The State Government has entered upon a new policy of decentralisation in regard to the State education system. The Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) ...
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Article : 361 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day the Foreign Secretary (Sir Austen Chamberlain) was asked if he was aware of the disregard a reasonable security for trade that was ...
Article : 259 wordsThe King's Speech at the prorogation of Parliament dwells with satisfaction upon the enthusiastic reception accorded to the Prince of Wales and Prince George in Canada, and ...
Article : 279 wordsThe mannor in which the South Australian aspirants for Davis Cup selection, E. T. Howe and G. M. Hone, have been treated has incensed South Australian followers of lawn ...
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Article : 328 wordsIt is estimated that 2000 people have been injured and treated at hospitals during the most remarkable cold weather in London within memory. Snow began to fall at ...
Article : 292 wordsCabled advices of the recent Communist uprising in Canton, received in Sydney by the Chinese Nationalist Party of Australasia, state that order has now been restored, but urge ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Embassy Film Company's production, "Gallipoli," will be released in Australia on Anzac Day. It was privately shown at Australia House to-day in the presence of ...
Article : 82 wordsHaving flown about 10,000 miles since leaving Melbourne on September 27, Captain E. C. Wackett, in an amphibian Seagull aeroplane, arrived in Sydney yesterday ...
Article : 394 wordsAt a meeting of the Local Government Board executive yesterday the president (Alderman J. B. Macdonald, of Dubbo) asked leave to introduce a motion dealing with the ...
Article : 366 wordsThe death has occurred in his 66th year of Mr. Charles Courtice Pounds, actor and vocalist, who created several Gilbert and Sullivan roles at the Savoy Theatre between 1888 ...
Article : 308 wordsSpeaking at a luncheon given by the Food Canning Council, the High Commissioner (Sir Granville Ryrie) appealed to Empire canners to co-operate in capturing the British market. ...
Article : 154 wordsMr Justice Burnside awarded Miss Ellen Caird £100 damages with costs against Edgar Driver for negligent driving of a motor car in which she was riding as an invited ...
Article : 139 wordsPolice inquiries concerning the sensational story related by Joseph Wirz of an encounter with a burglar in Arundel-street, Glebe, on Wednesday morning led to an admission ...
Article : 320 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day the Foreign Secretary (Sir Austen Chamberlain), in answer to a question, said that the Government intended to maintain Britain's ancient alliance ...
Article : 163 wordsAbout midnight three goods trains came into collision between Claremont and Swanbourne on the Perth-Fremantle line. No one was injured. James Pettit, the guard on one train, ...
Article : 298 wordsCharges similar to those contained in the annual report of the Shipping Board, that United States shipping is discriminated against by Great Britain, Australia, and Canada, have ...
Article : 209 wordsAs Christmas draws near, and the crowd of shoppers is daily augmented, the large city stores are facing the menace of shoplifters. Yesterday, two days before Christmas Eve, ...
Article : 391 wordsThe French lawn tennis players, Brugnon, Borotra, and Boussus, who arrived to-day from South America, had been given an enthusiastic reception there. They declare that playing ...
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Article : 102 wordsThe question of the proposed appointment of a chairman of the City Council Commission has been listed for Cabinet consideration this morning. A number of Sydney ...
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Article : 87 wordsRobert Edward Bradley, aged 75, who said that for 60 years he was engaged in a law department in England and had been consulted by the late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain ...
Article : 203 wordsInterference with the machinery controlling the mechanical hare at the Mascot greyhound racing meeting last night caused an hour's delay in the commencement of the racing. ...
Article : 193 wordsThe flasco of the Rugby transatlantic telephone, which is averaging only two calls daily, and also the station's reputed loss of £66,000 a year, will be drawn attention to in the House ...
Article : 66 wordsIt was learnt in Ministerial circles yesterday that the State Cabinet may decide to-day to appoint a Royal Commission to investigate the charges of graft respecting the ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Travellers' Insurance Company predicts that 28,000 people will be killed and 700,000 injured next year through automobile accidents. The estimate, which is based on the records of ...
Article : 93 wordsW. N. Lancaster and Mrs. Keith Miller, who are making a flight to Australia, reached Akyab from Calcutta yesterday afternoon, and left for Rangoon this morning. ...
Article : 36 wordsReciprocal Empire programmes are to be broadcast from Sydney and London on Sunday and Monday. The British Broadcasting Corporation will ...
Article : 92 wordsIn a speech at Manchestor Sir George Paish, a leading economic and financial authority, said that only by breaking down tariff barriers could a world financial breakdown be avoided. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Department of Agriculture to-day announced that an area of 47,807,000 acres of winter wheat was sown this autumn. This area was 10.2 per cent. more than the revised ...
Article : 89 wordsThe match at Beneni between the M.C.C team and a South African XI. was drawn. Scores; M.C.C team, 323 (Holmes, 1[?]8); South African XI., 86, and nine wickets for 852 ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 23 Dec 1927, Page 11
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