"THE quiet little market town of Dandenong, which, during the last, decade, has been chiefly notable as being the centre of Mr. Brace's electorate of ...
Article : 244 wordsTHE report for the week of child welfare activities makes lack-lustre reading from a literary view. To hear of so many visits of nurses to infants ...
Article : 253 wordsWeather forecasts issued at 9 p.m. yesterday for the 24 hours ensuing:— Temporarily fine, but becoming unsettled with some showers developing in ...
Article : 794 wordsSir,—During the discussion on the Paper Pulp Bill, a discussion which covered a lot of ground, opinions were given as to the durability and lasting ...
Article : 241 wordsMR. H. G. WELLS, who with all his faults has been a great inspiration for the noble army of Utopians, has predicted in one of his books ...
Article : 1,326 wordsThe Federal Cabinet meets in Melbourne on Thursday. The meeting will last for one day only, and Cabinet will again sit in Canberra ...
Article : 217 wordsSir,—Would you kindly grant me space for reply to F. W. Bennett, who in your paper is trying to dispute the foot that the Fruit Advisory Board ...
Article : 371 wordsProceedings were considerably enlivened, at any rate for the handful ot persons in Court, even if valuable time was wasted, by frequent passages ...
Article : 261 wordsThe somewhat severe comments of the Victorian Chief Secretary (Mr. Ian Macfarlan) concerning the type of films imported into this country has roused ...
Article : 217 wordsA strong campaign seems to be developing for the scrapping of tramlines. The restriction of the motor-bus service has helped them, but some services are ...
Article : 267 wordsThe incorporating of all omnibus interests within the city and near suburban districts into one company to operate all omnibus services within ...
Article : 171 wordsA DISTINCT improvement has been made in the presentation of the balance-sheet of the City Council in respect both of the financial year ...
Article : 333 wordsThe announcement by the Premier (Sir Stanley Argyle) that the long-promised introduction of an amendment to the existing Motor Cars Act to provide ...
Article : 511 wordsThe New Town Football Club will this week-end undertake a pioneering trip, as far as sport is concerned, to Queenstown. They will enjoy the distinction ...
Article : 167 wordsSir,—Your paper of Saturday last carries a large advertisement purporting to show the cost to the community of a decrease in the price of sugar to 4d. per ...
Article : 358 wordsFor years there have been mutterings concerning the destructiveness of Alsatian dogs, and there has been intermittent controversy as to whether the ...
Article : 158 wordsIn the presence of the French President (M. Lebrun), the Prime Minister (M. Kerriot) and distinguished representatives from all parts of the British. ...
Article : 292 wordsDifferences in race and religion have made it necessary to provide various forms of administering the oath in courts of law. The Chinese blows out ...
Article : 162 wordsHis Majesty the King, on board the Royal yacht Britannia, to-day opened the yachting week at Cowes, Isle of Wight, and won the Cayley Cup. ...
Article : 386 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) announced to-day that at the request of the States the Federal Government proposed to set up an authorty to evolve a ...
Article : 153 wordsOne of the most fascinating things about golf is its glorious uncertainty, and just when a match appears to be lost Fortune suddenly changes her face, ...
Article : 164 wordsTHE political position in Germany, as it develops from day to day, cannot be better described than in the immortal words of Alice, when she ...
Article : 273 wordsSir.—7ZL's Sunday afternoon programme of recorded music was abandoned last Sunday to make room for an instructive talk illustrated with ...
Article : 313 wordsSir,—I crave space in your valuable paper to expose the cruel treatment meted out to us people down here. There is no road, and these Government ...
Article : 162 wordsDown Elizabeth Street in the early hours of the morning on Monday hurtled a car, and after it roared another car. When the clatter and clamour had died ...
Article : 145 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 72 wordsTHIEPVAL MEMORIAL.—Erected to commemorate 70,000 Empire dead on the Somme whose graves are unknown. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 22 wordsSir,—I would like to ask why the various charitable organisations do not publish a balance-sheet in connection with their expenditure on ...
Article : 187 wordsMainlanders frequently get strange ideas in regard to Tasmania, and from time to time an amusing incident crops up in consequence. Such a one was ...
Article : 144 wordsSir,—Mr. A. E. Beard accuses me of having "somersaulted" on the sugar controversy since my appointment to the Fruit Industry Sugar Concession ...
Article : 343 wordsErnest Albert Brown, 43, married, lately Usher of the Black Rod at Parliament House, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment in the Criminal ...
Article : 60 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 3 Aug 1932, Page 6
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: