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Family Notices : 108 wordsLONDON (by Air Mail).--The United States Coastguards are opening two new stations to cope with the heavy increase in their work caused by ...
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Advertising : 10 wordsFreight must be prepaid on any parcels sent by railway to the Queensland Jumble Sales War Fund Effort. The committee cannot accept the ...
Article : 41 wordsSomething skin to consternation has been caused in the ranks of local motorists as the result of the introduction of petrol rationing on ...
Article : 482 wordsNEUTRAL observers in Germany believe that the Nazis will shortly use in their aerial attacks on Britain some of the huge quantities of poison gas their factories have been manufacturing for months. The British defences have proved too strong for the invading airmen, although it is admitted that those that have broken through have ...
Article : 1,193 words"Chateau Sinister," an exciting story by Leslie Beresford, is the new serial commencing in the 'Mercury' to-day. The setting is in old France and the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe new red leaves of the mango trees are a picture in Mackay just now. Where the trees were trimmed last year there are great clusters of lovely ...
Article : 50 wordsNight temperatures continue low; yesterday morning a minimum of 58.4 deg. was recorded, rising to 71.8 at 9 a.m., and later to 79deg. At 3 p.m. the ...
Article : 98 wordsKevin M'Kay (10), a scholar attending the North Side school, suffered a lacerated and contused wound on the left little finger when struck with a ...
Article : 51 wordsTrained nurses, experienced nurses, and holders of home nursing and first aid certificates, who wish to help in case of national emergency, are asked ...
Article : 43 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--The bomb victims' appeal to-day increased by £3145164 to £109,064311. Australia has now contributed more than ...
Article : 79 wordsFine, except for scattered showers on the coastal fringe. South-easterly Winds, moderate to fresh. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe members of the Women's Emergency Legion urgently request to be furnished with the names and addresses of army, navy, and air force ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 152 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Representatives of owners and coalminers will meet at a compulsory conference in Sydney on Friday to discuss the ...
Article : 246 wordsMackay will shortly have its first air raid shelter. It already is in course of construction on the City Council reserve at the corner of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 180 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday. -- In September, 1935, a man named Patrick Shannon, then 29, was apprehended in South Brisbane ...
Article : 168 wordsSpurred on by rivalry and a friendly challenge by a garden enthusiast, Mr. Alex. M'Bryde, of Racecourse, after several years of persistent endeavor, ...
Article : 100 wordsAirlines of Australia Douglas Pengana arrived at Mackay from the South at 10.30 a.m. yesterday, Captain K. Shirsby in charge, First Officer ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON (by Air Mail).--An 'Evening Standard' report asks: What is it like to dodge the Nazis for seven weeks with your wife and children, ...
Article : 390 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday. -- Labor's prospects of winning Maranoa improved to-day when Baker increased his lead over M'Geoch by 77, giving ...
Article : 264 wordsLONDON (by Air Mall) .--Patrick Kenneth Mayhew is his name. He is a private in the R.A.M.C. He is 23 years old, and he is a son of Sir Basil Edgar ...
Article : 283 wordsLanded cost of newsprint was now approximately 75 per cent, higher than several years ago, the chairman of News Ltd. (Mr. Stanley Murray) said ...
Article : 103 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--Irresponsible, reckless, and thriftless, were words used by Mr. Maher today to describe the budget, the ...
Article : 195 wordsRecent holiday-makers at the Chalet, Eungella, included Mr. and Mrs. Reg. Bassett and Mrs. E. Welch and daughter. ...
Article : 386 wordsThe Mackay Company has been advised of the appointment of Colonel Annand as officer controlling the syllabus for the training of the ...
Article : 143 wordsMen accepted for Royal Australian Air Force service under the Empire air scheme now total 34.381. Pilots, air observers and air-gunners ...
Article : 130 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. --Initially Mr. Curtin, who will reach Melbourne from Perth on Sunday, will meet the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) alone ...
Article : 171 wordsMT. ISA, Wednesday.--Following a stop-work meeting this morning of the A.E.U., Mr. J. Willets, State organiser of that union, informed the ...
Article : 136 wordsPERTH, Wednesday. -- Mr. A. E. ("Texas") Green, Labor member for Kalgoorlie, died in hospital at Kalgoolie to-day. Few Federal ...
Article : 148 wordsLONDON (by Air Mail).--The Evening Standard' says 39 boys of Hele's School, Exeter, are reclaiming a derelict Devonshire farm as a holiday ...
Article : 120 wordsTOWNSVTLLE, Wednesday.--Names mentioned in connection with the Labor plebiscite for Herbert include D. Crowley and W. Murchison (Cairns), ...
Article : 116 wordsDARWIN, Wednesday.--Because mechanical aids for unloading coal were used on a ship for the first time today, resulting in the displacement of ...
Article : 115 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Wednesday.-- Collisville miners are still out and there is little likelihood of resumption this week. On Wednesday, advice from ...
Article : 122 wordsLONDON, October 1.--Because of leakages of information to the enemy, particularly about General de Gaulle's Britain is ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, October 1.--An Italian submarine torpedoed and sank the Monte Moncayo off Sicily on September 28. Four of the crew were killed. ...
Article : 36 wordsDUBLIN, October 1.--The trawler, Kosmos, on arriving at Dublin, reported that she twice was machine gunned from the air off the Scottish ...
Article : 54 wordsISTANBUL,October 1.--The French Armistice Commission is demanding that all shore batteries on the Syrian coast be kept ready for action as a ...
Article : 32 wordsOTTAWA, October 1.--It is announced that an Order-in-Council has been pussed extending the trade agreement with New Zealand until ...
Article : 30 wordsMADRID, October 1.--A Ceuta message says that two French destroyers which passed through the Straits of Gibraltar were to-day chased a ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, October 1.--Lord Duke (stated in a speech in London that no fewer than 20 London hospitals, including some of the biggest, had been ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Thu 3 Oct 1940, Page 6
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