SYDNEY, Mon. — The Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Spender) will investigate the possibility of obtaining petrol from Indonesia when he is there this week. MR. SPENDER left Sydney by air ...
Article : 414 wordsSixteen cruisers at the start of their race at the Shipwrights Point Regatta yesterday, when Aotea ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 41 wordsHOBART had less sunshine in 1949 than in any other year on record, the Deputy Director of Meteorological. Services (Mr. Bahr) said in Hobart yesterday. IN 1949 the sun shone for 1,937.5 hours, averaging 5.3 hours a day. ...
Article : 274 wordsBarry Godfrey, of 89 King St., Sandy Bay, received minor injuries near Bellerive at 5 p.m. yesterday when the motor cycle he was riding ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Flowery Gully limestone caves near Beaconsfield have been thoroughly inspected and mapped by members of the Tasmanian ...
Article : 115 wordsMOSCOW, Mon. (A.A.P.).—Moscow Radio announced today that the Chinese Communist Government leader (Mao Tse-tung) was in ...
Article : 86 wordsDARWIN, Mon.—Cypriot migrants who arrived in Australia last week allege that an international ring is operating a large-scale racket in migration between the Middle East and Australia. ...
Article : 225 wordsPOLICE have so far failed to locate Roy Wiggins (61), a member of the crew of the fishing boat ...
Article : 163 wordsThis is the 550-ton coaster Merino, which will carry bulk wool between Mainland ports and Launceston for L. W. Smith Pty. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 64 wordsOxidised silver-plate lapel badge for civilian wear to be issued, to the Citizen Military Force me[?]bers, probably before June. Oval ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 64 wordsMELBOURNE, Mon. — A Sydney specialist says severe sunburn increases the risk of contracting ...
Article : 137 wordsLOS ANGELES, Mon. (A.A.P.).— Two women rang in the New Year with wedding bells when they swapped husbands. ...
Article : 127 wordsADELAIDE, Mon.—The shipping companies' industrial officer has lodged with the Stevedoring Industry Board a complaint that 980 ...
Article : 108 wordsADELAIDE, Mon.—Police today arrested two Victorian visitors described as racehorse attendants, aged 26 and 18 respectively, and ...
Article : 59 wordsBRISBANE, Mon.—A 23-months-old child, Anne Dowling, was drowned in 2½ft. of water, 100 yards from her parents' home, near ...
Article : 106 wordsMELBOURNE, Mon.—A 19-yearold motor driver was fatally injured and four other people were injured when a car skidded and overturned ...
Article : 97 wordsMELBOURNE, Mon. — Because of his age and condition, a 60-year-old man who was occidentally shot through both lungs by his son while rabbiting yesterday will not have the bullet removed from his chest. ...
Article : 213 wordsCAPETOWN, Mon. — The Minister for Economic Affairs (Mr. E. H. Louw) said yesterday that subject to ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Mon.—Sixteen hundred firemen were told yesterday that their jobs were too hazardous for insurance at the old price and that they were no longer covered against accidents. THIS affects about 40 p.c. of ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 3 Jan 1950, Page 2
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