BRISBANE City Council adopted the recast budget and the new general rate yesterday after an Opposition amendment had been defeated on party lines by 10 votes to nine. The amendment, moved by Alderman A. H. Tait. urged ...
Article : 1,675 wordsTOOWOOMBA, Monday.—The Minister for Agriculture and Stock (Mr. Bulcock) told a deputation from the North-east Darling ...
Article : 327 wordsFIGHT hundred and sixty-two bales of wool, valued at £10,000, were affected by the fire which broke out in the ...
Article : 233 wordsWith Christmas Day just a fortnight away Santa Claus already is on the job. He shared a merry joke with ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 79 wordsThe City Council Chamber has been rearranged to permit the Lord Mayor to control the business from the floor of the ...
Article : 220 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The Acting Treasurer (Mr. Spender) said to-day that the war savings certificates that the Federal Government proposed to ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, December 11.—Destruction of German submarines by the Allies is estimated unofficially at 40, representing three a week since the war ...
Article : 157 wordsThe work of "Cynicus." The Courier-Mail Parliamentary galleryman. received favourable comment in the December bulletin of the United Australia ...
Article : 135 wordsLONDON, December 11.—Hitler's special commissioner, von Papen, caused angry scenes in Turkey when he tried to stir up ...
Article : 142 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday.—The worst flood In living memory swept the Hutt Valley, near Wellington, water covering hundreds of acres, isolating ...
Article : 126 wordsDARWIN, Monday.—Darwin fired its first shot in the war to-day. When a pearling lugger which was making for port failed to obey- a signal from an ...
Article : 170 wordsLONDON, December 11.—The fortune which the Duke of Kent is expected to inherit, from his grand aunt, the late Princess Louise, will be greater ...
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Advertising : 475 wordsFour designs for the Darling Downs Centenary stamp have been suggested to the Post Office by the Premier's Department. ...
Article : 176 wordsMELBOURNE. Monday.—When the Royal Commission on the Milk Bill bribery allegations was resumed to-day Frank Vincent McGuiness. editor of ...
Article : 158 wordsLONDON. December 11. — As a I sequel to the unpegging of the tin market, 40 0tons of tin were sold today at £271 a ton. : ...
Article : 87 wordsAlthough there will be no late Christmas shopping night in Brisbane there will be one at Wynnum. An industrial agreement has been ...
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Advertising : 3 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers lodged an application with the Arbitration Court to-day for a 20 ...
Article : 114 wordsDecision on the exclusion of Stanthorpe apple growers from the operations of the Commonwealth Apple and Pear Board has not yet been made by ...
Article : 92 wordsMELBOURNE. Monday. — A man crashed 45ft. to his death at the Shrine of Remembrance to-day. No one saw him enter the Shrine. He ...
Article : 68 wordsTIVOLl. — "Damaged Goods"; "S.O.S. Tidal Wave." METRO. — "Tarzan Finds a Son"; "Calling Dr. Kildare." ...
Article : 140 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—The Commonwealth Statistician's latest estimate of the 1939-40 wheat harvest is 182.568.000 bushels compared with an ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, December 11.—Mr. Frank Wright, director of open-air concerts, for the London County Council, is going to New Zealand to adjudicate in ...
Article : 40 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Monday.—Everything is in readiness to begin the Tasman air service, if commencement is sanctioned by the Governments ...
Article : 61 wordsA by-law of the Mackay Harbour Board, which received Executive approval and was issued by the Treasurer (Mr. Cooper) yesterday ...
Article : 102 wordsA building used as an iron store on the property of the railway workshops at Northgate was practically destroyed by fire at 11.15 last night. ...
Article : 56 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The Minister for Mines (Mr. Vincent) announced to-night that the Government intended to appoint a Royal Commission ...
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