AUSTRALIAN troops advancing up the north-east coast of Huon Peninsula, New Guinea, are believed to have contacted the outer defences of the Japanese base of Sio. ...
Article : 332 wordsDarwin fighter pilots watch Flying Officer J. H. Smithson, of Victoria, who has just been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, demonstrate how he chased a formation of Japanese bombers. Smithson flying a Spitfire caught the bombers near Darwin at ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 115 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Present strategic plans are likely to impose such heavy demands on Australia again this year that there can be no slowing down of the war effort or relaxation of ...
Article : 485 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Twenty-one houses and a brick hospital were destroyed, and many thousands of pounds' worth of damage ...
Article : 157 words"AS the rationing plan takes shape we feel there will be an entire change in the value of meat," the Master Butchers' Federation secretary (Mr. J. Munro) said yesterday. "Under the coupon scale it is expected that choice cuts Finer points of meat rationing being discussed by experts in Brisbane yesterday. From left: Dr. H. R. Seddon, a member of the Commission; Mr. H. J. Urwin, meat adviser to the Commission; and Mr. S. F. Cochran. State Deputy Director of Rationing. Dr. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 453 wordsINVESTIGATIONS should be made into the possibility of using amphibious jeeps in surf work after the war, said Mr. N. ...
Article : 113 wordsEVEN Voting resulted at a meeting of the Queensland executive of. the Federal Union of Locomotive Enginemen yesterday on the question of striking or holding stop-work meetings to press claims of enginemen. Mr. J. C. ...
Article : 646 wordsFish is one of the substitute subjects of the same protein value as meat recommended by a Brisbane doctor. But Brisbane has little ...
Article : 152 wordsSinking of a 5000-ton Japanese tanker by a United States Navy Catalina, in Isumrud Strait, north of Madana. New Guinea, was ...
Article : 539 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Caterers ore being issued with coupon permits enabling them to buy a given number of coupons' worth of meat ...
Article : 431 wordsWar was not the cause of the increase in divorces but merely the occasion for them, said the Rev. H. M. Wheller speaking last ...
Article : 139 wordsA delegation of Stanthorpe growers will meet the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Professor Copland) in Canberra on ...
Article : 80 wordsA deputation from the Brisbane Retail Milk Vendors' Association to-day will lodge a protest against retail 'milk prices with Federal ...
Article : 109 wordsGRAFTON, Sunday.—"I think it is abominable to see girls and women smoking and walking in front of hotels," ...
Article : 222 wordsBrisbane's ice shortage was threatening people's health, a city doctor said last night. The scarcity, he warned, might spread the ...
Article : 283 wordsIf somebody were prepared to open a cafeteria for civilians, similar to that established ar Hamilton Reach for waterside workers, the ...
Article : 164 wordsThis is the story of "She's Apples"—a Boston bomber—and her "lucky" captain, Wing Commander C. C. Learmonth, D.F.C., of Trendarra (Vic). Just before this message reached The Courier-Mail from an advanced Australian air base in New ...
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Advertising : 430 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—America must learn from Australia not only what to do but what not to do in more extended Government control, said Dr. Allan Nevins, Professor of History ar Columbia University, New York ...
Article : 487 wordsWARWICK, Sunday.—Fire swept through a military kit store this afternoon. Cartridges frequently exploded, and a hand grenade was ...
Article : 58 wordsAIR Commodore Don Bennett, 33, of Brisbane, who is the youngest Air Force officer to be promoted Acting Air Vice—Marshal, always had a hankering for machinery. As boy he knew his father's cars inside out. "The news of Don's promotion ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 384 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 9 (Special).—A navy dentist, Lieut.-Commander Prank Jeffreys, has developed a technique whereby a ...
Article : 43 wordsA Federal education grant of £25m. a year to supplement State expenditure on schools will be sought by the Federal Council ...
Article : 121 wordsCAPE GLODCESTER, Sunday.—Platoon Sergeant E. J. Gatto of Bridgeport, Connecticut, is the luckiest Marine on Cane ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Mon 10 Jan 1944, Page 3
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