CONSTITUTIONAL measures foreshadowed in the speech of the Governor (Sir Ernest Clark) at the opening of Tasmania's 27th Parliament yesterday were criticised in the Legislative Council, where the ...
Article : 1,062 wordsMr. J. J. Dwyer is the first holder of the Victoria Cross who has become Speaker of an Australian Parliament. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 568 wordsTHE sounding of the air raid "alert" tonight will be the signal for all lights to be put out unless they are in rooms which have been screened so that no light is visible outside. Tasmania is to have its first ...
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Article : 270 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Many apple growers had their names taken by Apple and Pear Board officers when they sold fruit direct ...
Article : 307 words"An extraordinary anomaly" was the description applied by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Baker) in the House of Assembly yesterday to the fact ...
Article : 154 wordsMOSCOW, Tuesday.—Nazi Storm Troopers shot 17 workers at the Skoda works (Czechoslovakia) after a strike at the end of January. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe manner in which the liquor traffic was allowed to operate in Tasmania not only tended to bring the law into contempt in the eyes of youth, but was not ...
Article : 166 wordsTHE Government intends that regulations passed recently to control man-power should operate from today, although administrative ...
Article : 497 wordsThe part that would be played by returned soldiers in determining the future of Australian affairs was referred to by Major A. A. Evans, moving in ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Government was pleased to make the services of the Transport Commissioner (Mr. S. M. Wilson) available to assist in the man-power ...
Article : 129 wordsOversea news in this issue (unless otherwise stated) is from the Australian Associated Press, of which "The Mercury" is a member. All rights are ...
Article : 40 wordsGood supplies of emergency foods are available in Tasmania the Controller of Ration Foods (Mr. C. J. Rollins) stated at Hobart yesterday. ...
Article : 85 wordsNEW YORK, Tuesday.—After heroic efforts which lasted nearly six hours all New York's available firemen and fireboats ...
Article : 395 wordsAN official communique says a smashing Chinese counter offensive resulted in the recapture of Waichow, 75 ...
Article : 53 wordsSaying that the critical situation made it necessary to reorganise the lives of the people, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Baker), ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 11 Feb 1942, Page 2
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