It is believed that the reason for the postponement of General Smuts's departure for South Africa for a week is due to advices from the Continent, indicating the possibility ...
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Article : 542 wordsMaterial extensions of the preference on dominion products proposed by the British Government have been announced. It is also reported that new duties are to be proposed against certain classes of foreign produce, similar ...
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Article : 146 wordsMr. W. G. Layton, Assistant Town Clerk, of Sydney, has returned to London from visits to all the important civic centres in the United Kingdom. ...
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Article : 240 wordsMr. J. Hebbard, manager of the Central Mine, stated this morning that work on the 100ft level of cutting drives over an area of 700ft by 300ft, had been completed. ...
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Article : 83 wordsIn the colonial wine competition at the Brewers' Exhibition there were eighty-one entries, of which twenty-six were South Australian, five from New South Wales, and the ...
Article : 199 wordsThe body of a man floating in the sea about a quarter of a mile off the Bogey Hole at Newcastle was recovered by the pilot steamer Ajax shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon. ...
Article : 128 wordsAt the beginning of 1923 the Australiasian Association of Psychology und Philosophy offered two essay prizes of ten guineas each and the award of the prizes has now been ...
Article : 165 wordsA message from Madrid says that a loan of £33,000,000 was over-subscribed threefold on the first day of issue. This is said to represent a great moral victory for the new ...
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Article : 156 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Mr. Gibson) said to-day that a new issue of stamps would be made shortly in the following colours:—Half-penny, orange; penny, green; penny ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 9 Nov 1923, Page 9
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