The Hobart City Council is to be asked to consider a proposal that it construct a pipeline from Long Beach to the city boundary for the Taroona water scheme, provided the ...
Article : 708 words"The regulations seem very much akin to the Nazl rule of Europe." said the Police Magistrate (Mr. Stops), in the Launceston Police Court yesterday, when he dismissed ...
Article : 573 wordsThe administrative block of Australian Newsprint Mills Pty. Ltd., Boyer. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 13 wordsGreater control of building at Taroona was urged at a meeting of the Kingborough Council yesterday. The Warden (Mr. J. G. Charlton) said the position had been ...
Article : 175 wordsAlthough Huon orchardists who commented yesterday on the Apple and Pear Acquisition Scheme for 1941 criticised minor phases of the proposals, they considered that, ...
Article : 359 wordsFew articles of value were saved when a six-roomed weatherboard house owned by Mr. C. J. Cordwell, Crabtree, was destroyed by fire at 3 a.m. on Saturday. The house ...
Article : 154 wordsFormed about five years ago, the Cygnet Company of Girl Guides is doing splendid work for patriotic causes. With a trained and experienced captain in Mrs. F. Thomas. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe programme for the coming Royal Hobart Regatta, which is now on sale, discloses a highly satisfactory position with good entries for most events in the widely diversified ...
Article : 438 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.—Mr. Cameron, M.H.R., said today investigations in Sydney showed there were much greater quantities of "Australian" olive oil on the ...
Article : 143 wordsThieves last Wednesday night broke into High Peak, the Huon Rd. residence of Senator C. W. Grant, and, ransacking the house, removed bedding, curtains, crockery, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 162 wordsFollowing the recruiting rally in Hobart on Friday, there has been an excellent response on the part of intending recruits. Yesterday morning applications were received ...
Article : 303 wordsDealing with causes leading to the drift from the land, the convention of the National Catholic Rural Movement, held in Melbourne last week, decided on a programme designed ...
Article : 233 wordsCommenting yesterday on the statement by the Minister for Labour (Mr. Holt) that the Federal Government was giving consideration to problems of post-war reconstruction, the ...
Article : 225 wordsThe desirability of establishing a pool to handle the marketing of peas was stressed by the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. D'Alton) at the recent meeting of the Australian ...
Article : 330 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—The Minister for Information (Senator Foll) stated to-day that the Government contemplated launching a national publicity campaign to ...
Article : 236 wordsFacilities for immunisation against diphtheria, free of charge, and against whooping cough, with a small charge, will be made available at the Royal Hobart Hospital, ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Cygnet committee of the Comforts Fund organised a marine picnic on Sunday in aid of the fund. Yachtsmen and motorboat owners placed their craft at the ...
Article : 80 wordsA statement that the staff of the Cottage Hospital at New Norfolk, was putting up with much inconvenience was made at the meeting of the Hospital Committee at New ...
Article : 335 wordsLieut.—Col. J. W. Turner, Controller of Australian Defence Canteens Service in Tasmania, yesterday expressed his thanks to those who had responded to the appeal for ...
Article : 117 wordsRed Cross activity will be resumed at Huonville todty after a recess of two months. In addition to having raised large sums of money, members of the knitting circle, who ...
Article : 65 wordsCost of hydro-electric power in country districts and sealing and widening of roads are among the matters the Kingborough Council desires to discuss with Ministers ...
Article : 172 wordsLONDON, Monday.—The Admiralty announced today that the Swordfish bombers of the Fleet Air Arm yesterday made a successful attack on one of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 394 wordsAction has been taken by the Navy. Army, and Air departments to eliminate anomalies regarding travel concessions to airmen on recreation leave. This information ...
Article : 84 wordsROSS.—A social was held in the Methodist Hall, Ross. to bid farewell to Mrs. T. Garwood and her daughters, who are leaving the district soon. Musical items and ...
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Advertising : 655 wordsGIBRALTAR, Monday.—Seven soldiers and a civilian were killed in an accidental explosion connected with blasting operations on the north front of the defence ...
Article : 29 wordsThe area in front of the Royal Hobart Hospital apparently was being treated as a public parking place, said Mr. P. G. Henty at a meeting of the Board of Management of ...
Article : 121 wordsOTTAWA, Monday.—The Munitions Minister (Mr. Howe) stated that Canada was exploring the possibility of building bombers and eventually would build ...
Article : 36 wordsThe new bush nursing hospital at Ouse will be opened by His Excellency the Governor (Sir Ernest Clark) on Saturday. The Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) will also be ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, Monday.—Berlin Radio says that Swedish sources state that Sweden since the outbreak of the war has lost 111 ships (365,000 tons) with a death roll ...
Article : 50 wordsUnder the auspices of the Hobart and District Christian Endeavour Union, a 60th anniversary gathering was held at the Hobart Baptist Church on Sunday. Pastor A. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe prompt action of John Shoft, of 10 Balfour St., Launceston, yesterday resulted in the rescue of Vernon Black, of 209 St. John St., from drowning. ...
Article : 97 wordsNEWTON (N.J.), Monday.— Wilhelm Kunze and eight German American Bund associates were sentenced to from 12 to 14 months imprisonment for the ...
Article : 42 wordsNew Salvation Army hall and residence at New Norfolk. The building was opened by Lieut.-Commissioner W. R. Dalziel last week. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 23 wordsSHANGHAI, Monday.—While the city was soundly asleep, a party of men, allegedly Japanese, commandeered a British-owned taxi-cab at 3 a.m. today, ...
Article : 140 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—A £70,000 drug chest, containing unprocurable essential drugs formerly obtained by Australia from enemy or enemy-occupied countries, has ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsLONDON, Monday.—The German News Agency, quoting an official Rumanian communique, says that order has been maintained throughout the country, and ...
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Article : 3 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—From injuries received in an accident near Keilor on Saturday night, when three members of the Hickey family were killed, Billie ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 4 Feb 1941, Page 5
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