LAST night hundreds of square miles of grazing country between the headwaters of the C[?]nnor[?] River and the coastal range were lit up by the glare of bushfires which have been burning there for 18 days. ...
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Family Notices : 387 wordsMACKAY agricultural land is threatened with serious erosion. ...
Article : 342 wordsAustralian Navy destroyer Warramunga, to take part in the Royal tour next year, is due at ...
Article : 153 wordsRECENTLY a Russian girl,leaped from an upstairs window of a Russian consulate in America in order to avoid a compulsory recall to her, native land. The girl was a school-teacher, and she was one of several ...
Article : 415 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--Instances of inflated estimates made one wonder how much reliance could be placed on ...
Article : 282 wordsIt will be necessary for the Mackay A.N.A. eisteddfod committee to engage both the Parish Hall and the Olympic ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 210 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.-- Queensland, had good prospects of producing 850,000 tons of sugar this year, worth a ...
Article : 238 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday. -- Strike action was threatened by the South Queensland Milk Vendors' Association to-day unless they ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 436 wordsMEMBERS of Mackay District Canegrowers' Co-operative Society Ltd. yesterday recommended that directors be empowered to increase the society's capital by £15,000 in shares, carrying 4½ per cent interest. ...
Article : 280 wordsParades will be as usual this week-end. Seventh Scouts are reminded of their new rallying time, 7 pm, in future, Seventh Group ...
Article : 314 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday. -- Prices soared so high at Cannon Hill cattle auction sales to-day that many small ...
Article : 196 wordsCAIRNS, Thursday. -- The charge against Bertram John Douglas, former acting postmaster at Cairns, was amended for the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 wordsAnxiety of cane farmers for the safety of their crops from bush fires was one reason for the poor attendance at the Canegrowers ...
Article : 219 wordsADDIS ABABA, October 7. -- The evacuation of British troops from Ogaden province, which comprises one-third of the total. ...
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Advertising : 48 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday. -- The Queensland forecast is: Fine [?]th warm to hot day temperatures and south-east winds on the coast ...
Article : 122 wordsMr. Charles Fortey, of Baker-street, Bundaberg, died at Brisbane on Sunday, aged 80. Mr. Fortey had lived in Bundaberg ...
Article : 165 wordsTHE ROYAL: "Naked City" starring Barry 'Fitzgerald, and "Son of Rusty," with Ted Donaldson, will be shown at the Royal ...
Article : 69 wordsA strong north-easterly breeze which persisted throughout yesterday brought further relief from October's high temperatures--maximum was 80 degrees at 11.30 a.m. ...
Article : 174 wordsPresiding at the 10th annual meeting of the Mt. Martin branch of the C.W.A., Mr. McFaul congratulated the president upon the ...
Article : 146 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday. -- Queensland weather is still controlled by an eastern high pressure centre over the south-east of ...
Article : 97 wordsHarold Francis Gray, 25, single, of Gin Gin, received a fractured skull from which he died in hospital three hours later when his ...
Article : 47 wordsCrackle of rifle bullets, reminiscent of war-time training days, was the accompaniment to bush fires which swept the Herberton ...
Article : 69 wordsTea coupons 33-36 expire on Sunday, October 3. Nos. 37-40 will expire on October 31. Butter coupons 31-33 expire ...
Article : 33 wordsPHOSPHORUS rat baits, which were believed to have started cane fires on a Proserpine farm last week, contain one per cent of yellow phosphorus, a cane expert stated yesterday. He said the phosphorous was ...
Article : 285 wordsTOKIO, October 7. -- The Japanese Cabinet officially announced its resignation after a conference between General MacArthur and ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Fri 8 Oct 1948, Page 2
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