The Flax Production Committee has decided that in districts where there is insufficient acreage to justify the establishment of a mill, additional ...
Article : 498 wordsDELEGATES from every State in Australia are attending the triennial meeting of the Hibernian-Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, which began at Hobart yesterday under the presidency of the Premier (Mr. Cosgrove), who is national ...
Article : 1,120 wordsAll States are represented at a conference of the Hibernians' Friendly Society in Hobart. From left.—Top: Messrs. J. Scanlan (Q.), Z. Rafferty (S.A.), J. Waldren (V.), and P. Scott (Q.), ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 62 wordsWHEN the Warden (Mr. E. T. Hingston) was addressing a war rally in the Deloraine Town Hall recently, it is alleged that he was told by Lieut. M. J. Stranger, Area Officer, of Hobart, to "shut up and give somebody else a show." ...
Article : 813 wordsMotions urging on the Commonwealth Government the need for conscription of man-power and wealth were agreed to at meetings of the Ringarooma and ...
Article : 147 wordsA motion requesting the Commonwealth Government to provide machinery for the effective mobilisation of all wealth and all service, and to abandon ...
Article : 478 wordsDeclaring that the Commonwealth Fruit Acquisition Scheme had saved orchardists from financial ruin and the industry from chaos, the Warden of Huon (Mr. G. C. ...
Article : 306 wordsOpposition to a suggestion in "The Mercury recently by a resident of North Hobart that the Hobart City Council should acquire portion of the land owned by the Swan St ...
Article : 471 wordsMr. Dwyer, M.H.A. (left), with Mr. W. Dunstan, manager of the "Herald," Melbourne, both Victoria Cross winners, snapped at Boyer yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 283 wordsThe Huon quota in the State-wide effort to raise £25,000 for the Red Cross by September 30 is £780. This was announced at the Huon Council meeting yesterday, when ...
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Article : 30 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.—Christened by l[?]dy Muriel Barclay-Harvey, a naval vessel launched in South Australia glided down the slipway at a dockyard this ...
Article : 52 wordsA motor-car, which had been left outside 14 Trevallyn St. Launceston, by Miss M. McGlvron, Brisbane St., Hobart, or, Friday, was found abandoned on Sprine Hill, the ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. G. C. Frankcomb entered on his 14th term as Warden of Huon. when he was reelected unopposed at a meeting of the Huon Council yesterday. Reference to the work ...
Article : 140 wordsLONDON, Monday.—A Cairo communique states that R.A.F. machines successfully attacked the Sicilian aerodromes of Catania and Comiso, and extensively ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 452 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Moratorium regulations made by the Federal Government under the National Security Act were amended tonight to provide that a ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. C. B. Davies, managing director of Davies Brothers Limited, proprietors of "The Mercury," chatting with Major A. W. Hutchin (right) at the dinner given by directors of Australian Newsprint Mills Pty. Ltd., at Hobart, last night. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 wordsThe Hobart Fire Brigade received three calls yesterday—one to New Town, one to North Hobart, and one to a doctor's residence in Macquarie St. The doctor reported that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 78 wordsMr. and Mrs. E. Reid, of New Norfolk, have been notified that their son, Pte E N Reid, has been wounded in action. MELBOURNE, Monday.—Included in the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 13 May 1941, Page 5
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