MORE than 10,000 soldiers, it is expected, will be in camp in Queensland next month training for home defence. Among them will be the first batches of trainee: under the new compulsory training system. ...
Article : 669 wordsThe Somerset Dam is being constructed mainly to safeguard Brisbane and Ipswich from the menace of floods, but when it is completed ...
Article : 439 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—To purchase plant for the manufacture in Australia of motor chassis and engines, the managing director of Australian Consolidated Industries Ltd. (Mr. W. J. Smith) will leave Sydney on Friday on his way to the United ...
Article : 529 wordsTypical keen-eyed Australians who enrolled yesterday under the new compulsory military training regulations. The call-up affected youths reaching the age of 21 years by ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 43 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The circumstances of the establishment of the motor engine monopoly are so extraordinary that a full and frank ...
Article : 282 wordsTwo schoolboys, aged 12 and 13, saved two girls from drowning in a waterhole 18ft. deep on Reedy station. Taroom, on ...
Article : 167 wordsA revenue deficit of £1,219,532 for the six months ended December 31, compared with a deficit of £884,784 in Inn corresponding ...
Article : 270 wordsIn 1939 Brisbane had—The coldest October on record; the second hottest February on record ...
Article : 53 wordsImmunisation saved Brisbane from a serious diphtheria epidemic last year, the City Medical Officer (Dr. R. Weaver) said yesterday. ...
Article : 192 wordsMr. George Marchant, Brisbane philanthropist, who has made a new gift of land to the Returned Soldiers' League, has given more than ...
Article : 379 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Selection by the King's Dragoon Guards of the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) as Honorary Colonel is a compliment ...
Article : 109 wordsStaff and company co-operation Drought a contribution of £201/1/ yesterday to the Red Cross and Comforts Fund appeals. ...
Article : 80 wordsCecil Davey, 7, of Junction Road Clayfield, is dangerously ill in the Children's Hospital, as a result of a collision between his bicycle and a ...
Article : 148 wordsConstruction of the Story Bridge was proceeding satisfactorily, and the bridge should be open for traffic by the end of June, said the Director of the Bureau of Industry (Mr. Colin ...
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Advertising : 209 wordsWhen an aged woman wandered into a garage in Ann Street, Valley, at 9.20 a.m. on Tuesday, she was unable to explain who she was or whence she ...
Article : 145 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—One of chose injured when a cab plunged into crowd on the footpath at the corner of Swanstop and Collins streets, city ...
Article : 89 wordsAn important drive has been made by the British motor industry, with the co-operation of the British Government to keep open overseas ...
Article : 171 wordsTo fill 7171 jobs under the State Government's re-employment plan 16,575 men had been called up by the Department of Labour to the end of ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON, January 3.—Found with a bullet wound in the head at her Munich hotel, after a violent quarrel with Hitler, at the end of October, the Hon. Unity Freeman Mitford, fourth daughter of Lord Redesdale, will arrive at Folkestone to-day from ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 451 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—A suggestion that the sale of petrol on Sunday should be banned, and the genera hours for its sale limited, as a means ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 160 wordsSimilarity of names, addresses, and professions has caused confusion over one member of the party involved in the fatal [?] accident at Mt. Cost the ...
Article : 183 wordsA stronger sentiment in the investment market, with further gains, particularly in leading industrial shares marked trading on the Australian ...
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Family Notices : 51 wordsLONDON, January 3.—Tin is quoted at £246/15/- a ton and rubber at 11¾d. a pound. Mining shares are dull. ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Thu 4 Jan 1940, Page 3
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