Mackay City Council will not make up the difference between military pay and council salary during the period that employees are undergoing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 425 wordsWhen asked yesterday whether the Government proposed to issue a further proclamation acquiring additional sugar, the Premier (Mr. ...
Article : 193 wordsEVEN the most ardent of Labor supporters must find it hard to got much inspiration out of Mr. Curtin's policy speech delivered in Perth. He opened up with the unimpeachable statement that "the country is at war," and that is among tho few things in the deliverance with which ...
Article : 1,029 wordsBRISBANE, Monday. -- The Lord Mayor's British bombing fund increased by £5717 to-day. The total stands at £38,435. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Premier, Mr. W. Forgan Smith, will address a Labor meeting at Walkerston to-night. Senator Foll will speak in Britannia Hall, Mackay, ...
Article : 46 wordsROME, September 16.-- Signor Farinacci, in an article, says: "In the war against France, Germany calmly let the winter pass to prepare for an ...
Article : 57 wordsVisiting Mackay is Sub-Inspector W. Kiddell, chief inspector in Queensland of the air raid precautions activities. Sub-Inspector Kiddell has ...
Article : 68 wordsClaiming that the budget for the current year should have been adopted last month if the Local Authorities Act was to be complied with, Ald. E. ...
Article : 440 wordsMrs. W. Forgan Smith, wife of the Premier, who is visiting Mackay, yesterday paid a courtesy call to the local Red Cross Rooms, where she was met ...
Article : 61 wordsThe nights particularly are now becoming warmer. The minimum on Sunday night was 67.8dg., or 9deg. above the low reading for the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Walkerston Patriotic Committee has notified the Mackay and District Patriotic Committee of the dates of functions it intends holding. These ...
Article : 88 wordsFine, except for an isolated shower or two on the coastal fringe. Southeasterly winds. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 128 wordsDespite the war building operations in Mackay continue to be carried on freely. Permits issued by the Council for the past month were :--L. Bagley, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 wordsAn accident, which, fortunately, was not attended by more serious results, befel Miss L. Inverarlty at Koumala on Saturday, when a heavily loaded truck ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 206 wordsThe team to represent tho Oddfellows next Friday night comprises Messrs. J. Hamer, W. Kippen, G. Harland, R. Chestermaster, and Misses ...
Article : 28 wordsELECTORS of Herbert would do well to return Mr. T. G. Mann, the Government candidate, as their representative of this important sugar-growing constituency. He is a very able man, young, and energetic in the interests of the district, and with a most valuable special ...
Article : 349 wordsQueen's Park has for long been recognised as an ideal breathing space for Mackay citizens. The staff employed there has often received the ...
Article : 183 wordsCharles Hadley (27), employed as a canecutter at Calen, was bitten on the ankle by a snake yesterday morning. He received ambulance ...
Article : 38 wordsThe special meeting of the Mackay and District A.P, & I. Association advertised to be held on Friday, October 4, at 2.30 p.m., will be held on ...
Article : 37 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.--Cabinet will consider coastal shipping problems soon with the taking of full control of all shipping facilities. The ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Department of the Interior has accepted the tender of G. W. Peachey, Deshon-street, Buranda (£240), for the erection and completion of three ...
Article : 31 wordsAirlines of Australia Douglas Pengana arrived at Mackay from the south at 10.45 a.m. yesterday with Captain L. Patterson in charge and ...
Article : 110 wordsA sort of "Yes-No" policy was adopted by the City Council at its monthly meeting last night in relation to approval of subdivisional plans. An ...
Article : 98 wordsTHE whole of the civilised world will experience relief that St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, was not destroyed by the huge time bomb that a Nazi airman had dropped beside its walls. The bomb weighed a ton and measured eight feet in length; and its sheer weight carried it ...
Article : 354 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Bridges Board yesterday afternoon, the engineers reported that attention had been given to broken standards on the ...
Article : 210 wordsBRISBANE, Monday. -- It was announced to-day that probably half the November call-up for the Air Force in Queensland would be merged ...
Article : 83 wordsIn the Police Court (before Messrs. H. L. Kingston and T. Belcher, J's.P.) a first offender failed to appear on a charge of having been found drunk; ...
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Advertising : 235 wordsThe recent action of the City Council in prosecuting a number of persons for failure to register their dogs has had results. This was ...
Article : 129 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Monday. -- Expectations were realised when over £1000 was contributed for the British bombing victims' appeal fund, which was ...
Article : 58 wordsNEW YORK, September 15. -- The New York 'Times' received a cable from Mr. Fraser, the New Zealand Prime Minister, protesting at a ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, August 3 (by Air Mail). --A Sunshine binder, sent by the Australian Government, was used this week for the first time in Britain. It ...
Article : 193 wordsThe hon. secretary writes: The monthly meeting of the Owen's Creek branch of the C.W.A. was held on Thursday, September 12. Members ...
Article : 197 wordsLONDON, September 16. -- The Germans shelled Dover from the French coast this morning. Only four salvoes were fired, but when the first ...
Article : 52 words"I think pedestrians are entitled to the use of the whole of the footpath, and they should be able to cross them at any point without having to evade ...
Article : 155 wordsResponsibility for all Federal Election matter in this issue is accepted by W. J. Manning, Wood-street, Mackay. ...
Article : 25 wordsNEW YORK, September 15.--The ban imposed on aviation gasoline on July 31 has been broadened by the latest decision. The ban also bas been ...
Article : 79 wordsBy special arrangement Reuter's world service, in addition to other special sources at information, is used in the compilation at the overseas intelligence published in ...
Article : 87 wordsFor tinting pale colors, it will be found more satisfactory and economical to use a small portion of a darker color than the whole of a light one. A ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Tue 17 Sep 1940, Page 4
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