The Empire flying-boat Centaurus made an uneventful flight from Sydney to Auckland to-day in the record time of 9 hours 10 minutes. ...
Article : 593 wordsThe 150 traffic police who patrolled the main roads during the holidays obcerved some good effects of the new speed limits, and it was officially stated ...
Article : 464 wordsA brief shower about 8.30 o'clock last night was the only rain which [?]ell in Sydney over the holidays, but the State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) ...
Article : 396 wordsJ. Donald Budge, officially ranked world's No. 1 lawn tennis player, bitterly disappointed a record crowd at the Lawn Tennis Ground. Rushcutter ...
Article : 525 wordsIt is estimated that about one in every six people in Sydney and suburbs spent yesterday, the Boxing Day holiday, in the surf or on the beaches. ...
Article : 624 wordsTwo prisoners made a desperate attempt to escape from Dubb[?] Gaol yesterday afternoon. One of them locked one warder in his cell and, it ...
Article : 401 wordsThe entire sequence of the Spanish loyalist operations against Teruel has demonstrated the greatly increased efficiency of the loyalists, who so ...
Article : 408 wordsThe Japanese officially announce that they have completely occupied Tsinanfu, capital of Shantung province. ...
Article : 959 wordsReferring to suggestions that the new speed limits had been generally disregarded by motorists during the holidays, the Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) said last night ...
Article : 147 wordsMrs. Beryl Markham, who flew across the Atlantic last year, arrived in Sydney on the Mariposa yesterday. She said she thought Australia had contributed ...
Article : 318 wordsSince the depression, the hire-purchase system of buying goods of all descriptions, has become almost universal, and had resulted in such a ...
Article : 407 wordsThe Rumanian Government, led by M. George Tatarescu (National Liberal), which was reappointed as recently as August, 1936, has resigned. ...
Article : 321 wordsDespite the huge crowds there was no serious accident on any of the beaches yesterday. Life-savers at different places rescued about 40 persons ...
Article : 353 wordsThe president of the Royal Automobile Club (Sir John Butters) said last night that it would be possible to say whether the new traffic law was a solution of the road ...
Article : 105 wordsSo many children wandered away from their parents in the thousands, who thro[?]ged Manly yesterday that practically all day Manly police were set the problem of trying ...
Article : 150 wordsContinuous wireless communication was maintained throughout the flight between the Centaurus and the Amalgamated Wireless Station at La Perouse. Hourly weather ...
Article : 612 wordsA statement, issued last night by the N.R.M.A., declared that although a few motorists persisting in exceeding the new speed limit, most of them appeared to be doing ...
Article : 117 words"The problem of box-office prices is exercising every film company in the United States," said Mr. J. S. Hummell, general foreign sales manager of Warner Brothers ...
Article : 229 wordsSignor Mussolini has a grandson to carry on his name. Signora Vittorio Mussolini to-day gave birth to a son at Orsola. He will ...
Article : 50 wordsThe official German news agency bitterly criticises the Christmas Eve address delivered by the Pope, accusing him of fostering hatred and making unfounded statements. ...
Article : 118 wordsIt is feared that Doris Goldstiver, a child, who wandered away from a farm house in the Toonpan district on Christmas Day, has died from thirst. ...
Article : 99 wordsFor the first time in this State, an "iron lung" is being used for a suspected case of infantile paralysis. Two respirators, installed at the Infectious ...
Article : 121 wordsTo-day. Mrs. Sarah Thomas celebrates her one hundredth birthday. She is in full possession of her faculties, and attributes her long life and good health to her advocacy of ...
Article : 192 wordsThe pilot, the wireless operator, and [?] passenger were killed when an aeroplane of the Bucharest-Paris service crashed on Christmas Eve in a blinding snowstorm at ...
Article : 46 wordsAdvice was received in Sydney that the motor yacht Sapphire, formerly owned by Mr. Ernest Major, which was recently purchased by a Bundaberg syndicate to conduct Barrier ...
Article : 116 wordsAt least eight lives were lost in a fire which followed Christmas celebrations at the Montredon lunatic asylum, near Lepuy, which accommodates 3000 people. ...
Article : 131 wordsThe giant four-engined Imperial Airways' flying-boat. Cordelia, bound for England from Africa, with mails and one passenger. came down in Havre Roads yesterday morning. ...
Article : 37 wordsAlfred Spicer, 65, a gardener, was charged at Parramatta. Court yesterday before Mr. Haydock, P.M., with having feloniously and maliciously murdered Marcia Hayes, aged 6, ...
Article : 90 wordsThe chief of the exploitation department of the Black Sea Fleet, the harbour master of Tuapse, and others, have been charged with criminal negligence in connection with ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Japan Silk Year Book, commenting on the recent decline in the rayon trade with Australia, expresses the opinion that the only means to improve business seems to be to ...
Article : 158 wordsThe fifth case of infantile paralysis is reported from Townsville, the patient being a boy of nine years. The previous case was reported a fortnight ago. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Awatea, which arrived at 6.41 a.m to-day made a new record crossing of two days seven hours 49 minutes one hour 26 minutes faster than her previous record ...
Article : 125 wordsJ. R. Duggan, 35, of Lorn, West Maitland, and his daughter, Ga[?], 4, suffered mild attacks of food poisoning at Kilaben Bay this afternoon. It is believed that the attacks ...
Article : 87 wordsOnly one case, that of a boy aged nine, was admitted to hospital to-day with infantile paralysis, but there were two suspects, a girl aged eight and a man aged 35. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe 468th State Lottery will be drawn at the Australian Hall, Elizabeth Street, city, to-night, commencing at 7 p.m. A complete list of the prize-winners will ...
Article : 37 wordsViolet Duchess of Rutland, died to-day. Her husband was the eighth Duke of Rutland, who died in 1925. She had 8 son, the present Duke, and three daughters. ...
Article : 69 wordsEight more cases of infantile paralysis were reported officially to-day, making a total of 1328. There were no deaths. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 28 Dec 1937, Page 7
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