The possible inadequacy of external fire escapes in city buildings in the event of fires was emphasised by aldermen of both parties at a meeting of the works committee of the City ...
Article : 544 wordsAt the monthly-meeting of the council of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia to-night, it was decided to increase the number of Davis Cup selectors from four to five. This ...
Article : 400 wordsFollowing his retirement after 35 years' continuous service in the Prisons Department. Mr. M. Brewer, chief warder at Bathurst Gaol, was entertained by departmental employees. ...
Article : 89 wordsMartin Gallagher, health inspector of the Paddington Municipal Council, gave evidence at the Industrial Commission's living wage inquiry yesterday about housing conditions in ...
Article : 1,098 wordsThe healing of the charge against Eric Mareo, 41, musician, of murdering his wife, Thelma Clarice Mareo, 29, actress, who came from Brisbane, on Apill 15, was begun at the ...
Article : 505 wordsThe visit of the Hungarian Premier (General Goemboes) to Berlin, resulting in a two-hours' audience with Herr Hitler, and conferences with the Minister for[?] Defence (General von ...
Article : 206 wordsMr. Robert Matcham Pitt, managing director of Pitt, Son, and Badgery, Ltd., and doyen of the wool trade of New South Wales, died last evening, in his 86th year. Mr. Pitt ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 538 wordsHarold Robert McDonald, alias WaiteR Alexander Anderson, 28, escaped from the Mildura lock-up to-night. He had been arrested in the scrub four miles from Mildura on ...
Article : 213 wordsAwakened suddenly to discover his hut ablaze Patrick O'Lcary, who lives on the town common, escaped without injury. His dog, which was tied to the post of his bunk, was ...
Article : 67 wordsA fire otcured this afternoon at the Cafe de Luxe, Marshill-street, Goondiwindi, conducted by Mr. L. Pullos. The brigade was summoned, and with the assistance of ...
Article : 48 words"Back to Gunnedah" Week opened to-day with a procession and gymkhana. The street of the town weie gaily decorated with fiags and bunting. Many former resident arrived ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Barton electorate council of the Lans Labour party has issued a circular to leagues and branches criticising the administration of the party, and asking bodies to support the ...
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Article : 69 wordsAt a meeting of the North Coast council of the Parents and Citizens' Assciation, speakers advocated raising the age at which children should leave school. The ...
Article : 32 wordsSo far the Federal Cabinet has not discussed the question of the appointment of a successor to Sir Frank Gavan Dufly as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, ...
Article : 87 wordsAt the Goulburn Police Court, Edward Charles Harding was committed for trial at the next Goulburn Quarter Sessions on a charge of blgamy. He was allowed £50 ball. ...
Article : 48 wordsA despatch received by the British Embassy states that the Rev. A. Hayman, the missionary who has been in the hands of Red bandits for a year, was seen on September 15 alive, ...
Article : 105 wordsa public meeting held under the auspices of the Springwood and Distict Development League, decided to request the Blue Mountains Shire Council to call for tenders for the ...
Article : 62 wordsWillie Mr. Terrance Murphy was shooting rabbits at the week-end his gun burst and portions of it hurtled in all directions. Mr. Murphy, who is a returned soldier with war ...
Article : 115 wordsThe mutual interest aroused between Albury and Holland when the Dutch air liner was forced down at Albury during the Centenary air race has in no way diminished, according ...
Article : 324 wordsMr. George Henry Woodburne, 66, dropped dead on a footpath a few yards from the front gate of his home. He came to Youns 48 years ago, and, six years later, joined the steff ...
Article : 59 wordsA veteran journalist, Mr. Francis Pascoe, passed away at the Memorial Hospital, North Adelaide, on Friday night, in his 80th year. Mr. Pascoe's connection with the Press began as ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 92 wordsThe South Australian Agent-General (Mr. McCann) and prominent meat traders attended an exhibition of Dorset and merino sheep at Smithfield. All were in excellent ...
Article : 109 wordsJames Doyle, 32, was charged with trespassing on railway property. Plain-clothes Constable Wells said Doyle had previous con[?]ictions for trespassing and theft of railway ...
Article : 60 wordsAlthough two men, who appeared at the Bathurst Police Court this morning (on charges which were not connected in any way) were each advised by the magistrate ...
Article : 244 wordsMr. Farrington, S.M., to-day dismissed [?] charge of larceny which had been made against Joseph Kearns, labourer, of Portland, stating that the police had failed to show that ...
Article : 154 wordsA call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details appear on page 18, column 5. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 wordsAddressing the annual meeting of the Australasian Institute of Secretaries last night, the president (Mr. N. G. Huton) said that the Commissioners of Taxation of the States ...
Article : 162 wordsThe death has occurred of the novelist Miss Winifred Holtby, M.A. When warned by her doctors that she had only a brief time to live she indomitably completed two books ...
Article : 129 wordsWhile Mrs. A. G. May, of East Maitland, was playing golf on the Morpeth linke, she was accidentally struck on the face by a golf ball. She was conveyed home, suffering ...
Article : 52 wordsMrs. Robert Mclauchlan, of Coates Creek, was the victim of a curious accident yesterday. She struck at a snake with a stick, but the blow failed to achieve its purpose, ...
Article : 73 wordsLabour representatives from Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia will meet representatives of the State Labour party in conference at Canberra to-morrow to seek a ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. W. T. Charge, chief manager of Hemingway and Robertson Proprietary, Ltd., and chairman of the commercial educational committee of the Sydney Chamber of ...
Article : 187 wordsMr. Joseph Parry, who died at Manly on Sunday, was town clerk at Ryde for many years. On his resignation nearly twenty years ago, he went to Ashfield as town clerk. He ...
Article : 89 wordsOwing to the resignations of Aldermen J. H. Miller and W. R.Tuite from the Murrurundi rouncil, Messrs. W. R. Bruce and T. H. Rixon were declared elected, theirs being ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Rev. R. C. Russell, at a service in St. Andrew's Church last night, said that on Mussolini's shoulders alone rested the blame for the threatened war between Italy and ...
Article : 157 wordsThe submarine cable interests, the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company and Siemens Brothers, Limited, will amalgamate to-day, under the style of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 224 wordsAt a well-attended public meeting at wurrurundi, convened by the Mayor (Alderman G. B. White) and the shire president (Councillor J. Peikins), it was decided to ...
Article : 47 wordsMembers of the Federal Parliamentary Labour party will meet to-morrow morning to elect a leader and a deputy leader, following the resignation of Mr. Scullin. ...
Article : 186 wordsMr. James Walker, who died at Lewisham Hospital yesterday in his 80th year, was probably the last of the country brewers of New South Wales. Bom at Murtle, Scotland, ...
Article : 274 wordsAllan Warne, 33, of Bruce-street, Brightonle-sands, was adjusting a concrete mixer yesterday at North Head, where gun emplacements are being made, when his right ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Coolaiiratta Council advocates a s[?]e of 200 acres near the border rifle range, as a site for an aerodrome. New England Airways, Ltd., has offered to clear and ...
Article : 72 wordsThe discovery yesterday evening of portions of bodies, including the heads, of a man and a woman wrapped in newspapers, in a deep ravine at Gardenholm, ...
Article : 82 wordsGold to-day was quoted at £7/1/6? an ounce fine, compared with £7/1/6 on Saturday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. ...
Article : 347 wordsA car driven by L. Alcorn, a Main Roa[?]s Department clerk, of Tyrell-street, Newcastle, clashed over a 40ft bank last night and was wrecked. The steering gear locked when we ...
Article : 238 wordsRecently, when the owner of a small frontage on the eastern side of Main-street decided to erect two brick shops on it, the discovery was made that an adjoining brick ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 263 wordsThat bright revue company, the Co-Optimists, were unfortunate in the small attendance at St. James Hall last night, when "Happiness Ahcad" was presented in aid of the ...
Article : 126 wordsThe leader of the State Labour party (Mr. Beasley) will move the adjournment of the House of Representatives to-morrow, to urge that a select committee of the House should ...
Article : 166 wordsAs a result of a hailstorm experienced at Cooroorah Station, Surat district, hailstones piled up a foot high. Alongside the netting fences and along the creek frontage for miles ...
Article : 62 wordsIan Campbell, aged 2, of Orbost, was delighted with the two "grasshoppers" which he proudly brought to his mother to-day. His mother was not delighted—the "grasshoppers" ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Hurstville Chamber of Commerce has complained to the St. George County Council that the penalty charged by the council for the non-payment of electricity accounts within ...
Article : 165 wordsJohn McCrae, 35, first mate of the [?] Idant who was injured last Wednesday morning when he was jammed by a Pole against the hatch combing during loading operations, died ...
Article : 51 wordsFollowing the non-settlement of the dispute regarding wages, Waihi miners have given their employers seven days' notice of their intention to strike. Negotiations are ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Rev. Ernest Davies, Congregational pastor at Strathfield-Homebush for 13 years, was farewelled in the Strathfield-Homebush School Hall last night and presented with a ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Monospar 'plane owned by Austra[?] Transcontinental Airways, which crashed while engaged on the Darwin-Adelaide service, has been salvaged by the Queensland Insurance ...
Article : 58 wordsSquadron-Leader Jones, with Sir Herbert Gepp as a passenger, arrived by 'plane at Port Hedland this afternoon from Hall's Creek, which they left at 4 a.m. From Cloncurry, ...
Article : 56 wordsH. Beeves gained a points' decision over Les Brander (New South Wales), in a 15-round boxing contest at Invercargill. Brander outboxed Reeves for Ave rounds, but thereafter spoilt the contest ...
Article : 41 wordsArthur Garton, 65, an old man, who lived alone in a hut at La Perouse, was found dead, lying on the floor of his hut, yesterday evening. ...
Article : 43 wordsProgrammes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in "the Amusement Advertisement Columns. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 1 Oct 1935, Page 12
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