CHRISTMAS and New Year holidays ended officially yesterday, but— Thousands of people are prolonging their holidays until the week-end, and ...
Article : 577 wordsA. T. BUSBY, Dempsey Street, Annerley, wins the daily prize of 10/6 for this entry in The Courier-Mail Happy-Pies photographic competition. His subject is a Turtle Derby at Beron Island, which provides fun excitement for holiday-makers. Details of the competition appear on ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 101 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—New threats to work in Australian war industries are contained in proposals by the metal trade unions to ban overtime in certain factories and in a stop-work meeting called by the ...
Article : 466 wordsTHREE Brisbane men lost no time yesterday in putting New Year resolutions into effect. When they applied for ground staff jobs ...
Article : 91 wordsSixty leaders in the physical fitness campaign, for centres throughout Queensland, will be trained basically in a variety of subjects ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Australian Minister to Tokio (Sir John Latham) has been supplied with an official statement of the methods adopted by the raider ...
Article : 301 wordsA Toowong bus, a good 90 miles from its normal route, appeared in the role of a modern Pied Piper yesterday. ...
Article : 306 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—A party of 28 Brisbane boys, who are training for the mercantile marino, are having a taste of full naval ...
Article : 197 wordsFOR the first time warrant rank is now open to Army cooks under a new plan which was announced yesterday. In future specially-trained and qualified cooks will be given warrant rank ...
Article : 145 wordsThe first arrival in 1941 at the Women's Hospital, a girl, was born at 10 p.m. A few minutes later two more babies, both boys, made ...
Article : 52 wordsBRISBANE art lovers will make a determined effort soon to have the Randall collection of pictures removed from the gallery in the City ...
Article : 163 wordsMULLUMBIMBY, Wednesday.— Gordon Hepburn, 24, of; Lismore, was drowned in the surf at South Beach, Brunswick Heads, this ...
Article : 181 wordsImmunisation for whooping cough was of little use at this stage of the epidemic, said a children's doctor yesterday. He gave the following hints to ...
Article : 195 wordsBefore the Broken Hill Proprietary Co., Ltd., was permitted to raise approximately £2,500,000, by the issue of 2,500,000 shares, to establish ...
Article : 116 wordsBecause of the wealth of a German named Wylde, virtual king of Emirau until the last war, prisoners landed on the island would have enjoyed ...
Article : 362 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Astonishment and disappointment were expressed to-day by the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Hughes) at the refusal of ...
Article : 229 wordsFire destroyed a shop and a five-roomed dwelling at the comer of Merton Road and Abingdon Street, South Brisbane, last night. The owner ...
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Advertising : 98 wordsA truck load of home-made cakes and sweets, with a plentiful supply of nuts, was distributed among prisoners at the Boggo Road Gaol ...
Article : 130 wordsThe estimate by tramway officials of the number of people who would celebrate the New Year's arrival in the city fell short of the mark by ...
Article : 129 wordsAt least two sites have been suggested for the proposed Brisbane T.B. sanatorium for returned soldiers. They are at Ekibin and Holland Park. ...
Article : 115 wordsFrom to-day motorists in the metropolitan area must buy their petrol and oil between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. An Industrial Court judgement delivered on ...
Article : 77 wordsSIR Fergus McMaster, Queensland's knight in the New Year honours list, spent most of yesterday answering congratulatory telephone calls from all parts of the State. "Since 6 o'clock there has been one call after another," said Lady McMaster at 11 a.m. "It seems that people from all over the country are ringing up." ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 404 wordsUnder realistic air raid conditions A.R.P. workers will test their knowledge in a practical demonstration on Sunday, February 16. ...
Article : 92 wordsMore than 400 doctors and 500 nurses have been appointed to units of the A.I.F. since the outbreak of war, according to the latest issue of the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe body of a man, thought to be William Brown, of Olive Street, Nundah, who had been missing since October 1, was found among mangrove ...
Article : 150 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A.R.A.A.F. training plane was damaged when it made a forced landing at Sorrento to-day. Neither the pilot nor ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Thu 2 Jan 1941, Page 3
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