Surprise was caused by the announcement to-day of the Chief Federal Commissioner (Sir John Butters) that no statement of the intentions of the Commission would be issued ...
Article : 154 wordsA historic flag was included in the decorations at the Anzac Day luncheon given to the returned soldiers by Mrs. Bartlett. It was flown at Mafeking during the Boer war, and ...
Article : 70 wordsFurther evidence regarding the national war memorial which it is proposed to build at Canberra, at a cost of £250,000, was given before the Federal Public Works Committee ...
Article : 281 wordsUnassuming and active as ever Mr. John Taylor Lingen, K.C., celebrated his eightieth birthday yesterday. Mr. Lingen, one of the oldest barristers in New South Wales, retired ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 794 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Forgan Smith) referred to-day to a report that a deputation had waited on the Assistant Minister for Agriculture of Victoria, in Melbourne, ...
Article : 165 wordsAmong many unpleasant suits which come before the Judges in Equity was one yesterday in which a wife sued her husband for an order for the custody of a son ot their ...
Article : 131 words"Community service is an ideal, more or less in the air[?] but is awakening interest; and the spirit is getting behind activities of one kind and another," said Mr. F. E. Barraclough, ...
Article : 606 wordsInquiries are being made by the police and postal departments regarding the disappearance of a large sum from a mailbag sent from Adelaide on Tuesday. ...
Article : 75 wordsDuring shunting operations in the railway station yard an engine ran over the end of a shunting set of rails and up a steep bank a distance of 12 or 14 feet until it stood ...
Article : 106 wordsTypes of architecture and the efficiency of workmen at Canberra were criticised to-day by Mr. George McLeish, an architect, who gave evidence before the public accounts ...
Article : 345 wordsThe lunch-hour closing experiment in Goulburn has not proved a success, and traders have now gone back to the old practice of keeping their shops open continuously from ...
Article : 43 wordsTwo hale and hearty persons, Mr. Charles B. Henville, 87 years of age, and Mrs. Henville, 82 years of age, living in Villiers-street, Kensington, celebrated their 64th marriage ...
Article : 195 wordsFurther protests have been made to the State Government against the carrying of the Host in the forthcoming Eucharistie procession. Representations have been made to ...
Article : 464 wordsAn official of the State branch of the Australian Seamen's Union has been called upon to explain the disappearance of funds of the union totalling £300. ...
Article : 117 wordsThe jury returned a finding of accidental death at the inquest held by the coroner (Mr. R. C. Atkinson, S.M.) into the death of Robert William Hocking, following an accident ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Wollondilly Shire Council has been endeavouring to secure Government assistance to open the road from Camdon, via Burragorang Valley and Cox's River, to Wentworth ...
Article : 118 wordsAt the meeting of the council, the Mayor (Alderman Watts) spoke in bitter terms of the North Australia Commission. He said that a water shortage for supplying passing ...
Article : 93 wordsA shocking tragedy occurred last night at the railway station, when one of the employees, Jack Costa, of Broadmeadow, Newcastle, was dushed to pieces by the mail ...
Article : 104 wordsBut for the prompt and gallant action of Stanley Woodworth, of Victoria Park, William Patterson, an old-age pensioner and a helpless cripple, would have been burnt to ...
Article : 190 wordsIt was pointed out on behalf of the Ministers yesterday, that the Government did not propose to appoint an Acting Judge to the Supreme Court Bench until the present law ...
Article : 285 wordsSoldiers' grievances were discussed at meetings of the Nationalist and Country parties yesterday, and a proposal for the establishment of boards of appeal, made during ...
Article : 104 wordsAt tne District court, before Judge White, [?] two cases were heard in which claims were made for dnmages sustained through collisions with motor cars. J. Izzard, mail ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Royal Packet steamer Houtman ran aground in Moreton Bay at 3.30 o'clock yesterday morning, but came off without help at 10 a.m., and proceeded on her way to ...
Article : 124 wordsAfter his inquiry yesterday into the death of William Hanson Spicer, the City Coroner (Mr. Fletcher) returned a finding of death from injur[?]es received probably from ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Prime Minister has announced that the Queensland Government had agreed to lend the services of Mr. J. W. Bleakley, Chief Protector of Aborigines of that State, to the ...
Article : 52 wordsGoulburn's first eisteddfod was opened yesterday. Three sessions were held, and were well attended by the public. More than 1100 competitors are taking part, three States ...
Article : 567 wordsIt was learned in Sydney yesterday that Inspector Mackay, chief of the criminal investigation branch of the New South Wales Police Department, and Mr. S. Y. Maling, ...
Article : 118 wordsA terrible experience befell an old man near Blacktown on Thursday night. He lay unconscious in a pool of water all night before he was found. ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Memorial Hall was crowded for the Anzac Day memorial service. Appropriate music was sung by a combined choir, and addresses were given by the Mayor and the Revs. W. M. ...
Article : 619 wordsAs reported in our issue of yesterday, Mr. Quinton, who was widely known in New South Wales sporting circles, died at West Maitland on Thursday afternoon, aged 85 years. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 36 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Sir William Glasgow) announced to-day that the Government had recently considered the ranks and seniority held by senior officers of the Royal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 wordsMr. James McMahon, president of the Sane Democracy League, has supplied the following statement:"The announcement that Mr. J. S. Garden ...
Article : 512 wordsThe funeral of Mr. Robert B. Wilkinson, managing director of Wilkinson and Lavende[?], Ltd., who died at Strathfield on Thursday[?] was held in the St. Thomas' Church Cemetery. ...
Article : 184 wordsThe City Commissioners have requested the State Government so to amend the Sydney Corporation Act as to permit them to go on the New York market, if necessary, for city loan ...
Article : 159 wordsMr. J. S. Garden, secretary of the Labour Council, claimed yesterday that his appointment to the executive of the Red International of Labour Unions did not have any political ...
Article : 72 wordsA. W. Winter, the Olympic hop, step, and jump champion, has been selected to represent Australia in the next Olympic Games at Amsterdam. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 215 wordsSuburban collections in aid of the Hospital Saturday Fund had realised over £1230 at 9 o'clock last night. The collections in Paddington and Balmain ...
Article : 101 wordsThe garage and oil and petrol sections of the Motor Traders' Association of New South Wales have agreed to sell petrol at two shillings a gallon for first grade and 1/10 for ...
Article : 45 wordsSenator McLochlan, Assistant Minister, will lead the Australian delegation to the League of Nation's annual meeting at Gene[?] in September. The announcement of his ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Steamer Tutanekal reports that Falcon Island was in eruption last night, and that its length bad increased to two miles. ...
Article : 28 words"I desire to give the most emphatic contradiction," said Dr. Arthur (Minister for Health) yesterday. "to allegations that I wished to secure a cheapened milk supply for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 wordsA warm tribute to the personal qualities and capabilities of Mr. Bavin was paid last evening by the Acting-Premier (Mr. Buttenshaw) in a speech before the Sydney division ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Rev. R. Noble, M.A., principal of the Edwards College, Peshawur, lecturing to the University Christian Union, made some noteworthy remarks regarding the prevalence of ...
Article : 200 wordsTown Rollt Moiselwitsch recital, 8. Criterion Theatre: "The High Road," 8. Her Majesty's: "Rose Marie," 2, 7.50. Theatre Royal: "Rookery Nook," 7.50. ...
Article : 193 wordsAmong the features of the British Music Society's concert at the King's Hall on Thursday night was the charming fantasy for strings with which William Yeates Huristone, ...
Article : 192 wordsIn giving evidence before the Royul Commission on child endowment yesterday, Mrs. L. Lynch, honorary secretary of the Women's Central Organising Committee of the ...
Article : 116 wordsThe work of converting the lighthouse steamer Cape L[?]win from a toal to an oil burner has been completed. The vessel has been manned by a crew of commenwealth ...
Article : 47 wordsThe [?]ob printing section of the Printing Industry Employees' Union urges that in view of the Employers' Federation's decision to support the master printers in the dispute, ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Orient liner Orama will be eight days behind schedule when she leaves Sydney at 4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, but it is expected that, by omitting the call at ...
Article : 147 wordsIt was announced at the annual meeting of the Electrical Empoyers' Association last night that the association had undertaken the lighting free of charge of the Great Hall of ...
Article : 99 wordsThe All-Australian Council of Trade unions last night carried a resolution protesting against the failure of the Commomwealth Arbitration Court to keep fa[?] with the unions ...
Article : 87 wordsMy a majority judgment of the Full Court to-day Mr. A. G. Ogilvie, a legal practitioner, was upheld in his explanation of matters regarding which he had been called upon to show ...
Article : 75 wordsIn conformity with an amendment made to the Factorles and Shops Act by the Lang Government, providing that in every factory there should be a first-aid ambulance chest, ...
Article : 61 wordsBeatrice Macdonald, writing to the Editor, suggests that some provision should be made for keeping alive the flowers placed by the public on the Cenotaph. A trough about six ...
Article : 74 wordsAt a meeting of shareholders of 3AR to-night proposals were agreed to for co-ordinating the broadcasting services from 3LO and 3AR, the two Victorian "A" class ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 28 Apr 1928, Page 18
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