That the exploitation of the shale deposits in the Mersey Valley, near Latrobe, depends on the attitude of the Tasmanian Government is the ...
Article : 296 wordsMOTOR-SHIP PORT HALIFAX on the stocks at Wallsend-on-Tyne prior to having been launched. This vessel was built for the Australian and New Zealand,service of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, and embodies arrangements for the carriage of fruit, meat, and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 103 wordsThe immediate closure of all schools within the area infected by infantile paralysis, and the immediate cessation of attendance at ...
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Article : 53 wordsThe Council of the University of Tasmania was confronted at its meeting last night by a request from the University Union that it should co-operate to ...
Article : 522 wordsTo investigate the Government proposal for the provision of medical practitioners in outlying country districts, the Director of Public Health (Dr. B. ...
Article : 232 wordsThe Tasmanian Producers' Organisation has completed arrangements r the first district conference at Burnie on Thursday. There are 15 branches ...
Article : 112 wordsDisturbing incidents are again reported from Samoa, where the Mau "police," an organisation which is hostile to the New Zealand administration ...
Article : 118 wordsInstigated by Mr. T. W. Harriss, of Grove, a move will be made in the near future to form a Huon Old Time Footballers' Association. Mr. Harriss, who ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Imperial Economic Committee statistics of United Kingdom butter imports for 1936 show a record total of 9,570,000 cwt., of which 53 per cent ...
Article : 149 wordsCommercial High School, Hobart, won the hockey and basketball matches played against Burnie High School yesterday. The matches were the first of ...
Article : 159 wordsThe work of recommissioning the steamer Ena, which is to be used as a training ship, is proceeding, at Hobart. It is expected that the ship will soon be ...
Article : 128 wordsSeveral applications were made to the Minister for Lands and Works (Major T. H. Davies) at Launceston yesterday for employment on the proposed ...
Article : 171 wordsIn the Hobart Police Court yesterday, before the Police Magistrate (Mr. W. Hutchins) and Mr. R. J. McKenzie, J.P., Detective-Inspector Fleming ...
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Advertising : 281 wordsAs the outcome of a decision at a special meeting of the executive committee of the Huon Football Association at Huonville last night, R. E. Palmer, the ...
Article : 239 wordsGordon Picklum (30), an Australian-born Chinese cabinetmaker, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour by Mr. Goldie, S.M., ...
Article : 196 wordsMr. William Frederick Holmes, who died in Melbourne in February at the age of 74, revoked in a codicil a number of large charitable bequests because he ...
Article : 190 wordsA car containing five men and drawing a trailer loaded with merchandise got out of control through failure of the brakes when descending a steep ...
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Article : 103 wordsThe Royal Flying Corps Association hopes to erect a memorial on the Royal Australian Air Force aerodrome at Point Cooke to perpetuate the memory ...
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Article : 65 wordsThe Apostolic Delegate (Archbishop Panico) has informed the Right Rev. Monsignor J. J. Nevin, President of St. Patrick's College, Manly, that Pope ...
Article : 55 wordsMrs. Emily Dwyer (75), of Derwent Park Rd., Derwent Park, was admitted to the Hobart General Hospital last evening with a probable fractured hip. ...
Article : 51 wordsTHE belief that the hearts of athletes become enlarged is a fallacy, according to the investigations of three Australian research workers, who ...
Article : 145 wordsAs Chairman of the Imperial Relations Trust, Earl Baldwin has nominated as trustees the Earl of Clarendon, former Governor-General of South ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 24 Jul 1937, Page 9
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