A DENIAL that locomotive engines were in a dangerous state was made by the Minister for Transport (Mr. Brooker) during a debate in the House of Assembly yesterday on the decision of the Hobart branch of the Australian Federated Union ...
Article : 933 words"Blackout" tests by the Civil Defence Legion are to be held at Hobart in accordance with a dicision of a meeting of the State executive of the organisation yesterday. ...
Article : 320 wordsTHREE hundred men in a sudden coup seized the 150,000,000 dollar (£A50,000,000) plant of the Aluminium Co. of Canada at Arvida (Quebec) on ...
Article : 582 wordsAn instance of the enlargement of the scope and trend of modern methods in education is provided at the Cygnet Area School. Agriculture is a major feature of ...
Article : 147 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Sydney "Daily Telegraph" has joined the Sydney Morning Herald" in its attacks on the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) ...
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Advertising : 315 wordsMilitary training for home defence has reached an advanced stage in the Huon, and the No. 1 Battalion B Co., V.D.C., Home Guard at Cygnet and Huonville is doing ...
Article : 103 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The hunger strikers, Ratliff and Thomas, discontinued their fast today, in accordance with advice by the special committee appointed ...
Article : 225 wordsThe bill to lease an area of land at Lake Crescent for a fur farm was introduced in the Legislative Council last night. The motion for the second reading was agreed ...
Article : 105 wordsBecause of the marked increase in timber exports from Geeveston and surrounding districts to the Mainland in recent months, the Esperance Council recently renewed ...
Article : 124 wordsRecently the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner granted an increase in prices to timber millers in Victoria. The increase was not granted to Tasmanian millers, who ...
Article : 67 wordsA finding of accident was recorded by the Coroner (Mr. W. F. Archer) at an inquest at Longford yesterday on the death last Friday of Percy James Ernest Preece ...
Article : 279 wordsTelegrams said to have instructed fishermen to stop sending supplies were not a contradiction of his statement that he had never refused to take fish said Mr. G. ...
Article : 188 wordsCharged with having unlawfully received 28 bags of cement knowing it to have been stolen at Hobart on Saturday, Clyde Richard Gourlay was committed for trial ...
Article : 236 wordsTHE Hobart City Council is to set an example with regard to the "staggering" of hours to relieve congestion during peak periods on the ...
Article : 173 wordsFormed a fortnight ago to assist the Huon branch of the Australian Comforts Fund, the Huonville sub-branch held its inaugural drive for funds with street and saveloy stalls ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 207 wordsQuestions by Mr. Plummer in the House of Assembly yesterday suggest that the wife of a soldier loses a progressively larger proportion of pension, according to size of ...
Article : 180 wordsMembers of the Southern Tasmanian Master Butchers' Association at a meeting of the association at Hobart last night complained of confusion at the Hobart Abattoirs ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Minister for Transport (Mr. Brooker) referred to a statement in "The Mercury" yesterday that the Federal authorities had decided to grant free travel for ...
Article : 74 wordsPilchards, a species of herring, are in abundance in the Huon River near Shipwrights Pt., and are providing fishermen with splendid sport. Using mussels for ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Barnard, M.H.R., on behalf of the Imperial Ex-Servicemen's Association in Northern Tasmania, has requested the Minister for the Army (Mr. Spender) to remove ...
Article : 96 wordsBeginning next week delivery of meat to householders on Wednesdays will cease. This decision was made by Hobart master butchers at a meeting of their association ...
Article : 159 wordsNegotiations are proceeding between the Clarence Council and an insurance company for work connected with the proposed water scheme and undertaken before the bridge ...
Article : 77 wordsTRIABUNNA.—On Saturday evening the monthly dance in aid of the Comforts Fund was held in the public hall. Advantage was taken to combine a farewell and ...
Article : 471 wordsThe funeral of Mr George Muirhead was held at Kirkands yesterday. Among the mourners were the Deputy Warden (Mr. G A Findlay) and Campbell Town councillors ...
Article : 104 wordsIt was stated at the Hobart Town Hall yesterday that there was no intention at the moment of utilising the power which has been given to the City Council, by an amendment ...
Article : 98 wordsWhen the history of the Second World War is written, the Battle of Britain will take its place as one of the principal factors which brought about the turning point ...
Article : 220 wordsIn the Hobart Police Court yesterday, before the Police Magistrate (Col. Clark), Detective-Inspector Fleming prosecuting. Ronald William Wilkins, who had been ...
Article : 215 wordsSince the formation of the State Recruiting Committee about two months ago plans have been prepared for a more intensive publicity campaign throughout Tasmania. A ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 wordsThe Rev. R. W. Dobbinson was the speaker at the weekly war rally in the Hobart Town Hall last night. He said that every citizen of the Empire had his part to play ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Lachlan Park (Sewerage) Agreement Bill was taken through the committee stage in the House of Assembly yesterday. The bill is designed to ratify an agreement for ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Coroner (Col dirk) held an inquest at Hobart yesterday on the death of Thomas Henry Elmslie Hewitt (43) at Hampden Rd. on July 23. He recorded a finding of suicide. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 50 wordsAt a meeting of the Southern Tasmanian Photographic Society at Hobart on Tuesday. at which the president (Mr. F. G. Robinson) was chairman, an illustrated lecture on ...
Article : 58 wordsThe infant son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Beltz, of West Hobart, had a narrow escape yesterday when a utility truck crashed' into a verandah where the child was sleeping. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe condition of William George Dowd (39). who was severely burnt in an explosion at the Risdon works of the Electrolytic Zinc Co. on Monday, was slightly improved last ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 31 Jul 1941, Page 5
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