REPORTS from all parts of Tasmania yesterday indicated that widespread damage had been caused by bush fires, which threaten to be the worst for several years unless a good downpour of rain occurs soon. CONSIDERABLE damage was done by the fires in the North-West. In the Sheffield district ...
Article : 162 wordsA scene of havoc and desolation is the picture presented at Fitzgerald, a township some 60 miles from Hobart, which for the past ...
Article : 770 wordsIt was officially announced to-night that Prince George, the youngest son of the King and Queen, will be the Royal ...
Article : 315 wordsThirty-seven minutes' play today was sufficient to finish the Sheffield Shield match between Queensland and South Australia, ...
Article : 388 wordsMany leading business men are included in the panel of names which the Government is preparing for submission to Cabinet in Mel... ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 159 wordsA GRIM fight was put up by South Nietta and Loongana settlers to save their homes from destruction yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 785 wordsExtensive bush fires in the Forth River valley were observed from Sheffield about midday yesterday, and during the afternoon a dense cloud of ...
Article : 158 wordsDAMAGE estimated at several thousands of pounds was caused by fires which raged in the Takone district, and which, it is feared, will cause ...
Article : 873 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Queensland's outright win over South Australia leaves the Sheffield Shield table of points as follows:— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 25 wordsThe outbreak is serious in the Burnie Municipality, particularly in the Hampshire and adjoining districts. At Hampshire three houses ...
Article : 392 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—A fast seaplane service in Now Guinea, linking up all coastal and island ports, was predicted to-day by the Minister for ...
Article : 205 wordsStating that he was just about fed up with footruuning because there were few inducements to appear, and because he felt he needed a long rest, ...
Article : 218 wordsImmediate consideration will be given by the Federal Government to the partial lifting of the present embargo against New Zealand ...
Article : 250 wordsCANBERRA. Tuesday. — Sir Hubert Murray's request that the Commonwealth vote to Papua should be increased to £50,000 a year from £40,000 will ...
Article : 70 wordsLAUNCESTON, Tuesday.—Reports from outlying districts indicate that bushfires, many of them of an extensive nature, the raging. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 215 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—The control and education of natives, the prevention of leprosy, commerce, trade and mining are among the subjects to be discussed at ...
Article : 163 wordsA new quarantino station and medical laboratories, equipped with the latest apparatus for testing blood serums of persons suspected ...
Article : 149 wordsA big fire raged in the districts to the west of Mole Creek. Ono landowner who motored out to see what damnge was being done to a back se... ...
Article : 155 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—At the wool sales to-day the quantity catalogued totalled 12,584 bales, and the clearance, including private sales of passed-in ...
Article : 121 wordsSYDNEY. Tuesday.—The English swimming champion, Joyce Cooper, was defeated to-night in both the 140 yds, freestyle and 100 yds. backstroke ...
Article : 75 wordsA resident of Wilmot, who was in Latrobe yesterday, stated that when he left at midday a big fire was raging in the bush at the back of that township, ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Wed 17 Jan 1934, Page 7
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