 wordsAt the last meeting of the Inverell Municipal Council an application for a considerable amount of overtime by members of the staffone officer claimed 78 hours—was the subject ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Bavin) yesterday said he was afraid the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) was under a misapprehension about his (Mr. Bavin's) reference to the arbitration ...
Article : 96 wordsSpeaking at a concert held under the auspices of the Empire Fellowship of Women in St. James Hall last night, Mr. William A. Oakley, of the British Migration League, said ...
Article : 406 wordsAt Daytona Beach, Florida, Mr. kaye Don drove his Silver Bullet over the course for the sixth time, but, chiefly owing to the condition of the beach, he was unable to do better ...
Article : 277 wordsWhilst Charles Payne, of Southgate, was endeavouring to start the engine of a motor launch near the public wharf at Palmer's Island, his hand wns drawn into the cogs of ...
Article : 55 wordsGo-slow tactics adopted by freezing works slaughtermen at South Otago last week spread to Canterbury to-day, and at Pareora and Smithfield Works, the men settled down to ...
Article : 89 wordsMessrs. Beaver and Fowtrell, representatives of the Railway Construction Branch, met the Mayor and aldermen of Grafton to discuss proposed alterations to plans for the ...
Article : 132 wordsThe position of the parties was unchanged yesterday. In Sturt, the third seat went to Mr. Anthoney, one of the sitting Liberals, Labour representatives having obtained the ...
Article : 184 wordsResidents of Woolstonecraft, who object to the new gas container at Kerosene Bay, decided last night at a meeting, presided over by Mr. J. H. King, to take action seeking to ...
Article : 87 wordsAn unusual claim ior damages was neara by Judge Wolnarski and a Jury yesterday, when Dorothy Tomlinson, dressmaker, of Warracknabeal, sought £499 from McDonald Garage ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Senate, without a word of debate, approved a 36,000,000 dollar direct appropriation for prohibition enforcement next year—the same figure as set by the House of ...
Article : 34 wordsDamage estimated at £400 was caused by a fire which broke out in a fancy-goods shop early yesterday. The shop was one of a block of about 10 shops. ...
Article : 62 wordsA collision between the yacht Royal and the paddle steamer Weerona occurred at the Station Pier, Port Melbourne. William Piper, 37, was struck by the falling ...
Article : 120 wordsThe "Law Journal" suggests that in view of the difficulties in the case of William Henry Podmore, the House of Lords should have the opportunity of considering the question of ...
Article : 149 wordsQuestioned in the House of Commons, with reference to the sale of Calcutta sweepstake tickets, the Home Secretary (Mr. Clynes) said that if action was taken it would be in ...
Article : 142 wordsRecently it was decided to remove the Albury battery to Melbourne, because officers and recruits were not forthcoming. Difficulty was also experienced in hiring gun horses for ...
Article : 138 wordsTerrible burns were received by John Evans, 60, yesterday when his clothing became ignited while he was burning out bitumen drums at Guildford. Enveloped in flames he ran into ...
Article : 53 wordsAn unidentified man was found in Belmore Park last night. He was taken to the Sydney Hospital by the Central District Ambulance, and was found to be dead. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe annual report of the Comptroller of Prisons, covering the period from July, 1928, to June, 1929, was tabled to the Legislative Assembly yesterday. ...
Article : 455 wordsCitizens of Grafton in 1916 presented a Union Jack to the 42nd Battalion, A.I.F. The flag was taken to England and France, and brought back to Australia, where it was hung ...
Article : 163 wordsIn order to meet Sir Douglas Mawson, Captain J. K. Davies, commander of the Discovery, and members of the scientific staff of the expedition, the Victoria League of ...
Article : 117 wordsLITHGOW.—Since unemployment is growing to the Lithgow district, it his been suggested that the Forestry Department might engage some of the men on the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 297 wordsA Scottish woman resident in Australia has forwarded a first edition of Burns's poems, published in Kilmarnock in 1786, to Sotheby's. It is stated that it is one of the rarest books ...
Article : 383 wordsAt Bath, Maine, Mr. J. P. Morgan's new 2,500,000 dollar yacht. Corsair, was launched after the financier's daughter had cracked a quart of 1915 vintage champagne over the ...
Article : 110 wordsThe State mine lodge, the biggest miners' lodge in the west, has decided to strike a levy of 1/ a member as a contribution to the Lithgow District Cripples' Fund. The impost will ...
Article : 73 wordsIn the Legislative Council the AttorneyGeneral (Mr. Boyce) made a Ministerial statement regarding the report of the Coal Commission. Referring to a complaint by ...
Article : 412 wordsTwo men, driving to a horse-drawn van, which they had hired from a livery stable earlier to the day, approached a young woman in Grattan-street, Carlton, to-night. One of ...
Article : 124 wordsA report from Oslo says that the airman, Major Gran, who was a member of Captain Scott's 1910 expedition, is planning an attempt to reach the South Pole by motor ...
Article : 93 wordsAlderman J. F. Franklin, Lord Mayor of Perth, returned from Brisbane yesterday, after having taken part to the festivities connected with the opening of the new Town Hall ...
Article : 95 wordsThe St. John Ambulance class at Lithgow claims an Australian record. During the past 13 years not one of nearly 400 candidateshas failed to pass an examination. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 273 wordsJoseph Kelly, who was seriously injured in a motor car collision at Dunn's Corner, Bowenfels, on April 2, died in hospital on Thursday night. The funeral took place on Friday ...
Article : 473 wordsThe Australian and New Zealand Produce Board announces that importers have decided to sell best Australian and New Zealand butter at 118/ to 122/ a cwt. ...
Article : 80 wordsAt the conclusion of the inquiry into the death of Dr. Henry Lyon Johnston (30), in Perth on March 5, the acting coroner found that the motor collision which caused the ...
Article : 82 wordsA large number of some of the parents who were charged at the South Melbourne Court to-day with having failed to send their children to school stated that the children had ...
Article : 71 wordsIt was stated officially yesterday that notwithstanding the successful flotation in New York of the Sydney Water and Sewerage Board's loan of £1,500,000, there is little ...
Article : 74 wordsA cinema fire to a travelling circus caused the death of 22 spectators at Volsk (Russia). Eighteen persons, mainly women and children, perished to a similar disaster in the ...
Article : 46 wordsOwing to a general slackness, the Goulburn Woollen Mills have reduced production by half. The policy, it is stated, is in common with many other mills. In view of new tariff ...
Article : 69 wordsDunedin aldermen are perturbed at happenings in several dance halls to the city. It was stated that a dance, held recently to the concert chamber of the Town Hall for a ...
Article : 94 wordsClaiming that a 48-hour week should operate in retail butchers' shops in New South Wales and Queensland, the Master Butchers, Meat, and Allied Trades Federation has served a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 215 wordsMr. A. Luchetti, who is a member of the A.L.P. central executive, yesterday emphatically denied a report that a committee appointed by the A.L.P. had recommended the ...
Article : 84 wordsThe appointment of a commission of business men to various units of the Empire "to inquire into Empire resources, markets, and factors entering into the promotion or ...
Article : 82 wordsTram traffic was disorganised on the Spit Junctlon-Mllson's Point line yesterday morning owing to a bursting water-main. The main burst at about 3 o'clock, near ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Coroner (Mr. C. A. Arnold) conducted an inquiry this moring into the death of Mrs. Howard Manton Lane. Evidence was given by L. A. Lane, solicitor, a relative of the ...
Article : 130 wordsThough anaesthetics succeed in thousands of cases an occasional inexplicable failure leading to a patient's death could not be avoided, was the opinion of Dr. I. Bull, at the ...
Article : 88 wordsAt the close of a meeting of the Cabinet, the Premier (Mr. Moore) said that the Government would apply to the Industrial Court to fix at 48 a week the hours of ...
Article : 78 wordsAn Avicultural section hns been established by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, and the first meeting will be held on Monday next. ...
Article : 76 wordsWith the object of relieving unemployment a meeting of the Government party yesterday decided to commence certain works, to be financed by special means. This ...
Article : 57 wordsInterviewed with reference to the strong controversy which has arisen from the publication of a biography of the Queen without Royal permission, the publisher cays that the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Northern Suburbs District Boy Scouts and Cubs will hold their annual Scouts' Own Service at the Arcadia Theatre, Chatswood, to-morrow afternoon. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 12 Apr 1930, Page 16
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