Miss Mercia McDonagh, who wrote the Australian picture romance, "Those Who Love," told the Film Commission yesterday that she experienced certain difficulty in getting a ...
Article : 331 wordsThe chairman of the Oversea Shipping Representatives' Association (Mr. F. G. Murdoch) issued the following statement last night:— ...
Article : 477 wordsViolence was attempted by the unemployed to-day when the Premier (Mr. Butler) declined to see them. About 1000 men assembled outside the ...
Article : 187 wordsInquirles show that Christmas holiday traffic on the Sydney line will be exceptionally heavy. All accommodation for three sleepers has been booked on the train leaving on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 995 wordsThe Commonwealth Parliament to-day entered upon the last three weeks of its sittings for this year, and the House of Representatives assembled on a Monday for the first time ...
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Article : 562 wordsGenerally regarded as the only man in the Commonwealth with an intimate personal knowledge of William Charles Wentworth during his last days, Mr. Joseph Mortimer Horne, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 437 wordsOn the grounds that the vessel was loaded by non-union labour at Risdon wharf, labourers to-day refused to handle the Union Company's steamer Kiwitea, which arrived ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Wingham municipal council has received a letter from the Performing Rights Association threatening legal action if the council allowed a concert to be performed in the town ...
Article : 67 wordsReplying to a request from the Maitland Chamber of Commerce for increased police protection, the Commissioner of Police stated that he considered the police stuff to be adequate. ...
Article : 56 wordsThere was no play to-day in the Sheffield Shield cricket match between New South Wales and Queensland. Soaking rain last night and to-day prevented a start being made at 11.30 ...
Article : 114 wordsThe death has occurred at Kandos of Mr. E. Chalmer, at the age of 55 years He was a native of New Zealand, and was one of the first members of the staff of ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) was asked in the House of Representatives to-day by Mr. Theodore whethor is was true, as had been reported, that the Commonwealth Ministry was ...
Article : 227 wordsWhile starting a planing machine at vanderfield and Reid's joinery works, Robert Wallace (21) was caught in the belt and thrown some distance. His right arem was ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Minister for Railways (Mr. Buttenshaw) has informed the Chamber of Commerce, in reply to a request that the Parkes-Engowra railway proposal should be revived and again ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Acting City Coroner (Mr. Flynn) yesterday held an inquiry into the death of Samuel Johnstone McAnally, aged 45 years, whose body was found at the corner of ...
Article : 201 wordsThe remarkable signalling apparatus and safety appliances in use on the City Railway are described in the annual report of the Railway Commissioners. ...
Article : 233 wordsArthur Charles Culpin (65) was found in his camp on the Llangothlin road, about two miles fiom Guyra suffering from wounds in the neck cnused by a razor or knife. The ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Donald McGregor, one of the oldest residents of Temora, has died. A resident of Temora for more than 40 years, he was a member of the first municipal council here in ...
Article : 49 wordsMuch importance is attached in union circles to the stop work meetings of the Australian Seamen's Union, to be held throughout the Commonwealth this morning. It is expected ...
Article : 90 wordsThe district representative on the Hunter District Water Supply and Swwerage Board has been informed that the dosign of a sewerage scheme for Maitland is difficult, and ...
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Article : 148 wordsMr. W. Carey, M.L.C.,, former general secretary of the Australian Labour party, was yesterday presented with a cheque by by friends in recognition of his services to the Labour ...
Article : 275 wordsThe rainfall since Wednesday night totalled 578 points. Although beneficial, it caused mortality among sheep in the district. A. Suttor grasier, Mr. Hargreaves, had just ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Minister for Health has agreed to receive a deputation from the East Maitland and Morpeth municipal councils and the Tarro and Bolwarra shire councils in regard to the ...
Article : 72 wordsOil prospecting methods in Australasia were criticised by Mr. Watt, M.P., chairman of directors of Taranaki Oil Fields, Ltd., New Zealand, in his annual address to shareholders ...
Article : 214 wordsAlthough no official statement was made in Sydney yesterday, it was learned that if the waterside workers refuse to, work under the award conditions to-morrow morning, ...
Article : 62 wordsA fire destroyed two [?]ggon loads of hay, amounting to 20 tons. The waggons were saved before being seriously damaged. ...
Article : 25 wordsA mysterious high railway official was recently reported as having said that the Broken Hill-Sydney line would not pay for axle grease. The assertion is not borne out. ...
Article : 74 wordsAs a result of a minute presented by the mayor, who represented it at the Local Government Association confenence, the City Council adopted a motion expressing the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsShowers at the week-end brought the total rainfall up to 514 points. A sharp rise took place in the river, which reached 20 feet 6in, but the water began to fall last night and ...
Article : 45 wordsAfter an extended cruise of the islands the auxiliary yacht Utiekah III. returned to Sydney shortly after 8 o'clock last night, and anchored in Watson's Bay. ...
Article : 277 wordsThe City Council has decided to ask the Fire Commissioners to replace the present fire engine with one that is more up-to-date. It also d[?] to write the Firo ...
Article : 60 wordsPORT PIRIE.—Arr: Nov. 25, Barunga, s, from sydney. Dep: Nov. 25, Iron Crown, s, for Newcastle; Nov. 26m Dromana, s, for Sydney; Port Denison, s, for Melbourne; Magdeburg, s, for Sydney. ...
Article : 36 wordsSenator Duncan, a member of the Film Commission, declared at yesterday's sitting that at the conclusion of last Saturday's sittings he was approached by one of the ...
Article : 140 wordsThe pilot steamer Birubi, which was recently completed at the Government dockyard, Walsh Island, will replace the Ajax at Newcastle. To-morrow the Birubi will leave Newcastle ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 136 wordsF. B. Walcott's residence at Fairfield, near Delegate, and its contents, were destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning. ...
Article : 25 wordsAs a result of the derallment of an electric train at the Mortdale traffic siding at 6.30 o'clock yesterday morning, six trains were cancelled up to 7.30 a.m. There were delays of ...
Article : 163 wordsAfter the storm of the previous Monday matters were comparatively calm at the Sydney Stadium last night, when an attendance estimated at 11,000 witnessed the wrestling ...
Article : 500 wordsThe Hospital Saturday collection was held on a modified scale as compared with previous collections. No house-to-house canvass was made. The street collection realised £92. ...
Article : 30 wordsNorah Winter, the 9-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Winter, of Condong, was shockingly burnt when the bed in which she was sleeping caught fire. The child died ...
Article : 146 wordsDuring the interval yesterday at the matinee held in Her Majesty's Theatre to aid the dependents of those killed in the Greycliffe disaster Miss Marie Burke and Mr. Gus Bluett ...
Article : 277 words"I am glad that in these early days of Canberra you have not thought only of the material things, but that you should have realised that art plays a vital part in the life of a ...
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Advertising : 235 wordsAttempting to land after his engine had cut out 100 feet from the ground, at Mascot Aerodrome, on Sunday afternoon Mr. Frank Drayton was involved in a smash. ...
Article : 165 words"It would be just as logical to require a duty stamp to be put on every tin of salmon or every bettle of beer as to tax motorists specially for the upkeep of hospitals," ...
Article : 389 wordsSpeaking at the annual Christian Endeavour celebrations in Lithgow churches yesterday, the Rev. Knox Read, Methodist clergyman, said that in all his experience when dancing ...
Article : 114 wordsProbate has been granted of the will of the late Mrs. Emilie Ellis (theatrically known as Miss Emilie Polini), who died some months ago, leaving an estate of the not value of ...
Article : 150 wordsMoree Sportsground was the scene of a destructive and spectacular fire in the early hours of Monday morning, when the grandstand, a substantial two-story structure, was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 wordsCecil Dacre, the New Zealand cricketer, has accepted the offer to play for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, and will leave for England in March. He expects to remain ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Secretary of State for the Dominions (M[?]. Amery) had a busy day at Wellington. This morning he received a memorial on migration, and later was accorded a civic ...
Article : 92 wordsA mishap to an electric train near Belmore, during the afternoon had an unexpected denouement, when a driver of a following train, who had been ordered to push the disabled ...
Article : 141 wordsThere was a demonstration at Epping racecourse after the half-mile race, the concluding event of the Greyhound Coursing Association's meeting, last night. ...
Article : 119 wordsProducers of honey, who have an annual exportable surplus of 1000 tons, have arranged to place their product on the British market through one distributing agency in London, ...
Article : 40 wordsAt this evening's meeting of the Royal Australian Historical Society. Mr. Charles H. Bertle, Fellow and past president of the society, will deliver another of his cxtremely ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 29 Nov 1927, Page 12
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