With a view to organising a full vaudeville and revue company for the staging of a show in Mackay and district in aid of Mackay and District ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 29 wordsWhen it became known early yesterday that Mr. Lionel C. Denman, of Fryerne, had lost his life in an accident when crossing ...
Article : 541 wordsOwing to tochnical errors in voting, a new plebiscite for Maree ward was ordered by the inner committee of the Q.C.E. to-day. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 31 wordsThe Women's National Emergency Legion will to-day open a depot for the soldiers' comforts funds, in the old Court House building. The room ...
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Article : 86 wordsThe "Times' says mat very strong statistical grounds exist for a cut in the tin quota. Market estimates show that an 80 per cent, quota ...
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Article : 216 wordsA train from Townsville reached Mackay last night at 7.50, carrying 160 passengers for the South. The train which left Mackay on ...
Article : 48 wordsAustralia's iron ore shipments to Japan provided the subject for an exchange of answers and questions in the House of Commons ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 25 wordsWhile working at the Outer Harbor yesterday, Wm. Packin (30) received an incised wound over the left eye, when he slipped and fell at the wharf. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 256 wordsMore than 200 men of the Queensland contingent of the Second A.I.F. left by special train to-day for Ingleburn after six days leave before ...
Article : 93 wordsA fruit train, the first for several weeks, passed through Mackay last night from Brisbane, which it left at 1.30 p.m. on Monday. It comprised 14 ...
Article : 45 wordsReported missing from Rockhampton to the Mackay police about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a youth was identified at the station after the ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. George Pewis Aitken, retired manager of Dalgety & Co. Ltd., died to-day at his home, St. Kilda, at the age of 76. ...
Article : 55 wordsA communique says that there is increased patrol activity between Moselle and Saar. BERLIN, Feb. 26. ...
Article : 53 wordsAs the result of heavy rain which fell in the Eungella Range and Netherdale districts on Sunday, Monday, and Monday night, there ...
Article : 426 wordsWhen imposing a fine upon a cyclist yesterday for riding without a lamp, the P.M. (Mr. C. B. Buxton) made an observation that might serve as a ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. O. Locker-Lampson (Con.) has tabled a motion in the House of Commons as follows: "In view of ...
Article : 76 wordsThe danger of playing in long grass was illustrated yesterday when two children, one residing in Peel-street and the other at North Side, were ...
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Advertising : 162 wordsThe casket containing the ashes of the late Lord Tweedsmuir was landed at Plymouth this morning. It was brought from Canada by a British ...
Article : 61 wordsThe proclamation in November, 1938, of a reserve of 8a. Or. 10.6p. for State school purposes at Sybil Creek, in parish of Pelion, has been rescinded ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 267 wordsThe Inter-American Neutrality Committee has recommended to neutrals to do their utmost to prevent merchantmen from using the port's ...
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Article : 149 wordsCongress moved two steps towards the creation of a United States Legation in Australia, the most important step immediately being the ...
Article : 161 wordsOnly two officers of the armed merchantman Rawalpindi have been reported as saved. One of them, 20- ear-old Midshipman D. Dugdale ...
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Article : 636 wordsT. J. Leonard will sell to-day (Wednesday), at the Bacon Association yards, cattle at 11 a.m.; to-morrow (Thursday), at 2.30 p.m. ...
Article : 66 wordsAirlines of Australia Stlnson Townsville arrived from the north at 10.10 a.m. with Captain A. Munro in charge and First-officer Mr. G. Morgan. ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. E. J. Walsh, M.L.A. has received the following communication from the office of the Minister for Transport; -- With reference to your ...
Article : 179 wordsBefore the P.M. (Mr. C. B. Buxton), in the Police Court yesterday morning, William John Ryan (42), Ireland, who pleaded guilty on a charge of ...
Article : 34 wordsBritain is increasing her sales of wireless receiving sets to listeners all over the world. During the 1938-1939 season, 80,000 wore sent overseas ...
Article : 246 wordsThe aviation correspondent of the 'Dally Telegraph' says: The Government is ceasing financially to support inland airlines, with ...
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Advertising : 111 wordsThe Secretary for Overseas. Trade (Mr. R. s. Hudson), speaking at Glasgow, emphasised the necessity for increasing exports. He said: "Even ...
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Advertising : 184 wordsBaker and Brown have declined an invitation to Join Ives's team on the Queensland tour. The only Queenslander in the team ...
Article : 75 wordsThe tractor which enabled the butter factory to carry on during the recent power-house breakdown was a M'Cormick-Dcering F20, loaned by the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe World's Fair enumerates 32 countries, with a certainty of 14, probably including Now Zealand, as exhibitors, in 1940. ...
Article : 78 wordsHenneberry was examined by a doctor to-day, and it is thought that, he fractured a bone in the right hand. An X-ray photograph will be ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Wed 28 Feb 1940, Page 8
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