BATAVIA, Wednesday.—Squadrons of Curtiss interceptor machines now are in service in the East Indies Air Force supporting Curtiss Hawk fighters, Martin ...
Article : 227 wordsThe biggest effect of the war on the Tasmanian dairying industry was that Tasmania had to keep enough dairy produce, mainly butter stored in the State to provide ...
Article : 481 wordsTHE Federal Treasurer (Mr. Fadden) has received from a source which desires to remain anonymous, a cheque for £7,500 ...
Article : 75 wordsThe former world champion cyclist R. Spears (rear) coaching the Victorian star riders, W. Guyatt (top), Herb. Guyatt (middle) and Jack Bates for the Australian championship at the Sports Arena, Sydney. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsGeorge Roberts (about 55) was killed and James Berry injured seriously when a motor-truck belonging to the Public Works Department overturned on the ...
Article : 211 wordsAn emphatic protest against the action of the Launceston City Council in ordering the removal of the portico over the entrance to the Launceston Public Library was voiced ...
Article : 192 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—"We are going to win this war somehow, but when it is over, this country will emerge staggering under a crushing burden with the dews of ...
Article : 218 wordsTHE Karakatta and Boomerang, the two torpedo gunboats, have been, according to a London cable message, ordered to ...
Article : 182 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Officers of the Supply Department explained today that only extreme cases of personal emergency would be considered by the police when exercising ...
Article : 116 wordsRecruiting for the A.I.F. and oversea coastal batteries for service in the tropics has been brisk during the past few days, and the recruiting officers at Hobart, Launceston, ...
Article : 231 wordsThefts of petrol and oil, the property of the Public Works Department, extending over a period from November, 1938, to February, 1939, were disclosed in proceedings ...
Article : 318 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A military deserter arrested in Montague (V.) tonight was found to be wanted on a warrant for having maliciously wounded a constable ...
Article : 119 wordsA three-day school of method, under the supervision of the District Education Officer (Mr. P. H. Mitchell) was opened at the Oatlands Area School yesterday. ...
Article : 304 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Rushing up the blazing stairs of a three-storey building in Lewisham this morning. Kenneth Clarke (20), of Bexley, risked his life to ...
Article : 181 wordsTattersall's fifth War Service Funds Consultation will be drawn at Hobart at 8.30 a.m. today. A complete list of the prize-winning numbers will be published in "The Mercury" ...
Article : 32 wordsHooliganism at Moonah has caused much annoyance and inconvenience to the contractor for the Moonah sewerage works. Red lights near manholes and excavations have ...
Article : 171 wordsAt the initial monthly meeting of the year of the Church of England Men s Society in St. George's parish hall, Battery Pt, Hobart, the first of a series of discussions ...
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Advertising : 504 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—A report from Berlin says official German circles declare that recently-formed "wolf packs" of U-boats, consisting of new submarines with ...
Article : 59 wordsAs Australia's war effort increases in extent the necessity for parallel expansion of the comforts service for the benefit of the fighting forces is apparent. In recognition ...
Article : 152 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—The Food Minister (Lord Woolton) has announced a new food order designed to protect food supplies and intended to achieve a scale ...
Article : 86 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Rev. David Lewis, minister at Glendearg Grove Church, Malvern (V.), was elected president, by a very large vote, at the opening ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 253 wordsMr. S. Tulloch Scott (Launceston) was elected president of the Tasmanian branch of the Royal Empire Society at the annual meeting at Hobart yesterday. Other officers ...
Article : 138 wordsThe following additional donations to patriotic funds in Tasmania were received yesterday: Comforts Fund.—Southern Division: ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Australian Council of the National Union of Railwaymen of Australia will meet in Sydney this week to hear a report by the general secretary (Mr. W. Fletcher) on ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the Hobart Police Court yesterday, before the Police Magistrate (Col. Clark), Inspector Dowling prosecuting, Kenneth Haywood was charged with ...
Article : 160 wordsRailway wages and conditions were investigated further at Launceston yesterday by the Australian Railways Union Board of Reference. Mr. E. H. Rowlands presided. ...
Article : 128 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—"I told the American people that the British people were not built in an heroic mould, but were just a common, ordinary people ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Minister for Lands and Works (Major Davies) and the Honorary Minister (Mr. Madden) called on the Governor (Sir Ernest Clark) yesterday, and handed to him a ...
Article : 107 wordsIn the Glenorchy Police Court yesterday, before the Police Magistrate (Col. J. P. Clark) and Messrs. N. P. Booth, H. T. Inches, and W. L. Taylor, Js.P., Sgt. Dermoudy ...
Article : 185 wordsIn the Derby Police Court on Wednesday before the Police Magistrate (Mr. Stops), James Aaron Ashwood, licensee of the Pioneer Hotel, was charged with having used ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Government nominee on the Launceston Fire Brigade, Board to replace Mr. W. Hogg will be Mr. G. J. McElwee, M.L.C., who said yesterday he had received advice ...
Article : 75 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Mr. Rex Warren a Melbourne tournalist, who formerly worked in the Far East, has been appointed head of the news department of the ...
Article : 113 wordsApproximately half the members of the militia who belong to units which recently concluded their camp period will again go into camp for 90 days to Implement the ...
Article : 81 wordsDUBLIN, Wednesday.—The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Ryan) said that the present outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Eire was the most serious and ...
Article : 53 wordsA proposal is under consideration for an extension of the fire brigade area in the Glenorchy municipality. It is expected that the necessary protection for the extended ...
Article : 152 wordsGEORGE TOWN.—At a meeting of the Red Cross branch on Monday, Mr. A. W. Widdowson presided. Arrangements were made for the collection of books and magazines ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood) in the House of Commons, announcing 150 amendments to the War Damage Bill, said ...
Article : 73 wordsTHE Deputy Prices Commissioner (Mr. L. C. Johnson) said yesterday permission had been given for the usual Winter seasonal increase ...
Article : 86 wordsAt a meeting of the Southern Tasmanian Photographic Society at Hobart on Tuesday, Mr. G. C. Cramp outlined a course of literature suitable for the advancement of ...
Article : 95 wordsIn response to the increasing traffic demands between Hobart and New Norfolk an additional rall service has been provided, to leave Hobart at 10.20 p.m. and return from ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—Asked about exports to Rumania in relation to the probability of their being sent to Italy, the Minister for Economic Warfare (Dr. ...
Article : 64 wordsA Caledonian Society was launched at a meeting of persons of Scottish descent at Launceston yesterday. Mr. Andrew Lawson was elected chieftain, and presided. A ...
Article : 120 wordsSINGAPORE Wednesday.—Petrol supplies will be rationed throughout Malaya on and after March 1. ...
Article : 18 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Navy Department announced today that Leading Seamen Kenneth G. Hedley and Robert G. Fittill, both of the R.A.N.R., who were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 97 wordsBrigadier Gillam, a Salvation Army woman missionary officer who is making a tour of Tasmania, spent Tuesday at New Norfolk. In the afternoon she gave a talk on the ...
Article : 72 wordsHONGKONG, Wednesday.—The Central, New Agency reports that Chinese mobile artillery on Friday sank a Japanese troop-laden transport in the Yangtse ...
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Article : 3 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. M. J. Lawson, auctioneer, of Sydney, has won the second international world shark-fishing contest with a shark he caught off Sydney Heads ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Glenorchy Commission at a meeting on Tuesday received a letter from Miss Winifred Terry seeking the support of the commission in the reception of reading matter ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 27 Feb 1941, Page 5
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