An overcast sky and a cool breeze from the south-cast made the weather conditions yesterday pleasant. The maximum temperature at 3 p.m. was 84, and the corrected ...
Article : 45 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.--The Minister for Commerce (Sir Earle Page) revealed to-day that the cost of providing additional cold storage for meat ...
Article : 78 wordsA strenuous week's work by the staff of the Royal Australian Air Force train in Mackay came to an end yesterday, and the train left at ...
Article : 563 wordsFor the purpose of improving conditions of travel on Netherdale line a gang of men commenced duty on Tuesday in the vicinity of ...
Article : 57 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.--Pla[?] for the expansion of aircraft manufacture in Australia on a scale immensely greater then [?] ...
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Advertising : 328 wordsA CURSORY glance at a railway map of Australia suffices to show that Queensland, "latest" of the eastern States, has avoided the grave errors so prominent in the developmental schemes of New South Wales and Victoria. In the southern States the railway systems all ...
Article : 1,063 wordsCloudy; scattered showers along coastal fringe; a few moderate falls; southeasterly winds. ...
Article : 15 wordsTHARGOMINDAH, Wednesday.--For the second time in a fortnight, the Bulloo River is again in high flood, being miles wide and flooding thousands of acres of pastoral ...
Article : 71 wordsThe holiday rush of railway passengers continues to bo heavy, both to and from the North, Yesterday's southbound mall, which was late on ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, January 28.--Eire Government imposed censorship on messages intended for publication outside Eire relating to any event connected ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 wordsWilliam Ungerer (2), of Schoolstreet, was attended by the Ambulance yesterday. He sustained slight concussion when he fell from the veranda ...
Article : 44 wordsNEW YORK, January 28.--The Tokio Cabinet Information Bureau announced that the Afghanistan Government was sending an economic ...
Article : 122 wordsTwo Ambulance bearers from Mackay centre were among the first local residents to see Cunningham's comet. They were held up by flooded creeks ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 153 wordsThree occupants of a car were injured when the vehicle struck a stump on Range-road, Sarina, following the failure of the steering gear. ...
Article : 83 wordsUnsolicited praise for the aborigines from Woorabinda mission who spent the week-end in Mackay was given by a visitor to the city prior to the "boys'" ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 260 wordsAfter a short recess owing to the holiday period the Women's National Emergency Legion is again active. Due to the reconstruction .of the old ...
Article : 103 wordsMAREEBA, Wednesday.--[?] son told me on October 1,[?] that he put his hand down on [?] wound and brought up a[?] ...
Article : 474 wordsIt has been a custom in the case of fines imposed on persons convicted of sly-grog selling to grant a moiety of the fine to the police agent engaged ...
Article : 143 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--Four officers and an aircraftsman were killed when an R.A.AF. plane crashed at Glenbrook, about 5 p.m. yesterday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 20 wordsThe Attorney-General (Mr J. O'Keefe) passed through Mackay on the mall train last night on a visit to the North. Mr. O'Keefe intends ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 178 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday. -- Two hundred invalided soldiers and sailors have arrived at an Australian port. Some of the sailors were from ...
Article : 156 wordsATHENS, January 29. -- Gloom was cast over Greece today by the news of the death of the Premier (General Metaxas), which occurred after a brief ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. -- Powers to prevent the making of photographs, sketches, or drawings which might be of military value have been widely ...
Article : 287 wordsCHUNGKING, January 29. --A vigorous denial of Japanese reports of civil war or of an unfavorable turn in international events was made by ...
Article : 177 wordsWhen Thomas Walter Landau (48) appeared before Mr. H. L. Kingston in the Police Court on Tuesday charged with drunkenness he stated he was ...
Article : 125 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--[?] heavy rain in the metropolitan last night brought the January [?] to 1275 points, the highest for [?] ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, January 28.--Two bursts of heavy gunfire shook the Channel coast at dusk when German longrange guns were directed across the ...
Article : 64 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--The State Health Office advised to-day of two infantile paralysis cases in one family at Caboolture, a boy aged 11 and a ...
Article : 34 wordsWASHINGTON, January 28.--An informed source asserted that Germany now possesses 36,000 combat planes. Half are available for active ...
Article : 29 wordsSTOCKHOLM, January 28.--A radio message from Valparaiso says that the Swedish steamer sturcholm, 4575 tons, is considerably overdue and is ...
Article : 31 wordsDARWIN, Wednesday.--Abo[?] men, representing the Gover[?] and the Administration Depar[?] entered hotels last night and in[?] ...
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, January 28.--Woolworths had a record profit of £7,958,160 last year, compared with £7,612,601, Taxes absorbed £4.310,910. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe correct manner to address correspondence to Australian soldiers abroad. Alter giving the number, name and other identifying particulars, the ...
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, January 28.--The Minister for Aircraft Production (Lord Beaverbrook) acknowledges a further contribution of £2500 from the people ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, January 28.--The Lyons radio declares that the Berlin philharmonic orchestra, conducted by Furtwangler, played at the Vatican. ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Thu 30 Jan 1941, Page 6
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