CONSIDERABLE importance is attached to the announcement that delegates to the Pan-American Conference at Havana have reached substantial agreement on all major ...
Article : 661 wordsApproval was expressed by the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. D'Alton) at Launceston yesterday of the action of the Federal Government in adopting power to fix minimum ...
Article : 284 wordsHousing conditions in Hobart for people on the basic wage are a disgrace to the city. These pictures show scenes typical of many in backyards within half a mile of the centre of the city. (Reported on Page 2). ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 44 wordsCANBERRA, July 29.—During the June quarter unemployment in Australia rose to 10.5 per cent of membership of reporting trades unions—the highest rate ...
Article : 207 wordsJuly 30, 1890. ON board the s.s. Rotomahana, en route to Melbourne, was the ...
Article : 130 wordsAdvice was received at Launceston yesterday that 550 men and 23 officers would take part in the march of the A.I.F. at Launceston tomorrow. This is an increase of more ...
Article : 316 wordsIncreased popularity of the weekly tickets issued by the Hobart tramways is indicated by figures made available by the City Council yesterday. ...
Article : 165 words"If you can appeal to a boy's sense of fair play and sport and convince him that the community is not hostile you are half way towards reforming him." said Mr. A. Linton, ...
Article : 232 wordsGreater co-operation among members of the Fisheries Commission was urged at the annual meeting of the, Northern Tasmanian Fisheries Association of Launceston ...
Article : 347 wordsCANBERRA, July 29.—Australia will soon be producing 4,000,000 gallons of power alcohol annually as a result of additional plant which has been installed in Queensland ...
Article : 109 wordsThe exceptionally heavy rain of the weekend caused most Northern rivers to rise rapidly early yesterday and much low-lying country was inundated. There was no ...
Article : 394 wordsCANBERRA, July 29.—The Commonwealth Government has appointed Dr. H. G. Roggatt Assistant Commonwealth Geological Adviser, the Minister for the Interior (Senator Foll) ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 280 wordsCANBERRA, July 29.—The Commonwealth Government has sent another cablegram to the British authorities in Hong Kong, asking them to give more details about the 6,000 ...
Article : 106 wordsROSS.—A farewell social was held in the Ross Town Hall for P[?]e. R. Pulford, of the Second A.I.F. who was on his final leave. Mr. R. W. Fisher, of the Returned Sailors ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsMany hunters in the Oatlands district have taken full advantage of the open game season and are now able to estimate their success over the past two months. Because ...
Article : 139 wordsAn unusual experiment in the form of an unprofessional painting group has been started by the Hobart W.E.A. to give people an opportunity of expressing what they want ...
Article : 79 wordsA total debit of £348 and outstanding rales of £310 were reported at a special meeting of the Westbury Council at Westbury yesterday. The general rate was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsThe Cornwall and Jubilee collieries were idle yesterday because of an electric power failure. This is the second stoppage during the past four working days. The loss to ...
Article : 38 wordsThe next City Council-W.E.A. public lecture at Hobart will be given by Prof. Harvey Sutton, Director of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Sydney, ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, July 29.—The "Daily Mail" says: "The official delay in releasing the news of the loss of the evacuation liner Lancastria, at St. Nazaire during ...
Article : 192 wordsBERLIN, July 29.—Hitler has telegraphed his own and the German nation's congratulations to Mussolini on the 57th anniversary of his bath, saying: "Our ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, July 29.—Lord Perth, who has been Chief Adviser on Foreign Publicity to the Ministry of Information since the earliest months of the war, has ...
Article : 131 wordsPassengers by steamer between Launceston and Melbourne in July were only 145 below the record of July, 1939, and were higher than in July of any other year since 1928. ...
Article : 58 wordsINFORMATION that wireless operators for the Royal Australian Air Force were not enlisted as such was contained in a telegram from the Minister for the Army ...
Article : 256 wordsGordon McGrath (12), of 24 High St., Sandy Bay, was admitted to the Royal Hobart Hospital at 8.30 p m. yesterday with concussion caused when he was knocked ...
Article : 87 wordsZURICH, July 29.—The Gestapo has secured powers under a new law to condemn non-Germans to death by hanging without trial. The first victim for the ...
Article : 52 wordsIn the Launceston Police Court yesterday, before the Police Magistrate (Mr. F. N. Stops) and Messrs. W. H. Daymond and J. Couch, Js.P., Sgt. R. H. Westell prosecuting. ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. N. A. Westbrook senior mathematical and science master at Scotch College, Launceston, has been appointed Education Officer in the Royal Australian Air Force, Civil ...
Article : 66 wordsMELBOURNE, July 29.—The Ministry of Munitions is placing a £1,009,000 order, which is one of the largest ever given in Australia for machine equipment. It ...
Article : 63 wordsANKARA, July 23.—A Presidential order forbids newspapers to publish news from foreign radio stations or foreign information from private sources. It also ...
Article : 38 wordsLONDON, July 29.—Christies' will auction on Thursday a first edition copy of Rolf Boldrewood's novel "Robbery Under Arms," which was presented by the author to his ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, July 29.—The 40th Air Ministry casualty list gives the names of 300 men of whom 25 officers and 74 other ranks were killed or presumed killed, and ...
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Article : 3 wordsAt a meeting of the Tasmanian Tobacco Sellers Association (Northern Section) at Launceston yesterday Mr. L. W. Teague was appointed president and Mr. Harold ...
Article : 132 wordsLONDON, July 29.—The King Queen, and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose inspected sections of the Upper Thames patrol of the Home Guards. The ...
Article : 41 wordsADEN, July 29.—Italian aeroplanes slightly damaged a merchantman by a bomb in Aden Harbour. A member of the crew was killed, but there were no ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 30 Jul 1940, Page 5
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