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  2. 25-YEAR GROUP FIRST

    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 words
  3. HEAVY TOLL BY BIG BUSH FIRE

    MELBOURNE, Friday.—Roaring before a 60 miles-an-hour gale, the biggest grass fire in Central Victoria for 20 years swept ...

    Article : 183 words
  4. "Pals"—And They Win £1/1/

    Each 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 words
  5. Beaches Thronged Although City Is At Work Again

    BEACHES 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 words
  6. 1000 Men For Air Force Next Month

    Queensland will aim at a record recruitment of 1000 men for the Royal Australian Air Force in January. At least 800 are needed ...

    Article : 297 words
  7. R.A.A.F. IN ENGLAND

    LONDON, December 27.—Batches of Australian airmen will be arriving in Britain at regular intervals in future. ...

    Article : 602 words
  8. One Killed; 4 Injured in Bridge Smash

    CHARTERS TOWERS, Friday. —One man was killed and four were injured, three seriously, this evening, when a truck containing ...

    Article : 336 words
  9. New Petrol Rule Seen As Irksome

    New petrol selling regulations were described by the secretary of the Automobile Association of Queensland (Mr. A. E. Jones) last ...

    Article : 302 words
  10. False Ages Of Recruits; Army Charges

    Complaint about parents who had been asking military authorities to discharge their sons from the A.I.F. because they were under ...

    Article : 237 words
  11. FACTORY EMPLOYMENT AT NEW HIGH RECORD

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  12. THREE FEWER CASKETS THIS YEAR

    A falling off in Golden Casket sales followed the invasion of the Low Countries by Germany and the collapse and capitulation of ...

    Article : 447 words
  13. THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY TO-NIGHT

    The 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 words
  14. LACK OF PETROL SAVES FISH

    BOAT 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 words
  15. NO MEN TO HARVEST CURRANT CROP

    MELBOURNE. 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 words
  16. STEADY FALL IN DARWIN MENINGITIS NUMBERS

    DARWIN, 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 words
  17. Trouble For Labour Chiefs Over Swan

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Repercussions from the dispute between the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Curtin) and Mr. Dinan, the ...

    Article : 318 words
  18. INTER-STATE TEMPERATURES

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 14 words
  19. THE RING'S RANKING OF BOXERS

    NEW YORK, December 26.—The American boxing magazine, The Ring, ranks the world boxers as follows:— Heavyweights: Louls, Baer, Conn, ...

    Article : 68 words
  20. FIRST TAX INSTALMENTS DEDUCTED NEXT WEEK

    The 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 words
  21. Woman Who Sees . .

    PROBABLY nobody else in Southport comes into contact with such a varied throng as the attendant at the beach pavilion does. ...

    Article : 363 words
  22. FRACTURED SKULL ON STOLEN MOTOR CYCLE

    After 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 words
  23. Girls Behind The Guns

    Members 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 words
  24. BANDSMEN ADMIRE TROPHIES

    Members 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 words
  25. THIRSTY N.S.W. MINERS GO TO BULLI FOR BEER

    SYDNEY, Friday.—Thirsty South Coast miners are converging on Bulli, where beer at reduced rates is obtainable. Throughout the remainder of the South ...

    Article : 103 words
  26. THEATRE GUIDE

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 words
  27. NEW PARALYSIS CASE

    State health officers were advised yesterday of a case of infantile paralysis at Cleveland. The patient is a boy, aged three. Since November 8 ...

    Article : 36 words
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