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  2. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 141 words
  3. TURPING OF TIDE.

    "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 words
  4. 17 JAPANESE PLANES DOWNED Saturday's "Bag" For Allies

    Allied 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
  5. INGENIOUS ESCAPES.

    "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 words
  6. MINING.

    Through the Mines Department advice has been received that agates are wanted by the Sulphides Proprietary Limited. National Mutual Buildings, 395 ...

    Article : 400 words
  7. BRISBANE NOTES.

    Racing interests in Brisbane are becoming very nervous about the future of their favourite sport, if what is really a huge business concern can ...

    Article : 1,201 words
  8. Advertising

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    Advertising : 186 words
  9. Punctured Wound to Foot.

    When 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 words
  10. Obscene Language Charge.

    Joseph 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 words
  11. Vagrancy Case.

    Miyo 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 words
  12. Fall From Bicycle.

    Walter Deede, baker, bf Stratford, received a severe lacerated wound to the chin through falling from a bicycle on Saturday. The Ambulance gave ...

    Article : 38 words
  13. PLANE BURST TO PIECES.

    After 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 words
  14. Innisfail Complaint.

    A 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 words
  15. The Cairns Post

    Australia 's great youth movement is growing in intensity of spirit and numbers. Across a world in flames, the bitter cry, ...

    Article : 675 words
  16. COMMERCIAL.

    Fat 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 words
  17. Big Eel Caught.

    While 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 words
  18. AIRMEN EVACUATED. FROM MALAYAN CAMPAIGN

    The 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 words
  19. NO TRACE OF SURVIVORS.

    An intensive all-night search failed to locate any survivors from the Japanese bombers and fighters shot down around Darwin on Saturday. The ...

    Article : 152 words
  20. Easter tn Cairns.

    Owing to holiday restrictions, petrol rationing, and other causes. Easter was spent quietly in Cairns. Good Friday and Easter Saturday were close ...

    Article : 54 words
  21. Appreciable Donations.

    Mr. 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 words
  22. TRAM WRECKS CAB.

    Edward 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 words
  23. Camouflage of Roofs.

    At 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 words
  24. DETAILS OF OPERATIONS.

    A 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 words
  25. Innisfail Police Station.

    After 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 words
  26. A.I.F. WITHDRAWALS.

    In 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 words
  27. FURTHER RAIDS.

    Darwin and Port Moresby were raided again by the Japanese bombers to-day. In each case seven bombers, accompained by fighters, carried out ...

    Article : 147 words
  28. STRUCK BY TRAIN.

    Basil 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 words
  29. PRISONERS OF WAR.

    No reports have been received by the Australian Red Cross Society of any breaches by Japan of the Geneva convention concerning war prisoners. ...

    Article : 172 words
  30. WESTERN COMMAND.

    In 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 words
  31. ARMY APPOINTMENTS.

    It was officially announced to-day that to strengthen Queensland defences, the appointment of Major-General J. Durrant has been made base ...

    Article : 254 words
  32. DRIVE FOR RECRUITS.

    Provided 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 words
  33. EXTEND RESTRICTION.

    The 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 words
  34. COST PLUS SYSTEM.

    An 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 words
  35. OBITUARY. MBS. A. C. CASTOR.

    Advices 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 words
  36. MOLOTOV COCKTAILS

    Thousands of empty beer bottles, which have lain for months in Darwin gu[?]ters and vacant lots, are being made into Molotov cocktails. ...

    Article : 125 words
  37. NEW FORMS.

    Three 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 words
  38. STATES' VIEWS.

    All 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 words
  39. U.S. WAR EFFORT.

    Mr. 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 words
  40. HOSPITAL PATIENT.

    Following 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 words
  41. DESERTERS ARRESTED.

    Two 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 words
  42. "DUD" BOMB

    Although London was not raided yesterday. "Danger — Unexploded Bomb" signs were exhibited in Farrington-road district of the city. and traffic diverted. ...

    Article : 96 words
  43. FLOATING MINE.

    A 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 words
  44. LIEUT.-COL. NORLEY DODDS.

    Information has been received of the death of Li eut-Col. Norley Dodds following acute appendicitis on March 1 during the voyage home to Australia. ...

    Article : 55 words
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