A GREAT MANY people consider than when Japanese made their treachcrous raid on Pearl Harbour they set in motion a force ...
Article : 552 wordsArmy authorities throughout Australia are convinced that a well-organised and widespread fifth columnist ...
Article : 158 wordsLet the man in the thick of things remember that thanks-giving of heart gives a fine freshness, a tank to one's ...
Article : 35 words"Though 'Special Constable' is under a complete misapprehension about the organisation of the Civil Defence Legion in Launceston, there is, neverthless, a basic truth in his complaints about delays in supplying equipment and ...
Article : 852 wordsThe Bishop of Central Tanganyika (Rt. Rev. G. A. Chambers) left for the mainland by air on Friday. Dr. A. E. Grounds left for the ...
Article : 40 wordsMunition workers at the Launceston railway annexe agreed at a mass meeting yesterday to join the ...
Article : 206 wordsMR. CURTIN, the Prime Minister, has expressed disapproval of excessive betting and beer-drinking. Very many people share his disgust ...
Article : 234 wordsMr. W. Rogers, of St. George's— avenue, Mont Albert, Victoria, who died in his 79th year, was a well-known identity of the North-West ...
Article : 431 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) has invited the Lord Mayor of Hobart (Alderman Soundy) and representatives ...
Article : 479 wordsAlthough the Launceston Tramway Department had lost 13 men in one week owing to the recent call-up, there was a splendid spirit of co-operation ...
Article : 122 wordsPreaching in the Margaret-street Methodist Church last night, Rev. R. Jackson took his text from the book of the Prophet Habakkuk, chapter 2 ...
Article : 979 wordsTHE BATTLE for Java has begun. This Dutch island, main centre of Allied resistance in the war of the South-West Pacific, has ...
Article : 226 wordsTHE SEASON.—The weather was again extremely hot. The scorching blast from the mainland rendered the atmosphere ...
Article : 66 wordsWhen a motor cycle collided with a roadside guide post at Glengarry late on Saturday night the rider. Stanley Kelb (19), of Kayena,. and Miss P. ...
Article : 98 wordsOrdinary Seaman Fred Webb and Corporal Jack Webb are spending leave with their parents, Air. and Mrs. Jack Webb, Home-street, Launceston. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 76 wordsEight bales of paper have already been despatched to Melbourne as a result of the efforts of the Voluntary War Workers' Salvage Depot in Charles ...
Article : 221 wordsRelatives of soldiers who have been posted as casualties are Invited to forward photographs and brief personal biographies for publication ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. and Mrs. E. Sims, East Devonport, have been advised by the Department of the Air that their son, Sergeant Leslie Sims, sustained an ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. A. E. Cowie, of Palmerston, Flowery Gully, was injured when he was thrown from a wagon-load of hay near his home on Saturday ...
Article : 85 wordsTo avoid overpayment of taxation by weekly instalments, the Commissioner of Taxes has supplied employees in some instances with a memorandum ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 wordsA supply of metal badges for Civil Defence Legion members has at last been received In Launceston, after many months of delay in ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Launceston Fire Brigade was called to a fire among the old piling along the north bank of the North Esk River, opposite the Marine Board ...
Article : 48 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday—A conference of 370 scientific workers, which concluded a two-day session to-day, expressed the view in a resolution that nothing short ...
Article : 152 wordsThomas Joseph Mulvihill (76), late of Ulverstone, who fell at St. John's Park on February 15 and received a broken hip, died in the Royal Hobart Hospital ...
Article : 41 wordsManpower Register Numbers of persons between the ages of 16 and 60 years are registering for National Security (manpower) ...
Article : 128 wordsA decision that each vendor supply a list of customers showing the quantity of milk consumed and the street and number of each consumer was ...
Article : 304 wordsSir,—Much has been said and written of late regarding the tram service to the growing suburb of Hillside Crescent. As a resident of ...
Article : 173 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—When a single-engined biplane crashed near Maryborough, Queensland, on Saturday the passenger, Flying-Officer James ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 wordsAfter two days of normal running. Australian National Airways' Bass Strait service has been altered again. Commencing to-day, one inward and ...
Article : 121 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Bank officials in the capital cities have been burning the midnight oil during the last few nights handling a big volume of ...
Article : 171 wordsWASHINGTON, Saturday.—The New Zealand Minister to Washington (Mr. Nash) to-day urged the United States to send more 'planes, tanks and war ...
Article : 129 wordsMELBOURNE. Sunday.—If the flow of certain small but extremely important aircraft parts is hell up in future by the manufacturers, endangering ...
Article : 71 wordsSir.—I am pleased that my old friend "J.B.M." has taken up the cudgels on behalf of riflemen, and would point out that since the inception of the ...
Article : 214 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—New Zealand Ministers and service chiefs, who arrived by air in Sydney to-day, will begin Important conversations with ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Chief Secretary (Mr. Brooker) has promised to consider a request for an increased subsidy for the Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution at Hobart. ...
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Advertising : 134 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday—Hundreds of parents returned to the city and suburban schools yesterday to help in digging trenches in schoolyards to protect ...
Article : 86 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—In an evacuation test at Waverley to-day. 1200 people, including women and children, were removed from their homes in 37 ...
Article : 103 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday—William Ernest McDonald (40), soldier, was charged in the Central Police Court on Saturday with having feloniously and maliciously ...
Article : 82 wordsSir.—I would like to support your correspondent, "Mowbray Heights," in his contention that the air raid sirens are not loud enough. The warning ...
Article : 84 wordsA fine of £5 in default one month's imprisonment was imposed by Colonel J. P. Clark. P.M., in the Hobart Police Court on Saturday on Charles Edward ...
Article : 59 wordsBRISBANE. Sunday.—In another raid. about 200 persons of enemy alien birth, some of them naturalised British subjects, were rounded up for ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON. Saturday.—War risk cargo rates between Britain and Australasia have been increased by £5 per cent. to £15. ...
Article : 21 wordsANKARA. Saturday.—A relief ship for Greece laden with 7000 tons of grain is lying at Haifa awaiting a German assurance of safe conduct. ...
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