No one hitherto has attempted to set forth the many disabilities under which consignees and insurance companies in this great maritime capital of N.S.W. ...
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Advertising : 235 wordsAt the fortnightly meeting of the Hobart Marine Board yesterday there were present the Master Warden (Hon. W. H. Burgess) and Wardens T. Murdoch, R. ...
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Advertising : 2,494 wordsA special committee recommended the board (1) to adopt the report of the engineer and C. B. Davies, 17th May, recommending the acceptance of R. ...
Article : 197 wordsThe object of the foremen stevedores is to tear (or hurry) the cargo out or in— more especially when discharging. To begin with: Whereas in the world's ...
Article : 497 wordsThe Master Warden stated that himself and a committee interviewed the owners of the s.s. Ivy, and the result was that they recommended the purchase of the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Lighthouse Committee reported:— "On letters from the lighthouse inspector 17th and 18th May, with respect to the destruction of the Emu Bay light tower ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Wharf Committee reported:—(1) With reference to the probable early shipments of large quantities of chaff and other produce to Sydney, that the ...
Article : 286 wordsChristopher Chatters, 17, was charged before Mr. W. O. Wise, P.M., in the Hobart Police COurt yesterday, with having stolen 21b. of steak and 21d. of ...
Article : 121 wordsIf the importers of tea could only see how their property is handled, it would make their hair stand on end. Some foremen insist on the tea being handied ...
Article : 393 wordsHenry Gordon Smythe was[?] charged on remand with having (1) obtained from A. J. Todd and Co. the sum of £4, by means of a valueless cheque, with ...
Article : 527 wordsThe Master Warden reported that he had held a preliminary inquiry into the cause of the barque Wild Wave breaking away from her stern moorings at ...
Article : 121 wordsSir,—Adverting to Mr. Thorp's letter in to-day's "Mercury," a wise Government has to prepare and enforce la[?] for its people, not on the condition [?] ...
Article : 567 wordsIn my last article I showed that the demands of the trades unions, syndicates, or Socialists, really amounted to nothing more or less than destruction of ...
Article : 1,012 wordsThe application of Mr. F. Pender to rent a site on the reclamation werks for blacking boxes was granted on the usual conditions. Applications by the Hobart ...
Article : 254 wordsWhy this rip and tear system is allowed by the responsible heads of the shipping companies is more than the writer can understand, as the 8d. or 8½d. ...
Article : 554 words"For some years I have been travelling in the country as a carrier," says Mr. S. Callinan of Maitland-street, Gatton, Q. During this time I had to ...
Article : 354 wordsSir,—The splendid poem written by Albert J. Wood. and published in Friday's "Mercury" is, to my mind, spoilt by several ridiculo[?] blunders. ...
Article : 390 wordsYesterday, at the Police Court. Edith McCulloch (16) pleaded guilty to having, on May 18, stoken from the residence of Mrs. M. Cordell, a gold brooch, ...
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Advertising : 58 wordsThe same ruinous rule also applies to the loading of shipe in Sydney Harbour, more especially as regards frozen meat and butter. Some foreman stovedores ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 29 May 1912, Page 2
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