Tragedy befel the week-end visit to Mackay of Wireless Operator Edmond Vincent O'Connor, RAAF (23), who was drowned in Eimeo ...
Article : 644 wordsTHE appearance of large forces of "enemy" airborne troops over Victoria Plains, near Mackay, at the week-end led ...
Article : 716 wordsA serious position is likely to arise owing to the shortage of tube gas for refrigerators in Mackay. The Engineer-Manager of the City ...
Article : 530 wordsEarly on Saturday morning col[?]n Porter (18), a mill worker of Went-ford-street, was taken by the ambulance to a doctor with severe gashes ...
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Advertising : 667 wordsHONOLULU is famous as a world tourist resort, where there are available most of the luxuries that money can purchase. Whether these conditions had anything to do with the success of the Japanese descent on Pearl Harbor a year ago is a matter of conjecture, but big ...
Article : 697 wordsA final public appeal to the citizens of Mackay to invest in the Austerity Loan will be made at a special rally to be held in front ...
Article : 68 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--Pilot Officer Adrian Phillip Goldsmith, of Artarmon, known to his fighter-pilot comrades as "Tim," has the ...
Article : 218 wordsA naval recruiting party will attend at the office of Mr. W. G. Hodges, Wood-street, to-day from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Recruits between the ages of ...
Article : 70 wordsSaturday morning's postal delivery contained air mail which was posted in Brisbane on Thursday last. No explanation could be offered at the ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. E. J. Walsh, Minister for Lands, has been advised by the Education Department as follows:--I wish to advise you that Miss Helen Jean Blair ...
Article : 70 wordsIt is almost here . . . this Christmas, 1942. And we know, even now, that it will be a strange Christmas. We know, too, that it will not be a ...
Article : 316 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.--How a German blockade runner scuttled itself recently in the Indian Ocean was described to-night by the ...
Article : 259 wordsVital statistics for the month of November have been made available by the courthouse officials. The births for the month inside the city area ...
Article : 74 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. -- Tomorrow is the birthday of King George, who is 47. He was born on December 14, 1895, ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the Police Court on Saturday morning Jim Howdah (43, laborer), Queensland, on a charge of having been found drunk in Sydney-street, ...
Article : 29 wordsA happy day was spent on Friday last at the Eimeo State school when the annual treat was held. Dainty refreshments were served by a band of ...
Article : 386 wordsA correspondent writes to a southern newspaper: With the present news about that "mere tool" of Hitler, Mussolini, it is well to remember certain ...
Article : 110 wordsIn continuing his replies to questions on the austerity loan, Uncle Ted writes in response to:-- Mrs. J.: I have a nest egg that ...
Article : 567 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday. --Mystery surrounds the murder of three men, including a soldier, who were found dying in a blazing shop. The ...
Article : 174 wordsThe following appointments and transfers of police in the Mackay district are announced by Inspector J. J. Osborne. Senior-Sergeant T. ...
Article : 155 wordsISTANBUL, December 12.--A message from Sofia says the Germans shot over 300 Greeks at Lamia for sheltering guerillas who blew up the railway ...
Article : 32 wordsSir,--I wish to correct the erroneous impression given by your sub-leader entitled "Overcrowding the Ambulance" in yesterday's issue. In this ...
Article : 213 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--The Minister in charge of Civil Defence (Mr. E. M. Hanlon) made a vigorous attack on the regulations under the National Security Act providing for unlimited penalties for minor breaches. The original ...
Article : 577 wordsThe Queensland Chamber of Manufacturers recently wrote to the Prices Commissioner, drawing attention to delays in dealing with applications to ...
Article : 213 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.--An attack on Mr. A. A. Calwell for his conduct in the House of Representatives last week was made by the Provincial ...
Article : 205 wordsOn Saturday, November 28, at her parents' residence, Dorothy, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Gurren, Calen, was married to Edward John, ...
Article : 265 wordsWASHINGTON, December 12.-- Mr. H. L. Stimson warned the public that the optimism that all was over in North Africa would ...
Article : 181 wordsAmbulance Bearer J. J. Phillips is reported to be progressing satisfactorily after undergoing an operation. Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Brown, of ...
Article : 87 wordsWINNIPEG, December 12.--The Conservative National Convention unanimously adopted a resolution deploring the decay of responsible ...
Article : 42 wordsJOHANNESBURG, December 12.--South African troops arriving from Madagascar cheered wildly and flung their caps into Hip air when told that ...
Article : 41 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--Alderman E. Downey, chairman of the Works Committee of the city Council, died to-day after a brief illness. ...
Article : 25 wordsNEW YORK, December 12.--Admiral Sir Percival Noble, the newly appointed head of the British Delegation to Washington, arrives in ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Mon 14 Dec 1942, Page 2
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