SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The first blind man to be a member of Parliament in N.S. Wales (Mr. D. Hunter. U.A.P., Croydon) moved the adoption ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 517 wordsConsignments of fruit from the north continue to pass through Mackay for the south in large quantities. To-day two trains will pass through. ...
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Advertising : 7 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--A handbag containing £400 in notes, representing a family's life savings, was stolen from the counter of a city ...
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Advertising : 376 wordsNOW that the would has learnt from news messages and vividly realistic photographs just what the full force of a modernly equipped and mechanised army can do, everybody entertains some sympathy with a nation which would rather avoid avoid war, if possible, than ...
Article : 983 wordsA public meeting, called by the Chamber of Commerce with the object of encouraging the expansion of agricultural industries in the ...
Article : 69 wordsTOKIO, September 24,--The 'Chugal Shogyo' comments in a warning manner on the important aspect of the Anglo - American - Australian ...
Article : 42 wordsCANBERRA. Wednesday. -- It was estimated to-day that raising, equipping, and maintaining the 9th Division of the A.I.F. would cost at least ...
Article : 147 wordsReports have been received of thefts from dwelling houses and householders are warned to exercise care when leaving their premises. In most ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, September 24.--The submarine Thames is overdue and is considered to be lost. ...
Article : 20 wordsAn unusual mishap to a motorist at Walkerston occurred yesterday which was accompanied by much pain. He was endeavoring to clear the petrol ...
Article : 90 wordsNight temperatures still remain in the 50's: yesterday morning a minimum of 56deg. was recorded, due to a westerly wind, which, however, ...
Article : 90 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.--The First Secretary to the American Legation in Canberra (Mr. Minter) wants to meet an aborigine who can make perfect ...
Article : 101 wordsThe unexpected death yesterday afternoon of Mr. Nathaniel Ernest Perry, of Braeside, Nebo, added poignancy to the grief and loss occasioned ...
Article : 116 wordsFine weather is predicted for this part of the State, with south-easterly to easterly winds. ...
Article : 17 wordsLONDON, September 24. -- The 'Times' correspondent on the French frontier says:--The new rationing regulations have dismayed wide ...
Article : 140 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--The British bombing victims' appeal now totals £74,556. To-day £3263 was received. The amount has been raised ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 226 wordsA noticeable feature and one that has been mildly commented upon by scrutineers of the counting of ballot papers in the elections on Saturday is ...
Article : 216 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Petrol ration tickets will be available throughout Queensland from the time post offices are open on ...
Article : 170 wordsLONDON (by Air Mail).--A 'Daily Express' staff reporter says that rich women evacuating to the U.S. are buying £1000 mink coats in this ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 wordsThe war has not interfered with some of the biggest trading concerns as much as was at first feared. At the annual meeting of Allan & Stark, ...
Article : 206 wordsSTATISTICS published in yesterday's 'Mercury' disclose that already this season's payments for sugar amount to about £3,000,000. Compared with payments made in Mackay at this time last year this represents an advance--the corresponding amounts being £581,566 for ...
Article : 354 wordsNEW YORK, September 24.--Roy Howard, continuing his articles in Scripps Howard newspapers, describing the results of an Australian trip, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 102 wordsWASHINGTON, September 24.--President Roosevelt has created a National Defence Communication Board to coordinate planning for the ...
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Advertising : 9 wordsTownsville 'Bulletin' reports that the demand on the Northern railways to supply the necessary wagons to transport crops of tomatoes, cucumbers, and ...
Article : 150 wordsPassengers to leave for the south by mail train yesterday included Messrs. P. Manning, Holmes, R. M'Cormack, T. Emery, G. Emery, Mrs. M'[?]wraith ...
Article : 93 wordsBOSTON, September 24.--The president of the United States Defence Commission (Mr. W. Knudson) said to-day that Britain would get about ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON (by Air Mail)--Investigations by an 'Evening Standard' reporter shows that the future forests of England are being tended by public ...
Article : 350 wordsLONDON, August 17 (by Air Mail).--By train the journey from Peters field to Liss, in Hampshire, costs 6½d. For that sum a soldier lost his life. ...
Article : 213 wordsWASHINGTON, September 24.--The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved of a favorable report on amended treaties with ...
Article : 46 wordsA championship prize of £500 for the best remount or gunner, with a £200 prize for the sire, and other prizes ranging from £20 to £100, are ...
Article : 141 wordsLONDON (by Air Mail).--Captured by the Germans, a British soldier escaped, was recaptured, forced to drink two bottles of champagne, so ...
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Advertising : 46 wordsWith the demand for molasses brought about by the decision of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. to erect an additional power alcohol plan ...
Article : 208 wordsAfter visiting some of his cattle properties in northern Queensland, Sir William Angliss said that he believed there would be a great ...
Article : 182 wordsThe secretory of the Port Curtis Cooperative Dairy Association Ltd. reports that the manufacture of butter for the month of August was as ...
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Advertising : 22 wordsLONDON, September 24.--The 48th War Office casualty list includes the names of 130 men. Included in it are the names of three officers and 56 ...
Article : 45 wordsWASHINGTON, September 24.--The Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved of the Convention of Havana providing a ...
Article : 32 wordsWASHINGTON, September 24.--Six over age United States destroyers, have been formally incorporated in the Canadian navy. ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Thu 26 Sep 1940, Page 6
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