Some of the new national service trainees awaiting their turn for medical examination at Kelvin Grove to-day. They will go into camp for three months' training in the near future. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 34 wordsMELBOURNE, August 16.—"Important steps to speed up the Empire Air Scheme are to be taken during the weekend and, in general, the training arrangements under the full scheme will be almost doubled," said the Minister for ...
Article : 404 wordsCANBERRA, August 16.—The Royal Australian Air Force Court of Inquiry completed its investigations into the Canberra air tragedy to-day. ...
Article : 132 wordsDoubt was expressed at the annual conference of the Selectors' Association of Queensland yesterday whether the petrol rationing scheme so far proposed ...
Article : 400 wordsMedical examination and swearing-in of the new age groups for military training started at Kelvin Grove and Water Street drill halls to-day. Enrolments in the metropoli- ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 286 wordsCANBERRA, August 16.—An elaborate Commonwealth-wide organisation to prevent the introduction of epidemics in Australia from overseas countries ravaged ...
Article : 581 wordsThe Minister for Air (Mr. A. W. Fadden) in announcing the new scheme, said that it was prepared by the late Minister (Mr. Fairbairn), ...
Article : 40 wordsMen selected for the R.A.A.F. under the Empire Air Scheme number more than 30,000. This represents 10 times the strength ...
Article : 432 wordsIt was in periods of crisis that the orator came into his own again, said Archbishop Wand, in a luncheon address to members of the Rastrum ...
Article : 205 wordsCAPE TOWN, August 15.—Sir Abe Bailey was buried on a mountain above his home at Muizenberg at the most representative funeral since the death of ...
Article : 54 wordsSenator W. J. Cooper had been re-endorsed by the Queensland Country Party as its representative in the Government Senate team for the coming ...
Article : 235 wordsMany more new war saving groups are being formed in North Queensland. Following the registration, of 11 from Cairns yesterday 16 more from Mareeba ...
Article : 158 wordsSYDNEY, August 16.—The trial of strength between the Federal executive of the A.L.P. and the State branch tonight will clarify the position so far as ...
Article : 292 wordsMELBOURNE, August 16.—Three new R.A.A.F. schools for the Empire Air Scheme will begin within the next fortnight, and training operations are ...
Article : 162 wordsCASINO, August 16.—A fire caused damage estimated at £10,000 in the business section of Bonalbo, a dairying and timber mill centre near ...
Article : 122 wordsSTOCKHOLM, August 15.—The Swedish steamer Mongolia was sunk by a mine near Kiel. The crew was rescued and three injured. ...
Article : 26 wordsA special picket of A.I.F. men on parade at the Showgrounds where they are assisting members of the police force. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 27 wordsLONDON, August 15.—A Rome official announcement says that Italian bombers attacked the aircraft Installations at Malta with complete ...
Article : 70 words"East Lynne" was presented last night in All Saints' Half by the Jack Kennedy Players, with Mr. Kennedy as producer. ...
Article : 134 wordsThe State Full Court yesterday reserved judgment in the Boyd v. Boyd divorce case appeal. Robert McGill Nicholson Boyd, former ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 221 wordsThe Queensland Cane Growers' Council has been in conference in Brisbane for the past two days and expects to remain in session until early next ...
Article : 119 wordsThe late Mr. Phillip Jacob Hoffman, whose death took place last night in a private hospital in Brisbane, after several months' illness, was well known ...
Article : 156 wordsAUCKLAND, August 16.—The Government has decided to construct trawlers in New Zealand for use as minesweepers. A start will be made at ...
Article : 89 wordsAn R.A.A.F. Tiger Moth training plane made a forced landing in a paddock near Weller's Hill, Holland Park, this morning. It was undamaged and the pilot was not injured. Noticing that the engine was silent and the machine was rapidly losing height as it flew over the Holland Park police station, Constable C. McNaught followed it on his motor cycle and was on the scene within a few minutes of the plane's ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 118 wordsDeclaring that his wife, Vera Ellen Friis, of Sutton Street, Redcliffe, had deserted him, Mervyn James Friis, a service car driver, of Merthyr Road, New ...
Article : 94 wordsOn June 5, a month after the death of his wife, William John Gorman, 52, widower, railway checker, of Abuklea Street, Newmarket, was found dead in a ...
Article : 194 wordsOn the instruction of officers of the Department of Agriculture a number of lines of pineapples have been withheld from sale on the Brisbane market this ...
Article : 181 wordsA letter hus been received by the Australian Comforts Fund (Queensland Division) from one of the men in Redbank military camp asking if it would ...
Article : 312 wordsLONDON, August 15.—In a statement regarding the activities of Lord Swinton's anti-Fifth Column Committee, the Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill) stated ...
Article : 69 wordsCANBERRA, August 16.—The Minister for External Affairs (Mr. J. A. McEwen) made it clear to-day that aliens living in Australia, who were ...
Article : 83 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Q.A.T.B.H. Parent Centre Committee the superintendent's report showed that the following cases were handled: Parent ...
Article : 69 wordsVera May Brady, of Cottell Street, Norman Park, was granted a decree nisi by Mr. Justice E. A. Douglas, in the Supreme Court to-day, when she ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Fri 16 Aug 1940, Page 4
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