MR. JOHN WILLIAM CHEEK, of Evandale, a member of the Legislative Council for 35 years, died in a private hospital in Launceston ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 184 wordsCANBERRA. Thursday.—The Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) said tonight that while he held that position social or ...
Article : 205 wordsWilliam and Robert St. Hill, competitors in the Tasmanian baby contest to aid the funds of the Mothercraft Home. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 27 wordsThe Verulam Initiation Hospital near Kings Meadows is to be reconditioned and provided with an emergency operating theatre, as ...
Article : 234 wordsSO that Launceston schoolteachers can make the care ol thc children their first duty in an emergency, they are to be relieved of ...
Article : 537 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — A remarkable tribute to Mr. Churchill was paid in a speech yesterday by the U.S. Lease-Lend ...
Article : 233 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—An extraordinary Government gazette was issued tonight giving the Minister for Nntionat Emergency Services ...
Article : 145 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—On the eve of his departure from India, the Generalissimo of the Chinese forces (Chiang Kai-shek), in a message to ...
Article : 95 wordsLOS ANGELES, Thursday.— The entire city area ot Los Angeles was blacked out at 3 a.m. yesterday, and anti-aircraft guns ...
Article : 239 wordsDonations to patriotic funds are: Red Cross—Southern: Acknowledged, £60,421/16/10; West Hobart company (Churchill flog scroll), £1; total. ...
Article : 115 wordsA JAPANESE navy spokesman in Tokio staled that the Japanese were using Singapore as a base for ...
Article : 66 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Aviation company employees who arrived in Sydney today from New Guinea said Japanese aircraft which raided the ...
Article : 265 wordsThe funeral of Mr. Thomas William Rawnsley took place on Wednesday at the Church of England cemetery, Ross. Mr. Rawnsley, who died in Hobart on ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. A. Gordon Gutteridge, one of the best-known consulting engineers in Australia, and a former Mayor of Kew (V.), who died in Melbourne at the ...
Article : 124 wordsCANBERRA. Thursday.—Regulations to protect all ships in Australian harbours from enemy attacks of any description were issued ...
Article : 174 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Members of bomb disposal units which have been trained by the Army would in future wear the ordinary khaki unifonn, but ...
Article : 105 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Canon John Stafford Needham, chairman of the Australian Board of Missions, died suddenly at his residence at Westmead ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Chief Secretary (Mr. Brooker) stated yesterday that the owners of the Umber at the rear of the Royal Hobart Hospital were to be notified that the ...
Article : 58 wordsIn the Divorce Court at Launceston yesterday Mr. Justice Clark granted a decree nisi in a petition by Zilla Emily Dawson for the dissolution of her ...
Article : 86 wordsThe following provisional results of the leaving examination conducted by the University of Tasmania have been received: ...
Article : 28 wordsBANDOENG, Thursday. — A bridal party in Bandoeng on their way to the marriage were caught by an alert and rushed into a large public refuge. ...
Article : 132 wordsNOT until the end of a perilous voyage of almost 1,000 miles without the assistance of charts and navigating instruments was the full ...
Article : 740 wordsANKARA, Thursday. — German propaganda is making the most of the bomb outrnpc on Tuesday, when the German ...
Article : 204 wordsGORDON.—The funeral of Mr. David Samuel Wehster. Gordon, took place at the Middleton general cemetery on Tuesday. The Rev. C. Robinson ...
Article : 552 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Commenting on the statement by the Minister for Supply (Mr. Beasley) that sugar might have to be ...
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Article : 150 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday—Detectives burst into a house in Young St., Annandale, today, and surprised three men and two women who ...
Article : 166 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Because exigencies of war-time service may not allow Army leave to be taken within the prescribed time, it may, ...
Article : 143 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — Allens may be enlisted in any of the Australian fighting forces without taking an oath of allegiance or making an ...
Article : 90 wordsBANDOENG, Thursday. — An amazing story of 17 American aviators who escaped from the Philippines with a number of big United ...
Article : 80 wordsAt a meeting of the Executive Council yesterday the following were appointed Government nominees on the Scottsdale Hospital Board: Messrs. E. ...
Article : 43 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — The Lord Mayor (Mr. Crick) has satisfied a sixyear-old Scottish boy's desire to have an Australian boomerang, and will ...
Article : 215 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—BrigadierGeneral Spears today revealed the story of the escape from France of General de Gaulle, leader of the ...
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Advertising : 187 wordsEVIDENCE that Mervyn Quinn (45). formerly of Fitzroy (V.), was intoxicated prior to his death at Butlers Gorge was given at an inquest at ...
Article : 433 wordsMr. W. Scott, St. Helens, has given the Queen Victoria Museum engravings of the Launceston wharf in 1876. and as the unknown artist ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 90 words"At the present fate of birth in Australia, the Japanese have but to wait a century and the country will belong to them." said Dean W. A. Upton at the ...
Article : 132 wordsAustralian National Airways announced last night that from Monday the Bass Strait Airways service would return to the schedule followed before ...
Article : 87 wordsTo provide for troops on the home front and in the Air Force and Navy, as well as for shipment to troops overseas, the Australian Comforts Fund ...
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Article : 14 wordsThe following motion appears on the agenda of the forthcoming annual conference of the Tasmanian Labour Party "Recognising the great practical ...
Article : 127 wordsThe intervention of the Minister for Transport (Mr Brooker) has enabled a resumption of the shipping service to Flinders Island. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 27 Feb 1942, Page 5
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