During the thirties football was played all over the State with
the three main bodies the NTFA, NWFU and the South playing each other only once
during a tri series in 1930. For the rest of the thirties the Northerners played
each other at least once per year except for 1934-36.
THIRTIES FOOTBALL LEGENDS
Some of the other significant events in Tasmanian history during
the decade are displayed below;
1931 - Tasmanian Harold Gatty and American Wiley
Post make record round-the-world flight (eight days, 15 hours)
1932 - Ivan and Victor Holyman start air service between Launceston and Flinders
Island
1932 - Lyell Highway opens, linking Hobart with west coast
1932 - Former premier Joseph Lyons becomes prime minister, only Tasmanian to
reach that rank
1933 - Commonwealth Grants Commission appointed to inquire into affairs of
claimant states, including Tasmania
1934 - Holyman Airways (a forerunner of Ansett Airlines) launches
Launceston-Melbourne service, within months, company plane Miss Hobart
disappears over Bass Strait with loss of 12 people, including proprietor Victor
Holyman
1934 - Election of government led by Albert Ogilvie starts 35 years of
continuous Labor governments
1935 - Five die when Holyman Airways plane Loina crashes off Flinders Island.
1935 - Hobart gets first electric trolley buses
1935 - Legislation for three-year state parliament terms
1936 - SS Paringa sinks in Bass Strait while towing tanker, 31 die
1936 - ABC forms orchestra
1936 - Last known Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) dies at Hobart's Beaumaris Zoo
1936 - First commercial flights use federal aerodrome at Cambridge
1936 - Submarine telephone cable service begins between Tasmania and Victoria
via King Island
1936 - First two area schools (renamed district schools in 1973) open at
Sheffield and Hagley
1937 - Opening of Mount Wellington summit road, built as Depression relief work
project
1937 - Poliomyelitis epidemic
1937 - Five-year state parliamentary terms return
1938 - Production starts at APPM's Burnie mill
1938 - Work begins on floating arch bridge across Derwent in Hobart
1939 - World War II begins
1939 - Death in office of prime minister Joseph Lyons
1939 - Royal Hobart Hospital opens on present site
