The shearing season under the new Stock Act ends in Tasmania to-day, March 1, after five months. The season for shearing opens again on October 1 ...
Article : 292 wordsThe new bridge now in course of construction over the Leven River at Ulverstone is a new departure in bridge construction. The bridge is estimated to ...
Article : 132 wordsThough the season has been an abnormally dry one, a patch of tomatoes near the Power Station, Launceston, included one freak specimen. Growing on ...
Article : 291 wordsAt a gala premiere on Saturday the Strand Theatre, Hobart, will present Warner Bros.' brilliant musical successor to "Viennese Nights," "Kiss Me ...
Article : 131 wordsThere was only a small attendance at the annual meeting of the Launceston Public Library last night. Dr. G. H. Hogg presided. ...
Article : 771 wordsThe 13th annual meeting of the Jubilee Coal Mining Co., No Liability, was held at the Stock Exchange, Launceston, yesterday, Mr. F. H. Cleaver presiding. ...
Article : 519 wordsA front tyre of a half-ton motor truck, in which Messrs. Roy, Victor, and Keith Darling were travelling along the Parattah Road to attend the sheep sales at ...
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Advertising : 10 wordsThe poultry husbandryman, Mr. A. E. Powell, addressed a meeting of the National Utility Poultry Breeders' Association at Beaconsfield on Tuesday ...
Article : 281 words"I Was a Spy" is drawing excellently at His Majesty's Theatre, Hobart. It is the true story of a Belgian woman who is forced to nurse German wounded, ...
Article : 119 words"Rotary is an abstract ideal calculated to improve the character, vision and outlook of the individual, but theie is a tendency to accept the philosophy of ...
Article : 673 wordsOVERTURNING TWICE, this motor truck was badly damaged on the Parattah-Oatlands Road yesterday morning. A post was forced through the floor of the truck. Messrs. R. and V. Darling, two of the three occupants, were injured. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsNoel Coward's "Design for Living," directed by Ernst Lubitsch, will feature the new programme at the Avalon Theatre, Hobart, to-morrow. In "Design ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Launceston Amateur Swimming Club will continue its series of weekly events at the Victoria Baths to-night. The handicaps for the boys' and girls' ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Latrobe aerial pageant was held yesterday, and proved a day of keen excitement, and the evolutions of the machines were watched with tireless ...
Article : 237 wordsDarwin February 28.—H.M.S. Suffolk will leave Darwin tomorrow for Hong Kong and Manila. Machine Gun Stolen ...
Article : 425 wordsGood progress is being made by several residents of Oatlands in prepuring Lake Dulverton for the second annual swimming carnival. Considerable ...
Article : 347 wordsStrength of enviable theatrical repute and the appearance of celebrated stage players unite to make notable the presentation at the Prince of Wales ...
Article : 122 wordsThat the telephone subscribers would purchase a block of land in Hagley for the purpose of erecting an automatic telephone was the unanimous resolution ...
Article : 307 words"Michael and Mary," the British romantic drama, was the principal attraction at the Moonah Theatre last night. Herbert Marshall and Edna Best head ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. McK. Dow, Australia's Trade Commissioner in New York, who is forwarding to his Government a detailed report of the wine tasting salon which he ...
Article : 295 wordsA dance conducted by members of the ship's company of H.M.A.S. Australia will be held to-night in the City Hall, Hobart. The proceeds are to be ...
Article : 37 wordsA ball will be held in the City Hall, Hobart, to-morrow night by the management of the Pavilion de Danse to mark the visit of H.M.A.S. Squadron. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe uncertainty of the weather militated somewhat against the attendance at the Appeal Ball held in the Hobart Town Hall last night for "The Mercury" ...
Article : 88 wordsJohn Leslie Cheek appeared in the Launceston Police Court yesterday morning before Mr. J. V. Sullivan, J.P., in answer to a charge that from March ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 419 wordsParticulars concerning the aerial pageant to be held by the Tasmanian division of the Australian Aero Club at Brighton on Saturday next are ...
Article : 59 wordsOttawa, February 27.—The parcel post rate to Australia has been reduced to 12 cents (about 6d) a lb. Spain and the Vatican ...
Article : 124 wordsThe death occurred on Tuesday morning of Mrs. Clara Sherriff wife of Mr. D. Sherriff Deloraine. The deceased was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. ...
Article : 231 wordsWhether by coincidence or design, George Dimitroff —lzgol Popoff, opoft, Wassil Taneff, the three Bulgarian Comamunists who were acquitted of the ...
Article : 63 wordsAt a meeting of the Potato Marketing Board at Burnie on Tuesday the chairman (Mr. G. H. Parsons) presided, and there was a full attendance. ...
Article : 244 wordsThe Royal Autocar Club of Tasmania will give members of the ships of the Australian Squadron now in Hobart an outing to the Springs, Mount ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 wordsLady Clark will on Saturday, March 10, open the men's lounge at the Victoria Convalescent Home, Lindisfarne. A very diversified programme of sports, ...
Article : 45 wordsWild cheers and shouts of "Long live Dimitroff!" greeted the arrival at Moscow aerodrome from Germany of the Bulgarin Communists Dimitroff, ...
Article : 130 wordsThe "Evening Standard" states that the English women cricketers are so enthusiastic over the invitation to send a team to play "test matches" ...
Article : 123 wordsMrs. Isobel S. Hunter, of South Parade, West Kirby, Cheshire, the 58-yearold wife of a retired Liverpool sea captain, described to a "Daily Mail" ...
Article : 163 wordsA Tree gas cookery demonstration will be held this evening in the Gas Co.'s showroom, Collins Street, Hobart. ...
Article : 20 wordsMajor Elliot, Minister for Agriceulture, who has received two protests from deputations from importers, is expected shortly to announce his decision ...
Article : 116 wordsThe s.s. Dover on Saturday afternoon runs to Opossum Bay, South Arm, and Denne's Point, and on Sunday makes a fishing trip, calling at Opossum Bay. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Rev. Robert George Cameron, a pioneer home missionary of the Church of Christ, has died at his home 95 Hallfax Street, Brighton (V.), Mr. Cameron ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Government Railway Department to-day announces by advertisement that a rebate of 15 per cent. will be allowed all freighters of apples or ...
Article : 115 wordsDuring the last year a subsidy of 5s ton was paid to Tasmanian merchants exporting swedes carrots, and parsnips outside Australia or the Mandated ...
Article : 65 wordsCharlie Chan, the Chinese Sherlock Holmes, whom the writer, Earl Derr Biggers, put into novels, plays and films, died recently (reports the "Daily ...
Article : 158 wordsA rare disease, which is carried by rats, has caused the death of more than one resident of the Ingham district recently. Dr. Graham Drew, the State ...
Article : 106 wordsStatements concerning the alleged inferio[?] quality of Tasmanian coal used by the Railway Department in Tasmania were referred to at the annual ...
Article : 214 wordsMr. Robert Percy Coutts, who reached the age of 101 last Sunday, died at Donnybrook to-day. He was in good health until shortly before his death. ...
Article : 90 words"I had to stay below for six weeks. I never sat on a chair because I could not keep my balance it was more comfortable to sit on the floor the way ...
Article : 238 wordsAt a meeting of the North Leven branch of the Agricultural Bureau at Ulverstone last night a motion was carried protesting against the action of ...
Article : 112 wordsIntentionally sent with neither brand, breed, nor the name of the competitor Indicated, 40 lambs from the Melbourne Show were judged to-day by ...
Article : 81 wordsIt is stated that a newspaper is likely to be published in Launceston in the near future by a company of citizens. It is proposed that the publication shall ...
Article : 45 wordsHerbert Albert Alexander, who was arrested at Wynyard recently on a charge of having, on February l8, committed a serious offence upon a young ...
Article : 84 wordsMiss L. Ritchie gave a farewell party at the Virginia, Launceston, yesterday afternoon to Mrs. J. Ramsay, who, with her husband, Dr. J Ramsay, and her ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Weather Bureau, Hobart, reported yesterday that the height of the South Esk River at Fingal was 12 inches above ...
Article : 52 wordsAccording to figures supplied by the customs Department at Launceston, 2,248 persons (1,113 men and 1,135 women) arrived at Port of Launceston ...
Article : 49 wordsAllan Stewart Pty. Ltd., Launceston, report having submitted by public auction yesterday the farm Strathavon, situated close to Launceston, portion of ...
Article : 61 wordsA most beneficial rain fell lightly last Thursday evening and continued at intervals during Friday, and Saturday brought a good downpour. It has given ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 1 Mar 1934, Page 7
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