Information received to-day shows that the delay that has occurred in the provision of a direct road from the south to Canberra, to reduce the distance between the border and the ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Major-General Sir Neville Howse, V.C.) passed through Adelaide on his way to Melbourne by the Cathay on Saturday. ...
Article : 171 wordsHeavy, almost torrential, rain fell at Sydney on Saturday afternoon, a total of 109 points being recorded at the Weather Bureau within a few hours. ...
Article : 179 wordsAbout 180 delegates, representing 80 branches of the Australian Natives' Association, attended the twenty-seventh annual conference of the association at Manly on ...
Article : 661 wordsFour men were injured—one of them seriously—when a motor car overturned on Saturday afternoon on Liverpool-road. The injured were:— ...
Article : 174 wordsPassengers by the Burns, Philp island mail steamer Mataram, which arrived at Sydney on Saturday, brought news of a massacre of armed native police by a bush tribe on the ...
Article : 424 wordsLieutenant-Commissioner McKenzie, of the Salvation Army, has been appointed Territorial Commander in North China. Commissioner McKenzie is widely known in Australia. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 61 wordsAlbert Wollett, 30 years of age, of New Canterbury-road, Lewisham, was injured on Saturday afternoon when a motor lorry and a taxicab collided at the corner of ...
Article : 84 wordsAt the Liverpool military camp the most interesting portion is that allotted to the engineers. Here are to be found dugouts, trenches, complete with traverses, hurdle ...
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Article : 223 wordsAt the last meeting of the Narromine branch of the Country Women's Association the question of starting a fund for the establishment of a public hospital was introduced by Mrs. C. ...
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Article : 118 wordsThe Railway Commissioners have refused a request by the Parramatta Council to instal a rail-motor service along the route formerly served by steam trams. ...
Article : 149 wordsThe death occurred at Randwick of Mr. John Parker at the age of 85 years. He was a well-known figure in the tea trade of Australia. Having had his tea training in ...
Article : 147 wordsAccording to the report submitted at the annual meeting of the Royal Colonial institute, the Sydney branch of that body has passed through a year characterised ...
Article : 160 wordsLady Pearson, D.B.E., widow of the late Sir Arthur Pearson, has informed the president of the Sydney Industrial Blind Institution (Sir Alfred Meeks, M.L.C.) that she will visit ...
Article : 69 wordsAt the District Court, before Judge Armstrong, Alfred Ernest Wheeler sued E. H. Utley and Co. for £143/3/10 for timber sold to defendants, who are pawmillers. Defendants ...
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Article : 280 wordsMr. Alberto Zelman conductor of the Philharmonic Society, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, who died suddenly early on Friday morning, was buried yesterday at the ...
Article : 75 wordsBetween 5 p.m. on Saturday and 7 a.m. yesterday thieves forced the front door of a shop at Douglas Park, occupied by Ezra Carlos Rose, and stole six pairs of men's working ...
Article : 67 wordsJudge Coyle was welcomed when he took his seat for the first time at the West Wyalong Quarter Sessions. Robert Sharpe was found guilty of an ...
Article : 105 wordsSamuel Tolbart Green, 41, was arrested on Friday night on a charge of having, whilst town clerk of Blackheath, concurred in the making by John H. Keogh of a false ...
Article : 71 wordsA motor-cycle, ridden by H. Stein, aged 19 years, of 78 Hampton Court-road. Kogarah, and a motor car, driven by E. Parry, of Botany-street, Arncliffe, came into collision ...
Article : 60 wordsSir,—Mr. O. Trickett's letter in your issue of March 2 recalls the fact that his cave work warrants comparison with the similar work of Dawkins in England, Martel on the ...
Article : 933 wordsThe Sydney School of Arts Debating Club is in its 83rd year. Through its ranks have graduated a number of public men, including the late Sir George Reid, Sir Edmund Barton, ...
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Article : 366 wordsPosing as an organiser of a travelling opera company, Bert Colin William Cheer, 27, labourer, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on a charge of vagrancy. ...
Article : 86 wordsAllan McKenzie, aged 12, collapsed and died as the result of heart failure at Murwillumbah Intermediate High School. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. McKenzie, of ...
Article : 52 words"We must clear out the war lords before we can establish a proper Parliament with a proper Constitution," said Dr. F. T. Wood, a Cantonese leader, in an address at the ...
Article : 266 wordsThe New South Wales dairy inspector prosecuted 10 farmers for selling cream for profit without having registered their dairies, and fines of £1 and costs were imposed on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 wordsThe new Sydney High School, which is to be erected at Moore Park, will be, according to the Minister of Education (Mr. Mutch), the largest High School building in Australia. ...
Article : 271 wordsThe Grawin opal field, 12 miles from Cumborah, and 40 miles from Walgett, continues to grow, and is attracting a large number of diggers. Approximately 160 men are at ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Henry R. Curtis, of St. Paul, Minnesota, has had time to form some opinions on the economic features of Australia. "You won't get enough new capital into this country of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 wordsSighting an opossum in a tree at the rear of business premises in Auburn-street, Nell Mcpherson (56), commenced to climb the tree with the idea of capturing the animal. As ...
Article : 80 wordsIn the Federal Arbitration Court Judge Lukin gave reserved judgment on the application by the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Employees' Union for a Federal award ...
Article : 235 wordsMr. John Patrick McTlernan, who died at the age of 32 years in Lewisham Hospital yesterday afternoon, was the youngest brothem of the Attorney-General (Mr. C. A. ...
Article : 59 wordsSir,—One reads with great surprise the strictures of Mr. Rayment in the "Sydney Morning Herald" of March 1, on the character and purposes of girl migrants. I have ...
Article : 264 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Goulburn branch of the Railway Institute, the Area Commissioner. Mr. J. D. Reid, presided. The annual report stated that out of the 1000 ...
Article : 90 wordsProfessor Warren, of Princeton University, is spending his Sabbatical year in making a world tour on the Franconia. He is Professor of Psychology and is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 216 wordsThe Arbitration Court's award in an application jointly made by freezing companies and workers' unions has been filed. The lower paid time workers are granted 2/1 per hour; ...
Article : 49 wordsSir,—May I through your paper thank sincerely first the New South Wales Cricket Association for having arranged a testimonial match for me, and then the Press, the general ...
Article : 149 wordsThe "Miss Trundle" competition was won by Miss Mudge, with 26,000 votes. Miss Mailer was second, with 20,000 votes. Over £1200 was collected for the war memorial hall ...
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Article : 70 wordsA lively argument is taking place as to whether the site of the war memorial should be at the summit of Mount Ainslee, or at the foot as suggested. It is improbable that the ...
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Article : 80 wordsAn election to fill the vacancy in the Parramatta Council caused by the resignation of Mr. H. Bird will take place next Saturday. Two candidates have been nominated, Mr. ...
Article : 40 wordsSir,—May I crave a little space in your columns to protest against the way Mr. Rayment speaks of young single girls (pigeons, as he calls them). He seems to place all ...
Article : 246 wordsSir,—Apropos of the reported statement of his Excellency the Governor, "That the Legislative Council should be elective," might I draw attention to a proposal put forward at ...
Article : 171 wordsSir,—I am sure it would be helpful to travellers if destination boards were affixed to the front of the electric trains, and, if possible, on the sides similar to our trams. As there ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 wordsA new Masonic Temple, in Merrylands, was dedicated by the Grand Master, Most Wor. Bro. John Goulston, on Saturday. The new building is situated at the corner of Pitt and ...
Article : 101 wordsMr. H. Slazenger, of the London firm of sporting goods manufacturers who, in spite of 53 years' work with his firm, contrives to belle his years, definitely stated that he was ...
Article : 67 wordsIn partnership with several, other American citizens. Mr. Wellington Martin, who is travelling with his wife, owns Captiva Island, which lies off the Florida Coast, south of ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 7 Mar 1927, Page 12
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