Recommendations from the Huon Council to stimulate interest in recruiting had been overlooked, said the Warden of Huon (Mr. G. C. Frankcomb) at Huonville yesterday. ...
Article : 342 wordsDistrict average rainfalls in Tasmania for August in the Central Plateau and south-east districts were about 27 per cent above normal. Elsewhere district recordings were ...
Article : 457 wordsThe Australian-built Beaufort bomber, which will visit Tasmania next week is due at Cambridge aerodrome direct from Melbourne at 11.30 a.m. on Monday after a ...
Article : 367 wordsAn interrogation officer of the R.A.F. checks up the result of a daylight raid over Germany from members of crews who have returned safely. No effort is spared by the R.A.F. to put on record complete details of its activities. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 49 wordsTHE newspaper "Trud" says the first encounter between Italian and Russian aeroplanes on the Russian front resulted ...
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Advertising : 326 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday.—The Supply Priorities Allocations Board, by refusing to grant priority for the railings and steel plates required for the ...
Article : 127 wordsRepresentations have been made to the Lord Mayor (Mr. Soundy, M.H.A.), that the Hobart City Council should defer its decision to ban petrol pumps on kerbs after ...
Article : 81 wordsAFTER an investigation of a fair cross-section of Australia's war effort, including munitions production, members of the mission ...
Article : 576 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Army Salvage Service had been responsible for a saving of more than £120,000 for the year ended June, 1941, and it was ...
Article : 89 wordsThe formation of a reception committee to undertake the responsibility of arranging welcomes to men and nurses attached to the fighting services was decided upon at a ...
Article : 148 wordsA ball arranged by the Civil Defence Legion in aid of the Home Guard and air raid victims was held at Cygnet on Wednesday night. Cards were included, and Miss F. Ivey ...
Article : 69 wordsThe establishment of camp libraries in which much had been accomplished by the Tasmanian Free Library Movement was bound up with the provision of educational ...
Article : 167 wordsAdditional drafts of volunteers for service in A.I.F. reinforcements have gone to Brighton in the past two days. They included a solicitor a salesman, motor body ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 405 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Sydney architects and engineers estimate that it would cost at least £3,000,000 for structural alterations to give adequate air raid ...
Article : 92 wordsThe inclusion of Osterley in the Hamilton municipality's "Ugly Man" competition has caused increased public interest. Mr. Arthur Harrex has been appointed to represent ...
Article : 133 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Unable to escape from his bedroom when his house caught fire and was quickly enveloped in flames late last night. Leslie Gilbert ...
Article : 66 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Evidence in the case in which Foster's Shoes Pty. Ltd. is charged with having had possession of military boot sales stamped in such a way ...
Article : 199 wordsThe State Committee for Salvage, with the approval of the Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) has made a further distribution from the net proceeds from the sale of waste materials, ...
Article : 122 wordsImprovements to the area round the Hobart Cenotaph were suggested by a deputation from the Hobart sub-branch of the Returned Sailors. Soldiers, and Airmen's League and ...
Article : 131 wordsBRITAIN already has shipped to Russia civil and military supplies worth more than £15,000,000, including rubber, tin, wool, lead, jute, and shellac. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) referred yesterday to a discussion by the Flinders Island Council concerning a letter from the Government stating that assistance had been ...
Article : 95 wordsMore than £250 was spent in provisions and the bed accommodation was increased from eight to 42 beds at the Salvation Army Red Shield Hostel during the past year. This ...
Article : 274 wordsThe suggestion by "Vigilant" in "The Mercury" yesterday that a shelter be erected in St. David's Park was welcomed yesterday by Aid. Osborne, chairman of the Reserves ...
Article : 55 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The 35ft. launch which sank in the harbour on Tuesday after a collision with the Manly ferry Bellubera was located in 60ft. of water ...
Article : 57 words"Defendant was backing his motor-lorry and backed into a police motor-cycle." Sgt. Betts informed the bench at the Hobart Police Court yesterday in a traffic charge. ...
Article : 55 wordsDotted round Canada's east coast are modern anti-aircraft guns such as the one illustrated here. A gun crew is shown at drill while a giant coastal patrol aeroplane soars overhead. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 36 wordsThe Theatrical Employees' Association had been working for 10 years to get theatres to close on Good Friday and Christmas Day. Mr. A. E. Bowring, secretary of the Hobart branch ...
Article : 136 wordsThe condition of Cornelius Swan (45), of Bellerive, who was injured by a falling stone in a quarry at Longley on Wednesday, was still serious last night. ...
Article : 30 wordsCAIRO, Thursday.—General George Brett, chief of the United States Army Air Corps, has arrived with a small staff in a Liberator bomber bearing United ...
Article : 84 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—"Why not get right back in reverse gear and regulate all transport back to horses and bullocks?" Mr. A. B. Corbett, Director-General of ...
Article : 99 wordsMain interest in the Queenstown football roster, which is nearing the end, is whether Mines or Gormanston will be excluded from the finals. Smelters and Mines will meet ...
Article : 224 wordsLaunceston Competitions last year were assisted to the extent of about £25 by including winners of the different sections in the State programmes, Mr. E. J. McCann, ...
Article : 95 wordsIn the Hobart Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. R. O. Harris (chairman) and H. W. Flint. Js.P., Detective-Sgt. Marshall prosecuting. ...
Article : 141 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Norwegians from Spitzbergen revealed that the British took off 1,600 Russians from Laasbillen Bay before the recent raid and ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The agitation for the release of the two Communist internees, Ratliff and Thomas, has been revived since the appointment of the Prime ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday.—The Federal Loans Administrator (Mr. Jesse Jones) announced that he had arranged for the construction of a new aluminium ...
Article : 43 wordsErnest William Groom (16), of Penguin, was admitted to the Ulverstone General Hospital in a critical condition last evening. He was suffering from head injuries which ...
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Advertising : 107 wordsThe decision to start a systematic houseto-house collection of waste paper on Sunday September 21 was made at the meeting on Wednesday night of the Queenstown ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 63 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Cosgrove), the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. D'Alton) and the Attorney-General (Mr. McDonald) will visit Queenstown, Zeehan, and Tullah during the ...
Article : 31 wordsBrings colourful life to worn line.—Advt. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 12 Sep 1941, Page 5
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