The opinion of the military authorities expressed at Hobart yesterday by the State Commandant (Brigadier Manchester) is that the National Agricultural and Pastoral ...
Article : 173 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—A special meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party discussed recent "rebellions" within the party. ...
Article : 111 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—In the House of Lords the Food Minister (Lord Woolton) announced that domestic and catering supplies of milk would be reduced in the ...
Article : 142 wordsEvidence that a truck involved in an accident was taken without authority was given at the inquest at Queenstown yesterday on the death of Arthur George ...
Article : 420 wordsErosion is a real enemy within our gates. Here are two pictures indicative of the ravages caused by erosion in the Queenstown district. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 450 wordsNEW YORK, Wednesday.—Three hundred defence workers were injured, 40 of them seriously, when a commuter tram was wrecked at Windham (New England) ...
Article : 219 wordsTOKIO, Wednesday.—The highest significance is attached to the official announcement that the Foreign Minister (Mr. Matsuoka) will stop at Moscow for ...
Article : 121 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Mr. John Haggerty, president of the International Allied Printing Trades Association announced that he had asked publications ...
Article : 146 wordsConcerts in the 1940 season were well up to standard, stated the annual report of the Hobart Symphony Orchestra Society presented to the annual meeting of the society in the ...
Article : 323 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Federal Government has decided to extend the full war service home facilities given those who took part in the last war to all ...
Article : 168 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Allegations that internees were being provided with living allowances up to £6 a week were denied today at Victoria Barracks. ...
Article : 91 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday—Mr. Merrill Meigs, chief of the air division of the Office of Production Management, told the House of Representatives Judiciary ...
Article : 104 wordsA link with the early days of New Norfolk settlement has been provided by the unearthing of old brickwork during building operations on the site of the new fire ...
Article : 99 wordsBATAVIA, Wednesday.—More than 12,000 Batavian women have been recruited for war duties to replace men in civil occupations. The recruiting of women is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 452 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—Sixty persons were injured mostly by broken glass, and none fatally, when a train ran at slow speed into the rear of a stationary train ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 444 wordsThe present visit to Australia of several ships of the United States Navy recalls that in 1925, when an American squadron was in our waters. Hobart was included in the ...
Article : 424 wordsOTTAWA, Wednesday.—The new plan of four months of compulsory military training to replace the existing 30-day scheme was submitted to the Canadian ...
Article : 67 wordsST. PAUL (Minn.), Wednesday.—The Governor of Minnesota (Mr. Stassen) said he had notified the Secretary for Commerce (Mr. Jesse Jones) that the great ...
Article : 67 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Mr. Martin Dies, chairman of the committee which is investigating un-American activities, announced he would request a grand jury ...
Article : 71 wordsMONTREAL, Wednesday.—The "Montreal Star" says that Senator Pepper, who is visiting Canada, revealed that he would begin a campaign for the acceptance of ...
Article : 44 wordsIn the Launceston Police Court yesterday before the Police Magistrate (Mr. F. N. Stops) Messrs. G. T. Bridgborn, W. E. Gow, and L. T. Pybus, Js.P., Senior Constable C. ...
Article : 111 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Corporate business profits in the United States in 1940 totalled 5,000,000,000 dollars (£A1.668,000,000)—a 25 per cent increase ...
Article : 60 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The first intimation that Mr. Coles (Ind., V.) had gone abroad on public business came from Mr. Price, the United Australia Party ...
Article : 83 wordsOTTAWA, Wednesday.—The Munitions Minister (Mr. Howe) announced that Canada's steel production had risen 270,000 tons a year. ...
Article : 68 wordsA large and representative meeting of the wholesale and retail fruit trade was held at Hobart last night to discuss marketing conditions in relation to the 1941 apple and pear ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Warden of Esperance (Mr. E. Burgess) reported at the Esperance Council meeting yesterday that he had again discussed with State Ministers the ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Launceston Trades Hall Council at its monthly meeting last night decided on the recommendation of the executive, to apply to the Hohart Trades Hall Council, as ...
Article : 55 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—When he censored the proposed national broadcast talk by Mr. R. W. G. Mackay, British Labour Party member, the State Publicity ...
Article : 123 wordsRates of pay and conditions for persons improved in the cutting and stacking of cord wood for paper manufacturers were fixed by the Timber Merchants' Wages Board at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsCriticism was voiced by the Launceston Trades Hall, Council yesterday of provisions in the Workers' Compensation Act, and a motion was agreed to asking for ...
Article : 209 wordsCOLEBROOK.—A dance organised by Mrs. J. E. Beven was held in aid of the St. Patrick's Church. Music was supplied by Mrs. Hallam, and extras were played by Mrs. A. ...
Article : 332 wordsThe Esperance Council decided yesterday to notify the Select Committee on the proposal for the establishment of rural fire brigades in Tasmania that it did not approve the ...
Article : 158 wordsWhen three men were returning in a car to Castle Forbes Bay early yesterday from a dance at Franklin the vehicle overturned on a sharp bend as it approached the Castle ...
Article : 115 wordsAt the March meeting of the Bruny Council it was decided to close the Lunawanna Hall for the time being as no committee had been elected and most members of the old ...
Article : 139 wordsA letter was received by the Esperance Council yesterday from the Fauna Board asking that the council furnish proof that the Huon River was suitable as a sanctuary for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 wordsPleasure was given by the City Organist (Mr. J. W. Nicholls) by his recital at the Hobart Town Hall yesterday. The main work chosen. Rheinberger's Sonata in F ...
Article : 61 wordsRegret was expressed at a meeting of the Esperance Council yesterday when Cr. J. W. Rowe tendered his resignation owing to ill-health. ...
Article : 106 wordsThe amount sought was awarded by the Commissioner of the Court of Requests (Mr. Marcus Gibson) in his reserved judgment in the case in which Roy D. Marshall, of ...
Article : 95 wordsA well-attended meeting of the Southern Tasmanian Photographic Society was held at Hobart Tuesday. Mr. G. C. Cramp presided. The syllabus item on composition was ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 20 Mar 1941, Page 5
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