The object of fixing the price of picked common bricks at 85/ in 1937 was to discourage their use and to turn the public to face bricks, ...
Article : 353 wordsThe task of selecting the best site for a capital ship dry dock in Australia was discussed by the Minister for Defence, Mr. Street, and members of the Naval ...
Article : 270 wordsA view of Circular Quay, showing the progress of the work of building new wharves and constructing pylons to carry the proposed overhead railway. Simultaneously, workmen are tunnelling 55 feet under Bradfield Highway to construct a vehicular approach to Circular Quay. Pictures of men at work in the tunnel are published on the illustrations page. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 62 wordsThe Minister in charge of the National emergency services, Mr. Bruxner, announced last night that he hoped soon to make recommendations ...
Article : 277 wordsWASHINGTON, June 27. (A.A.P.) The Senate yesterday repealed, from June 30, the power of President Roosevelt to devalue the dollar. ...
Article : 492 wordsAn altered timetable for the air service between Sydney, Brisbane, and North Queensland, conducted by Airlines of Australia, Ltd., will come into operation next Monday. ...
Article : 296 wordsLying on a stretcher, Henry Spencer Carson, aged 29 years, of Merrylands, gave evidence in the Supreme Court yesterday, in support of his claim for ...
Article : 335 wordsThe Master Builders' Association, at. its monthly meeting last night, decided to draw the attention of the Minister to allegations that the price of face bricks, as fixed by Mr. ...
Article : 80 wordsAs the result of Scotland Yard activity after the bomb explosions in the West End of London on Saturday night, in which 17 persons were injured, police ...
Article : 178 wordsGaol terms of seven years and five years respectively were imposed by Judge Mart-ell on two 17-year-old youths in the Quarter Sessions ...
Article : 611 wordsIn an address to the Rotary Club at the Wentworth Hotel yesterday, the president, Mr. R. S. Maynard, said that there was a grave danger in the policy ...
Article : 414 wordsThe latest method being used by the Germans in Bohemian and Moravian towns in an attempt to stamp out the Czechs' passive demonstrations is the ...
Article : 117 wordsWork on two new ferry wharves at Circular Quay is now well advanced, and they should be completed by the end of the year. The object of the work is the eventual ...
Article : 128 wordsGrossly conflicting reports from both sides agree only in admitting that another major aerial battle took place between Japanese and Soviet-Mongolian ...
Article : 205 wordsMr. Chamberlain said yesterday. in the House of Commons, that the Government regretted the recrudescence of Italian Press attacks against Britain, which were not ...
Article : 56 wordsThe grounds of appeal against the Licensing Court's refusal to renew the licence of the Hotel Plaza at Wynyard Railway Station were disclosed yesterday by Messrs. W. D. Schrader ...
Article : 334 wordsThe Albert Canal burst in several places near Hasselt, where it carried away an embankment and flooded l[?]d for two miles. It is believed that 10 persons are dead, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 197 wordsSqually westerly winds prevailed in Sydney again yesterday, but the greatest velocity was 39 miles an hour, compared with 54 miles an hour on ...
Article : 222 wordsMichael Patrick Doyle, machine feeder, pleaded guilty in the Quarter Sessions yesterday to a charge of having personated an elector at the Waverley Parliamentary ...
Article : 119 wordsTwo young members of the crew of the auxiliary ketch Fram, which left Sydney in August on a world cruise, were attempting to return to Sydney in a 25-foot sailing boat ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 284 wordsIt is now disclosed that one of the most important clauses of the Franco-Turkish treaty provides that Alexandretta Gulf, will be a naval and air base second only to ...
Article : 67 wordsAt the Balmain Police Court yesterday, Keith Faulkner, 35, motor mechanic, was sentenced to imprisonment for three months for having[?] driven a motor car in Victoria and ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Durban Tender Board has rejected 14 German tenders to supply cable although they were the lowest, in favour of a British tender Some of the British tenders were 50 per cent. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Butler, addressing the Empire Press Union, said that Britain was not opposed to change, but was against change by forceful ...
Article : 69 wordsThe factory of the Griffiths Fruit Supply Pty., Ltd., In Systrum Street, Ultimo, was practically destroyed by fire last night. Firemen from headquarterc, George Street ...
Article : 232 wordsSmoke issuing from the premises ol the [?]ths From Supply Pty.. Ltd., in Systrum Street, Ultimo, last night, during the fire which almost destroyed the three-storey building. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsA fortune in Ireland has been inherited by Mr. F. Beamish, a prospector, of Fryerstown, near Newstead. He 'was recently advised that an aunt in ...
Article : 79 words"We talk of the danger, of a declining population in Australia, yet, when refugees, some of whom are the cream of Central Europe, seek entrance here, ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, said that the numbers of German, Austrian, and Czech refugees who entered the United Kingdom between February 28 and May 5 ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Kuring-gai Council last night declared greyhounds noxious animals, thus reversing the decision of the previous meeting, which, on the casting vote of the Mayor, threw out a ...
Article : 51 wordsTown Hall: Artur Schnabel and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. conducted by Georg Szell. 8.15. Minerva Theatre: "Black Limelight." 2.15. 8.15, Theatre Royal: "Around the Clock," 8. ...
Article : 365 wordsThe Simpson Desert expedition, which has been travelling for a week through waterless country, is now making for tbe Kutarny water-hole, on the Mulligan River course. in ...
Article : 111 wordsThe salvage ship Zelo will begin operations on the sunken submarine Thetis to-morrow if the weather is favourable. ...
Article : 25 wordsOfficials at Buckingham Palace are unable to confirm the rumour that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will shortly settle down in England. ...
Article : 37 wordsGold was quoted to-day at £7/8/6 an ounce fine, unchanged from yesterday.—A.A.P. BASE METALS. Base metals were quoted at noon to-day as ...
Article : 141 wordsThe death of Miss Florence Wurtz, 48, of Chaucer Street, St. Kilda, was caused accidentally by the collision of two taxi-lng aeroplanes on June 11, according to the finding ...
Article : 135 wordsThe vocalist Lord Lurgan, who is professionally known under his family name of William Brownlow, is leaving for Australia by air to-morrow for a 13 weeks' ...
Article : 50 wordsThe death has taken place at Deauville, at the age of 66, of Ford Madox Ford, the well-known author, who has written many novels, several collections of poems, and ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. A. C. Pratt, former general manager of the Mutual Store, Ltd., died early this mornIne in the Freemasons' Hospital after a brlei illness. He resigned from the Mutual Store ...
Article : 87 wordsThe magistrates at Kingston-on-Thames, in dismissing a betting charge, ruled that a hotel was not a public place within the meaning of the Street Betting Act. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe death has taken place of Admiral Koch, who was Deputy Chief of the German Naval Staff in the Great War. ...
Article : 33 wordsProgramme of Suburban and [?]try plcture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisment Section. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 28 Jun 1939, Page 16
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