A PARADE of sector wardens, wardens, special police, and messengers, and air raid rehearsals at the Macquarie St. Public Buildings and the Hydro-Electric Commission's building, figured on the A.R.P. Week ...
Article : 601 wordsA special gazette will be issued today containing the order by the Premier relating to measures being taken to ...
Article : 188 wordsAs part of C.D.L. Week observance in Hobart, the staff of the Hydro-Electric Commission's headquarters carried out a rehearsal yesterday. The picture shows a "casualty" being borne to safety on an improvised conveyance ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsDISCLAIMING any indulgence in wishful thinking, the air journal the "Aeroplane" says the German Air Force of 1942 is inferior in numbers and quality compared with the force, of 1941. Its flying ...
Article : 431 wordsA finding of accidental death was recorded by the Coroner (Mr. Stops) at an inquest at Launceston yesterday on the death of Carl Herbert Smith, who ...
Article : 309 wordsAn appeal to householders to fill in correctly their registration cards under the firewood distribution scheme at Launceston and return them quickly ...
Article : 294 wordsNEW YORK. Thursday. — The sinking of the third submarine off Brazil within nine days, and the surrender of a fourth is reported in Rio ...
Article : 207 wordsMR. AUDLEY MERVYN STUART, who died at Hobart on Wednesday at the age of 82 years, had a remarkable sporting and athletic record. At one ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 662 wordsAt a social gathering organised at Geeveston by Miss B. Graham and the Rev. J. C. Harkln a presentation was made to Mr. D. Fuller, in appreciation ...
Article : 150 wordsAppealing to Tasmanian farmers to grow more flax, the senior agricultural officer (Mr. R. W. Wilson) stated at a meeting at Hagley that only about 8,000 ...
Article : 261 wordsA REPORT by the Director of Mines (Mr. Williams) to the Minister for Mines (Major Davies), recommends, the ...
Article : 91 wordsMRS. H. F. CRESWICK Principal commandant for Australian Red Cross Soddy's women personnel, who is visiting Tasmania ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 55 wordsWarning that grave fire risks existed in Hobart, Mr. H. J. Read, senior information officer, of the Civil Defence Legion. In an A.R.P. Week address to ...
Article : 499 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — First payments under the Widows' Penslant Bill passed by the Federal Parliament probably will be made ...
Article : 149 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday. — The Naval Affairs Committee has reported to the Senate that the fire on board the Normandie on February ...
Article : 126 wordsSgt. Russell Hedley Batt, of the Australian Military Forces, who died at Hobart last week was a member of the well-known Batt family of Sandy Bay. ...
Article : 95 wordsStanley Lyellt Joseph (13), of Cygnet, received a fractured leg and severe shock when he fell from a cycle on the Lymington Rd. yesterday. He was ...
Article : 88 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday.—The Unitod States has transmitted to China proposals fer a Lease-Lend agreement similar to Britain's. The ...
Article : 50 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — The Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Prof. Copland) announced tonight that the maximum prices of 11/6½ dozen, May ...
Article : 97 wordsA State-wide appeal launched about 10 weeks ago by the Country Women's Association in Tasmania, has yielded more than £521 for the Prisoner of War ...
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Advertising : 270 wordsNEW YORK, Thursday.—The Milwaukee General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States resolved today to recommend ...
Article : 47 wordsIn the Hobart Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. E. C. Mitchell and K. Clllham, Js.P., Detective-Inspector Fleming prosecuting. ...
Article : 227 wordsLatest donations to patriotic funds:— Reit Cross. — Southern: Acknowledged, £66,343/17/6; Bcd Cross shop (second-hand art and antiques, £10, 1914-8 ...
Article : 153 wordsAn address on the conditions of the Australian aborigines was given by Mrs. Vee Couche, secretary of the Queenborough branch of the Women's ...
Article : 80 wordsAsked during a tour of New York what he would best like to see, Pilot-Officer F. D. Armstrong, of the R.A.A.F., replied: "A letter from my wife with a picture of my baby son, born after I left Australia." This picture ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 71 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday.—President Roosevelt has asked Congress to appropriate an additional 600,000,000 dollars.(£A20O,000.000) for ...
Article : 38 wordsMONDAY, June 15 was approved as a bank holiday in Tasmania at a meeting of the Executive Council yesterday. ...
Article : 55 wordsReferring yesterday to the assertion by a correspondent in "The Mercury" that while some fruit sheds were packing and getting rid of fruit others were ...
Article : 370 wordsThere waa a large gathering at the Oatlands Town Hail on Wednesday at a social in honour ot Seamen N. Thompson and L. Bellinger and Assistant ...
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Advertising : 233 wordsToday the Salvation Army is holding its annual Appreciation Appeal in Hobart. By its multitudinous works of mercy and Its service in the cause of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsThe Chief Secretary (Mr. Brooker) explained yesterday that the conference of machinery Inspectors of the Department of Labour and Industry, which he ...
Article : 69 wordsChanges in river heights for 24 hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday.—South Esk River: Fingal, rise 7ft. 10in (height 9ft. 6in.): Avoca, rise 9ft. 61n. (height 11 ...
Article : 60 wordsNoel Thompson (18) had the lop of his right hand blown ott as a result of the occidental discharge of his gun when he was shooting rabbits at ...
Article : 82 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday — Tasmanian blue peas will bc pooled again next season, the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) said today in the House of ...
Article : 52 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — The Postmaster-General's Department is considering granting the penny postage concession to the women's auxiliary ...
Article : 49 wordsHigh water: 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Low water: 11 a.m. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe A.R.P. slogan which appears in the Stop Press today was sent to the Civil Defence Legion by Terry Enright. Esplanade, Queenstown, one of the ...
Article : 70 wordsA dance and euchre tournament were held In the Ross Town Hall on Wednesday in aid of funds to furnish the Free Library. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 29 May 1942, Page 5
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