Articles from page 15: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. ROAD DEVELOPMENT.

    A meeting of the Federal Aid Hoads Board took place in Melboutnr to-day. The Minister for Works and Railways (Mr. Hill) said that from the point of view of expenditure ...

    Article : 188 words
  3. SCHOOLBOYS' TOUR.

    The party of British schoolboys who are visiting Australia under the charge of Captain G. H. Woolley, V.C., i[?]turned to Sydney last evening from the Mountains,,where ...

    Article : 129 words
  4. REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS.

    Official map showing the 46 electorates within the metropolitan area, as proposed by the Electoral Districts Commission. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 26 words
  5. STATE LIBRARY.

    The Mitchell Library, which houses the magnificent collection of Australiana bequeathed to the State by Mr. David Scott Mitchell, was constructed as the first portion of the ...

    Article : 523 words
  6. RELIABILITY.

    Final results of the ten days' reliability touring contest of the Royal Automobile Club of Australia from Sydney to Tenterfield Lismore, Coolangatta (Queensland), and back, a ...

    Article : 804 words
  7. NATIONAL GALLERY.

    Mr. G. V. F. Mann, director of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, brings back with him to Sydney many valuable art works acquired for the gallery ...

    Article : 1,115 words
  8. STEAMER LAID IDLE.

    Owing to a dispute between the second cook and a [?]remnn, culminating in the refusal of thr crew to take the vessel to sea, the Coast Steamship CO.'s steamer Wookata did not sall ...

    Article : 132 words
  9. BANKSTOWN's REQUEST.

    A deputation from the Bankstown Municipality waited on the Premier (Mr. Lang), and asked for Government assistance in placing the roads in the Bankstown Soldier ...

    Article : 103 words
  10. MOSQUITOES.

    The City Council and the city health officer (Dr. Purdy) have organised n campaign for the destruction of mosquitoes during the present season. ...

    Article : 183 words
  11. FISHING INDUSTRY.

    The report of the State Fisheries Department for the year 1925, which was tabled in the Legislative Assembly yesterday by the Chief Secretary, showed that the total ...

    Article : 130 words
  12. FEDERAL CAPITAL.

    The ceromony of laying the foundation-stone of what is stated to be the first occieslanstical building of a permanent character orected within the Federal capital since the ...

    Article : 142 words
  13. TWEED HEADS BAR.

    The North Coast Steam Navigation Co.'s vessels, Tyalgum and Urana, are still barbound at Tweed Hoads. Such dolays, which are becoming frequent, are causing great ...

    Article : 214 words
  14. ALLEGED SHOPBREAKER.

    Finding the shop which he had entered was surrounded by detectives, a man jumped from an upper story window on to the awning above the footpath, ran along the awning ...

    Article : 343 words
  15. THE SUGAR INDUSTRY.

    Sir,—Dr. Nott, M.P, cannot or,will not see the southern or consumers' point of view. He pretends to believe that those who pay the piper should not call the tune. Let me ...

    Article : 689 words
  16. UNIVERSITY CARILLON.

    At a meeting of the executive committee, controlling the University Carillon fund it was stated that the fund now totalled £19,601, the expenditurp incurred having amounted ...

    Article : 108 words
  17. THE CINEMA.

    Sir Victor Wilson was the guest of honour at a dinner held at the Hotel Australia on Wednesday night by the Motion Picture Distributors' Association, of which he is the new ...

    Article : 246 words
  18. MILK FACTORY.

    Representatives of dairy farmers in the Wyreema distilct and employees of Nestle's Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company waited on the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Forgan ...

    Article : 168 words
  19. ASTRONOMY.

    An interesting lecture on "The Zelss Planetarlum" was delivered on Wednesday evening before the New South Wales section of the British Astronomical Society by Mr. ...

    Article : 167 words
  20. LIMBLESS SOLDIERS.

    Introduced by Senator [?]utarie, and headed by Mr. Farrow, a deputation, representing the Limbless Soldiers' Association, waited on the Federal Minister for Works and Railways ...

    Article : 102 words
  21. MAIMED SOLDIERS.

    The president of the Now South Wales branch of the Returned Soldiers' Longue (Colonel A. W. Hayman), referring to the statement by the Acting Prime Minister ...

    Article : 207 words
  22. LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENT.

    Four passengers in a rail motor running from Bendigo to Wallon were "injured when thr rall motor croshed into a waggpm at a level crossing close to the Heathcote railway ...

    Article : 111 words
  23. GIFT BOOKS.

    "The Boys' All-round Book" contains very diversified fare. which has been provided by authors of standing. Mr. John Buchan contributes a short story, and Mr. Gilbert Jessop ...

    Article : 174 words
  24. OBITUARY.

    The funeral of Councillor William Alexander Makim, a member of the Warringah Shire Council, took place on Wednesday morning in the Church of England Cemetery, Manly. The ...

    Article : 167 words
  25. PEACE SOCIETY'S CONCERT.

    Under the auspices of the New South Wales Peace Society a concert was given at the Adyar Hall last night, in aid of the "World Peace" movement. The first part of the ...

    Article : 153 words
  26. THE NEAR EAST.

    The Rev. J. Vance, a retired Presbyterian minister, who ariived in Sydney yesterday by the Otranto on his way to Brisbane, Spent much time in the Near East. He said ...

    Article : 234 words
  27. GOOD GOLD YIELD.

    The Minister for Mines received a telegram from the mauager of the State battery at Coolgardle, stating that 12½ tons of are from the Gleneig Queen mine, held by Hughos and ...

    Article : 59 words
  28. DRUMMOYNE EISTEDDFOD.

    There was a large attendance at The Cairo, Drummoyne, last night, when the Drummoyne Eisteddfod was continued. Further awards were made as follow:- ...

    Article : 279 words
  29. CABLE RATES.

    Thw Pacific Cable Board draws attention to the regulation adopted by the International Telegraph Convention at Paris, providing that from November 1, 1926, numbars written in ...

    Article : 55 words
  30. STATE WIRELESS.

    In the Legislative Council on Wednesday Mr. Brennan asked the Vice-President of the Executive Council whether the Public Works Department had been granted licenses for the ...

    Article : 92 words
  31. PURCHASE OF ENTOMOLOGICAL COLLECTION.

    Reference is made in the commonwealth Government "Gazette" this woek to the purchase by the Minister for Home and Territories (Senator Sir William Glasgow), for the ...

    Article : 47 words
  32. MR. THOMAS HENRY ARKINS.

    Mr. Thomas Henry Arkins, who died at Lewisham Hospital on Sunday in his 69th year, was a native of Maftland; where his father was at one time Mayor. He spent ...

    Article : 151 words
  33. MR. HUGH J. WARD.

    In a letter to the Editor of the "Herald" on behalf of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League in this State, Messrs. A. W. Hyman (president) and W. J. Stagg (secretary) ...

    Article : 56 words
  34. AUSTRALIAN COAT OF ARMS.

    Sir,—On referring to volume Il. of "The Illustrated Australian Encyclopaedia," reviewed under the caption "Current Literature" in the "Sydney Morning Herald" of 16/10/;26, I was ...

    Article : 292 words
  35. SAFE BLOWN OPEN.

    The door of the safe in W. Walker and Co.'s store premises was blown off by safebreakers last night, For all his trouble the thief secured only 30/, this trouble the ...

    Article : 61 words
  36. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—I crave space to reply to the criticism of the sugar industry by Mr. A. G. Hule in a recent issue of your valuable paper. In the first place, quite a number of southerners ...

    Article : 981 words
  37. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    A prospecting party is being formed locally to search for diamonds on a field near Pine Creek. Some years ago a rough diamond was found there and realised £40. Since ...

    Article : 81 words
  38. CHORAL CONCERT.

    A large audience assembled last evening in Bourke-street Congregational Church, where a choral concert was given by a well-balanced cheio of about 30 voices under the baton of ...

    Article : 172 words
  39. NEW SETTLERS.

    The Themistocles and Esperance Bay will arrive next Monday, bringing 267 niminuted immigrants, 52 Dreadnought boys, and 18 domestics. They will be welcomed at T[?] ...

    Article : 40 words
  40. WOMAN DROWNED AT DUNDAS.

    The body of Mrs. Elizabeth Anne Gibbs, aged 43 years, of Rutledge-street, Eastwood, who disappeared from her home early yesterday morning, was found by the police ...

    Article : 58 words
  41. MR. G. DAVIS.

    The death occurred in Hobart receutly, at the age of 98 years, of George Davis, late of Oakwood, Br[?]ny Island, where he had resided most of his life, and had engaged in farming ...

    Article : 93 words
  42. MISCHA GOFLIN'S PUPILS.

    In a well-arranged recital at the Klag's Hall last evening, the pupils of Mischa Golfin gave an attractive programme of sale and orcestral [?] rangin g from [?] and Brahms to T[?]aikowsky, ...

    Article : 98 words
  43. CONSERVATORIUM COMEDY.

    A cast compriser for the most part of students from the Conservatorium Dramatic Class appeared in a threeact comedy entitled "Isabel, Edward, and Anne" by Gertrade Jennings, at the Conservatorium last night. ...

    Article : 203 words
  44. LATE PROFESSOR J. I. HUNTER.

    Dr. F. A. Maguire gave an address before the Evolution Society last evening on the life and work of the late Professor John Irvine Hunter. He said that Hunter had won ...

    Article : 115 words
  45. VICTORIAN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

    At Sandringham to-day, E. J. Smith played very fine, if not fauitless, golf to retain his title as prefessional champion of the State. His margin of victory was eight strokes, and the quality of his golf ...

    Article : 141 words
  46. SIR CHARLES RYAN.

    The funeral of Major-General Sir Charles Ryan took place yesterday. It was preceded by a special service in St. Paul's Cathedral, which was attended by a large and ...

    Article : 61 words
  47. T.B. APPEAL.

    The Mayor of Boxley (Alderman J. Barwell) states that the Boxley Council has agreed to support the T.B. appeal for funds and that a 10 days' caraival in aid of the Boxley chalet ...

    Article : 55 words
  48. BETTING AT STADIUM.

    At the Paddington Police Court yesterday, Leslie Forbes, 83, clerk, plended guilty to betting at the Stadium on October 27, and was fined £20, or, in default, two months imprisonment, with hard labour. ...

    Article : 39 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$