Dandy Mac was the most successful performer at the Queenstown Trotting Club's meeting on Saturday. He secured a first and two seconds. ...
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Article : 88 wordsThe uneconomical cost of distributing and selling petrol, oils, and motor accessories is viewed with alarm by garage and service station proprietors, said ...
Article : 183 wordsThe possibility of obtaining persons from Northern Tasmania to assist with harvesting the small fruit crop in the Derwent Valley will be ...
Article : 305 wordsThis class of trainees of the Royal Australian Air Force is receiving instruction in the Morse room at Pt. Cook. The Air Force offers an immediate opportunity for young men to train as wireless operators. The general qualifications required, apart from good health, are education to the Intermediate standard in some subjects or a knowledge of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 256 wordsAt the request of the Circular Head Council, the Minister for Health (Dr. Gaha) and Director of Public Health (Dr. B. M. Carruthers) visited ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 wordsAt the annual dinner of the Huon sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League at Ranelagh on Saturday, Lieut. B. O. Plummer, ...
Article : 284 wordsThe death occurred on Friday, after a lons illness, of Sir Walter Young, aged 68 years. Sir Watter, who was a member of one of the pioneer families ...
Article : 224 wordsThe sum of £758 has been presented to the British Red Cross Societies by Lebanese, a small non-British community in Sierra Leone. ...
Article : 64 wordsMiss Anna Cox, of Lilydale, aged 83 years, died suddenly at the residence of Mr. Ernest Arnold, Lilydale, on Saturday morning. Miss Cox apparently ...
Article : 102 wordsAlthough the Tasmanian Aero Club has not been brought within the Em-pire air training scheme, its subsidy from the Commonwealth Government ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Nizam of Hyderabad has contributed £7,500 towards the reilef of Turkish earthquake sufferers. ...
Article : 27 wordsTHE work of cutting the canal through Ralph Bay Neck has been entrusted by the Government to the Hobart Marine Board, ...
Article : 157 wordsPerhaps never before have so many passengers left Launceston by steamer for Melbourne within such a short time as on Saturday. Two ...
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Article : 158 wordsRESPECTING the recent find of coal on Mr. Andrew Morrison's property at Mike Howe's Marsh, in the vicinity, of Table ...
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Article : 261 wordsFifty thousnnd London transport workers will receive extra wages ranging from 4/ a week for adults. ...
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Article : 86 wordsMr. W. Thornthwaite, who was formerly organist at St John's Church, Launceston, died in Sydney recently after having been run over in a Sydney ...
Article : 166 wordsISTANBUL, Jan. 7.—News of further disastrous floods received from Smyrna. Communications and electric current cut off, and bridges ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 281 wordsFireman Tooke has broken, three toes, but nothing will stop him sack-racing. Not even his-wife, who has to darn the sacks. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 8 Jan 1940, Page 6
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