An extension of the strike of drivers employed in the Public Works Department was brought about throughout the State to-day, and about 70 men, including 27 in the south, have now ceased work. ...
Article : 2,095 wordsPort Hedland romains isolated, and fears are increasing that the cyclone which struck the town yesterday morning caused a major ...
Article : 196 wordsTWO MEN WHO USED THIS CAR WERE BURNT in a bush, fire near Glendale (Vic). They were Charles Isaac Denby (55) and John Hartley Barling (31). The car was driven along the bush track by Barling, and was caught by the flames. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsThere was no further loss of life to-day in the State-wide bush fires, but little hope is held for J. Edney (40), an employee of the State Electricity Commission, who was reported missing to-night in the dense and blazing forest near Tawonga. ...
Article : 1,811 wordsA thick haze covered the northern portion of the South Island to-day. It was caused by smoke blown ...
Article : 36 wordsSome of the women passengers on the Ormonde ran to the deck in night clothes, believing the ship was on fire, on the voyage from ...
Article : 200 wordsTwo workmen were critically burned in an explosion in a manhole in Clarence street to-day. They were:— ...
Article : 167 wordsThe conviction that the future of the world depended on the English speaking countries was expressed by Mr. H. G. Wells in his first public lecture in Australia, at the Albert Hall to-night. The lecture was part of the proceedings of the science congress, and the ...
Article : 1,554 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—Although bush fires continue in parts of the south, particularly Tasman Peninsula, little damage has been caused, and the ...
Article : 71 wordsSeven days' imprisonment was imposed by Mr. Addison, P.M., in the third Civil Court to-day on Andrew Campbell ...
Article : 77 wordsUnequalled violonce within the memory of residents on the goldfields, a rainstorm, which reached the peak of its severity just before ...
Article : 133 wordsTwo men were killed and two injured when a mechanical air separator, weighing 3 tons 15 cwts., the first of its kind in Australia, ...
Article : 243 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Australia's historical records did not go further than 1848, Prof. Ernest Scott, Professor of History at Melbourne ...
Article : 341 wordsThe Executive Council today issued a proclamation prohibiting the importation of parrots into Tasmania. ...
Article : 54 wordsLAUNCESTON, Thursday.—The suggestion that a fund be opened in Tasmania to assist those who have suffered by the bush fires in Victoria was ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Fri 13 Jan 1939, Page 7
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