Forbes Municipal Council has been without an engineer for years. At the last council meeting Alderman Smith stated that it was time consideration was given to the ...
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Article : 98 wordsEileen May Gleeson, 16 years old, that daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Gleeson, of Bathurst, while on a visit to Wellington, trod on a rusty nail. Though the wound ...
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Article : 263 wordsAlfred Gordon Thompson, 48, a Bathurst solicitor and a prominent citizen, was founts dying on the bathroom floor at Braemar boarding-house, Keppel-street, at 6.30 this ...
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Article : 166 wordsThe death of Mr. H. R. Rush, one of the best-known cricket legislators in Australia, occurred to-day. He had been suffering from influenza, and collapsed and died in a few ...
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Article : 219 wordsCaptain Geoffrey Hughes, president of the New South Wales Aero Club, writes concerning the proposed flying races at the Penrith Speedway on Monday, that the Aero Club is ...
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Article : 96 wordsAccording to cables received by the Swedish Consul-General in Sydney (Mr. E. Lindquist), the result of the elections to the Second Chamber of the Swedish Parliament, just ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 29 Sep 1928, Page 16
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