Finned helplessly for an hour beneath a wrecked motor-lorry, which capsized on the Huon Rd., near lower Longley at 12.30 p.m. yesterday, Max ...
Article : 210 wordsThe Governor (Sir Ernest Clark) places a wreath in memory of the late Kinp George V. on one of the crosses in the Garden of Remembrance, while Mr. G. Muir, representative of the Hobart sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 64 wordsTHE annual Poppy Day appeal was held at Hobart yesterday, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' League for its work ...
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Advertising : 505 wordsA MOTION for the abolition of State Parliaments was agreed to unanimously by mayors and aldermen representing about ...
Article : 78 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Complete absence of motive for the death of an elderly man and a middle-aged woman who were found in a St. Kilda flat today is puzzling ...
Article : 173 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—In addition to paid annual leave, which will begin this Christmas, more than 60,000 clothing trade employees throughout ...
Article : 219 wordsStale Treasury figures for the four months ended October 31 reveal a deficit of £138,775 compared with a deficit of £141,722 for the corresponding period last ...
Article : 336 wordsIssued by the Department of Information MELBOURNE, Friday.—Great interest has been aroused by the arrival in Australia of a mission from Thailand. Thai ...
Article : 240 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Free French troops have captured the important town of Lambarene, in Gabon (French Equatorial Africa), which is almost ...
Article : 243 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Mr. Leonard Murray probably will be appointed Administrator of Papua soon in succession to his uncle, Sir Hubert Murray, who died ...
Article : 81 wordsPractically every family in the Hamilton and Ouse districts was represented at the funeral of the late Mr. C. A. Brock, a prominent pastoralist of Lawrenny, which took ...
Article : 196 wordsThe opening of militia ranks to married men and widowers under 25 with children, has closed a gap in the defence system, for under the regulations previously no person ...
Article : 200 wordsApplications for the position of Commissioner of Police closed yesterday. The applications were called under the Police Regulations Act, which provides that the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Commonweallh Bank reports there is reason to believe that attempts may be made to pass falsified £5 notes, consisting either wholly of joined portions of several genuine ...
Article : 104 wordsCAIBO, Friday.—British and Indian troops, supported by R.A.F. units, surprised and captured the important post of Gallabat, in the Sudan, and took a ...
Article : 111 wordsWASHINGTON, Friday.—The State Department, commenting on reports from London that Britain, the United States and Australia had informally agreed on ...
Article : 53 wordsReferring yesterday to questions raised in the correspondence columns of "The Mercury" by Mr. C. J. Eady, M.L.C., relating of the proposal by Aid. S. Crisp that the iron ...
Article : 58 wordsMrs. J. Green, one of the oldest residents of Mole Creek, died at her residence. Mole Creek, on Wednesday at the age of 86 years. Mrs. Green was born at Quamby and moved ...
Article : 132 wordsExperimental work carried out at the Youth Employment Branch on producer gas was put to a satisfactory test when three trips to Launceston and return were made ...
Article : 375 wordsSOFIA, Friday.—The Bulgarian Minister for the Interior has introduced a Defence Bill in three sections. The first, which is directed mainly against ...
Article : 85 wordsMrs. Amy Clarisse Walker, through whose generosity the Clarendon Home at New Town and the war memorial at Gretna were built, died at her home, Clarendon, Gretna, ...
Article : 455 wordsNEW YORK, Friday.—Immunity from infantile paralysis was as far away as ever from being realised, said Dr. John F. Kessel, of the University of California, ...
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Advertising : 90 wordsThe following tenden for public works have been accepted: Bronte school, removal and re-election at Brown's Marsh. West Coast Rd.: R. V. Brown, Shawfield St., Lenah ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 9 Nov 1940, Page 4
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