FARMERS and graziers along the southern section of Queensland, west from Warwick, are facing a drought as serious as any in the last 40 or 50 years. Dry conditions extend also to parts of the Darling Downs, and ...
Article : 692 wordsLegislation suspending the provision of the Medical Act, which required that Queensland doctors should have one year's hospital ...
Article : 160 wordsTENT RIGGING during a sand storm is not an enviable job, but A.I.F. men tackled it with a will when they set up camp in advanced positions in the Egyptian desert.—Department of Information photograph. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 78 wordsHundreds of soldiers and civilians were served with liquor at the Labour League Club last night, although officials of the club had stated during the previous week that the club would not be opened on Sundays. Soldiers also obtained liquor at other city ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Governor (Sir Leslie Wilson) sat last night among several hundred soldiers on week-end leave and laughed heartily at the ...
Article : 209 wordsMr. Edward George Martin, who had been president of the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia. (Queensland branch) for the last six years. ...
Article : 135 wordsSYDNKY, Sunday.—A new "transceiver" radio telephone set, which weighs only 15lb., and is carried on a soldier's back by means of ordinary ...
Article : 152 wordsREADERS of The Courier-Mail living outside the metropolis scored in Cobbers competition No. 6. Mrs. Mollie Young, Grant ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 290 wordsBECAUSE of a legacy mode recently to the Church it would be possible to begin work soon on the building of the vestries of St. John's Cathedral, said Archbishop Wand in his broadcast from Bishopsbourne last night. ...
Article : 216 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Nine men were arrested on three ferry steamers which followed sailing races on Sydney Harbour to-day. ...
Article : 88 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—At the Kings-ford Smith Airport yesterday. Mr. A. H. Berts, the Australian representative of the Dutch East Indies Airline took ...
Article : 69 wordsThe City Council will be asked by the health committee to-morrow to authorise improvements to the Manly Baths before tenders are invited for a fresh ...
Article : 70 wordsQueensland doctors are dissatisfied with the progress made in Air Raid Precautions in this State—particularly the absence of ...
Article : 341 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Three thousand five hundred South Coast miners will resume work in all pits to-morrow morning. The owners and the men ...
Article : 70 wordsAUCKLAND, Sunday.—A tragedy occurred on a farm at Manawatu Hugh McDowell, 65, was found dead. His daughter May, who is 27 is in ...
Article : 63 wordsLeonard Daniells, 16, of Wallaville, was shot in the spine when trying to knock lemons from a tree with a pearifle. He was holding the rifle by ...
Article : 53 wordsGRAFTON, Sunday.—Discussing the alternative to a National Government, which he believed that every party leader was convinced ...
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Advertising : 88 wordsMACKAY, Sunday.—Following the report of Mr. J. G. Parker, an engineer of the Department of Irrigation and Water Supply, the Mackay Council ...
Article : 94 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Leaders of the Free French Movement in Australia are determined in their support of General de Gaulle. The Minister for ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Queensland Central Executive of the Labour Party probably will meet on Tuesday to consider endorsements for the ...
Article : 290 wordsBALLINA, Sunday.—Suffering from a probable fracture of the neck, which he received when he dived from the tower at Ballina baths yesterday. ...
Article : 64 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The authorities were hopeful to-night that the striking marine engineers in the hospital ship Manunda would return to the ...
Article : 47 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Battered with a heavy garden stake by a burglar yesterday morning, Mrs. Emily Jane Naish, 78, of Mellevue Hill, is in hospital with ...
Article : 123 wordsBEFORE he made his screen debut, Tom Mix, whose death is announced on page 1, had taken part in four wars. Born on his father's cattle ranch in Texas in 1881, he fought ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 356 wordsWith maximum temperature of 97.9-deg. at 3 p.m., 27.7deg. above normal. Melbourne experienced yesterday its hottest October day since 1933. The ...
Article : 87 wordsThe body of a man found floating in the Milton Reach of the river yesterday had not been identified late last night. Police state that the body ...
Article : 95 wordsAlthough there was little, if any, decrease in road traffic in and around Brisbane yesterday—the second Sunday since petrol rationing ...
Article : 174 wordsIn the first of the National Fitness Committee's outdoor gatherings nearly 100 members of Brisbane sporting bodies yesterday walked or cycled from ...
Article : 137 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The man and girl for whom 40 police and a black tracker had been searching the mountainous Dangarfield district since ...
Article : 79 wordsAn objection to the City Council's cartage being done by contract has been made by the executive committee of the Brisbane sub-branch of the ...
Article : 82 wordsBy breaking a window thieves entered Cooke's store at North Pine last night and stole £6. in addition to tobacco and chocolates. Mr. Cooke ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Mon 14 Oct 1940, Page 3
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