Fifty members and auxiliary members of the Women's Land Army have been helping with the small fruit harvest at Gardners Bay. The majority of the ...
Article : 440 wordsApproximately 100,000 food ration cards have been issued in Tasmania during the past few weeks, which is about 40,000 more than the official estimate of ...
Article : 165 wordsSand which is being provided by the Hobart City Council for air raid precautions and distributed to dumps in different parts of Hobart, is to be kept in reserve for ...
Article : 311 wordsCAPETOWN, Thursday. — Four hundred policemen have been detained on suspicion of subversive activities, thus dealing a smashing ...
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Advertising : 377 wordsThe Women's Land Army recently concluded a fruit picking camp at Gardners Bay. Some members are shown here picking strawberries. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 23 wordsMiss Kathleen Deasey, of Melbourne, assistant controller of the Australian Women's Army Service for Southern command, which includes Victoria, South Australia, and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 418 wordsLady Clark's prize for the most consistent worker among the boy helpers in Sandy Bay for the Victoria League's aluminium drive went to Brian Howard and David Steele. ...
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Family Notices : 183 wordsMr. W. A. Brain, organising secretary of the war savings campaign in Tasmania said yesterday that there had been a poor response to the campaign in Tasmania, and ...
Article : 345 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) said yesterday that the question of providing a unit of the Civil Defence Legion, for the protection of the public against animals that might ...
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Advertising : 417 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—An officer and an airman were killed when an R.A.A.F. aircraft from the Service Flying Training School at Uranquinty (N.S.W.) crashed ...
Article : 82 wordsA public meeting in the Town Hall, Hobart, last night, attended by more than 100 persons, said by a speaker to be representative of 30 organisations, unanimously agreed to ...
Article : 337 wordsSYDNEY. Thursday.—Employers' and employees' representatives on the Industrial Relations Council, established last month to advise the Government on ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — Kuibyshev Radio broadcast a Geneva message to-day that the Germans on December 12 executed two prominent French Labour ...
Article : 116 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—The eastwest strategic road linking Adelaide with Perth is now trafficable throughout and already in use. The cost was ...
Article : 100 wordsThis is Pamela, 28oz. premature baby born at South Sydney Women's Hospital, Camperdown. Wrapped in cotton wool and surrounded by hot water bottles, Pamela is under constant supervision. She is thriving and doctors and nurses ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 62 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—It was announced today that, as a result of a conference convened by the State Government the Meat Employees Union had agreed ...
Article : 42 wordsHazel Patmore (141, of 22 Cross St., New Town, was admitted to the Royal Hobart Hospital at 8.45 last night with injuries to face and legs, suffered when she ...
Article : 43 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The demand of the Minister for Labour (Mr. Ward) that industry should be nationalised was fully supported at a meeting of the New South ...
Article : 37 wordsAlthough it is permissible for them to open on Saturday morning (Monday being a public holiday). Hobart butchery establishments will be closed tomorrow. Milk will ...
Article : 414 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) said last night that the Government could not undertake to refund out-of-pocket expenses to some thousands of volunteers in Tasmania engaged ...
Article : 238 wordsAn interesting sketch of the life and habits of lice, mosquitoes, fleas, and flies was given by Mr. E. E. Unwin in an address entitled "The Minor Horrors of War" at the ...
Article : 270 wordsAt a meeting of the executive of the Tasmanian section of the Australian Labour Party yesterday it was decided to hold the next annual conference at Hobart on March ...
Article : 31 wordsIt was learned from a Hobart hardware store yesterday that the Federal regulation "freezing" stocks of hand tools in shops has been relaxed. Certain tools that may ...
Article : 53 wordsMost pains are the result of nerve disturbance, and as nerves are very sensitive, you soon know when they are disturbed; they cause pain that you call ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 23 Jan 1942, Page 4
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