During the Forties football was still played all over the State
although intrastate football matches between
the three main bodies the NTFA, NWFU and the South did not commence until after
the war in 1946. The Northerners played
each other three times during 1945. The South played in the tri series of 1946,
1947 and 1948.
FORTIES FOOTBALL LEGENDS
Some of the other significant events in Tasmanian history during
the decade are displayed below;
1940 - Tasmanian soldiers leave for North African
campaign with Australian 6th Division
1940 - German naval raiders Pinguin and Atlantis lay mines off Hobart and other
Australian areas. Hobart closed to shipping because of mine threat; Bass Strait
closed after mine sinks British steamer Cambridge.
1941 - Tasmanian soldiers leave for Malaya with Australian 8th Division
1941 - Australian Newsprint Mills' Boyer plant becomes first in world to produce
newsprint from hardwood
1942 - January-March daylight savings introduced as wartime measure
1942 - Women 18 to 30 called up for war work
1943 - Floating-arch pontoon bridge Hobart Bridge opens
1943 - Enid Lyons (later Dame Enid), widow of Joseph Lyons, elected first woman
member of House of Representatives, winning seat of Darwin (now Braddon).
1943 - Japanese torpedo cruiser HMAS Hobart in Solomon Islands waters
1944 - University of Tasmania begins transfer to Sandy Bay site
1944 - State Library established
1945 - Rani wins first Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
1946 - Australian National Airways plane crashes at Seven Mile Beach, killing
25.
1946 - Last horse-drawn Hobart cab ceases operation
1946 - Poliomyelitis epidemic
1947 - War-affected migrants begin arriving from Europe to work for
Hydro-Electric Commission
1947 - Edward Brooker takes over as Labor premier after Robert Cosgrove's
resignation to face corruption and bribery charges
1948 - Margaret McIntyre wins Legislative Council seat in May, becoming the
first woman member of Tasmanian Parliament; airliner crash in NSW in September
kills her and 12 others.
1948 - Robert Cosgrove resumes premiership after acquittal on corruption and
bribery charges
1948 - ABC forms Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra on permanent basis
1948 - Fire destroys Ocean Pier
1948 - Antarctic research station established on Macquarie Island
1949 - Poliomyelitis epidemic
1949 - Government introduces compulsory X-rays in fight against tuberculosis
1949 - Tasmanian politician Dame Enid Lyons, widow of former prime minister
Joseph Lyons, becomes first woman to reach federal ministry rank, as Executive
Council vice-president
1949 - Government buys Theatre Royal
