ALL AUSTRALIANS possessing a sense of proportion will have been shocked by the figures quoted by the Leader of the Country Party (Mr. Fadden) showing the tremendous increase in the number of Government employees. If his figures are accurate ...
Article : 439 wordsThe 200-ton wooden ship under construction at Ti Tree Bend is now nearing completion. Picture taken yesterday shows workmen finishing the superstructure. Work was begun on the vessels during the war, under an order from the Army, but it was later abandoned until it ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 69 wordsThe Chief Health Officer (Dr. C. N. Atkins, M.H.A.) has been granted three months' leave of absence for health reasons. ...
Article : 115 wordsBecause of the "party politics nature" of a meeting of the Tasmanian Road Transport Users Association, and the belief that the Tasmanian Farmers' Federation was being used to bolster up the case against nationalisation ...
Article : 612 wordsMr. Jack Gregory, one of the greatest all-rounders in Australian Test cricket history, who arrived in Launceston yesterday on a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 173 wordsThe funeral of the late Mr. Thomas James Pursell, of Tullah, left the residence of his brother-in-Jaw, Mr. J. Gridley. 86 Galvin St., ...
Article : 265 wordsLANDING CATTLE—On Sunday the Swan came alongside the Wharf and it was found necessary to land ...
Article : 62 wordsThere is every likelihood that an Australian Association of Junior Chambers of Commerce will be formed in ...
Article : 452 wordsThe Tasmanian Aero Club has appointed Mr. C. G. Davies, a competitor in the Melbourne centenary air race, who has 8300 flying hours to his credit, as chief flying instructor. ...
Article : 187 wordsA request for a public statement on flood protection was made yesterday by the Minister for ...
Article : 282 wordsAS RUSSIA has declined to co-operate the Marshall plan will apply only to those European countries not under Russian influence. Czechoslovakia's acceptance of the invitation to the conference called to implement the scheme suggests that she still has some ...
Article : 220 wordsA mobile consulting room in connection with the state health scheme was to be given a trial, the Minister for Health (Mr. ...
Article : 94 wordsA COPY of the Commonwealth Government's post-war defence policy has been received by the Public Library and is available ...
Article : 85 words{No abstract available}
Family Notices : 187 wordsRear-Admiral G. E. Creasy, in charge of the aircraft carrier Theseus and the destroyer Cockade, at present berthed at Hobart, ...
Article : 85 wordsA PROMISE that an investigation will be made into reversion to the wartime basis of weather forecasting in Tasmania has ...
Article : 68 wordsTHE DECISION of the working committee of the Atomic Energy Commission of the United Nations Organisation in favour of the destruction of stocks of atomic weapons if and when a control system is established could have momentous effects. It remains to be seen ...
Article : 205 wordsState Cabinet yesterday appro[?]proved a request from the Hobart Marine Board for an amendment to the Port of Hobart Act, 1910, for ...
Article : 148 wordsLike many another ex-serviceman, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery is without a house in which to live. The hero of El Alamein lost his English home in the blitz, but a Tasmanian firm is helping to solve his problem. ...
Article : 227 wordsA system of selection on ability, rather than the mainland practice of balloting, is to be adopted for Tasmanian soldier ...
Article : 152 wordsIt is not well to see everything, to hear everything; let many causes of offence pass by us unnoticed. ...
Article : 38 wordsMELBOURNE—Alleged to have driven an army ambulance through Kilmore at from 40 to 45 m.p.h., Pte. Edward Charles Betts, of ...
Article : 111 wordsSir,—Having heard Mr. Duthie's glowing account of the taxation reduction and justification of the increase in members salaries I ...
Article : 165 wordsA new sewerage system for New Norfolk at an estimated cost of £10,000 is to be installed and the Minister for Lands and Works ...
Article : 43 wordsMELBOURNE —The 23,000-ton liner Stratheden which sailed nearly 500,000 miles as a troopship during the war, has again ...
Article : 71 wordsSir.—I feel very sure that if the Education Department could arrange a meeting of all children who are taking correspondence ...
Article : 49 wordsSir,—In spite of complaints and requests, the Launceston tramways will not take effective action to provide a service to meet the ...
Article : 247 wordsWASTED words! I wish to make a suggestion to the City Council and hope that it will be accepted in the spirit in which it is ...
Article : 760 wordsThe Minister for Health (Me. White) will confer in Launceston to-day with the Federal Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Barnard) and ...
Article : 144 wordsExpansion of the activities of Tasmanian Produce and Cool Storage Co-op. Co. Ltd. is envisaged in an ...
Article : 294 wordsSir,—I wish to draw attention to the unfairness shown to a woman who has purchased a property with a shop in the hope of ...
Article : 325 wordsTwelve months ago sufficient money was raised to permit a team of young research workers at the Physics Department of the University of Tasmania to carry out investigations under the guidance of Professor A. L. ...
Article : 542 wordsSir,—Tasmania, a veritable Garden of Eden compared with much of the rest of this devastated and starvation haunted globe, provided ...
Article : 170 wordsNo driver of a vehicle (or rider of a horse) upon any public street in the cities of Hobart and Launceston and various towns shall pull ...
Article : 118 wordsProposals for the control of publication of details of divorce and maintenance cases will be considered by the A.L.P. meeting ...
Article : 91 wordsSir,—"One of the Mugs" has certainly let a lot of light in on a dark subject—that is, a subject that would have been kept dark. ...
Article : 104 wordsSir,—One reads daily of subscriptions for Britain, etc., and one wonders at the generosity of it all. I am a young mother with two ...
Article : 75 words{No abstract available}
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Wed 9 Jul 1947, Page 2
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