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  2. WON'T BE DICTATED TO.

    Ryde Council has been notified by the Water and Sewerage Board, in reply to their request that no ashes might be allowed to be taken away from the Ryde ...

    Article : 84 words
  3. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 24 words
  4. TELEPHONE CALLS.

    Councillor Roberts, at Hornsby Council meeting, said that it was singular that when one was three months away from one's house with the latter locked up, the ...

    Article : 41 words
  5. NARROW ESCAPE.

    Sergeant Bruce Brown escape from death at Gallipoli was marvellous. When the Turkish shell entered the dug-out it blew his mate to pieces, while the ...

    Article : 53 words
  6. A PRAGUE.

    The secretary, office of the Director-General of Public Health, wrote to the Lidcombe Council bringing under notice a complaint made by Mr. M. Maguire, ...

    Article : 123 words
  7. BETTER NEWS.

    On Monday Mrs. Hosford received a cable from her son, Frank, and it certainly contained more reassuring news. It was as follows:—"In hospital, Bristol. Six ...

    Article : 32 words
  8. PUTTING IN HIS DRILL.

    Mr. A. G. Morgan, one of the courteous assistants in that have of official industry the office of the Parramatta Clerk of Petty Sessions, is away in the camp of our ...

    Article : 62 words
  9. The Cumberland Argus AND Fruitgrowers' Advocate, WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Cumberland Mercury, River Times, Weekly Advance, Cumberland Free Press and Ryde Electorate Press. PARRAMATTA, AUGUST 23, 1916.

    THE question of Increased reinforcements for the Australian armies is becoming pressing and urgent. Already the matter has been noticed in the House ...

    Article : 1,435 words
  10. THE DURAL HONOR ROLL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 90 words
  11. THE PARK FILCHERS.

    A speaker at the meeting of the Westmead Progress Association stated that he know that the Government held a special part of the Parramatta Park as land which ...

    Article : 67 words
  12. ORDER NOW.

    Mr. Talt, the Parramatta newsagent, says he could have sold 100 more copies of "The Argus" on Saturday. We had put on extras, but these were unequal to the ...

    Article : 86 words
  13. STATE FISH SHOPS.

    Mr. Eruntnell: I wish, to know whether the Colonial Secretary can indicate when a State fish shop will be opened at Parramatta, as promised by him some time ago? ...

    Article : 64 words
  14. ACCUMULATION OF FILTH.

    Mrs. Dhodson, Francis-Street, wrote to the Lidcombe Council drawing attention to the disgraceful state of affairs that exist at the bottom end of that street The ...

    Article : 136 words
  15. EJECTED.

    For the first time in the history of Parramatta municipal life the Pressmen were turned out on Monday whilst the, local municipal council considered the weighty ...

    Article : 64 words
  16. A SOLDIER'S IMPRESSIONS.

    Writing from Perham Downs,. England on June 15, to Mr. W. H. Brown, of Smithfield, the late Private Dummett described the sight of Gibraltar as "beautiful—the ...

    Article : 125 words
  17. "SCANDALOUS."

    At the meeting of the Auburn Council on Wednesday, Alderman Willick drew attention to the fact that brick carts were crossing a piece of footpath which had just ...

    Article : 125 words
  18. A BEREAVEMENT.

    Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jones (of the Burnside Homes, Pennant Hills Road) had the misfortune to lose, on the 18th Inst., their infant daughter, Jean McNoughton Jones, ...

    Article : 65 words
  19. NORTHERN SUBURBS CEMETERY.

    In reply to Eastwood Council's Inquiry, Mr. W. Thompson, M.L.A., wrote stating that every effort had been made by the Department, on his representations, to find ...

    Article : 80 words
  20. MEMORIAL SERVICE.

    A memorial service on Sunday evening, in connection with the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Pickering, was conducted at the Baptist Church, Parramatta, by the Rev. J. E. ...

    Article : 176 words
  21. VICE-REGAL VISIT.

    The Governor-General and Lady Helen Munro Ferguson arrived in our district on Sunday last, and were the guests for several days of Colonel James Burns at ...

    Article : 71 words
  22. FOR TEE RED CROSS.

    A meeting of the combined Parramatta district Red Cross and Amelioration committees was presided over, on Thursday, by Mayor F. J. Thomas. Arrangements ...

    Article : 124 words
  23. CURRENT NEWS.

    The construction of the railway from Liverpool railway station to the Commonwealth Rifle Range's Military Remount Depot and German concentration camp was ...

    Article : 77 words
  24. HISTORICAL STONES.

    Mr. Freame writes to "The Argus":—"There are in Parramatta Park three round stones—one near the main entrance, one at the rear of Government House, and one ...

    Article : 172 words
  25. QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE.

    A host of things were brought under the Mayor's attention at the Parramatta Council meeting on Monday. His Worship told Alderman Ferris, that it would be kept in ...

    Article : 209 words
  26. HISTORIC SPOTS.

    On Saturday last a gathering of 40 members of the Australian Historical Society proceeded by ferry to Ryde to visit some of the spots connected with the earliest ...

    Article : 153 words
  27. LAND VALUES.

    Speaking to an appellant before the Blacktown Shire Appeal Court on Thursday, the S.M. (Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge) said it was no use people coming to the ...

    Article : 87 words
  28. THE STRIKE SCANDAL.

    It is a scandal that while the country is at war there should be such a serious drain upon its resources as that resulting from strikes which bleed it to the tune of ...

    Article : 168 words
  29. COUNCILS AND ALLOTMENTS.

    Some time ago the Eastwood Council refused permission to Alderman C. R. Summerhayes to re-subdivide a portion of the Deniston estate; on the ground that the ...

    Article : 213 words
  30. A TERRIBLE ROAD.

    There is an outcry' in the Blacktown district over the disgraceful state of Leabon's lane, which is the principal connection, by road, between Seven Hills and Blacktown, ...

    Article : 182 words
  31. IMPROVING THE SOLDIER'S HOME.

    The Blacktown brunch of the V.W.A. undertook, when Sergt. Jeans left to do his bit at the front, to affect some necessary repairs and additions to his home in ...

    Article : 98 words
  32. "LIKE A FIG WITH ONE EAR."

    At the meeting of the Lidcombe Council on Tuesday a letter was read from Mr. Oliver Andrews Mark-street, who wrote with reference to his request to have ...

    Article : 395 words
  33. THOSE MENDACIOUS LETTERS.

    The Parramatta Chamber of Commerce, at a special meeting this week, had its attention called by Mr. Rawlinson to letters signed "W. HI. Ashby," and appearing ...

    Article : 331 words
  34. BILRING.

    At Parramatta Court on Monday, a man (who gave his name as H. J. Clarke) was fined for defrauding the Railway Department of their proper revenue. It appeared ...

    Article : 157 words
  35. RED CROSS WORK.

    The Granville branch or the Red Cross Society at Granville continues to carry on its good work. Mrs. E. Charlton is the president, Mrs. J. Rayner the secretary, ...

    Article : 121 words
  36. PARRAMATTA'S PARK.

    From "The Sun" editorial:—"Parramatta citizens arc protesting against that, disgracefully familiar episode of public administration in Sydney—the seizure of a ...

    Article : 282 words
  37. THE PAGE CLAN.

    Soldiers who sailed from Sydney on June 2nd are now are Salisbury Plains in England. Private A. W. Page's last letter was posted at Capetown. In this letter he ...

    Article : 172 words
  38. ONE HORSE ONE PAY.

    Over a matter involving a charge against employees, or an employee, of the council, of over-charging for horse-hire, Councillor Firth, of the Baulkham Hills shire, had a ...

    Article : 188 words
  39. OUR BOYS DOING WELL!

    Signaller P. Kemmel (wounded three different occasions in Gallipoli) writes from France to his mother at Liverpool:—"Yesterday (June 16) we underwent a light ...

    Article : 196 words
  40. THOSE AMBULANCE CADETS.

    A visitor to Parramatta wrote the other day expressing the pleasure with which he had, during a trip to the old town. stumbled across a local parade of our ...

    Article : 192 words
  41. SCORCHING MOTORISTS.

    The following report, submitted to last Blacktown Council meeting by the overseer (Mr. T. W. Jago) is very interesting. In view of recent accidents and a fatality ...

    Article : 446 words
  42. SCHOOL OF ARTS MORTGAGE.

    Inquirer writes: "Supposing that the 40ft. strip of the Hornsby recreation reserve be vested in the trustees of the local School of Arts, would not that land. ...

    Article : 140 words
  43. OUR PARK CHAMPION.

    Mr. J. W. Hill writes:—Many thanks for your valuable and timely leader upon the proposal of the Hallway Commissioners to resume portion of the Parramatta Park ...

    Article : 366 words
  44. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

    Mr. W. Morphett, president of the Parramatta Chamber of Commerce, presided at a special meeting of that body called for and held on Thursday. First was put ...

    Article : 372 words
  45. AT ALL SAINTS', PARRAMATTA.

    Last Sunday was "men's day" at All Saints' Church, Parramatta. A largo number of seniors among the mole parishioners assembled at 7.30 a.m. for the men's ...

    Article : 364 words
  46. THE MESSING BOARD.

    Mr. Walter M. Cox, the engineer Parramatta Municipality, reported at the meeting of the council on Monday—" I wish to place before the council the ...

    Article : 255 words
  47. PARRAMATTA MUNICIPAL FINANCES.

    At the general meeting of the Parramatta Council on Monday, the town clerk (Mr. Davies submitted the following report:—Financial statement for the ...

    Article : 238 words
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