WITH the gazettal of regulations under the National Security Act, Australia's greatest insurance scheme, covering all war damage, will come into force. The scheme covers all property in Australian territory ...
Article : 650 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Cosgrove), conferring with Hobart businessmen on air raid precaution matters. In the picture are (left to right): The Premier, Messrs. E. Parkes (Under Secretary), G. A. Walch (Director of Civil Defence), C. K. Murphy (Chief Air Raid Warden), E. H. Thompson, P. J. Everard (President ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 357 wordsTHE failure of some business firms to take adequate measures to protect their employees, the public, and their premises, in the ...
Article : 445 wordsSPEAKING tonight at a dinner to celebrate the 24th anniversary of the formation of the Red Army, the ...
Article : 106 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) to-day declared that information made available by the ...
Article : 254 wordsCAIRO, Monday.—The decision of the Saadist and Liberal parties not to contest the elections on March 24 leaves the Wafd practically a ...
Article : 42 wordsA finding that Thomas Joseph Mulvihill (76), died as the result of an accident was recorded by the Coroner (Col. Clark) at an inquest at Hobart ...
Article : 181 wordsSAN JUAN (Puerto Rico), Monday.—The entire crew of the 500ton United States steamer De Plata, which was torpedoed in the ...
Article : 36 wordsWomen running for shelter gave a realistic touch to daylight air raid tests in which 1,500,000 in the Sydney-Newcastle-Port Kembla areas took part recently. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 34 wordsStringent instructions have been issued at Buckingham Palace and all other Royal establishments that waste paper must be saved and that there must be no waste. Picture shows a salvage van leaving the Palace. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 502 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Although the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) ordered the restriction of interstate race broadcasts to main events only each ...
Article : 205 wordsRED ARMY Day coincides with news of a further Russian advance, and the recapture of more inhabited places on the central and southern fronts. THE Moscow "Red Star" says more ...
Article : 462 wordsThe Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Frost) announced today that Cabinet had decided that the unit payment under the ...
Article : 297 wordsFOR the safety of motorists and pedestrians at night, the Civil Defence Legion considers that white kerbstones, ...
Article : 482 wordsLONDON, Monday.—The Admiralty announces that there were 868 casualties in the battleship H.M.S. Barham, which was sunk last ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Hobart City Council had no control over the height of hedges, the Town Clerk (Mr. Cole) said yesterday when he commented on a statement by a ...
Article : 129 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—The ban on home building has been extended to Perth by the Commonwealth Government. It already applies to ...
Article : 47 wordsBOMBAY, Monday.—Mr. Gandhi, the former Congress Party leader, in an article in "Harijan," declares that failures do not dismay or ...
Article : 137 wordsMore than 30,000 skilled defence workers are employed at the huge General Electric plant at Schenectady (U.S.A.) turning out war material. This view shows the buildings brightly lighted at night, while powerful searchlights sweep the skies. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 41 wordsThe need for more public activity in air raid precaution work was emphasised by the Warden of Clarence (Mr. B. O. Plummer) at a meeting in the ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON, Monday.—Paris Radio reports that the United States Ambassador to Vichy (Admiral Leahy) saw Marshal Petain on Saturday, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 24 Feb 1942, Page 2
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