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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,734 wordsReferring on Saturday to the figures for enlistments for the year 1917, the Director-General fo Recruiting (Mr. Mackinnon, M.L.A.) pointed out that the ...
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Article : 267 wordsMr. George Eric Hale (Toowoomba) was accepted at the local recruiting centre to-day. ROCKHAMPTON, January 7. ...
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Article : 707 wordsPersons who are anxious to seek news of sick, wounded, or missing men are invited to call at or write to the Information Bureau, Spencer Block, Queen street, Brisbane, and the ...
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Article : 214 wordsThe Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Act provides for the appointment of a repatriation commission of seven members, of which the Minister shall be chairman. ...
Article : 416 wordsA number of enemy officers and men displayed the white flag and attempted to fraternise with the French troops. The latter fired, killing some and wounding ...
Article : 88 wordsA Chino-French Commission is about to consider the question of sending Chinese troops to Europe. Tuan-chi-jui (Director of the War Bureau) has requested the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 wordsA feature of the war intercession services held yesterday was the joining together of all seets. This was especially noticeable in the provincial towns, where ...
Article : 206 wordsThe granting of a 12? per cent. bonus to skilled engineers last October has created a tangle, and claims made by other industrial bodies are accentuating ...
Article : 90 wordsIt is reported, in reference to the electricians' dispute, that the employers have now agreed to grant the increase of 12½ per cent to those who are not yet ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Hunter, the member for Waipawa, a wealthy Hawke's Bay squatter, has offered the Government 2535 acres, valued at £30,000, for the purposes of a ...
Article : 54 wordsThe British Bed Cross Society has cabled to the Australian Red Cross to know if it can supply drivers for Red Cross motor launches in Mesopotamia. The ...
Article : 83 wordsSir William Plender (president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants), in his second report of the winding up of the London branches of five ...
Article : 441 wordsThe committee of the Queensland Soldiers Comforts Fund have opened their rooms again at Parbury House, and work will be resumed us usual. Any new workers will be warmly ...
Article : 499 wordsMr. Crawford Vanghan (ex-Premier of South Australia) is on a speaking tour of America, under the auspices of the Committee of Public Information, with the ...
Article : 86 wordsAn interesting point dealing with the rating of lands held by soldiers on active service came before the Livingstone Shire Council to-day. The shire clerk stated ...
Article : 153 words"Military Orders" issued by the Defence Department yesterday contained an amendment to the orders regulating the medical examination for appointment to ...
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Article : 77 wordsThe estimates indicate that well over half a million sterling will be the result of the collections for the recent "Our Day" effort in India organised by Lady ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Queensland War Council has notified the hon. secretary (Mr.C. Campbell) of the propped Ithaca War Memorial that it does not consider the present time ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) stated on Saturday that the Victorian State officials had had several interviews with the Supervisor of Commonwealth ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Parliamentary correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" predicts that Lord Crewe will be appointed British Ambassador to Paris, and Mr. Arthur ...
Article : 54 wordsA public meeting was held on Saturday to protest against the action of the Shire Coucil in acquiring a special lease, formerly held by two soldiers now at the ...
Article : 97 wordsNegotiations have been successfully concluded between the New Zealand producers and the Imperial Food Controller for the purchase of second-class butter ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Wool Textil Assiciation has resolved, though of the opinion that the introduction of the Improts and Exports Bill is premature, to support it, ...
Article : 34 wordsThe City Council was petitioned by the Boy Scouts' Association (Queensland section) at its meeting yesterday that the concession whereby members of the ...
Article : 61 wordsLieutenant W. F. Andrews (an Australian) and E. F. Wells have been court-martialled, and dismissed the service. ...
Article : 25 wordsCabinet is considering the appointment of a Minister to represent South Australia on the Coal Board. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe "tanks" to date have collected £20,000. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe New Zealand war pensions now number 10,450. involving an annual liability of £614,690. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 8 Jan 1918, Page 7
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