A bucking horse carrying its rider into the crowd, teams of troopers contesting tent pegging and hurdle events, and horsemen clad in fantastic "feminine" attire clinging to the tunic belts of their "husbands" in a ...
Article : 1,340 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—"It seems inevitable that there will be increased taxation, but I cannot make any statement on the matter ...
Article : 239 wordsThe Governor-General (left) and Lady Gowrie with the Governor (Sir Leslie Wilson), before entering St. John's Cathedral ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 84 wordsPOLLING in the Griffith by-election will take place next Saturday, and all parties will be hard at work in the final stages ...
Article : 382 wordsThere is strong evidence that at the ninth series of Brisbane wool sales, opening at 3 p.m. to-day, the demand that made prices at the ...
Article : 363 wordsSOUTHPORT, Sunday.—While acting as line umpire in a Rugby League match between Southport and Nerang and Nerang to-day, Frank Turner was ...
Article : 189 wordsMt. Greville, known as the sentinel to Spicer's Gap, was climbed by five Brisbane residents after midnight on Saturday. It was the first ascent of ...
Article : 245 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Night flying of air mails between capital cities was brought a step nearer to-day. ...
Article : 140 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—The Federal Budget, to be presented in August, may contain direct and indirect taxation measures, designed to raise about ...
Article : 159 wordsPolice are trying to locate drivers of heavy transport trucks to make inquiries about the breaking of electric light wires at Dinmore and at the ...
Article : 103 wordsBUNDABERG, Sunday.—The election of directors for the Gin Gin Sugar Milling Association took place on Saturday. Of the four retiring ...
Article : 100 wordsBUNDABERG, Sunday.—Four thousand people witnessed the aero club's pageant this afternoon, in which machines including three Air Force ...
Article : 44 wordsA talking picture drama took the place of the sermon at the service at the Valleys Methodist church last night. The congregation numbered about 300. ...
Article : 201 wordsTOOWOOMBA, Sunday.—John Raymond Flood, licensed victualler, of Clifton, who is being proceeded against for £3000 damages in the Circuit Court. ...
Article : 239 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Criticism of what he termed "jitterbugs of gloom who were spreading a gospel of impending world war and creating a fear ...
Article : 132 wordsReins held in his teeth, a flashing sword in his right hand, while an armless left sleeve of his tunic waves in the wind. ...
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Advertising : 444 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A woman who was admitted to the Newington State Hospital at the week-end had, for 51 years, posed as a man. ...
Article : 121 wordsCASTERTON, Sunday.—Colin Reid Wilde, 21, of Merino, died from injuries he received yesterday when a motor cycle on which he was taking Gordon ...
Article : 112 wordsGOONDIWINDI, Sunday.—Goondiwindi has made a request to the defence authorities for a rifle range, but has been told that the request is the ...
Article : 122 wordsLONDON, May 14.—The Ministry for Fisheries launched the first prosecution of its kind when it issued a summons against Otto Borchrevink, master of the ...
Article : 94 wordsDelegates to the 24th annual congress of the Queensland branch of the Returned Soldiers' League visited the South Coast, yesterday as the guests ...
Article : 132 wordsLONDON, May 14.—The International Sugar Council has agreed unanimously to the recommendations dealing with the prospective shortage ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 133 wordsBOWLERS RETURN HOME.—South Australian, Victorian, and New South Wales railway bowlers returned by train yesterday, after taking part ...
Article : 171 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Emotional scenes marked the departure from Circular Quay on Saturday morning of 234 officers, petty officers, and ratings of the Royal Australian Navy for England. ...
Article : 166 wordsThe second large jewel robbery in Brisbane in less than three weeks occurred early on Saturday, when bracelets, pearls, and a watch, valued ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Mon 15 May 1939, Page 3
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