His ambition is to be a drum major, and The Courier-Mail photographer discovered him practising assiduously with a broom in a quiet section of the Chermside National Service training camp yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 66 wordsBRISBANE is facing a mutton shortage, to-day's yarding of 5680 sheep at Cannon Hill being 40 per cent below the city's weekly requirements. The long dry spell and the buying up of the better-class ...
Article : 590 wordsBrisbane garage men demand immediate clarification of liquid fuel control regulations governing cancellation of petrol ration tickets. ...
Article : 362 wordsEmpire sailors, soldiers, and airmen need more sheepskin vests of the type illustrated. The Queensland Country Women's Association ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 78 wordsMODERATES at the Trade Union Congress had a sweeping victory last night when, by 45 votes to 30, Congress adopted the war and defence policy laid down by the All-Australian Trades Union Congress last April. ...
Article : 710 wordsProposals for the disposal of this year's pack of canned fruits, now that Britain has announced the cessation of canned fruit ...
Article : 221 wordsIn the five months ended November 30, Queensland had a revenue deficit of £845,939 compared with £761,713 in the corresponding period of 1939-40. ...
Article : 234 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The manufacture of life rafts for A.I.F. troopships is held up by a strike of 16 sheet metal workers employed by Australian ...
Article : 176 wordsSTORMS accompanied by cyclonic winds, hail, and torrential rain, caused damage in country centres yesterday and flooded low-lying land. A cyclonic wind at Kingaroy ...
Article : 800 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Margaret Rose Levi claimed damages from Colgate Palmolive Pty., Ltd., before Mr. Justice Owen and a jury to-day ...
Article : 182 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Consulate-General for Belgium has been instructed by the Belgian authorities to register all Belgian male subjects in ...
Article : 208 wordsThe political uncertainty is not troubling the Stock Exchange. Yesterday was one of the brightest days in the share market for some weeks. ...
Article : 63 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The members representing wheat growers on the Australian Wheat Board have been increased from two to four by ...
Article : 75 wordsA girl, aged 15, engaged in domestic duties and living in the Mackay district, was reported yesterday to the State Health Department as suffering ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 wordsThere is an acute shortage of all descriptions of potatoes and Queensland buyers were active at Melbourne yesterday. In consequence, Western ...
Article : 92 wordsA grasshopper which flew through the window of a car on the Pacific Highway, at Yatala, yesterday morning caused an accident in which two ...
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Advertising : 214 wordsCLIFTON, Wednesday.—The new brick ambulance building erected to mark the Clifton centre's silver jubilee was officially opened this afternoon by ...
Article : 156 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Continuous pumping operations have almost emptied the inter-State passenger steamer Orungal of water, and an ...
Article : 71 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Leader in the Legislative Assembly of the Non-Communist Labour Party (Mr. Lane) urged to-day that the oath of ...
Article : 156 wordsOAKEY, Wednesday.—The first cases in Oakey since the enforcement of the Liquor Act were heard in the Summons Court to-day, when John ...
Article : 107 wordsAlthough they did not know that a Greek national relief fund had been opened in Brisbane, scores of people have sent money to the Greek ...
Article : 368 wordsIPSWICH, Wednesday.—Mr. J. Horner, University of Adelaide, who had been appointed chief music adjudicator at the Ipswich Elsteddfod at Easter. ...
Article : 173 wordsA motor cyclists' medical services corps is being formed in Brisbane with a membership of 150. Membership is open to any motor cyclist, and it is ...
Article : 129 wordsTOOWOOMBA, Wednesday.—The annual report of St. Ursula's College, presented at the breaking-up celebration to-day, stated that in the ...
Article : 308 wordsMOOLOOLABA, Wednesday.—Mr. F. Z. Eager caught a 7401b. bronze whaler shark 15 miles out from Mooloolaba, it is 251b. less than the Queensland ...
Article : 92 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Sir James Barrett, famous eye surgeon, and former Chancellor of Melbourne University, who is 79, married to-day Miss Monica Heinze, of Heidelberg. The marriage was kept a close secret. ...
Article : 191 wordsAuthority was given the State Works Department yesterday to carry out new works at an estimated expenditure, of £15,481. Those include: Addition to ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Thu 5 Dec 1940, Page 3
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