"Point Cook is not going to be the only air force headquarters in Australia. I intend to establish stations at Richmond --which I have purchased from the State Government--and elsewhere," said the Minister for Defence, Mr. Bowden, yesterday. ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Australian Postmaster-General (Mr. Gibson) on the eve of his departure for Australia, told the special representative of "The us that ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 540 wordsNaked, except for boots and socks, and so badly injured as to be almost unrecognisable, the body of Henry Molesworth Oxley, aged 25, a student ...
Article : 149 wordsAfter a goods train, tearing headlong through a tunnel near Murrurundi, had been brought to a standstill by the emergency brakes, the guard was horrified to find both driver and fireman unconscious on the footplate of the engine. ...
Article : 288 wordsThe decision of the pony committee in favor of compelling pony clubs to become non-proprietary has created a stir in racing circles. ...
Article : 179 wordsWorking along a new line of inquiry that needs particularly delicate handling, the detectives who are trying to trace the murderer of Irene ...
Article : 201 words"The West Australian conference was really voting on something which was not before it," said the Federal Treasurer (Dr. Earle Page) to-day, ...
Article : 186 wordsNews has been received that Major Zanni, the Argentinian airman, who is attempting a light around the world, has met with disaster at Tavey ...
Article : 91 wordsA benevolent interest in the welfare of one's fellow creatures does not always meet the success it deserves. Seeing the poor, crippled old man walling at the crowded tram stopping place, I took his arm to help him into the tram. He ...
Article : 158 wordsA message from Stawell says that a man was seen about Seppelt's Great Western Vineyard, and the manager, with Mr. Hooke, an excise officer, and ...
Article : 163 wordsA particularly audacious bank robbery was carried out just before noon yesterday, when a man grabbed £200 in notes from the counter of the ...
Article : 172 wordsThe miners employed in the six cast section of the Pelaw Main colliery in which the work of extracting the pillars of coal, left after the original ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Labor Party has succeeded in retaining the Buranda seat, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. Huxham, the new Agent-General. ...
Article : 83 wordsFrank Beaurepaire, the Australian swimmer, while in America will study sanitation and filtration methods adopted in indoor baths. He ...
Article : 129 wordsA committee has been appointed at Manly already to welcome home the local representatives of the Olympic team. The Mayor (Alderman A. C. ...
Article : 178 wordsAn old overlander who arrived in Fremantle to-day [?] st[?]er Kangaroo said he did not believe in the report of sur[?]ors from the Douglas ...
Article : 154 wordsThe lawyers of "Kid" McCoy, the prize-lighter who shot and killed Mrs. Theresa Mors, are entering the plea of insanity in reply to the charge of ...
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Article : 0 wordsThe ballot taken yesterday to select Labor candidates for the Belmore Ward at the next City Council elections resulted as follows:-- ...
Article : 81 wordsSales to the value of over £1,000, have already been male at the Royal Art Society. It was stated at the society's smoke concert, held last night ...
Article : 99 wordsAs a result of a motor car smash last night three persons were removed to the Liverpool Hospital. According to the Liverpool police, ...
Article : 118 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes and his wife and daughter are travelling by the Niagara to Sydney. Mr. Hughes, who was suffering ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsThe fifth test match between South Africa and England was commenced at the Kennington Oval to-day in fine weather. The visitors won the toss, ...
Article : 188 wordsIn a gorgeous Oriental setting, "East of Suez," a play in six scenes opened to-night to a packed house at the King's Theatre. Muriel Starr ...
Article : 133 wordsAttention is invited to an advertisement appearing in another column of this issue calling for returns of income from sources derived in New ...
Article : 91 wordsThe future of the Northern Territory of Australia was discussed by the Australian Postmaster-General (Mr. Gibson) at a conference with ...
Article : 302 wordsOff to New Guinea yesterday by the Mataram. From left to right:--Mr. J. H. Prowse, M.H.R., Captain F. R. Jolley, Senator Payne, Mr. Yates, M.H.R. and Mr. Menzies. Messrs. Prowse, Payne, and Yates are members of the [?] Royal Commission which is inauiring into the operations of the Navigation Act, Mr. Menzies is the secretary, and Captain Jolley is ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 78 wordsCharlie Ah Gin, a Chinese merchant, was fined £25 at the Central Police Court yesterday for having had 119 tins of opium, valued at £1200, in his ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Commonwealth liner Largs Bay is due to arrive at Sydney from London to-morrow, with migrants for New South Wales. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 wordsA surprising instance of the ingenuity of opium smugglers was given in the police court when several Chinese were charged with having opium ...
Article : 90 wordsResidents all over the heights of Northbridge and Seaforth could see last night the reflection of a burning vessel in Sailor Bay, Middle Harbour. ...
Article : 85 wordsThere were frocks of every hue at last night's Sydney Grammar School dance to raise money for the upkeep of the boat club. ...
Article : 113 wordsJunior footballers had another bad day yesterday. Harry Moriarty, a salesman of Duke-street, Darlinghurst, was kicked in the head and ...
Article : 145 wordsAfter inquiring into the grounding of the steamer Milluna at Port Kembla on August 2, Mr. Giles Shaw, S.M., at the Water Police Court yesterday, ...
Article : 85 wordsRichard Beale Carter, son of Councillor Carter, of Fremantle, died in Fremantle Hospital from injuries received in a collision between his motor cycle ...
Article : 61 wordsOn Friday and Saturday evenings next the Sydney Grammar School Dramatic Society will present an at tractive programme at the ...
Article : 112 wordsAn enthusiastic audience filled Her Majesty's Theatre last night, when the final rendering of Bizet's romantic opera, "Carmen" was given. As ...
Article : 52 wordsAt the last council meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute 22 new members were elected, bringing the total membership of the Sydney branch to ...
Article : 59 wordsMelbourne Saturday.--Two gunmen stopped Hector Milne at the corner of Liddiard-street and Lyne[?]urst-crescent at 6.45 p.m. and at the point of a ...
Article : 44 wordsWilliam Thompson, aged 18, was working at the Neil Bland sawmill at Ungarie, when his leg came in contact with a circular saw. He was ...
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The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Sun 17 Aug 1924, Page 2
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