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  2. RAIL HOLD-UP IN BRISBANE NOT SERIOUS

    A STOP-WORK meeting, attended by about 30 engine-drivers, at Mayne Junction from 4 to 5.45 p.m. yesterday, failed to disorganise suburban rail traffic seriously. ...

    Article : 468 words
  3. SIX DIE IN FIRE; NOW IN CONTROL

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Six people have died in the bush fire sweeping 60 square miles of grass country near Wangaratta, in north-east Victoria. Twelve others are in hospital. ...

    Article : 217 words
  4. Men And Engines Stop Work

    Engines that were idle at Mayne yesterday while drivers and firemen held a stop-work meeting to express dissatisfaction with the Industrial Court's decision on away-from-home allowances, meat rationing, sick pay, and night work. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 83 words
  5. CARROT BAN PUZZLE

    IN November last year when Queensland had an oversupply of carrots and there was an acute shortage in ...

    Article : 713 words
  6. Direct Hits

    Gigantic cloud of smoke begins to whirl upward from a Japanese airfield at Cape Gloucester (New Britain) from a score of direct ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 74 words
  7. TROOPS TO USE MEAL TICKETS?

    More supplies should be available to civilians if the Federal Government adopts plans by the Food Controller (Mr. J. F. Murphy) by ...

    Article : 361 words
  8. Beaufighters' Quick Switch Caught Japs

    NEW GUINEA, Thursday. — R.A.A.F. Beaufighters were on the runway with their engines running ready to take off when they ...

    Article : 223 words
  9. Record Post Office Rush

    CHRISTMAS traffic through the Post Office is breaking all records. The Deputy Director of Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. J. J. ...

    Article : 60 words
  10. FOREST UNIT BACK HOME; TWO RECORDS

    ONE of the Forest Companies, Royal Australian Engineers, has arrived home with two records. It handled 43,000 cubic feet of timber in a week somewhere in Scotland, and nearly 50 per cent of the men married English, Scottish, or ...

    Article : 328 words
  11. HAM PRICE FIXED NOW

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—Retail prices of bacon and hams in Queensland were fixed to-day. Maximum prices now are: Bacon ...

    Article : 215 words
  12. Talk On Land For Soldiers

    Steps were being taken to call in interstate conference to discuss post-war land settlement of ex-servicemen, the Lands Minister ...

    Article : 144 words
  13. SOME CAFES AT WEEK-END

    Outcome of efforts by State authorities to get cafes to open over the Christmas week-end is:— Five small cafes will be open ...

    Article : 235 words
  14. BIG AREAS OF GRASS RAZED BY BUSH FIRE

    One hundred and ten thousand acres of pasture has already been destroyed by the big bush fire raging in the Dirranbandi district. ...

    Article : 192 words
  15. ALL MAY GET REFRIGERATOR

    CANBERRA, Thursday. — Mass production of refrigerators, electrical washing machines, and stoves, and household fittings in ...

    Article : 165 words
  16. JOHN WAYNE, COWBOY

    John Wayne, hero of many a wild western film, and top ranking suave villain of such screen attractions as "Reap the Wild Wind" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 307 words
  17. TYRE HOPES PUNCTURED

    CANBERRA, Thursday. — Tyres worth £6 million will be produced in 1944, but not for civilians. Announcing that plans had been ...

    Article : 121 words
  18. RAIDERS FIND ILLEGAL JOB

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Manpower officers visited a luxurious house at a seaside suburb on Wednesday and discovered a number of men ...

    Article : 203 words
  19. MUST GO TO USUAL JOB

    Six week-end wharf workers had their permits cancelled recently because they had not returned to their usual jobs. ...

    Article : 199 words
  20. Report On Dirty Rail Carriages

    The State Transport Minister (Mr. Larcombe) said yesterday that he had called for a report on the statement published in ...

    Article : 100 words
  21. CAPT. HANMAN DIES SUDDENLY IN NORTH

    Captain Eric F. Hanman, 50, Public Relations Officer, Headquarters Queensland Lines of Communication Area, died ...

    Article : 183 words
  22. CIVILIANS GOVT. RESPONSIBILITY'

    "Responsibility for the civil population rested with the Government, and not with the military authorities," said the Lord ...

    Article : 147 words
  23. Townsville Food Relief Moves

    TOWNSVILLE, Thursday.—The City Council has begun making ice boxes or insulated safes for storing ice at depots, which will be ...

    Article : 200 words
  24. CHILDREN ASSAULTED

    "A menace to young children, and a known sexual pervert," was how Detective Senior Sergeant J. P. Buggy described Raymond ...

    Article : 109 words
  25. MINISTERS MAY CONFER ON DAM

    The proposed McIntyre River water conservation policy, affecting the joint interests of New South Wales and Queensland, may ...

    Article : 166 words
  26. War, Christmas, and a Soldier

    THIS article was written by a soldier. It sets down his thoughts on a lonely Christmas Eve. It was not written for publication, but one of his mates sent it to The Courier-Mail, because, he said, "I just felt that the people at home should know what a soldier thinks about the future for which he is fighting as he dreams of the past." ...

    Article : 992 words
  27. Advertising

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    Advertising : 297 words
  28. RAIL MEN GET BETTER PAY & CONDITIONS

    Increased war loadings, higher meal and travelling allowances, and improved conditions have been granted to Queensland ...

    Article : 126 words
  29. MORE RABBITS, NO COUPONS

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—Action to increase the trapping of rabbits to supplement the national meat ration was being planned by the ...

    Article : 71 words
  30. Army Releasing Barbed Wire

    CANBERRA, Thursday. — The release from surplus army stocks of 1300 tons of barbed wire for sale to the public in all States ...

    Article : 91 words
  31. NINE HURT IN SMASH

    Nine American soldiers were injured last night when a truck in which they were returning from a picnic at Nudgee waterhole ...

    Article : 88 words
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