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 wordsMELBOURNE, 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 wordsEngines 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 wordsIN November last year when Queensland had an oversupply of carrots and there was an acute shortage in ...
Article : 713 wordsGigantic cloud of smoke begins to whirl upward from a Japanese airfield at Cape Gloucester (New Britain) from a score of direct ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 74 wordsMore supplies should be available to civilians if the Federal Government adopts plans by the Food Controller (Mr. J. F. Murphy) by ...
Article : 361 wordsNEW GUINEA, Thursday. — R.A.A.F. Beaufighters were on the runway with their engines running ready to take off when they ...
Article : 223 wordsCHRISTMAS traffic through the Post Office is breaking all records. The Deputy Director of Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. J. J. ...
Article : 60 wordsONE 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 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Retail prices of bacon and hams in Queensland were fixed to-day. Maximum prices now are: Bacon ...
Article : 215 wordsSteps were being taken to call in interstate conference to discuss post-war land settlement of ex-servicemen, the Lands Minister ...
Article : 144 wordsOutcome of efforts by State authorities to get cafes to open over the Christmas week-end is:— Five small cafes will be open ...
Article : 235 wordsOne hundred and ten thousand acres of pasture has already been destroyed by the big bush fire raging in the Dirranbandi district. ...
Article : 192 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Mass production of refrigerators, electrical washing machines, and stoves, and household fittings in ...
Article : 165 wordsJohn 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 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Tyres worth £6 million will be produced in 1944, but not for civilians. Announcing that plans had been ...
Article : 121 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Manpower officers visited a luxurious house at a seaside suburb on Wednesday and discovered a number of men ...
Article : 203 wordsSix week-end wharf workers had their permits cancelled recently because they had not returned to their usual jobs. ...
Article : 199 wordsThe State Transport Minister (Mr. Larcombe) said yesterday that he had called for a report on the statement published in ...
Article : 100 wordsCaptain Eric F. Hanman, 50, Public Relations Officer, Headquarters Queensland Lines of Communication Area, died ...
Article : 183 words"Responsibility for the civil population rested with the Government, and not with the military authorities," said the Lord ...
Article : 147 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Thursday.—The City Council has begun making ice boxes or insulated safes for storing ice at depots, which will be ...
Article : 200 words"A menace to young children, and a known sexual pervert," was how Detective Senior Sergeant J. P. Buggy described Raymond ...
Article : 109 wordsThe proposed McIntyre River water conservation policy, affecting the joint interests of New South Wales and Queensland, may ...
Article : 166 wordsTHIS 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." ...
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Advertising : 297 wordsIncreased war loadings, higher meal and travelling allowances, and improved conditions have been granted to Queensland ...
Article : 126 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Action to increase the trapping of rabbits to supplement the national meat ration was being planned by the ...
Article : 71 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — The release from surplus army stocks of 1300 tons of barbed wire for sale to the public in all States ...
Article : 91 wordsNine American soldiers were injured last night when a truck in which they were returning from a picnic at Nudgee waterhole ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Fri 24 Dec 1943, Page 3
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