That the Patriotic Funds Board for Tasmania desired to prevent, duplication of appeals and effort, and to ensure that all money raised for patriotic purposes ...
Article : 251 wordsAt the last annual meeting of the Royal Autocar Club of Tasmania a resolution of loyalty was unanimously agreed to. The committee has now decided to make a ...
Article : 244 wordsArticles contributed to the war effort pictured at the salvage depot at Salamanca Place, Hobart. Between 15 and 18 tons of waste paper has been baled ready for ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 80 wordsLONDON, July 26.—When the Australian troops first arrived at their camps in Britain, the camps were just a lot of tents. Today each is a suburb filled with rows of ...
Article : 304 wordsThe ball held in the Geeveston Town Hall on Wednesday night by members of the Geeveston Red Cross Emergency Committee for funds for patriotic work was success. ...
Article : 123 wordsIn the Geeveston Police Court on Thursday, before the Police Magistrate (Col. J. P. Clark), the Warden (Mr. E. Burgess) and Mr. T. G. Thompson, Js.P., Inspector T. H. Nolan ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsErection of a new meat depot at the corner of Hunter and Davey streets, has been under consideration by the Works Committee of the Hobart City Council for some time. A ...
Article : 127 wordsA man known as "Curly" Slade (701, unmarried, of Cambridge, fell into the Hobart harbour from Brooke St. pier about 3.45 p.m. yesterday. He was rescued by Capt. ...
Article : 71 wordsTo provide additional service to members of the Royal Autocar Club of Tasmania, especially country and suburban members, thc committee has decided to make the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe financial position of the wife and family of Mr. G. E. Oxley, who was injured fatally when a trolley left the rails near Colebrook on July.7, was discussed at a ...
Article : 126 wordsCOLEBROOK.—A dance organised by Mrs. F. Whelan. Miss Marie Whelan, and Mr. Edgar Munnings, In aid of war comforts funds was held in the Colebrook hall. ...
Article : 653 wordsFour new motor-cars, a new lorry, and two new motor-cycles were registered in Tasmania during the week ended Thursday. ...
Article : 21 wordsTo aid the Australite Comforts Fund a concert was held in the Methodist Hall, Princes St., Sandy Bay. The performers were Mrs. Green (pianist), Mesdames Duress, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 wordsCANBERRA, July 26.—Producers who are selling charcoal for motor fuel at 5/6 a bag, as compared with 2/8 a bag for ordinary charcoal, are not profiteering. A report on ...
Article : 149 wordsMELBOURNE, July 26.—"You cannot shift the Pacific, and as Australia and Japan are both neighbours in it, commonsense dictates the need for a more ...
Article : 97 wordsMELBOURNE, July 26.—Claiming that 20 per cent of Australia's liquid fuel could be produced as power alcohol, the secretary of the Queensland Canegrowers' ...
Article : 133 wordsConstruction ot a footpath from the junction of the Tea Tree Rd. with the Midland highway at Brighton to the bridge over the Jordon River at Pontville will be ...
Article : 116 wordsThe home of Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Butcher. Ladbrooke St., Burnie, was broken into on Thursday,and about £48 in notes taken. When Mrs. Butcher returned home, she ...
Article : 108 wordsTyrone Power has a virile role in "Johnny Apollo"—a film in which scenes in an American prison are the background for the efforts of a son to gain parole for his father. ...
Article : 319 wordsCANBERRA, July 26.—Federal Cabinet has approved a recommendation from the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Prof. D. B. Copland) for power to fix minimum prices ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Public Works Department has accepted the following tenders: Leven raliway bridge, supply of round timber, G. Stubbs, Forth Rd., Ulverstone. £225/2/11; ...
Article : 148 wordsLONDON, July 26.—A point had been reached in Great Britain, the Minister for Supply (Mr. Morrison) explained, at which changes would be possible in the ...
Article : 138 wordsWallace Beery becomes the bad boy of the Navy in "Thunder Afloat." There is thunder in more senses than one—when submarine chasers set out to sink a German ...
Article : 313 wordsA special War Service Committee has been formed at the Hutchins School, Hobart, to enable every boy in the school to take some part in serving the country during the war. ...
Article : 153 wordsAt the annual meeting of parishioners of St. Peter's Church, Sandy Bay. the rector, the Rev. A. A. Bennett, who was supported by the Rev. E. N. Gidley and the ...
Article : 161 wordsAccording to a statement by the Warden (Mr. H. A. Warner) at a public meeting at Lachlan on Thursday, the question of whether important waler and sewerage works ...
Article : 154 wordsMELBOURNE, July 26.—Relatives, a detective, and a policewoman met an interstate ship in Melbourne today and took possession of the belongings and will ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsIn step with the building improvement programme which has been undertaken in the New Norfolk township area in the past three years, the value of church properties ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Hobart City Mission appeals for further financial support. Donations: Anonymous, £3/3/; Geeveston, £3; Mrs. R. T. White, £2; Mrs. Morris, Mrs. E. A. ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON.—Madrid Radio gave a report from Ostend that most of the Belgian fishing fleet and some Belgian warships were now in England. ...
Article : 399 wordsLike old soldiers, motion pictures of the Wild West never die, and it would be a pity if audiences did not have these action-packed dramas to take them out of themselves. ...
Article : 294 wordsDeanna Durbin is as winning as ever in "It's a Date." There has been talk about her growing up, but her seventh picture finds her still full of youthful vivacity. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 wordsDonald Pedro Lucadou-Wells (54). travelling dentist, of 55 Brisbane St. Hobart, was admitted to the Royal Hobart Hospital last night, following a collision on the Lyell ...
Article : 121 wordsYoung women and girls employed at the Pioneer Wondware Factory at New Norfolk are receiving instruction in first-aid with members of the New Norfolk Red Cross ...
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Article : 6 words"The Contenions ot a Nazi Spy" is based on a book which caused a sensation, revealing as it did the extent to which Nazi espionage had penetrated the United States ...
Article : 75 wordsDARWIN, July 26.—After a crowded 36 hours at Darwin Inspecting air force establishments, the Minister for Air (Mr. Fairbairn) continued his aerial tour of the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 27 Jul 1940, Page 4
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