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  2. BUSH FIRES.

    A proposal to organise the district into sectors for fire-fighting purposes has been outlined by Mr. Lingard Simpkin, manager of the Wantabadgery West Station. The scheme ...

    Article : 188 words
  3. TARIFF BOARD.

    The Tariff Board yesterday concluded, its inquiry into the application for increased duty on matches. Harold Crofton Sleigh, a wooden match ...

    Article : 496 words
  4. MINING TRAGEDY.

    In the course of sluicing operations last week at Eldorado the Cocks Pioneer Company discovered at a depth of 70 feet some relics of a mining tragedy which occurred in 1868, ...

    Article : 142 words
  5. MINERS' FEDERATION.

    At a meeting of the council of the Miners' Federation, it was decided to reject the appeal lodged by Mr. R. Prideaux against the decision of the Nortborn Delegate Board to declare ...

    Article : 437 words
  6. RICHTHOFEN.

    A correspondent, who signs himself "Eye Witness," writes as follows to the Editor of the "Herald":- Many people must wonder why at this stage. ...

    Article : 929 words
  7. HUME RESERVOIR.

    It is feared that the economy policy that is being applied to other Government works will in the immediate future operate to the disadvantage of Hume Reservoir construction ...

    Article : 180 words
  8. Advertising

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    Advertising : 221 words
  9. RIFLE CLUBS.

    The Director of Rifle Associations and Clubs. in his report for the year ended June 30, 1927, said that he was impressed by the efficiency and enthusiasm of the officals who controlled ...

    Article : 231 words
  10. OBITUARY.

    The funeral of Mr. William Arthur Medlicott took place yesterday at Waverley Cemetery. Born in Melbourne, he came to Sydney 38 years ago, where, in conjunction with ...

    Article : 235 words
  11. MAROUBRA HOUSE.

    As a sequel to a police raid on a dwelling house in Bond-street, Maroubra Bay, on December 21, six men and a woman appeared at the Central Court yesterday to answer ...

    Article : 137 words
  12. RAILWAY DESIRED.

    Testimony in favour of the construction of a railway line between Murwillumbah and Tweed Heads was given by Mr. E. M. Smith, president of the Chamber of Commerce, before ...

    Article : 322 words
  13. THE TARIFF.

    The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. McLeod), referring to the Australian proposal to raise the duty on New Zealand butter, said, when in Australia, he urged the Government to ...

    Article : 154 words
  14. TRAFFIC PROBLEMS.

    Objection has been taken by the State executive of the Australian Tramway Employees' Association to the fact that there is no representative of the tramway employees on ...

    Article : 162 words
  15. REV. FREDERICK NORTH.

    The Rev. Frederick North, who was for some years minister of the Congregational Church at Waverley, died recently in Queensland. Mr, North was spending a holiday at Glass House ...

    Article : 175 words
  16. ARBITRATION.

    A meeting of the emergency committee of the Australian Council of Trade Unions was held to-day to consider amendments in the Commonswealth Conciliation and Arbitration ...

    Article : 69 words
  17. BULLET THROUGH BODY.

    Ernest Harold Thomas William Oliver (16) called at a private residence at the corner of Oxide and Schlapp streets yesterday with blood coming from a wound in his chest. He ...

    Article : 100 words
  18. GIANT SUNFISH.

    The steamer Kairanga collided with what is thought to have been a giant sunfish a day after leaving Melbourne. The fish, which was about 14ft long, was impaled across the ...

    Article : 60 words
  19. MR. E. HEWITT.

    The death has occurred at his residence, at William-street, Granville, of Mr. Edward Hewitt, formerly a Well-known grazier. He was born at Wilton, and engaged in the ...

    Article : 81 words
  20. ATHERTON TABLELANDS.

    The Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Davidson), who has just returned from a visit to the Atherton Tablelands, expressed the view that next winter there will be a heavy influx of ...

    Article : 71 words
  21. BISHOP MAZEL.

    The death is announced by cable of the Right Rev. Julian Adrian Mazel, Regionary Bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church in Holland and the Dutch East Indies. Bishop Mazel ...

    Article : 169 words
  22. Advertising

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    Advertising : 303 words
  23. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—The account given by Mr. Bean, as per "Herald," January 13, 1928, of the death of the above, is absolutely correct. I witnessed the fight above, the following of our 'plane ...

    Article : 254 words
  24. MR. THOMAS DICKSON.

    The death has occurred at Auburn of Mr. Thomas Dickson, On employee of the Department of Education for more than 30 years. He was born at Glasgow, and came to ...

    Article : 128 words
  25. MRS. E. FRANKLAND.

    The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Frankland, of Dowling-street, Paddington, occurred on January 7, at the age of 59 years. Mrs. Frankland, who had spent all her life ...

    Article : 72 words
  26. CANBERRA.

    The Chief Commissioner of Canberra (Sir John Butters) said to-day that in its policy of retrenchment the Federal Capital Commission was scrutinising carefully overy Case of ...

    Article : 153 words
  27. MR. JOHN PAYNE.

    Mr. John Payne, M.L.A., for Mitchell, and one of the pioneers of the Labour movement in Queensland, died at Brisbane after a long illness. ...

    Article : 31 words
  28. THE WEATHER.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 words
  29. NEW OIL TANKER.

    The tanker Voco, which was recently completed at Glasgow for the Vacuum Oil Company Proprietary, Ltd., has carried out Successful trials. ...

    Article : 122 words
  30. CENTRAL-SQUARE.

    The City commissioners have received no communication from the Government to suggest that it is within the Commissioners province to repurchase the triangular piece of ...

    Article : 120 words
  31. CHAMPION CHESS PLAYER'S DEATH.

    The death has occurred of Mr. A. W. O. Davies, the New Zealand chess champion, at the age of 52 years, He had been champion four times, and defeated Mr. W. S. Viner, the ...

    Article : 46 words
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