The Railway Commissioneis undertook to commence the conduction of the Guyra-Derrigo railway on August 1, and true to their word a commencement has been made. Eighty ...
Article : 70 wordsOn the application of the Commissioner for Railways, the Board of Trade on Saturday varied the clause in railway construction giving preference to members of the A.W.U., ...
Article : 293 wordsWeek-end motoring accidents are taking an ever-increasing toll of human life, and the grim record of Saturday and Sunday was one of the worst that has ever been reported in ...
Article : 89 wordsThe correspondent of the Australian Press Association at the Boy Scout Jamboree at Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, says that a heavy downpour of rain fell throughout the night, ...
Article : 224 wordsWithin an hour on Saturday night a man, armed with a revolver, held up six persons in Ascot Vale and Moonee Ponds. Other cases of street robberies occurred at ...
Article : 750 wordsTHE RETURNED SOLDIERS' LEAGUE PLACED A WREATH ON THE CENOTAPH YESTERDAY. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 15 wordsThe death occurred at Wollongong list night of Alexander Lang, at the age of 84 years. He came to Wollongong over 50 years ago, and for some considerable time worked in mines. ...
Article : 1,619 wordsTwo men were killed outright and four others had remarkable escapes from death, when a motor lorry crashed over a cliff on the main Northern-road, near Wiseman's Ferry, ...
Article : 313 wordsThe Prince of Wales spent last night in camp at the jamboree. He was astir very early this morning, and visited the camps of Scouts of various nations. His Royal Highness ...
Article : 696 wordsAggrieved because they claimed that a measure of preference was being given by the shipowners in employing volunteers on the wharves, the members of the Port Phillip ...
Article : 234 wordsThe annual dinner of the Commercial Travellers' Association was held on Saturday night. The Chief City Commissioner (Mr. ...
Article : 736 wordsThe culminating demonstration in what the Communists call "War Week, July-August," began yesterday afternoon in Eddy-avenue, near the Central Railway Station, where a ...
Article : 471 wordsA man who was caught in the act of robbing the coin receptacle of a telephone bureau at Clovelly early on Saturday morning was chased for some distance by two constables. ...
Article : 220 wordsRoy Jarvis, 21 years, of Petersham, and Miss Iris McNeill, 26 years, telephonist, of Sydney, were killed, and Miss Jessie Rutledge, 23 years, telephonist, of Syd[?]ey, was injured, ...
Article : 132 wordsWhen playing for the Coburg amateur football team at Carlton on Saturday, Robert Neil Harvey, aged 20 years, of Coburg, received fatal injuries. He jumped for a mark, and ...
Article : 108 wordsNational candidate for the vacancy created by the resignation of Mr. W. A. Watt, M.P., Federal member for Balaclava (Vic.). He was returned by a large majority at Saturday's ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 38 wordsWhile William Sinclair was driving his wife end two children and brother-in-law (Stanley Taylor) to Barraba on Saturday night the car turned over three or four times. Both ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Liverpool Returned Soldiers' League asked the Liverpool Council at its last meeting to assist the league in a protest to the Minister for Lands against allowing the sale ...
Article : 207 wordsA Roma message says that the flow of gas from the Roma Oil Corporation No. 1 well is steadily increasing. The volume to-day was about 1,300,000 cubic feet per day. ...
Article : 77 wordsWhen he attempted to board a moving 'bus in New South Head-road, near Edgecliff Post-office, late on Saturday afternoon, Leslie Motto, 26, of Wattle-street, Ultimo, was killed ...
Article : 66 wordsLeonard George Parmenter, aged 23 years, of Picton, was riding a motor cycle at Bargo on Saturday afternoon, when the machine collided head-on with a motor car. His skull ...
Article : 62 wordsADELAIDE.—Arr: Aug. 3, Narkunda, from London Demodocus, from Antwerp, Dep: Aug. 3, Baron Pentland, for Fremantle: Hatarana, for eastern States; Karoola, for Fremantle; Komura, for ...
Article : 49 words"Industry is a workshop, vast and interlocked. A fighter in a workshop is a misfit. The bludgeon is out of date. Conflict there must always be, but the idea of conquest on ...
Article : 577 wordsAddressing a large congregation at St. Mark's, Darling Point, last evening, Mr. B. R. Gelling, president of the League of Nations' Union, said that the late war had been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 260 wordsWith his foot jammed under the brake pedal, and suffering frightful agony, Matthew Grannell, of Dutruc-street, Randwick, displayed wonderful fortitude when the car he ...
Article : 300 wordsA flying boat broke loose at the pleasure ground at Southend-on-Sea while revolving at a great speed. The passengers were flung out on top of the crowd, which was ...
Article : 81 wordsSuffering from a bullet wound in one of his legs, a boy, 14 years, whose parents live at North Brighton, was admitted to Alfred Hospital on Saturday. He had been wounded by ...
Article : 169 wordsThe conditon of Lord Forster, who underwent an operation to his ear, is satisfactory. Addressing pilgrims in the sacred grotto at Lourdes, Abbe Bernie dropped dead. He ...
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Advertising : 187 words"There's no place like Australia" was the comment of Mr. E. H. Bell, a Sydney manufacturer, who has just completed a 20-months' trip around the world. He arrived in ...
Article : 191 wordsA message from Portarlington says that in a strong northerly wind the schooner Woolomai (151 tons) was blown on to a sand-bank at Point Richards, about two miles from ...
Article : 131 wordsHilda Blackwell, 60 years, of Robinson-street, Chatswood, was crossing Lane Cove-road near Chatswood, yesterday afternoon, when she was knocked down by a car. Central District ...
Article : 101 wordsA depressing view of the prospects of planters in the Dutch East Indies in the near future was taken by Mr. J. W. B. Everts, a director of the Royal Packet Navigation ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Cessnock and Kurri Kurri vigilance committees met at Cessnock yesterday afternoon to discuss what was contended to be the inaction of the Combined Unions' Control ...
Article : 76 wordsDerek Moss, 18 years, of Girlang-avenue, Vaucluse, died in St. Vincent's Hospital last night from injuries he received earlier in the day when his motor cycle fell ...
Article : 81 wordsMembers of the New South Wales Aero Club, at a special meeting to-morrow evening, will be asked to endorse a recommendation by the executive committee that the club's activities ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 146 wordsA report from Havre says that all shipping dipped its flags when M. Alain Gerbault, who recently completed a lone world cruise in his cutter, the Firecrest, received the ...
Article : 126 wordsIn a head-on collision between a motor car which he was driving and a motor van, in Ballarat-road, near Deer Park, on Saturday night, James Arthur Thomas Cook, aged 27 ...
Article : 75 wordsA Cairns message says that the police raided a house on Friday night and arrested 24 persons. They appeared in the police court on Saturday, and the fines imposed ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 5 Aug 1929, Page 12
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