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Article : 433 wordsATTENTION has repeatedly been directed to the scant consideration given to Tasmania when the Commonwealth of Australia is being advertised, ...
Article : 258 wordsTHE annual May Day demonstrations by Labour Reds pussed off to-day without a ripple, partly no dou[?]t because the public took little notice of it, and ...
Article : 204 wordsTO-DAY the electors of Hobart have both the privilege and the duty of voting to decide which one of six candidates they wish to represent ...
Article : 282 wordsThere will be general relief, except in some quarters, at the Premier's. announcement to-day that the Government intends to ask Parliament to place the ...
Article : 314 wordsA tourist agent's life aboard a touring vessel may be a reasonably happy one, but it is by no means an easy one. The work of arranging trips to suit as ...
Article : 209 wordsThat the so-called safety zones throughout the city are dangerous to motorists as well as to passengers waiting in fancied security for a tram has ...
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Article : 243 wordsOne so frequently hears criticism of public servants that it is a pleasure— and only fair—to be able to say a good word on their behalf. An instance has ...
Article : 180 wordsOne of the strangest broadcasts in history was transmitted all over Poland to-night, when actors and actresses representing members of the British ...
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Article : 164 wordsSummer seems disinclined to leave Sydney this year, but winter refuses to be kept away, so that for some weeks we have had an alternation of mild heat ...
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Article : 331 wordsThe natural disinclination of the Anglo-Saxon to grapple with the difficulties of what Mark Twain called "the awful German language" has been ...
Article : 168 wordsSir,—Mr. Ogilvie's correction leaves him as incorrect as before. Government House cost a large sum of money, and, if the colony had borrowed the ...
Article : 163 wordsBy a special proclamation issued to-day the Federal Ministry has fixed tomorrow as the date upon which the New Guinea Act shall commence. ...
Article : 110 wordsTo consider the proposed constitution of the Church of England in Australia a special session of the Anglican Synod of the Diocese of Melbourne was held ...
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Article : 158 wordsMr. Winston Churchill has replied to the Acting "Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin), who in a speech, expressed regret that Mr. Churchill, Lord Lloyd, and their ...
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Article : 64 wordsThe purchase price of the Rembrandt self-portrait for the Melbourne National Gallery has been disclosed as £21,500 sterling, equal to £26,875 in Australian ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 2 May 1933, Page 6
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