After a succession of days of glorious sunshine Canberra is experiencing cold and squally weather. Mount Ainslie and other moun[?] in the Federal Territory are partially covered ...
Article : 71 wordsAfter a tempestuous voyage from Noumea, the French freighter St. Joseph, towing the hulk Doulambo, arrived at Sydney yesterday morning, four days overdue. ...
Article : 262 wordsPROFESSOR J. R. PEDEN, K.C., M.L.C., who has been appointod chairman of the Royal Commission on the Commonwealth Constitution. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 23 wordsTwo new theatrical companies, each with a capital of £50,000, were registered yesterday. They are to be known respectively as Bondi Theatre and Investment Propty., Ltd., and ...
Article : 265 wordsThe demand of the A.L.P. Exccutive that only persens who signed the roll books before July 30 will be cligible to vote at the selection ballots has resulted in the ...
Article : 402 wordsWASHINGTON, D.C., May 26.—As frequently indicated, the cost of living in America is one of the important factors in the present inquiry, and the Labour members of the ...
Article : 1,479 wordsThe selection ballots to decide who will be the Lnbour candidates in the metropolitan constituencies at the State elections will take place to-day. ...
Article : 288 wordsThe A.L.P. executive decided last night to permit the 86 supporters of Mr. Mutch in the Botany electorate, who were disfranchised to vote in the selection ballot to-day, under ...
Article : 65 wordsThree very old residents of the Denman district have died. They are Mrs. Buchanan, of Baerami, at the age of 103 years; Mr. Benjamin T. Baxter, of Baerami, at the age ...
Article : 63 wordsAt the Revision Court for Bathurst electorate yesterday, a total of 351 names were added to the roll. Objections were lodged against the retention of 150 names, and in 134 cases ...
Article : 43 wordsLast night Inspcetor Constantine, of Albury, accompanied by six police officers, raided the recreation hall at Hume Weir, suspection that illegal gaming was being carried on. ...
Article : 68 wordsA meeting of more than 150 friends and supporters of Mr. H. V. Jaques, who intends to contest the Bondi seat as a straight-out Nationalist, was held in the Bondi-Waverley ...
Article : 333 wordsBranches of the Couutry party have been formed here, and at Coramba and Glenreagh during the past few days. Mr. R. S. Vincent, M.L.A., attended and spoke. Another branch ...
Article : 57 wordsThe local branch of the Returned Soldiers' Leagues has received a letter from the Minister for Health, stating that an amount up to £600 will be granted for the purpose of ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. W. T. Sturgess, who nominated against the Premier (Mr. Lang) for the Auburu seat, has decided to withdraw from the selection ballot. ...
Article : 70 wordsArising out of a disastrous fire which swept over the Stonyford district near Camperdown on February 11 last Mrs. Mary Ellen Speed, formerly of Stonyford, has brought an action ...
Article : 231 wordsAt the request of the Municipal Employees' Union, the Labour aldernion intend to take the necessary action to have Mr. Bayly former Superintendent of the City Council garage, ...
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Article : 42 wordsThe Kempsey Municipal Council has circularised other councils throughout the State, requesting—(1) support for a movement to ensure that all taxation under the Main Roads ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Lang) informed a deputation of returned soldiers yesterday that the State Government would be prepared to guarantee the whole of the expenses of the ...
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Article : 139 wordsMr. Cruickshank, Acting Minister for Labour aNd Industry addressing a large meeting of [?] secretaries at the Trades Hall on Thursday morning, reviewed the industrial ...
Article : 258 wordsThe Master Haidressers' Association has decided to increase the charge for a shave from /6 to /9 from Monday next. The charge for cutting women's hair was increased to 2/ at ...
Article : 40 wordsBound from Tarakan to Sydney and Melbourne with about 8000 tons of liquid fuel the tanker Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe ran aground on York Road Shea[?] on Thursday ...
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Article : 135 wordsHarold Arthur Cossill, charged on six counts, with embezzlement and misappropriation, was, before his Honor Judge White, at the Wollongong Quarter Sessions to-day, ...
Article : 45 wordsCOOLAMON.—Steady rain commenced to fall at about 8 o'clock last night. There has been an acute shortage of water throughout the district, many of the tanks on farms being ...
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Article : 79 wordsA correspondent suggests that the placing of a warning sign at the corner of Victoria and Seaview streets, Ashfield, may avert serious accidents in the future. During the past ...
Article : 69 wordsDr. Nott, M.P., introduced to the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) a deputation, which urged the construction of a railway from Camooweal to Bourke. It was urged that the ...
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Article : 112 wordsThe unveiling of the memorial gates at the entrance to the Soldiers' Memorial Hall by Sir Neville Howse, M.P., was an impressive ceremony. More than 1500 people were present. ...
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Article : 137 wordsThe Consul-General for France (M. Louis Nettement), and other prominent members of the Frenen colony in Sydney attended the Marcelin Borthelot memorial lecture delivered ...
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Article : 66 wordsAt Bathurst Police Court, Hebert Dunne, 29 was sentenced to six months imprisonment on a charge of stealing a rug from a motor car, while it was parked in the main ...
Article : 59 wordsThe mysterious death of John William Law, aged 16 years, which occurred in the Armidale and New England Hospital last night, following upon injuries received at the Armidale ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Premier stated yesterday that £1,000,000 will be expended this year on main roads within New South Wales as the result of an agreement arrived at between the. ...
Article : 88 wordsWhile carrying a pea-rific near his home in Windsor-street. Richmond, Ray Meyers, 15 years, accidentally pulled the trigger, and a bullet entered his right foot. At the ...
Article : 49 wordsSpeaking at the annual general meeting of shareholders of the Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Company on Thursday night. Mr. A. K. Trethowan, M.L.C. (managing director), ...
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Article : 138 wordsThe Richmond Municipal Council has decided to approach the City Council and the Railway Commissioners with the object of securing a supply of electric power from ...
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Article : 130 wordsThe master of the steamer St. Joseph which arrived from Noumea ysterday, stated that the Compagnie Navale de [?] the owners of the St. Francois Xavier, which was ...
Article : 100 wordsThere were 1342 applications for a ballot for three blocks at Billy's Lookout, and 849 were admitted to the ballot, which took place yesterday afternoon. The successful applicants ...
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Article : 232 wordsThe Acting Minister for Mines (Mr. Willis) said yesterday he considered that ample latitude had now been afforded the owners of coal mines and coke works in the matter of ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Main Southern-road is to be diverted from the end of the township of Camden, via Murray and Broughton streets to Menangleroad, thence to Cawdor-road junction and ...
Article : 89 wordsWhile riding to school yesterday morning Joyce Pratt, the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Pratt, of Tygalgah, fell from her horse and broke her left arm. She had ...
Article : 45 words"Borrowing by the State and by the various semi-Government authorities will be restricted so far as possible for the present." said the Premier (Mr. Hogan) yesterday. He added ...
Article : 92 wordsSurprise was caused by the announcement to-day that Mr. Goodin, M.L.A., the sitting Labour member for Murray, who has [?] prominent in the breakaway movement ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 wordsDuring his present tour of the Commonwealth the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) will have covered 20,000 miles when he has completed his 3200 miles' tour of Queensland. He ...
Article : 59 wordsThe recently erected bridge over Friday's Creek was opened on Wednesday by Mr. Boultwood. President of the Dorrigo Shire Council. Mrs. [?]ltwood cut the ...
Article : 126 wordsA verdict of suicide was returned to-day by the district coroner, at the inquiry into the death of Lexi Gertrude Larkin, aged 20 years, which occurred in the Albion Hotel. ...
Article : 127 wordsTo have a snake crawl over his left arm while he was lopping a tree at Great Marlow was the experience of R. Lennox, line [?] In the Postal Department. Lennox was about ...
Article : 100 wordsThe provisional executive of the A.L.P. decided last night to abandon the selection ba[?] in the Phillin electorate, and to exereise on some future date the right given ...
Article : 75 wordsFive prom[?] Dunedin business men— James S. Campbell, Samuel Campbell. Charles J. T. A. Lowery, Frederick W. Bamfiel, and Clifford Peel—were convicted at the Supreme ...
Article : 69 wordsA property in Church-street, Parramatta, sold this week realised £8500, equivalent to £170 per foot. Although not a record price this is one of the highest prices over ...
Article : 39 wordsMiss Marion Taveunl, the 16-year-old daughter of Mr. Douglas Taveuni, a planter, disappeared three days ago. Foul play is feared. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 6 Aug 1927, Page 16
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