Labour members in the House of Representatives to-day offered vigorous opposition to the introduction of the bill to amend the Transport Workers Act. The effect of the ...
Article : 2,185 wordsOn the motion of the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) this afternoon, the House of Representatives agreed to the election to the Public Accounts Committee of Messrs. ...
Article : 456 wordsThe forces of All Ahmed Jan, who was proclaimed ruler at Jalalobad, were defeated by Khuglanl and Shinwari tribesmen, who looted the camp of rifles, ammunition, and ...
Article : 133 wordsCommissioner Edward Higgins, who has been chosen by the High Council of the Salvation Army as leader of the organisation. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 250 wordsThere was a stormy meeting of the Bathurst Council, when the application of the power-house engineer (Mr. J. Muston) for permission to withdraw his resignation Was ...
Article : 146 wordsA man's body, which was found in a creek near the Council Chambers, proved to be that of George Edward Parsons, 53 years, of Wandsworth, No marks of violence were ...
Article : 38 wordsThe services of an export landscape gardener are to be employed by the Forbes Council to help in its extensive and costly beautification scheme. It was stated at the ...
Article : 87 wordsSir Granville Ryrie, who has been accompanying Mr. Rudyard Kipling on an inspection of war graves in Egypt, has been advised to return to London owing to Indisposition. It ...
Article : 61 wordsThere has been an agitation for years for a bridge over the Murrumbidgee River, between Wagga and Narrandera. When Mr. Flannery was Minister for Works ...
Article : 127 wordsAllan Williamson, who was convicted on Tuesday of being an accessory to forging and attering in October last year, was sentenced to two years hard labour by his Honor, Judge ...
Article : 121 wordsThe submarines Otway and Oxley, built in England for the Commonwealth Navy, entered Sydney Heads at dusk yesterday, twelve hours ahead of schedule. ...
Article : 531 wordsA message from Berlin states that the Press made practically no comment on the Ex-Kalser's preface to the "Letters of the Empress Frederick." ...
Article : 69 wordsA double set of tram cars left the rails at the foot of a hill at Balgowlah last night. The leading car travelled 50 yards before it carne to a standstill in the golf links. ...
Article : 237 wordsSpeaking at Carlingford last night, BrigadierGeneral Lloyd (National candidate for Parramatta) replied to the attack made by Mr. Lang upon the Bavin Government. ...
Article : 383 wordsAlthough the State Cabinet completed the draft of the Transport Bill some time ago, it seems that Ministers are not yet satisfied with some of the provisions, particularly in regard ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. A. Ingram, of Messrs. Sherrin and Ingram, butchers, of Bombala, while working In their slaughter yards, slipped off the scaffold. In falling his arm caught in a sharp ...
Article : 82 wordsDiving into shallow water in Crawley Baths Jack Pearsall, 17, of Mount Magnet, who was on holiday in Perth, dislocated his spine in several places, and died half an hour ...
Article : 70 wordsAdmiral Togo, who commanded the Japanese fleet at Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese war. is seriously ill. Fears are entertained that he may not recover. The admiral is in his ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the Senate the debate on the motion for the adoption of the Address in Reply was continued. Senator Foll (Q.) said that there were many ...
Article : 390 wordsMr. R. T. Hole, representing the Minister for Local Government, inquired into the Jemalong Shire Council's proposal to increase the rate from 2d in the £ to 2½d for 1929 and ...
Article : 184 wordsSpeaking last night at the annual meeting of the Band of Hope Union, the Rev. R. B. S. Hammond said that only a short while ago those associated with the temperance ...
Article : 105 wordsMr. Walter Smith, a vigneron from South Australia, who toured South Africa for three months, was asked by an interviewer whether if Australia considered nersolf placed at a ...
Article : 137 wordsThe State Cabinet yesterday approved the appointment of Mr. Edward Milner Stephen as an Acting Supreme Court Judge. The now Judge will hold the appointment for 12 months ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 89 wordsMr. Maurice Walsh, a grazier of Goolagong, and a resident of the district for the last 60 years has died. The late Mr. Walsh, who was a native of Windsor, came to the Cowra, ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Minister for Mines said to-day that he was anxiously awaiting the complete report of the Commonwealth Government geologist (Dr. Woolnough) on the search for oil ...
Article : 300 wordsIt is stated that the postponed New Year honours will be issued towards the end of the month. The list will be shorter than usual. ...
Article : 416 wordsThe hospital committee last night severely criticised the Government for its apparent unwillingness to legislate in the direction of a univorsal tax for the upkeep of hospitals. ...
Article : 58 wordsThomas Fernie, 35 years, was found hanging by a rope attached to a hook on the wall of his house at Green Hills, near Mudgee. The body was quite naked, and in a huddled ...
Article : 82 wordsSpeaking in support of the Nationalist candidate for the Parramatta seat, BrigadierGeneral Lloyd, the Minister for Local Government (Mr. Bruxner) said:— ...
Article : 420 wordsThe municipal golf links at Moore Park have been declared by the Country and Suburban Golf Association to be unfit for the playing of A grade matches. In consequence of this ...
Article : 362 wordsMembers of the Executive Migration Committee visited Nyngan this morning to bear the advocates in favour of the classification of the Nyngan-Condobolln proposed railway ...
Article : 89 wordsThe seven nurses who recently tendered their resignations from the Tweed District Hospital staff informed the committee that they desired to withdraw them, and that ...
Article : 85 wordsThe curiosity of Constable Emerson, of the Ashfield police, yesterday afternoon resulted in the arrest of two men and the clearing up of a robbery before it had been reported to ...
Article : 328 wordsThinking to get rid of a detonator which had misfired in a colliery, Harold Longdon, a miner, living in the Vale of Clwydd, threw It in a fire in the backyard. It exploded, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 174 wordsWhile one of the ambulance waggons attached to the Canterbury-Bankstown station was conveying a patient to Western Suburbs Hospital last night it left the roadway in ...
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Article : 256 wordsIn the Traffic Court to-day, the magistrate(Mr. H. D. Moseley, P.M.) imposed a fine of £25 on Arthur Albert Johnson, contractor, of South-street, Fremantle, and ordered that he ...
Article : 103 wordsSpeaking at Parramatta, in support of Drigadler-General Lloyd, Mr. Morrow made an attack on the last Lang Administration, and warned his hearers against voting for "this ...
Article : 164 wordsTwo workmen, William Webb, 41, of Evans-street, Rozelle, and Christopher Byers, 42, of Edie-street, Leichhardt, were severely injured yesterday afternoon as the result of a quantity ...
Article : 82 wordsThe adoption at raliway stations in this State of the American system, which eliminated platforms, was declared to-day to be inevitable by Mr. J. D. Reid (area railway commissioner ...
Article : 105 wordsDespite the rains of the past few days, little benefit accrued to the water storage at Manly. Only 76 points of rain fell on the Manly catchment area during the 21 hours ended 6 a.m. ...
Article : 99 wordsTheatre Royal: "The Wrecker," 8. Her Majesty's Theatre: "Hit the Deck," 8. Criterion Theatre: "The Patsy." 8. Palace theatre: "New Brooms," 8.15. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe following Nationalist meetings have been arranged for to-night:— Eight o'clock, Epping, Monument corner, open-air. Spenkers: Brigadier-General Lloyd. ...
Article : 82 wordsJohn McNamara, 36 years old, of Perouse-road, Randwick, committed suicide in dramatic circumstances in a house in High-street, North Sydney, yesterday afternoon. It is ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 15 Feb 1929, Page 14
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