The Wagga brauch of the A.L P. has adopted a resolution requesting the Premier to appoint an independent committee to inquire into the case of Maximilian John Foy, who is ...
Article : 105 words"Though Canada had four delegates I was the sole Australian representative at the great International Wheat Conference in Rome," said Professor R. D. Watt, of the Chair of ...
Article : 156 wordsAt a meeting of the Society to Advocate Country Killing, held in the Royal Society's rooms in Elizabeth-street last night, it was decided that as there seemed little chance of ...
Article : 266 wordsThe position at the Glanville Dockyards took a fresh turn to-day, when the men, who censed work on Friday, received a letter from the Harbours Board stating that they ...
Article : 146 wordsThe manner in which the Australian meat business is conducted in London was criticised before the Royal Commission appointed by the State Ministry to investigate the affairs ...
Article : 302 wordsLatest advices from Norfolk Island indicate that by a small majority the island council decided in favour of a petition requesting the prohibition of the use of motor vehicles. ...
Article : 143 words"I resent both personally and on behalf of the party to which I belong the charge that the Nationalists are dominated and controlled by a body sneeringly referred to by Mr. Lang ...
Article : 364 wordsThe largest and most enthusiastic meeting of the present election campaign was addressed last night at the Ashfield Town Hall by the leader of the Nationalist party (Mr. ...
Article : 1,783 wordsA municipal by-election to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Alderman J. T. Bail resulted: H. C. Cleeland (Labour), 732 votes; D. S. Noble (Nationalist), 622; W. E. ...
Article : 45 words"Anything I could say about Mr. Lang would be a more trifle compared to the very caustic criticism that has been indulged in by his erstwhile supporters," said Mr. A. Bruntnell, ...
Article : 620 wordsThieves last night broke into the office of Mr. W. K. Day, auctioneer, and into Mr. J. J. Hodgson's store. They did not interfere with safes, but stole a large quantity of stamps ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 641 wordsThat London, when its population had reached the 12,000,000 mark, would be unable to provide its population with an adequate supply of water, is the contention of ...
Article : 170 wordsAccording to a report published in a Brisbane Labour paper, the State secretary of the A.W.U. (Mr. W. J. Riordan) recommended acceptance, by the strikers at South ...
Article : 178 wordsThe exceptionally long spell of dry weather has resulted in good progress being made with work on the Moss Vale-Robertson section of the Port Kembla railway. A start is now being ...
Article : 59 wordsReplying yesterday to a deputation from the Women's Organising Committee of the A.L.P., which had urged the establishment of maternity wards at all hospitals in the State, ...
Article : 208 wordsSome time ago the municipal council wrote to the Railway Commissioners complaining of the conduct of school children, who were allowed to turn the; trains into playgrounds ...
Article : 67 wordsTrouble is expected to arise 'out of a decision of the Trades and Labour Council to call a stop-work meeting of all building operatives employed in the city for ...
Article : 94 wordsEnumerating the "unfair and dishonourable tactics," which, he claimed, resulted in his defeat at the Hartley pre-selection ballot, Mr. J. Dooley, M.L.A., in an address to the ...
Article : 552 wordsAt the last meeting of the'committee of the Berrima District Hospital it was decided to have plans prepared for a soldiers' memorial children's ward, towards the erection of which ...
Article : 60 wordsBefore Judge Foster and a jury in the General Sessions to-day, Thomas McGaughay, aged 30 years, builder, was charged with having between March 31 and May 14 unlawfully ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Governor-General (Lord Stonehaven), accompanied by Captain Davidson, A.D.C., reached Normanton in a Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service 'plane, ...
Article : 184 wordsMuch satisfaction was expressed at the announcement that electricity would be available for towns in the southern districts during the first week in January. Negotiations between ...
Article : 105 wordsUnder the able direction of Miss Elsie Dumolo, the senior'students of the Kindergarten Training College, Waverley, performed the comedy "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," ...
Article : 263 wordsA family of four was overcome by gas fumes issuing from adjoining rooms on the upper story of 62 Trafalgar-street, Annandale, about 8 o'clock yesterday morning. One, a ...
Article : 287 wordsThe formal ceremony of opening for traffic the new concrete bridge over the Wollundry Lagoon was performed by the Mayor on Saturday. The old timber bridge, which was ...
Article : 87 wordsRabbiters in the Tammin district have gone on strike because butchers want to reduce the price of rabbits on rails from 1/4 to 1/. It is said that an expert rabbiter sets 200 or ...
Article : 89 wordsThe lighting of the streets by electricity has been suspended for three weeks, on account of the lowness of the water in Wilson Creek, at the source of power. Farmers are ...
Article : 92 wordsIn the Commonwealth Arbitration Court today the Deuuty President (Sir John Quick) began the hearing of the Federation of Salaried Officers' section of the plaint of the ...
Article : 174 wordsSpeaking at the annual district dinner of the Parramatta District Grand United Order of Oddfellows, Mr. I. Harry, Grand Master of the Manchester Unity I.O.O.F., paid a ...
Article : 195 wordsThe body of a man, with the throat cut, was found at Horsefield Bay, Woy Woy, on Saturday morning. It is believed to be that of a man named Quinn, who disappeared from his ...
Article : 48 words"The manner in which Mr. Bavin attempts to refute my statement that there is only half the number of unemployed in the State than existed when he last left office, is surely ...
Article : 390 wordsWith a view to checking the spread of diphtheria the Department of Public Health is initiating a campaign of public education on the protection available against infection ...
Article : 211 wordsThe funeral of Mr. Livingston Hopkins ("Hop" of the "Bulletin") took place yesterday afternoon at Rookwood, the body being cremated. The funeral left wood Coffill's ...
Article : 304 wordsA bush fire at Black Mountain swept a considerable area of country, including the properties of Messrs. Ralph Williams, C. Ditton, J. R. Mcintyre, and D. Menzies. ...
Article : 84 wordsOccupants of the house of Mrs. Stella Murphy, of Hackney-road, Hackney, was disturbed one night in June by the entrance of a masked man armed with a revolver. He ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Bimba, a motor launch, owned by Mr. F. Saunders, of Coolong-road, Vaucluse, disappeared from her moorings in Vaucluse Bay on Sunday night. ...
Article : 43 wordsArthur Henry Wilson, teamster, had his right leg dreadfully crushed between two logs at a timber siding on the Glenreagh-Dorrigo line on Saturday. ...
Article : 139 wordsAfter spending a week among the settlers in the sparsely populated districts around Oberon, Mr. A. J. Brown, the NationalistCountry party candidate, stated that he had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 102 wordsAt the meeting of the Taxpayers' Association of South Australia to-day the president (Mr. J. Wallace Sandford), in referring to Federal taxation, said:—"Australian ...
Article : 127 wordsThe alleged prevalence of gambling at Canberra was denounced yesterday by the Rev. H. T. Hull, in a sermon preached to a Presbyterian congregation. Mr. Hull, who spoke ...
Article : 117 wordsThe National campaign in Bathurst electorate is being actively waged. The NationalCountry party candidate, Mr. A. J. Brown, is making an extensive personal canvass. ...
Article : 139 wordsThe death has occurred in Sydney of a former townsman, Mr. Norman Litchfield, who for 13 years held the position of divisional returning officer for the Hume Federal ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Australian Commonwealth line steamer Moreton Bay, which arrived at Sydney yesterday morning from London, brought 120 more nominated migrants and one Dreadnought boy ...
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Advertising : 215 wordsMr. Thomas Durack died at Bathurst recently at the age ot 79 years. He was born in the Bathurst district, and'resided there nearly all his life. He was a grazier, and during the ...
Article : 65 wordsA man, who was subsequently taken to the Reception House by the police, attempted to cut his throat in King's-road, Vaucluse, late last night. ...
Article : 181 wordsWrits were issued yesterday out of the High Court by the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor (Mr. W. H. Sharwood) on Emanuel Alfred and Louis Abrahams, financiers, of 229 ...
Article : 104 wordsReferences to the unemployment problem in its relation to Labour administration are contained in a communication to the "Herald" from Mr. T. H. Morrow, selected Nationalist ...
Article : 216 wordsA motor car carrying a party of shearers from Braidwood to Carrathool overturned on Ganmain-road. The driver, Jack Flack, of Ballalaba, crawled out unhurt. His brother, ...
Article : 86 wordsThe death of Mr. George Lock, of Grahamstreet, Lidcombe, occurred on Sunday. A native of Liverpool, England, Mr. Lock came to Lidcombe from England 15 years ago, and ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Lang) has decided to speak in support of the endorsed Labour candidate (Mr. A. Moate) for averley to-morrow night. The meeting will take place in the St. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Police Association has been informed that the Premier will address the police in King's Hall, Hunter-street, at 2.30 p.m. on Friday ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Public Service Arbitrator (Mr. Atlee Hunt) included in the awards of the Telegraphists and Postal Clerks' Union, the Federated Public Service, Assistants' Association, ...
Article : 138 wordsAt a special meeting of the Grafton City Council the resignation of the Mayor of Grafton (Alderman W. T. Robinson) was received and accepted with regret. It was ...
Article : 262 wordsAn amendment to the Industrial Arbitration Act to be introduced in the House of Representatives is expected to provide for payment of workers on the piecework principle, with ...
Article : 81 wordsAt a meeting of the electors of Granville, in the Granville Town Hall to-night, Mr. R. T, Ball. M.L.A., will speak in support of the Nationalist candidate, Mr. T. H. Morrow. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 wordsWhen the Royal Packet Navigation Company's steamer Tasman went aground on the Great Barrier Reef in April last, H.M.A.S. Geranium assisted to tow her off. As a ...
Article : 114 wordsAfter two years spent in anthropological research work at the University of London, the Rev. A. P. Elkin. M.A., a graduate of Sydney University, returned to Sydney ...
Article : 149 wordsThe leader of the Nationalist party, Mr. T. R. Bavin, M.L.A., will address a meeting of the employees of Saxton's Mill, Pyrmont, at 12.15 p.m. to-day. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. R. King, general returning officer for the Labour selection ballots, announced yesterday that the latest returns for the Liverpool Plains electorate were as follows:—M. T. ...
Article : 135 wordsMr. A. Roy Gorrie. Nationalist candidate for Sturt electorate, arrived on Saturday from Sydney. His campaign will be considered at a meeting of the National Citizens' ...
Article : 35 wordsAt Cabramatta on Saturday afternoon Coadjutor-Bishop D'Arcy-Irvine laid the foundation-stone of a rectory. He was assisted by the Rev. H. J. H. Loftus, the clergyman of the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe New Zealand Rowing Association has accepted an invitation to send a crew and sculler to Melbourne to compete in the Stewards Challenge Cup, won last year by Otago, and ...
Article : 64 wordsThe interstate hockey carnival was advanced another stage to-day, when, on the Exhibition Ground, New Zealand defeated Victoria by [?] [?] to nil. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe second session of the 24th Parliament of Queensland will be opened by the Governor (Sir John Goodwin) on Wednesday. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 23 Aug 1927, Page 12
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