While the people of Australia and New Zealand are wrastling with the problem of the cost of living, Fiji has taken action which it is hoped will be ...
Article : 308 wordsThough one or two hon. members intimated pretty plainly that they were not going to see bills rushed through the Council because the end of the ...
Article : 309 wordsMessrs. John Laing and Son, building contractors, of Carlisle and London, have written a letter to the "Builder," in which it is stated that ...
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Advertising : 851 wordsRises. Sets. December 1.................. 4.29... 7.29 December 9.................. 4.[?]... 7.37 December 17.................. 4.29... 7.4[?] ...
Article : 1,317 wordsThis is a story of what might well be termed "a miracle of the sea" (says the Auckland "Star"). There are many tales of wonderful escapes, of rescues ...
Article : 286 wordsThe Commonwealth Statistician, in his latest official calculations, discloses that there was a general decrease in October of 2.5 per cent. in the prices ...
Article : 147 wordsThe principal business, and the only business of outstanding importance in the House of Assembly, was the second reading of the Forestry Bill, which is ...
Article : 191 wordsAn important statement regarding a certain class of offence, particularly thefts by waterside workers, was made by Mr. J. w. Poynton, S.M., in the ...
Article : 344 wordsCigarettes weighning 133,667lb. were imported into Australia during the year ended 30th June, 1920, and in the same period 4,715,324lb. were manufactured ...
Article : 122 wordsThe death of Mr. H. Gyles Turner, formerly manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia, occurred at his residence at St. Kilda to-day. The ...
Article : 410 wordsSubterfuges adopted to get whiskey or transport it are legion in New York, but there is no record of anything cleverer than the scheme of the "booze ...
Article : 162 wordsThe fact mentioned to the Premier by yesterday's deputation that there are in the State between 50 and 75 confirmed inebriates and dipsomaniacs, is ...
Article : 438 wordsHobart Marine Board. Hydro-Electric works dispute. Equity suit in the Supreme Court. Home for inebriates; deputation to the ...
Article : 313 wordsAt the sittings of the Scottsdale Court, George M. Dinha, was proceeded against by the Crown for an offence alleged in the sale of a ...
Article : 155 wordsFor some time past experiments in oil fuel for railway have been carried out in England. The figures of oil consumption, which have hitherto been ...
Article : 253 wordsSydney David Gall, grocer and greengrocer, of Hobart, has filed a petition for the liquidation of his affairs with the Registrar of Bankruptcy in the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe rainfall at Queenstown for November was 11.57 inches on 22 wet days. This is the heaviest fall for November since 1915, when 18 inches was ...
Article : 49 wordsThe report of Judge Beeby, President of the Board of Trade, on the shorter working week question, was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly ...
Article : 228 wordsThe New York "Times" says in an editorial article on the Prince of Wales's return:—"Wherever he went, so far as has been reported, his ...
Article : 230 wordsThe annual report of the Auditor-General (Mr. E. H. Pretyman) was tabled in the House of Assembly last night. It contained the statements of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 296 wordsOfficial figures' published show that the Government ship John Alce, engaged in the Northern Territory, carried nine tons of cargo on the last trip ...
Article : 127 words"L.R.A." (Hayes).—We can only refer you to the Social Service Commitee (Mr. D. B. Copland, University, Tas.). Answers not sent through post. ...
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Article : 841 wordsThe development of criminal mania amongst Sin[?] Feiners, Bolsheviks, and Reactionaries is rapidly forcing upon all sensible people the necessity of ...
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Article : 273 wordsThe State Prices Regulation Commission recently considered the price of motor tires, and came to the conclusion that the South Australia Motor Tire ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Basic Wage Commission will be come historic in the records of Australia. This being so, the following may be interesting for future ...
Article : 174 wordsThe other day (says a New Zealand paper) a suburban resident bought a carpet for which he was charged £30. At the same time an arrangement was ...
Article : 165 wordsRepresentatives of the Returned Soldiers' Association interviewed the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) to-day, and requested that the full pension of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 118 wordsSix years ago a bottle was thrown over from the Australasian Antarctic expedition's vessel Aurora, which was then making an o[?]eanographical cruise ...
Article : 95 wordsArrangements have been made to screen the moving picture exhibition of British industries in Launceston from December 1 to 3, and n Hobart the ...
Article : 87 wordsRotomahana, s.s, left Melbourne yesterday with 65 passengers. She also has 124 tons of cargo (including 50 tons of manure), and 5 horses for Burnie, and for Devonport ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 1 Dec 1920, Page 4
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