The Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) yesterday issued the following Empire Day message:— "With the commemoration of ...
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Article : 133 wordsBy a resolution carried at a meeting last night—following the round-table conference at the Trades Hall yesterday, between representatives of the Federal executive of the ...
Article : 887 wordsThe correspondent at Geneva of the Australian Press Association learns from an authoritative source that the French proposal to establish an autonomous permanent ...
Article : 129 wordsTo defray one-third of the capital cost of the construction of the Sydney Harbour bridge and land resumptions, a land tax of 10½d in the £ has been imposed on the unimproved ...
Article : 209 wordsOn the departure of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York from Australia, his excellency the Governor-General despatched the following message to his ...
Article : 240 wordsA message from New Orleans states that if the McCrea levee, on tho east bank of the Atchalafaya Basin, holds for 48 hours the backbone, of the flood will, it is believed, be ...
Article : 230 wordsThe counting of the votes for the Warringah by-election was concluded yesterday afternoon, with the following result:— PARKHILL (Nat.)........... 22,583 ...
Article : 423 wordsThis is the day of the year which used to be celebrated throughout the British Empire as Queen Victoria's birthday, and is now celebrated no less as Empire Day. In ...
Article : 1,083 words"Gee! boys, I'm here," was Captain Lindbergh's greeting when he thrust his head out of the cockpit of his machine on his arrival in Paris after his non-stop flight from New ...
Article : 1,071 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. S. M. Bruce) has sent the following telegram to his Royal Highness the Duke of York:— "On the occasion of your departure from ...
Article : 302 wordsEn route from the aerodrome to the American Embassy Captain Lindbergh was to visit, and condole with, the mother of Captain Nungesser, the French ace, who has not been ...
Article : 144 wordsLady Patricia Russell, formerly Lady Patricia Blackwood, is reported to be out of danger, following her critical illness, caused by extraction of a wisdom tooth. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe anticipated fcurs of serious trouble regarding the dispute at the Ironworks have been realised, for at a stopwork meeting held this afternoon, and lasting two and a half hours, it ...
Article : 227 wordsReports have been circulated in some quarters that Captain Lindbergh plans to fly to Australia, but there is no confirmation of the details, which may soon be available. ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Commissioner of Police, Mr. McIlveney, at a send-off to detectives going to Auckland, said that they were being transferred to try and suppress the wave of crime now sweeping ...
Article : 57 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General has received the following farewell message from his Royal Highness the Duke of York:— "With very great and genuine regret ...
Article : 375 wordsWhen the electricity sub-committee of the City Council met yesterday, the matter of the purchase of a site for an electricity substation at Mosman was again discussed. ...
Article : 315 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) to-day expressed satisfaction at the result of the Warringah by-election. It was significant, said Mr. Bruce, that though there were two Labour ...
Article : 129 wordsFlight-Lieutenants Carr and Gillman, of the Royal Air Force, who left Cranwell (Lancolnshire) on Friday morning on an attempt to establish a record non-stop flight, with ...
Article : 144 words"The same tariff applies to all countries evxopt Great Britain, so that it cannot be said that France is being treated as an enemy country," said the Comptroller-General of ...
Article : 359 wordsReports concerning 150 of the 3000 balloons despatched from Martin-place on Friday, May 13, by people who took part in the "Aerial Derby," conducted by the Hospital Saturday ...
Article : 321 wordsThe electric supply to a large number of outlying suburbs was cut off at 10 o'clock last night, owing to the effect upon the overhead mains of a high wind which blew up ...
Article : 149 wordsAlthough the British airmen failed to reach Karachi they established a new record by living 3395 miles. They thus beat the record of the French airmen, Regnot and Costa, who ...
Article : 104 wordsHis Excellency has replied by radio as follows:— On behalf of the people of Australia I desire to express heartfelt thanks for ...
Article : 146 wordsJoseph Samuel Lucas, a retired farmer, 76 years of age, was found dead in bed from gas poisoning at Hataital, Wellington. His wife, aged 66, lay alongside him unconscious. ...
Article : 67 wordsAt the next assembly of the League of Nationa at Geneva the Australian delegation will be led by the Vice-President or the Executive Council (Sir Geo. Pearce). This ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Royal nutch Airways have directed attention to the possibility of flying direct from Amsterdam to Karachi, and thence to Singapore. The proposal is to utilise Imperial ...
Article : 85 wordsIt was announce to-day by the Minister for Markets and Migration (Mr. Paterson) that the British War Office had placed with a Victorian company a contract for the supply of 60 tons ...
Article : 188 wordsA serious accident occurred at Hoskins's quarries at Excelsior this morning, to William Ford, a powder monkey. It appears that Ford was charging a hole when an ...
Article : 104 wordsThe last official function of the Duke and Duchess of York in Australia was a visit of inspection this morning to the Repatriation wards, Nos. 10 and 11, at the Perth Hospital. ...
Article : 298 wordsCommander de Plnedo, the Italian aviator, left Trepassey Bay (Newfoundland) this morning for the Azores. ...
Article : 26 wordsRepresentatives of 52 influential organisations attended a meeting in Melbourne to-day, when a "National Safety Council of Australia" was formed. The meeting was convened ...
Article : 209 wordsMay 24 is also an Italian festival day. It was on that dale, in 1915, that Italy entered the war on the side of the Allies, and after the war the day was proclaimed a national ...
Article : 152 wordsAn over-beated electric Iron is thought to have been the cause of a fire which broke out at the residence of Louis Lloyd, Avon, The Crescent, Vaucluse, on Saturday night. The ...
Article : 77 wordsReports of the fall of Hankow, apparently premature, are clussed as propaganda. The latest information is that Communist and Nationalist forces are vigorously resisting the ...
Article : 134 wordsDenmark beat Britain in the second round Davis Cup tie at Harrogate by three matches to two. The result was in doubt until the last singles match, in which Ulrich beat Higgs. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe small cutter owned by the Frenchman, M. Gerbault, the distinguished aviator, and well-known tennis player, anchored in Port Moresby Harbour after 35 days' sail from Vila. ...
Article : 77 wordsAlfred Dennis, of Canowindra, was charged at Bathurst Police Court with having opossum skins and cyanide illegally in his possession. Sergeant Morgan, of Canowindra, said that ...
Article : 91 wordsThe track to Upper Bo Bo, Eastern Dorrigo is so bad that one settler's wife has had to remain at home for 10 months without [?] ing a neighbour. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Otago Central districts are being eagerly convassed by rabbitskin buyers, who are offering high prices. Some rabbiters report making £50 a week. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe council or the Retail Traders' Association of now South Wales has decided to urge the Federal Government to greatly reduce the rates of the Federal income and land taxes, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 24 May 1927, Page 11
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