AS a basis for the suggested new trade agreement with the British Empire, Japan proposes to purchase large quantities of Australian wheat. She wishes to take wool also, but it was pointed out in ...
Article : 854 wordsMass meetings of meatworkers which were to have been held in Brisbane to-day have been postponed until to-morrow. ...
Article : 275 wordsMembers of the central committee and representatives from Kockhumpton and Mackay who conferred with the Minister in charge of Food Conservation (Mr. Bulcock) yesterday on the storing of essential foods in the State. From left: Messrs. H. P. Rasmussen (Mnckay), H. S. Beaney ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 136 wordsPROSPECTS are bright for a settlement in the labour dispute in the Babinda, Mulgrave, and Hambledon sugar mill areas. It is expected that it will be possible to proceed with the Babinda sign-on to-day and with the Mulgrave sign-on to-morrow. ...
Article : 545 wordsAble Seaman Huffen has returned to Brisbane after eight months of privations as a prisoner of war. A suntanned skin, the sabre, and an abiding ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 999 wordsSTANTHORPE. Wednesday.—Sequel to an A.I.F. mail mix-up in which a hombardiar's proposal of marriage went by mistake ...
Article : 133 wordsTHE true unemployment figure for Queensland is stated by the Acting Premier (Mr. Cooper) to be between 10,000 and 15,000, or from 8 to 4 per cent, of the working population. The total included from 5000 to 10,000 incapable, or unwilling, to ...
Article : 386 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Minister for Customs (Mr. Harrison) said to-day that he expected an early drop in the prices of all meat. Wholesale meat ...
Article : 104 wordsThousands of home defence troops from Northern Command camps will fight a highly mechanised "invading enemy" on the ...
Article : 182 wordsCHILDREN in outback districts are doing their bit to help the war funds. Instances of the come from Gunnnwarrs, Mt. Garnet, and ...
Article : 203 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Gifts by people of Australia should become a major source of war finance, said the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Fadden) ...
Article : 111 wordsRetail prices for beer at Ipswich have been fixed tentatively at 1d per [?] less than the prices charged by butchers on May 19. The new prices will operate ...
Article : 106 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Forty-three Australian airmen have beer awarded the D.F.C. since the outbreak of war, said the Minister for Air (Mr ...
Article : 69 wordsTo help obtain £40,000 a week in war savings certificates sales needed during June to fill the State's quota, an intensive drive has been launched ...
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Advertising : 150 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Although there have been appreciable rises in many kinds of clothing since the war began the ...
Article : 242 wordsThe council of the state service Union on Tuesday night refused to have a ballot of members on the question of overtime pay for Crown ...
Article : 120 words"Considering that it is about 16 years since you told me to wash my hands before doing my exercise book, you must have a pretty good system of tracking your past pupils," writes ...
Article : 250 wordsAustralia is following Britain's read in the use of wooden Belman hangars for the Air Force, and tenders are being called for the supply and ...
Article : 147 wordsDREDGE SALVAGE.—Tenders will be called for the salvage of the Mary River Gold Co.'s dredge and equipment, which sank in the flooded Mary ...
Article : 364 wordsRATIONING of "nigger twist" tobacco has displeased aboriginal stockmen in North Western stations. A Townsville report says that if the men and their gins do not get their daily plug of "trade"—low grade tobacco—the labour shortage problem may ...
Article : 314 wordsThe Governor (Sir Leslie Wilson) and Lady Wilson will leave Brisbane by train next Sunday at 8 p.m., on a tour of North and Central-west ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Thu 5 Jun 1941, Page 3
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