A referondum wns taken in conjunction with the municipal elections on the question of Sunday sport in parks and reserves controlled by the Ballina Council. The proposal to hold ...
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Article : 212 wordsMr. Thomas Baker, a founder with Mr. J, J. Rouse, of the original firm of Baker and Rouse, established in 1887, and of the present Kodak interests in Australasia, died at his ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 210 wordsRain which fell in the morning interrupted the tennis at Kooyong to-day, and several of the championship matches had to be postponed. The members of the British team ...
Article : 599 wordsThe greater part of yesterday's sitting of the Legislative Assembly was devoted to a consideration of the bill to redistribute electoral boundaries, and to give effect to other ...
Article : 598 wordsMr. William Longworth, whose death occurred at his Port Stephens home at Karuah yesterday, was a member of the original Cobar Syndicate, with his brother, the late Mr. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 474 wordsThe policy of the Government respecting electoral reform was vigorously defended by the Premier (Mr. Bavin) in the Legislative Assembly last night. The House was crowded, ...
Article : 2,218 wordsIt has been decided definitely that the new Federal Parliament shall meet at Canberra for the first time on February 6. the last day possible under the electoral Act. The Cabinet ...
Article : 436 wordsThe following resolution was carried at the quarterly meeting of the Parkes Chamber of Commerce: "That the State member be asked to supply the chamber with information ...
Article : 139 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the C.W.A. "the election of officers resulted as follows:—President, Mrs. Onus; vice-presidents, Mesdames. Winter, Chapman, Johnston, and Thompson; ...
Article : 58 wordsEleven years ago to-day, Finland declared herself an independent State, having been before that, from 1809, politically connected with the Russian Empire as a Grand Duchy ...
Article : 133 wordsThis morning the death occ[?]red of Mr. Thomas Lawrence Ryan, aged 68 years, one of the best known sportsmen in the Riverina, Mr. Ryan had been ill for about two years. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe first appeal against the cancellation of a license issued under the Transport Workers Act was heard in the Melbourne District Court to-day. The appellant was Wm. ...
Article : 172 wordsSpeaking at an entertainment held at Auburn last night to celebrate Mr. P. E. Coleman's victory in Reid, Mr. Tully, the new Federal member for Barton, sald that now ...
Article : 177 wordsAs n result of a protest by the Gulgong Town Council meetings of the land board will be held at Gulsong whenever warranted by business. It has been the practice to c[?]mpel ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Bavin), in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. made a statement regarding the report of the Inspoctor-General of Mental Hospitals, who had declared that 79 ...
Article : 288 wordsBushfires on a very extensive scale swept through the coastal country from Richmond Ranges to Iluka during the latter part of last week, raging till Monday, when a storm broke ...
Article : 160 wordsThe small second innings effort of the Australians at Brisbane against the Englishman is not the lowest score recorded in the international series. The lowest score is 36, made ...
Article : 242 wordsReports from the harvest fields state that an abundance of labour is available, but that fewer hands are being engaged than in other years, owing to the low price of wheat ...
Article : 94 wordsTwo youths, aged 20 and 19 years respectively, were arrested late last night at Surry Hills, and were charged with committing a capital offence against a 16-year-old girl in a ...
Article : 214 wordsMr. G. Buckland, secretary of the Australian Workers' Union, stated yesterday that trouble with the employees at the Leeton Cannery was threatening, because of the action ...
Article : 115 wordsCries for help coming from Susan Island, opposite Grafton, in the Clarence River, between 8 and 9 o'clock last night, led to the police being informed. Rain wns falling ...
Article : 199 wordsReplying to Mr. Davies, the Chief Secretary (Mr. Bruntnell) said that the Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. Farrar) was endeavouring to find additional avenues of ...
Article : 476 wordsThere wns only two hours left for play when Victoria resumed its second innings to-day. J. Ellis batted stubbornly, and was not dismissed until he had compiled 119. In South ...
Article : 303 wordsThe will of the late Arthur Herbert Whittingham, grazier, of Queensland, was to-day contested in the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Macrossan by his widow, Cecile V. C. ...
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Article : 125 wordsA new Sydney theatrical company, the formation of which was announced yesterday, will take over the Empire Theatre in February. ...
Article : 263 wordsA message from Bowen says that the body of the man Buchanan, who disappeared from his hut on the Birralee cattle station, was found in the Bowen River and taken into ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. W. S. Arnott presided at a special licensing court to-day, when permission was granted to remove the existing license of the Pioneer Hotel, recently destroyed by fire, to ...
Article : 58 wordsA stir was created at the Epping Racecourse last night, when officials of the Greyhound Coursing Association seized a greyhound for inspection. There has been some talk ...
Article : 55 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. Honry Campbell, aged 72 years. He was one of the best known farmers in the Wagga district. He was born at Kilmore (Vic.), and spent nine years ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 194 wordsMiss Bondfield Introduced a bill which was supported by Mrs. Runciman, Mrs. Phillipson. Lady Astor, and Lady Iveagh, Miss Wilkinson, and Miss Lawrence, empowering ...
Article : 187 wordsShortly before midnight last night a quarrel occurred at tea rooms at Scarborough Beach. Four shots were fired by a man. who escaped, and Ernest John Rex, 26, of Lake-street, ...
Article : 112 wordsAccurate artillery shooting took place yesterday, at Green Hills, near Liverpool, when the 2nd Battery of the Royal Australian Artillery, carried out shooting practice which ...
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Article : 121 wordsGeorge "Scotty" Allan, who was killed in South mine yesterday, was given a Socialists funeral to-day. No minister was present. The funeral procession was headed by the red flag, ...
Article : 84 wordsThe following players have been selected to represent New South Wales in Sheffield Shield cricket during the approaching tour of the Southern States: ...
Article : 268 words"All previous migration schemes have been trif[?]ing. We want a big national movement from the motherland to the dominions, plotted, planned, and perfected by the Government, on ...
Article : 132 wordsSeptimus Toohey, aged 2 years, a son of the licensee of the Lewisham Inn Hotel, Parramatta-road. Lewisham, was critically injured yesterday evening in extraordinary ...
Article : 209 wordsA new DH61 seven-passenger aeroplane arrived at Mascot Aerodrome yesterday afternoon from Melbourne. The machine, which was p[?]loted by Major ...
Article : 259 wordsMembers of the British Economic and industrial Mission. Sir Arthur D[?]man, Sir Hugo Hirst, Sir Ernest Clark, and Mr. D. O. Malcolm, will return to Sydney on ...
Article : 107 wordsAlthough in his statement concerning the reallocation of Minister'al duties last week, the Prime Minister said that control of the territories of the Commonwealth, with the ...
Article : 162 wordsHer Majesty's Theatre: "The Vagabond King," 7.50. Theatre Royal: "On Approval," 8. Criterion Theatre: "The Patsy," 8. St. James Theatre: "Good News,"8. ...
Article : 127 wordsKnocked down by a motor car at the junction of Old Sandgate-road and Tring-terrace, Nundah, this afternoon, Joyce Gray, aged seven, died almost immediately. John King, ...
Article : 125 wordsFears expressed in Australia that the frequent strike dislocations in the Australian trade will inevitably lead to an increase in freights.have aroused similar conjecture here. ...
Article : 84 wordsDetective-sergeant Miller and other police from the Darlinghurst Police Station yesterday Investigated certain losses of goods from the Sydney Sixpenny Stores, Oxford-street, city. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Minister for Works and Railways (Mr. Buttenshaw) is to be married on Saturday The bride will be Miss Clare Sugars, of Roseville, a daughter of the late Mr. W. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 6 Dec 1928, Page 12
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