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  • TIDES, SUN AND MOON

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  • DECISION ON MARGINS DELIVERY SHORTLY. Hint By President

    BRISBANE, June 2. — Mr. Justice T. M. Barry, president, suggested in the industrial Court to-day that the general margins case decision would be delivered very promptly. His Honour said so many were affected ... [Article] (316 words)
  • STORING PLAN FOR TOBACCO

    BRISBANE, Jane 2. — The Tobacco Leaf Marketing Board ii exploring the possibility of establishing a ... [Article] (201 words)
  • Drive For Princess

    BONN, June 2. — Princess Margaret will drive to Bonn in an open car escorted by West German motor-cycle ... [Article] (35 words)
  • Television Costly

    NEW DELHI, June 2. — Television is too costly for India, in official committee has reported. It said a ... [Article] (36 words)
  • Base Destroyed

    PARS, June 2. — A United Press correspondent cabled from Hanoi that 50 French planes to-day destroyed a ... [Article] (46 words)
  • POLICE CANNOT BE BOUNDARY RIDERS

    BRISBANE, June 2: "Policemen could not be expected to take up the role of boundary riders on Queensland stations to guard against loss of stock," the Minister for Labour and ... [Article] (355 words)
  • FRENCH ARMY NURSE WELCOMED IN PARIS

    PARIS, June 2. — French Army nares Genevieve de Galard Terranbe, the "Angel of Dien Phu," reached paris by air to-day from Saigon (Indo-China) Cheering crowds mobbed the pretty 29 year - old heroine ... [Article] (130 words)
  • HARA-KIRI BY TOBACCONIST

    SYDNEY, June 2. — A Sydney tobacconist (Mr. Abraham Marks) 83 to-day, and 64 years in the ... [Article] (65 words)
  • Rising Costs Offset Aid Of Devaluation

    MELBOURNE, June 2. — The benefit of the 40 per cent price rise in the Australian price of gold, which ... [Article] (95 words)
  • Wagga, Dutch Craft Will Rendezvous

    BRISBANE, June 2. — The disabled Dutch tank landing craft and minesweeper H.M.A.S. Wagga, are ... [Article] (55 words)
  • BOW TIES CAUSE DIVORCE SUIT

    SYDNEY, June 2. — A man told the Divorce Court to-day that his liking for bow ties had helped came the rift ... [Article] (88 words)
  • SECOND DEATH IN COLLISION

    SYDNEY, June 2: A policeman who knocked down and killed a man when his speeding motor cycle struck him ... [Article] (73 words)
  • HOPE SOVIET WILL ALLOW WOMAN TO JOIN HUSBAND

    LONDON, June 2. — The British Government hoped mort sincerely that the Soviet authorities would allow Mrs. Jinana Khokhloy and her young child to join her husband. Lord Salisbury said in the Home of Lords ... [Article] (133 words)
  • MOVE TO ADVANCE INDO-CHINA TALKS

    LONDON, June 2. — Reuter's Geneva representative says Indo-China peace talks will resume in secret at ... [Article] (143 words)
  • WIDE OFFERING AT WOOL SALES

    BRISBANE, June 2. — At the woolsales, the offering was drawn from a wide area which embraced most of the ... [Article] (169 words)
  • BOY'S HAND MUTILATED

    MACKAY, June 2. — A youth had his hand mutilated to-day when a home made home exploded. He ... [Article] (71 words)
  • Will Not Take New Command

    LONDON, June 2. — General Sir Gerald Templer, was yesterday relinqu[?] post as Malayan [?] missioner, will not new take ... [Article] (64 words)
  • North Queenslanders In Malta Guard Of Honour

    Her Majesty the Queen inspects the R.A.A.F. guard of hon our from No.78 Fighter Wing before unveiling the Air Forces War Memorial in Malta on May 8. The memorial which can be seen in the background was to commemorate 2301 B.A.F. and Commonwealth airmen who were killed in air operations in the Mediterrencan theatre of war and who have no known graves. Included among the name on the memorial are those of 211 former R.A.A.F. flyers ... [ILLUSTRATED] [Article] (521 words)
  • Herbert Crushing Starting

    INGHAM, June 2. — The crushing of a record crop for any Australian mill area will begin here to-morrow ... [Article] (179 words)
  • Boy Was Found Hanging On line

    SYDNEY, June 2. — A woman in Kempsey to-day found a boy hanging unconscious from a wire clothes line which had ... [Article] (85 words)
  • Seek Amendments, Long Service Leave

    BRISBANE, June 2. — The Trades and Labour Council to-night decided to approach the Government, seeking ... [Article] (74 words)
  • Estates' Dividend

    LONDON, June 2. — Australian Estates Company announced a dividend of 15 per cent less tax for the year ... [Article] (71 words)
  • Cold Storage Value

    BRISBANE, June 2. — Cold stores played a very important part in the economy of the State, the Premier (Mr ... [Article] (54 words)
  • Plot Uncovered

    GUATEMALA, June 2. — Guatemala's President, Mr. Jacobo Guzman, said to-day a well financed plot of ... [Article] (28 words)
  • Saint's Body For Burial In Venice

    ROME, June 2. — The embalmed body of St. Pius X will be returned to Venice for burial in st. Mark's ... [Article] (94 words)
  • Church Merger Under Review

    MELBOURNE, June 2. — The Congregational Union biennial conference to-day agreed that the Presbyterian ... [Article] (64 words)
  • Roo Subsidy

    DARWIN, June 2. — Pastoralists in Central Australia want the Federal Government to subsidise ... [Article] (24 words)
  • Migrant Effect

    CANBERRA, June 2. — The Government's migration programme gave Australia's net population a gain of 14,575 ... [Article] (47 words)
  • Awarded Trophy

    LONDON, June 2. — Squadron Leader Neville Duke last night received the Segrave Trophy for 1953 awarded to ... [Article] (45 words)
  • IT'S ALLEGED INTIMIDATION WAS EMPLOYED IN LAWSON

    SYDNEY, June 2. — Charges that intimidatory methods have been used in outlying country areas of the Lawson electorate have been made by Labour supporters. The A.L.P. candidate for Lawson, Mr. H. A. Manning, made ... [Article] (452 words)
  • MECHANICAL HARVESTING OF CANE TRIALS SHORTLY

    BRISBANE, Jane 2. — The Queensland Cane Growers Council hopes to have mechanical harvesting trials carried our on northern canefields before the end of the crushing season ... [Article] (260 words)
  • Chiefs Confer

    WASHINGTON, June 2. — The military chiefs of Australia and New Zealand conferred yesterday with Admiral ... [Article] (47 words)
  • Cup Down To 22

    BRISBANE, June 2. — Only 22 horses have been left in the 112.000 Brisbane Cup to-night. The cup will be run at ... [Article] (31 words)
  • Will Clear 1953 Sugar By Mid-June

    BRISBANE, June 2. — The 26,900 tons of 1953 season's sugar, still stored at North Queensland ports ... [Article] (104 words)
  • Change In Public Works Staffing

    BRISBANE, June 2. — An important change in the planning and control of State public works was ... [Article] (187 words)
  • Crowd Wedding To Cheer Queen

    LONDON, June 2. — Thousands of uninvited London housewives swarmed to Westminster Abbey to-day ... [Article] (139 words)
  • 50,000th Migrant

    ROTTERDAM, June 2. — Pretty 20-year-old Marie Scholte sailed yesterday for Melbourne at the 50,000th ... [Article] (51 words)
  • GRIFFITH LABOUR VICTORY CERTAIN Wannon Interests

    BRISBANE, June 2. — Aidermon W. C. Coutts (Labour) now appears certain of winning Griffith from the sitting Liberal member (Mr. D. R. Berry). To-day's count of 1388 absentee votes cut Alderman Coutts' lead ... [Article] (385 words)
  • TO NAME WITNESSES IN PETROV INQUIRY

    SYDNEY, June 2. — Witnesses will be named when the Royal Commision on Espionage resumes in the High Court, Sydney, on June 11. Mr. W.F.V. Windeyer is expected to same several well known people who will be called to ... [Article] (272 words)
  • Australian Killed

    LONDON, June 2. — Australian Tourist Trophy rider, Laurence Charles Boulter, 41, died in a collision with a ... [Article] (60 words)
  • R.A.A.F. At Nicosia

    NICOSIA, June 2. — The 14 jet Vampires and six Valettas of the Australian Fighter Wing based at Malta for the ... [Article] (55 words)
  • Ruled Him Out

    LONDON, June 2. — Fenner Brockway (Lrbour) sought to move an adjournment in the House of Commons ... [Article] (34 words)
  • ALLEGED HUSBAND TIRED OF HER WHEN NEWLYWEDS

    STOCKTON (California), June 2. — Christiane Martel, former beauty who was "Miss Universe" of 1953, won an uncontested divorce to-day after testifying her 21 - year - old husband, Ronaid Marengo, said he was "tired" of her ... [Article] (119 words)
  • NEVER SAY DIE WINS THE DERBY

    LONDON, Jane 2. — The Derby, 1½ miles, ran at Epsom to-day, resulted: ... [Article] (38 words)
  • Mass Arrest In City Vice Drive

    TOKIO, June 2. — More than 4,000 plainclothes and uniformed police arrested 500 alleged members of ... [Article] (96 words)
  • Cooks, Seamen Paid More Than Captains

    WELLINGTON, N.Z. June 2. — Some cooks and seamen on New Zealand ships get more pay than ships ... [Article] (128 words)
  • Communicate

    FRANKFURT, June 2. — Teleprinted communication opened between West and East Germany yesterday for ... [Article] (21 words)
  • "Disturbing Conduct" Alleged Over H-Bomb

    WASHINGTON, June 2. — An allegation of "disturbing conduct" over the hydrogen bomb has been contested by the aggrieved person's lawyer The charge by the Government Special Security Board ... [Article] (299 words)
  • MAILS CLOSE TO-DAY

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  • CABINET MAKING AT TOOWONG

    CANBERRA, June 2. — The Prime Minister Mr R. G. Meazies will fly ti Brisbane to-morrow to visit ... [Article] (135 words)
  • Reports On Saucers On The Deeline

    WASHINGTON, June 2. — Air Force officials said to-day reports of "flying saucers" had fallen off ... [Article] (86 words)
  • Runners Rush Church Cheques

    LONDON, June 2. — Roger Bannister and three other champion runners, each carrying a cheque for £500 ... [Article] (103 words)
  • Loading Delay

    MACKAY, June 2. — Rain delayed loading of sugar in Mackay for five hours to-day. Shipping will be further ... [Article] (35 words)
  • Labour Plea

    LONDON, June 2. — William Warbey, Labour leftwinger, urged that nothing be done at the forthcoming ... [Article] (42 words)

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