The whole of Tasmania was blacked out for an hour last night, when the first Commonwealth wide A.R.P. test, embracing the Australian coastline and areas to 100 miles inland was conducted. ...
Article : 882 words"A PEOPLE may prefer a free government; but if, from indolence or carelessness, or cowardice, or ...
Article : 72 wordsGood supplies of emergency foods are available in Tasmania. It is expected that between 30,000 and 34,000 sacks potatoes will be ...
Article : 926 wordsTO many minds the effort to provide for post-war reconstruction must be futile while we have still to determine whether we shall have any say in the matter. The imperative need, the colossal task, is that of beating back the enemy, and when that is accomplished we ...
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Advertising : 466 wordsA quartet of wharf workers were down on the waterfront singing when the tenor fell off the dock into the bay. The incident passed ...
Article : 71 wordsSweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close. Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There as I passed, with careless steps ...
Article : 103 wordsQuestion: What is the address of the Wertheim Sewing Machine Co. in New South Wales? Answer: No record of existence of a ...
Article : 227 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday — Federal Parliament House has not yet been equipped with window coverings, and all lights in the building ...
Article : 87 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — The Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) said to-night the latest advice he had received from Singapore was a message from Major ...
Article : 76 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.— A conference of Federal unions, called by the Federal Government to discuss its manpower proposals, ...
Article : 211 wordsMR. L. C. JOHNSON, Deputy Prices Commissioner, and Mr. B. Warren, Senior Investigation Officer, were me[?] by Mr. C G. Wragg, representing the ...
Article : 61 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.— The Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) announced to-night that the additional men to be called up for ...
Article : 267 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—When a joint committee of both Houses of Parliament is set up at the instigation of the Government ...
Article : 166 wordsMr George Smith, a well-known and much respected resident of Circula Head, who had been in failing health for the past 12 months, died at the ...
Article : 156 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — Priso neis of war held in Australia incladed large numbers of officers, who, by the International Convention, cannot be ...
Article : 164 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Evacuated to Australia, wives and dependents of men called up in New Guinea as a result of the recent proclamation, ...
Article : 77 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — Power was given to the Government to-day to prohibit or remove all forms of road signs which might be of use to the ...
Article : 148 wordsThe funeral of the late Mrs. Michael Walker, of Parkham, who died in the Devon Hospital on Monday at the age of 87, took place at Deloraine on ...
Article : 99 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Forced down because of engine trouble, the Bega mail plane carrying a pilot and four passengers, overturned after ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. — Enemy air craft early last night dropped bombs at places on the north-east coast of England. Some houses were damaged ...
Article : 33 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Somewhere in Sydney is a man who has enough calcium cyanide to kill 1000 people. He stole it early to-day. ...
Article : 76 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—To increase the salary of the Public Service Commissioner from £850 to £1000 a year, the Government intends to seek an ...
Article : 164 wordsContinuing his campaign against the liquor trade, the secretary of the Tasmanian Temperance Council (Rev. A. Crookes Hull) claimed ...
Article : 142 wordsThe remains of the late Mr. George Shephard, of Red Hills, were interred in the Deloraine general cemetery on Monday. Rev. A. E. Chamberlain conducted ...
Article : 128 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — Al though the £35,000,000 Liberty Loan did not officially open until next Tuesday, 8000 applications had already been ...
Article : 88 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—The Government has decided that Parliament should be given an opportunity to examine the practicability of providing for by-elections to fill vacancies in the House of Assembly due to the demise or resignation of members during ...
Article : 248 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — Two of the first ten steel ambulance trains for use in Australia by the Army have been completed, the Minister for the ...
Article : 116 wordsWASHINGTON, Tuesday. — President Roosevelt has asked Congress to appropriate an additional 5,430,000,000 dollars (£A1,810,000,000) for lend-lease ...
Article : 22 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—So that retired public servants recalled to duty in the public service because of the war emergency will not lose ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Thu 12 Feb 1942, Page 2
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