At last night's meeting of the City Council it was reported that during April there were 53 deaths in the registration district and 30 in Hobart city, ...
Article : 81 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Hobart City Council was held last night the Mayor (Colonel Eccles Snowden) presiding over a full attendance. ...
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Advertising : 461 wordsRises. Sets June 1..................... 7.35... 4.41 June 9..................... 7.40... 4.39 June 17..................... 7.41... 4.39 ...
Article : 625 wordsThe Launceston Marine Board yesterday decided "that the board request the Minister to place upon the estimates this year a sufficient sum for a survey of a ...
Article : 72 wordsNews has come from the Premier that his personal intervention has failed to move Admiral Halsey from his decision not to berth the Renown at Ocean pier. ...
Article : 283 wordsThe Launceston Chamber of Commerce and the Traders' Association had decided to jointly wait upon the Premier (Sir [?] alter Lee) immediately on his return, ...
Article : 99 wordsThe protest which is being made to the Colonial Office by a delegation from Queensland regarding certain actions of the Government of that State has ...
Article : 849 wordsA couple of steamers were loading at Devonport and one at Burnie last week for Sydney, with the result that the export of potatoes was the second largest ...
Article : 299 wordsThe arrangements for the welcome this afternoon of Sir Keith Smith have been completed, and there is every prospect of a large attendance. The distinguished ...
Article : 141 wordsThe following were the Marine Board collections at the port of Hobart last week:—Wharfage, £324 13s. [?]d.; quayage, £88 17s. 7d.; pilotage, £78 16s. 3d.; ...
Article : 41 wordsThe following return shows the transactions of the Savings Bank Department of the Commonwealth Bank for the week ending May 24:—Accounts open, 2,652; ...
Article : 56 wordsThe report of the nurses of the Child Welfare Association for the week ended Saturday last is as follows:—The nurses visited 47 homes during the week, 23 of ...
Article : 92 wordsThe general secretary of the Seamen's Union (Mr. Tom Walsh) says that matters arising out of the war have aroused strong feeling among firemen and ...
Article : 105 wordsThe matter of the contract for railway rolling stock, which has been let to a mainland firm, was discussed last night at Launceston at a representative ...
Article : 107 wordsRotom[?]hans, s.s., 1,777 tons, E. Evans, for Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon: Mesdames Mills, Carlyle Macmichael, Batchelor, Blake, Parbury and 2 children, Aston, Bennott, ...
Article : 199 wordsT.T.C. handicaps. Bell Bay railway. Newnhani weights. Brighton J.C. weights. ...
Article : 285 wordsThe following cases of infectious disease were rerorted to the Department of Public Health for the week ended Saturday last:—Hobart: Diphtheria, [?] ...
Article : 47 words"Mankind is on the threshold of something which the first scientists living tell us will completely change our daily lives and transform the world," writes Shaw ...
Article : 221 wordsMore than 20 unions were represented at a meeting of delegates at Launceston last night, held for the purpose of considering the wages boards question, and ...
Article : 69 wordsAs the result of a motor-cycle colliding with a horse and cart on the Springfield-road late on Saturday night a young man named Percy Wheatley, ...
Article : 268 wordsThe classification list of the Tasmanian Public Service, as proposed by the Commissioner (Sir John Gellibrand) and Assistant Commissioner (Mr. R. J. ...
Article : 38 wordsMarrawah s.s., from Melbourne—12 ess drapery 12 [?]sks [?]ar, 200 [?]ss bon[?]ine. Walmana, [?]., from Melbourne—30 tons manure, 4 bdls bags, 20 bgs bran, 16 bgs ...
Article : 241 wordsAlderman Webster, at the meeting of the City Council last evening, asked what steps, if any, were being taken by the Water and Sewerage Committee to ...
Article : 94 wordsThe "Age" says that a lad named George Smith, eight years of age, who resides with his parents at 88 Victoriastreet, Windsor, climbed to the roof of ...
Article : 143 wordsIn this week's Government "Gazette" there is published a regulation made by the Commissioner of Railways, dealing with the classification and rates of pay ...
Article : 51 wordsH.H.C.—We have communicated your letter to "Importer." W.M.—Sorrry too long for our crowded colu[?]ns just now. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. C. H. Marsh, late council clerk of the now defunet Municipal Council of New Town, forwarded a statement of accounts for the municipality for the year ...
Article : 98 wordsUnited Kingdom, per Indarra, due June 10. delivered June 11. America, per Makura, Tuesday, June 1, delivered Wednesday, June 2. ...
Article : 194 wordsIt was reported at last night's meeting of the City Council that there were 189,000,000 gallons of water impounded in the reservoirs. ...
Article : 29 wordsNo one can read the political or financial newspapers which take world-movements seriously without knowing that the questions of Money and Debt are ...
Article : 1,541 wordsAt the meeting of the Launceston Marine Board to-day, the Master Warden (Mr. D. Storrer) presiding, Warden J. F. Johnson, in accordance with ...
Article : 259 wordsIt is understood that an appeal is lekely to be made against the decision of the Municipal and Marine Board Clerks' Wages Board, which recently granted ...
Article : 59 wordsThis week's Government "Gazette" contains:—Public Service classification list Launceston Marine Board by-laws; by-law of Hobart Council regulating the ...
Article : 66 wordsAn unusually large number of tenders were opened at last night's meeting of the City Council, in most of which no prices were quoted, the tenders being ...
Article : 96 wordsAlthough it may not commend itself to bigoted people those, of greater enlightenment will applaud the movement initiated at the Associated Chambers of ...
Article : 370 wordsCounsel for the plaintiff concluded his address before Mr. Justic McArthu[?] in the Banco Court to-day, in the case in which Alfred Thomas Ozanne, formerly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the Launceston Marine Board a letter was [?] from Warden E. Ritchie, who is now in London, concerning the new dredger ...
Article : 115 wordsTho rainfall for May was 9.36 inches on 16 wet days. The average fall for May is 9.10 inches. The weather is fine and cold, with ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Launceston Harbour Improvements Committee recommended to the Marine Board yesterday that, in accordance with requests from the masters of ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 1 Jun 1920, Page 4
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