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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    William Boughton, aged 20, whose right leg was amputated at Albury Hospital, after his motor cycle had collided with a motor car, died from shock. His leg was shattered. ...

    Article : 113 words
  3. IMPROVEMENT

    Statistics which have been prepared during the period that the State Government has been in office indicate the continued improvement in conditions throughout the State. ...

    Article : 208 words
  4. CRICKET.

    There was an echo of the body-line bowling dispute last night when it was revealed at the confusion of the day's proceedings at the meeting of the Australian Board of ...

    Article : 677 words
  5. ROWING CHAMPION

    Mr. Justice Long Innes, in Chambers yesterday, refused an interim injunction to John William Erickson, holder of the rowing championship for Gladstone skiffs in New South ...

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  6. AUSTRALIAN CRICKET BOARD OF CONTROL MEETS IN SYDNEY.

    Standing, from left to right: Messrs. H. C. Smith (Tas.), H. Blinman (S.A.), W. Jeanes (secretary), W. L. Kelly (Vic), R. J. Hartman (Q.), Dr. R. L. Morton (Vic), and Mr. J. S. Hutcheon (Q.). Seated: Messrs. H. Rowe (W.A.), R. F. Middleton (S.A.), H. W. Hodgetts (S.A.), R. A. Oxlade (N.S.W.), chairman, W. C. Bull (N.S.W.), F. M. Cush (N.S.W.), and Dr. A. Robertson (Vic.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 75 words
  7. BUSINESS REVIVAL.

    Members of the Albury Chamber of Commerce, commenting on the business revival, variously estimate that the Christmas business was from 25 to 75 per cent, better than last ...

    Article : 75 words
  8. MOTORISTS' ESCAPE.

    Three Toowoomba sportsmen, returning from Ballina yesterday afternoon, had narrow escapes from injury when their car left the road at McLeod's Shoot, Ewingsdale, and went ...

    Article : 85 words
  9. RAILWAY REVENUE.

    Further evidence of the upward trend of railway business is revealed in revenue figures for suburban holiday travel issued by the Railway Department yesterday. At 11 of the ...

    Article : 103 words
  10. MERGER OF COUNCILS OPPOSED.

    A merger of the Bingal a Municipal Council and the Gwydir Shire Council was not favoured at a public meeting of ratepayers here. The Mayor (Alderman C. Doherty) moved, "that ...

    Article : 103 words
  11. HUMAN FOOT FOUND.

    The discovery of a decomposed human foot and stocking by two visiting anglers at Bairnsdale is believed to provide a clue to the disappearance of Laura Clarke, aged 12, a student ...

    Article : 102 words
  12. MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

    A motor car ran over a cliff about l8 feet high at the foot of Johnston-street, Annandale, last night, and dropped to the road below. Charles Biggs, 25, a stonemason, of ...

    Article : 185 words
  13. DARWIN ALARMED.

    Darwin is suffering from a serious shortage of water because of the lateness of the monsoonal rains and the fact, that the town has no water storage supply. Residents are ...

    Article : 342 words
  14. SCOUT JAMBOREE.

    The thousands of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides who have come to Melbourne from other States and from overseas to attend the first international jamboree held in ...

    Article : 422 words
  15. AXEMAN'S FOOT INJURED.

    D. Livingstone, 40, of Camira Creck, was cutting trees when the [?]xe glanced off a branch and struck him on the top of the foot, inflicting a gash several inches long. He was taken to ...

    Article : 48 words
  16. HUME WEIR.

    Following a protest by Albury and Wodonga district graziers regarding the long period over which their river frontage lands had been submerged because of the retaining of water ...

    Article : 115 words
  17. DARWIN SEARCH.

    An aboriginal who was serving a life sentence for murder escaped from a road gang at Darwin to-day and has gone into the bush. A search by police and a band of ...

    Article : 313 words
  18. AMBULANCE CAR BOGGED.

    Two officers of the Casino Ambulance staff had an unenviable experience last night when their car became bogged on the way to pick up a patient on a bush road near Urbenville. ...

    Article : 82 words
  19. DUBBO ACCIDENTS.

    When a car crashed into a tree, A McAnally, of Trangie, suffeted a fractured nose, and R. Moore lacerations and bruises.—Thrown against a tree when his horse bolted, Noel Gillespie, ...

    Article : 54 words
  20. WOMAN'S DEATH.

    A dragon fly's presence in a motor car led to the death of Mrs. Alice Johnson, 64, of Wakefield-street, Glenferrie (Vic.). Mrs. Johnson, with her two sons, Allan and ...

    Article : 195 words
  21. FAMILY INJURED.

    A man and his wife and two children, who set out in a motor lorry last evening on a camping holiday, very shortly afterwards were inmates of a hospital. ...

    Article : 104 words
  22. WESTERN DISTRICT BAILWAYMEN.

    More than 150 railwaymen attended the annual meeting of the Far Western District, Sick and Accident Fund Club at Dubbo. It was stated that, due to the good work of the ...

    Article : 92 words
  23. CHESS.

    The third round of the Australian chess championship was played to-day. Hastings (N.S.W.) beat Watson (Vic.), Purdy (N.S.W.) beat Thierjung (Tas.), Crowl ...

    Article : 133 words
  24. GOOD TROUT FISHING.

    Excellent catches of fish are reported from Kosciusko trout stream. Messrs. A. Rose and R. J. Pye brought some fine fish from Island Bend. Seventeen fish were kept, the ...

    Article : 97 words
  25. TRADE COMMISSIONER.

    Colonel Cosgrave, who arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Niagara, is the new Canadian Trade Commissioner in Australia. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 24 words
  26. HELP REFUSED

    Esidence was given in the City Coroner's Court yesterday, during the inquest on Clive Maxwell Cameron, aged 9 years, of Wright's-road, Mascot, that when Cameron was ...

    Article : 200 words
  27. 2,627,518.

    An official statement issued by the Government Statistician (Mr. Waites) yesterday disclosed that the population of New South Wales at September 30 last was 2,627,518, an ...

    Article : 50 words
  28. INDEX.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 words
  29. THE ABORIGINES.

    Allegations of shooting and poisoning of aborigines in outback areas, which were made by Dr. C. T. Duguid, an Adelaide surgeon, at the Presbyterian Fellowship Conference in ...

    Article : 112 words
  30. HARE DIES AT MAN'S FEET.

    While walking across a paddock, Mr. Walter Long felt a sudden hit on an ankle. Looking down, he saw a halt-grown hare lying dead at his feet. Apparently the two dogs he had with ...

    Article : 64 words
  31. OBITUARY.

    Miss Annie Golding, a pioneer woman suffragist in Australia, and a pioneer in social education and industrial reforms, died in Sydney last night. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 296 words
  32. FIJI AND U.S.A. CONTINGENTS.

    Groups of boy scouts and sea scouts from the United States and the Fiji Islands arrived by the Niagara yesterday to attend the Scout Jamboree at Frankston, Victoria. The ...

    Article : 152 words
  33. CRUSHED BY HARVESTER.

    Mr. Herbert Grange, of Calcula, Trundle, was harvesting yesterday, when something went wrong with the header. While he was investigating the mishap, the horses moved, and ...

    Article : 64 words
  34. REPORT TO POLICE.

    A resident of Mosman informed the Water Police early last evening that he had observed through a telescope a man struggling in the water between the Heads. ...

    Article : 53 words
  35. WHEAT HARVEST.

    Approximately 20,000 bags of wheat are in the Trundle silo, and a similar quantity is in sheds and neighbouring silos. Deliveries are as brisk as ever, a total of 100,000 bags having ...

    Article : 48 words
  36. GIRL DROWNED.

    Nancy O'sullivan, 8, of Wonthaggi, was drowned at Kilcunda this afternoon. She was paddling near the shore when a wave knocked her down, and she was carried out to sea by ...

    Article : 92 words
  37. DRUNKENNESS.

    Mr. E. T. Oram, Chamber Magistrate at Central Police Court, who deals with cases of drunkenness, said yesterday that the number of offenders during the past 12 months ...

    Article : 133 words
  38. NEW COASTAL STEAMER.

    The new Diesel-engined steamer Elina [?]. arrived to-day on her maiden voyage, and attracted much public interest. She was gaily beflagged and carried a considerable amount of ...

    Article : 51 words
  39. TOBACCO FORTUNE.

    At Winston Salem, in North Carolina, another interesting division of the famous Reynolds tobacco fortune occurred to-day, when Libby Holman, a singer, whose marriage ...

    Article : 141 words
  40. CONTROL CHANGES.

    Changes were announced to-day in the control of the Newcastle afternoon paper, "The Newcastle Sun," which has been operated by Sun Newspapers, Ltd., for a number of years. ...

    Article : 198 words
  41. ADVERTISEMENTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 231 words
  42. GRASSHOPPERS.

    Mr. G. Olen, manager of the Central Western Co-operative Dairy Society's butter factory at Dubbo, recently discovered several grasshoppers whose sluggish movements ...

    Article : 219 words
  43. KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR.

    While walking to her home from Wingham on Christmas Eve, Mrs. H. Cann, an aged woman, was knocked down by a motor car. A car was being driven along the Taree-road ...

    Article : 97 words
  44. COWS ILL-TREATED.

    Roy Ward, impounding officer for Erina Shire Council, was fined £3, with 10/ costs and 13/ expenses, at Gosford Court, for ill-treating two cows he was impounding from ...

    Article : 159 words
  45. EMPIRE BROADCAST.

    A number of letters have been received by the Editor of the "Herald" criticising the Australian contribution to the Empire Christmas broadcast. The correspondents state that the ...

    Article : 257 words
  46. GIRL'S HAND CAUGHT IN SLICER.

    While Miss Lorna Hyland was slicing bread at Wright's store, her right hand became caught in the slicing machine and three fingers were badly gashed. ...

    Article : 37 words
  47. MR. KEN WALLER.

    Mr. Ken Waller, on his return flight from Leopoldville (Belgian Congo) in his D.H. Comet 'plane, arrived in Brussels to-day, having covered the 4000 miles in 2 days 9 hours 19 ...

    Article : 132 words
  48. COTTAGE BURNT.

    A cottage owned by Mr. Gabriel Bailey, of Ravensdale, was burned to the ground last night. The occupants were away. The cottage was insured. ...

    Article : 28 words
  49. NEWCASTLE NEWS.

    The northern miners' returning officer (Mr. L. Halliday) announced this afternoon that Messrs. J. Connell (Pelaw Ma[?]) and I[?] Hoare (South Seaham) had been re-elected check ...

    Article : 100 words
  50. COMMUNIST CONFERENCE.

    The principal feature of the general conference of the No. 1 district of the Communist party, in Transport House last night, was that for the first time the public was admitted to ...

    Article : 115 words
  51. SHOE DESIGNS.

    Mr. W. S. Dobbyns, of the staff of David Jones, Ltd., who returned by the Niagara yesterday from a tour abroad, said there was a strong English influence in the designs of ...

    Article : 164 words
  52. TO-DAY.

    Tivoli Theatre: "Die Fledermaus," 8. Theatre Royal: "Viktoria and Her Hussar," 2, 8. Criterion Theatre: "Around the World," 2, 8. Mayfair Theatre: "For Love of You," "Up to the ...

    Article : 218 words
  53. SHARK TRAGEDY.

    Efforts to recover the body of Roy Inman. 14, of Wordsworth-avenue, Concord, who was taken by a shark at Horsfield Bay, Brisbane Water, about a mile from Woy Woy, last ...

    Article : 70 words
  54. MONUMENT ROBBED.

    From the tip of the Washington Monument, 555 feet above the ground, 107 gold-plated platinum-tipped lighting rods, valued at 856 dollars, have been stolen. Someone evidently ...

    Article : 82 words
  55. MR. J. E. DONOGHUE.

    Mr. John Edward Donoghue, managing director of the Electric Light and Power Supply Corporation, Ltd., suppliers of electricity to some of the western suburbs, died ...

    Article : 177 words
  56. CHASE AFTER STOLEN CAR.

    While the eastern suburbs wireless patrol was going to Botany early this morning to answer a call, they noticed in Cleveland-street, near Regent-street, a stolen car ...

    Article : 137 words
  57. CASUALTIES.

    Wilfred Amos Furze, 55, of Beach-street, Blakehurst, died in the Royal South Sydney Hospital yesterday as a result of injuries received on Thursday. Furze was changing his ...

    Article : 51 words
  58. AIR MAIL.

    The Imperial Airways air-liner Aurora, left Darwin aerodrome at 6.30 o'clock this morning with the third Australian air mail for London. ...

    Article : 80 words
  59. SUCCESSFUL STUDENT.

    This year's dux of the Sydney Technical High School, and winner of the Spencer prize for mathematics is Joseph Macinante, second son of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Macinante, of ...

    Article : 100 words
  60. BRITISH ART EXHIBITION.

    "Interested," in a letter to the Editor of the "Herald," says the disappointing attendances at the special exhibition of contemporary British art at the National Art Gallery are ...

    Article : 67 words
  61. STRIKE SETTLED.

    The 130 relief workers employed on a storm-water channel at Mascot, who went on strike the previous day, returned to work yesterday morning The man whose dismissal led to ...

    Article : 52 words
  62. GERMANY BUYING WOOL.

    Yorkshire newspapers report that Germany is buying considerable quantities of wool. The "Yorkshire Post" says: "There is little doubt that the German demand for scoured merino ...

    Article : 46 words
  63. SUBURBAN PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusements Advertising Columns. ...

    Article : 20 words
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