Grass-lands about Singleton. Stanwell Park, and Barrallier are being swept by fierce bushfires, and thousands of acres have been devastated. Near Singleton several homesteads ...
Article : 561 wordsThe Grafton and South Grafton Water Board has approved a proposal to duplicate the submarine main across the river with a 10inch main, and has asked the Public Works ...
Article : 61 wordsA story, more romantic than fiction, comes from New Zealand of the finding of a deed of grant which had been missing from the Lands Department, in Sydney, for over two ...
Article : 983 wordsThe remains of the late Mr. Bruntnell will lie in the Congregational Church, Pitt-street, this morning, from 8.30, and the service will commence at 10. ...
Article : 412 wordsThe coalowners of New South Wales held a series of meetings yesterday, at which the depressed condition of the industry was fully discussed. Steps were taken to secure ...
Article : 531 wordsJ. B. Hobbs and H. Sutcliffe, who, at the test match at Adelaide yesterday, figured in their ninth partnership of over a century. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 wordsThe strike in the timber trade began in Sydney yesterday morning, when nearly 100 men employed in three separate yards refused to accept the new conditions and were ...
Article : 896 wordsMuch correspondence has been received by the Chamber of Commerce concerning the aerodrome at Ballina. National Airways, Ltd., has written, in reply to a request to ...
Article : 185 wordsWithout calling on the defence, the Jury acquitted Phillip Stanton Arentz, who was, at the Armidale Quarter Sessions yesterday, charged with having committed a criminal ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. and Mrs. Francis T. Kelly, a Sydney honeymoon couple, who have created widespread interest in their walking tour of the North Coast districts of New South Wales, ...
Article : 98 wordsA large sawmilling plant owned by Munro and Lever, at Grivillia, 20 miles beyond Kyogle was destroyed by fire early this morning. The damage is estimated at £60000. The mill ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin), announcing in the House of Commons his decision to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the conditions of labour in India, ...
Article : 398 wordsFull of high adventure, five young men arrived in Brisbane to-day from Sydney in a yacht, the Rondon. The Journey occupied seven days, and the vessel logged over 700 ...
Article : 288 wordsIn recent weeks three fires have broken out in the yard of the Presbyterian Church, Clifford-street. The last, which occurred on Wednesday, is considered to have been ...
Article : 93 wordsA bushfire which was raging over a large area at Middle Head last night provided a magnificent spectacle, particularly when viewed from ferry steamers' travelling to ...
Article : 186 wordsNotices have been posted to 3148 Werriwa electors calling upon them to show cause why they should not be dealt with for not voting at the Commonwealth general election in ...
Article : 37 wordsAdditional offers of coal for the Victorian Railways were made to the Premier (Sir Wm. Mcpherson) to-day on behalf of English, South African, and Newcastle (N.S.W.) coal-owners. ...
Article : 177 wordsReferring to the timber industry in Queensland, Mr. F. Nixon, general secretary of the Timber Merchants' Association, said that he desired to make it quite clear ...
Article : 106 wordsAt 9 o'clock on Sunday night a member of Goulburn Motor Sales, Ltd., placed £100 in notes in a drawer at the firm's Auburn-street promises. It was gone next morning. There ...
Article : 61 wordsThe annual meeting of the Coonaharabran District Hospital was held on Thursday night, when Mr. W. T. Neilson was re-elected president. At the close of the year the institution ...
Article : 89 wordsNo effort was made by employers to engage free labour to-day. They opened the yards in time for the men to begin work at 7.30. but there was only one recruit to the ranks ...
Article : 114 wordsThe dead body of William Edward Allen, aged 32 years, was found among the sandhills at Geraldton yesterday alongside an empty bottle marked poison. Allen, who was a clerk ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. John Duncan Tipper, an honorary ranger under the Birds, Animals, anti Plants Protection Act, and a member of the council of the Wild Life Preservation Society, in ...
Article : 303 wordsPortions of the Lachlan River have, become polluted and send off bad odours. From Warroo to Cadow this state of affairs is particularly noticeable. The surface is covered ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Railway Department is reported to have a very fair supply of coal on hand. Emergency stocks include 130,000 tons of large coal and about 40,000 tons of small ...
Article : 72 wordsThere will be no more Goddards in the London police, according to a high police official, referring to the conviction of ex-Sergeant Goddard for receiving bribes from managers ...
Article : 128 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 235 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) opened the Orange cool stores, erected by the fruitgrowers of the district at a cost of more than £7000. The two stores which are ...
Article : 85 wordsThere was no trouble with the timber workers in this State to-day. The men went to work under the new award. ...
Article : 32 wordsA police raid on the Cromer Cafe, 91 Phillip-street, city, last night, resulted in the arrest of 15 persons. A large quantity of liquor was also seized. ...
Article : 299 wordsNo decision was reached yesterday by the Electrical Trade Conciliation Committee, which met in Wollongong to deal with the dispute at the Port Kembla power-house. ...
Article : 177 wordsIn accordance with instructions given to the secretary of the Timber Merchants and Sawmillers' Association Mr. W. W. Alcock) on Thursday, an application was made to ...
Article : 377 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 wordsMr. Herbert Kidd, a returned soldier, who was run over by a motor car in Summer-street on New Year's Eve, and has since been an inmate of the district hospital, died last ...
Article : 41 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Mudgee District Hospital the balance-sheet showed a debit of £242/14/1 to the general fund. There is a fixed deposit of £724/3/10 for the new ...
Article : 167 wordsDr. Ethel Osborne, of Melbourne, has returned from Geneva, where she arranged with the League of Nations Secretariat and International Labour Office to be Hatson officer in 1930 ...
Article : 149 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 310 wordsBushfires have again broken out, and fiamet 40 feet high are running up the mountain side. Fires are burning on the properties of C. A. Carlon, G. M. Hughes, and Mrs. ...
Article : 100 wordsResentment among members of the Shop As sistants' Union against the operations of an organisation of private detective agents known in the trade as the "purity gang," ...
Article : 278 wordsA girl migrant, aged 17 years, was charged before the Goulburn Children's Court yesterday morning will being an uncontrollable child. An officer of the N.S.W Child Welfare ...
Article : 132 wordsDuring last year in the Southern Police Division 7002 cases passed through the courts, compared with,6858 in 1927. Substantial increases in crime reports were noted at Ungarie ...
Article : 198 wordsAt Los Angeles the Young Australia League boys were given an enthusiastic reception, being met at the station by a delegation of Rotarians and members of the Chamber of ...
Article : 132 wordsFierce [?] raged here yesterday. Fanned by a strong wind, the flames raced over the road, and entering Hargraves' estate threatened the boarding-house. Hillcrest. The ...
Article : 72 wordsA fire which broke out in the produce store of Denhams, Ltd., Kelvin Grove-road, early this morning wrought damage to the extent of £12,000. The flames had an strong hold when ...
Article : 66 wordsPolice figures show that during 1928 332 persons were Killed in motor accidents in New South Wales. The number killed in the previous year was 273, the increase last year ...
Article : 102 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 176 wordsThere was an extension of the dispute in the timber industry to-day when the with drawal was ordered by the Australian Couneil of Trade Unions of 200 carters and drivers ...
Article : 389 wordsIt is expected that the Boulder Perseverance Company will commence the erection of a new treatment plant at an eaily date. At the annual meeting of the company in ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Orient Company has come to an arrangement with the Australian Government by which a full fortnightly mail service will once more be maintained instead of. as in the past few ...
Article : 124 wordsWorking under the direction of Chief Fire Officer Nance, the City Fire Brigade made a good save at the tar depot of the City Council in Wattle-street, ultimo, yesterday, when ...
Article : 101 wordsThe police are investigaling the mysterious disappearance of Elleen Hamilton, aged 28, described as "a strikingly beautiful stenographer." She arrived from England a week ...
Article : 102 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 wordsVernon Grigg, aged 20 years, of Napier-street. Fitzroy, was killed when a motor cycle which he was riding crashed into the rear of a motor lorry in Nicholson-street. ...
Article : 56 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 2 Feb 1929, Page 18
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: