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Advertising : 156 wordsDESPITE great difficulties encountered during the first season, 7,500 acres of ground-nuts (peanuts) are now being harvested in the Kengwa district of East Africa. The mechanicla digger and method of lifting is efficient. Ground-nuts grow in rows like potatoes. A mechanical digger passes down the rows, lifting them and shaking them free from loose soil. Side-delivery rrakes then stack the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 249 wordsSYDNEY, June 17:—More that 7,000 people are still homeless on the far north coast of N.S.W., but the floods which have devastated the area since Tuesday are new receding. ...
Article : 823 wordsBRISBANE, June 17—Hundreds of South Burnett farmers have been summoned by the Taxation Department to submit themselves ...
Article : 226 wordsLONDON, June 17.—The Associated Press special representative at Northampton says that rain delayed the start of the ...
Article : 277 wordsBRISBANE, June 17.—Beef carcase competitions will be conducted by the Australian Meat Board in co-operation with the Royal ...
Article : 133 wordsMELBOURNE, June 17.—A complete stoppage of Melbourne's electric trains and country trains to and from the ...
Article : 198 wordsWASHINGTON, June 16.—The air forces disclosed to-day that Captain Charles Yeager, who was the first American pilot ...
Article : 128 wordsCANBERRA, June 17.—The only woman Senator in the Government party. Senator Dorothy Tangney, was selected by the ...
Article : 325 wordsBRISBANE, June 17.—Harold Boland, State president of the A.W.U. was charged in the Police Court to-day with having ...
Article : 87 wordsCANBERRA, June 17.—All preparations have been made for the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley), to go to London next month. Only ...
Article : 78 wordsCANBERRA, June 17.—Menial patients soon may be relieved or the payment of hospital fees if the State Health Ministers ...
Article : 169 wordsWASHINGTON, June 16.—The House of Represents lives to-night amended the Draft Service (Conscription) Bill to reduce the period ...
Article : 182 wordsCANBERRA, June 17.—Parliament will rise early to-morrow for the winter recess and the new Parliament is summoned to meet ...
Article : 35 wordsBRISBANE, June 17.—A departmental inquiry into the train collision at Bungunyah siding, near Goondiwindi, on Saturday last, will ...
Article : 69 wordsAUCKLAND, June 17 (A.A.P.-Reuter). June 17.—After almost four months, during which aircraft were grounded for engine ...
Article : 71 wordsINNISFAIL, June 17.—From what can he gathered in this district the canecutting position is satisfactory in the different ...
Article : 188 wordsPEARL HARBOUR, June 16.—The United States battleships New York and Nevada, survivors of the Bikini atomic bomb tests, will be ...
Article : 77 wordsCAIRNS, June 17.—The Cairns aerial ambulance flew 404 miles to Forest Home station and returned to-day to bring a station cook ...
Article : 76 wordsBRISBANE, June 17.—Studied relaxation of price control by the State Government, industry by industry as supply caught up with ...
Article : 145 wordsTULLY, June 17.—To date the Tully area has absorbed 90 Balts. By the end of the present week they will be augmented by ...
Article : 229 wordsBRISBANE, June 17.—Members of the State Service Union will get a minimum salary Increase of £6 a year, following a judgment ...
Article : 110 wordsCAIRNS, June 17.—Cairns had its coldest morning so far for the year to-day when, at 6 a.m. the minimum temperature of 57.2 ...
Article : 62 wordsSYDNEY, June 17.—Heavy seas off the Heeds gave passengers on the Strathaird a boisterous welcome to Sydney to-day. ...
Article : 112 wordsCANBERRA, June 17.—Unpayable butter prices was the main reason for the decline in the dairying industry, said Mr. ...
Article : 404 wordsCANBERRA, June 17.—A quantity of a new tuberculosis drug known as Pas is being purchased by the Repatriation Commission ...
Article : 72 wordsCANBERRA, June 17.—Mr. Chifley told questioners in the House of Representatives to-day, be would not be prepared to ...
Article : 61 wordsBRISBANE, June 17.—It was conceivable that if the restrictive method of the Commonwealth Government in the free medicine ...
Article : 172 wordsBRISBANE, June 19.—Nearly 1700 watersiders worked in Brisbane to-day. 14 inter-State and overseas vessels loading and ...
Article : 66 wordsSINGAPORE, June 17, (A.A.P.-Reuters): There is no evidence in Malaya that Russia or any overseas Communist body is directing the challenge to the Malayan Government which local ...
Article : 651 wordsLONDON, June 16.—The British United Press Tel Aviv representative says the Irgun Zvsi Leumi has become a political party ...
Article : 82 wordsCANBERRA, June 17.—Mr. Chifley is expected to go to London in the first fortnight in July, for six weeks, for ...
Article : 64 wordsHosing of gardens was further restricted by the City Council at its monthly meeting on Thursday night when the three-hour period in the evening was reduced to two, and the hours confined to between ...
Article : 576 wordsINNISFAIL, June 17.—Messrs. H E. Home and Son continue prospecting their dredging claim an the Johnston River, some miles ...
Article : 115 wordsSYDNEY, June 17.—An official of the State Agricultural Deportment has estimated that the flood-waters might destroy 40,000 acres ...
Article : 122 wordsROCKHAMPTON, June 17.—Bright sunshine and cool weather made the conditions perfect to-day for the second day of ...
Article : 163 wordsBRISBANE, June 17.—Mr. C. H. Jamieson has been appointed by the Commonwealth Government as one of two ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, June 16.—F. Daly. British open champion, had 69 and A. Camera, the Italian open champion. 71, in the Manchester ...
Article : 83 wordsTULLY, July 17.—The 1947 sugar stacks which have been [?] at the Tully mill have now been reduced to 1900 tons. ...
Article : 164 wordsBRISBANE, June 17.—Larrel P. Soviet, 24 third officer, and John Ernest Leech, 21. fourth officer of the British motor vessel. ...
Article : 130 wordsLONDON, June 16.—Reuters says the committee of the golf tournament decided to ask Von Nida for an explanation of an ...
Article : 101 wordsMELBOURNE, June 17.—A De Havilland freight 'plane which disappeared in the Gulf of Papua area on Monday, has been found ...
Article : 101 wordsBRISBANE, June 17.—Floods in the Northern Rivers areas of New South Wales caused telephone trunkling congestion in Brisbane ...
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The Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1907 - 1909 ; 1912 - 1966), Fri 18 Jun 1948, Page 1
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