A report has been received from the Public Works Department regarding the proposal to instal a filtration system and new high-level reservoir for the Wagga water services. It is ...
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Article : 2,425 words"A very earnest spirit was shown by members of the party at the meeting," said the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) this evening when the pre-sessional meeting of the ...
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Article : 76 wordsWhile sitting on the verandah of her home at The Forest, Mrs. Harvey Mccallum was horrified to see a large black snake within a few feet of her two children. Picking up a ...
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Article : 106 wordsSeizing an opportune moment, a prisoner, who was being escorted by a constable from Nyngan to Tamworth gaol, leapt through the window of the Tamworth passenger train ...
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Article : 82 wordsNominations for pre-selectlon for the forthcoming municipal council election will be considered to-morrow night at a meeting of the A.L.P. executive. Nominations close at ...
Article : 161 wordsThree men were injured two seriously, in a collision between two motor cars at Cundle last night. The injured were:—Mr. C. H. Batty, surveyor for the Main Roads Board, ...
Article : 95 wordsCasino municipal valuations, which have been increased largely, are still causing a storm of indignation among ratepayers. The Ratepayers' Association asked that a friendly ...
Article : 134 wordsMr. J. B. Martin, general returning officer of the A.L.P., attended a meeting of the Young electorate council at Grenfell and said that he was not going to allow the ...
Article : 128 wordsThe debate on the third reading of the Marketing of Primary Products (Amendment) Bill was resumed. Mr. McGirr declared that the new measure ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 81 wordsA four weeks' old baby boy was found abandoned in the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church, Adelaide-street, Woollahra, yesterday. There was nothing to disclose the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 207 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions the following sentences were passed: For breaking and entering, Arthur Charles Sullivan, 15 months' imprisonment; Clarence Williams, l8 months' ...
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Article : 257 wordsBrigadier-General J. P. McGlinn, the Third Commissioner of the Commonwealth Public Service Board, will retire from the Commonwealth service at the end of this week, when ...
Article : 136 wordsWilliam Herbert Potter and Alby Thomas, at the Goulburn Police Court were fined, the former £5, with 8/ costs, and the latter, £4, with 8/ costs. The trouble arose out ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 242 wordsGwendoline Shelly, aged 7 years, of Deningstreet, Drummoyne, died at Seacombe private hospital. On Tuesday she had stepped in front of a motor car in Lyons-road, ...
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Article : 76 wordsLeonard Gordon, aged 26 years, of Westmoreland-street, Collaroy, was killed instantly when he fell a distance of 20 feet from a ladder at the Brookvale showground last night. ...
Article : 104 wordsAt a meeting of the Bombala Municipal Council last night the aldermen were unanimous in refusing to take over the electric lighting system of Bombala from Town ...
Article : 308 wordsFred. Schert, of Grey-street, Glen Innes, was killed when the motor lorry on which he was a passenger got out of control and rolled over. J Ryan, of Texas, and L. Kennedy, of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 wordsA consignment of 50 boxes of butter and a motor lorry were stolen from George-street, near Circular Quay, yesterday afternoon. The thief drove the vehicle away during the ...
Article : 55 wordsAfter being held up for nearly seven weeks the North-South railway service will be resumed on Thursday. The line was interrupted by the washing away of the bridge over the ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. H. L. Denford, State secretary of the Federated Ironworkers' Association, has written to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, suggesting that an investigation ...
Article : 114 wordsOn the day following the valedictory at St. Mary's Cathedral on the evening of March 11. Archbishop Kelly will embark on the Orford, which sails at noon. A ferry steamer ...
Article : 87 wordsTwo Englishmen, Edward Harvey and Henry Burrage, were arrested at Fremantle to-day for having stowed away on the Moreton Bay. They claimed to have walked from Brisbane ...
Article : 58 wordsWriting to the Editor, Mr. Frederic Stubbs refers to the rule that pedestrians must keep to the left in the streets. "Much inconvenience and some accidents are caused by the ...
Article : 61 wordsA report from Wallis Island states that a heavy smoke pall is surrounding the island The wind is blowing direct from Ni[?], and it is thought that this volcanic island is ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 6 Mar 1930, Page 12
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