Australian States, delivered dally. United Kingdom, by Orcades, today. New Zealand, by Awatea, today; by wanganella, tomorrow; by Waitakl, ...
Article : 77 wordsAUSTRALIAN Consols continued to gain ground on the Melbourne. Stock Exchange today. Investment shares met with a fair demand; but the mining market displayed an easier trend. ...
Article : 49 wordsTHERE was again a good demand for Jonathan apples at the Sydney fruit market yesterday, and there does not appear much danger of these not being cleared. The demand for green apples, with the exception of Granny Smiths, ...
Article : 78 wordsWool sales were resumed in Melbourne today, when there was a more cheerful tone than at the previous Melbourne sales. Values generally were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 265 wordsAfter a bad slump in January, Australia's oversea trade balance recovered slightly during February, but it is still much below the balance at this time ...
Article : 167 wordsMalls for Launceston close at the G.P.O., Hobart at 7 a.m., 4 p.m., and 8.80 p.m. Australian States, letters. 7 a.m. daily, (except Sunday), other mall, by Taroorna, ...
Article : 356 wordsTRADING in industrials covered a wide range. Howard Smith continued to rise steadily Henry Jones was sought at 9d higher, bringing its quotation more into ...
Article : 753 wordsFOLLOWING a hot week-end in Sydney, the demand there for most lines of fruit was improved yesterday. Details: Apples, fancy and good. Alexander. (Tas.), ...
Article : 199 wordsThe first annual accounts of Capel Court Investment Trust (Australia) Ltd. of Melbourne, to December 31, 1937, disclose a net profit of £6,510, which is equal to a ...
Article : 348 wordsThere was a rendy sale for fruit in general the Melbourne fruit market yesterday. Quotations: Apples, eating 3s to 7s, few specials higher: cooking 3s to ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Hobart City Council at its meeting last night approved the recommendation of the Health Committee that a by-law be framed to compel owners of ...
Article : 177 wordsTHERE was little trading in potatoes at Burnie yesterday, and quotations were nominal at £5 10s ton for Brownells, £4 10s for Bismarcks, and £3 15s for ...
Article : 259 wordsWheat was qulet, neither buyers nor sellers pressing at Melbourne yesterday, and bran and pollard remained firm. Oats had little inquiry, but the undertone was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,332 wordsA good selection, comprising 11,196 bales, was offered at the Sydney wool sales today. Of the offering, 10,519 bales were sold at auction, and under ...
Article : 100 wordsLetter mails for the Mainland are conveyed to Melbourne by air at ordinary postage rates. Letter mails for King Island and ...
Article : 124 wordsAt the Hobart railway sales yesterday. 20 trucks of Algerian chaff were offered and 10 were sold. Prime quality realised £3 17s to £4 ton; medium, £3 Ss to £3 ...
Article : 52 wordsProduce prices at Adelaide yesterday were: Wheat, growers' lots, 4s. Flour, bakers lots, £10 17s 6d net. delivered metropolitan area. Bran, £5 17s 6d. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Superannuation Committee of the Council recommended that a trust deed be executed on behalf of the Council relating to the staff pension scheme. ...
Article : 503 wordsDetails of prices realised in Sydney, produce transactions yesterday were: Straw, Tasmanian wheaten and oaten, £4 15s [?]on. Hay, Victorian oaten, £9 10s ...
Article : 151 wordsHuddart, Parker Ltd., the interState shipping company, reports a profit of £114,596 for the year ended December 31, compared with £89,895 ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Adelaide Wool Brokers' Association reported today that at wool sales last week, of 32,758 bales catatlogued 31,062 were sold, realising £409,423. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe air mail which left London on February 24, and was due in Tasmania today, is three days behind schedule, and will not arrive until Friday. ...
Article : 51 wordsMining on the lode and alluvial deposits on the Cape Barren field at Flinders Island has been restricted, chiefly owing to the shortage of water; ...
Article : 205 wordsA request that the Government should provide sufficient rolling stock to enable sale days to be conducted at the Derwent Park Abattoirs on ...
Article : 278 wordsThe following were the official London metal quotations, middle prices, as received by the Australian Mines and Metals Association on March 5: ...
Article : 80 wordsIn the Longford Police Court yesterday before Messrs. W. F. Archer and. O. J. Brumby, Js.P. Inspector E. Eyles prosecuting. ...
Article : 183 wordsAt the half-yearly meeting of shureholders yesterday of Roberts and Co. Ltd., auctioneers and woolbrokers, of Hobart, an interim dividend of 1s a share was ...
Article : 79 wordsAlthough the price of wolfram has dropped from the abnormal level of £6 8s 9d sterling a unit, representing £600 a ton in Australia, to £3 10s a unit, it ...
Article : 334 wordsThe directors of General Industries Ltd. have proposed a number of alterations to the company's articles of association, and these will be considered by shareholders ...
Article : 96 wordsThe growing popularity of Illawarra cattle in Tasmania was emphasised by the number of breeders from many parts of the State who attended the annual ...
Article : 262 words"The loss to the community in general and to this Council in particular is severe," said the Mayor (Mr. A. E. Wyett) at a meeting of the ...
Article : 134 wordsFollowing are the collections for the port of Hobart for the week ended March 5, 1938: Wharfage; £1,289, 17s ld; tonnage rates, £282 14s 10d; pilotage, £40: ...
Article : 47 wordsA suggestion that the wages tax, of part of it, should be used as a hosPital tax was made at a meeting of the Launceston City Council ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 256 wordsThe Country Women's Association in Tasmania yesterday conducted a shop in Hobart for the Child Welfare Assoclation's baby day appeal. The receipts ...
Article : 168 wordsHill 5O.—Cleaned up 2000 tons for 606oz. Lancefield. — During February 10,438 short tons [?]ore were mined and treated for a return of £22,018 (Australian ...
Article : 296 wordsMr. H. Stuart Dove (Devonport) writes: A distinguished worker in the field of microscopy died recently in the person of Mr. Scott. He made a ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Tasmanian Woolgrowers Agency Co. Ltd. report that at the Smithton sale yesterday an average yarding of all classes of stock came forward, and better ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Minister for Education (Mr. E. J. Ogilvie) has approved of the following works being undertaken at schools: Storm drain at Princes St.: ...
Article : 87 wordsA lecture illustrated with moving pictures, was given at the Masonic Hall, Hobart, last night, by Mr. T. Tait, of Melbourne, on "Modern ...
Article : 66 wordsThe sheep section at Homebush yesterday was irregular, but values generally were unchanged. The penning of 38,300 was a decrease of 1,90O compared with ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Rev. N. H. Joughin, president of the Council of Churches, writes: Child welfare is one of the most important branches of community service. We ...
Article : 168 wordsAn American tea was held in the Snug Hall last week in aid of the Church of England funds. Stallholders were: Afternoon tea, Mesdames F. M. ...
Article : 53 wordsRolling stock is being added to the railways at Launceston, and improvements have been made to older stock. Five of the older petrol rail-motors ...
Article : 84 wordsAt the annual meeting of shareholders in the Tasmanian Egg Floor (Ulverstone) Co-operative Society Ltd. at Ulverstone at the week-end, it was ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. C. E. Culley, M.H.A.. State secretary, addressed a large meeting of the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Builders Labourers' Federation ...
Article : 71 wordsAT a meeting of the Launceston City Council last night, notice of motion was submitted to permit the hiring of the Albert Hall for not less than ...
Article : 93 wordsIT has been decided to name the new after-care wing at the Launceston General Hospital the Convalescent Pavilion for Crippled Children. The ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 8 Mar 1938, Page 4
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