FROM time to time the competition of the Railways Commissioners with such branches of private enterprise as restaurants and fruit and soft drink ...
Article : 246 wordsTHE Director of Education cannot be said to have given us a report on education in Tasmania likely to make us feel proud of ourselves. He shows ...
Article : 267 wordsSir,—There must be some plain talking with the departments and the Federal Government about pension matters. There still seems to be a disposition on ...
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Article : 461 wordsAdmirers of our champion cricketer have always insisted that his capacity has never been fully tested, though impartial people remember Larwood and ...
Article : 240 wordsMembers in the Legislative Council concerned themselves a good deal with the freedom of the press, especially in relation to the publication of evidence ...
Article : 225 wordsOur community has been shocked by two brutal outrages in the metropolitan area during the last week. The first was the shooting in cold blood of a man ...
Article : 247 wordsSOMETHING less than normal importance should, perhaps, attach to the speech made yesterday by the Leader of the Opposition on the ...
Article : 825 wordsNo longer can it be said that Ministers, on taking office, step into the shoes of their predecessors. In the AttorneyGeneral's Department, at any rate, it is ...
Article : 220 wordsThe development of the New States movement has thrown limelight on certain country centres that hope to attain the dignity of capital cities. Wagga ...
Article : 267 wordsWeather conditions to-day, the annual Show holiday, have been most favourable. Following a forenoon of brilliant sunshine the afternoon sky has been ...
Article : 419 wordsSir,—Of the many street accidents which annually happen both in Hobart and Launceston, a great number occur at the intersection of right-of-way ...
Article : 263 wordswhen Mr. A. W. Burbury rises from his place in the House of Assembly to make a speech, members usually sit up and take-notice, as the member for ...
Article : 227 wordsPresumably due to the success of a recent Australian shipment of chilled beef in gas, an American firm consigned a quantity from the River Plate, the ...
Article : 180 wordsPEOPLE who habitually attend picture theatres are compelled to take their chance on the programme, and when that is not entirely ...
Article : 250 wordsAbdul Fattah Yehia Pasha has accepted the Premiership of Egypt, the vacancy having been caused by the resignation on account of Ill-health of ...
Article : 511 wordsSurprise was expressed in Canberra to-day at the Statement made at the Returned Soldiers' Congress in Sydney yesterday that the Governor-General ...
Article : 122 wordsSir,—I am not anxious to continue a controversy on the subject of "Public Service Appointments." Mr. Griffiths's explanation of the use of the terms ...
Article : 227 wordsUntil the revision yesterday of the Wages Board determination covering the rates of wages for hairdressers there were differential rates for ...
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Article : 44 wordsAn order published in the Federal Government "Gazette" to-day revokes a proclamation made in August, 1932, suspending sittings of the High Court in ...
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Article : 92 wordsSir,—Apparently "Northern Angler" has a double objective—to endeavour to embarrass me and simultaneously to mislead the public. Does he hope to ...
Article : 65 wordsThe post-prandia] oratory of a more spacious age, with its solemn paraphernalia of soporific movers and seconders of formal votes of thanks, ...
Article : 132 wordsSlr,—Now that the antiquated buildings just above Brisbane Street, Hobart, are at last being pulled down, is this not an opportunity (which will not ...
Article : 67 wordsSir,—Why does "B. Fair" single out public servants for his complaint? The price-cutting does not all lie in this direction, but among those employed in ...
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Article : 87 wordsSir,—"Vigilant" is not quite correct in his notes on the origin of the name of the Cananore Football Club. Mr. Charles Walch's residence in Davey Street was ...
Article : 91 wordsSir,—The streets of Hobart are dangerous to horse traffic owing to their slippery surfaces, but this danger is always limited when the risky routes are ...
Article : 76 words"When you quarrelled to-day, you [?]et your husband have the last word. That was not usual." "No, but I wanted to give him a little ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 29 Sep 1933, Page 8
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