SYDNEY, Monday.—The system being developed by the War Damage Commission will give each State its loss ...
Article : 217 wordsLAE, particularly, and Salamaua had been smashed so completely by Japanese bombers as to suggest that the enemy had no use ...
Article : 289 wordsLONDON, Monday.—There is little chance of the Japanese being allowed to occupy the island of Madagascar, says Noel ...
Article : 325 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — A plan to extend the Air Training Corps to public and State secondary schools in Australia will ...
Article : 195 wordsAs a precaution against possible air raids valuable State documents are being moved to safer parts. On the right is the Treasurer (Mr. Dwyer-Gray), who is chairman of a Cabinet committee handling the removal of State ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsSO that they may continue their fight, members of the Netherlands Indies Governing Council and high officers of the fighting services, with technical assistants, have come to Australia to rally Dutch sentiment ...
Article : 789 wordsADMIRAL HART, who resigned recently from the naval command in the SouthWest Pacific, has arrived in ...
Article : 81 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — To maintain an adequate production of minerals of all kinds for thc prosecution of the war the ...
Article : 237 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—The Federal Government is reviewing the compensation rights of persons in reserved occupations injured by ...
Article : 115 wordsSYDNEY, Monday—Referring to a recent statement on coal production by the Coal Commissioner (Mr. N. Mighell), the ...
Article : 229 wordsAFTER police had told him that a city building showing 19 lights in a blackout was padlocked and that they could ...
Article : 125 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—The Victorian Government has not yet replied to a request from the Commonwealth Government ...
Article : 180 wordscific power to apply a scorched earth policy in any part of Australia that may be in danger of enemy occupation is taken by ...
Article : 178 wordsLONDON, Monday.—Two messages flashed round the world on Saturday—the Dutch Indies News Agency despatch about the lack of ...
Article : 274 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—The Distinguished Flying Medal has been awarded to Sgt. Pilot Walter Hamilton Arthur Malley, son of Mr. A. A. ...
Article : 118 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — The Minister for the Navy (Mr. Makin) announced today advice had been received by the Naval Board that the ...
Article : 124 wordsOrders for hundreds of thousands of pairs of snowshoes have been placed with English manufacturers. Rather like large tennis racquets, with short skis, they are made largely of ash. Many are being made bv firms which ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 wordsTHERE is no need to fear that because of the influx of refugees from eastern countries there will be an ...
Article : 159 wordsNo attempt will be made to bring about the nationalisation of broadcasting, but the report of the Parliamentary Committee is ...
Article : 264 wordsThe view that it was undesirable that the civic election should be held in May was expressed almost unanimously at a meeting of the Hobart ...
Article : 289 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. A REVISED scale of interest charges to give effect to the reduction in interest ...
Article : 128 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — Federal regulations passed last year give each State Government full power to curtail liquor trading hours in ...
Article : 96 wordsLONDON, Monday.—Mr. E. Shinwell, a Labour member of the House of Commons, said in a speech that the fresh blood in the Government ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON, Monday.—It is believed that the Government is considering the abolition of the basic petrol allowance, which would mean the ...
Article : 29 wordsLONDON, Monday.—A Cairo headquarters communique [?] that British artillery successfully shelled the enemy during [?] ...
Article : 145 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) today announced that there would be no compulsory reduction of wheat acreage ...
Article : 162 wordsNEW DELHI, Monday.—Within a few days Bombay citizens organised an efficient A.R.P. system, with 9,000 wardens. The Madras Provincial ...
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Advertising : 177 wordsThe council's right to enter on private property for the purpose ot installing a water meter had been challenged, the Works Committee reported at a ...
Article : 126 wordsOccupation of Salamaua by the Japane se will facilitate air attack on Port Moresby, which is less than 200 miles distant by air. A native settlement at Port Moresby is pictured here. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 384 wordsLADY McNICOLL, wife of the Administrator of New Guinea (Brigadier-General Sir Walter McNicoll), said ...
Article : 144 wordsAsserting that the offence was increasing, the Police Magistrate (Col. Clark), at Hobart Police Court yesterday strongly condemned what he ...
Article : 122 wordsSWISS Radio quotes a report from Tokio that the Thai Government has resigned, and the Prime ...
Article : 73 wordsMOST Australians are satisfied with the way the Commonwealth Government is organising our war effort, but there is widespread ...
Article : 297 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—Revenue from excise duty on beer and spirits for the seven months to January 31 amounted to £9,928,931, an increase ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Chief Secretary (Mr. Brooker), referring yesterday to a letter addressed to thc Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) containing the views of a ...
Article : 109 wordsReferring yesterday to the doubt which exists among Tasmanian traders concerning the returns of tea stocks, the Deputy Prices Commissioner (Mr. L. ...
Article : 98 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 : 42 wordsLONDON, Monday.—A Vichy report says that the Hungarian Cabinet has resigned. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 10 Mar 1942, Page 2
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