At a general meeting of shareholders of the Kiama Gas Company this afternoon the resolution deciding to go into voluntary liquidation was confirmed, and Mr. H. J. Noble, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,424 wordsThe Aston Estate, on the heights of Bellevue Hill, came under the hammer on Saturday. It was the most successful sale of the choice lands of the eastern suburbs that has ...
Article : 391 wordsSpeaking at the launching of the Shaw, Savill, Albion line's motorship Zealandic, Sir George Hunter (chairman of Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., shipbuilders) ...
Article : 773 wordsAndrew McGrath was knocked down by a motor car in Park-road, Paddington, late on Saturday night, and was dead when taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. McGrath, who was ...
Article : 139 wordsSince his appointment as Minister for Agriculture a few weeks ago, Mr. Thorby has been busily engaged in consideration of the affairs of the irrigation areas which are his ...
Article : 548 wordsMore rain, associated with thunderstorms, was recorded in New South Wales during the 24 hours ended at 9 a m. on Saturday. Numerous places on the highlands and coast ...
Article : 671 wordsThe quarterly bulletin issued by the Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. C. H. Wickens), on Saturday gave details concerning Australian trade and finances. ...
Article : 378 wordsThe people of Tamworth have been astounded at the news that Calala Hill, for many years the district's most noted lookout, has been sold to a builder, who is subdividing ...
Article : 67 wordsAt Wingham Police Court yesterday, before Mr. F. F. Potts, Kenneth Westley McNeill was charged with having, on October 29, at Mt. George, near Wingham, attempted ...
Article : 58 wordsAt about half-past 10 o'clock on Saturday night, a' motor car, driven by Claude Ferns, collided with a tipdray belonging to the Ashfield Municipal Council in Croydon-road, ...
Article : 146 wordsFollowing the defeat of the proposal that the council should be empowered to borrow £27,500 to establish municipal abattoirs, the Mayor (Alderman Goodhew) submitted a ...
Article : 152 wordsIn Jasper-road, Bentleigh, on Sunday a motor cycle collided with a motor car. The rider of the motor cycle, a man aged about 36 years, was killed instantly. The victim has ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. J. Peck had an extraordinary experience recently. Whilst driving a motor-car he was bitten on the back by a snake. Subsequent investigations showed that the snake had ...
Article : 57 wordsAs the result of the carillon belle competition the sum of £959 has been raised. The result of the voting was declared by the Mayor, Alderman J. Hitchcock: Mr. F. Coward ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Charles McKone, a representative of General Motors, Ltd., was fatally injured yesterday afternoon while driving in a motor car from Bega to Bemboka. A tyre blew out, ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Bowral Municipal Council, which has been agitating for the stoppage of the Casberra train at Bowral in order to afford travellers the convenience of an early morning train ...
Article : 79 wordsThe New Zealand dairy Produce Export Board has decided to allow larger quantities of butter and cheese to be shipped to England from January onwards than were ...
Article : 80 wordsThe South Australian section of the Aero Club held its opening pageant at the new aerodrome near Salisbury on Saturday. About 50,000 people attended. ...
Article : 100 wordsA motor fatality occurred on Northroad, near Salisbury, on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Essie Ween, of North Adelaide, was killed, and the injured were:—Mrs. Alvina ...
Article : 93 wordsThe exceptionally favourable season for flowers was reflected in the beautiful display of blooms at the annual spring show in aid of the building fund of St. Simon and St. Jude's ...
Article : 89 wordsA citizen, who may be described as an optimist, presented himself at the Town Hall on Saturday morning and handed to the Returning Officer, Mr. Layton, a nomination paper ...
Article : 172 wordsThe sentences of death pronounced upon the natives concerned in the Nakanai massacre have been commuted to imprisonment for 15 years. ...
Article : 29 wordsPicnickers returning from the raliway picni[?] at Newbridge by special train on Thursday evening were horrified to seo a lad standing on the window-sill on the outside of a ...
Article : 75 wordsA motor car driven by R. J. Clifford, of Norwood, and containing as passengers Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Brewer, of Ashton, and their four young children, overturned near ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Town Clerk of Tenterfield has been summoned to appear before the Local Government clerks' examining committee in Sydney to show cause why his certificate should not ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Bishop of Gippsland (Dr. Cranswick) on Saturday afternoon set the foundation stone of St. Barnabas' Church, Chatswood. Owing to the rain the original arrangements had to ...
Article : 211 wordsInstead of making provision for housing agricultural exhibits at the western end of the existing show pavilion, the P. and A, Association has resolved to extend the ...
Article : 80 wordsSpeaking at a luncheon given by the Overseas League, the High Commissioner for Australia (Sir Granville Ryrie) said that Australia was making efforts to encourage British ...
Article : 137 wordsDuring the years of war, an agitation was started in Casino for a railway from Casino to Bonalbo, which is one of the finest agricultural, stock-raising, and timber-bearing ...
Article : 333 wordsMUDGEE, Saturday.—A thunderstorm occurred early this morning. The Cudgegong River is running strongly, and is several feet over the weir in Lawson Park. Five inches ...
Article : 507 wordsMr. C. H. Hoskins, director of Hoskins' Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., returned to Sydney by the Makura on Saturday from a business tour abroad, which extended over six months. ...
Article : 195 wordsAt the Deepwater Police Court William Burke, a miner, of Torrington, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for stealing a sheep, the property of ...
Article : 62 wordsThree lads, aged 12 years and 10, "wagged it" from school on Wednesday, and commenced to walk to Sydney. When they did not return at the usual hour after school the parents ...
Article : 133 wordsA motor lorry, conveying a party of men to Ganmain yesterday afternoon, skilled, and two of the men were thrown out. Walter Thomas Johnson, of 47 Orange-street, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 213 wordsThe Goulburn Chamber of Commerce has decided to hold a referendum of shopkeepers on the proposal that they should close their establishments for lunch from 1 to 2 o'clock ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. W. R. Lancaster and Mrs. Keith Miller, who are on a flight to Australia, left Basra to-day for Bushire. Sir Alan Cobham will be delayed for a few ...
Article : 128 wordsThe body of a man between 20 and 30 years of age was found off the rocks on the north side of Long Bay on Friday night. It had apparently been in the water several days, and ...
Article : 201 wordsOliver Lynden, in unloading logs from motor lorry to-day at Killabach, had one of his legs broken in two places. Lynden was on top of the load, and was releasing the ...
Article : 87 wordsDreadful injuries were sustained by Grace Bullin, aged 17, who, while swimming in the Swan River late this afternoon, was struck by the propeller of a motor launch. She ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Mayor, Alderman Goodhew, reporting to the last meeting of the Goulburn City Council, said that, although a couple of inches of rain have fallen over the city catchment ...
Article : 89 wordsSir Arnold Theller (director of veterinary education and research in South Africa) and Mr. J. B. Orr, a Scottish expert in animal nutrition, will leave for Australia in January, to ...
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Advertising : 243 wordsWhen pushing through lonely bush country in the Lake district on Wednesday afternoon last two men came upon the remains of William Nutting, a trapper, who had been missing ...
Article : 138 wordsInquiries were recently instituted regarding the possible liability of municpal councils for injury or damage that would be caused in the event of petrol pumps or tanks ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the fat cow weight-guessing competition at the Tweed show, four persons guessed the correct weight (5981b). Thirty persons were within half a pound of it, while 80 per cent, ...
Article : 44 wordsLawrence Walter Tulloch, of O'Connorstreet, Glanville, was injured on Saturday when at a house at Gilles Plains. Subsequently Harry Lawes, of North East-road, ...
Article : 99 wordsPlaying against the Orange Free State, at Bloemtontein the M.C.C. touring team scored 592 rups for seven wickets (declared). Legge made 120 and Holmes 279 (unfinished), and ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Minister for Local Government (Mr. Bruxner), after a visit to Tweed Heads, stated that he proposed to include in a Statewide scheme of road construction provision ...
Article : 286 wordsIn a letter to the Editor, "Typiste" suggests that all wage-earners sat aside a little from their wages each week and contribute to a fund for the relief of the unemployed. ...
Article : 45 wordsRecently a private individual inaugurated a motor 'bus service throughout the town which immediately became popular with the public. The proprietor of the service wrote to the ...
Article : 112 wordsPassengers who arrived in Sydney by the Makura on Saturday morning told of the shooting of a native girl at Rarotonga, while the vessel was in port there. ...
Article : 144 wordsThe by-election for Canterbury, which became necessary owing to Mr. R. F. McNeill being raised to the peerage, resulted as follows:—Sir William Wayland (Con.), 13,657; ...
Article : 37 wordsA correspondent points out that Kingsford Smith and his companions have not asked for an escort to ensure the success of their flight across the Pacific. It is their friends ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 134 wordsCharles Adams, aged 14 years, of Kilbyroad. East Kew, was killed instantly when the wheel of a heavy van passed over him at East St. Kilda. Adams was riding in the ...
Article : 67 wordsDr. T. Hewitson, president of the Industrial Court, refused a claim by employees in the Hume Pipe Company (Australia) for a 44-hour week. An increase in wages of 6d a day was ...
Article : 108 wordsCoolana s, from Melbourne. Goulburn, s, from Melbourne. TELEGRAPHIC. FREMANTLE.—Dep. Nov. 2[?], Baradine, s, for United ...
Article : 112 wordsChatres, Ltd., in a letter to the Editor, refers to a report appearing in the "Herald," which dealt with the approval of the "Neopost" franking machine, by the ...
Article : 64 wordsJames Magill, 21, of William-street, Mortdale, reported to the police on Saturday night that two men had assaulted him in front of his residence at about 8 o'clock. The men ...
Article : 42 wordsD. Pritchard has withdrawn from the South Australian team chosen to play Victoria next week. L. T. Gun, another lefthander, will replace him. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 28 Nov 1927, Page 12
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