The Albury Rotary Club organised an educational tour for senior boys representing even school within a radius of 30 miles on both sides of the Murray. The boys were taken ...
Article : 70 wordsReturning from school, Ronnie Taskls, of Mullengandra, aged 10, put his hand in a burrow in search of a rabbit and was bitten on the finger by a snake. His two brothers, ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Rev. W. A. Heighway, who for more than 20 years was a Methodist missionary in Fiji, died at his residence, Moturiki, Middle Head-road, Mosman, yesterday morning. He ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 163 wordsNew methods of assisting in the search for oil in Australia were announced to-day by the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. Blakeley). Mr. Blakeley said that it would be some ...
Article : 460 wordsThe Minister for Mines (Mr. Weaver) Informed members in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that the average return per fortnight for miners in the Rothbury mine ...
Article : 438 wordsThe crowd that gathered outside the Cessnock Railway Hotel—from the balcony of which the leaders were to speak—was almost as large as that at Kurri Kurri yesterday. ...
Article : 2,464 wordsThe Labour Ministry was again subjected to vigorous attacks upon its financial policy and the suspension of compulsory military training when consideration of the Budget ...
Article : 1,875 wordsThe question of rail versus road transport was discussed by the Assistant Southern Area Railway Commissioner (Mr. Harris) at a meeting at Moss Vale last night. Mr. Harris ...
Article : 44 wordsYesterday the Vice-Chancellor of the University (Professor R. S. Wallace) addressed members of the Sydney University Regiment in the Union Hall, University. He said that ...
Article : 140 wordsMrs. Anna Gladys Fletcher, 36, a visitor to Bathurst, collapsed in the ante-room of a dental surgeon while walting for a friend, and died after admission to the district ...
Article : 37 wordsA well-attended meeting in the town hall with the Mayor presiding, decided to seek authority from military headquarters to form a volunteer military unit in Bathurst. ...
Article : 30 wordsBefore Mr. F. Sutherland, S.M., at Katoomba, John King, dairyman, of Wentworth Falls, was proceeded against by the Blue Mountain Shire Council for having ...
Article : 45 wordsSkidding and crashing through a fence on Nine Mile-road, near Kerang, a motor car fell down an embankment towards the river this morning. It struck a tree, which ...
Article : 121 wordsJ. J. Hall, a youth, pleaded guilty at the police court to a charge of stealing a bicycle and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the sentence to be suspended on finding ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is understood that a definite stand will be taken at the miners' aggregate meeting at Brush Creek to-morrow against the Sydney Trades and Labour Council's attempt to ...
Article : 200 wordsFor slaughtering sheep in a place other than a public slaughterhouse, Arthur Alfred Bennett was fined £5, with 5/4 costs, at Mungindi Police Court. For killing sheep and ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Australian Press Association understands that Lord Passfield (Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs) has replied to Mr. Scullin, representations regarding the ...
Article : 142 wordsIn the Senate the debate on the Tasmanian Grant Bill was resumed. Senator Sampson (Tas) said that the Tasmanian Senators were not asking for anything that the State was not ...
Article : 262 wordsIt was stated in Ministerial circles yesterday that the Government would withdraw its offer to reduce Governmental charges to the extent of 2/ per ton on coal. ...
Article : 417 wordsThe Export Sugar Committee, comprising Messrs. A. R. Townsend, W. J. Short, and O. J. Matthews, representing the Commonwealth Government, the sugar industry, and ...
Article : 94 wordsFor the third successive year Cr. J. H. Faulks has been elected president of Tweed Shire Council. At yesterday's election, Cr. A. Buchanan was the opposing candidate. In ...
Article : 76 wordsEdward Clamback, 23, of Newtown, Sydney, was drowned while swimming in the Murrumbidgee River this afternoon. Clamback went to the river beach for a ...
Article : 120 wordsOfficials of the Labour Council lost no time yesterday in endeavouring to gain control of the mining dispute. In accordance with a decision reached at a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 57 wordsUnemployment sustenance payments last month totalled £28,634. This was £556 less than those of November of last year, but £1375 more than the preceding month. ...
Article : 52 wordsLess than 20 years after the first transAtlantic wireless morse code resulted in the arrest of the murderer, Dr. Crippen, comes the detention of a Norwegian named ...
Article : 79 wordsArrangements are complete for the Boy Scouts' corroboree, to be held at Lake Illawarra from December 27 to January 5. A splendid site has been secured for the camp. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Budget speech is to be delivered by the Treasurer (Mr. Stevens) in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday. The loan expenditure is estimated at £11,000,000, the amount ...
Article : 126 wordsPORT ADELAIDE.—Arr: Bendigo, from Liverpool; Katoomba, from eastern States; Koclung, from eastern States; Saros, from eastern States. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 243 wordsMore than £70, comprising Savings Bank deposits and contents of a till, was stolen from a safe in a shop at The Barton tonight. ...
Article : 176 wordsIn the local police court Joseph Hush was fined £10, and court costs 8/ in default, three months' hard labour, for having sold mille to which water had been added. He was ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Governor-General-elect of New Zealand, Lord Bledlsloe, has appointed his brother, Major A. H. Bathurst, to the position of military secretary on his staff. ...
Article : 147 wordsThe last monthly luncheon of the Australian Association of National Advertisers was held at David Jones' rooms. The secretary (Mr. C. Roy Stanley) said that the ...
Article : 157 wordsA league of harmony display was given to mark the close of the school year at the Dominican Convent. The annual report discloses that the Royal Empire Society's prize ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Acting Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) was in Newcastle to-day. His visit was probably connected with the Government's reopening Rothbury colliery under ...
Article : 97 words"The Labour Council is a fighlng organisation, whose best fighting delegates represent unions which do not fight," said the northern organiser of the Federated ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 287 wordsLocal residents were addressed by Mr. Harris, assistant southern area railway commissioner, who quoted figures to show that rail transport was cheaper than that by ...
Article : 451 wordsAn outbreak of scarlet fever has occurred at Lord Howe Island. A boy of 15 was brought to Sydney last week from the island for medical attention, but shortly after his ...
Article : 122 wordsStrenuous efforts, supported by the Government Press, are being made here by wheat farmers to persuade Parliament to require that all flour sold in South Africa should ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Trades Hall Council, at a meeting last night, upheld the motion of censure against Mr. H. C. Gibson, secretary of the Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association, which was ...
Article : 71 wordsAt the conclusion of an inquiry concerning the death of Alexander O'Connor, 40, the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark), yesterday returned a verdict that ...
Article : 243 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Herald" says that Dr. 'Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, is publishing a startling statement to-day, declaring that The Hague ...
Article : 412 wordsIn the Senate this morning, Sir George Pearce asked whether, with a view to settlement of the coal trouble, the Government would give the miners the opportunity of ...
Article : 107 wordsThe proprietors of Melbourne hotels selling products of the new Richmond Brewery agreed at a meeting to-day not to fall into line with the Licensed Victuallers' Association's ...
Article : 97 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Francis (Q.) asked whether, in view of Press reports that the coal miners had rejected proposals for a settlement of the coal dispute, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 313 wordsDissatisfied with the failure of the Federal Labour Government to provide employment as promised on the hustings, and because of their action in advocating the acceptance of ...
Article : 68 wordsTwo men were buried in a trench at Gordon yesterday, and one suffered serious injuries before his workmates could dig him out from under the earth, which kept falling ...
Article : 131 wordsEnginedrivers yesterday conferred with the colliery proprietors on the question of an early resumption of work. The result of the conference will be placed before mass ...
Article : 103 wordsTwo men committed suicide in the suburbs on Thursday night by gas poisoning. John Francis McHugh went to bed at his residence in Botany-street, Randwick, and ...
Article : 116 wordsA gang of safe robbers were disturbed at Ashfield on Thursday night while dragging a safe from the office of the Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Milk Co., Ltd., to the yard, where ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. Campbell Roy, president of the Western Miners' Federation, strongly criticised the reported statement of Mr. H. Sutherland, organiser of the Engine Drivers and Firemen's ...
Article : 154 wordsWriting to the Editor with regard to a statement made at a meeting of the Confectioners, Refreshment, Sundac, and Fruit Shopkeepers' Association, that the ...
Article : 122 wordsOfficers from H.M.A.S. Austrilia lying in Farm Cove, lost about £30 on Wednesday from thefts and so far the men responsible have not been traced. ...
Article : 75 wordsIt is officially announced that Cranbrook School has joined the Associated Schools of New South Wales, which now comprise:—St. Aloysius' College, Miison's Point. Barker ...
Article : 68 wordsA report from Meekathara staten that the body of Charles McDonald, labourer, who had been missing since October 18, was found at the bottom of an abandoned 180 feet shaft, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 7 Dec 1929, Page 18
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