MANY points in the 1941 Apple and Pear Acquisition Scheme, which had perplexed growers, were explained at the meeting of the State Fruit Board at Exeter yesterday by Mr. L. S. Taylor, superintendent of the Tasmanian ...
Article : 1,096 wordsAn emphatic protest against the appointment of only one Tasmanian representative on the Australian Apple and Fear Marketing Board was agreed ...
Article : 143 wordsTHE construction of the Hobart tramways is going on steadily but surely. Work on the Sandy Bay line has proceeded until ...
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Advertising : 509 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Andrew Barton Paterson, more intimately known through Australia as "Banjo" Paterson, died in Sydney today after an illness which lasted ...
Article : 271 wordsAfter a retirement of four hours, a jury failed to agree yesterday in the case in the Criminal Court at Launceston before Mr. Justice Hutchins, in which Rose Lavina ...
Article : 124 wordsConversion of part of Hamilton St. quarry, West Hobart, into a children's playground, was approved by the Reserves Committee of the Hobart City Council yesterday. The ...
Article : 121 wordsThe remains of Mr. Gen Chung Henry, a leading member of the Chinese community in Hobart were interred at Cornelian Bay Cemetery yesterday, and a large gathering ...
Article : 189 wordsIt was announced at Anglesea Barracks yesterday that in cases where men were obliged to be absent from their homes overnight to be medically examined for A.I.F. ...
Article : 135 wordsTribute to the manner in which Queenstown residents are responding to the appeal for funds for patriotic purposes was made at a meeting of the Queenstown Patriotic ...
Article : 268 wordsA diseased oak tree outside the Treasury Buildings, Murray St., is to be removed by the Reserves Committee of the Hobart City Council and replaced by a lime tree similar ...
Article : 106 wordsThe death occurred on Monday of Mr. Frank Young, one of Southport's oldest residents, at the age of 82. Born at Lady Bay, the late Mr. Young had ...
Article : 101 words"Control of traffic is not a Hobart City Council responsibility," the Lord Mayor (Mr. Soundy) said yesterday. He was replying to a complaint in "The Mercury" about the ...
Article : 54 wordsAn indication that the original estimate of £16,000 for the improvement of the New Norfolk water supply would be exceeded was given at the New Norfolk Council meeting ...
Article : 437 wordsThe Australian Railways Union Board of Reference, presided over by Mr. E. H. Rowlands, Industrial Registrar, of the Arbitration Court heard evidence at Hobart yesterday ...
Article : 185 wordsAlthough the New Norfolk Council refused to participate in the Government scheme of free medical services several years ago, a move to have the matter ...
Article : 291 wordsThe membership of the Queenstown Brass Band numbers about 20, and the committee is seeking to increase this total. Factors that militate against additional players ...
Article : 49 wordsAn effort is to be made to achieve uniform standards in alcoholic ciders manufactured in the various States. The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. D'Alton) ...
Article : 285 wordsThe condition of Leslie Richardson (54), of Sandford, who was struck on the head by a ball while keeping wickets for Clarence in a cricket match on Tuesday against ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 55 wordsIn the New Norfolk Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. T. Andrews and Mrs. D. V. Curtain, Js.P., Inspector W. D. Kirkham prosecuting. ...
Article : 133 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. — Extraordinary meeting of Vichy Cabinet will be held late today. Petain expected to broadcast to the nation. British ...
Article : 61 wordsAustralian troops may be supplied with fresh apples as the result of a resolution of the State Fruit Board at a meeting at Exeter yesterday. ...
Article : 263 wordsAn application for an increase in the rate of pay to firemen attending fires at New Norfolk was made at a meeting of the Fire Brigade Board on Tuesday evening. ...
Article : 272 words"We may yet avoid a clash between Japanese and British interests in the Far East," said Mr. Paul A. Morawetz, formerly of Bangkok, in an address on Far-Eastern ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 6 Feb 1941, Page 6
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