A letter was received at yesterday's meeting of the Emu Bay Council from the Mayor of Hobart (Alderman J. J. Wignall) stating that a State-wide ...
Article : 1,303 wordsThe splendid work which is accomplished by the boy scout movement in Northern Tasmania was reflected in the report submitted at the annual meeting ...
Article : 787 wordsSunday was a nice warm sunny day at Bushy Park, following a heavy frost, which has probably done more harm than a little more rain would have done, ...
Article : 174 wordsThere have been many films dealing with war, but hitherto none has shown it so clearly, truthfully, and impar[?]aily as this masterly picture, "Wings," ...
Article : 566 wordsThe Australasian Perferming Rights Association Ltd. has for some time collected fees from many of the municipal councils for licences, giving the right to ...
Article : 203 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 388 wordsThere were present at the monthly meeting of the Beaconsfield Council yesterday the Warden (Councillor J. C. K. Williams), Councillors E. W. Freeland ...
Article : 510 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the Mersey Marine Board the secretary tabled a financial statement covering the three months ended September 30. This ...
Article : 128 wordsA meeting of the council of the West Tamar Farmers' and Fruitgrowers' Association was held at Exeter last Friday. The president (Mr. H. A. Court) ...
Article : 448 wordsThere was only a fair attendance of spectators at the Hutchins School rowing sheds on Saturday to sec the annual interhouse races. The races were put off from ...
Article : 371 wordsThe Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron officially declared the season open on Saturday. The weather was dull but fine, and dozens of sails were spread to a light ...
Article : 46 wordsThe majority of clubs experienced somewhat of a smash on Saturday last. Races were held from Epping Forest "Western Junction, Deloraine and Launceston. The ...
Article : 935 wordsMystery still surrounds the disappearance of Robert Hinds, 75 years of age, at Kelso, in the Beaconsfield municipality on the evening of October 4. In ...
Article : 348 wordsThe Hobart presentation of the First National romantic drama, "Happiness Ahead," had a signally successful premiere at the Prince of Wales Theatre last night. ...
Article : 510 wordsWith a view to providing a more expeditious handling of inward ship mails arriving at Launceston by the Nairana on Saturday mornings, it has ben ...
Article : 134 wordsThe October meeting of the committee of the South Hobart Progress Association was held at the residence of Mr. A. E. Seager. Present: Messrs C. Collins ...
Article : 502 wordsMrs. Amelia Trapman, aged 27 years, who with her husband, Ernest Percival Trapman, is charged with the murder of Percy Chung Gow at Marrickville on ...
Article : 172 wordsThree men passengers in a motor-car, which was hit by the engine of a goods train at the Hexham level-crossing, nine miles from Newcastle, shortly after 8 ...
Article : 232 wordsThe new taxation measure to be brought down in the Legislative Assembly this week provides a number of new features which up to the present have ...
Article : 270 wordsAt the Oatlands Police Court yesterday, before the Police Magistrate (Mr. G. Crosby Gilmore), Lionel Gilbert Pennicott did not ...
Article : 381 wordsThe Hobart Comic Oppera Company will repeat the musical play "Betty" at the Theatre Royal to-night, and again on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights. The ...
Article : 559 wordsThe Nice correspondent for the "Petit Parisien" states that, in response to the Spanish Embassy's request, the police at Nice have arrested ...
Article : 95 wordsFaced with a recommendation by Sir George Buchanan for a big extension of the Fremantle harbour up the river and another by the State Engineer in ...
Article : 100 wordsConsiderable daring was shown by a young German, Werner Dietze, who escaped from the German liner Hanau, on which he was being deported from ...
Article : 102 wordsThe extraordinary antics of an airplane over Bowning caused considerable excitement on Sunday among residents. In making a forced landing, ...
Article : 82 wordsAt the final meeting yesterday of the ladies committee for the recent Ke[?]erley Boys' Home concert at the Town Hall, it was reported that the receipts totalled ...
Article : 229 wordsStrong currents and the haze from bush fires on the coast were reasons for the stranding of the steamer Kinross on Cato Island reef, 260 miles off ...
Article : 191 wordsH.M.A.S. Australia, the new Australian flagship, and the first of the much talked of 10,000 ton cruisers built under the Washington Treaty to be ...
Article : 144 wordsThe stranded steamer Lygnern has been handed over to the underwriters, according, to a cablegram received from Sweden by the captain of the ship ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Minister for Markets (Mr. Paterson) announced to-day that the term of two years for which the representatives of producers on the Canned ...
Article : 94 wordsAt a meeting of parents and friends at the Glenora State School scholars held in the Masonic Hall it was decided to form a Parents' Association, to raise funds to ...
Article : 127 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 16 Oct 1928, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: