ON the Sanananda front the first Australian artillery to be airborne into action is busy. On Saturday night I heard their 25-pounder shells tearing above the jungle and then being last in ...
Article : 1,272 wordsIT EARS of a beef production shortage in Queensland next year are supported by a survey authorised recently by the Agriculture Minister (Mr. Bulcock). ...
Article : 550 wordsAustralian mortar crew in action near the Japanese lines before the capture of Gone. Long jungle grass provided them with some cover from Japanese snipers who were hiding in the trees in the background.—Department of Information photograph. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 82 wordsMajor C. E. S. Jackson inspecting Australian Army Medical Women's Services trainees, who yesterday graduated from the school recently opened in Brisbane. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsThe Federated Clerks' Union last night reversed the decision of its executive on the Militia question and decided in ...
Article : 328 wordsOrganising the food front and stabilising agriculture are the tasks now to be tackled by the new Federal Director-General of ...
Article : 190 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Attorney-General (Dr. Eratt) to-day described criticism by Mr. Menzies, M.H.R., of the new Constitutional powers as "knocking tactics." Mr. Menzies had stated in an ...
Article : 487 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The growth of bureaucracy in Australia was deplored by the Premier (Mr. McKell) during his three-hour second reading speech on the Commonwealth Powers Bill in the Legislative Assembly to-day. ...
Article : 244 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Defying enemy snipers, QX9589 Private Andrew' Hogg infantry, kept his wireless set set operating, and enabled ...
Article : 281 wordsThe deliberate bombing by Japanese of an American hospital near Buna was described by one of the patients on his return to ...
Article : 93 wordsAUSTRALIANS, who already have limited from beaches almost everywhere in the global war were able last Thursday to ...
Article : 63 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (A.A.P.).—The Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Morgenthau) has announced that Britain and ...
Article : 111 wordsEarly In the New Year Brisbane will have 400 trams in service. The general manager of the Council Tramways Department ...
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Advertising : 194 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—No plans have been made by the Federal Government for the holding of a Federal election in July, the ...
Article : 186 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police Court proceedings for the extradition of John Woolcott Forbes from the United States here concluded to-day before Mr. Atkinson, S.M., in the central Court. Seven charges have been laid against Forbes. ...
Article : 222 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Another attempt is being made by the standing orders committee of the House of Representatives to ...
Article : 232 wordsAN officer who has lately returned from Papua tells of the resourcefulness of Australian engineering in the ...
Article : 81 wordsA record last-minute rush yesterday added at least 25,000 new subscribers to the Austerity Loan before it closed officially last ...
Article : 228 wordsThere will' be no by-election for the Valley ward of the City Council, following the death of Aid. E. Downey. This will save the council ...
Article : 101 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Absenteeism has been reduced from 10 per cent, to three per cent, in a factory in the Newcastle district ...
Article : 115 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Following his successful appeal "to the Full High Court against a verdict by a special High Court ...
Article : 94 wordsAlthough The Worker, official organ of the Queensland Labour Party, often attacks The Courier-Mail as the "Tory Press," it apparently relics on us to give Its readers accurate reports of secret party meetings. ...
Article : 254 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Building Trades Group of unions to-day decided to send a telegram to the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) ...
Article : 171 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday,—The Coal Mines Central Reference Board declined to-day to continue the hearing of claims by employment ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Brisbane Tramways Union "as filed an application in the Industrial Court, asking that a war loading equivalent to that granted ...
Article : 59 wordsChristmas holiday regulations in the baking industry nave been air ended to enable January 1 to be observed as usual ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Wed 16 Dec 1942, Page 3
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