CANBERRA, Tuesday.-- The assurance that full advantage would be taken of all available Queensland labor in manning war industries was ...
Article : 194 wordsA.G.E. (Sarina).-- We made inquiries about tho case quoted, and were officially informed that when application was made for work tho mill was ...
Article : 83 wordsThe annual distribution of prizes in connection with the Christian Brothers' College took place in the Catholic Club rooms ...
Article : 1,009 wordsMr. and Mrs. Pollock and family, who have been visiting Lindeman Island, returned yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Schroder arrived by ...
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Advertising : 93 wordsONCE again our educational institutions are the centre of interest as they conclude their year's tasks with public gatherings where thoughtful ideas about education are voiced. It is rather a pity that the opportunity of teachers to make contact with parents is well nigh ...
Article : 936 wordsA strong S.E. breeze made conditions pleasant out of doors yesterday, but the thermometer reached 89deg., compared with 88.9 on the previous day. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsDairy farmers are invited to a meeting to-night, in the Pioneer Shire Hall, at 7.30 o'clock, when it is planned to form a branch of the ...
Article : 66 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.-- It was stated officially to-night that no contract had yet been signed by the State Munitions Board for the production of ...
Article : 249 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- Australian civil air lines have flown for 18 months without accident of any kind a world safety record. The nearest approach ...
Article : 145 wordsWhen the enlistment of volunteers for the A.I.F. is reopened next month, the military authorities will rigidly enforce the age provisions of the ...
Article : 86 wordsSYDNEY. Tuesday.-- That these were "theological students" was put forward at the Burwood Court to-day on behalf of nine young men who ...
Article : 201 wordsAirlines of Australia's Douglas, Loongana, arrived at Mackay from the south at 10.30 a.m. yesterday with Captain Way in charge, Chief-officer ...
Article : 79 wordsSTRANGE--BAKER.-- A wedding Of interest to a large circle of friends in Walkerston, Sarlna, and Mackay districts was celebrated at St. Paul's ...
Article : 305 wordsThe general prediction some months ago that toys would be almost unobtainable this Christmas has not been borne out by actual results. Many ...
Article : 135 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.-- As a sequel to a demonstration at Randwick after Hash won a race on November 23, Leslie Langdon (31), ...
Article : 196 wordsOTTAWA, December 9.-- A naval communique announced that the destroyer Saguenay was damaged by a torpedo while engaging an enemy ...
Article : 105 wordsNEW YORK, December 9.-- A Bucharest message states: A heavy explosion in a giant oil tank of high powered aviation gasoline belonging to ...
Article : 84 wordsThe approach of the Christmas holidays is reflected in the heavy railway passenger traffic which has been apparent for the past week or two. ...
Article : 93 wordsTHE war is playing have with migration to Australia, but some interesting statistics are emerging. The Commonwealth Statistician's figures for the nine months ended September 30 of this year make strange comparison with the same period of last year. The arrivals for ...
Article : 185 wordsThe seriousness with which the Legislature views assault on females was stressed by the Police Magistrate (Mr. C. B. Buxton) in the Police ...
Article : 103 wordsWASHINGTON, December 9.-- The Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Henry Morganthau, in asking the Congress to authorise the issue of wholly taxable ...
Article : 53 wordsParents are invited to the High School Speech night to-morow evening in the Parish Hall, at 8 o'clock. ...
Article : 23 wordsLONDON, December 9.-- General H. R. L. G. Alexander has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Command, in succession to ...
Article : 230 wordsNEW YORK, December 9.-- A message from Ottawa states that Mr. Ian Mackenzie, Health Minister, said the Air Raid Precautions Committees, ...
Article : 46 wordsThomas Landau (44), laborer, employed at Langdon, was attended by the ambulance late yesterday afternoon for a dislocated shoulder. The ...
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Advertising : 329 wordsSir,-- On Saturday morning, December 7, with some friends, I was on the Sarina railway platform to see my son and his friend, who belong to the A.I.F., depart after a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 145 wordsThe close of this year's operations of the Radio Sunday School was marked by a pleasing reference to the work being done by that body in the ...
Article : 121 wordsRaids on water melon crops under cover of night have been reported recently and watches have been kept. Last night a grower in the ...
Article : 94 wordsA report was received at the police station last night that Walter Jensen (28). was missing from the Prince of Wales Hotel since Monday afternoon ...
Article : 109 wordsMembers of the Mackay Company are reminded of the class of instruction for leaders and members to be held at the Drill Hall to-night, at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 155 wordsSir,-- In your issue of December 5 appears a paragraph setting out the value of the present season's sugar output for the Mackay district, which certainly makes interesting ...
Article : 248 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.-- One thing I am convinced we should refrain from doing is to wait on the assumption the enemy will be content to wait for our ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Minister for the Interior (Senator Foil) has announced that £77,000 will be spent in Queensland on a new training school connected with the Empire Air ...
Article : 124 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Carmila branch, Q.C.W.A., was held on December 7, those present being Mesdames Nilson (in the chair), ...
Article : 127 wordsAfter a comprehensive survey of all electric power distribution lines in the city area in an endeavor to locate the cause of interference to wireless ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Queensland Primary Producers' Cooperative Association Limited reports:-- 460 cattle were penned at to-day's fat stock sale. The bulk of the cattle could be de ...
Article : 307 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.-- The Minister for the Air, Mr. M'Ewen, stated to-day that Maryborough is to have two large new schools for the training ...
Article : 110 wordsSir,-- I again crave space in your widely read paper to try and further impress upon the dairymen the urgent necessity for an organisation to look after their interests. ...
Article : 221 wordsOur St. Lawrence correspondent writes:-- Last Saturday night Mrs. Bannah and her helpers conducted a Christmas tree in the State school, ...
Article : 145 wordsLONDON, December 9.-- A Moscow message states: Soviet dental clinics are using a solution of table salt to anaesthetise for drilling teeth. The ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, December 9.-- A German radio claims that General Camillio Grotti was appointed Chief of the Italian Armistice Commission in ...
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Advertising : 34 wordsLONDON, December 9.-- It is officially announced that a Dutch submarine was lost in war operations. ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Wed 11 Dec 1940, Page 6
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