MELBOURNE, August 16—There have been many predictions of famine in Europe during the coming Winter and in south France the situation already is becoming acute. Food ...
Article : 730 wordsTASMANIAN women have had to learn by bitter experience that the only use Government and local government authorities have for them is as money-raising auxiliaries, and many schemes have gone astray or failed of their full purpose because feminine foresight and ...
Article : 986 wordsOne of the employees at the Yarra Falls Spinning Mills, Abbotsford (V.), with an armful of scoured wool ready for the machines. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 455 wordsMiss Hazel Harris, an employee of the secretarial branch of Davies Brothers Limited, received yesterday, on the eve of her marriage to Mr. John ...
Article : 133 wordsTHE Executive Council, at a meeting on Saturday, approved the proposal of the Hobart Marine Board to construct a new ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hughes, of Breadalbane, have returned to Launceston after a visit to Dubbo (NS.W.). Mr. and Mrs. Hughes son, Mr. William Hughes, is in camp ...
Article : 123 wordsMISS DOROTHY BUMFORD Younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Bumford, Derwentwater Ave., Sandy Bay, whose engagement to Alan, second ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsMELBOURNE, August 16.—An Air Force Court of Inquiry will be constituted as soon as possible to investigate the Canberra air crash, the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) ...
Article : 106 wordsRuling that no indictment could lie in law, Chief Justice Morris brought a case to an abrupt ending in the Criminal Court at Hobart yesterday, when he directed a ...
Article : 221 wordsMiss Mary Bethune entertained about 60 friends at her parents' home, Fitzroy Place, Hobart, at an informal sherry party in honour of Mr. and Mrs. Angus Bethune and Mr. ...
Article : 191 wordsScallops taken during the 1940 season which ended on Thursday amounted to about 14,000,000, compared with 17,000,000 last season. ...
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Advertising : 9 wordsMELBOURNE, August 16.—The engagement is announced from London of Nancie Wills, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Wills, of Camberwell (V.), to Lieut. Alan J. Villiers, ...
Article : 109 wordsPowerful Antiseptic Prescription Stops Itching Instantly, and Boils that Discharge are Quickly Healed Now that tens of thousands know that ...
Article : 123 wordsArrangements are in hand for the Lord Mayor's At Home, which is to be held at Hobart on August 27. Invitation holders are reminded that admission will be by ...
Article : 51 wordsA party of six Launceston women, Mesdames C. Craig, L. D. Overstall, C. K. Stackhouse, G. Eddie, S. Lade, and C..T. H. Harris, meet every Wednesday afternoon at Mrs. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Deputy Director, Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. Monfries), announced yesterday that the twice-weekly Empire air mall service via Singapore, Cairo, and Durban would be ...
Article : 113 wordsIn the Hobart Police Court yesterday, before the Police Magistrate (Col. J. P. Clark), Detective-Inspector Fleming prosecuting, Clarence Michael Brazzill, a former member ...
Article : 503 wordsThe number of men born between July 1, 1915, and June 30, 1918, who were examined at Launceston yesterday for the universal training scheme, totalled 84, of whom 72 ...
Article : 136 wordsThe annual meeting of the Parattah branch of the Red Cross Society was held at Parattah on Wednesday. The following officers were re-elected: ...
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Advertising : 498 wordsRoyce William Pennicott (26) was acquitted by the unanimous verdict of a jury in the Criminal Court at Hobart yesterday on a charge of having, at Oatlands between June ...
Article : 89 wordsConditionally on the Clarence Council meeting all incidental expenditure the Chief Secretary (Mr. Brooker) has agreed to make available sustenance labour for the widening ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 wordsREFERRING to the new season's wool appraisement, the chairman (Mr. F. H. Foster, M.H.A.) at the Farmers, Stockowners and Orchardists' Association at Hobart ...
Article : 464 wordsDamage estimated at £100 was caused by an outbreak of fire in the kitchen of Casimaty's Cafe. Elizabeth St., Hobart, shortly after 11 p.m. yesterday. ...
Article : 103 wordsNo further appointments of Tasmanians as Justices of the Peace for New South Wales will be necessary, and in future Tasmanian justices may sign documents originating in ...
Article : 125 wordsWork will begin shortly on a new Presbyterian Church at Launceston. The land has been purchased at the corner of Abbott and Campbell streets, and is opposite the new ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 17 Aug 1940, Page 4
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