The Director of Education (Mr G. V. Brooks), chairman of the Free Library Movement, yesterday opened the new Brighton Municipal Free ...
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Article : 970 wordsWIDELY representative gatherings yesterday paid tribute to the late Major T. H. Davies, Minister for Lands and Works, at a memorial service in Paterson St. Methodist Church, Launceston, in the morning and later ...
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Article : 179 wordsThe names of 20 Tasmanian members of the AIF appeared in a casualty list issued at Hobart yesterday. They are: ABROAD ...
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Advertising : 499 wordsIt is expected that as a result of the death of the Minister for Lands and Works (Major Davies) the Hon. Minister (Mr ...
Article : 359 wordsIncreased charges for processing at the Hobart abattoirs, approved by the Prices Commissioner, were accepted by the adoption of a draft by-law by the ...
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Article : 118 wordsNEW DELHI, Monday.—The RAF on Saturday heavily and successfully attacked railways at Mandalay and Rangoon and shipping at Prome. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe financial statement ol the Hobart Public Hospitals Bd. for July and August, 1942, presented at a meeting of the Royal Hobart Hospital Bd. last ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 15 Sep 1942, Page 2
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