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  2. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

    A special boat train leaves Hobart at 7.35 a.m. to-day, and is due at Launceston Wharf at 1.40 p.m. The passenger train leaving Hobart at 8.35 a.m. will ...

    Article : 1,137 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 608 words
  4. THE FUR SEASON

    Major T. H. Davies, M.H.A., has received a reply from the chairman of the Fauna Board' (Colonel J. E. C. Lord) stating that the request for an open ...

    Article : 271 words
  5. LIGHTING & POWER

    Human nature being what it is, mankind has always been enamoured of the idea of attaining something for nothing. Following this idea, Mr. N. H. Fitze, of ...

    Article : 803 words
  6. NORTHERN NOTES

    The different light in which some persons regard parsons as distinct from other men was illustrated by the Rev. H. Watts-Grimmett, when moving a vote ...

    Article : 179 words
  7. A PARSON'S JOB

    "The first business of a parson is to deal with men in things concerning his character and spiritual welfare, and to tell him something about the mind of ...

    Article : 343 words
  8. Playing the Game

    An interesting glimpse of the philosophy of the Chinese with regard to playing games was given at Launceston by the Rev. Principal J. S. Griffith ...

    Article : 188 words
  9. SUMMER SCHOOL

    Addresses on mission work in Tanganyika, Africa, and Punjab, India, and a Bible study were the chief features of the C.M.S. summer school, which began ...

    Article : 473 words
  10. ENTERTAINMENTS

    It is the Ruth Chatterton well known for her clever dramatic roles in earlier talkies, who is starred in "The Rich are Always With Us," at the New Strand ...

    Article : 648 words
  11. The Taste for Work

    "The problem is not how to find work, but to make people willing to work, and the tragedy of the present time is that people get into the habit of not working, ...

    Article : 128 words
  12. BASS STRAIT SERVICE

    At the meeting of the Mersey Marine Board yesterday satisfaction was expressed at the extension of the steamer Loongana's running in the Bass Strait ...

    Article : 281 words
  13. Tourist Activities

    There is still a decided pressure of business at the Launceston branch of the Government Tourist Bureau, and the officials, after a strenuous ...

    Article : 107 words
  14. THE RIVER TAMAR

    The Master Warden of the Launceston Marine Board (Mr. F. Moore) was asked yesterday if he had any reply to make to criticism that had been levelled ...

    Article : 282 words
  15. TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS

    Before the Mayor (Alderman A. Hollingsworth) and Mr. R. C. B. Moore, Js.P., in the Launceston Police Court yesterday, Inspector C. W. Berresford ...

    Article : 225 words
  16. SALVATION ARMY

    An enthusiastic welcome was accorded Commissioner W. Maxwell, of the Salvation Army, Mrs. Maxwell, and Ensign Ethel Maxwell in the Salvation Army ...

    Article : 415 words
  17. DELORAINE WATER SCHEME

    The work for the improved water scheme for Deloraine will soon be put in hand. The tender of the Australian Iron and Steel Co. has been accepted for ...

    Article : 89 words
  18. GARAGE ROBBERY

    Using a jack out of his lorry, thieves jacked up a motor lorry in the garage of Mr. E. D. Weston, of Lilydale, and took a tyre and tube and rim, extracted ...

    Article : 152 words
  19. SPORTS TOURNAMENT

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 339 words
  20. SCOTTSDALE ACCIDENTS

    Ronald Jetson, a schoolboy, was thrown from a bicycle at Scottsdale yesterday morning, when the machine got out of control going down a hill, and ...

    Article : 81 words
  21. NORTHERN POLICE COURTS

    In the Launceston Police Court yesterday, before the Mayor (Alderman A. Hollingsworth) and Mr. R. C. B. Moore, Js.P., ...

    Article : 81 words
  22. RABBIT PEST

    At the monthly meeting of the Burnie Council yesterday, it was contended that the municipalities were becoming so overrun with rabbits that Government ...

    Article : 67 words
  23. ANGLING

    For one day's fishing at Lake Leake during last week-end. Messrs. J. L. Goyen, Master K. Goyen (Hobart) and Miss N. Goyen and Mr. C. Smith ...

    Article : 103 words
  24. UNBREAKABLE GLASS

    Glass has been produced in Germany which, according to the Frankfort newspaper, "Die Umschau," neither splinters nor breaks. ...

    Article : 95 words
  25. LAUNCESTON WATER SUPPLY.

    Sir,—The catchment area of the St. Patrick's River to the point whence the water supply to Launceston is obtained is approximately 74,000 acres, or 115 ...

    Article : 421 words
  26. FINGAL.

    A euchre tournament and supper and dance were held at Fingal on Wednseday night fur St. Josephy's Roman Catholic Church, ...

    Article : 73 words
  27. NORTH-WEST FATALITY

    As the result of an occurrence at Flowerdale, a few miles from Wynyard, last evening, Denis James Medwin, the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Urban ...

    Article : 330 words
  28. DANCE ON CANBERRA

    Rear-Admiral R. C. Dalglish and the captains and officers of the Australian Squadron held a dance on board H.M.A.S Canberra last night, which was ...

    Article : 89 words
  29. NOVEL LIGHTING SCHEME AT GRAVELLY BEACH

    HARNESSING THE WIND for power and lighting. This plant, which is similar to those used in the Netherlands, has been erected at Gravelly Beach by Mr. N. H. Fitze. Its driving wings are of the aeroplane propeiter type. (See letterpress). ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 46 words
  30. ELEPHANTS AND OXYGEN

    How much energy does it take to keep an elephant alive? Dr. Samuel Brody, of the University of Missouri, in the United States recently made tests to find out. ...

    Article : 95 words
  31. AERIAL ACTIVITIES

    There was considerable activity at the Western Junction aerodrome yesterday, when it assumed the aspect of an important terminal airport. ...

    Article : 145 words
  32. ARREST RESISTED

    A policeman on patrol duty in Elizabeth Street, Launceston, last night, had occasion to arrest a man for using indecent language. The man resisted ...

    Article : 85 words
  33. MIDDLETON.

    An American tea was conducted on Friday afternoon in the Middleton Hall to provide funds for the annual parish fair. In the evening a concert was held. ...

    Article : 117 words
  34. LILYDALE.

    While playing in the Lilydale schoolground yesterday. Hazel Kelp, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Kelp, Lilydale, fell and broke an arm above the ...

    Article : 56 words
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