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  2. LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA. The Examiner

    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 words
  3. WOODEN SHIP NEARS COMPLETION

    The 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 words
  4. PERSONAL

    The Chief Health Officer (Dr. C. N. Atkins, M.H.A.) has been granted three months' leave of absence for health reasons. ...

    Article : 115 words
  5. FARMERS' BODY STAND

    Because 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 words
  6. TEST STAR HERE

    Mr. Jack Gregory, one of the greatest all-rounders in Australian Test cricket history, who arrived in Launceston yesterday on a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 173 words
  7. OBITUARY

    The 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 words
  8. It Happened 100 Years Ago

    LANDING CATTLE—On Sunday the Swan came alongside the Wharf and it was found necessary to land ...

    Article : 62 words
  9. Junior Chamber of Commerce

    There is every likelihood that an Australian Association of Junior Chambers of Commerce will be formed in ...

    Article : 452 words
  10. TOPICS OF THE DAY—NEW INSTRUCTOR FOR AERO CLUB

    The 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 words
  11. Wants News of Flood Protection

    A request for a public statement on flood protection was made yesterday by the Minister for ...

    Article : 282 words
  12. The Division of Europe

    AS 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 words
  13. MOBILE ROOM EXPERIMENT

    A mobile consulting room in connection with the state health scheme was to be given a trial, the Minister for Health (Mr. ...

    Article : 94 words
  14. National Defence Report

    A COPY of the Commonwealth Government's post-war defence policy has been received by the Public Library and is available ...

    Article : 85 words
  15. Family Notices

    {No abstract available}

    Family Notices : 187 words
  16. HOSPITALITY APPRECIATED

    Rear-Admiral G. E. Creasy, in charge of the aircraft carrier Theseus and the destroyer Cockade, at present berthed at Hobart, ...

    Article : 85 words
  17. Weather Forecasting

    A PROMISE that an investigation will be made into reversion to the wartime basis of weather forecasting in Tasmania has ...

    Article : 68 words
  18. A Momentous Decision

    THE 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 words
  19. More Shed Space at Hobart Wharf

    State Cabinet yesterday appro[?]proved a request from the Hobart Marine Board for an amendment to the Port of Hobart Act, 1910, for ...

    Article : 148 words
  20. TASMANIAN FLOORING FOR "MONTY'S" HOME

    Like 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 words
  21. Selection of Soldier Settlers

    A system of selection on ability, rather than the mainland practice of balloting, is to be adopted for Tasmanian soldier ...

    Article : 152 words
  22. TO-DAY'S MESSAGE

    It is not well to see everything, to hear everything; let many causes of offence pass by us unnoticed. ...

    Article : 38 words
  23. Ambulance Driver Called Menace

    MELBOURNE—Alleged to have driven an army ambulance through Kilmore at from 40 to 45 m.p.h., Pte. Edward Charles Betts, of ...

    Article : 111 words
  24. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    Sir,—Having heard Mr. Duthie's glowing account of the taxation reduction and justification of the increase in members salaries I ...

    Article : 165 words
  25. NEW SEWER SYSTEM

    A 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 words
  26. Stratheden Back in Aust. Trade

    MELBOURNE —The 23,000-ton liner Stratheden which sailed nearly 500,000 miles as a troopship during the war, has again ...

    Article : 71 words
  27. Correspondence Pupils

    Sir.—I feel very sure that if the Education Department could arrange a meeting of all children who are taking correspondence ...

    Article : 49 words
  28. Tram Service

    Sir,—In spite of complaints and requests, the Launceston tramways will not take effective action to provide a service to meet the ...

    Article : 247 words
  29. SPARKS from the NEWS ANVIL

    WASTED 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 words
  30. FACILITIES FOR REPAT. TREATMENT

    The Minister for Health (Me. White) will confer in Launceston to-day with the Federal Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Barnard) and ...

    Article : 144 words
  31. COOL STORES SHARE SALE

    Expansion of the activities of Tasmanian Produce and Cool Storage Co-op. Co. Ltd. is envisaged in an ...

    Article : 294 words
  32. Kept Out of Home

    Sir,—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 words
  33. HOBART RESEARCH ON COSMIC RAYS

    Twelve 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 words
  34. Church and Army

    Sir,—Tasmania, a veritable Garden of Eden compared with much of the rest of this devastated and starvation haunted globe, provided ...

    Article : 170 words
  35. TRAFFIC RULES FOR ROAD SAFETY

    No 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 words
  36. Control of Divorce Court Reports

    Proposals for the control of publication of details of divorce and maintenance cases will be considered by the A.L.P. meeting ...

    Article : 91 words
  37. Members' Salaries

    Sir,—"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 words
  38. Mother's Question

    Sir,—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
  39. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 19 words
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