The two-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. A. Burke, of Chatsworth Island, who was kicked by a straying horse while playing near her home, died in the Lower Clarence Hospital. ...
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Article : 706 wordsMr. C. M. McDonald, chairman of the Northern Collieries' Association, yesterday made the following statement:— ...
Article : 1,058 wordsRoy Daniel O'Grady, formerly Town Clerk of Tenterfield, was charged at the Tenterfield Police Court to-day with having stolen on February 1, 1928, £400, on February 28, £110[?] ...
Article : 386 wordsOn June 4, immediately after his resignation of the office of Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain telegraphed as follows to the Council of the League of Nations now in ...
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Article : 146 wordsEarly this morning a six-roomed weatherboard cottage, owned and occupied by Mrs. A. Jacobson, was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Jacobson and her family are in Queensland on ...
Article : 39 words"The cheaper road to construct requires the larger average expenditure to maintain, and, for this type of road, the cost of maintenance rises very rapidly as traffic increases," said ...
Article : 180 wordsHenry Scarbrough was found dead in his bed at his residence, Campbell's Creek, Windeyer. The deceased, who was 76 years of age, had been confined to his bed for some ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the Isle of Man junior tourist trophy race of 264 miles, F. Hicks won, riding a Velocette. His time was 227m 23s. He made a new lap record of 95 miles an hour. W L. ...
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Article : 148 wordsWhen he inspected the site of the proposed Wallarah Point bridge on June 8 the Minister for Lands (Mr. Ball) said that if the shire would find half the cost, estimated at £8000, ...
Article : 86 wordsWhile scrubcutting on Mr. T. C. Hackney's property, Mr. W. Cuthel, of Burraga, almost severed his foot at the instep. Some years ago Mr. Cuthel's other foot had to be ...
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Article : 107 wordsRecently the Auburn Council asked the Governor (Sir Dudley de Chair) to endeavour to effect a settlement of the strike of timber-workers. ...
Article : 121 wordsAt a meeting of primary producers of the Lower Hunter, Mr. L. B. Fisher moved a motion, proposing the exemption of primary producers from the provisions of the Child ...
Article : 106 wordsThe increasing prevalence of "go-getting" is viewed with alarm by the Real Estate Institute of New South Wales. The president of the institute (Mr. J. A. Somerville) ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Bishops' committee, reporting to the Church Assembly, proposes that the Dean and Chapter of cathedrals should have the right to refuse to elect as bishop a person named in ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Bishop of Newcastle (the Rev. Dr. Long), in his presidential address to the Newcastle Diocesan Synod yesterday, expressed regret that the opposition of the Sydney ...
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Article : 929 wordsThe five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. McGeary, who reside near Diamond Head, Laurieton, wandered away from her parents on Saturday morning and became lost in ...
Article : 144 wordsWhen she tripped and fell at her parents' home on Sunday Nellie Collins, aged 5 years, ran the point of a pair of scissors into one eye. She was removed by the ambulance ...
Article : 53 wordsThomas Jefferies, alderman of Ulmarra Municipality, was fined £10, with costs amounting to £4/6/6, at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions before Mr. C. G. Carr Boyd, ...
Article : 234 wordsThieves forced an entrance to the office of the Invincible Colliery Co. at Cullen Bullen during the week-end and stole a safe containing £115 and important office papers. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Auckland Harbour Board has decided to extend to the German cruiser Emden the facilities and courtesies usually accorded visiting warships. The warship will berth at ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. and Mrs. Morgan O'Brien were driving along Lewis-street, Mudgee, when a dog rushed out in front of the horse, causing it to fall. Both occupants were thrown out. ...
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Article : 125 wordsA new wireless station, to cost about £6000, is to be erected by the Government on Tinakori Hills, Wellington. The plant, consisting of short-wave transmitting and receiving ...
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Article : 125 wordsSir Arthur Duckham was the chief guest at the twenty-seventh Western Australian dinner at the Trocadero, and in proposing the toast of his health, Mr. J. W. Kirwan ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 314 wordsDuring the post few days Squadron-Leader H. G Smart has made record flights—from Adelaide to Melbourne and from Melbourne to Sydney—in two of the new Air Force ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 241 wordsWith the ending of the present series of meetings of the Federal Cabinet, the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) will leave Canberra tomorrow night for Melbourne, where he will ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 244 wordsHaving been in the State Public Service for 40 years, Mr. Henry Butz, senior messenger of the Premier's Department, entered on 12 months' leave of absence ...
Article : 139 wordsPreaching at Grafton the Rev. F. R. Swynny, chairman of the North Coast Methodist district, asked, whether Australia was becoming atheistic. The Hebrews, he said, tended to ...
Article : 199 wordsThe police state that a woman by falsely pretending she was a person who had an account with a large city firm obtained goods valued at £19. ...
Article : 106 wordsKangaroos are numerous in parts of the district, particularly about Nevertire and towards the Bogan. They are destroying fences and playing havoc with the limited supply of ...
Article : 76 wordsOn a charge of making a false income tax return for the year 1927-28, Charles Ensel Tear was to-day fined £100. The matter of a double tax was adjourned ...
Article : 134 wordsA dedication service for Mr. Herbert Brookes, Commissioner-General for Australia in the United States, will be conducted by the Rev. T. E. Ruth, at the Pitt-street ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Railway Department, which during the past few winters has been organising farmers' tours throughout the Dominion, is now considering a proposal to organise a special ...
Article : 50 wordsFive women were arrested on charges of theft in two city stores yesterday evening. It was alleged that they endeavoured to leave the shops with stockings and hat ornaments ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 12 Jun 1929, Page 16
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