WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday. Damage exceeding £100,000 was caused to between 30 and 40 buildings to-day by a fire which also ...
Article : 224 wordsThe need for providing more "proteetion for young girls was referred to at a meeting of the NonParty League at Hobart this ...
Article : 256 wordsPremature efforts by the pilot to take off caused the crash of a Lockbeed aeroplane owned by Gnineas Airways at Katherine, Central ...
Article : 152 wordsA DOWRY provision for married women, a voluntary insurance scheme for dependents of insured persons, and safeguards for persons who become unemployed on nearing the pension ages, are likely to be included in the proposed amendments to the ...
Article : 457 wordsYESTERDAY'S rain brought relief in the bush fires position throughout Tasmania and on King Island. In the South all fires were brought under control, although caution will have to be exercised for some time, in view of the possibility of ...
Article : 1,643 wordsMELBOUBNE, Thursday. — Giving evidence to the Royal Commission on Bush Fires to-day, Mr. E. A. Kelso, of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Fire ...
Article : 140 wordsBARCELONA, Thursday.—Members of General France's famous "Fifth Column," consisting of supporters who have been operating in Government ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—The following statement was issued to-day on behalf of the National Insurance Commission: Further co-ordination of effort over ...
Article : 463 wordsAfter heroie attempts to rescue his companion when their 16ft. launch was wrecked, Rupert Mashford (55) lay last night naked at ...
Article : 162 wordsHOBART, Thursday. — The Education Department's scholarship has been awarded to Mr. Alfred Oswnld Payne, of Pitt street, North Hobart. ...
Article : 163 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — Two girls, Edith Betson (10) and her sister, Desma Jean, were drowned while playing in the Torrumbarry weir yesterday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 107 wordsBecause of the large quantities taken by the United Kingdom and Cannda, the Empire is a net importer of all fruits, with the one exception in some ...
Article : 286 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) said at Devonport yesterday the recent utterances of the Federal Labor Leader (Mr. Curtin) could ...
Article : 729 wordsDefence, and the overseas position will be discussed at a special meeting of the executive of the Federnl Parliamentary Labor Party ...
Article : 261 wordsSubscriptions to the Victorian relief funds totalled £4120/4/61 yesterday, made, up as follows: "The Advocate," £1649/4/6½; Mayor of Launceston, ...
Article : 27 wordsHeading a field of Australian sprint champions home in the 110 Yards National Championship at Olympic Pool to-night, lan Stewart, ...
Article : 193 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Horrified patients at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital to-day saw a man who was admitted yesterday with a serious leg ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 305 wordsA long spell of dry weather was broken yesterday, when rain, which was much heavier in some districts thin in others, fell right along the ...
Article : 345 wordsHeavy rain, which commenced about 10 a.m., was received at Smithton. The downpour was general throughout Circular Head. As a relief to bush ...
Article : 101 wordsBoth semi-final matches in the Country Week cricket competition to-day were abandoned because of rain shortly after 1 p.m. ...
Article : 194 wordsManufacturers were glad that the militia had reached 52,000, but found that a large number of their key men had enlisted, said the ...
Article : 97 wordsExtinguishing bush fires in some parts, and replenishing tanks and dams in others, light to fairly good falls of rain in many parts of ...
Article : 120 wordsA firr which, it is thought, broke out in the sawdust kiln, completely destroyed a sawmill at Broadmeadows, on the Christmas Hills[?] ...
Article : 213 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday. Moura, in the Dawson Valley, has no bread, butter or potatoes, because it is ...
Article : 71 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday — Gus Losnevich (12.8½) defeated Bob Olin (13.1½), former light heavyweight champion of the world, on points at the Sports ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Fri 3 Feb 1939, Page 7
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