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Family Notices : 141 words"I do not want to seem overoptimistic, but I should not be surprised if we have seen the turning of the side in the Pacific," ...
Article : 826 wordsAllied air forces struck heavy blows at the Japanese on the North-west Australian front on Saturday. Four heavy twin-engined Mitsubishi Japanese bombers, and probably two Japanese Zero fighters, were shot down over Darwin early in the afternoon. These ...
Article : 238 words"When this war id over the world will be amased at the starting methods of escape devised by members of the A.I.F. who had been ...
Article : 403 wordsThrough the Mines Department advice has been received that agates are wanted by the Sulphides Proprietary Limited. National Mutual Buildings, 395 ...
Article : 400 wordsRacing interests in Brisbane are becoming very nervous about the future of their favourite sport, if what is really a huge business concern can ...
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Advertising : 186 wordsWhen Miss A. Cross, of Pembrokestreet, [?]rod on a nail on Saturday, she received a punctured wound to the sole of the left foot. The Ambulance ...
Article : 46 wordsJoseph Bergman (49) was charged in the Court of Petty Sessions on Saturday, before Mr. T. E. Dwyer, S.M., with using obscene language in ...
Article : 41 wordsMiyo Franic, on remand on a charge of vagrancy, was further remanded on Saturday before Mr. T. E. Dwyer, S.M., until April 11. Detective T. Burns ...
Article : 46 wordsWalter Deede, baker, bf Stratford, received a severe lacerated wound to the chin through falling from a bicycle on Saturday. The Ambulance gave ...
Article : 38 wordsAfter the fighters had shot down two of the bombers into the sea, and ackack fire had crippled one, causing it to swing away steeply, the remaining four ...
Article : 437 wordsA resident of Innisfail writes that some cars are arriving there at night from the country and driving through the streets with lights undimmed. He ...
Article : 50 wordsAustralia 's great youth movement is growing in intensity of spirit and numbers. Across a world in flames, the bitter cry, ...
Article : 675 wordsFat of excellent quality was produced by the Queensland Butter Board's new plant for converting butter into pure butter fat. when given a preliminary ...
Article : 138 wordsWhile fishing late on Saturday night for barramundi with live bait that had been previously caught, J. Weaver and J. Schwilk hooked a big eel, measuring ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Minister for Air (Mr. A. S. Drakeford) announced last night that practically all the R.A.A.F. was evacuated from Malaya, together with the ...
Article : 248 wordsAn intensive all-night search failed to locate any survivors from the Japanese bombers and fighters shot down around Darwin on Saturday. The ...
Article : 152 wordsOwing to holiday restrictions, petrol rationing, and other causes. Easter was spent quietly in Cairns. Good Friday and Easter Saturday were close ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. G. Blackley, of Innisfail, has donated to the museum section of the Innisfail Memorial School of Arts an interesting specimen of a brown snake ...
Article : 60 wordsEdward O'Connor (27), married, taxi driver, of Sackville-street, Milton, escaped with a fractured left wrist and shock when his cab was smashed to ...
Article : 211 wordsAt a special meeting of the Cairns branch of the Operative Painters and Decorators' Union on April 1 it was resolved that the Government should ...
Article : 74 wordsA war communique issued to-night gave full details of the week-end air operations. It said: "The R.A.A.F. attacks were made on Lae in the ...
Article : 148 wordsAfter being idle for two years the old Court House building at Innisfail, which in the meantime had been remodelled, was occupied by the police ...
Article : 106 wordsIn the withdrawal of the A.I.F. from the Middle East to Australia, the R.A.A.F. acted as reconnaissance andd convoy, covering an area of 300,000 ...
Article : 139 wordsDarwin and Port Moresby were raided again by the Japanese bombers to-day. In each case seven bombers, accompained by fighters, carried out ...
Article : 147 wordsBasil George Shipp (43), a returned soldier, received fatal injuries about 1 a.m. on Sunday when he was struck by a train, at the Lyons-street level ...
Article : 167 wordsNo reports have been received by the Australian Red Cross Society of any breaches by Japan of the Geneva convention concerning war prisoners. ...
Article : 172 wordsIn addition to Major General Stevens, Lieutenant-General Gordon Bennett, in his new post at Perth will have the assistance of Colonel W. M. ...
Article : 213 wordsIt was officially announced to-day that to strengthen Queensland defences, the appointment of Major-General J. Durrant has been made base ...
Article : 254 wordsProvided she is not the mother of children under 16 any woman between 18 and 45 is eligible for enlistment in the Australian Women's Army ...
Article : 128 wordsThe period of the existing temporary private building restrictions may be extended so that urgent defence works will not have to compete for labour ...
Article : 148 wordsAn attack on the cost plus system of war production was made by the Minister for Labour (Mr. E. J. Ward) on Saturday. He said that not fines but ...
Article : 132 wordsAdvices from Brisbane report the death there on Wednesday night of Mrs. A. C. Castor, relict of the late Mr. H. J. Castor, of Mourilyan, near ...
Article : 197 wordsThousands of empty beer bottles, which have lain for months in Darwin gu[?]ters and vacant lots, are being made into Molotov cocktails. ...
Article : 125 wordsThree new types of tea consumers' forms have been prepared by the Customs Department, and will be available from to-morrow. They cover, firstly, ...
Article : 112 wordsAll States, with the exception of South Australia, had opposed the scheme advanced by the Federal Opposition Leader (Mr. Fadden) for uniformity of taxation, ...
Article : 150 wordsMr. Briggen Hershey, selective service director, in a speech, declared that men and women over 45, at well as children, will be sent into the ...
Article : 127 wordsFollowing the death of Alfred Tuckwell (00), attendant at a private hospital in Lane Cove, a patient at the house was arrested on a charge of murder. ...
Article : 118 wordsTwo 16-year-old lads arrested to-day while they were trying to break into a shop at Brunswick, were discovered to be Army deserters, who had enlisted last ...
Article : 130 wordsAlthough London was not raided yesterday. "Danger — Unexploded Bomb" signs were exhibited in Farrington-road district of the city. and traffic diverted. ...
Article : 96 wordsA message, from Istanbul says that a Turkish [?] vessel brought into a Turkish port a floating mine which was recovered from the Black Sea. the mine ...
Article : 54 wordsInformation has been received of the death of Li eut-Col. Norley Dodds following acute appendicitis on March 1 during the voyage home to Australia. ...
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Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Mon 6 Apr 1942, Page 4
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