NEWS of the Moscow conferences aroused speculation that Britain and the United States are nearing a point of giving Russia substantially increased aid. One of America's top air officers, Major-General Bradley, ...
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Advertising : 632 wordsTHE Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) tonight invited critics of the Federal Government to move in Parliament to defeat the Government if they were not satisfied with its administration. Mr. Curtin's outspoken ...
Article : 649 wordsCrashing into a landslide on the Derwent Valley line beyond National Park on Monday night, this goods engine, which weighs 70 tons, was derailed and stopped within six feet of an embankment on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 596 wordsNames of 11 Tasmanian members of the A.I.F. serving abroad appeared in a casualty list issued in Hobart yesterday. The list is: ...
Article : 293 wordsThe driver and fireman of a Roods train had a remarkable escape from injury on Monday night when their 70-ton engine was derailed by a ...
Article : 353 wordsMEAT storage accommodation in Tasmania has been increased by 700 tons since 1940, Mr. S. R. Adams, chairman of the State Meat Board, said yesterday. A representative of H. Jones and Co. Pty. ...
Article : 378 wordsConfidence that thc Federal Government would adopt thc suggestions of Tasmania regarding the proposals for enlarging the scope of inquiries by ...
Article : 282 wordsA finding that death was accidental was recorded by Mr. W. H. Daymond (Coroner) at an inquest at Launceston yesterday on the death of ...
Article : 213 wordsSites for the remaining 10 pillbox concrete air-raid shelters were decided on at a meeting of the Launceston City Council in committee on Monday ...
Article : 301 wordsOn the ground that some landowners are frustrating the regulations for supplies of firewood, the No. 1 Launceston Branch of the Australian Labour ...
Article : 249 wordsAt a meeting of the Moonah branch of the Australian Labour Party on Monday it was decided on the motion of the Chief Secretary (Mr. Brooker) ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Australian Barley Board of Adelaide has reduced the price of feed barley for Tasmania to 2/3 a bushel f.o.b. Adelaide. This will ...
Article : 62 wordsIn the opinion of the Chief Secretory (Mr. Brooker) the preference to unionists clause, which the State Government inserted in its ...
Article : 379 wordsThe Soulhern Tasmanian Bread Council is strongly opposed to the introduction of day baking. The secretary of the council (Mr. D. H. ...
Article : 297 wordsThe Government had been informed that they, as the Red Cross, preferred not to be associated with Sunday, entertainment, said the chairman ...
Article : 257 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) announced tonight that the Commonwealth Government had agreed ...
Article : 231 wordsSTRICTER control over the distributton of potatoes to stamp out black marketing, particularly in Victoria and New South Wales, ...
Article : 431 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Hotel trading hours in New South Wales are to be reduced by an hour each day by the opening of hotels at 11 a.m. ...
Article : 168 wordsThe bodies of Alan Beechey and Reginald Stanton, of Launceston, who with Mrs. Stanton and Miss Eileen Nichols were drowned when a ...
Article : 204 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.—Vichy Radio says the commander of the Japanese expeditionary force in China has carried out an inspection of ...
Article : 26 wordsA representative meeting of dairymen at Pyengana met officers of the Agricultural Bank and the Minister for Lands and Works (Major Davies) at ...
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Advertising : 177 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — Concerned about the prices being paid for pig meats, the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) said tonight that if the position ...
Article : 137 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Unless there were complete co-ordination with the Comforts Fund about distribution, no organisation would be ...
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Advertising : 60 wordsOversea news in this Issue (unless otherwise stated) is from the Australian Associated Press, of which The Mercury" is a member. All rights are ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 19 Aug 1942, Page 2
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