Water at Broken Hill is again scarce. Mr. A. J. Triggs, manager of the Govern ment water supply, states that the water supply will last till the end of the year ...
Article : 69 wordsAfter a debute extending over several days the second reading of the Canberra Commission Bill was agreed to shortly after 10 o'clock to-night by 31 votes to 26. The dobate ...
Article : 2,319 wordsTHE RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE N.S.W. HOME FOR INCURABLES AT RYDE WILL BE KNOWN AS THE "SIR HUGH AND DAME EMMA ELIZABETH DIXSON MEMORIAL CANCER HOME" THE BUILDING WILL BE OPENED FURNISHED FREE OF DEBT AT A COST OF NEARLY £27,000, TOWARDS WHICH SIR HUGH AND THE LATE DAME EMMA ELIZABETH DIXSON GAVE £20,000—THE BALANCE OF THE MONEY BEING SUBSCRIBED BY THE PUBLIC. MRS. KENSETT HAS HANDED THE COMMITTEE SECURITIES VALUED AT £5000 FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADDING A WING TO THIS "HOME" AT A LATER DATE. THE PRESENT BUILDING PROVIDES ADMINISTRATIVE QUARTERS FOR ABOUT 150 PATIENTS. THE PRESENT BUILDING WILL ACCOMMODATE ABOUT 40 BEDS. MESSRS. POWER AND ADAMS WERE THE ARCHITECTS, AND G. P. JONES AND SONS THE BUILDERS. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 146 wordsAt the Ten[?]erfield Pastures Protection Board meeting, Mr. M[?]dsen complained of a practice which, he said, was growing up in this district of trappers cutting off the cars of the ...
Article : 72 wordsA noted geologist visited the district this week, and declared it to be codl-bearing. Arrangements for boring have been made, and within six weeks information will be definitely ...
Article : 61 wordsWhile "barracking" at a football match, a man named William M'Leod of Tweed Heads, turned a somersault and fell on his head, and sustained a fracture of the skull, with ...
Article : 49 wordsThe police crisis has passed an agreement having been reached after a lengthy conference tween the Aoting Premier (Mr. M'Cormack), the Home Secretary (Mr. Stopford), and the ...
Article : 449 wordsThe business session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales was opened yesterday morning in St. Stephen's Church, when the Moderator (the ...
Article : 1,047 wordsThe Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mr. Watt) this afternoon stated very firmly his policy in regard to the employment of former special constables. Last week Mr. ...
Article : 274 wordsA magisterial inquiry into the death of Norman Rae Chaffey, aged 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Chaffey, of Nemingha, whose body was found in a lagoon near his home on ...
Article : 95 wordsAt last night's meeting of the municipal council Alderman Roy L. Gamble (Deputy Mayor) moved that the Education Department be requested to consider the advisability of ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Northern Territory Representation Bill, providing for the lodging of petitions in respect to elections, passed all stages. Senator Gardiner (N.S.W.) resumed the ...
Article : 371 wordsGustave Theodore Wenstrom, about 40 years of age, was seriously injured on Sunday morning in a collision between the motor bicycle he was riding and a sulky driven by Mr. Percy ...
Article : 114 wordsThe final function of the carnival recently held at Balmain in aid of the local hospital took place last night, when the winner of the queen competition was "crowned," Prior to ...
Article : 182 wordsIt was announced yesterday by the State Secretary of the A.L.P. (Mr. W. Carey, that the Secretary of the Federal Executive of the movement (Mr. A. Stewart) had ...
Article : 205 wordsThe visiting team of Canadian soccer players yesterday decisively defeated a combined South Coast combination at Woonona, by 2 goals to nil. ...
Article : 187 wordsMrs. Irvine Ducat succumbed under an operation whilst having teeth extracted which necessitated the taking of chloroform. Deceased left a husband and four children, the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Rev. A. McCallum, of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, at the conclusion of his own Mother's Day service on Sunday morning went to the Methodist Church, where he held ...
Article : 86 wordsYesterday's meeting of the State Cabinet was devoted mainly to the unemployment problem. The announcement was made that the Treasurer (Sir Arthur Cocks) had at the ...
Article : 111 wordsMessrs. Floming, Henderson, and Stedman, solicitors to the Peter Mitchell Trust, received advice to-day that the judicial committee of the Privy Council had granted special leave ...
Article : 146 wordsWilliam Crittenden, aged 60, years, a labourer, employed at Nichols' Quarry, Homeville, received injuries this morning while at work blasting gravel. He had everything ...
Article : 122 wordsThe following Steamers are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-day:- With Sydney Suva, Kalkoral Iron on Prince, Riverina, Port Campbell, Kanowna Arafura Makambo, Wear, ...
Article : 154 wordsTHE VICTIM, REBECCA MAY ANDERSON. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 8 wordsAdditional strikes occurred yesterday at several collieries in the northern district. South Wallsend was laid idle on account of the men refusing to work because a ...
Article : 110 wordsIt has new been arranged to stage at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the postponed Fleet display, as a combined schools Empire Day demonstration. The Minister for Education, ...
Article : 128 wordsMr. Richard Frederick Lachlan Horsley, owner of Yabtree Station, near Wagga, one of the best-known graziers in this part of the State, died to-day. He was 52 years of ...
Article : 53 wordsTrouble has developed at the railway collierles in regard to rates paid for timbering. The men engaged in this work, about 18 in all, recently claimed an increased rate. The ...
Article : 247 wordsNEWCASTLE (62m).—Arr: May 14, Coramba, s, Burringbar, s, Wollongbar, s, Dorrigo, s, White Bay, s, Archer, s, Doepel, s, Duckenfield, s, Koranul, s, Nambucca, s, Coolebar, s, Newcastle, s, Kokiri, s, ...
Article : 107 wordsREPRESENTATIVES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NEW SOUTH WALES, WHICH IS NOW IN SESSION. Mr. WILLIAM WOOD (FINANCIAL SECRETARY). THE Rev. W. ROBERTSON (MODERATOR). AND THE Rev. A. THAIN ANDERSON (EX-MODERATOR), OF THE ASSEMBLY. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 wordsMembers of the Evening Students' and Women Evening Students' Associations met in the Great Hall of the University last evening to cousider a proposal to purchase, one of ...
Article : 250 wordsMary Marshall, 50, wife of a settler on group 28 in the South-west, was killed on the road near Busselton through the overturning of a spring cart in which she ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Public Works Committee opened an inquiry into the proposed Wollun to Mount George railway yesterday. The Principal evidence was given by Mr. G. B. Waller, of ...
Article : 484 wordsThe seating capacity of the Town Hall was taxed to its utmost last night for the massed choirs' festival of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 207 wordsRepresentatives of the Pastoralists' Association of Australia, who recently discussed in conference matters affecting the wool industry, had an interview to-day with the ...
Article : 198 wordsIn terrible circumstances, Florence Patterson, aged 32 years, the wife on an employee on M'Laurin Brothers' Pine Grove Estate, met her death. The sulky in which she was ...
Article : 113 wordsHer Majesty's: "The Merry Widow," 8. Criterion: "Aren't We All?" The Will," 8. Palace Theatre: Farewell to "Aladdin." 8. Theatre Royal: "The Garden of Allah," 8. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe interstate conference of the G.U.O.O.F. was concluded yesterday. It was decided to recommend to the various States that the ritual of New South Wales already adopted by ...
Article : 159 wordsStrong disapproval was expressed by the Promier (Mr. Lyons) to-day regarding the University commemoration procession. He said that it was little, more than a display ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 15 May 1924, Page 10
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