Sydney's Flighty Thieves and Market Woes Highlight City Life
A long read notes Cyril Briggs, a notorious thief, alongside a blind beggar who sells razor blades near Anmel Hotel. The piece condemns crime, cites deputy rationing concerns, and reports a surge in black market butter while fish canneries push tuna output. It also covers a bail release, licence breaches, a lively Sydney Saturday with many drunken charges, and a conman who lost £22 to pocket theft at a canteen, prompting friends to investigate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyril Briggs
Anmel
Pitt Street
Briggs the
Briggs
Isbister
Hawkins
City Gossip and Strikes Stir Local Scene
Local chatter covers industrial delays and unauthorised strikes under Victoria and Australia voices. Reports on apiarists honey output, hospital funding woes, charity events, river of oddities, and a northern tour remark by agricultural attaché Llewellyn Toyne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddie Graham
Victoria
Std. Australia
Simmon's Big Range of Winter Wear and Fabrics
Simmons offers a wide selection of 29 inch flannelette and 54 inch woollen tweeds with sale prices. Includes ladies tailored costumes and top coats, children's winter millinery, and a variety of men’s garments such as pyjamas shirts trousers and jackets with coupon counts and post prices listed.
Public Vehicle Control Plan Advised By Councils
At a Taree council meeting a plan to form a local advisory committee to oversee licensing and control of public motor vehicles was endorsed. The panel would include two representatives from each council, the local police, and the road transport officer as secretary to advise the Road Transport Department. The committee will meet periodically to review local licensing matters and report findings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taree
Ald
W. F. Chapman
Road Transport Department
Wingham Municipal
F.C. J. Hassan
Manning Shire
Sheppard
Meears
Road Transport Dept
Barrett
Boal
Hia
Local Transport Omcer
Walsh
Dept.’s
Caina
Ald. Martin
Hospitals face debt crisis as 600000 pounds owed
The N A W Hospital Commission proposes monthly settlements of outstanding accounts to curb a financial crisis. Boards seek aid to cover debts around £600,000 with four large country hospitals owing tradesmen nearly £160,000. Names include Gosford Lithgow Tenterfield and Tumut District. Leeton and Gosford also show wage arrears. The Hospital Association presses for a review of the Hospital Benefit Act and continued subsidy while Health Minister Kelly cites nurse recruitment issues and wage incentives across hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.A.W
Gosford
Lithgow
Tenterfield
Leeton
Gosford Lis Rot
Tumut District Hospital
Hospital's Association
J. H. Burt
Mr. Kelly
Wake, Editor, and Office Confusion Reported
Fragmentary OCR yields unclear names and places. no coherent event or outcome clearly readable. The snippet shows scattered terms like Wake, Wincham, and Office, with no definite action or date.
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Liberty
Chester Morris
Trudy Marshall
Boston
Blackie and the Law
Jack Carson
Jane Wyman
the Scarlet Horseman
Universal News Reel
Allis Chalmers
International TD
L. J. Gleeson
Wingham
Tooth’s Beers
Wingham Hotel
D. H. Miikikest
Wingham Chronicle
H.a.mcc
Sydney
G&o
Forde
Mburban
Marooma
Barracouta
James Donovan
Double Bay
Ome
Spring Street
NRMA
Ammetrong-Siddeley
Weill
Leeton Hospital
Warwick
Railway Square
Barrier Reef
Kate Leigh
Barry
Barry Hills
Kate
Chief Havoc
Katie
Ieave
L. ¥. Toyne
Lismore
Australia
Grafton
Casino
Tayne
Llewellyn V. Toyne
Rnie
Thornton
ACTU
World Federation of Trades Unions
Prage
Czechoslovakia
Ernie
W. 2. Kerne
Hawkesbury District FP
A. Association
Tumut Pani A. Association
J. H. Haddin
G. T. Johnston
C. V. Daley
Fitzroy
Mr. Kerle
Iowa
Tumut
Wilkincon & Son
Acre
Curll Bros
Evening Press
Hospitals Commission
Simmon’s
Simmon
Vic. Simmon
E. Simmon & Sons, Drapers, Mercers & Tailors
Frnied Ae
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