Australia won the semi-final of the European zone in the Davis Cup competition to-day when J. Crawford beat C. Boussus, 2-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, 6-0. Australia had previously won one singles and the doubles matches. In the other singles match to-day A. Merlin (France) beat V. McGrath ...
Article : 154 wordsFurther evidence was taken in public by the Petrol Commission to-day. Sir Charles Merrett, who was recalled and asked if he could add anything to his previous ...
Article : 487 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) informed the Loan Council this afternoon that the Commonwealth Government had decided to make ...
Article : 1,372 wordsThe Cockatoo Dockyards are now paying. When they were under Government control the Government was losing £60,000 or £70,000 a year. ...
Article : 691 wordsCharlotte Fowler, 58, a married woman, living apart from her husband, was charged at the Blayney police court to-day with having murdered John Ryan at Bany on or about ...
Article : 445 wordsSir Francis Lacey, a former secretary of the M.G.C., ridiculed the idea that political influence had been applied in connection with Larwood, who has announced his intention not ...
Article : 826 wordsMore than three hours late owing to heavy seas the Matson liner Monterey reached Sydney yesterday after an eventful voyage from San Francisco. ...
Article : 422 wordsThere were 8000 spectators when Crawford and Boussus commenced in terrific heat. It was so severe that Boussus, usually bareheaded, accepted Lacoste's famous white cap. ...
Article : 319 wordsA diamond ring, wrapped up in tissue paper, and accompanied by a short note, which was written on the tissue paper, was received through the post by Angus and Coote, Ltd., ...
Article : 161 words"Customs revenue is in many respects a huge capital levy on industry, used for current purposes, preventing goods becoming cheap," declared the leader of the Federal ...
Article : 559 wordsThe Lieutenant-Governor of Papua (Sir Hubert Murray) in his report for the year ended June 30, 1933, says that sorcery in some parts of the territory is gradually dying ...
Article : 307 wordsThere was an enormous crowd present and the weather was very hot when play commenced. After a great match, conspicuous in the early stages for safety tactics rather ...
Article : 928 wordsMr. S. M. Lock (vice-president of Wines and Liquors Incorporated), which has charge of the distribution of Penfolds wines in the United States, said on his arrival in Sydney ...
Article : 275 wordsThe secretary of the Motor Van Owners' Association of New South Wales (Mr. R. J. Fitzgerald) alleged yesterday that the Railway Department had threatened to close the ...
Article : 330 wordsCzechoslovakia, by beating Italy, qualified to meer the winners of the match between Australia and France. The complete scores were:— ...
Article : 78 wordsThe King and Queen received the Australian cricketers at Windsor. The party, arriving from London in four closed cars, was admitted to the castle through the Royal entrance from ...
Article : 399 wordsThe conference of the Graziers' Association recently urged the banks to make a further reduction of interest on overdrafts, and the general secretary of the association, in a letter ...
Article : 471 wordsThe "Daily Herald" says that the Ministry of Agriculture is preparing to ask Parliament to vote £5,000,000 as a subsidy for beef-producing farmer. The Minister for Agriculture ...
Article : 155 wordsMr. W. M. Bickerton, the New Zealander. who was arrested in Tokyo on a charge of having financially assisted Communist organisations, and was committed for trial more ...
Article : 133 wordsFive cement companies were recently asked by an officer of the City Council why each had quoted the same price in tenders for the supply of cement. Freight rates, included ...
Article : 322 wordsApproximately 50 temporary clerks are to be dismissed gradually from the pensions staff of the Commonwealth, because of the decision of the Government to discontinue the practice ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Minister for Health and Works (Mr. Weaver) said yesterday that the scheme to supply milk to the school children throughout the State wns a Government one, and as ...
Article : 102 wordsMembers of political factions were engaged in sanguinary warfare in the streets of Havana to-day, 10 men and three women being killed and 60 seriously injured. The police and ...
Article : 195 wordsThe heat wave in southern England, the tem[?]ture being 87 degrees in the shade, without [?] sign of the long drought breaking, em[?]ises the serious water shortage. ...
Article : 152 wordsA fire broke out in the Regent Cafe at 3 a.m., but owing to a timely alarm the damage was not considerable. The night watchman (Thomas Musto) noticed the fire ...
Article : 177 wordsThe convention of the Graziers' Federal Council, which was concluded yesterday decided to request the Commonwealth Government to negotiate with the Government of ...
Article : 189 wordsA Congressional committee, after a four months' investigation of the Military Aviation Department, issued a sensational report today, charging corruption and inefficiency in ...
Article : 146 wordsWith a noise like the explosion of a bomb, a corrugated iron wall collapsed at Schutt and Barrie's granary, Footscray on Saturday night. The collapse was caused by 2000 bags of wheat ...
Article : 124 wordsFive hundred gallons of petrol were spilled when a petrol tank was wrenched from the chassis of a motor lorry in Fitzroy to-day. The roadway was flooded, and petrol ran ...
Article : 150 wordsThe new Prime Minister (Mr.Kimon Geor[?] announces that he intends to govern [?]garia by decree for a year, and then by [?] National Assembly, which will be ...
Article : 104 wordsMembers of the Longshoremen's Union at San Francisco, Portland, and Tacoma voted overwhelmingly to-day against acceptance of the agreement which was reached between ...
Article : 58 wordsA telegram received from Wyndham to-night stated that Captain P. G. Taylor, who arrived on Saturday afternoon from Alice Springs in Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's Percival Gull, ...
Article : 65 wordsThe British India steamer Nerbudda, 7911 tons, went aground in a fog at 8 a.m. to-day between Semaphore and Grange. With the assistance of a tug, she was refloated at 7 p.m., ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 19 Jun 1934, Page 9
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