TASMANIA'S claim for a special grant for 1940-1, presented to the Commonwealth Grants Commission at Hobart yesterday, is made up as follows: Amount to bring Tasmania's comparable deficit to the Australian standard, £395,000; ...
Article : 133 wordsMelbourne's farewell to the members of the Second A.I.F. who embarked there, was equal in enthusiasm to that in Sydney. The ...
Article : 772 wordsTHE Treasurer (Mr. E. Dwyer-Gray and Prof. E. R. Walker, Messrs. R. G. Osborne, F. W. Steele, and E. T. McPhee, members of the State Finance ...
Article : 825 wordsIN accordance with the statement of the Minister for the Army (Brigadier Street), enlistment for second reinforcements for the Second A.I.F. will begin in Tasmania on March 1. Third and fourth reinforcements will be enlisted during ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 458 wordsAn alleged private transaction between the Minister for Customs (Mr. Lawson) and Mr. W. J. Smith was ...
Article : 309 wordsPersonnel and equipment to establish a complete base hospital was despatched from Sydney by the first convoy. ...
Article : 329 wordsIf Mr. J. Vinton Smith were returned as member for Corie, electors might be certain that the Menzies Government would regard it as a mandate to ...
Article : 220 wordsThe Japanese Foreign Minister (Mr. Arita), answering a suggestion by a member of the Diet that action should be taken to allay the Netherlands ...
Article : 85 wordsLabour's disagreement with the policy of sending large numbers of men from Australia was reiterated by the Leader of the ...
Article : 165 wordsTASMANIA'S "comparable deficit" was calculated to be £466,000, and the estimated amount required to bring the comparable deficit to normal ...
Article : 1,141 wordsThe Holland-Amerika Line announced that the steamer Edam rescued the crew and passengers of the Bungedijk (8,853 tons), which was sunk in a ...
Article : 68 wordsFRANCOIS FOUCHE, wrestling promoter, was charged in the Hobart Police Court yesterday with stealing and the unlawful possession of goods. ...
Article : 939 wordsA United Press survey indicates that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will pigeon-hole bills sponsored by 23 members and relating to Japan. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Norwegian tanker Gallia (9,968 tons) was mined off the southeast coast but remained afloat. Lifeboatmen helped to tow her to a safe ...
Article : 37 wordsNeither he nor any other member of the Government was keeping any secrets about the war from the public, the Minister for Information ...
Article : 148 words"No increase in tobacco prices in Tasmania has been approved by the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Prof. D. B. Copland)," said the Deputy ...
Article : 91 wordsThe noted Press commentator, "Pertinax," regards the British Labour Party manifesto, which insisted that the war must end the Hitler regime as a ...
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Advertising : 152 wordsTo take charge of the Royal Australian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett arrived from London by air yesterday. He will succeed ...
Article : 127 wordsJohn Frederick Downie (23), son of Mr. R. G. Downie, a well known pastorally of Greenwich, Hamilton, was killed yesterday when the tractor he ...
Article : 269 wordsThe British steamer Oregon (6,008 tons), which was reported to have been torpedoed, has arrived at Lisbon in tow. She had boiler trouble and drifted for ...
Article : 66 wordsThe following appointments were made at a mee[?]ing of the Executive Council yesterday: Territorial Justices of the Peace: ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Treasurer (Mr. Dwyer-Gray), replying yesterday to the criticism of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. H. S. Baker) regarding his financial policy ...
Article : 103 wordsThe death of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Rev. Edward J. Byrne, is announced. He was 68 years of age and had held the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 13 Feb 1940, Page 2
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