THERE is an epigram, the exact wording of which one forgets, to the effect that what is vice in Clapham may be virtue in Martaban. An interesting ...
Article : 247 wordsEVERY now and then public attention is turned to the now historic subject of the Derwent bridge. It is noticeable as time goes by that it does not ...
Article : 269 wordsMembers were given the afternoon off to-day to attend the Governor-General's garden party, and when they assembled at 5 p.m. they received the unwelcome ...
Article : 289 wordsSir,—Your sub-leader, "Clearer Definitions," in Thursday's issue of "The Mercury" is most apposite. There is unfortunately much faulty drafting in ...
Article : 283 wordsAS might have been expected, a storm of public disapproval has broken over the Hobart City Council because of its extraordinary ...
Article : 431 wordsWeather forecasts, issued at 9 p.m. yesterday, for the 24 hours ensuing:— Unsettled, with some scattered showers, Winds tending westerly and ...
Article : 1,108 wordsIt is characteristic of the best type of private enterprise that while scores of investigations and inquiries have been held at the public expense into the ...
Article : 228 wordsMembers of Parliament, in common with other sections of the community, from time to time have much to say about the division of interests between ...
Article : 212 wordsSir,—The amazing position taken up by the City Council in relation to the retirement of the Town Clerk calls for condemnation and vigorous protest. It ...
Article : 637 wordsWHILE the Country, Party is truculently demanding substantial subisidies for the wheatgrowers, and the Labour Party is insistent that ...
Article : 865 wordsBerry fruit growers in the Dandenongs are complaining about the prices fixed by the Fruit Industries Concession Committee, which are the lowest ...
Article : 226 wordsA bill to delete from the Wood Pulp and Paper Industry Encouragement Act, 1926, the clause giving the State Treasurer power to ...
Article : 491 wordsSydney has a very live organisation known as the Parks and Playgrounds Movement. It concerns itself with the protection of public reserves from that ...
Article : 351 wordsAS a rule the mere mention of a Bill to deal with the sale of liquor stirs members of Parliament to activity, and gives them opportunities ...
Article : 294 wordsThe news that first and second prizes in the latest Tattersall's consultation have been won by residents ot Launceston and Hobart respectively no doubt ...
Article : 212 wordsThe civic wedding next month of the Lord Mayor of Melbourne (Dr. Gengoult Smith) with Miss Cynthia Brooks promises to be such a spectacular pageant ...
Article : 500 wordsIn common with other States on the mainland, Tasmanian racing clubs until recently had retrogressed, and with the extinction of many of them, owing to ...
Article : 206 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Isaacs gave a garden party this afternoon at Government House, Canberra. The Prime Minister ...
Article : 396 wordsLord Marley has returned from a tour in China, Manchuria and Russia, as chairman of the Anti-War Congress. He says that it is clear that the real ...
Article : 125 wordsRegret that the Premier (Mr. J. C. McPhee) proposed to vacte his Ministerial office was expressed by members at the annual meeting of the Young ...
Article : 269 wordsSir,—In the last two years the residents of Adamsfield have been able to get their mail each Monday. Wednesday, and Friday evenings. On Monday ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Legislative Council met at 11 a.m. yesterday. A bill to amend the Constitution, providing for the reduction of the number ...
Article : 317 wordsA body which is making its presence felt in the community in more ways than one is the Hobart Rotary Club, and one of its latest activities is the ...
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Article : 207 wordsMembers of the Legislative Council could hardly take it as a compliment that the only member of the stranger's gallery at one period of the debate on ...
Article : 168 wordsAlderman Ben. Watkins, M.H.A., stated yesterday that the had addressed the following letter to the Mayor (Mr. J. J. Wignall) regarding the decision of the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe delegates appointed by the executive of the Victorian A.L.P. and the A.L.P. in the State of New South Wales having considered the present position ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 24 Nov 1933, Page 8
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