AUSTRALIAN NEWS
EIGHT HOURS DAY
SYDNEY’S CELEBRATION
(Australian Press Association)
SYDNEY, October 7
A close holiday has been observed in Sydney to-day for the celebration of Eight Hours Day. The weather was sultry, overcast and generally unpleasant.
Thousands of trade unionists participated in the usual procession* which afforded the Labour men an excellent chance to display electioneering propaganda, but there also were some splendid tableaux symbolical of the different industries, with silken banners and brass bands interspersed at intervals. MOTOR DISASTER, ■SYDNEY, October 8. Crashing into a) tree near Charleville, Queensland, a car hurst into flames, which consumed the body of the driver who was killed outright. Five others were badly burnt and dazed by the impact. Two of these are not expected to recover. A SHARP SHOCK. SYDNEY, Oct. 6. A shock which shook houses for miles around, was felt atCoff’s harbour at 4.30 o’clock yesterday morning. It was accompanied by a rumbling noise. Many people were alarmed, but no damage was discovered. The Riverview Observatory recorded no disturbance. (Goff’s Harbour is a small port on the North Coast of New South Wales, about 300 miles from Sydney).
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1929, Page 6
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