Mr. E. F. Murnane, secretary of the Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union, stated yesterday that by the middle of next month it was expected that more than 100 additional ...
Article : 225 wordsAfter the Bathurst ambulance committee [?] accepted Mr. Norman Weekes' terms for [?] preparation of plans of [?] new station, a lett[?] from the geverning body in Sydney was [?] ...
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Article : 213 wordsSamuel McMurray Wilson, a miner, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of having maliciously, caused gelignite to explode with intent to do grievous bodily harm to Walter ...
Article : 238 wordsIt is expected that about 20,000 men employed in the metal trades irdustry will be dismissed to-day and to-morrow in accordance with a recent decision of the Metal Trades Employers' ...
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Article : 73 wordsJohn Neighbour, 35, and Athol Blake Ricketson, 32, who had been convicted on Wednesday of having conspired to chest and defraud the Commonwealth Bank of valuable ...
Article : 400 wordsFigures prepared by the town clerk [?] a rapid expansion in the municipality duri[?] the last five years. The revenue has [?] from £33,000 in 1918-1922 to £110,000 in [?] ...
Article : 130 wordsThe opening of the sixth Australian bowling council's bowling carnival was celebrated at the Moonee Ponds Bowling Club's green today, when the first of three test matches ...
Article : 292 wordsMr. E. J. Buckley, tbe Sydney motorist, accompanied by Mr. L. Bartlett, in a Hudson Super Six car, yesterday made an attempt to lower the journey from Sydney to Melbourne, ...
Article : 231 wordsNew South Wales will commence its Sheffield Shield match against Victoria at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to-morrow. This will be the 112th match between the States. ...
Article : 540 wordsMr. Ernest Taylor, of South Murwillumbah, has died in Tweed District Hospital as the result of injuries suffered, a week ago, when a motor cycle he was riding collided with a ...
Article : 53 wordsFurther evidence was hoard at the Central Police Court yesterday in the case in which Vincenzo Scarchelli was charged with being a prohibited immigrant, in that he entered ...
Article : 256 wordsCallousness by an unknown motorist is alleged by John Withers, 73, an old ago [?] sioner, who has informed the police that when he was returning to Mooball from ...
Article : 110 wordsThe sixteenth biennial track and field championships of the Amateur Athletic Union of Australia and New Zealand commence on Monday at Wellington (N.Z.). In this ...
Article : 680 wordsThe recent rains have caused a rise of about two and a half feet in Dumaresq Reservoir[?] which supplies the town. There are now 22,000,000 gallons impounded, and the ...
Article : 71 wordsComplaints are being made by shire authorities and country people living along the main southern road, about the frequency of record breaking motor runs between Sydney and ...
Article : 98 wordsWith the concurrence of the Armidale City Council, the police have decided to institute a one-way traffic system in Beardy-street. It is proposed to send the traffic from west ...
Article : 39 wordsJohn Charles Stewart, aged 23 years, was arrested at Undera, near Kyabram, at 1.30 a.m. this morning on a charge of having escaped from legal custody at the Yatala labour ...
Article : 166 wordsOn the eve of his departure for Auckland, New Zealand, yesterday, the Rev. C. W. Chandler, of St. Barnabas' Church, was presented with a travelling bag by the officials ...
Article : 301 wordsIt is likely that a conference will be held of the Ministers of Mines of each State and a representative of the Federal Government to consider the preparation of a uniform set ...
Article : 162 wordsIt has been announced authoritatively that during January electricity from the [?] juck power-house will be made available to the Riverina towns which have been promised ...
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Article : 39 wordsBoth South Australia and Queensland have victories to their credit against New South Wales, with perhaps the former's being more meritorious. The Queenslanders will not be ...
Article : 239 wordsThe application of William Matthias Westphal tor a publican's license, for premises proposed to be erected at the intersection of New South Head-road and Dover-road, Rose Bay, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 wordsThe Victorian Country party wheat committee has passed a resolution recommonding to the annual conference of the party that' an all-Australian wheat conference should be ...
Article : 52 wordsGraham Clive, aged 28 years, fireman on the Ryde punt, and residing at Shaw-street, Petersham, suffered painful injuries early yesterday morning, when he was crushed between ...
Article : 93 wordsA collision occurred between a car, driven by William Hook, of Military-road, Rose Bay, and a motor cycle, ridden by Lewis Young, of Lugar-street, Waverley, at the intersection of ...
Article : 106 wordsA sentence of three years' reformative detention was imposed on William Patrick Kelleher (29), a clerk of the Customs Department, who admitted stealing about £950, the ...
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Advertising : 201 wordsA car was found destroyed by fire on the Western-road, Prospect, on Wednesday night. It had been stolen from James McKay, of Gladstone-street, Mudgee. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe American barquentine Forest Friend, which has been stranded for some months at Port Adelaide, during which time the crew have not been paid, was to-day sold ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 wordsAt Lower Hutt Amateur Athletic Club's gathering to-night M. Leadbetter (N.Z.) beat C. J.Lane (Victoria) in a 100 yards' run in 10s. The interclub relay race was won by New South Wales easily. G. ...
Article : 64 wordsWhile running across Bridge-street, Drummoyne, last night Gordon Stevon McKenzie, aged 4[?] years, who lived in Park-avenue, was struck by a motor 'bus and killed. Death ...
Article : 33 wordsA party of five persons had just begun the return journey from Mount Lofty summit this afternoon, when the motor car in which they were travelling, failed to negotiate a steep ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Deewhy and District Choral Society gave its inaugural concert last Tuesday evening at the Deewhy Theatre with much success. due to the harmonious interpretation under Dr. ...
Article : 109 wordsA shocking accident occurred in Railway[?] parade, Burwood, about 4.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when a boy of about 10 years of age, whose name is believed to be Gilbert, ...
Article : 112 wordsForty "Dreadnought boys," who sailed today for Australia by the Barrabool, were farewelled by Sir Granville Ryrie. In the Housff at Lords to-day the Lord ...
Article : 255 wordsMr. T. E. Barr Smith has given £1000 to the Protestant children's home, Morialta, to be used for the erection of a building to accommodate 40 of the older boys at the home ...
Article : 40 wordsThe earnings of the Government railways continue to show an improvement on the figures for the last year. For the five months of the present financial ...
Article : 78 wordsMrs. Ethel Emmie Balzen, a married woman of Anglo-road, Greenwich, and her daughter. Veronica, aged 5 years, were found in a room at their home, about 11.30 o'clock yesterday ...
Article : 104 wordsAt the live stock sales to-day, there were comparatively fow fat cows of high-grade. Prime cows and helfers were mallable, and generally competition was well sustalned. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 wordsFive poople were slightly injured in a headon collision between two motor cars on the Queanbeyan-Canberra-road at 10 o'clock tonight. The car travelling towards Canberra ...
Article : 68 wordsRaymond Cheney, aged 4 years, was knocked down by a motor car while crossing High-street, Preston, to-day, and died later in hospital. ...
Article : 31 wordsBRISBANE.—Arr: Dec. 22, Matarama, from Solomon Islands; British Duchess, from Abadan; Saros, from Rockhampton. Dep: Dec. 22, Matar[?], for Sydney; Coolana, for Newcastle; Kalfarll, for Sydney. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe first prosecution in Victoria for betting on mechanical hare coursing was heard to-day at the Footscray Police Court. Arthur Thomas, aged 38 years, a labourer, was fined ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-night, the Commonwealth and States Financial Agreement Bill was passed. A message wes received that the amendment had been ratified by ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Darwin Town Council has sent a protest to the Government against the extreme leniency of a sentence of two months' imprisonment, passed upon an aboriginal for ...
Article : 52 wordsThe ceremony of blessing the crowning stone of the spires now being built at St. Paul's Cathedral will take place to-morrow. The height of the central spire will be 314 feet, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 23 Dec 1927, Page 12
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