SPEEDING back to Cairns with two children returning from d a holiday in Cooktown as passengers, a North Queensland Airways Proprietary Ltd. single-engined monoplane, piloted by Mr. Pat Moore, crashed into the sea about two miles off Double ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 912 wordsPrice cutting in petrol sales, in some instances by 1½d. a gallon, is interesting Brisbane motorists, and is causing the Garage and ...
Article : 413 wordsTo put a girdle round the world in 16 days is the ambition of Imperial Airways. "Every part of the Empire ...
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Article : 177 wordsHeavy rains in the north-east and far north resulted in considerable disorganisation of the railways, owing to washaways. The east-west express ...
Article : 109 wordsHopes of a settlement of the Franco—Turkish dispute over Alexandretta have been dissipated, and the matter has been left to the arbitration of the ...
Article : 38 wordsThere will not be any method about the assembly of Australia's fourth rest team at Adelaide. The New South Wales members ...
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Article : 47 wordsThe Amateur Swimming Association to-night confirmed the selection of H. R. Biddulph, who was medically certi-fied as fit for the long-distance ...
Article : 99 wordsPilot Moore was trained as a pilot in the Queensland Aero Club. After taking out his licence, he acquired a machine and engaged in commercial ...
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Article : 231 wordsDr. R. L. Morton, chairman of the Victorian Cricket Association executive, said to-night that the Victorian members of the Test team would not be ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Deputy Leader of the opposition in the House of Representatives (Mr. Forde) announced to-day that because of the death of Mrs. Forde's ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says it is believed in Paris that, following General Goering's visit to Rome. Italy and ...
Article : 138 wordsThe price of bread in the metropolitan area will be increased by one farthing a loaf from next Monday. This decision was made at a general meeting of city and suburban bakers. ...
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Article : 55 wordsAlter an interview with President Roosevelt to-day Senator Minton announced that the President intended soon to call a conference of ...
Article : 67 wordsThe booming of 42 guns at 8.30 a.m. to-day announced the birth of a second daughter to Princess Sibyile, wife of Prince Gustaf Adolf, eldest son of ...
Article : 65 wordsOnly five of more than 100 convicts who escaped from the Ontario State Reformatory at Guelph on Sunday after a riot remain at large. Most of ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Sir Archdale Parkhill) announced to-day that a memorial hall would be included in the plans for the erection at Mascot ...
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Article : 84 wordsThe wool import Control Association, at a meeting at Osaka, decided to send a deputation to Tokio to appeal to the Government to relax its ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Ile do France (43,153 tons), the former flagship of the North Atlantic service was severely damaged when she was driven against the quay at le ...
Article : 52 wordsThe price of gold to-day was £7/1/7½ an ounce fine. The dollar was quoted at 4.91 to the pound sterling, and the franc at 105 5-32. The previous ...
Article : 47 wordsOwing to the devaluation of the franc Imperial Airways and the Dutch K.L.M. air line are considering reducing fares to the East by 15 or 30 per cent. ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Wed 20 Jan 1937, Page 15
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