A FURTHER contraction of the main Japanese Pacific defences was indicated by General MacArthur in his communique yesterday. He said it was apparent that ...
Article : 667 wordsPOLLING is expected to be heavy to-day at the powers referendum. Voting is compulsory. Voting will begin at 8 a.m. and the polls will close at 8 ...
Article : 522 wordsTHE ballot paper will be in this form: Submission to the electors of a proposed law for the alteration ...
Article : 133 wordsPyramid of captured German field helmets was the grim centrepiece of a display of captured enemy equipment ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 71 wordsAFTER 2min. 57sec. of fighting, Tommy Burns knocked out Laurie Petersen in the first round of the welterweight title ...
Article : 237 wordsArgument that because money had been found readily for war, it could be found just as easily for post-war development was queried ...
Article : 156 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—William Beecher Hay's application to the Federal Arbitration Court for an order directing the Australian Workers' Union and executive officers of the union to ...
Article : 314 wordsMARYBOROUGH, Friday.—"I have just shot the girl I love," Leslie Andrew Kersnovske, 18, railway cleaner, is alleged to have ...
Article : 240 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—More than 4000 mine workers at 12 collieries were idle on seven northern coalfields of New South Wales to-day. ...
Article : 280 wordsIn a final referendum summing up last night the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) and the Federal Opposition leader (Mr. Menzies) ...
Article : 430 wordsMechanical lifter at work stacking 1000lb. bombs on a Royal Air Force flying field in Normandy. The lifter is highly mobile, and also is used for loading and unloading transport aircraft. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 81 wordsWITH the American beachhead firmly established at Sansapor, a secong Jap. army is desperately attempting to escape ...
Article : 224 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Three women tram passengers were killed when an R.A.A.F. 10-wheel trailer-transport and a tram ...
Article : 193 wordsWhen R.A.A.F. Flying Officer Robert Tyndole McGeoch returned from overseas his wife told him the was in love with an American ...
Article : 184 words"We have not the sandshoes available to give to miners in the Howard district," said the Deputy Directors of Rationing (Mr. S. F. ...
Article : 120 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Alien internee camps throughout the Commonwealth are being inspected by a special inquiry board to ...
Article : 198 wordsIt is expected that the Parliamentary Labour Party will soon approve of legislation to increase salaries of City Council aldermen. ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON, August 18 (Special).—Behind the birth statistics for British families—greatest at 17.9 a thousand since 1926—is confirmation of what some doctors said early in the war—that newlyweds were serious-minded in ...
Article : 467 wordsTo afford wool trade interests an opportunity of meeting the Australian Wool Board chairman (Mr. D. T. Boyd) during his visit ...
Article : 101 wordsProbate was granted in the Supreme Court yesterday in the wills of Flora Elizabeth Rose Edwards, widow, Eton Street. ...
Article : 101 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—A deadlock was reached at a preliminary conference to-day between liaison officers of the Commonwealth and States on proposals for post-war land settlement of returned ex-servicemen. ...
Article : 252 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday. — John Ernest Turnbull, 28, soldier, was found not guilty of murder and not guilty of manslaughter by a ...
Article : 62 wordsSHIPPING space for all essential requirements for Queensland is likely to be better in the future. ...
Article : 104 wordsA challenge to the Federal Government over pineapple acquisition was made yesterday with the issue of a writ out of the ...
Article : 178 words"It is evident that Mr. Brand, M.L.A., desires to bring the sugar industry into the political arena," said the Premier (Mr. Cooper) ...
Article : 185 wordsSome desks and forms used now in State schools had been condemned many years ago, the president of the Greater Brisbane State ...
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Article : 92 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Any reduction in meat and butter exports to Britain must be balanced against the big quantities of food ...
Article : 80 wordsTHE Premier (Mr. Cooper) denied yesterday that 70 per cent of Queensland's teachers were being paid £300 a year or less. The president of the ...
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Article : 235 wordsThe City Council's clean-up drive on accumulations of rubbish in the city will be resumed on August 28, when gangs will ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Sat 19 Aug 1944, Page 3
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