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What is described as the apathy of many surf club members towards patrols, carnivals and examinations is strongly criticised by the president (Mr. C. J. Nightingale) and the secretary (Mr. Wulie Parker) in their report on the activities of Newcastle branch…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →There is an old saying that in sport the winners can celebrate and the losers can please themselves. American tennis critics have been amusing themselves by attacking Australia's tennis master-mind Harry Hopman…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →MELBOURNE: Five little pale blue coffins stood in the small chapel of a funeral parlor at Elsternwick today as hundreds of people mourned the five New Australian children…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Refusal of Miss Marjoric Jackson to appear at the Victorian and Tasmanian State championships was criticised at a meeting of the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, September 15. A.A.P.—Flames swept through a barn at Belmont Park last night on the eve of the famous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cook's Hill brigade put out a fire in the electrical wiring of a car at the corner of Hunter and Watt Streets,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle coaltrimmers decided at a special stop-work meeting to protest through the Trades Hall Council against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Council Health Committee will advise South Lambton Progress Association that the subdivision of land…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON: Two West Dayton boys, aged 12 and 14, appeared at Uxbridge juvenile court charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Boolaroo brigade used knapsack pumps to put out a fire in grass in the Sulphide Corporation paddocks, Boolaroo,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK Sept. 17. A.A.P.—A passenger pulled the emergency brake cord and stopped an elevated train as…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Brigades put out four small fires in Newcastle district yesterday before any appreciable damage was done…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A young Polish migrant, Mr Jan Wieczorak, his wife and two-year-old son were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON.—Two American airmen whose car caught fire when it overturned in a ditch at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An attack on Newcastle Chamber of Commerce by Mr. J. B. Simpson, M.L.A., this week was "unwarranted and created a false impression," Mr. T. A. Vasey, vice-president…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LITHGOW, Friday.—Commonwealth Portland Cement Company will blast down part of a hillside to expose a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BUSHFIRE experts have renewed their warning that in the summer close upon us there will be a grave danger of outbreaks as dangerous as those of last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA, Sunday. —The Federal Government should abolish payroll tax, which was a damaging penalty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Sunday. — Fire destroyed the square ower of the Royal Sydney Golf Club last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Sunday.—A man yesterday burnt £1000 in banknotes, believing them to be…
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