PUTTING ON THE CLOCKS to conform with daylight saving, which begins to-day, was major operation at the City Hall. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 113 wordsTHE Chief Justice of Queensland (Mr. Justice William Flood Webb) has been created a Knight Bachelor. Announcing this last night, the Premier (Mr. Forgan Smith) said that the Governor (Sir Leslie Wilson) had ...
Article : 1,135 wordsCOMPULSORY air raid precautions for every occupier of premises, business, or household will be ordered in Queensland coastal areas when supplies of essential equipment, such as stirrup pumps, are adequate. ...
Article : 350 wordsCorporal J. H. Gordon, of Western Australia, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for Conspicuous gallantry in the Syrian ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 116 wordsPAY envelopes will be smaller to-morrow when the new Federal war tax, which on incomes of £300 a year and over is 1/ in the £ ...
Article : 103 wordsProperty owners must convert basements of city buildings into air raid shelter quickly, said the City Engineer (Mr. L. J. Price) yesterday. ...
Article : 314 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Use of water for household purposes other than sanitary flushing has been restricted between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. This is one of the drastic new ...
Article : 387 wordsTHE Chief Justice (Sir William Webb) yesterday accepted the chairmanship of the Australian Industrial Relations Council, set up ...
Article : 465 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Brick or reinforced concrete walls will be erected around the major bulk oil storage tanks along the Australian ...
Article : 128 wordsSOME odd articles have been handed in at country centres in response to the call for aluminium for war purposes. ...
Article : 63 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Home Security Minister (Mr. Lazzarini) announced to-day that the Commonwealth had let tenders for 500,000 ...
Article : 131 wordsWork on the construction of the new Pinkenba sewer and the laying of the duplicate water main from Mount Crosby to Brisbane will not be ...
Article : 213 wordsDeputy Chief Officer J. S. Garven has been promoted to Acting Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade for six months. He takes the ...
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Advertising : 1,065 wordsOfficers of the A.I.F. who are returning from overseas to take up key positions in the Australian defence forces. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 129 wordsAlthough under a National Security Regulation order issued last Friday the Federal Government is demanding all binoculars suitable for the fighting ...
Article : 184 wordsTo meet the possibility of a serious hold-up of shearing in 1942 as the result of shearers and shed hands enlisting and militia call-ups a move is ...
Article : 247 wordsControl of racing generally is likely to be considered by the State Cabinet next Tuesday. The Premier (Mr. Foreran Smith) ...
Article : 144 wordsClosing hours of city picture theatres are to be staggered from to-morrow. This will reduce pedestrian and vehicular traffic as a precaution against ...
Article : 182 wordsThe ballots for the distributors' and fishermen's representatives on the Fish Board, which closed yesterday and was counted last night, resulted in the ...
Article : 210 wordsMACKAY, Wednesday.—Francis Haynes, 32, labourer, on remand, appeared in the Mackay Police Court on a charge that he unlawfully did ...
Article : 139 wordsPetrol rationing and the smaller number of cars on the road caused a considerable drop in traffic accidents in 1941. In 1940, 5055 accidents, 54 of ...
Article : 213 wordsConstruction of the Rocklea munitions factory and the Greenslopes Military Hospital will proceed during the holidays, and the men are working a ...
Article : 78 wordsSOUTHPORT, Wednesday.—Mr. W. M. Trevethan, of Surfers' Paradise, was advised to-day that his second son, Sergeant-Pilot Verner Walter ...
Article : 171 wordsMEN from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Goondiwindi were among those enlisted for the ground staff at the Air Force recruiting centre in Brisbane yesterday. It was the biggest intake for some time. ...
Article : 270 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Minister for the Interior (Senator Collings) announced to-day that contracts valued at £19,000 had been let recently ...
Article : 64 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.—Four seamen were killed and four more injured seriously in an accident in one of his Majesty's New Zealand ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Thu 1 Jan 1942, Page 3
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