The meeting of the Tasmanian Shale Committee, which was appointed as the outcome of the recent conference in Melbourne of Government and ...
Article : 174 words"The Mercury" and "The Illustrated Tasmanian Mail" subscribers are reminded that their subscriptions are now due, the last day for discount being ...
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Advertising : 0 wordsThe first meeting of the Transport Committee, established under the new Transport Act, was continued yesterday at the offices of the Police Department, ...
Article : 112 wordsFurther evidence was heard to-day concerning the death of two men in Brisbane General Hospital, following injections of vaccine for rheumatoid ...
Article : 270 wordsThe Hon. E. Hobbs, M.H.A., yesterday received the following telegram from Queenstown:- "The action of the Emu Bay and ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Launceston Tourist Bureau manager (Mr. L. T. Pybus) is pleased with the traffic of the season so far. Having been led to believe that ...
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Advertising : 63 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Mr. Green) and the Secretary to the Defence Department (Mr. M. L. Shepherd) will interview the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 177 wordsSpeakers at the meeting of the unemployed yesterday complained of the inadequate nature of the rations at p[?]sent dealt out to them. Mention also ...
Article : 495 wordsThe feature of the new programme at the Prince of Wales Theatre is the reappearance of Greta Garbo, who as Rita Cavallini, the magnetic opera star ...
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Advertising : 256 words"My five years' term as Governor-General of Australia has resulted in my return home saturated with the Empire spirit," said Lord Stonehaven, speaking ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Mr. H. Green) said to-day that he would consider favourably any recommendations that an Air Force Cross should be ...
Article : 80 wordsAn Air Force aeroplane, flying from Richmond (N.S.W.) to Melbourne, crashed between Moss Vale and Exeter at 7.30 a.m. to-day. ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Lang) said to-day that the Government had decided not to alter the present closing hour of hotels in the State. ...
Article : 76 wordsA serious fire, believed to be the work of incendiaries, occurred in a stack of timber at Mr. G. Peddle's sawmill at Legerwood, on the ...
Article : 244 wordsDefinite steps are being taken to eradicate Communists from the Trades Hall. The Trades Hall Council on ...
Article : 134 wordsTwo gipsies called on Detective-Inspector Purdue to-day, and said they were brothers of Mrs. Olga Toohey, a gipsy, who was found dead in suspicious ...
Article : 65 wordsSir,—Shareholders in the Tongkah Harbour Tin Company must surely endorse the sentiments expressed by your correspondent in Friday's issue, and ...
Article : 578 wordsThe South Wales coal dispute has been settled. The terms of the provisional agreement include resumption at the pay ...
Article : 67 wordsDespite every attempt made by interested aviation circles, the Air Ministry announced to-day that it would adhere to its decision not to participate in the ...
Article : 158 wordsMatters associated with the basic wage case, which has just ended in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, were discussed at a meeting of the emergency ...
Article : 103 wordsA general meeting of members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society was held at St. Peter's Hall, Hobart. The president (Mr. A. M. O'Leary) presided, ...
Article : 345 wordsA motor-cycle and side-car carrying Roy Senior, 24 years, of 26 George Street, Launceston, and George Sheppard, 23 years, overturned at the ...
Article : 82 wordsTwo men who were arrested by plainclothes police outside the Richmond Town Hall when a welcome to the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) was being ...
Article : 182 wordsWhile the Bordeaux Court was to-day considering judgment in the case of Fernand Taillantou, the French Rugby football player, who is charged with ...
Article : 158 wordsThe new dairy of Mr. Hextall, senior, of Lebrina, was demolished by lightning a few evenings ago. Mr. Hextall said that the family and ...
Article : 182 wordsPleading guilty to eight charges of larceny at Cooee, near Burnie, between October 23, 1930, and January 12 last, a young man named Francis Arthur ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 17 Jan 1931, Page 5
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