In the middle of a fierce fight in southern Bougainville recently was a Mareeba man, Lieut. Bill Meedy. When Japanese made a ...
Article : 540 wordsCANBERRA, August 25.—As soon as shipping is available, about 1000 German, Italian and Japanese civilian internees will be moved from internment camps in Australia for deportation to their own countries. Even ...
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Family Notices : 222 wordsThose who can see bright prospects for the tourist industry in North Queensland as soon as normal means of transport are ...
Article : 717 wordsBRISBANE, August 26.—If Nurse Mona Wagland goes to gaol, more than 2000 people are likely to "Serenade" outside the ...
Article : 201 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 25.—Queensland is taking immediate steps to boost the tourist trade, first reorganising the Tourist Bureau. ...
Article : 429 wordsBRISBANE, August 25.—Ten more soldiers under sentence escaped from Grevely Detention Barracks in two separate breaks ...
Article : 367 wordsBRISBANE, August 26.—Corporal Alda Toni, pretty young W.A.A.A.F., and former Brisbane Grammar School girl, almost lone-handed brought about the capture ...
Article : 446 wordsWhile playing football yesterday afternoon in Parramatta Park, R. Dykes, a member of the Mossman team, received, a probable fracture of ...
Article : 47 wordsMrs. A. Morris, of McLeod-street, received a fractured left wrist, and abrasions to the right arm and face on Saturday, as the result of a fall from ...
Article : 45 wordsDelegates from the Rotary clubs at Innisfail, Cairns, Tully and Mareeba held a district assembly on Saturday night and yesterday under the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe police are investigating the disappearance of Mr. J. E. Maloney's single-seater roadster from the Central Garage at the corner of Aplin and ...
Article : 75 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 26.—A mass meeting of tramwaymen to-day decided to cease work after the last tram on Tuesday night. Four hundred attended ...
Article : 220 wordsAlthough shipments of raw sugar did not reach the anticipated figure during the spring tide period just ended, the Goondi mill was able to get ...
Article : 158 wordsBRISBANE, August 26.—In search for evidence of Japanese war crimes against Australians, judges of a special Commission ...
Article : 228 wordsThe Minister for the Army (Mr. F. M. Forde) in paying a tribute over the air to the V.D.G. on the eve of its disbandment, ...
Article : 484 wordsBRISBANE, August 25.—Radical changes in Queensland's transport policy are expected to be announced by the State Government soon. ...
Article : 230 wordsPERTH, Aug. 26.—A fleet of submarines operating from a secret base at Fremantle harassed Japanese naval and merchant shipping in the East ...
Article : 213 wordsMELBOURNE, August 25.—Murder, it is feared, may be the answer to the mystery disappearance of two children—a girl of nine in New South ...
Article : 182 wordsRecently the Cairns A.L.P. wrote to the Government asking that the law governing fair rent determinations should be amended by providing that ...
Article : 154 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly Mr. L. J. Barnes. (Cairns) asked the Acting Premier: "Will he investigate the possibilities of creating the following areas ...
Article : 161 wordsMELBOURNE, August 26.—A 24-hour general railway strike from midnight on Wednesday may be called by the Victorian branch of the Australian ...
Article : 139 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 25.—R.A.A.F. flying jeeps (Auster planes) dramatically descued ll American airmen from the Borneo jungle, where they had ...
Article : 333 wordsMANILA, August 25 (A.A.P.).—The Associated Press correspondent aboard Admiral Spruance's flgship in Manila Bay says that Admiral Spruance told a ...
Article : 175 wordsThe death occurred in Cairns on Saturday night of Mrs. Mary Ja[?]e Moore, at the age of 75 years. Deceased, who had resided in Cairns for over ...
Article : 91 wordsMELBOURNE, August 26.—Full employment could and would be maintained, the Minister for Aviation (Mr. A. S. Drakeford) told a meeting of ...
Article : 110 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 26.—Man-power control for many people will remain, probably at least until the end of the year, despite the War Cabinet's ...
Article : 209 wordsCANBERRA, August 26.—Despite the unprecedenter problems facing the Government owing to the sudden cessation of hostilities, trade and ...
Article : 188 wordsBRISBANE, August 25.—Queensland will not have a public holiday on September 3, as previously planned by the State Governments to hold a monster ...
Article : 128 wordsMiss Rose Helena Watson died in Cairns yesterday afternoon at the age of 75. She was born at Laidley, Queensland. She was very well known ...
Article : 83 wordsFREMANTLE, August 25.—Coroner F. M. Read to-day criticised hotel licensees for serving drunken men, and the police for not prosecuting licensees ...
Article : 204 wordsBRISBANE, August 26.—More than 3000 Queensland sawmill employees are now on strike, most of them in the metropolitan area. ...
Article : 89 wordsMELBOURNE, August 25.—Waterside workers have refused time and a half rates, 11/ an hour, to unload miceridden fodder from the freighter ...
Article : 136 wordsA well-known resident of Mareeba. Mrs. Albertine Wilhelmina Peters, died in the Mareeba Hospital on Friday afternoon at the age of 83 years. She ...
Article : 92 wordsMELBOURNE, August 25.—Mrs. Anna Jane Payne (34) was found lying dead yesterday on the floor of a shed at her home in Red Bluff. ...
Article : 109 wordsCANBERRA, August 25.—Aim of the Commonwealth Government's plans for Australian aborigines was to fit them to qualify for the rights of full ...
Article : 65 wordsBRISBANE, August 26.—The Queensland Butter Board's heat resisting concentrated butter pack, which was developed to high standard during the ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, August 26 (A.A.P.).—New Dedhi radio states that the Japanese have released all the allied prisoners from an internment camp near Hanoi. ...
Article : 34 wordsAdvice was received last night of the death at Spring Creek station. via. Mt. Surprise, of Ross Collins, twin son of Mr. and Mrs. Stan Collins. Deceased ...
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Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Mon 27 Aug 1945, Page 3
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