FACED with extermination by American forces, Japanese troops on Biak Island (Dutch New Guinea) are believed to be attempting to escape by barge. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 449 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Friday.— Augusto Grangiotti, a witness at the A.W.U. ballot appeal rasp, said at to-day's ...
Article : 236 wordsWHICH road are the Allies taking to Tokio? Allied strategy cannot be revealed, but the main lines of ...
Article : 102 wordsBritish tighter pilots check up on a German flying bomb shot down in Southern England. In the foreground is ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 67 wordsA SURPLUS of £607,440, the greatest on record, is expected by the City Council for the year ending next Friday. This was revealed by the Lord Mayor (Aid. Chandler) when he presented the ...
Article : 755 wordsAUSTRALIAN troops at a for word New Guinea base are now provided with a 24-hour laundry service. ...
Article : 147 wordsAmount of gas left in stock after supplying the heavy demand For cooking dinner last night was little more than on the previous ...
Article : 138 wordsSUGAR interests are concerned over the possibility that inadequate remuneration being paid by the State Government to some senior personnel of the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations might result in the loss to the industry ...
Article : 316 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Police witnesses from Victoria and New South Wales, including the N.S.W. Police Commissioner (Mr. W. J. ...
Article : 276 wordsA motion to discontinue all-day Scout troop outings on Sundays when they interfered with religious observances of Cubs and Scouts ...
Article : 246 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The annual meeting of the Australian Wool Growers' Federation decided to-day to ask the Government to set up a ...
Article : 226 words"We must watch our youth work to see that it does not become pagan, as in Germany and other parts of the world." said Canon F. ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Aid. Chandler) said yesterday that after the budget debate, on the advice of his doctor, he would have to go away ...
Article : 73 wordsTHE average fare paid by passengers on Brisbane trams was probably one of the lowest in the world, said the Lord ...
Article : 111 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—No man was discharged from the C.C.C. until manpower authorities had placed him in other equally important employment, it was explained officially to-day ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Minister for Mines (Mr. Gair) yesterday gave some reasons why coal is short. He was commenting on The ...
Article : 230 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—From July 1 the sale of service chevrons will be illegal, This was announced to-day. ...
Article : 62 wordsAdoption of a standard method of accounting, which would disclose all production costs, was urged on fruit growers by the state ...
Article : 152 wordsSeventy-three delegates, representing 37 schools, attended a meeting last night at which the Greater Brisbane State School ...
Article : 121 wordsIn on endeavour to overcome shortage of dentists in certain Queensland centres, powers given the manpower Directorate by a now ...
Article : 122 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Fourteen million yards of drill, duck, and jeans which had arrived in Australia had not been distributed, the Director of Import Procurement (Mr. A. C. Moore) told the Quota Inquiry to-day. ...
Article : 379 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Failure of the referendum will mean an immediate challenge by all Australian friendly societies to the ...
Article : 134 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Preferential treatment to local manufacturers, which had resulted in a deficit of £378,690, as shown in the report of the Central Wool Committee last year. was the subject of a strong protest at to-day's ...
Article : 187 wordsFirst annual convention of the Queensland People's Party will be held in Brisbane on August 5-8. It is excepted that at least 120 ...
Article : 235 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Charges for hiring halls were brought under the price regulations to-day. The Customs Minister ...
Article : 51 wordsSince the City Council campaign to immunise children against diphtheria started 13 years ago no immunised child had died of the ...
Article : 139 wordsThe State Cabinet decided yesterday that a poll ol Toowoomba electors be held on the question whether the Toowoomba Town ...
Article : 165 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—"Queensland fruit" season is in Melbourne fruit shops have almost pre-war displays of ...
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Advertising : 34 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday.—The two children of Dr. Ian Ewart, of Wellington—John, 12, and Janet, 10—were burned to death in a fire ...
Article : 54 wordsWithout rationing 22½ million pounds more butter would have been consumed in this country. That was the answer to the ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Cooper) does not share the fears of the New South Wales Labour Council secretary (Mr. R. A. King. M.I.C.) ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Governor-in-council has approved the expenditure of £32,000 on improvements to State highways. ...
Article : 82 wordsNEW GUINEA, Friday.—Up here in New Guinea they say "Moresby has had it." Relatively speaking, this is true. The town is still civilianless, but for several months now the fighting men and machines that gave Moresby its sprawling mushroom growth have been packing up and moving north to new harbours, new airfields, and new bivouacs. ...
Article : 484 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The maximum wholesale price of first quality hen eggs would not be less than 1/7 a dozen during the flush ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Queensland Trades and Labour Council has appointed a shop and factories' welfare committee to consider improvements ...
Article : 70 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—For their part in the destruction of an enemy blockade runner, or supply ship, Flying Officer Frank Seddon ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Sat 24 Jun 1944, Page 3
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