A THOUSANDS of Queenslanders are finding a place in the sun—and the surf—during the Christmas vacation. Smartly-costumed Mrs. Florence Burbury, escorted by son Terence (above), was among the crowd at Kirro, Coolangatta yesterday. Misses Marjorie Lawton and Audrey Lander (picture at right) were also there. They come ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 430 wordsRECORD crowds and one of the most uneventful Christmas Days in history were reported from virtually all holiday reports on both the North and South Coasts last night. ...
Article : 347 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Sydney was the centre of the worst bushfires in the State during the week-end. ...
Article : 285 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (Special).—Australian and American troops on Mindoro may one day meet the Island's rugged interior race of blue-eyed blond pagans with red heards, who came to Mindoro long ago by ship. ...
Article : 123 wordsA record demand for ice yesterday was reported by Brisbane [?] manufacturers. At one city works police ...
Article : 138 wordsNEW YORK, Wee. 25.—Lurking somewhere in New York is a man calling himself Captain ...
Article : 126 wordsTHIS is the open season for visitors to coastal beaches. Yesterday — Christmas Day—they were even more noticeable than in the carefree rears when every beach, everywhere, bubbled ...
Article : 672 wordsMARYBOROUGH, Monday.—Accidental death came during the week-end to two diggers who had served in the Middle East and New ...
Article : 106 wordsServicemen and women in camps, hospitals, and on leave yesterday enjoyed all the trimmings of a pre-war Christmas. ...
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Article : 139 wordsHOT CHRISTMAS.—Yesterday was the hottest Christmas day in Brisbane for nine years. MINISTER'S MOTHER DEAD. ...
Article : 232 wordsA drinking party in a residential in Hope Street, South Brisbane, yesterday ended soon alter 1 p.m. in an injury to a young ...
Article : 108 wordsThree soldiers, who pleaded guilty to charges of having stolen groceries from an army hospital train, were each fined £3, in ...
Article : 100 wordsROCKHAMPTON, Monday. — The fishing boat Gwenda, carrying its owner, Kenneth Tompson, has been missing since Thursday ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Tue 26 Dec 1944, Page 2
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