As Judge Mocatta had to proceed to Lismore, several cases set down for hearing at the Grafton District Court were adjourned to a date to b[?] fixed, not before December 12, ...
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Article : 161 wordsCommenting to-day on the proposed transfer of hosiery mills from New South Wales to Brisbane, the Minister for Industry (Mr. Sizer) said the scheme had been placed before ...
Article : 190 wordsMay 3 is the date fixed by the State Cabinet for the referendum on the Upper House reform bill. The measure is now before Parliament, and ...
Article : 179 wordsYesterday the Rotary Club devoted its weekly luncheon hour to inaugurating an intensive campaign on behalf of the Citizens' Crippled Children Service Fund. The Premier ...
Article : 685 wordsThe Federal Labour Government was viciously attacked to-day by some of its own members in the House of Representatves ...
Article : 2,281 wordsHaving spent the afternoon discussing the position on the northern coalfields (as reported in another column), the House of Representatives this evening resumed the ...
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Article : 140 wordsM. Clemenceau's will directs that various articles should be placed in his coffin, including an iron-headed walking-stick, which he says "Is of my youth." Also "a ...
Article : 165 wordsWhile two small children named Head and Walmsley, were playing at their homes, they managed to draw from a log an axe, which their parents thought had been too firmly ...
Article : 71 wordsWhen landing at the Kalgoorlie Aerodrome this afternoon on the flight from Perth to Adelaide, the left-hand tyre of the Hercules aeroplane was ripped off. As it was ...
Article : 80 wordsOne of the passengers who arrived in Sydney yesterday by the disabled A.U.S.N. liner Orungal seemed to express the opinion of the ship's company when he said that the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 wordsAt the Police Court Allan Roy Felton, 27, was bound over to be of good behaviour for 12 months, on finding a surety of £25, for discharging a double-barrelled gun in a ...
Article : 71 wordsThe chairman of the Hospitals Commission (Mr. Love), replying to a plea for a grant for the Forbes Hospital, stated that the Government was also experiencing financial ...
Article : 60 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Henry George League a resolution was carried expressing the view that the "Federal Government's method of carrying the disastrous Bruce-Page tariff ...
Article : 93 wordsSir Austen Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, sought the Speaker's ruling on how far the House could discuss the Irish Free State's decision not to permit appeals to the ...
Article : 107 wordsThe contents of a cycle shop occupied by Stan Hewitt were destroyed by fire. Three shops in the building were saved. Hewitt's shop was insured with the South British ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. Blakeley) said to-day that a case had just come under his notice which helped to confirm the statement recently made by him that the ...
Article : 224 wordsA largely attended meeting, convened by Mr. T. A. Borthwick, president of the Greenwich branch of the National Association, was held in the Greenwich Presbyterian School ...
Article : 94 wordsThe western district Boy Scouts' competition for the Costello banner was held in Narromine station paddocks, on the Macquarie River. The banner was won by Gilgandra ...
Article : 62 wordsThe result of the secret beef ballot at Australia House, in which experts judged the quality of the eating beef cooked was:—Australian beef 364 points, Scottish 354, Argentine ...
Article : 261 wordsAt the police court, Henry F. Atwell was fined £20, with £5 costs, in default three months' imprisonment, for keeping a common gaming house at Port Kembla. Forty men ...
Article : 56 wordsA motor car, driven by Albert William Windsor, of Burt-street, Rozelle, was badly damaged in a collision with a tram near the corner of Dennison and Darling streets, ...
Article : 62 wordsAt Wagga Police Court, Oliver Oswald Minty, garage proprietor, was proceeded against by the municipal council for proceeding with the erection of a building not in conformity with ...
Article : 133 wordsWhen Mr. B. S. Miller, representing the Miners' Federation, had given evidence before the Coal Commission yesterday as the interlocking of mining and shipping interests, he ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 456 wordsBelieved by his family to have been killed in the war, Patrick Tohill, a son of John Tohill, of Surrey-street, Dunedin, walked unheralded into his father's home to-day, after ...
Article : 143 wordsWhile crossing Victoria-avenue, near Macquarie-street, Chatswood, yesterday, Miss Marna Porter, 22, of Macquarie-street, Chatswood, was knocked down by a motor lorry. [?] ...
Article : 45 wordsOvercome by the fumes from a fire which he had accidentally caused yesterday a threeyear-old boy was very near to death when rescued. ...
Article : 153 wordsThe following awards of scholarships tenable at the Sydney Church of England Grammar School will be recommended to the school council for 1930:—H. F. Weston (S.C.E.G.S.), D. G. Hoskins ...
Article : 54 wordsAt Katoomba the new voluntary military training system is meeting with success. Already 22 returned men, members of the Katoomba sub-branch, R.S.L., have signified ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsClarence Johnston, postmaster of Booligal, was charged before the Police Magistrate with the misappropriation of £20/19/5, the property of the Postmaster-General. He ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 wordsThe Church of St. Dunstan's in the East was crowded for the funeral service of the late Sir John Cockburn, former Agent-General in London for South Australia. The High ...
Article : 87 wordsA small boy sidled up to the paying teller's window of a big city bank and shyly passed across a cheque made out for £2/10/6. The teller studied the cheque carefully. ...
Article : 241 wordsCommencing with mail closing at Sydney on December 11, mail matter, except parcels, may be posted for transmission to the United Kingdom by the Karachi-London air service. ...
Article : 145 wordsBecause it had not been paid its wages and disliked an order to proceed to Canton to fight the revolting Ironside troops, a regiment of the 24th Division of the ...
Article : 88 wordsSenator Foll gave notice that to-morrow he would move, that in view of the surplus production of coal and sugar cane in Australia, a select committee of the Senate ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 245 wordsEdna Carle, aged 20 years, married, of Sydney, was charged before Mr. Rogers, P.M., and honorary justices at the City Court today with having, at Sydney on November 20, ...
Article : 214 wordsA preliminary survey of the McIlwraith, McEacharn freighter Kooyong in Mort's Dock yesterday revealed that the vessel suffered more serious damage than was believed when ...
Article : 166 wordsAll the States will be represented at the conference which the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) has called for December 9, at Canberra to discuss a proposal for making more ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Henderson) told questioners in the House of Commons that an exchange of ambassadors with the Soviet would take place within ...
Article : 246 wordsThe secretary of the New South Wales Master Printers and Connected Trades' Association (Mr H. A. Sinclair) said yesterday that the members dissociated themselves from ...
Article : 201 wordsEdward Blakeney O'Reilly, fireman on the Malolo, was convicted of stealing £23 from the pockets of a resident of Auckland in a hotel bedroom. He was ordered to be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 242 wordsProfessor Henry Payne, on behalf of the Air Accidents Board, investigated the monoplane accident of Saturday, in which Captain Youn and Mr. Raymond N. Gilmour ...
Article : 186 wordsA fire occurred yesterday at the shop and dwelling of Mr. Edward Beaver, of Sailor Bayroad, Northbridge, furniture manufacturer. The building, a two-story brick structure, ...
Article : 54 wordsRiding a motor cycle down Wilga-street, Bondi, last night, Bernard McMahon, of Fotheringham-street, Marrickville, lost control of the machine, which crashed into the fence ...
Article : 70 wordsTo ascertain whether all men employed on the wharves held licenses under the Transport Workers' Act, an official of the Navigation Department made a surprise visit to different ...
Article : 136 wordsA scheme for advertising the tourist resorts of the countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean was propounded by Mr. G. T. Armitage, executive secretary of the Tourist Bureau of ...
Article : 97 wordsOf the epidemic diseases in the metropolis for the month of November whooping-cough caused 39 deaths, influenza 5, lethargic encephalitis 3, measles, scarlet fever, and ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Strathfield Council decided at its meeting last night to oppose the proposal to secure an hotel license for a site in Clarendon-road, Strathfield. ...
Article : 29 wordsFrom Monday to Saturday last week another successful "Bridge of Pennles Appeal" in aid of the funds of the Ryde Memorial Hospital, was made at Ryde, rivalling in success ...
Article : 58 wordsWhile being escorted from Geelong to Pentridge to-day Patrick Lynch, a prisoner, jumped from the window of a railway carriage. The train was travelling at 45 miles per hour, ...
Article : 62 wordsNational Club members will greet the newlyelected leader of the Federal National Parliamentary party (Mr. Latham) at a luncheon in the National Club on Monday next. Mr. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 4 Dec 1929, Page 16
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