"The situation in the mining areas of Britain has no parallel within living memory," says Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Minister for Health, in a letter to a conference of Mayors, called ...
Article : 191 wordsThe annual flag competition of the Berrima District Scouts was held on the showground. The judge for general scout work in the district was the scoutmaster of the South Coast, ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Alfred Shackel, a well-known member of many charitable committees, collapsed and died at a meeting of the combined Jewish philanthropic societies last night. ...
Article : 99 wordsAn acetylene cylinder burst, but no one was injured. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 23 wordsNotice of intention to apply the guillotine having been given, and the sessional orders having been suspended to allow the Legislative Assembly to sit after 10.30 p.m., ...
Article : 2,325 wordsWhen Mr. A. H. Yates attended the Holy Trinity Church on Sunday night he left his car in the church yard. On leaving he found that the car was missing. The police were ...
Article : 86 wordsMrs. James Mechan, of Church-street, had a narrow escape from serious injury by lightning. Accompanied by her two daughters she was sheltering under the Club Hotel ...
Article : 76 wordsDuring last month a woman, who had been sitting reading in a city reading-room, rose to depart and found that her handbag was missing. Believing that it had been stolen, ...
Article : 127 wordsScott Hurley, 20, was sentenced at the Lismore Quarter Sessions to three years' impriso[?]ment in connection with a charge if maliciously wounding William Michael Woods ...
Article : 120 wordsThere was a sensational ending to a libel action brought by William Cooper Hobbs, who figured on the "Mr. A" case. Hobbs sued the Liverpool "Evening Express" in connection ...
Article : 361 wordsPretoria May Hicks proceeded, before Mr. Justice Draper yesterday, for the annulment of her marriage within the prohibited degrees with Walter Joseph Hicks on the grounds ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Goulburn Aero Club's plane, the secretary states in a report, has flown 20,000 miles since it started operations a few months ago. All that has been spent on repairs is 3/6 for ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. F. E. Chapman and Mrs. Chapman, parents of the English cricket captain A. P. F. Chapman arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Oronsay from England. They are here ...
Article : 224 wordsClaiming that the Legislative Council amendments to the Income Tax (Management) Bill did not affect the financial policy of the Government, the Premier (Mr. Bavin), in the ...
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Article : 68 wordsThe new timetable for the express rail service provides for a reduction of the running time of the limited express from Albury to Sydney by 20 minutes. Further improvements ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is stated on good authority at Bombala that the forming of the Mount Darragh-road will be completed in February, when the money granted for this work will be ...
Article : 68 wordsHolden's Motor Body Works, one of the largest employers of labour in the State, has announced that the works will be closed from December 21 to January 7, preparing for ...
Article : 78 wordsSpeaking at Victoria in support of the candidature of Mr. D. P. Plunkett on Tuesday, Mr. R. B. Bennett, the Conservative leader, made his first direct attack on the Australian ...
Article : 130 wordsAt the police court Alfred W. Johnson was fined £10 for a breach of the Gaming and Betting Act. Johnson keeps a ha[?]rdressing saloon, and when the promises were searched ...
Article : 73 wordsThe one topic of conversation in Woy woy to-day is the case of Martin Jacobsen, aged 28 years, who has been sentenced to death on a charge or having committed a capital ...
Article : 278 wordsFour Italian children had a narrow escape from death at East Perth yesterday. One of them placed a detonator on a boot last and, while the others pressed it close, he ...
Article : 88 wordsIn connection with increased facilities for water storage for the town the Public Works Department has informed the council that it is inadvisable to raise the height of the ...
Article : 57 wordsIn the Legislative Council the Income Tax (Management) Bill was read the third time. The debate is reported in another column, LOCAL GOVERNMENT (AMENDMENT) ...
Article : 575 wordsDisaster fell heavily on the heads of the members of the British tennis team in their matches at Kooyong to-day, as they lost seven of the eight matches in which they played ...
Article : 408 wordsA car driven by Mr. G. Limbers, with Mrs. Vellis and child as passengers, collided with a stump, and the occupants were thrown out. Mrs. Vellis received some abrasions on the ...
Article : 75 wordsTo enable Cambridge University to accept the Rockefeller Foundation's promised grant of £700,000, towards the developments of agriculture, biology, and physics, and to build a ...
Article : 146 wordsA correspondent, "E.L.," in a letter to the Editor, refers to a reduction of 10/ a ton in the price of flour, and asks if it is not time that the bakers brought down the price of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe death occurred on Tuesday night of Mr. John Sinclair, of Waterloo Station, Glen Innes, at the age of 84. He is survived by four sonsMessrs. Colin, Duncan, John, and Archibaid— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 162 wordsMany complaints have been made by Goulburn municipal electors regarding what they describod as a flaw in the Local Government Act, which makes no provision whereby ...
Article : 146 wordsIn a long speech at the Moscow conference of village industrial informers, M. Bukharin advocated propagation of the "war bogey" as the best means of welding the breach between ...
Article : 123 words"No one can accuse me of being a prohibitionist, but surely no one, whatever his fiscal views, would be prepared to see Australian industries crushed out of existence by the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 212 wordsWilliam James Marshall, 27, and employee of the Bannockburn Shire Council was found unconscious beside his motor bicycle, on the Bannockburn-road, three miles from town. He ...
Article : 52 wordsIn the House of Commons a bill, introduced by Mr. Kenworthy (Lab.), substituting life imprisonment for the death penalty, was read a first time by 119 votes to 18. ...
Article : 350 wordsMr. A. Cowin, coroner, conducted an inquiry concerning the deaths by drowning of Florence Mae Irving and Kathleen Cregin at the Berembed Weir on Sunday. ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Minister for Lands (Mr. Ball) in the Legislative Assembly yesterday read a letter from the manager and secretary of the Sydney Cricket Ground regarding the action ...
Article : 240 wordsUnder the supervision of Senior Detective Dunn, who is in charge of investigations into the bomb outrages in Melbourne, a party of police from the city visited different parts ...
Article : 200 wordsThe police at Broome have received a message from Mungi aboriginal station, near Port George, that a fight occurred between station and bush natives at a camp a mile and a half ...
Article : 114 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions, before Judge Coyle George Leslie Duncombe, formerly postmaster at South Broken Hill, was found not guilty on a charge of misappropriation of £72/17/6. ...
Article : 186 wordsHer Majesty's Theatre: "The Vagabond King," 7.50. Theatre Royal: "On Approval," 8. Criterion Theatre: "The Palsy," 8. St. James Theatre: "Good News," 8. ...
Article : 128 wordsPhillip Charles Lyte, aged about 33 years, of Sherwood-road, Ivanhoe, was fatally crushed at the premises of Buckley and Nunn, Bourke-street, to-day, when he fell between ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 7 Dec 1928, Page 14
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