In view of the financial position of the Hobart Public Hospital, it was decided at a meeting of the Board of Management yesterday that a ...
Article : 1,344 wordsAt the meeting of the Esperance Municipal Council, held at Dover on Wednesday, there were present: The Warden (Mr. E. Burgess) and ...
Article : 803 wordsWalch's "Tasmanian Guide Book" of 1871 has something of interest to tell regarding this historic Midlands town of Campbell Town and district. We read: ...
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Advertising : 384 wordsAt the meeting of the Esperance Council at Dover, on Wednesday, the Warden (Mr. E. Burgess) referring to Port Huon affairs, said it was pleasing to ...
Article : 574 wordsMrs. Mabel Beatrice Dawson, of Cambridge Street, Bellerive, died in the Hobart Public Hospital at 12.15 a.m. to-day from injuries received when she was ...
Article : 202 wordsThe annual meeting of the Prisoners' Aid Society of Tasmania was held yesterday. The chairman, Mr. John Soundy, M.H.A., presided. The annual report, ...
Article : 319 wordsA euchre tournament and dance for the forthcoming ball for the Tasmanian Sanatorium was held in the Rechabite Hall, Oatlands, on Tuesday and was ...
Article : 82 wordsThe action of the Director of Education (Mr. G. V. Brooks) in arranging for the New Norfolk State School to be closed on Empire Day, May 24, to enable ...
Article : 418 wordsA euchre tournament was held in the Hospital Bay (Huon) State School on Tuesday. It was organised by Mrs. C. James and Miss Jean Reid to help the ...
Article : 70 wordsA satisfactory year's work was outlined in the annual report which was presented at the annual meeting of the New Norfolk branch of the Victoria ...
Article : 256 wordsResidents throughout the district have been busy day and night preparing overseas and mainland fruit shipments. Much unemployed labour could have ...
Article : 139 wordsA dinner was given in the Bay View Hotel, Swansea, on Monday evening by the men of the district to Messrs. C. E. S. Mitchell and C. Wilson, both of whom ...
Article : 360 wordsReports of three residences in Hobart having been visited yesterday by a bogus gas meter collector have been made to the police. The man in each instance ...
Article : 212 wordsThe harvest festival was held at St. Paul's Church on Sunday last. The church was lavishly decorated. The service was taken by Mr. J. L. May, of ...
Article : 169 wordsThe following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—President, Mrs. W. T. Gellibrand: vice-presidents, H. P. Onslow, R. O. Shoobridge, and E. Fenn ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Hobart Fire Brigade was summoned at 3.40 p.m. yesterday to a fire in a disused stable in a lane off Sackville Street, Hobart, the property of the ...
Article : 68 wordsPersonal reminiscences of experiences in relief work during the recent bush fires in Tasmania were given at the quarterly meeting of the Hutchins ...
Article : 375 wordsA successful concert and dance was held in the Town Hall, Port Arthur, on Saturday in aid of St. David's funds. The organisers were Miss Z. Gathercole ...
Article : 182 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Queenborough branch of the Australian Natives' Association was held at the Methodist Hall, Sandy Bay, last week. ...
Article : 145 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Swansea Rebekah Lodge, No. 8, was held last week, when the N.G., Sister Larsen, presided. A donation was voted to the ...
Article : 157 wordsAn article published in a recent issue of the Nelson (N.Z.) "Evening Mail" is interesting. It reads:—"Including exchange at 25 per cent., the net return to ...
Article : 204 wordsThe brigade was called at 7.36 p.m. to 47 Brisbane Street, near Argyle Street, to a five-roomed house occupied by Mr. R. Stewart. Curtains in a first floor ...
Article : 172 wordsAt the quarterly meeting of the Hutchins School Parents' Association, held at Hobart yesterday (Mr. John Lord in the chair), it was resolved to amend ...
Article : 126 wordsA social and dance were held in the Adamsfield hall on Saturday evening last for school funds. Mr. J. Byrnes provided the dance music. Songs were ...
Article : 100 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of members of the Victoria Tent, I.O.R., was held at Hobart on Tuesday night. C. Ruler Bro. B. D. Bestwick presided. ...
Article : 107 wordsAFTER 96 YEARS.—This substantial brick structure, with stone buttresses, is probably the only one of its kind in the Commonwealth, and bears the following inscription:—"Sir John Franklin, Lieutenant-Governor. 1838; commenced April, 1837, completed July, 1838, Alexander Cheyne, Director-General; Hobart Town, 76 miles; Launceston, 41 miles." (See letterpress). W. J. Rowlands, photo. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 59 wordsThe executive committee of the Women's Auxiliary of the Hobart Public Hospital held its monthly meeting in the Nurses' Home, Hobart, on ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Trans-Derwent branch of the National Utility Poultry Breeders' Association held a ball in the Bellerive Town Hall last night to mark the ...
Article : 170 wordsAn inquest was opened at the Hobart Police Court yesterday before Alderman G. C. Gilmore (Coroner) into the death of Frank Porthouse, aged 48 years, a ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 18 May 1934, Page 6
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