The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) announced to-day that February 8 had been tentatively fixed as the date for the official opening of the, Federal ...
Article : 447 wordsPreliminary returns of British oversea trade in December, and the totals for 1936, show an increase in exports last month of £5,598,931, compared ...
Article : 260 wordsA motor car containing bloodstained rags, which has been found at Everett (Washington) is believed to furnish important evidence ...
Article : 180 wordsTobogganing is essentially a winter sport suited, to the snowy slopes of cold countries, but this small boy refused to be denied its thrills. An improvised timber toboggan, and the sun-scorched grassy slopes of Moore Park provided him with means to try his skill. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsRepresentatives of woolgrowers in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand decided at the Empire Wool Conference to-day to establish an ...
Article : 960 wordsAn accumulation of evidence has convinced the authorities that Major Green, one of the two negro porters employed at the apartment building in which Mrs. Frank Case, 25, was ...
Article : 145 wordsIt is officially announced that the Pope had a fairly good night, and that his condition is unchanged. The Pope was placed in a wheel chair ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) announced to-night that a meeting of the Loan Council1 would be held probably in Melbourne before Federal and State Ministers left to attend the ...
Article : 145 wordsThe National Executive of the Labour party has issued a manifesto stating that, in view of the decisions at conferences during the last year, it is of ...
Article : 244 wordsDuring the public examination of a bankrupt in the Bankruptcy Court to-day it was said that the Commonwealth Investigation Department had ...
Article : 306 wordsMore than 60 papers were read at the Science Congress to-day. They covered a wide range of subjects. The two which were considered to be the most ...
Article : 752 wordsFloods threaten the township of Goondiwindi, on the Queensland border. It was reported at 9 o'clock last night that if the Macintyre River rose ...
Article : 487 wordsThe forthcoming referendum was discussed at yesterday's Cabinet meeting. The Government decided to support it, and to await details from the Federal Government of the ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is now ascertained that 30 lives were lost when the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden (3223 tons) was wrecked in Pentland Firth, Scotland. ...
Article : 85 wordsA conference of transport unions yesterday decided to advocate the immediate introduction of a 40-hour week in the railway and tramway services. ...
Article : 195 wordsA call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details are published on page l8, column 5. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 178 wordsLady Haig, widow of Field-Marshal Earl Haig, is leaving on an Empire tour, which will include visits to India, Australia, South Africa, and Canada. ...
Article : 101 wordsDelegates from all States will attend a meeting of the full executive of the All-Australian Council of Trade Unions to be held in Melbourne on February 9 to discuss plans ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Department of Commerce has launc[?] a movement to increase the safety provisions regarding aeroplanes, owing to the deaths of 28 persons within a month as the result of ...
Article : 86 wordsAn allegation that the Premier (Mr. Willcock) had committed frauds in connection with the Yellowdine mine was made by T. J. Hughes, M.L.A., when ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Secretary for the Dominions (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald) called on the President of the Irish Free State (Mr. Eamon de Valera), who is passing through London on his return ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 164 wordsTwo firms of solicitors—Messrs. John Hickey and Quinn, and Messrs. Bowman and Mackenzie—were entrusted by Mr. Acting Justice Windeyer in the Divorce Court yesterday with the ...
Article : 315 wordsMr. Martin Johnson, the noted explorer, has died from injuries he received when a transport 'plane crashed in a fog in the mountains, near Burbank. His wife, who was also ...
Article : 67 wordsThe first news of serious floods, which forced the sisters at Wimmera Hospital, Victoria River Downs, to leave their building, threatened homesteads and held up the aerial ...
Article : 310 wordsFarmers of Stanislaw County have petitioned the Governor of California (Mr. Merriam) and the Mayor of San Francisco (Mr. Rossi) asking them to provide police protection for the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Department of Agriculture reports that foreign rearmament programmes indicate that wool prices will remain on high levels for the next few months, for the increased use of ...
Article : 80 wordsAustralia House is to-day's subject in the "Evening News" series of daily cartoons entitled "London Laughs." The cartoon depicts an old lady pointing her umbrella at the ...
Article : 98 wordsTheatre Royal: Russian Ballet, 8. Tivoli Theatre: "Mother Goose" 2.15: "Okay for Sound," 8. Lvceum Theatre: "Orphan of the [?], ...
Article : 275 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) announced to-day that the Ministry had decided to create the position of Australian Trade Commissioner in Egypt, and that Colonel C. E. ...
Article : 142 wordsWith 1200 National Guardsmen here and more en route peace continues at the Fisher motor body plant, which is in the possession of strikers. ...
Article : 68 wordsStatistics issued by the Bremen chamoer of Trade reveal that Government subventions resulted in an increase of 500,000 in the number of sheep in Germany. The total now is ...
Article : 112 wordsBurled alive for 24 hours, a sadhu (Hindu ascetic) was dug up at Indore in the presence of a crowd. He was sitting like a statue in the same position as when he was buried. He ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Department of Commerce announces that the gold imports into the United States in 1936 totalled 1,144,000,000 dollars (£A286,000,000), compared with 1,7[?],000,000 ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Arnold Haskell, who is associated with the Russian Ballett which is in Sydney, told members of the Legacy Club at luncheon yesterday why the ballet was named "Russian," ...
Article : 109 wordsThe largest seizure of opium in the city's history was made when Customs officers confiscated 4060 ounces on the British liner Meron, following a complaint by the captain, ...
Article : 54 wordsTorrential rain in the Mackay district late last night caused floods and washaways. The mail train from Townsville to Brisbane was held up at Pindi Pindi, 37 miles north of ...
Article : 76 wordsThe red uniforms worn by the boys of the Adelaide Drum and Fife Band made a bright splash of colour in the city yesterday, when the visitors marched from the Domain to the ...
Article : 56 wordsDuring violent rioting by Left-wing Communists against M. Trotsky, seven persons were, injured. Eight demonstrators were arrested, chiefly boys and girls under 16. The ...
Article : 65 wordsCharles Freeman, 50, tram driver, of Nelson-street, Woollahra, was coupling two trams at the Waverley Depot yesterday when his left hand was crushed between them. The ...
Article : 58 wordsThe price of gold to-day was £7/1/8 anounce, compared with £7/1/7 yesterday. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 15 Jan 1937, Page 12
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