Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) New South Wales.

1843		Satirist and Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 15 Apr. 1/2: [W]hat else, let me ask, was the late New South Administration.
1906		E. Dyson Roaring Fifties [ebook] ‘He’s been like that as long as I’ve known him, and I met him first on the Liverpool Plains in New South twenty years ago,’ said Martin Cargill.
1917		Maryborough & Dunolly Advertiser (Vic.) 14 Sept. 1/7: ‘In the first place, dear girl, it originated, started or otherwise commenced in the New South railways’.
1921		Mirror (Perth) 14 May 4/2: ‘You wouldn’t think that Ritchie’s pater was a parson in Noo South, would yer,’ murmured one of his actor pals.
1936		J.J. Hardie Bridle Track [ebook]‘Someone left you a fortune, Mac?’ ‘No! But they want me to go back to New South for the Land Board’.
1946		Sun (Sydney) 29 Sept. 15/1: Consequently, the snoozers in New South had to jack up their bills with barter.
1957		A. Upfield Bony Buys a Woman (1966) 63: ‘Told me he’d been a general storekeeper in New South’.
1980		K. Garvey Shout for the Adder 73: ‘Not as many police pimps up there as in New South’ .