When daylight saving ends on April 3 this year it will be 55th time Tasmanians have put their clocks forward an hour for six months of the year. Daylight saving was introduced in Tasmania in 1967 as an emergency measure when the state’s hydro-electric water storages were so dangerously low that there was a threat of power rationing. It was continued after the drought had broken and in 1971 the state pushed successfully for a national trial of daylight saving. The uptake was

When The Examiner was first published on Saturday, March 12, 1842, Launceston was a town of about 10,000 residents, with half the population being either convicts or former convicts. Tasmania was a British penal colony and still called Van Diemen’s Land. Military, convict and government buildings dominated Launceston and the gallows, treadmill and female factory in Paterson Street were among the first things new arrivals saw as their ship sailed into Home Reach. Ships from En

THE first run of confectionery production at the new Cadbury-Fry-Pascall Ltd factory at Claremont in Tasmania in April 1922 wasn’t Cadbury chocolates. When the first shipment of 118 boxes left Hobart for Sydney on Saturday 8 April 1922 it consisted entirely of Pascall’s sweets. Perhaps this wasn’t all that surprising as Wilfrid Pascall, a director of Pascall and Co. Ltd and son of the company founder James Pascall, had been overseeing the commissioning of the factory. And the