At the holiday call the city surrenders its thousands to the lure of mountain, river, and sea. By motor car, train, motor-cycle, aeroplane, steamer, and bay craft they hurry to their favourite resorts, there to bathe, bask, fish, and laze in delighted content. Only a brief respite from the year's labour, but how eagerly it is anticipated and how fully it is appreciated! ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 73 wordsIt is a little over three years since Mr. L. S. Amery, then Secretary for the Dominions, publicly welcomed the introduction of the Rhodesian ...
Article : 1,659 wordsAccident.—While Mr. G. W. Scott[?] [?] Stanthorpe, was returning from Texas [?] December 20 the sedan car he was dr[?] skidded at the Broadwater Bridge [?] ...
Article : 144 wordsSocial.—The pineapple growers [?] their monthly meeting on December [?] After the meeting a social was held. [?] munity singing was enjoyed, and the [?] ...
Article : 52 wordsI.O.O.F.—The officers of the Coor[?] branch of the I.O.O.F. are as follows[?] —N.G., Bro. G. Nash; I.P.N.G., Bro[?] H. I. Maher; V. G., Bro. A. R. Maher[?] ...
Article : 151 wordsCanegrowers' Executive.—At the month[?] ly meeting of the Canegrowers' Execu[?] the chairman (Mr. T. G. Mulherin) pr[?] siding correspondence from the ...
Article : 122 wordsA truck laden with gifts, presented by the William Powell Home, for distribution amongst inmates of the Brisbane Gaol on Christmas morning. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 25 wordsNurses at the General Hospital spent many busy hours decorating the wards with flowers and streamers, which gave a festive appearance. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 28 wordsRoad Repairs.—The Noosa Shire Coun[?] cil's engineer (Mr. S. F. Stevens) h[?] completed the re-conditioning of th[?] whole length of the Tewantin-N[?] ...
Article : 38 wordsGold Mining.—The Golden Surprise Go[?] Mining Co., Ltd., have 16 men employed[?] chiefly in erecting the battery whic[?] was brought recently at Gymp[?]e. In ...
Article : 78 wordsPresentation.—At the Gympie Fire Station on December 21 members of the Fire Brigade, through their superintendent (Mr. W. Smith) presented Mr. Rober[?] ...
Article : 46 wordsOne hundred and fifty persons were mowed down, 50 being injured—four fatally—when railway sleepers on a flat work car were hurled on to a ...
Article : 82 wordsImportant changes are taking place in the postage stamps of the Empire; far-reaching changes that will make them in due course (writes Mr. ...
Article : 1,058 wordsCaptain J. H. Treacy, of Brisbane, stated on Thursday that, early in the New Year, in an aeroplane of his own design, he will attempt a non-stop ...
Article : 50 wordsThrowing cayenne pepper into the eyes of Gregory Szarka, secretary of the Enmore Theatre, yesterday, two desperate thieves brutally assaulted ...
Article : 322 wordsOn December 22, 1931, the Commercial Union Company celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of its Queensland branch. Many of those ...
Article : 238 wordsA smart financier, Jenssen, caught the Swedish Legislature napping when he arrived at the Riksbank with bags of silver to the amount of ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Arbitration Court yesterday decided to cancel its order under the Financial Emergency Act reducing wool store workers' wages. The men ...
Article : 49 wordsFrances Virdie Hudson, aged 2[?] years, of Randwick, was killed late last night, when a motor car in which she was a passenger overturned at Erina[?] ...
Article : 81 wordsAntonio Lalish, aged 30 years, a Jugo-Slav, was shot in the back with a pea rifle at his camp near Port Kembla last night. Lallsh told the ...
Article : 75 wordsOsborne Ladies' College, at Black-heath, New South Wales, has many links with Queensland. Among its most brilliant pupils have been girls ...
Article : 271 wordsIn moving the adoption of the directors' report and balance sheet of Oil Search, Limited, at the annual meeting, held in Sydney on Wednesday last, the chairman ...
Article : 403 wordsAt a meeting of the Executive Council, the term of the appointment of members of the Film Censorship Board and the Film Censorship Appeal[?] ...
Article : 81 wordsDuring the last fortnight there has been a distinct indication of a return to prosperity," said the president of the Retail Traders' Association ...
Article : 129 wordsIntenering when several men crea[?] ed a disturbance at an hotel in Swan-street, Richmond, on Thursday night, Constable William Lloyd, aged 33 years, ...
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Advertising : 105 wordsChristmas Day was celebrated in brilliant sunshine, and most of the beaches were crowded with surfers and picnickers. There were hundreds of ...
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Advertising : 88 wordsStan Green a resident of Tweed Heads, was riding a bicycle behind a moving motor car at Tweed Heads, and coming suddenly from behind, in an effort to ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 26 Dec 1931, Page 14
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