An improved time-table for Holyman's Airways machines operating the Bass Strait service was announced by the managing director ...
Article : 562 wordsHOBART, Friday.—Seven bills will be introduced when State Parliament meets by Commission on July 28, but it is unlikely that the session will last ...
Article : 186 wordsWith gradings of butter for export for last week down nearly 50 per cent, to only 218 tons, of which Queensland supplied 160 tons, the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 211 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — Goya Henry, well-known commercial pilot, applied to Mr. Justice Evatt in the High Court to-day for an injunction restraining the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 151 wordsPreliminary plans for the lay-out of the paper mill and buildings at Burnie have been received from London, and before long tenders for constructional work will be called. Giving this information to shareholders at a statutory meeting ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 712 wordsWhere practicable the 44-hour week in the State railways will be provided for by means of a fiveday week. ...
Article : 209 wordsPORT MORESBY (Papua), Friday.— After six hours of salvage work, the seaplane belonging to a Natural History expedition from the American Museum, ...
Article : 57 wordsHOBART, Friday.—The period of office of the board having expired, the Governor-in-Council to-day made the following appointments to the Board ...
Article : 102 wordsTo England on horseback, about 15,000 miles except for the 900 miles necessary by sea, is the aim of R. N. Reid, of St. Kilda, who ...
Article : 129 wordsE. R. Scarf's condition, though not serious, is more troublesome than expected. The inflammation has now been reduced, however, and the ...
Article : 600 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — It is likely that the memorial which the Commonwealth Goverument will erect to the late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, will ...
Article : 93 wordsADELAIDE, Friday. — Overhauled and repaired with replacements sent from Sydney, the freighter Mungana, which has been lying at Port Adelaide ...
Article : 60 wordsWheat changed hands freely at 4/0¼ and 4/0½ a bushel in Melbourne to-day, the highest prices for six years. ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Friday.—British aircraft manufacturers are not perturbed by cabled statements that Britain has lost the Australian market. An official of ...
Article : 99 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday. — Having, completed investigations into the engincerine and designing of the proposed mills of the Derwent Valley ...
Article : 93 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Final conideration of the overseas air mail proposals has been deferred by the Commonwealth Government until after the ...
Article : 145 wordsA new island has been discovered 500 miles north-east of Sydney, in the South Pacific. Four Sydney men found it. ...
Article : 174 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — After being square at the 20th, Mrs. Clive Robinson defeated Mrs. Pennefather, 3 and 2, in the New South Wales Championship ...
Article : 82 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — About 1000 relief workers at Lane Cove are on strike because of the alleged victimisation of one of their number. ...
Article : 118 wordsIt was announced by the Prime Minister to-day that definite progress had been made towards the conclusion of trade treaty ...
Article : 128 wordsADELAIDE, Friday. — The acting Minister for Commerce (Mr. Thorby), who arrived to-day from Melbourne, said alterations in Australia's tariff ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — Rain was general throughout England to-day. In the London area there were torrential downpours, which interfered with all ...
Article : 122 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Federal Ministers to-day promised deputations from returned soldiers' organisations that Cabinet's consideration would be ...
Article : 174 wordsAlthough only five events will be run at Elphin by the Carrick Trotting Club to-day, excellent fields are assured. The North-West Coast is strongly ...
Article : 132 wordsMONTREAL, Thursday. — Without the help of the Canadian-American treaty, which left the 42 per cent. duty o., wheat unchanged, the United States ...
Article : 355 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The Australian Minister for Commerce (Dr. Earle Page) had a chat with Major Walter Elliot, British Minister for ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, Thursday — The explosion that occurred at the Woolwich Arsenal was the subject of a question in the House of Commons to-day. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 133 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Federal Cabinet has tentatively fixed September 10 as the date for the resumption of the Parliamentary session, but if ...
Article : 51 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — The overseas air mail has brought the danger of cholers much nearer Australia, Prof. Baldwin warned the health and ...
Article : 69 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday. — Earthquakes were recorded at many rentres in the North Island of New Zealand last night. Opitiki reports ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The new series of London wool sales for the 1936 season were continued to-day, with an offering of 10,147 bales, of which ...
Article : 113 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Instead of players being paid 5/ for a lost game and 10/ for a win, Morpeth-East Maitland Rugby League Football Club has found ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — Heavy rain at Folkestone and Hove to-day prevented play in the Kent v. Glamorgan and Sussex v. Lancashire matches. ...
Article : 142 wordsFields are large to-day for the meeting at Northall Park to-day, and winners are not easy to select. Value should run as well as anything ...
Article : 101 wordsKALGOORLIE, Friday.—Three bags of registered mail for outback districts wera stolen last night from the Kalgoorlie Post Office. One bag contained ...
Article : 48 wordsHOBART, Friday.—At a meeting of the Executive Council to-day Mr. R. J. Meacher was appointed a visiting justice to the Hobart Gaol in lieu of Mr. ...
Article : 138 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — After biting its way through the fabric of an Aireys of Australia liner, somewhere between Sydney and Brisbane to-day, the ...
Article : 121 wordsHOBART, Friday.—The results of the final examination (legal section) of the Commonwealth Institute of Accountants (Tasmanian division) are as ...
Article : 109 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday. — Tommy Burgess (9.7½) won decisively in ten rounds against Tommy Jaro (9.8½), a Queensland aboriginal lightweight, at ...
Article : 64 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 40 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Sat 11 Jul 1936, Page 9
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: