A local patriotic effort to be staged on Tuesday next in the Parish Hall will take the form of a modern Mannequin Parade, featuring the latest in ...
Article : 292 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.--"You can take it as gospel that British fighters are giving the Germans a terrible hiding in the air," said the Minister ...
Article : 138 wordsWhen arranging his usual business visit to Mackay last week, Mr, M. J. Belrne (Beirno Pty. Ltd.) decided to travel north by car. He left ...
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Family Notices : 49 wordsThe Cotton Bounty Bill, passed by Parliament, provides for the payment of bounty on raw cotton produced during the years 1941 to ...
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Advertising : 12 wordsIT will not suit the plans of Hitler or Mussolini to have Hungary and Roumania go to war over disputed territories, hence it was not surprising that the Foreign Ministers of both countries have been summoned to meet the German and Italian Foreign Ministers in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 wordsFine at first, but cloud increasing, and scattered showers by the weekend, with fresh to strong southeasterly winds. ...
Article : 22 wordsMELBOURNE, Thurs.-- Known throughout the union movement as the "Dog Collar Act," the Transport Workers' Act was suspended to-day by ...
Article : 230 wordsAlthough other parts of the State benefited by the cyclonic disturbance last week, the Central Coast division was particularly well favored. For the ...
Article : 495 wordsHouse owners around Mackay realise that they have a wide range of shrubs and flowers to choose from should they wish to improve the appearance of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsMiss F. M'Lellan, sen., returned by mail train last night, after having a pleasant holiday in Brisbane. Mrs. Kevin Markey (Townsville), ...
Article : 534 wordsLes Reefsdorf (26), single, of Wandaru, suffered extensive bruises and abrasions when a horse walked on him yesterday. He was treated by ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Police Magistrate (Mr. C. B. Buxton), in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, entered judgment in the following cases:--J. M. Zemek V R. M. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 wordsLONDON (by Air Mail).-- Mistaking a spouting whale for a small British vessel, the commander of a German ...
Article : 81 wordsAirlines of Australia D.H. 86 Lepena arrived at Mackay from the North at 10.55 a.m. yesterday with Captain E. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsLONDON (by Air Mail).--Lady Patricia Russell, daughter of the second Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, is living on a remote estate in ...
Article : 288 wordsLONDON, August 28.--The Earl of Shaftesbury, Viscount Cranbourne, Lady Edith Hilda Glyn, and Lady Sybil Emily Hambro, were each fined ...
Article : 33 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--Introducing a bill to amend the Brands Acts in the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Minister for ...
Article : 251 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--Mr. Justice Evatt has accepted the invitation of the N.S. Wales Executive of the Australian Labor party to contest the ...
Article : 181 wordsWASHINGTON, August 28.--President Roosevelt has signed legislation authorising him to call out 396,000 national guardsmen and army reserves ...
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Advertising : 212 wordsMOSCOW, Aug. 28--Dr. Schnurre, Nazi trade expert, arrived heading a German trade delegation, including high officials of the Ministries of ...
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, August 28.--It is authoritatively stated there is no foundation for the Italian report that Britain is preparing to occupy ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Henry Ratcliff, who has been well and favorably known in Mackay and district for a long period, passed away in Mackay on Wednesday of last ...
Article : 219 wordsWASHINGTON, August 28.--President Roosevelt has signed the bill authorising American ships to enter the war zones in order to evacuate ...
Article : 29 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--A levy on stock owners of 1d for every £5 worth of cattle sold is proposed to finance the fight for the control ...
Article : 209 wordsMOSCOW, Aug. 28.--Three huge iron and steel works are being completed by 1945 in Siberia, Southern Urals, and the Karelo-Finnish Republic. A ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON (by Air Mail).--William Heddle, 93-year-old leader in Essex of the religious sect known as the Peculiar People, celebrated his ...
Article : 87 wordsOTTAWA, Aug, 28.-- The Minister for Finance (Colonel Ralston) stated that an all-Canadian Army Corps was being formed in England under ...
Article : 100 wordsVICHY, Aug. 28.--The Compte de Paris has succeeded Due de Guise, who died on August 26, as Pretender to the Throne of France. He has assumed ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON (by Air Mail).--Germany has by no means heard the last of Poland's airmen. They intend to see is through to the end (says the air ...
Article : 188 wordsMany thanks are due to Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Croker, who placed their home, "Bona Vista," which offers a delightful panorama of the ...
Article : 195 wordsWASHINGTON. Aug. 28.--The Conscription Bill vote was 58 to 31. The bill now returns to the House. It provides a year of compulsory military ...
Article : 66 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.--A Berlin news agency alleges that German Roman Catholic Bishops have decided that special ceremonies of gratitude to the ...
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Advertising : 72 wordsCAIRO. Aug. 28.-- A communique states;--A mechanised British patrol of Sudanese troops successfully raided the Italian frontier post of Adardez, ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON (by Air Mail).--The newspaper 'Petit Dauphinols' soys: "At St. Julien de Rartz there is a charming lake where in the morning ...
Article : 76 wordsBy special arrangement Reuter's world service, in addition to other special sources of Information, is used in the compilation of the overseas intelligence published in ...
Article : 85 wordsROME, August 28.--Dr. Clodius, in an article in the 'Glornale d'Italia, says that Germany and Italy are working miracles supplying each other ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Fri 30 Aug 1940, Page 6
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