The Assembly in Committee on Wednesday, devoted six hours to the consideration of the Motor Transport Control Bill. The chief matter of contention was the constitution of the board, and it was finally decided it should consist of the Railways Commissioner, the Highways Commissioner, and a ...
Article : 2,050 wordsThe new building of the Queen's Home, Rose Park, were opened yesterday by Dame Nellie Melba. The photograph shows Dame Nellie being escorted by Mr. W. Horbert Phillips, president of the committee, between a guard of honor provided by Girl Guides. The new building of the Queen's Home, Rose Park, were opened yesterday by Dame Nellie Melba. The photograph shows Dame Nellie being escorte by Mr. W. Herbert Phillipps, president of the committee, between a guard of honor providd by Girl Guides. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 87 wordsA particularly interesting selection of pictures, including matters of local interest as well as pictures of happenings abroad, are included in this weeks ...
Article : 203 wordsWork on the line has been published a head, With the result that it is expected A meeting of the federal Aid Roads Board will probably be held next month at Canberra to consider the load construction programme of the States in ...
Article : 210 wordsWith regard to the proposal that the Municipal Tramways should Like take the Glenelg railway service and substitute electric trams, a conference was held ...
Article : 176 wordsNotice was given in the Assembly on Wednesday by the [?]-General (Hon. H. [?] that he would ask leave to introduce a Bill to prohibit the [?] ...
Article : 46 wordsA few days ago a young man stole £22 10/ from a house in the city. The money included a sovereign, which had been presented to one of the children, ...
Article : 99 wordsIf unemployment was to be recognised as an excuse for the commission of crimes the State at the present time would have to submit to a deluge of crime, remarked ...
Article : 124 wordsThe ejection committee of the Lawn Tennis Association (Dr. G.M. Hone and Messrs. Guy Fisher and F. G. Hicks) have delected the following teams to represent ...
Article : 104 wordsSpeaking of his industrial experiences at a re-union meeting of the Norwood Baptist Church last night. Mr. E. W. Holden (managing director of Holden's ...
Article : 110 wordsIn its report on the chipping communications between Tasmania and the mainland, tabled in the Senate to-day, the Public Accounts Committee stated ...
Article : 431 wordsMr. John Vidicks, of Sixth-street. Bowden, dislocated his shoulder while work ing for Messrs. Motley & Johnson at Port Adelaide on Wednesday afternoon. ...
Article : 38 wordsNo fresh developments occurred on Wednesday in connection with the moulders employed at the railway workshops Islington. The Chief Mechanical ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Town Council of Victor Harbour has been advised by the solicitors for the trustees of the estate of Mr. Simon Harvey that under his will the sum of ...
Article : 47 wordsMembers of Parliament again asked many questions yesterday regarding the Railway Department. The Premier said the Arbitration Court in Melbourne had decided the matters in dispute at Isington wholly in faver of the Railway Commissioner. In another connection he said practically 2,500 men Mr. Anthoney asked whether the Premier could inform the House what number of men were dismissed from the Railway Department during the last six ...
Article : 1,795 wordsOn Wednesday the Minister of Education (Hon. M. McIntosh), accompanied by the Deputy Director of Education (Mr. C. Charlton) and Mr. S. W. ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Edwin Porter, of First-avenue. Alberton was admitted to the Port Adelaide Casualty Hospital on Tuesday morning, suffering with several broken ribs. He ...
Article : 65 wordsCommenting on Canberra yesterday, Mr. W. L. Parsons. M.H.R.. said there was nothing wrong with the lay-out of the city. There was a definite need for a Federal ...
Article : 110 wordsThe City Coroner (Dr. W. Ramsay Smith) has deemed unnecessary an inquest into the death of Mr. F. Burrows (27), who shot himself at a coffee palace in ...
Article : 35 wordsDetectives Harrell and Copp and Comstable McCormack arrested three members of a family living in Wright-street, Adelaide, yesterday afternoon in ...
Article : 79 wordsWhile stepping from a Kings wood bound tram car at the corner of Grenfell and King William streets yesterday morning. Leonard Arnold (11), schoolboy, of ...
Article : 58 wordsSettlers on the Paringa side of the Murray (writes a traveller from Renmark) are experiencing a trying time. The crops are practically total failures, and ...
Article : 151 wordsAccording to Mr. J. R. J. [?] who has made a survey of Victoria in regard to settling migrants from Britain on the land, the training farms are a ...
Article : 132 words"You came out under the Dreadnought scheme, which I think is an excellent one, and you brought discredit on it. I shall take steps to have you deported to ...
Article : 107 wordsWhile working at the reconstruction work at the Abatt[?] yesterday afternoon, Mr. Spencer Amos (35), of Georgestreet, Marsdon, fell from a scaffolding ...
Article : 46 wordsThe manager of the Motor Travel and Tourist Agency (Mr. E. D. Scammell) said on Wednesday:—"Under protest and in response to great pressure, the Premier has ...
Article : 385 wordsShortly after midnight on Tuesday the Unley Fire Brigade attended a grass fire at Heywood Park. No serious damage was done. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Hudd, in the Assembly on Wednesday, asked when the Government expected to give a reply to a request made by a deputation to the Chief Secretary two ...
Article : 80 wordsEarly on Wednesday evening Mr. Charles Thomas Edwards, of Short-street. Yatala, reported to the Port Adelaide police that he was driving a motor car along ...
Article : 130 wordsThere was a bright interlude while the House of Assembly was in Committee on Wednesday night. The leader of the Opposition (Mr. Hill), who was criticising ...
Article : 93 wordsAt the wool sales to-day the quantity catalogued totalled 11,728 bales, and the sales, including; private transactions, amounted to 12.999 bales. A strong ...
Article : 76 wordsReference was made in the Assembly on Wednesday by Mr. Edwards to the death of a boy, aged 16. who was killed in the country, presumably by snake-bite, on ...
Article : 142 wordsThe general secretary of the Workers' Educational Association (Mr. G. McRitchie) his received a letter from Mr. Allan Wilkie informing him that the Allan ...
Article : 63 wordsFlashes of flame leaping up from the top of a sugar stack 50 feet high in the main store of the Glanville Sugar Refinery gave cause for misgivings shortly before ...
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Advertising : 203 words"The menace of the 'tote' is its comparative respectability" In those [?] the Rev. J. A. [?]. at a inciting of the Woman's Christian Temperance ...
Article : 118 wordsBoth sheen and lambs were scarcer in yesterday's Abattoirs market, the former by about 3,000 and the latter by 1,000. There were about 11,000 sheep yarded, ...
Article : 124 wordsOn Wednesday in tje Assembly, Mr. Hudd asked how matters stood in respect of the request by the State to the Commonwealth for a grant in aid. The ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. A. W. Thompson, of Millicent had his right leg broken between the knee and the thigh on Friday afternoon. He drove into the yard at the Somerset ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. A. J. Blakeway, who represented South Australia at the first inter-State conference of the Institute of Australian Surveyors in Melbourne returned by the ...
Article : 111 wordsAlthough no licenses have yet been issued to owners of motor buses plying for hire in the metropolitan area, it is expected that many of the vehicles will ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Messageries Maritimes liner Ville de Strasbourg, which reached Port Adelaide from Lisbon on Wednesday. brought 170 passengers for Adelaide. This ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. Rafael Ribes (27), a farm laborer, who came to Australia with his brother, from Spain, in 1921 was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital to-day Buffering from ...
Article : 55 wordsCommenting on the statement of the South Australian Commissioner of Police (Brigadier-General Lease) regarding the fax morals of children, the Western ...
Article : 183 wordsArrangements are being made for the Premier (Hon. R. L. Butler) to attend a meeting of the Glenelg Council on Monday night next to discuss the question ...
Article : 135 wordsAt a meeting of the men at the Excelsior quarries at Lithgow it was decided to come out on strike. It is stated that the trouble is due to the refusal ...
Article : 129 words"Le Matin" publishes a story of an extensive fraud, whereby hundreds of Hungarian pre-war bonds have been falsified by means of an acid, and then newly ...
Article : 80 wordsThere more French persons-Eugene [?] Henri Leon [?] and [?] who were recently at [?] at a house in South Perth, and ...
Article : 85 wordsIt is exected by the police charity carnival committee that the receipts from the sports on Saturday last [?] equal, [?] ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Thu 10 Nov 1927, Page 14
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