MEN aged 25 on June 30, 1940, will be the first of the new age groups to be called up for compulsory military training. The call-up for 70 days' training affects single men and ...
Article : 328 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Roaring before a 60 miles-an-hour gale, the biggest grass fire in Central Victoria for 20 years swept ...
Article : 183 wordsEach day The Courier-Mail is offering a half-guinea prize for the best holiday snapshot sent in by a reader. There also is an additional prize of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 259 wordsBEACHES and other holiday resorts were still crowded yesterday, although many Brisbane people had returned to pick up the threads of work again. After working yesterday and this morning they will have a ...
Article : 429 wordsQueensland will aim at a record recruitment of 1000 men for the Royal Australian Air Force in January. At least 800 are needed ...
Article : 297 wordsLONDON, December 27.—Batches of Australian airmen will be arriving in Britain at regular intervals in future. ...
Article : 602 wordsCHARTERS TOWERS, Friday. —One man was killed and four were injured, three seriously, this evening, when a truck containing ...
Article : 336 wordsNew petrol selling regulations were described by the secretary of the Automobile Association of Queensland (Mr. A. E. Jones) last ...
Article : 302 wordsComplaint about parents who had been asking military authorities to discharge their sons from the A.I.F. because they were under ...
Article : 237 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Striking evidence of the effect of the development of munitions manufacture and other wartime industries in reducing unemployment in Australia is provided in factory employment returns up to October 31 made available by ...
Article : 286 wordsA falling off in Golden Casket sales followed the invasion of the Low Countries by Germany and the collapse and capitulation of ...
Article : 447 wordsThe weather is expected to continue to be mainly fine, but some local thundershowers are likely to-night, according to the forecast issued by the ...
Article : 291 wordsBOAT owners with a partiality for fishing are telling a new variation of an old story—the fish they would have caught if they had had ...
Article : 141 wordsMELBOURNE. Friday.—So acute is the labour shortage at Mildura that schools may close to enable the children to harvest the £4,000,000 crop of ...
Article : 102 wordsDARWIN, Friday.—Only two positive cases of meningitis have been dignosed in the last 24 hours. This gives grounds for the belief that the epidemic ...
Article : 129 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Repercussions from the dispute between the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Curtin) and Mr. Dinan, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 14 wordsNEW YORK, December 26.—The American boxing magazine, The Ring, ranks the world boxers as follows:— Heavyweights: Louls, Baer, Conn, ...
Article : 68 wordsThe plan to collect Federal income tax on salaries and wages by instalments will operate from next Wednesday—New Year's Day. Queensland, the State Commissioner (Mr. H. Magee) has announced, will put the plan in force from the first pay day in ...
Article : 272 wordsPROBABLY nobody else in Southport comes into contact with such a varied throng as the attendant at the beach pavilion does. ...
Article : 363 wordsAfter driving a stolen motor cyclo from Brisbane to Sydney, and being told by his father to return and give himself up to the police, Mervyn Horne. ...
Article : 195 wordsMembers of the British Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service operating a range-finder at an anti-aircraft gun post in London. Many members of the service have been in the line of fire with the defence services. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 72 wordsMembers of the Brisbane Australian Scots Associated Band with trophers which donian Society's annual gathering. The band, led by Drum-Major R. G. Andrew B grade band contests. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 105 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Thirsty South Coast miners are converging on Bulli, where beer at reduced rates is obtainable. Throughout the remainder of the South ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 wordsState health officers were advised yesterday of a case of infantile paralysis at Cleveland. The patient is a boy, aged three. Since November 8 ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Sat 28 Dec 1940, Page 3
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